Leica Leica X1 Image Thread

Hope you agree

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Enlargement of the X1 picture.
Jan
 
Jan, knowing Christilou, I'm pretty sure she will not be offended by your cropping her photo but I have to put on my Administrator's "hat" here to remind everyone that one of the rules of the forum found here: Terms and rules is
9. It is against our site rules to modify and repost a version of anyone else's image without explicit permission to do so.
In the future let's all be sure to ask the original poster and photographer of the picture if they'd mind if we made a suggestion by changing their photograph, wait to read their response and then take it from there appropriately depending upon their answer. (y)

I have no doubt at all that you had the best of intentions Jan. The cropping down crossed my mind as well when I saw Christilou's photograph. I think the group of young people with their bicycles in the foreground makes this photograph and that by removing part of the sky that it's even better. Although Windsor castle may have been the main focus for both photos, I still prefer this one the most. Great juxtaposition between the relaxed and casual onlookers splayed out across that manicured lawn with the formal view down that long approach to the castle. Those three white signs whose writing we can't really see, also are help carry my eyes from the backs of the white shirted cyclists down to the castle and beyond. Really like this photograph a great deal!
 
jankapp and BB, it's fine with me to alter my photos so don't worry any more about it on my behalf :) I like the crop Jan has made. To be honest I did think that there was a lot of sky in the original but I was so pleased to actually have DETAIL in the sky for once that I was quite overcome! As you can see from the EP2 shot, I'm used to having blown out grey skies and so it was quite novel for me to see such a great sky from the X1!!!!! I never thought of the cyclists as being a focal point in the picture. It just goes to show that other peoples views can be quite enlightening.
 
:D Well, I figured you'd feel that way about the cropping. And I can certainly understand the excitement about having a good sky, too!

Other people's opinions can be enlightening but you can still prefer your point of view about Windsor Castle, after all it is your photograph. ;) I know Karen preferred the view from your E-P2. For me, it's those sprawled out young people and the rest of the view all in one.
 
I used the in-camera B & W High Contrast JPEG setting and let the camera do it for me I'm afraid so nothing clever at all! I really like this setting and usually set my camera for DNG + B & W H/C JPEG that way I can get the best of both worlds :)
 
Ferry, thanks so much for posting this one here. When I saw this photo on Flickr last night...well, you know - I asked you to please post it here. It would be great if you could tell us the backstory. It's such a dramatic scene, the light is wonderful the way it hits the young man's leg...the view out into the horizon, with the rain storm and more. I'd also be interested to know if you needed to or chose to do any "extra" post processing. I am a complete neophyte to LR and do not know how to effect only certain parts of an image, yet - such as bringing in the sky, while not changing the rest of the image, etc., etc. No matter what you did - this is a beauty. I think it is my idea of heaven.
 
Now there's a perfectly lovely sky! Beautiful picture. Was it posed or did you just get lucky?

Christilou, I just got lucky :D, I was looking out towards some rain clouds coming toward us, turned around and saw my son standing on the cliff, set camera to bracket exposure, shoot, tweaked a bit in LR3, done.

The story behind the photo:
This Sunday afternoon we went for a drive towards the South side of the island towards Falmouth Harbour, English Harbour and Shirley Heights. We ended up at the weekly Shirley Heights sunset BBQ dinner, with live a steel orchestra and other entertainment and several island craft stands. It was a cloudy late afternoon but again a beautiful day in Antigua.

Before reaching Shirley Heights we stopped at the lookout point checking out the scene when I saw Donovan on the edge of a cliff looking towards some rainclouds building up above Mamora Bay, the shot came out pretty good.
 
Ferry, thanks so much for posting this one here. When I saw this photo on Flickr last night...well, you know - I asked you to please post it here. It would be great if you could tell us the backstory. It's such a dramatic scene, the light is wonderful the way it hits the young man's leg...the view out into the horizon, with the rain storm and more. I'd also be interested to know if you needed to or chose to do any "extra" post processing. I am a complete neophyte to LR and do not know how to effect only certain parts of an image, yet - such as bringing in the sky, while not changing the rest of the image, etc., etc. No matter what you did - this is a beauty. I think it is my idea of heaven.


BB, thank you for your kind words, I noticed that the photos that are "keepers" are always very easy to get processed, because they need very little to be worked on, in this case I set the camera for Exp. Bracketing, I always do if I see the light will be a challenge, I set the aperture to f/11.0 to make sure I got the shot sharp, it is in fact a landscape shot, at the end the camera did great because I used the 0 EV file.
In LR3 I used the dodge and burn brushes to have some accent in the clouds and grass where the sun falls, lighten up his white clothes a little bit with the "white teeth" brush, added some clarity to the whole photo and added a bit of highlight priority vignetting.

All together it did not takes no longer that 5 minutes, not too difficult, just play around with your pics and you'll get the hang of it.
 
Thanks so much Ferry. I need to learn how to use those brushes. If you ever want to run a course down there, please let us know because you have a very good way of explaining how things work. I'd love to come down for a vacation photo visit.:cool: I don't really want to hijack this thread but I find it interesting about the 0 EV. Some of my photos are that way and they seemed to already have the perfect light, whereas the contrasty ones I've used the EV fairly heavily sometimes. Hmm, more to learn and experiment with!
 
Definitely BBC and wonderful for those of us who are anglophiles! I agree that I like your second of the two black and whites the best. I know that the learning curve on how to deal with bringing out shadows without loosing too much pop can be difficult. You've really kept those four gentlemen looking quite spiffy in their whites and the clouds are great!

Now, will someone please explain Andy's comment about "the bird" - do you mean that high flying bird or is there some bowling term here that I'm missing?
 
Now, will someone please explain Andy's comment about "the bird" - do you mean that high flying bird or is there some bowling term here that I'm missing?

:laugh1: I did mean the seagull or whatever it is flying in the middle top of the image.

By the way BB I'm this close >< to buying a X1 eeek! Just can't decide for sure now that i have the GF1. I could just get a nice Leica lens???????
 
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