Tag: leica 50mm summilux

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Honeycombs

It’s been a crazy past few weeks.  Traveling from Indiana to Iowa and then to Wisconsin and then back to Indiana in 4 days started the craziness.  Work has been incredibly busy and to finish everything off, I’m sitting in a hotel room in Chicago taking my surgical boards.  Starting next week, I’ll be able to relax (at least I hope I can).

I’m not much of an abstract shooter but for some reason I really like geometric shapes.  This shot was actually taken of an old bathroom floor in a restaurant/bar I was at in Wisconsin.

P.S.  After 6 months of patiently waiting, I had a Leica 35mm summilux delivered a few days ago and look forward to posting some pics in the next few weeks.

ISO 160 1/500s f1.4 50mm summilux

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Concentrate

Re-post December 2011

The one thing I really enjoy about my Leica M9 is the ability to shoot without a flash in low light.  This is only possible because I can shoot at very low apertures (i.e. f/1.4 or f/2.0).  The only down side with the Leica M9 is its poor high ISO if shooting in color.

This picture of my nephew was taken only with light from a few lanterns and street lights.

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Dog…

I probably should post more pics of our dog.  She’s a 12 year old border collie that has traveled from Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Ohio, and back to Indiana.  She is the most docile dog you would ever meet.  I only wish she was younger so that she would have many more years with our baby girl.  The title to this post is “dog…” because that is all we listen to all day from our baby girls mouth.

ISO 160 1/180s f1.4 50mm summilux

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Coffee talk

Re-post from November 2011

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and black Friday.  We decided to do our shopping online.  No crowds, no stress, same prices.

As I was walking around the Lincoln Memorial with a friend I was trying to find someone interesting to take a picture of.  Eventually, I found this couple enjoying a cup of coffee while resting on the steps of the memorial.  They seemed unaware of everything around them besides each other.

 

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Lost pictures

Every couple of months I go through my pictures trying to find ones that I like but forgot about.  Today’s picture is one of them.

Last summer I was driving around looking for places to take pictures of and came across this old barn.  As I walked towards it, I glanced down and notices these flowers without petals (maybe they weren’t flower, never was very good at botany).

ISO 160 1/4000 f1.4 50mm summilux (ND filter was also used)

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getting the perfect shot

Re-post November 2011

One of the great things owning a Leica M9 and 50mm summilux is the ability to shoot in the dark.  For most, this is only possible with the use of a flash.  Personally, I try to shoot without one as much as possible because I like natural lighting.  Shooting at low apertures such as 1.4 allows for shooting in almost complete darkness (the leica noctilux is probably the only one that truly will allow you to do this).  It is much more difficult to focus, prevent blur, and you have to shoot at high ISO’s.  Fortunately, the M9 can perform this at 1000, 1500, and even 2500 ISO.  Unfortunately, I typically don’t like color pics at this high of ISO therefore I always change them to black and white.  The noise at these high ISO’s add to the quality of black and white.

A friend of mine, Hiro Shibuya (he was my chief resident when I was a first year) and I were recently in Washington D.C. for a conference and decided to spend some time sight seeing and taking pictures.  We were at the Lincoln Memorial and he was trying to get that perfect picture and I caught him in the act.  In this instance, him being out of focus works because of the sense of movement the viewer gets.  This was probably one of my favorite pics.

You can view Hiro’s pictures here.

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Sitting by the street

I really enjoy catching unique moments.  I don’t shoot too many “posed” shots because they have less meaning (at least to me) and also to be honest you have to be very creative, especially if you want to shoot something different from others.

This was a shot I took last year of some friends of ours with their kids.  I was trying to catch a unique perspective.

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