Leica 14-150mm – Page 3

Santa Mail

This was captured from a low angle to give the viewer the impression of being on the scene watching the truck thundering past and also to keep selfie takers behind the truck out of sight.

Photographing these orchids for me often meant isolating a few of the flowers and choosing an angle where they would stand out and apart from the messy clusters. A dark backdrop such as the one used here would probably also helped.

The Gorgeous Bombax

We had seen this small tree budding a few days back. The flowers were now blooming one after another.

This was captured against a dark brown backdrop with the exposure biased 2 stops darker.

All That Glitters Is Not Gold

The exposure meter in the camera seemed to be acting up. This capture had been biased 2 stops darker but yet deliver this bright image here.

Facing The Heat

This was captured with the exposure biased 2 stops darker to prevent highlights from burning out especially in those little human figures. Shadows were then brightened a tad in post and the mid-tones then darkened a little.

Country Lime

Out-of-camera jpeg had a more greenish tone to it but I liked the raw colour better. So this was converted from the raw file.

Zooming Ferrari

In the film era, one way I, like many others, enhanced the sense of movement of an approaching vehicle was to mount the camera with a zoom lens on a tripod, pull back the zoom barrel (telephoto zoom lenses worked like pumps then) and hit the shutter simultaneously. In the digital age, I work a bit differently. The zooming effect gets introduced in the post processing stage.

Paws Of A Red Kangaroo

This was set against a dark backdrop and underexposed by 2 stops to keep highlights. Image was then exposed to the right in post.

Garden of Peonies

Capturing this from a low level helped me keep unrelated, distracting elements out of view. I had also wanted to give the impression of a pavilion in a garden filled with peonies.

In The Eye Of A Warrior

Spotted this warrior head sculpture among Aloe plants in the conservatory here. The original capture had looked brighter than this despite having been given a 2-stop underexposure. My copy of the Leica Digilux 3 had been having this metering issue for a while now. But this exposure issue could be easily fixed in post as the image was recorded in raw.

Never So Sweet

Tea In The Lions’ Den

The parapets on either side were included in the frame to make it look like the folks were really down in a lion’s den.

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