Show Us Your Dark Side - Shadow and Silhouette Portraits

[hatsRme]

Terrific images, Gents!

Great *** photo, Terry!

Panadora are you using the Leica monochrome, and if so, your opinion, please!?

Alan I'll meet your fowl shot, and raise you a couple of heritage birds. The one in the back is slightly silhouetted for the purpose of this thread. One of these cluckers gives delicious green eggs, but no ham (birds of Yids, you know...)

 

[Panadora]

It's only a M8.2, not a Monochrome. Slow and low res, but ...

 

[alanfgag]

Heck, mine is only an M8.

Charlie, how do you lasso those chicks?

 

[hatsRme]

Panadora, THAT is a wonderful image, sir!

Charlie, how do you lasso those chicks?

We just herded them into the 4Wheeler...

 

[Panadora]

BTW I like the nice warm tone in the chick picture

 

[hatsRme]

Thank you. I'm assuming you mean the first photo of the chickens. I have found myself using pretty much one camera recently, a Canon s110, believe it or not. After years of lugging lots of heavy Leica glass everywhere, I opened up to the thought of a smaller device. There are still times when bigger is better, but the utility of being able to have it in a pocket ALL the time has yielded some of my best work, I feel. Although I got in some trouble for having it in my hand as I walked my daughter(s) down the aisle...

 

[Panadora]

Yes it's Alan's picture I meant.
For me the Leica is the small go everywhere pocket camera
- I'll bring up the subject in the photography tread one of these days

 

[alanfgag]

They are beautiful instruments. I have several old M and R cameras. I made the mistake of buying heavy fast lenses for Nikon - could never afford that with Leica. I am more than happy with the Summicron - the German 35 f2 being one of the finest lenses I have ever used. That said, almost every photo I have posted to the Lounge over the past 4 years was taken with an iPhone.

 

[Panadora]

A (silhouette) sneak peek :eeek:

 

[hatsRme]

They are beautiful instruments. I have several old M and R cameras. I made the mistake of buying heavy fast lenses for Nikon - could never afford that with Leica. I am more than happy with the Summicron - the German 35 f2 being one of the finest lenses I have ever used. That said, almost every photo I have posted to the Lounge over the past 4 years was taken with an iPhone.

As fantastic and superior as the images are from all those exquisite tools, there's something to be said for utility. You said it all, Alan.

 

[Panadora]

The best camera there is, is the camera at hand

 

[Panadora]

But no matter how good and expensive the camera is, it will only do what you ask it to do!

Two weeks ago I gave my Leica to my brother and today I received this

Freaking fantastic if you ask me :eusa_clap

 

[hatsRme]

Freaking fantastic if you ask me :eusa_clap

Oh, man, yeah! :eusa_clap :eusa_clap :eusa_clap

 

[T Jones]

Great work, Panadora!

Messing around with some photo editing....

"Why Nancy won't go on anymore blind dates"

 

[Panadora]

Frightening stuff :bolt:

 

[bowlerman]

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[Panadora]

 

[alanfgag]

 

[Joao Encarnado]

In a train Station

 

[triple-d]

@ Alan.....neat photo Alan....lots of shadows, only one hatted!!

@ Joao......you are loosing weight my friend, makes you look taller..