Leica 19mm Elmarit & D700

[madamasu]

One of the greatest pleasures I owe to David Lladò at Leitax is that he made it possible that I can use my cherished 19mm Elmarit with the Nikon D700.
An extraordinary lense, even with a full-frame sensor sharp into the corners.
Here are three pictures from Frankfurt. All @ f5.6

The first is the Cupola at the Schirn Gallery, ISO 640




The next two I took inside the Frankfurt cathedral. Both ISO 1600.


Pillars:

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Pietà:


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[kds315*]

Amazing Thomas!!

[tobbsman]

Nice lens, nice compositioning, great work !
I like the Pietà a lot.

I could imagine all these photographs with little bit of DRI, which could give more lightning quality.

Cheers
Tobias

[madamasu]

Thanks for the suggestion, Tobias. I tried to use Shadows/Highlights in PS4 to shed a little more light on the Pietà. I think it works like this too:

[poilu]

great wide madamasu, superb pillars
tobbs tips is perfect to transform a true photo into a false drawing

[tobbsman]

I am not a great fan of PS "Tiefen/Lichter" (Shadows/Highlights). Colors get different and the photograph looses depth, and there is more noise of course. I hardly use it.

[madamasu]

If you use 'Shadows/Highlights' in the LAB-mode there shouldn't be any changes in colour. Sometimes it is the only way I know to overcome the great contrasts between deep shadows and blown out highlights, so I use it quite frequently, if only in a moderate amount.
The picture of the Pietà was taken in a pretty dark surrounding against a window lit by daylight and some sun. I took two pictures: in one I have a decent exposure of the window, which shows its colours and structure, in the other I have a better exposure of the Pietà, but the window has already lost structure and the camera tells me, there are blown-out highlights. I'm not a
very good photographer and have to read more about and experiment more in these situations.

Thomas

P.S. Maybe Poilu thinks of HDR, and there I would support him: most of the HDR pictures I have seen so far are decidedly not to my liking. They look as if somebody had tried to turn a mediocre or uninteresting photo into something special, but - again to my eyes - it looks like artificial crap with the pretence of being a piece of art.

[LucisPictor]

Wow, Thomas!

A fantastic lens (one of the best superwides ever) on a great cam!
Together with your talent this set produces excellent results.

[poilu]

[patrickh]

Fantastic


patrickh

[arhi_tectu1]

Great photos
the last one is the best for me

Regards
Catalin

[Nesster]

I'm not sure I like the worked-over version of the Pieta... but then, it appears when old frescoes and paintings are restored - using modern authentic performance standards - they seem a bit worked-over also. Though, we are told, more what the original eyes saw. So perhaps this worked-over Pieta is more what the eye saw, rather than what the lens saw?

[trifox]

Thomas..

I love the PIETA motif so much..

The expression of the picture is ACCURATE..

I like the ORIGINAL version..

thanks

tf

[madamasu]

Thanks to all of you for your comments and suggestions.
I upload another picture taken a week or so ago during a walk in the neighbourhood.

Autumn colours. ISO 320 @ f 5.6: