Alternate title: Halftime.
A surreal moment.
It’s as if we are looking at two separate images… stitched together.
↑Leica M9 and Voigtländer 15mm f/4.5 @ f/5.6.
Alternate title: Halftime.
A surreal moment.
It’s as if we are looking at two separate images… stitched together.
↑Leica M9 and Voigtländer 15mm f/4.5 @ f/5.6.
Prosophos 
Hi Peter, it seems you have a new best friend!! 😉
There is so much to admire about this lens, I love the way your using it!! From memory I think I wrote that “Dynamic compositions are what this lens is all about”, your demonstrating it wonderfully!!
Cheers
Jason
Thanks Jason. Yes, I’ve been putting this lens through its paces, trying to learn its strengths and weaknesses… It’s what I do with any new lens. And yes, the potential for dynamic compositions is quite evident. Thanks again.
I have to say that the distortion really bothers me here . And the overall IQ , too contrasty. I like your classically composed shots a lot better . There’s a tendency with extra wide angles just to drop the camera low and go for the angles . It’s just too easy and the effect is predictable . You’re a natural talent I wonder if you’re not going astray here .. IMHO !
Hi Antoine,
Thank you very much for your response. Since you’ve taken the time to write a polite critique (and I mean that), I’ll try to respond to you, in kind.
This lens was chosen to be used primarily as a landscape lens, for the same reasons you cite above: unusual angles, distortions, etc., are quite common when photographing people with wide angle lenses.
Having said that, I never post an image without first carefully considering it.
Although this image includes a tilted horizon (and I rarely tilt my horizons), and a low angle, there is so much going on… probably because of all these distortions: the clouds appear to be reacting in sympathy to the two characters, each character appears to be in a separate space, the foreground character appears to be “colliding” with the edge of the frame, the fun-house effect of the distortion is giving it an other-worldly quality… and on, an on…
Now, if you don’t like the image… that’s fine of course. But I thought I should at least point out my intentions. Believe me, there were plenty of images I shot this weekend that had the same distortions and they just didn’t “work” for me.
Anyway, I do appreciate the response.
By the way, they’ll be more images posted… I’ve been slowly working through them. Perhaps some of the others will be more to your liking. 🙂
Since I like your work and I’m inclined to trust your judgement my comment was more a question than an assertion and your reply was very helpful, thanks . Looking forward to more pics .