On Deciding . . . Better 3.0

From Paris to Oz, originally uploaded by jjvornov.

While rating and editing the images I captured in Paris with the Leica, I got Photoshop up and running again for the first time in a while and pulled Vincent Versace’s “Welcome to Oz” off the shelf.

I tried hard to get a strong impression of direct light on the left in this image while maintaining that great Velvia saturation. I’m fond of these Velvia city images and will probably keep on working this angle rather than returning to the TriX classical route just yet.

Bus Stop, originally uploaded by jjvornov.

I just got the scans of the 5 rolls I shot with the Leica M6ttl in Paris a few weeks ago. This is the jpg of a slide, Provia I think, straight off the CD. The dimensionality and tonal range of well exposed film just blows me away every time.

About half of the images are color, half are TriX.

Walk, originally uploaded by jjvornov.

While waiting for a few rolls of TriX to be developed and scanned, I borrowed my son’s compact for comparison. Its the Canon SD780 IS, an incredibly small camera with a decently wide zoom range (33-100mm 35mm equiv) close to my usual range with the Nikon D300.

Image quality is really quite good for such a small camera. It makes me wonder about whether I should consider one of the newer compacts as a carrying camera since my output is so low and I generally don’t have a camera with me unless I’ve gone out specifically to capture images.