Camera: Leica Monochrom
Exposure: 1/25
Aperture: f/2.4
Focal Length: 35mm
ISO: 5000
I walked from dinner to my hotel in Chicago in the run-up to the extreme cold that the upper Midwest recently experienced. I wanted to get some photography in and figured that one can endure just about anything for the 30 minutes it would take for the walk.
I was not in fact prepared for how cold it was and reflected on living on the street without a warm or safe place to go to. Homelessness on the scale that we have in the United States, compared with other developed countries is almost uniquely an American problem. I don’t have any answers, other than to say that our social support network is narrower and more loosely woven than other countries. We have the money, just not the motivation as a nation to help, and this is deeply disappointing.
Camera: Leica Monochrom
Exposure: 1/180
Aperture: f/2.4
Focal Length: 35mm
ISO: 5000
Camera: Leica Monochrom
Exposure: 1/90
Aperture: f/1.4
Focal Length: 35mm
ISO: 5000
Camera: Leica Monochrom
Exposure: 1/180
Aperture: f/1.4
Focal Length: 35mm
ISO: 5000
ISO 5000 … I should really consider an upgrade. These photos are just great. The ice in the alley gives me shivers just looking at it.
Well… ISO 5000 on the Leica Monochrom is exceptionally clean because it is B&W only, with no Bayer filter to deal with. A bit of a weird camera. But clean high ISO.
Those are some beautiful B&W shots, especially the second one. Did you do much post processing to these?
Thank you! I really don’t do much in the way of post-processing to images. I *may* recover some highlights from time to time, but I try and expose for the black value that I want and rely on Ansel Adams Zone System to do the rest. Just let the exposure fall where it will after you decide where you want your white value.