I devoted much of this weekend to learning how exposure works on my new Leica Q2. I have a wide range of exposure settings on the camera, and I’m learning, bit by bit, how to use them in different lights and on various subjects.
For me, the best way to learn photography is just to keep taking photos. I know something new about the camera every time I use it. I’ve been shooting too dark, and now I’ve caught up with this.
This shot of Flo sleeping on the table next to my 26th Zinnia garden bouquet says a lot, and the light on her says even more. That’s a first for me on the Leica.
I also overexposed the two trees in the backyard because I am haunted by the idea these two trees, each more than a century old, are in love with one another and talk to each other all the time.
It’s just an image that keeps swirling around in my head; this image below seemed to affirm that idea.
I can almost hear them shouting and laughing and waving their arms.
Jon…
Have you noticed that occasionally, the Leica pictures posted are blurry? I don’t think it’s intentional. For example, see “The Way Back: Learning to Talk To Each Other At Bob’s Hot Dog Stand” from September 17.
I’m not sure why this happens, or whether it’s a feature in the original photographic image, vs. a distortion that gets added during the transfer to online context.
The Way Back was intentional, as I said in the caption and in the piece. I wanted the characters to be blurred, as I write. It is almost always intention out of focus pictures are a statement in some cases
and I am sure their roots are interconnected, they are family for sure.