I have a moon cup I use in the bathroom when I need some water. I got it a long time ago, so long I don’t remember where it came from. The Leica gives me the chance to grab an image like that, while it automatically softens the backdrop.
I saw a good still life in the cup and the background.
In the center of the Leica shot screen there is a tiny cross I didn’t realize was there until last week. When I look at the preview screen, if I touch the cup with my finger, the camera automatically focuses on the cup and takes the background (the sink) into a soft focus, thus highlighting the cup, which is the image I wanted.
It took me a month to notice this cross and learn what it can do.
Saturday morning, I’m taking a one our Leica lesson on Zoom from a Leica expert at the Leica Acedemy in Boston. I hope to learn a lot more about the camera than I yet know.
Hopefully, it will give me some new ideas about black and white (monochrome) photography. They offer one day seminars in Boston and I just might go.
The camera is special. It deserves being owned by someone who knows how to use it.
I’m really enjoying your Leica photographs and watching you stretch your photography boundaries. I’ve been wading through a bunch of old family photographs, almost all in black & white, and am sometimes really amazed at how much they reveal about the essence of the people in them. These were definitely not taken with nearly as sophisticated a camera as your Leica, but they still managed to do a lot.