I told Sawyer, my instructor at the Leica Academy, that I had two primary learning goals in my first lesson this morning on Zoom.
I wanted my Leica photos to be obvious, and I wanted them to be soft and have felt. I take a lot of photos in low light, and they were not as clear as I wanted them to be. I think we’ve taken care of that.
We were out at the movies, but Maria sat down to read when we got home, and the corner lamp was turned on.
I experimented with these two images and set the camera aperture at 5.8. Bingo.
At this exposure, the Leica focuses on one thing and ignores the rest. I was thrilled with the results. Maria’s photo had an enormous feeling, and the lamp and pictures had a tremendous amount of clarity and detail.
That’s a photo I love.
A valuable first lesson, I can’t wait for the next one.
When you say you set the exposure at 5.8, do you mean you set the aperture? Or the terminology different for this camera? If it’s different terminology, no wonder it’s confusing!
Aperture is right..I get them mmixed up all the time..
What a beautiful photo. It is as if the light is being reflected off the page that Maria is reading. I feek that is what reading does for us: brings light into our lives and pushes back any darkness we are experiencing. Thanks. chuck