Thursday, November 12, 2009

wagner's2Gw


wagner's2Gw
Originally uploaded by hirevimaging
This represents a bit of a departure for me in the sense I shot it with a digital Leica M. I borrowed it a few weeks ago to see how the lenses translated into the digital realm. I was fairly happy with what I saw, and I shot in the DNG (RAW) mode for greater flexibility with the files.
I shot this on my way into work one morning...something I had in my head for some time as I watched the colors of the land shift as autumn got into high gear. A little morning sun, fog and color and it was pretty much what I had been hoping for. This an area I've driven by many times, used to be a dairy farm years ago. My father had taken me there as a kid to see the cows, and sample the chocolate milk, good stuff. Looking back at some of his older photos, I know he was always shooting farm scenes and such...he likely would have enjoyed this image. The first camera I picked up as a kid was my dad's Kodak Retina rangefinder, so I suppose the whole rangefinder obsession goes back to that point. Not a bad thing, really.