Slightly OT, but here it goes...

As the title says, this is going to be slightly OT: after considering this for a while, I finally ended up purchasing a Leica M8 for my street work - as lenses go, budget & availability in my local store didn't allow more than a (not so) lowly Voigtlander 35mm f2.5, for the moment, soon to be sided by a couple more CV lenses. Leica glass will, hopefully, follow - in the meantime, I will try and put what I have to a good use. Here a few samples out of my first day of shooting with the new M8: I love it already, feels like going back to the days I begun photography. My photographic story started more than 20 years ago, went through Nikon F, Fm2 - I got the chance to use a couple of film Leicas but never owned one - then F5 & finally digital with a short D70 time followed by D2x (2)... ok, enough talk, here comes the pics, from a day out in Istanbul, I hope you will not mind me posting non-Nikon pictures here for once, just I thought I'd share the news and the pics with all the old friends from the Cafe' :redface:

Old lady & cat at the bodrum cafe', Istanbul:


Istanbul is room for literally millions stray cats:






one of my usual old door shots :wink:


and, of course, one of my fiancee:


last, my very first M8 pic: of course, the Leica salesguy...


C&C welcome and much appreciated.

 

Hey Alex, thank you very much for your comment :biggrin: I am glad you liked the BW shots, and no problem for the color ones - the beauty of it is, everyone has different taste and likes different things :smile: Thanks again!

Hey Dave! No need being jealous - you can have one too, I am sure Leica will be happy to sell you one and a few lenses to go together with :wink: seriously, thank you for commenting, it's a great camera and I hope I will put it to a good use :smile:

Thank you very much Gale! :biggrin: I am glad you enjoyed

Thank you Gordon, your comments are as always very much appreciated :smile:

Hey Jase, thank you very much - I am glad you enjoyed my color work :biggrin: thanks a lot to take the time to check my site out as well, i really appreciate it :smile:

Thank you very much! I certainly hope so :biggrin:

Hello Michael, thank you very much for your kind words :smile: as far as my PP goes, I use basically curves to achieve that look; unfortunately, I do not have a standardized process and I treat each image individually - these had at least 3 curves applied to them, to raise and saturate the different areas of the color spectrum... :smile: I started long ago using curves freely available on the net to achieve cross-processed look on digital files (I do not have them anymore - but you can easily find them googling "cross-processing") and moved from there to build my own "color palette" so to speak. Hope this helps, sorry I can do more to explain what I do :smile:

Hey Stu, thank you very much for your nice words about my pics, I do appreciate it a lot! :smile: as far as the color treatment, see above in my reply to Michael - sorry I can say anything more specific, I just go on playing with each pic until I am happy with what I see :biggrin: ...and, my M8 is black - I know, old debate between silver & black fans; I am a black guy I guess :wink:

Thank you Mathias, I appreciate it :biggrin:

Indeed it is - I felt I needed to move to rangefinder (I don't want to assume I was ready for it as a photographer - I just felt like trying my hands and eyes at it... :wink . Indeed it is a very good exercise for the mind and the eye, and is a completely different way of doing photography. I am just starting what I feel will be a voyage in a different part of this beautiful art, and I hope to be up for it :smile: thanks for commenting, much appreciated!

 

Thank you very much Graeme! :biggrin: I am going to love the M8 (I am already loving the rangefinder way - though this doesn't mean I am going to give the D2x(s) up - ever, I think... :wink  thanks again my friend!

Thank you very much, I am glad you enjoyed :smile: