25 November

Thanksgiving Album: Over The Moon. Lessons Of The Leica

by Jon Katz

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.

1 Comments

  1. 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.

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