Colour Plants and Pots! - Updated

[Rob MacKillop]

One or two of you might recall I was gifted a Leica Q3 by one of my more wealthy students on my retirement from teaching. Amazing camera, but I rarely used it as I was so transfixed by the Leica Monochrom (1st World Problem, I know). So this afternoon I tried the Q3 again, to see if I could find a way of using it I could connect with, with a little help from Exposure 7. The following come close. Your thoughts appreciated. In no particular order...

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[Gianluca Drago]

I love these warm colours. And the shallow depth of field. And in the last one the lighting.

Out of curiosity, I wonder: do these colours come from the lighting conditions at the time of the photo, or from a filter in the camera or post-production?

Go ahead with the colour, Rob, it seems to work very well for you.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Thanks, Gianluca. The pale afternoon light is all the lighting I needed, but Exposure 7 gives me far too many options for altering colour. I have 'favourited' six of the hundreds of options which I think will serve me well, or not use them at all depending on the original shot. They don't have any effect on the lighting, which was done shooting manual mode, if I remember correctly. Annoyingly, the autofocus did not work perfectly in the third image.

Go ahead with colour? We shall see.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

On the other hand...Monochrom and Minolta M-Rokkor 90mm f4:

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Well, it's not a competition. Somedays one will draw me in more than another. Let it be.

 

[Gianluca Drago]

You read my mind! I wanted to ask you to do a comparison between monochrome and colour, but I held back. I know it's not a competition, but maybe you're interested in what others think. And this is what I think: I like the colour versions much better. But don't generalise, I'm just saying that in these photos I like the colour version better, in others of yours definitely not.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

That's OK, old friend! I quite agree with you. Tomorrow I might not. That's OK too.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

And this is why I am not selling the Q3.

 

[Gianluca Drago]

And this is why I am not selling the Q3.

Please don't sell it (I couldn't afford the price).

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Here are those reds I was talking about in another thread, where they were in monochrome. Here with the Q3:



And here I have to say I definitely prefer the b&w version, even though it is a monochrome rendering of the same colour file, and not a Monochrom original - I'll do one of them later.





It will be a subject by subject decision.

 

[Gianluca Drago]

Nice colours in the first one and nice B&W in the last.

 

[Gary Ayala]

Quite the plant collection.