The Hampshire Tree Album
I did say I'd post more photographs of that tree. I went back to it today, purely to photograph it a little more and look for something else to capture too. I was reading the latest edition of BLACK+WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY magazine that has a feature on creating your own cyanotype images manually from a digital negative. Right now, life's too short for that malarky, so I've used Silver Efex Pro. The important thing is, I was inspired. I don't know why, but I like the effect it gives the dead wood in the image above. It reminds me of those really really old photographs from a time when we didn't use one's and oh's quite as much as we do today.
Both images were shot with my Leica D-Lux 4. In the magazine, there is also a really cool feature article on Prime versus Zoom lens and the reviewer compares some really excellent Zeiss lens to their Canon equivalent, with the Zeiss 21mm f/2.8 T* Distagon impressing the most. The sharpest lens he's ever seen, apparently.
Treescape - 5.10 at f/2, ISO 80, 1/320 sec.
