Translated literally, photography means painting with light. I often take this idea literally as well and move the camera during a long exposure as if it were a brush. The resulting photos often combine blur, stuttering shadows and streaks of motion captured in the sweep of the camera. There’s much experimentation required to create an intriguing image with intentional blur. While techniques are open to interpretation and your own trial-and-error, here’s my workflow.
Chapter 11: Recovering highlights in your DNGs in Lightroom for iPad.
The Leica Q2 Monochrom journal.
Why are highlights so important to an image? For starters, overexposed highlights lost to pure white are more obvious than shadows lost to pure black. But sometimes with DNG files, highlights may look like they’ve been lost when they haven’t, so they’re recoverable. Other times they can be made less obvious in editing. This entry gives you some techniques for restoring them, as well as some tips on how to make overexposure not stand out as much.
We commonly rely on histograms for exposing our DNG files, but they’re often incorrect. The histogram in the Leica Q2 Monochrom (and most cameras for that matter) is taken off the JPG preview image. You’d think it’s a conservative indicator of the eight-stop light range of a JPG, but it’s often wrong. Some DNG files can look dark because they don’t make full use of the light range of the sensor. Other images may have highlights burned into pure white when the histogram indicates you’re well within confines. This entry will help you get more accurate exposures by forgetting the histogram.
Chapter 9: In the bag—a right-sized case for the Leica Q, Q2, Q2M, Q3.
The Leica Q2 Monochrom journal.
The Leica Q2 Monochrom doesn’t really require extras. With a full battery and empty card you can get in a day’s worth of casual shooting with just your camera. So a protective camera bag just needs to be able to carry the camera and little else.
But the problem with finding camera bags is it’s not easy to tell which one your Leica Q series will fit in. Many cases seem to have the right measurement specs but are actually a little too small to fit a Q series or require you to force the camera through an awkward opening. But if you get a bigger camera bag that will surely accommodate your Q, you may have to dig around for your camera and lug an awkward bag that gets in the way of your shooting. This entry gives you some tried-and-true bags that just hold the camera and are comfortably right there next to you, ready for shooting without getting in the way.
I’ve tried many camera bags, waists packs, packs, etc. with my Q2M. Some have no padding. Some are awkward to open and close with one hand. In some, the camera flops around inside. I’ve weeded through a lot and these are my recommendations with photos to show you a size comparison with the camera. Since all the Q models are basically the same size, these bags work with any of them.
I think the big aspect of Rabbit R1 that people have missed is the fun factor. The device was literally designed by combining a walkie talkie and a Tamagotchi. It’s regularly been described as an AI Gameboy. And features that come along have been serious, but with some fun thrown in.
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