Shooting in Shade

This shot was taken last year in the spring near Wainwright, Alberta, on a deserted farm. The sun was quite bright, being midday, but I was able to find a sheltered area behind the farmhouse. It was quite windy, and therefore the grass shows lots of movement. I liked the shapes of the two trees, forming a repeating pattern, which is always desirable in any composition. A wide angle lens, my WATE Leica lens set to 18 mm, was used to take the shot. I was very close to the tree in the foreground, almost standing right over it. But the wide angle gives it some depth. The image was shot with TMAX 100 film, and scanned. Its always a good idea to shoot landscapes in the shade during midday, thus eliminating a high contrast range that you would encounter in open sun.

Farm Scene

This shot was taken about a year ago, with my Leica M7, a film camera. I was shooting with Delta 400 I believe, and the tonality I achieved is really wonderful. This image was always appealing to me, and I think it had to do with the white trailer in the centre of the image, standing out because of the contrast. Without that white subject, in the midst of the grey tonality of the majority of the scene, it would be a bit boring. The tonality of the sky also lends an appealing aspect to the scene as a whole. The negative was scanned into my Mac, and was touched up a bit to achieve the proper contrast of the original negative, which was lost in the scan. One of my favourite shots.