Archive for May, 2010

More pictures taken with Leica M6

Friday, May 28th, 2010

Earlier this year I got a Leica M6 with two lenses: Summicron 50/2 and Nokton 30/1.2 because I wanted to see what all the “Leica buzz” is about.

I’ve already published the results of my first experiments with it some weeks ago. Encouraged by positive response and fact that the new camera actually seemed to help me to take different pictures (more on that later) I continued to use it for photographing my friends, family and some street scenes.

Here is a  new collection of pictures I took with the M6 this spring:

PS. I recently replaced the Summicron 50/2 with Zeiss C-Sonnar 50/1.5 and many of these pictures were already taken with it.

Angela & Hok – Newlywed Portrait in Prague

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

Angela and Hok got married a week ago in Hong Kong. They flew to Europe for their honeymoon trip and chose my services to create their wedding portrait with the backdrop of Prague.

Unfortunately they had little luck with the weather. It was just the beginning of the heavy rains that caused serious floods around Central Europe. I took some unusual steps to prepare to deliver memorable pictures in spite of such weather: the lighting equipment was waterproofed with a plastic wrap and we had 3 extra voluntary assistants.

Luckily after a short shower the skies started to clear out and we also managed to get some shots without umbrellas.

I would like to give a special credit to my main assistant on this assignment – Saneesh Sukumaran. He actually took some of the pictures from the gallery below:

Big thanks to Raifa, Florin, Lucian and anonymous group of Malaysian tourists, their help was also substantial!