A small travel gallery - Sweden - using my M3

<p>Hi All,<br /><br />This year for Easter we went to the town of Malmo in the south of Sweden - just across from Copenhagen, Denmark, where we live. I brought the M3, a couple of very active kids, and my ever-so-patient wife.<br /><br />For your viewing pleasure, I put together a small gallery on my website:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.imagepro.dk/Malmo_2011">http://www.imagepro.dk/Malmo_2011</a><br /><br />Hope that you enjoy it - please feel free to comment :-)<br /><br />Best regards,<br /><br />Soeren<br /><br /></p><div></div>

<p>Soeren, did you use the CV 28/3.5 for all the pictures? I love black and whites through CV lenses and yours have fantastic tones.</p>

<p>Beautiful family, and splendid photos, Soeren !<br>

Modern Art and young, impressionable minds... good mix. Disney, not so good, though ! At least Asta got a healthy dose of LM-H.</p>

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<p>Well done, Soeren. Beautifully crafted record of your family, and some that went beyond that. Trust me on this, you would be well-served by making more exposures per day than you are currently. Forty pictures in five days? I also liked the trip you did with the Nikon F on a cold-looking beach. Keep up the good work.</p>

<p>Really nice Soeren!</p>

<p>Excellent and very inspiring, Soeren!<br>

And you've made Malmoe look so attractive that now I want to go there too some day!</p>

<p>Good stuff Soeren</p>

<p>That was nice, Soeren. I want to see Sweden again.</p>

Beautiful Soeren. Your daughter is growing tall. Great shot with the milk. We are privileged to see these infrequent but

regular high quality glimpses of your family. Your son is a handsome little fellow too. I know that look of absorption

mixed with exhaustion there watching the TV. The photo of the twisted torso and the last one on the platform are

beautiful compositions, including from the point of view of light and shade.

<p>Very nice</p>

<p>Always makes me happy to see photographic equipment well used -- more so when the subjects are children.</p>

<p>Stunning images. Family moments to last forever. Any plans for some wet prints in a dark room? Would love to see warm tone fiber prints of these. </p>

<p>Congrats, </p>

<p>J</p>

Lovely images!

<p>The cover shot is just wonderful! I thought maybe it could be cropped a little bit, but even if you had a zoom lens you wouldn't have had time to get it right. It seems that the better policy is to shoot first and ask questions later. :-0</p>

<p>The last shot, 'Going Home' is also nice, particularly because of Asta's posture (compared with her mother's). What a gal! Perhaps that, too, could have been cropped a bit: cut the left third of the frame, see what you think. A much cleaner composition - what do you think?</p>

<p>EDIT: I, too, would like to see you shoot more. :-)</p>

<p>Well done, great images.<br>

I would love to go to Sweden sometime.</p>

<p>Thanks for all the positive comments, everyone - so very kind !!<br /><br /><strong>Starvy:</strong> Most shots were with the CV 21/4 and 28/3.5 lenses - compact, sharp, and affordable, and they fit my IIIa, too :-) As for the tonality of these lenses, I find it hard to judge, actually. I start off by ordering Fuji Frontier prints, and they are typically over-sharpened and show moire color artefacts (even in B/W). So that's not really possibly to judge. What I <strong>do</strong> know is that when I scan them, I scan for max colour depth (12 bit on my Coolscan IV ED) and take great care to recover highlights and optimise the histogram in general. So I would mostly expect the "look" to come from there. This also answers <strong>Julien</strong>s question, I guess - I'm not a darkroom kind of guy. In fact, in 15 years of serious shooting, I only ever was in a darkroom during one week-long portrait course. <br /><br />As for shooting more, I actually cheat a bit by bringing a digital camera with me :-) On this trip, I left the DSLR at home and took a Canon S95 for snaphots and a little bit of video (just the kids fooling around - I am not interested in cinematography :-) So when I bring out the Leica (Or Nikon F :-), I tend to be very focused on that particular moment.<br>

And you can of course go to <a href="http://www.imagepro.dk/foto">http://www.imagepro.dk/foto</a> to see more of my pictures :-)<br /><br />Again, thanks a lot for the kind words, and do not hesitate to add further comments !!<br /><br />Soeren<br /><br /><br /><br /></p><div></div>

<p>Excellent images- now, where is my M3? Must find it and use it. Your images are INSPIRING. Well Done :-)- Best wishes Afzal</p>

<p>Excellent images and very inspiring as well. Now, where is my M3? Must get it out and use it :-) Well Done!! keep shooting- best wishes- Afzal</p>

<p>Excellent - must get my M3 out.</p>

<p>excellent</p>

<p>Soren, great collection of images. May I ask what film this was shot on?</p>

<p>Thanks, Erik :-)<br /><br />I always use the Kodak BW400CN Professional. It develops cheaply at my local "Japan Photo" store, it handles inaccurate exposure well (I tend to expose on the generous side, if in doubt), and ISO 400 @F/1.5 is good enough for most low-light applications. And ICE works for scanning, which is definitely also a bonus.<br /><br />Best regards,<br />Soeren</p>