Westonbirt Digitally

Once again I'm returning to 2014 for this month's blog. I have been revisiting the photos that I took with my Leica M240 whilst Lynn was having a dabble with my M2. I don't often go back to old images and this will be the first time that I have re-edited after so long. In that respect it has been interesting to see how differently I approach post processing six years down the line.

Our visit to Westonbirt was on the last day of August, a little too early for full autumn colours. Also, it was a very sunny day with a huge dynamic range between the blue sky and the shadows under the trees.



I had bought my M240 about eight months earlier and was certainly still learning how to make the best use of it. I had previously been using a Nikon D60 for digital photography and was reasonably happy with its results. The new Leica really was vastly better though. I hadn't really appreciated how soft the Nikon images were until I started to process the images from the M240. More than double the resolution to start with and the lenses were and still are phenomenal.



A very definite difference between the digital images and the film ones is the detail and then, even more obviously, the vibrance of the colours. I suppose a more scientific approach would have been to try and take pretty much the same shot on film and digitally but I hadn't even thought of producing this blog back then so it wasn't a priority.



For next month's blog I have taken two pairs of images on different days but with similar weather of the same views near to Hollington whilst walking our dogs. Two are on film and the other two are digital. It will be interesting to see the comparison.



Final thought for this month's blog. It became apparent during the last month that some people want to be able to comment on my blog, which is really nice but there was not a proper place to do so. As a result I have added a comments box to the bottom of each blog and now I look forward to hearing from you. Bear in mind that this is just my hobby after all!!! Thanks again for taking the time to read my ramblings, I'm really looking forward to seeing what you may have to say! See you next month.