Leica Q2 Monochrome - Not for me ? Athens 🇬🇷
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
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To be honest, I had my doubts before switching from the Leica Q2 to the Leica Q2 Monochrome but after shooting couple of weeks with it, I absolutely love it and I am getting more into the BW mindset. Layering is still challenging but I am doing my best composing my images with elements in foreground and background. But what are your thoughts ?
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The wonderful Greece. I'm glad to see you shooting there. Monochrome is definitely for you, do not worry. In a short while you will have a solid collection of genius pictures made with this camera. So many beautiful shots in this episode also. Layered or not layered your shots are on top. Great work, as always👏👏🔥🔥
Hi Alexandru :) Greece is wonderful indeed... and the FOOD OH MY :) Thanks for the support :) Layered is the goal but doesn't work very often :) However, what works often recently are the pastries :)) Thanks again for watching ! :)
To me, it’s about the content of the images. I feel that street scenes and shots with a lot of context look better in colour. When the focus is on a specific subject or the subject is isolated it tends to look better in B&W.
Very nice work!
Thanks a lot mate !
Beautiful work. Thank you for sharing. I could almost taste the baklava. That was fun to watch too. So, f8 zone focussing? What are the general settings you use for this kind of shooting? Thank you. 🙏.
Your timing and visual sense is absolutely stunning. Yes, the Q2 monochrome is great but as I always say, It is you who captures those moments and transform them into art. Very few have the talent. Keep it up.
Wow, thanks for the kind words ! :) Glad you enjoyed the shots ! :) appreciate it !
Salut Octav. your visual awareness and timing is spot on and is what makes your photography good. Mostly, your style is still there even in b/w, composition is great like every time. Color is one of the key elements you are very good at but i think there is a fair trade between color and something else in your b/w photography now. I dont know exactly what, but i dont feel that there is something missing.
Spor !
Multumesc Edward:) . I will keep on shooting color but, I guess, for the moment I train myself composing better in shooting BW, if that makes sense :). Thanks for the kind words and see you soon again in Bucharest :)
Excellent images! I had been bouncing back and forth between the Q2 and Q2 Monochrom. I have since picked up the Q3. However, the "simplicity" of the monochrome sensor is very appealing. When I say simplicity, I mean that by removing the option for color to tell the story, my thought process is simplified to thinking strictly about light, shapes, and shadows, and how they interact with each other. Not sure if I will eventually switch back. For now I will convert in post when the image calls for it. Sadly we live in a small city, so there are far less street photography opportunities near where I live.
Yup loving the B&W images :-) #25 was my favourite with the birds. Keep up the great work Octavian :)
Thanks Phil :) I am glad you enjoyed it :) I will do my best ! :)
I’m happy to see you shoot with both the Q2 and Q2M. I also have both. Your images are wonderful!
I'm from Cyprus and I was laughing so much at some of the Greek comments! :) I'm more of a color person, but I loved all of your B&W shots and definitely the style suits you! And yes, Greece has the BEST food😀!!!
Thank you for watching Greg :) I have booked another trip (this time to Crete) just for the food :). Insanely delicious :)
So many amazing images. 3, 5, 9, 10, 15, 22. Loving the mono.
Glad you like them! Brilliant camera :) I enjoy it a lot !
Hey Octavian, great video as always. Athens is a fun city. I really like your color work as well as the black and white. I thought about going monochrome as well but then I learned about using color channels to tone monochrome photos from Peter Coulson, which you can never do on a pure monochrome sensor. Shanghai looks awesome on the Q2 btw, thanks for the inspiration.
Hi Tony ! thank you for watching. You probably can obtain the same result shooting a Q2 in post production but shooting only in BW seems totally different for me. Probably a good test would be to set up your camera in JPEG Monochrome and shoot with it 6 months. :) I am curious to see if the approach of photography changes as well. I will continue to shoot color :) Cheers !
You have a higher number of good pictures compared with other youtube pov street that i've seen.
Thanks a lot ! Working on a new video with the Leica Q2M :D
Great photos, I think it should be shot in black and white, my opinion is yes!)))Thank you for the video, I always look forward to the next one)
Hi Vadim ! Thanks :) Do you mean the whole video should be shot in BW ? :) Thanks for watching !
no, it is also beautiful in color, but black and white has the right to life!
Love the Photos, U have the style of ur own, Thank you
Glad you like them! Thanks :) . We are working on that style :)
interesting photos, beautiful place. Thank you! 👏
Glad you enjoyed it Thanks for watching ! :)
Superb. The kid with the pigeons-fab.
Thanks a lot ! :)
Hey Octavian! Une nouvelle fois trop trop bien tes photos. Il y en a vraiment des excellentes! Couleur ou noir et blanc… Continue surtout de nous inspirer! J’adore! ❤
Un grand merci Antoine et bientot ! Je shoote toujours en couleur d'ailleurs :) Merci !
I have a regular Q2 and I have to say, pretty much every picture you showed in this video got its power from being in black and white.
Thanks ... I guess :) I disagree with you Trevor, probably the ones at the end with the balloons and Mickey Mouse would have been better in colour :) Thanks for watching !
Loved your take on alex webb his wirk and how you cannot take these shots elswhere, totally agreed!
They can inspire and then you go out and do your own with it!
Great shots with the Q2m mate
Glad you enjoyed it Benny :) Good luck with your presentation this Saturday ! :) You got this ! Enjoy the Q2M as well :) cheers !
Absolutely brilliant work. You motivate me to take out my Q2M more!
Great to hear that Rob :) I love mine so far :D
6:27 my fave 👍
Yeah, I like that one too :D
Really some great shots Octavian! 🔥 Monochrome or not, it works. I wish I could go to a warmer sunny place, than cold, wet and dark Denmark... Very inspiring video.
HI Jan ! Thanks for watching and for the kind words. This winter seems so long and so grey and rainy here. If it wouldn't be for my short 2-3 days trips outside Belgium I would probably be depressed by now. Somehow I think Denmark is worse as you get less light.. BUT the thing that I really miss is the sun. I hope one day I can move in Rome haha. Cheers !
Many great photos. Love #18
Thanks Craig ! :)
Had to be quick and the result is no. 10, the hat & the glasses, great !
No. 11, nice too ! Nos. 13 + 14, fine detailed ! No. 18, 19, of course, no. 22, beauties they are !
Great one my friend. So many great shots again.
Btw before having the Q2 (and still now) I shoot in bnw on the Fuji even if the picture is meant to be in color.
I learned to see the colors and contrasts while shooting in bnw .
Thank you Dan ! I am great you liked the video and the shots :)That's a very nice approach : I learnt to see the colors while shooting BNW heheh. This can be a topic for one of my videos after I will use more the Q2M :) Thanks for tuning in :) See you soon !
Lucky man! In Greece!
Yeah ! Indeed :)
Excellent Photography - Really like what you get out of the bw camera 👏🏻
Glad you enjoyed it Ken ! :) Thanks for watching yet again :)
4.27, the hat and cigarette was my favourite. Great camera but I like shooting both mono/colour so I’m glad I have the colour version. If I want mono only I set it on highest quality JPEGs and mono high contrast plus an orange filter on lens, works quite well. Another lovely video as always Octavian, thanks.
Thanks a lot Victor ! Glad you enjoyed it (yet one more time) I agree with you but somehow getting out of the house only with the option to shoot BW, it somehow changes my mind set (or at least, this is what I want to think) :). Thank you ! Cheers !
I must admit that the light rendering is impressive, great shots! Makes me want to do b&w again! 😉
Thanks a lot Stephan! I am glad you liked the shots 🤩. BW on the Q2M looks pretty good indeed, specially with a boost of contrast :)
Wonderful work and shots again with the Q2M. Please keep on using this unik camera, I think will love it even more You use it....And also try out some filters 😎👍
Thanks, a lot Jorgen! will do! I am contemplating buying a red filter :) Cheers !
12 and 13 hands down. Superb!🤙🏾
Thanks ! Glad you liked them :)
Great photos amazing black and white de video master pice I love te
Hello Octavian, indeed you did a good job in Athens...so many nice images, it was hard to choose this time and I was tempted not to pick a favourite this time. Number 1 perfect multilayer and perfect in B&W and then with 2, 10, 13, 15, 18, 19, 24, 25 here are my favourites. I recently changed camera and I was in between choosing a colour or B&W sensor but eventually choose colours., don't know you but sometimes I see in B&W and sometimes I see in colours and didn't want to loose the sort of freedom digital photography.
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Hi,
Nice b&w-shots, Leica quality. 👍
My favourites are 10 , 15 , 6 , because I think that these shots are more in accordance with your great color shots.
So my advice would be keep on doing both b&w and colour. 😉
Greetings.
Hi Jay ! Thanks a lot :) I will definitely follow your advice and keep on shooting both, colour and BW. Thank for the feedback ! Cheers !
fabulous work Octavian, subbed!
Thanks for the sub Zeno !
Your style shines through no matter the venue, gear, or color rendering, Octavian. IMO, gaining a bit of dynamic range in the monochrome camera is not worth the loss of versatility to be enjoyed by using a cam that shoots both B&W and color. I would prefer the choice of viewing/editing in B&W and/or color when the composition warranted (like the balloon guys in the vid). Color adds to the story-telling abilities of some pics. But, to each his own and if you get a psychological boost from the mono cam and you feel better, you will shoot more and that could yield the pics you seek.
Favs in this vid are 3 (friends), 6 (sweeper/diagonal), 11 (proximity) and 29 (layering).
That was a generous size baklava (hope it was drenched in honey😊). There’s a yearly church-sponsored Greek festival in my city that features all kinds of Greek foods - drive-by pick-ups, as well. Baklava a favorite. Always crowded.
Cheers!
Thanks for the kind words Paul :) I will still shoot colour (pretty soon to be honest). I feel like the more I shoot BW the more I will improve my composition... it may be a trap but I am willing to give it a shot :). That baklava was delicious but the orange cake is SUBLIME :). If you can find one in your city during the Greek Festival, go with it :). Thanks for watching and I hope you will enjoy the next videos ! :) (with layered pictures or not ) :)
I love your images! BTW, do you use mutli-point AF with your Q2?
Hi mate and thank you ! I always use AF and I use Field (centered) . For focusing sometimes I will use focus and recompose if time allows it !
Hi Octavian! I loved the guy with the hat and cigarette, timed it perfectly. I think the b&w looks amazing. Are the files easy to edit or not even required? I ended up getting the M10p which I love shooting but really wish I’d got the M10m. I end up converting 90% of my files.
Hi Devlin ! That's one of my favourite shots as well. They are easy to edit and offer a very good margin of editing (if that makes sense). Well, if you convert 90% of your files to BW then there is only one path... a Monochrome camera :D
Just want to say I really love your Monochrom photos. But I'm an 100% b+w shooter myself, so I'm biased :)
Planning to go to Athens later this year, your video makes me looking forward to that even more.
Thanks a lot Robert :) I am glad you enjoyed the shots and I hope you will enjoy Athens as much as I did. There are some areas that are more bubbly and vibrant and some area that are not very good but overall it's a wonderful city :)
I love you work and enjoy all your videos. But I find the monochrome with the Leica flat and with low contrast. They are great images but I feel something is missing with this camera.
Hi Paul ! The images are indeed flat but it gives you a very good margin on editing, probably that's why I love it so much. Or you can choose to shoot JPEG in high contrast and pictures will look less flat :D Cheers !
I am missing your original Leica Q2 sessions :(
Thanks I guess :) Why is that? :D
Definitely color photography matches with your character and style more than b&w, this is my honest opinion. And you are really good in using colors in street photography.@@OctavianCarare
I think both b&w and color pictures are amazing in their own way. Maybe you shoot better pictures. Anyway do both because there are people who likes color too. By the way, which software do you use to edit your video? And also the music that you use for your videos.
Maybe shooting only BW makes you concentrate on less things than you would normally focus on when shooting colour. Maybe it's more about composing the pictures then thinking about colours. I use NIk 6 Silver effex and Lightroom. Music comes from Audiio and Motion Array. Cheers ! :)
beautiful shots as always , as a greek i approve.havent been to greece tho in donkey years.
Iasas :)and thank you ! Can't wait to be back in Greece :)
@@OctavianCarare i need to go home this year to be honest.even tho my hometown in greece aint so friendy with cameras actually im the only one when im out and about with a camera.and they think is film (fujifilm xt4 user here).yasou you are welcome love your vids and shots.
@tazchars8857 where do you live? Athens was friendly for street photography:)
@@OctavianCarare i live in sheffield - united kingdom but im from Serres northern Greece.
@tazchars8857 I will go to Crete this summer for a short period of time. Have you ever been there?
Nice photo's mate 👍
Thanks 👍 a lot :)
Nice!!! You have a 29mm lens right? yet the photos seem to me to have been taken with a 40mm
28 mm :) some of the shots are crop, some not :)
@@OctavianCarare Thanks, sorry if I asked you this detail, because I also use to shoot in 28mm and then many times I crop!😀
hey! photos are fantastic but honestly my mind is still with the baklava:)
hahah thanks ! mine too ! The baklava was DELICIOUS but the Orange Cake SUBLIME :)
Good job !!!❤
Thanks 🙏
Great video. I sold my Q2 because I got fed up with the focusing system. What settings do you use? It looks like you have programmed the framing button for back focus lock (I did that) and use that. But I am tired of the soft and out-of-focus portraits I got unless I manually focused. If you are successful in convincing me I may get a Q2 Monochrome.
Hi there and thanks. I have been using the Q2 with the autofocus system for almost 4 years now and it works very good for me. I didn’t customise the back button at all :). I shoot in Aperture priority 99% , autofocus, field. Thanks for watching:)
Thanks! I suppose if you are distant from your subject, stopped-down vs. close-up portrait "field" works. I find eye, field, tracking, field, continuous, etc. just don't get the eyes sharp for close-up portraits (unless stopped down and not close) so I use manual or spot. But you have no problem so I will try it. Outside I find I have no problems when I shoot as you do (in terms of distance using zone of focus). Greg Williams takes amazing pictures with it. I just ordered a Monochrom so we shall see! On another topic: your images are sensational! You have a killer eye and I learn so much watching your videos!. @@OctavianCarare
hey ! You are in Greece, my country ? I'm jealous :) Seeing you eating all these wonderful things, I'm gaining weight ! Hahaha
I was in Athens for two days :( just to get some well needed sun ☀️, music and great food :)
Do you edit the photos afterwards (besides straighten and cropping)?
Very strong work! I like it much more than the first q2 b&w video from you!
Thanks Konrad ! I do edit the pictures in terms of contrast, shadows, blacks and exposure. That's about all :) Thank you for watching !
10:55
25!
yep, one of my favourites as well :)
I see life in colors. B&W for me is a restriction. Not even cavemen used just one color (black) when they discovered reds, browns... When the photo is bad, I see people tends to convert in B&W to make it more interesting. But in your case, doing wonderful and colorful street photography... I dont see it :(
There is a quote that goes something like that 'freedom by limitation/restriction'. Not even caveman used just one color , true words my friend but the beginning of photography was purely BW and how beautiful shots are out there from so many artists shooting and seeing only BW :) I will continue to shoot color, that's for sure :) Thanks for watching ! Cheers !
@@OctavianCarare true! But majority of artist use black and white in clean and not crowed scenes. If you go back to all time black and white favourites, those are clean. Crowed/Busy/Layered scenes in Black and white are like a salad. If you can replicate what Allan Schaller does, go on!!
Hi Octavian. It looks like you concentrated on taking multilayered B&W images to prove me, they are valid as the colour ones. Sure, you nailed most of them, because you have photographic vision. A. W. has lots of unique pictures all over EU cities, where you take your images too. I said I like your images in color better, and now I like your B&W images too, if they are multilayered. By the way, some of my favourite photographer's images I can't even image in colours, like Daido Moriyama and Tatsuo Suzuki. Watch for your sweet tooth!
Hi Bela ! Thanks, again, for the feedback and for the kind words. I am not familiar with A.W. images in European Cities, I will have a look (probably need to buy more photography books) Thanks for sharing your favourite photographers too. It will serve as inspiration for me. Cheers !
I miss your colour work! btw.. all those cakes and pastries you consume will play havoc with your cholesterol in later life, take it from one who knows!
Thanks Rob :) There will be some colour pictures coming soon as well. Actually I am considering buying the new XPRO4 or Ricoh GR (hopefully coming very soon) :). Hehe I don't consume pastries and heavy sugar like this on a daily basis :) from time to time but thanks for the tips :)