Shooting 500 Keepers at f/2.0 - Part 2
This week is part two of the shooting at f/2.0 exercise. Many of the 500 keepers at f/2.0 could have been chosen for this post, but the ones chosen here provide an exercise within an exercise. Take a walk and see if you can make the objects along the way worth looking at because they were photographed at f/2.0. Is the scene better or worse? Is f/2.0 obvious? Sometimes it is, and sometimes it isn't. Something purely pedestrian may just be pedestrian, or maybe it's worth a seco
Shooting 500 Keepers at f/2.0 - Part 1
Peter Karbe, expert Leica lens designer, says that Leica lenses are designed to be shot wide open. Karbe says: “…shoot the lenses wide open. Do not stop down for exposure control. STOP IT. Use an ND filter if it is too bright out and please only stop down to control the depth of field...” Should you shoot all lenses wide open? Or is Leica advertising Leica? Should you blur the background in all your photos? If you spend a lot of money on an f/1.4 or f/2.0 lens, why not shoot
