In Asakusa, where these guys pull tourists around in riksjas (see previous snippet), which seems a really exhausting job. He was happy to pose. Sadly the lens flared badly (the Leica Macro Elmar 90mm f/4.0) and I caught him in a big washed out circle (still visible in the top left corner). The lens is renowned for this type of flaring and comes with a hood to prevent this problem. But that hood is so ridiculously big (on quite a tiny lens) that I never used it. Weirdly enough I didn't catch this flare on the LCD (shot with the M9, so I still had a screen on the back...). After some cropping and turning it black and white I think I salvaged most of this portrait...
Converted to black and white with DNGMonochrome.
Leica M9 with Leica Macro Elmar 90mm f/4.0
Tokyo, Japan - 14 October 2014
In Asakusa, where these guys pull tourists around in riksjas (see previous snippet), which seems a really exhausting job. He was happy to pose. Sadly the lens flared badly (the Leica Macro Elmar 90mm f/4.0) and I caught him in a big washed out circle (still visible in the top left corner). The lens is renowned for this type of flaring and comes with a hood to prevent this problem. But that hood is so ridiculously big (on quite a tiny lens) that I never used it. Weirdly enough I didn't catch this flare on the LCD (shot with the M9, so I still had a screen on the back...). After some cropping and turning it black and white I think I salvaged most of this portrait...
Converted to black and white with DNGMonochrome.
Leica M9 with Leica Macro Elmar 90mm f/4.0
Tokyo, Japan - 14 October 2014