My nephew recently became an Eagle Scout. It’s a great achievement that many boy scouts never achieve. It takes time, hard work, and dedication. During his ceremony, my sister presented my nephew with my fathers Illinois State Police name badge. He passed away almost 10 years ago and was a father figure for my nephew. I know he watches over my nephew and is very proud of his accomplishments.
ISO 160 1/180 f/.95 50mm
ISO 160 1/180 f/.95 50mm
ISO 160 1/180 f/.95 50mm
I usually don’t post pictures I take immediately but our little one in the past week has successfully learned how to “shake” and “dance”. Here is a moment from last night.
P.S. click on image to see it in full-size, her eyes are mesmerizing
I love it when she looks into our eyes!
ISO 160 1/90 f/.95 50mm noctilux
It’s a blast shooting with my Leica 50mm Noctilux in low light. This was taken last week of a colleague of mine. The bokeh is simply awesome!!!
ISO 250 1/30 f/.95 50mm
Few weeks ago I spent the weekend with my nephew. For some reason he always likes to pose for pictures. Here’s one with a cool toboggan.
ISO 160 1/90 f/.95 50mm noctilus
I posted this picture on my Facebook page and thought I would include it here also. Shot with my Sony NEX-7 and Leica 50mm Noctilux. Absolutely, awesome paired together! The “pixel peaking” feature works well.
ISO 100 1/60 f/.95 50mm noctilux
This past week has been crazy busy. I’m currently lecturing at an AO Basics Course (teaching residents how to use implants). On Sunday, I realized that I had to give a lecture that had not been given before, thus I worked night and day and got it done (gave the lecture about 2 hours ago).
Here is a recent picture of my baby girl. She has successfully mastered standing with support and you can see from the picture she can easily do it with one hand. In the past week we find her standing more and more without any support. I don’t think she has realized that she can successfully do this. When she does, I’m sure she will be walking all over the place.
ISO 800 1/60 f/.95 50mm noctilux
I recently posted pics of our baby girl on our couch at nine months. The picture posted was taken with my Leica M9 and Noctilux. I also took a few pictures with my Sony NEX-7 and Zeiss 24mm. Because, Aperture does’t process NEX-7 RAW files currently, I’m using Capture One Express and finally got around to processing them.
I have to say the images in my opinion are comparable to my Leica M9. The sharpness is dead on and the colors are great. I even noticed that the Leica M9 output causes some red tones in her skin that is not seen on the NEX-7 (I’ve heard others comment about these red tones but I never really noticed other than when shooting at high ISO’s). Let me know your thoughts?
P.S. If you want to see the full size images let me know and I can email them to you. Last, even though I speak very highly of the Sony NEX-7, I still love shooting with my Leica. There is something I find fascinating shooting with an all manual camera (I suppose I like the challenge).
ISO 100 1/200 f/1.8 24mm zeiss
ISO 100 1/200 f/1.8 24mm zeiss
ISO 160 1/1000 f/.95 50mm
Here is this months picture of our baby girl. I know I keep saying it but it’s getting more and more difficult to keep her on the couch for the shot.
Our Future @ 9 months ISO 160 1/1000 f/.95 50mm
Our Future @ 9 months 2 ISO 160 1/1000 f/.95 50mm
Our Future (birth) ISO 160 1/360 f/2 35mm
