Weekly Collection 4
The interplay between color and black & white continues intrigue my photographic eye. Here’s another recent set in which I further explorer my color brush. All images captured with the Leica X1 & Processed in Capture One 9 Pro.
Year: 2016
Weekly Collection 3
My Darling . . .
My better half, my darling. Who says you can’t do portraits with a 35mm lens. Leica X1 and processed in Capture One
Weekly Collection 2
The Big Five Club
My parents on their way to a Gala night to celebrate the club’s 49nth anniversary. The Big Five Club has a rich history in South Florida. Former members of five of Havana’s most prestigious clubs bought the tract of land in 1967, in what was then a stretch of scrubland in unincorporated Dade off Southwest Eighth Street and 92nd Avenue. Leica X1 & Processed in Capture One 9 Pro, gotta love this Kodak CMOS sensor.
The ties that bind
From the archives 2011 and just submitted to the Miami Street Photography Festival 2016 competition “You’re stuck with me forever, Michie, get used to it. It’s the ties that bind, darlin’, the ties that bind.” — Jim Marshall Has it ever happened to you. You’re staring at one of your images and you absolutely fall in love with it. You feel you’ve captured that idyllic moment in just one click. Well, this is one of those frames for me.
Eyes of Innocence
From the Archives & Processed in Capture One Pro 9
Leica X1 a new journey
Followers of this space know I’ve been on an extended hiatus for quite a while – a year plus but I’ve been pondering the megapixel marathon all that time playing with my Lightroom library (40K) and processing a few hundred images from the multitude of cameras (31 total) I’ve owned over the last 7 years. My personal conclusion, megapixels are just not that important to create the imagery I want and what’s more important are the haptics and ergonomics of the actual camera body and control themselves that really give me the edge. Actually, when I shot with the D610 and its glorious 24 megapixels, yes I had an insane ISO capatilies and tons of resolution to crop but I quickly found out that I don’t really crop all that much (2-3%), I rarely print (something I’m definitely going to start doing but that’s another post), and I’m really ok with the ISO capabilites of most of the cams I’ve shot with. “C’mon Jorge are you serious” absolutely, when I scan my favorite images they …
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