Visual Notes 002
When I hand my Leica to my wife.
My wife’s main camera is her iPhone. She isn’t familiar with camera controls.
When we go out with our son and I’m wearing the baby carrier, I hand her my Leica M11 and she shoots with it.
The lens is a Summilux 35mm. It’s a manual-focus camera.
To keep it simple, I set it up like this:
Shutter speed & ISO: Auto
Aperture: f/8
Focus distance: fixed at 5m
That way, she can shoot with it almost like a disposable camera, just by pressing the shutter.
But for my wife, who wants to photograph our son up close, this setup doesn’t focus where she wants it.
She looks a little dissatisfied. But I like it better when it’s slightly out of focus.
Visual Notes is a new series that will run alongside my regular posts—more photographs, fewer words.
I love these! Not only are they beautiful, honest images, but they remind me of carrying my son everywhere (thirty-six years ago!) when he was a baby: as only the motion of walking or being in a car seemed to ease him into sleeping!
The „Mirror-Picture“ is sooooo nice to watch. Love these kind of self portraits…
One of the best pics by the way in your substack-Timeline 😀shure, technical it is not one of those „wow, look at these incredible colours and shadows“, but it is honest and approachable.
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