Leica Conversations: Modern Monochrome with Alan Schaller 

I might be wrong, Chloe (it wouldn’t be the first time), but I think when Alan refers to the fact he has to work he’s referring to some of the things he has to do as a full-time, professional photographer. Things like client meetings, responding to DMs and emails, talking to editors and printers, booking travel, doing invoices, doing tax returns, etc, etc. I’m not saying this to be contrary, I just think if you’ve got nearly a million followers on Instagram as a photographer I would just assume that is his only line of work as it takes a lot of time and energy to build that kind of platform 🙂

Yasha both are good, it depends on how you work.

T M I love my m3 and m6

my top two as well 👍

Vinyl Island not all great photographers travel, some stay home.

I believe his vision that needs to be studied here - his processing is to complete the vision. Not the other way around- example a lady in a train with minimum light looking at her phone with maximum brightness you expose for her face and with processing you underexpose everything and highlight her face and remove distractions

Henry Goh totally agreed.

@@thureintun1840 it’s his vision he has ideas and go out to execute them - a perfect example of a successful street photographer in my opinion

people who dont edit are crazy.. the camera does not capture the scene perfectly true to life.. it doesnt have human dynamic range so you have to add it in.. you will never achieve the zone system with an in camera photo because the technology does not enable it..

He uses the LCD which offers spot metering

@@slickhatter9812 thanks

@@harveycohen6456 i mean i know it’s obvious but in other interviews he said when light is not changing much he sets his camera and just shoot, for dynamic scenes he uses live view - i use live view for spot metering and then close it and focus with the OVF but for sure this is not for all subjects- i find the live view a little big laggy when it is activated. Q2M is nick to nick with any monochrome even better if you enjoy 28 you can’t beat it

You can spot meter with the OVF.

Not true at all

not everyone focuses solely on the gear and processes and instead focus on getting good photos

Anandhu A.B you get better photos when you process everything yourself and then enlarge the photograph yourself You can control tone and contrast completely without relying on someone developing your film in a bath with 30 other rolls from other customers in the same solution. That’s what labs do, they take your roll and plop it in a bath with other rolls to save time and money

@@nickfanzo you can control everything yourself with digital much easier than film and still have much much more resolution with a much smaller body for the level of detail you can get with modern digital cameras you'd need to use medium format cameras at least and again the convenience is a big factor being able to look at the exposure can make a world's difference sometimes

@@anandhua.b4589 nailed it.