Shooting in jpg high contrast on the M11-P 

It is delightful to witness the emergence of creative inspiration, and the joy expressed as photographer and camera merge to produce beautiful painterly expressions of light and shadow. - Thank you, Catherine O

John, I love your videos and photos! Thank you for your efforts of creating and sharing them!

Hi John! Really cool to hear you talking to your model and getting that comforting vibe. You can see the young lady´s relaxed mood in the portraits which are really nice. Thanks for the little lesson in spot metering!

I learn so much from your channel; Composition and lighting so beautiful in these amazing photos; Thank you for sharing your skill and views❤

The jpegs were stunning.

This is wonderful and I love those photos. My travel camera has a defect saving RAW, so I shoot jpeg with it. It's a fun camera (a Lumix), so the other day I did some early morning shots of some old trains, in the same high contrast black-and-white mode. 😀 I was pretty pleased with the results.

Some really nice images; well done!👏

Ecxellent storytelling. I am a Fuji shooter (digital) as well as Nikon and Mamiya both analogue. But since I went to a Leica shop in Düsseldorf/Germany a few years ago, I hope to get an M some day. Not for branding reason but for the feeling and the results I saw, also when I went to an exhibition in Berlin "100 years of Leica".

Beautiful shots!

wow.... really good video and the images are for me, some of your best work I've seen so far.

Nice images.

Interesting to hear how You are thinking about Metering :) :) :)

Thanks for posting. When you started shooting I was thinking "with all those wonderful colors, what the heck is he doing shooting in b&w". I quickly ate my words/thoughts. Going b&w seemed to isolate/separate her from the busy background or so I think. :)

Lovely images again. I really enjoy watching and hearing your interaction with the model. Maybe you can do a whole shoot with that audio? I would definitely learn something.

Wonderful to hear your voice on the shootsy always the biggest mistery how you adjust the posing of your models

I think that Leica's high contrast b&w jpeg engine is really good tbh. I'd probably rate it better than most of the film sims Ive tried. I will say that for a similar vibe my workflow has been to just apply cobalt's tri-x profile to the first image, set it to strong contrast then sync across a whole import. Feel like it's actually really close, maybe even a bit better re highlights. But that's a real testament to Leica's JPGs if anything.

One other channel I watch I can't remember she name but she's a Australian and she collects a lot of old cameras and she shoots film. He got a Olympus Four Thirds camera and she really the Olympus high contract jpeg mode. You might want to give that a try. Four Thirds was the DSLR version of M43.

Nice shoot-I hope she reviews the images and sees her true beauty shining through-sans magenta hair…

I am always blown away how you take these less than ideal environments, find the light, and make the composition. I keep thinking it must be the gear, but you have done this across all the gear. Question, how do you get THAT LOOK? Is it just high contrast and the light? But that is EXACTLY the look I want to produce. Thank you again!

Did you adjust any of the b&w jpeg parameters (sharpness, contrast etc)? I started off always converting my Leica DNG using SFX but find that the SOOC b&w high contrast is often excellent and a better conversion unless I want a very specific look.

why not just use M mode rather than recomposing all the time? it has LCD too right?

Does this leave the original dng file in color?

Poor woman dyed her hair pink and you shot her in black and white 🤣