Slowing Down In Greece With the Leica M3 - Part 3
Wondering around Santorini after eating the best piece of grouper by the sea.
E100 was the obvious choice for Greece. The blues are just fantastic.
Fall is here, and I still find myself daydreaming at times being back on Santorini. This will be the last post in this series. Admittedly, I have stalled on publishing this last part, largely due to other trips and also really wanting to slow down my editing process and take the time to understand and work with Kodak Ektachrome. Photographs are meant to capture a moment in time to stand on its own, so why are we in such a rush after we take it? I find myself asking this of myself a lot lately, which definitely has influenced what is worth photographing.
Against general sage advice of shooting film and starting with easier film stocks, I jumped right off the cliff and shot Kodak E100 on my first trip. It can’t be that hard, can it? I felt comfortable in large part due to using the external light meter on my camera, the Keks M meter. When used correctly, it does the job very well, however I did find that overall in the extremely bright conditions of Greece, I think I could have dialed in a tiny amount of exposure compensation with E100. Maybe a third stop of underexposure vs the meter.
One thing that I do very much like about working with Ektachrome is the scan. Scanning slide film in my current workflow is really just fun. It also presents an opportunity to experiment, which I did just that. While nothing new, scanning a bracketed exposure with my SL2-S and compiling in Capture one created really nice results if I felt the image needed a bit more dynamic range.
These images were taken with a new-to-me Leica M3 that dates back to 1957, serviced by Don at DAG camera just prior to taking off on this trip. As far as lenses go, I used a combination of my Leica Summaron 35mm F2.8 and my Voigtlander 50mm APO lens.
If you have read this three part series, thank you, really. I do this because I thoroughly enjoy it, feel a continuous need to create and have the sense that one day these photos will tell a story.
