An awesome day out with the Leica Q

Before my trip to St. Petersburg last year I hadn't used the Leica Q for street photography in a while and that the reason for it might be obvious to some of you I guess. Yes, the Q2 Monochrom that I picked up a little over a year ago. Most of the time I try to travel as light as possible and therefore I won’t bring two Leica Q cameras on a trip. In this case it wasn’t a problem to bring more gear since I stayed in the same city for a couple of weeks. And in the end I was glad to finally shoot the original Leica Q out in the streets again. For my wedding work I’ve used the camera the whole time and I’d love to see what the shutter count on the camera is after almost 7 years of heavy usage.

In this episode I went out very early in the morning to be able to shoot in that glory morning light shortly after sunrise and it was totally worth it. A little later I met up with my friend Micha and we had a great day of shooting together.

When filming an episode I always have to make it work and taking no photos isn’t an option but on that day it was fairly easy to get good shots. There is especially one shot (#18) that I am very happy with and it’s the one from the bus stop with all these reflections and the shadow of a guy that looks like a ghost in the middle of the frame. It might be one of my favorite shots from last year. There are so many layers in that shot and so many things to discover. A big print of the photo made it onto my wall at home and that doesn’t happen very often.

For editing the photos I used my new presets/color profiles for Adobe Lightroom. If you are interested you’ll find them in my shop together with my street photography zines.

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