1 Day To Photograph Rome | My Leica Broke
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Rome Street photography all shot on the Leica M11, Enjoy my duuuudes.
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Great images, James. We've truly enjoyed hearing your thoughts behind the photos and seeing what you do to capture the perfect shot.
Glad you enjoyed the video! I love the feeling of the M11 and looking forward to creating many more images with it
That you managed to get any decent pics at all in those crowds is amazing. Well done - both St Peter's shots were wonderful. And I bet you that woman will make something mind-blowing with those Corn Flakes, a delicate, brilliantly seasoned crust for a fresh fish her husband just caught that morning... or just a bowl of cereal. But one can dream.
Thank you so much! I didn't show you all the images that didn't work 👀 I think she was on her way to make some SERIOUS Crispy cakes ahah. Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment
Beautiful city made even more beautiful by beautiful JP. Dreamy.
Eyyy thank-you dude ❤️ trying my best ahaha
Ace! Great hearing you talk through your vision and top tips along the way. Superb shots!
Thank you my dude! Trying to do my bit sharing the love. Glad you enjoyed the video 🙌
Cornflakes is a fantastic photo haha
Bring your bowl tomorrow 😎
Man, this is honestly one of the best "walk and shoot" video that I've ever watched. Not only because of the quality of the photos, but also because you're very didactic and clear on your process/thoughts. Really inspiring.
Congrats, man! I'm already waiting for the book :)
I think you are the best modern day photographer i have seen (on the internet?) period. I don't know how but your photography truly inspires me to take better photos. Mainly because you take amazing photos in mundane locations/weather in 35mm with no tricks (wide angle/telephoto/bokeh). Makes me tell myself that i am a bad photographer because i rely on fancy tricks to produce good photos and force myself to really go beyond and take good interesting photos.
What a comment. Thank you so much dude, incredible to get a comment like that. Don't put yourself down about using other techniques to get the shot! I'm lucky to be able to spend LOADS of time shooting with a 35mm, and so I become proficient with it. It's my job and my passion so all of my time is spent thinking about compositions etc. Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment
You had some great shots here. Hats off for hiking in 46 degree heat!! Love your work❤
Thank you so much Sarah! Glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment and support the channel
Spent a month in Rome this summer. Struggled to shoot because of the massive crowds everywhere 🤷🏻♂️
Thats the perfect time to get in an amongst it my dude! I also found getting up real early allowed me to get the quieter shots I was looking for
Thanks for the video!! As i said yesterday i couldn't wait to see it
Glad you enjoyed it my dude! Thanks for supporting the channel ❤️
Great as always, and even better!
Yes yes yes! Thank you so much for your continued support, you are a star.
I loved all of them 😊
Great content. I love Italy, so I just had to take a look. So many brilliant shots.👌 On my last trip, my M11 also got so warm that it warned me about overheating and turned off image sequence. lol.
Thank you so much my dude! It turned off image sequencing? Thats such a random thing to decide to de-prioritise to keep the camera working ahah Thank you for the support man!
Love the photos of the people with their heads in the fountain. They really tell the story of this summer in Europe. Glad your camera survived to tell another tale 😂
Thank you so much Mary! I wish I didn’t have suncream that was water based otherwise I would have been swimming in it 🙌
Wonderful images 👏 Thank you!
Thank you so much! Appreciate you taking the time to leave a comment and support the channel
Well Done James for producing your video with that intense heat, considering the camera overheating in the hot sun your shots were all bangers and interesting and the video vlog entertaining , 😊
Both those Vatican shots are spectacular and well worth the patience! Incidentally, my Leica Q2 turned itself off in very hot conditions last week. It didn't immediately turn back on either but after a minute all was OK. A nervy moment though. I recall the Q2 doing the same thing once last summer as well.
Congrats on the video and the great pictures. I love the composition and story telling. The combo is perfect and I love the image quality. Wich software do you use to work on the pictures? Keep up the great work.
Thank you so much! I use Lightroom to edit all of my photos, mainly using the presets I have on my buymeacoffee.com link in description where you can download them for free
Well done on persevering in the heat and finding these gems, James. As striking as the shots inside the Vatican are, my favourite would have to be the weird and wonderful image of the woman carting around a box of cornflakes in Rome!
Thank you dude! I actually got sick the day after so glad I pushed through haha. I've had a lot of love for the Cornflakes picture haha. Big love for leaving a comment my dude ❤️
Love it!
Thank you my dude! Appreciate the support man
James great selection off photographs. I meet you last year in June 2023 in Central London while i was doing street photography in Oxford Circus you was with Mike Chudley and one other photographer.
From those vatican shots I think the first one is absolutely fantastic. In my opinion, the composition here is immaculate while still giving off a very spontaneous, snapshot vibe as these people are visibly walking towards you. The combination of the light coming through the window and the colorful clothes is very unique, it's as if the light was split through a prism into its different spectral colors, as if these people have come from "above" and the Basilica's architecture obviously just adds to this perception.
What a wonderful description of the image! Might have to use that when I repost the image in a few months ahaha. Thank you for taking the time to write such a wonderful comment
@@JamesParsons1 you‘re welcome! Of course, go ahead and keep on creating, you‘re really inspiring a lot of us to shoot more!
Great seeing u posting again James! Rome is great for street. But man... that heat looked horrible.. I've almost gave up living in 37c in Spain once.. but went full lobster and battled on in 46c.:) I found the image of the guy telling u take a hike funny to :)
Thank you my dude! Feels good to be back. Got a mini break in client work now! Yeah 46 was mental haha, glad it was cold when j got home haha. Yeah that dude was very Italian which I loved ahaha
Waiting for the end was worth it. Cool memories!
Glad it was worth it dude! Appreciate the love 🙌🙌
Bellissime foto!!! 🎉🎉🎉
Grazie Mille
Those shots in St. Peter's, phenomenal!
Thank you dude! I’m beyond buzzing about them ahaha
I think you did amazingly well to do so much in that heat! I went out in 100ºF in Florida once just to see what it was like but I wimped out and didn't go far! So many lovely photos but I do love the one with the tree and the wall at 3:49. Last summer I was in Nice and it was about 35ºC and I had issues with my X100F. When I turned it on, every now and then the electronic viewfinder wouldn't activate and I'd have to take the battery out and put it in again. A bit concerning as it was the only camera I'd taken! It worked flawlessly once I got home (UK). Thanks for another great video!!
Thank you so much! Yeah my friends Nikon decided to pack itself in the day before when it was 43 degrees, so it definitely wasn't a Leica only issue! Glad you liked the video and the images - Really appreciate you taking the time to leave a comment and support the channel!
IMHO, the overarching story there is definitely Romans coping with the record-breaking heat. I might have tended to focus in on that as a photo essay, given that it was historical weather. Still some nice captures, though, and good on ya for toughing it out. Sorry to hear that the M11 started cooking - 115°F is no joke and that kind of heat convection isn't kind to lithium-ion battery chemistry. The M bodies are very compact without very much insulation around the battery compartment, so I assume the chassis probably transferred a lot of thermal energy inside.
Great photos. Did you do a lot of zone focus for these shots?
Sometimes, I often try to critical focus. My goal is to become very proficient with the manual focus which will help me further down the line! Does that make sense?
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Thank you so much 🙌
46 Celsius. Jesus! It is illegal for a Brit to be in such heat!
I feel the same way ahaha, proper melting territory
I like the pace, and thought process behind your quest for some banger shots. Well done. PS: with 26,000 steps what footwear did you wear?
Thank you Perry - Appreciate your thoughts! I am a BIIIIIG fan of wearing running shoes, I like Nike or On Running for my footwear and never regret wearing them :)
Superb photographs. It is a wonder you didn't melt in that heat.
Ahahah Lizzie - I was melting the entire time! Glad you liked the images and thank you for leaving a comment and supporting the channel 🙌
Great perseverance in those adverse conditions! I suppose that if you really wanted to learn the boundaries of operation of that camera, you might consider a street shoot in an arctic town this winter when it’s -30C or colder! PS: Would love to see more of that Formula E or other motor sports shoot!
Thank you my dude! Glad I managed to just about get through without melting (ish) yeah I'd be more worried about my camera in the -30 degrees ahaha. I've been thinking about creating more motorsport content on here, but not sure how to position it ahaha
I have a question, do you use GoPro or Dji, and what accessories do you use? Thanks in advance!
Great question, I use my iPhone, and GoPro on a chest mount (for other POV's this was too hot). That having been said, GoPros are so temperamental they are always playing around which is annoying ahah
I just left you a comment on the other video about me not trusting this camera. 😅 It’s a thing with this camera. Removing the battery and lockups. It’s just the way it is. And that’s not good enough for me. So M10R it is for me and forever. I don’t like where the Leica M is going. When I bought my M10R the M11 was about a month away from being announced. I still went for the M10R and I don’t regret it. Now you see why.
Don"t know why but I had the same issues with m11 heating sometimes. you have to remove the battery otherwise nothing works.
Thank you so much for sharing your experience man! Did you find your camera pretty much stopped working?
@@JamesParsons1 Sometimes it would freeze and I would have to remove and replace the battery. It seems that this problem is common (but non-existent on the m11 monochrom).
Possibly carrying your camera gripped in a hot hand might contribute to over-heating?
Great shots BTW!👍
Beautiful impressions of the city, great shots, very inspiring!
Thank you so much! Big love and appreciate you leaving a comment 🙌
114 degrees and over 26,000 steps? No thanks - I'd try to take interesting photos of my air conditioned hotel room! 🥵
ahahaha The next day I was slightly broken and stuck in bed all day. Might have been a better to look after myself a bit more ahah
Nice images! But your cavalier attitude with your Leica was probably why your camera was giving you Issues?? 🤯🤯
I don't think its right to baby our equipment as they are tools to take photos. That having been said, I don't think I was particularly cavalier wanting to use my camera albeit in hot weather. In hind sight, I think most cameras would have struggled ahah
Leica has a major issue with their newest stuff. M11 and Q3
I have photographed Sicily and the Basilicata all Summer with a Sony a7r3 and I have had no such problem.
I used to own a Leica M6 in 1987. Well before the digital era, and I went to Thailand with it. I accoutered some heat related issues too. The film would not roll up properly and I I would end up with many unusable double or triple exposures. I am sorry I threw away most of the slides, because now I could probably pull some cool abstract shots from them.
I got rid of the M6 when I got back to England and didn’t shoot anything for about 15 years…
I live in Thailand. Very hot. My M10R works flawlessly. Have been using it for 2 years without issues. The battery pull outs and lock ups are a well documented M11 issue.
Nice job my friend’s x100v had heating issues too in hot conditions
Yeah I don't think it was a Leica specific issue. My friends Nikon died and corrupted some client images :(
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i love your photos but i'm always afraid of invading people's privacy with street photography. could you do a video on your approach to taking pictures of strangers with/without consent, and what is too far for street photography?
Great idea - It's in my to-do list! Thanks for the idea
So Mikey C had a strap anchor point detach itself from his Leica and yours overheating!
Oh dear Leica!
Yeah man- surprised by Mike’s issue to be fair. During the weekend my colleagues Nikon’s overheated and corrupted his memory card, so not sure it's a Leica only problem!
@@JamesParsons1 Yes, to be fair, it was extraordinarily hot in Rome but it was just the coincidental timing with Mike’s issue!
hope you had the factor fiddy on young man
YOU BET I WAS CAKED UP. I got back to the UK and pretty much the next day I had another shoot at Battersea and got scolded :)))))))
Man I'd hate to buy a camera that pricey and supposedly high end for it to just overheat without even being used intensely (as in sensor turned on permanently, shooting bursts etc). I've used my Canon R6 for hours under similar heat without it ever turning off, it only showed the warning a couple times, and it's a camera known for its tendency to overheat though not as bad at the R5.
Awesome vid though, and the basilica shots are incredible.
Thank you my dude ❤️ to be fair, my friend who was shooting on a Nikon Z9 (what ever their top mirrorless is) had the camera die and corrupt some images he needed for client's... 46 degrees ain't no joke for camera kit ahaha
@@JamesParsons1 Damn. It didn't get to 46 here I guess, it was "only" around 41/42 😂
46 degrees in the shadow, will mean a black camera will be super exposed in the sun. I don't think you could blame the M here. And stating in the title, that the camera broke, is maybe a little unfair....
@@JJ_Photo Pretty sure 46° would be the perceived temp, you'd die staying outside in the sun at a 46° air temperature lol. Google says peak temp this year in Rome was 42° on the 18th of July (highs of 49 in Sardinia and Sicily though, holy crap), so a couple degrees above what I was shooting under last year near Nimes in France. These are temps under which cameras would struggle but professional gear should be able to avoid shutting down. I understand Leica Ms are not designed for extreme use, but I'd still be disappointed that a camera priced that high doesn't have better cooling or insulation. Just my opinion though, it's not like I could afford one anyway, even though a rangefinder sure sounds like fun :)
Composition beats story - For me story needs more people reflection in the foreground
Thank you so much Gavin! I agree - I'm definitely leaning more towards the compositional focussed choice!
In Italy, the light is harsh, the heat is harsh, let's face it life in Italy is harsh! Since nothing works in Italy anyway, why would you expect your camera to work? Great video, I really enjoyed your photos. Hope the Italians at least treated you nice.
Pahahahaha that made me laugh. You are so right, even German engineering suffers in Italy ;)
@@JamesParsons1 Isn't that the true!
I love Rome and Italy, but even Italians complain about lack of efficiency. I enjoy Italy and it’s the country I’ve visited most in recent times. I joke about everything on this channel, including taking the piss out of myself, and should you not like the light hearted nature of the channel then perhaps it’s not for you :)
Good stuff James, with one caveat. Please can you consider re-uploading, where the video is the right way around, so that wording on buildings, vehicles etc, is readable?
Thank you dude! I didn’t actually flip the footage, I think the selfie cam on the iPhone (my main video tool) is a mirror image
It is! A loved one sent me an iphone selfie from the recovery room at the hospital where they had just replaced a knee. It was supposed to be the left knee that got replaced. But when I looked at the pic it looked like they had done the right knee and my heart skipped a beat. Then we figured out the the front lens on the iphone gives a reversed image. 🙂@@JamesParsons1
I like a lot of your photos, but the mobs of tourists are totally depressing.
Ahahah that's what you get in a city with so much history. I think it's great we have so many people wanting to learn about our past 🙌