I've never thought about the dual or tri-tone landscapes thing. Now I'm going to have a different outlook on it. Thank for you explaining this! Can always learn something new

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Awesome, best of luck out there!

Dude, your landscape work is gorgeous.

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Thank you!

Landscape and Leica M is definitely an underrated combo. Most Leica M conversations revolve around street, travel, and portraits, but the compact form factor, glass, and resolution are great for landscape. Love the simple techniques you outlined, and your landscape shots are gorgeous. More content like this would be awesome. I shoot Sony but one of these days I hope to incorporate some Leica gear into my kit.

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Thanks! I’m planning to ramp up the landscape videos throughout the year!

@romaingautier2986

Ай бұрын

It’s my main camera for landscape photography :)

@ivan_gomez

Ай бұрын

@@romaingautier2986 @davidherring @barakbruerd140 what are you using in terms of filter system?

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Just a standard UV. I don't use filters. Too complicated for the way I shoot. I don't really use a tripod either. Just a Leica in the hand.

Another great video with great tips and amazing images. Thank you!

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Appreciate it!

Stunning works Dave!

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Thanks Sam!

Excellent work Dave, thanks for posting.

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Thank you!

Phenomenal shots, wowza! Very very informative, Dave! Thank you

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

Dave I commend you not only on the great photographs but your precise editing as well. It’s so easy to over edit but you did just enough and the consistency in which you did this was very well done. Subscribed

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Thanks! I try to keep things natural while still being artistic.

Just outstanding!

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Thank you!

Thank you for this wonderful video. Love your images. I will give it a try with my M10. 😊❤❤❤

@davidherring

22 күн бұрын

Have fun!

Great job Dave.

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Thanks!

I agree with your point about the 135 for landscapes and it led me to purchase a 135 Tele-Elmar for an incredible $270. Incredibly sharp and fast enough at f4. A much easier carry for long hikes. I don’t know why so many folks are afraid of using longer glass on Ms.

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

I need to get a 135 for my M. I rented the APO 135 a few months ago and was unimpressed. Even at f8 nearly every shot was soft. Maybe it was a bad lens?

@garymc8956

Ай бұрын

When I migrated from Nikon to Leica one of the items I hated to depart with was the AIS 135 f2.8. That was a great lens but I like my Leica equally. Can’t say anything about the lens you tried but have to think something was wrong with it. I did have a CLA done by DAG after I got mine simply because of the age.

Great video - practical tips and some really beautiful images. I like your approach to simplifying the gear you take and post production. 🙏👏

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Thanks for the kind words!

Wow! amazing phots!

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Thank you!

A 35mm and a 90mm were not the lens combo I was expecting you to say, but the results really speak for themselves. There is some great advice in here and the examples prove what you are saying.

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Thanks! Yeah the 35 / 90 is definitely a great landscape combo to cover both wide and textured shots.

@Reportageandart

Ай бұрын

I’ve started using the same lens combo in recent months and really liking it.

love your stuff dude!

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Thanks so much!

Great video, awesome photos

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Thanks!

Amazing video mate, I can't remember when is the last time I saw such a breathtaking set of landscape photography that makes me pause and admire the composition and subject so much, and doesnt stick to the wide angle long exp over edit cliche 🖤

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Oh man thank you so much!

Great work and thanks for sharing

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Thanks!

These are phenomenal photos you've shared here dude. Love your insights on the telephoto lens, I need to add one to my kit.

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Thanks bro! I just need to bring a few of my Leica's and lenses out your way and let's see what happens haha.

@JonnyRoams

Ай бұрын

@@davidherring Lets do it! I'll also be in Yosemite in two weeks

Beautiful images!

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Thank you!

Great photos! Very natural looking colors, makes you feel like you can reach out and touch the scene. I shoot most of my landscapes with my Leica as well.

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Thank you! While I do edit my photos, I try to keep it very natural and non-HDR feeling.

This is really impressive lens work!!!

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Thank you!

Your photos are fantastic! Love them❤

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Thanks you so much!

That is some impressive work. I wasn't aware you made a lot of photographs like this. Beautiful work!

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Thanks Bob. This is my primary photography style, and has been for many years. My website is full of landscape galleries. I love making images like this!

I randomly came across your channel. Happy that I found it, awesome mix between photography and gear, love it! Keep going :)

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Thank you!

Quite a few breathtaking shots here. I subscribed

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Thank you!

This is a special video 🙂👌 very inspiring. You are incredibly talented 👏

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

Amazing video Dave. So inspiring. Your tips are so useful . Glad I found a real photographer who believes that Leica M system is not only for street photography. 😊

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Aww thank you!

thanks dave! love the talking through the photography! also... buffaloes

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Thanks Jack!

First time watching your content, worth subscribing for sure 👍🏼 which I did of course 😉 Thanks man, keep up the good work

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Awesome, thank you! And welcome!

That shot of Alabama Hills is amazing.

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

It's one of my favorites I've ever taken. It was about 15mins before the sun came up and it was really perfect conditions.

These are unbelievable landscapes. Typically i have very little interest in landscapes as it seems they don't capture the feeling of being in these amazing spots...but these are doing something different. Tremendous work and very inspiring. Thanks

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Thanks so much!

And people say Leicas aren’t for landscapes. Nonsense!

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Agreed! A camera is a camera and what the person does with it is what gives the camera purpose.

@r423sdex

Ай бұрын

A pixel is a pixel, even if they are all made by Sony

@Reportageandart

Ай бұрын

@@r423sdex it’s all about the glass. 😊

Nice work Dave. Yeah, I’ve been shooting landscape with Leica Ms too. Right now my edc is a M10 with 35 and 75 mm lenses. Light and easy.

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Nice! For me it's 35, 50, and 90 most of the time.

hi, just love the texture and tritone concepts, cheers from Montreal

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Give them a try and see what you think!

Oh man. Perfect timing. I'm heading to Montana this summer, and I'll be on 35+90 and my Leica (and Jupiter 135/3.5 cause why not?). I usually shoot street, so these straight forward tips will definitely give me some direction when I'm having trouble seeing a shot. Great video! Consistently solid content, even more than before.

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Thanks! Enjoy that trip to Montana. Landscape photography out there is such a joy.

I have a 35mm summilux lens and I’ve really been considering adding a 90mm to my set. This video has helped me visualise what that could be like!

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Look up the 90 Summarit. It's super affordable, sharp, and unless you need lower than f/2.4, all you need.

90mm is a super underrated focal length on Leica. I got the 90mm f2.4 Summarit a couple years ago and it absolutely blew me away. Super fun to punch in on a subject and get some good depth and separation from the rest of the scene

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Agreed! I have that same lens and I love it.

This is inspiring me to get out to take some landscapes

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Good to hear!

Great video and photos. I make a lot of landscape photos with telephoto lenses. Of course, this really depends on the location but longer lenses can be very effective tools for landscape photography.

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

I think telephoto lenses give such a unique look to landscapes and should be openly embraced.

I´m considereing more landscaping photographer too, and when i starting to doing with the leica cameras are gorgeous, so unique experience and the feelings that you have is superior, thanks for this video my friend :)

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing!

Wtf dude your landscapes are amazing

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Ha thanks! It's kinda my thing.

I must say that your landscapes are super good! I usually shoot landscapes with 90 mm. I feel that is a great focal length.

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Appreciate it. Love using the 90mm for landscapes.

My favourite Leica lens for landscape is my 21mm 3.4 super elmar pair with my M10 and M5 .

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing!

Thanks Dave for sharing. Can tell me how you protect your Leica in bad weather conditions like rain or snow ?

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Don't take my advice... I just hope for the best! I carry it inside my jacket often, or in a bag, and only pull it out for the photo and wipe it off and put it back in. If it's raining or snowing too hard, I just don't do it. But that's only happened once when I was out taking photos, and it was in the Hoh Rainforest, ironically.

Stunning images Dave. There is just something about the colours in a landscape shot on a Leica M.

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Thank you. Completely agree… M landscapes are beautiful.

Beautiful images Dave. You should do a little editing video on how you get your look to these too

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Thanks! verygoodpresets.com has videos of me editing quite a bit.

Leica M isn’t just street photography for sure. You would love the APO-M Telyt 135mm. Great compression. Also still works with the rangefinder with the newer models.

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

I rented that lens and every photo I did (focused at infinity) was soft and looked awful. Told Lensrental and they checked and said it was fine. To their credit, they refunded my rental, but I was really disappointed in that lens. Maybe it was a bad copy.

@forgottenamericana

Ай бұрын

@@davidherring interesting. Maybe that lens was out of rangefinder calibration. There are older vintage 135s as well.

Lovely images! By the way, Oscar Barnack originally created the Leica for landscapes ie hikes and holidays. My Ms are my fav landscape kit as well. I became wiser, left all the heavy stuff at home. Thanks for sharing. Cheers

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

M's as a landscape camera just feels so right. Thanks for sharing!

so inspiring, beautiful work and beautifully edited.........is there a press you love the best for these type of shots?

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

verygoodpresets.com my friend

Love your content brother just bought your presets I shot canon and Fuji but recently I went to local Leica store and took an M11 for a test run can’t decide between an M10R or M11 I watch all your videos hope I come up with a decision fast 😂

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Thanks for the comment! I loved my M10R but now that I have moved over to an M11, I honestly only miss a few small components of it. The M11 is an incredible camera and if you can swing it, I think you'll be happier in the long run. My two cents!

@CineVinci

Ай бұрын

@@davidherring thanks brother think ima have to swing the m11 route 😂😂 won’t lie after using it I did fall in love with it and the whole experience of using it think my Fuji opened the doors for me getting into the Leica ecosystem and your videos pushed me thru the threshold 😂

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

@CineVinci happy I could help! You won’t regret it.

I bought my M11 mainly to do landscapes/travel and to have the 90mm f4 Elmar (which I haven’t yet been able to afford) plus a wider lens as a two lens combo. I’m not sure whether 28mm or 35mm is the better wide angle lens. In the meantime I bought a 50mm Summicron to make it easier to stitch together panorama pics as a 50mm is likely to have less distortion at the edges than wider lenses.

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing!

Well, done

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Thanks!

I’m rocking a 40 and 90 m-rokkor set with my Minolta CLE, and it’s great to have such a tiny, capable setup. I also got a Konica 28/2.8, but it’s much denser, so one day I’d love to find a Minolta 28mm without the white spots…

@davidherring

19 күн бұрын

Nice setup!

@andykphoto

19 күн бұрын

@@davidherring thanks! It also has a little buddy Canonet QL17 GIII 😹

At first buying the Leica rangefinder, MD 262, seemed to go against it being a landscape photographers camera. You proved them wrong...!

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Thank you! I really love shooting landscapes and the Leica M feels perfect for it.

@superkrell

Ай бұрын

@@davidherring I live in the wilderness of Oklahoma and all I shoot are landscapes with the Leica M. The photos are mesmerizing on my computer. I will now take the M to Italy instead of my film camera for photography, X-Rays are a bummer...!

This was really inspirational. I have an M6 and M10 that I almost never take with me for landscape photography. I always think of them as better suited for more small-scale photography (portraits, street, etc). But this has me excited to take them on my next road trip. I also noticed you have a uv on your lens. No concerns about image degradation? Most of all, thanks!

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

You definitely should take them with you and try some landscapes. Here's the thing about UV... if shoot with it on/off and looked for any degradation, I could probably find it. But I also am jumping in/out of my car, driving with the strap around my body and the camera on my belly so I can jump out easily if I see something I like, and sometimes put the M11 in the cup holder on a roadtrip. The UV is worth protecting my Summilux lenses, even if I take a bit of a quality hit. All the photos in every gallery I have (including this video) had a UV filter on. I think they're just fine. Hope this helps!

@botant500

Ай бұрын

@@davidherring Thanks for the reply! I use a UV - they make a great substitute for a lens cap on a rangefinder to avoid forgetting you have an actual lens cap on - but always wondered if I was losing a little something IQ-wise. But your shots tell me to stop worrying. Again, thanks for the reply!

If 35 mm is not enough, simply take 3 pictures in portrait format next to each other and join them later. This will give you a wider angle of view. You can then crop the resulting panorama as you wish, as it has a very high resolution anyway.

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

I know this is common in landscape photography, I've just never felt like 35mm isn't enough (except in rare cases where, given the planning I had done, I brought the lens I'd want to use).

what does everybody recommend for filter system for M lenses, from 35mm to tri-el-mar ??

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

I don't use filters other than a UV on my lenses so I'm not really going to be helpful in this discussion.

@ivan_gomez

Ай бұрын

@@davidherring i just discovered your channel and website.. looks awesome. .great job

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

@ivan_gomez thank you!

You should do more landscape photography videos.

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

I’ve got one specific to Yellowstone coming in a couple of weeks 💪🏼

All handheld Dave or do you also take a tripod out with you?

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Mostly handheld. I rarely use a tripod, and if I did, it was because it was very much blue-hour and the shutter was too low to make it happen handheld.

Where did you get that hat? That is cold as hell 🔥

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

The one I’m wearing while taking? Yellow108!

All the images you displayed are from your Leica?

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Not all of them. Hyper focal lengths are Sony.

@jackjross

Ай бұрын

@@davidherring would be nice to know next video you make which images are specifically Leica and maybe the focal length. Shoot, throw in the serial number 🤣

Thanks Dave for the tips, will defo look out for tri-tomes next time I’m out

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Nice! It’s honestly not too hard to find.

Is it true that Leica uses Sony sensors.

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

As far as I know, Sony is the only producer of the 61mp sensor that is in both the Leica M11 & Sony A7RV. However, the sensor is just hardware. The tech that makes the sensor data applicable is vastly different between the brands.

@izzyleicanut9190

Ай бұрын

@@davidherring Yep. Only the M11

The modern Ansel Adams 👍

@davidherring

Ай бұрын

Haha I wish!

@leipnerphotography

Ай бұрын

@@davidherring Sent you my application

GREAT video @davidherring

@davidherring

16 күн бұрын

Thank you!