I went down to Sydney yesterday to have lunch with a friend. He'd made a reservation at a harbourside restaurant near Circular Quay. A pretty safe bet after weeks of sunshine and heat and humidity. Well as it happened not a safe bet at all. A massive mass of moist air-related to the monsoon- had made its way south dumping rain across inland Australia and also the east coast of Victoria and New South Wales.
It was a shocker. A long drenching downpour .The restaurant reservation was hastily changed to an indoor restaurant and I took a rain jacket and some stout shoes.
I decided to take a camera and take some rainy day photos- a real change from brilliant sunshine and blue skies.
The Leica Q3 43 is weatherproof and I decided to try taking monochrome using the monochrome preset in the Leica Fotos setting on the camera. Below are is a selection of the photos from my short visit. I am really surprised by their quality.The preset only works on the jpeg setting-the DNG files are still colour-but the jpegs are pretty good. There is a high contrast monochrome preset and next rainy day I will try that.
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