Planetwide wrote:
Back to images, Leica SL3 & SL 50mm Lux @f1.4@
Things that contribute to the effect of this photograph:
Lighter in the center of the frame and some vignetting (or at least darker subjects) in much of the background and near corners and edges.
Rim lighting from back left on the subjects makes them stand out a bit.
It appears that there is a bit of fill lighting on the subjects, too — see the woman’s face. Perhaps reflected from a nearby building?
Positioning the subjects on white triangle draws attention to them, too. (Note that this triangle “points” the direction that the predominant light travels.)
More saturated colors on the primary subjects and less saturation in the background.
Slight OOF in the background adds “subjective sharpness” to the front group.
The angled shadows add a sense of perspective/depth.
A subtle (maybe?) band of light from upper left toward lower right intercepts the primary subjects.
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Aside from its focal length, the specific lens used here has virtually nothing to do with the effect. It is all that other stuff.
If it were my photograph, I might consider cropping a bit at left and right to eliminate the people right at the frame edges, particularly the one in the red jacket.
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Excellent point in a thread a bit up from this one: After something like 1034pages (over 2000 posts) it is clear that a) there is no answer to the “best 3D pop” lens question, b) that there is no single thing that produces this effect called “3D pop,” c) there is no real agreement as to quite what it even is.
Dec 08, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Planetwide wrote:
Back to images, Leica SL3 & SL 50mm Lux @f1.4@
Things that contribute to the effect of this photograph:
Lighter in the center of the frame and some vignetting (or at least darker subjects) in much of the background and near corners and edges.
Rim lighting from back left on the subjects makes them stand out a bit.
It appears that there is a bit of fill lighting on the subjects, too — see the woman’s face. Perhaps reflected from a nearby building?
Positioning the subjects on white triangle draws attention to them, too. (Note that this triangle “points” the direction that the predominant light travels.)
More saturated colors on the primary subjects and less saturation in the background.
Slight OOF in the background adds “subjective sharpness” to the front group.
The angled shadows add a sense of perspective/depth.
A subtle (maybe?) band of light from upper left toward lower right intercepts the primary subjects.
- - -
Aside from its focal length, the specific lens used here has virtually nothing to do with the effect. It is all that other stuff.
If it were my photograph, I might consider cropping a bit at left and right to eliminate the people right at the frame edges, particularly the one in the red jacket.
- - -
Excellent point in a thread a bit up from this one: After something like 103 pages (over 2000 posts) it is clear that a) there is no answer to the “best 3D pop” lens question, b) that there is no single thing that produces this effect called “3D pop,” c) there is not real agreement as to quite what it even is.
Dec 08, 2025 at 02:23 PM
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