Bill Caulfeild-Browne
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Re: Fun with MF images - Part 3
Ed, those pix really say "Spring" to me!
Very inspirational.
Bill
Ed, those pix really say "Spring" to me!
Very inspirational.
Bill
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I shot this image while I teached photographers in my studio, the stand happened to be the frameNice image, curious why you used the flash stand in the composition.
The crop of her head is amazing. Great clarity and perfect detail.
Stuart,I think I need to figure out how to make custom white shading files...something seems off with mine. The colors should be more or less spot on right out of the box, but they just aren't.
Thanks everyone for the comments.
Ed -- I was trying to make the insomnia work for me -- I wanted to get an idea of when the shooting light was good for you. Basically, on June 1st there was good shooting light from around 6:30pm until 11, then again from 4am until 9 or 10. Of course it can be good outside of these times, but it is more "daylight". The light should be similar on July 12th, which is 21 days after the solstice. As you get further from the solstice, things get later (in the morning) and earlier (in the evening) by a total of about 6-7 minutes a day.
I have to go to work soon, but a few things that I think are at play here in terms of the color -- I think flare is playing a role in desaturating. The 40mm flares a bit into the light, and I do not have a shade, so I had to use my hand. Not ideal. The colors in the telephoto one are better and closer to accurate. Two -- there is something about the moss that covers the lava that tends to defy accurate color balance. I have never really found a camera that can photograph it the way it looks to the eye. I am wondering if it is an IR effect or something, but it does the same thing with the M8 and IR filters. I will try a polarizer.
As for my color management -- I basically shoot it at the daylight setting on the back. I bring the photos into Exposure to be converted to DNG's, then I edit them in Capture One. My monitor is calibrated with an XRite system, and it is an Eizo Color Edge monitor.
I will see if I can answer more later as well as edit some more photos.
Thanks again!
Unusual workflow Can you achieve a white balance you are happy with in eXposure?I bring the photos into Exposure to be converted to DNG's, then I edit them in Capture One.
The building in the background is in Ukiah, California. However, that looks like it is a print with a small motorbike model in front of it so it could have been shot anywhere. Your living room?Try to guess where I shot this image.
Exactly!The building in the background is in Ukiah, California. However, that looks like it is a print with a small motorbike model in front of it so it could have been shot anywhere. Your living room?
Stuart,Ok, here are the film shots. Digital certainly has the better dynamic range, though the slides look much better than these scans. It is very difficult to replicate the contrast range and color that slides have in a scan, particularly in these extremely contrasty lighting conditions. That said, these colors look a bit more "right" to me. I have not had time to edit the digital colors to more closely mimic the film. Neither is "right" though. These shots are velvia 100, which I just happened to have on hand. Astia or E100G would have been much better for the lighting conditions.