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Fun with MF images - ARCHIVED - FOR VIEWING ONLY
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Woody Campbell
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Re: Fun with MF images - Part 3
Actually better than pretty good - I'm tough on image quality and the Hasselblad tele extender is a positive surprise every time I use it. As I consider alterntatives for the next generation of MF in my life, the tele extender is one of the things that weighs in favor of continuing with Hasselblad.
Woody Campbell
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Re: Fun with MF images - Part 3
Jim - sensationally evocative work. I prefer the grayscale versions - they are a little more abstract and emphasize the dream-like qualities of the images.
Woody Campbell
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Re: Fun with MF images - Part 3
Lovely image Jack. What's the exposure time? Pinhole glued onto a body cap?
Re: Fun with MF images - Part 3
A bit of a fabrication on my part. Fact is it wasn't even an intended image, just a happy accident. It was taken when we were setting the cameras and lights for the studio session of our S2 review. (That is the dark-haired model, Denise, from the S2 test just prior to make-up.) We had the the strobes on, so just the modeling lamps -- which are tungsten until they pop. I was getting the camera set up and the radio slave didn't fire because my shutter speed was too high. So this is basically a frame shot under weak lights at ISO 100, 1/250th at f11.
The frame is virtually all black in C1's browser, but I could see just the highlights on her face so I took a shot at processing it. I had to boost exposure all the way right which in C1 is 2.5 stops. Not enough, so I literally dragged the RH 255 side of the levels slider down to the hottest R channel, which was around 100(!). Backed that off just a tad to keep the hair just barely separated from the background for the Rembrandt look. Now of course this much file pushing makes for a noisy image (massive understatement) so I had to apply NR. So now I'm stuck with this grainy, soft image but am surprised at how much it resembles a pinhole shot -- and the fact it looks kind of cool. So I adjusted WB which just looked plain with neutral skintones, but took on the candlelight look at around 9500K. Thinking it wasn't too bad, I finished it off with some saturation, shadow and highlight tweaking to balance it out, then added a 1.5 stop vignette. Voila, this was the result. But honestly, I think it is pretty cool and may try to replicate it in the future.
Full irony is I do have a body cap modified for a pinhole, and it was in my bag
Thanks Woody:
A bit of a fabrication on my part. Fact is it wasn't even an intended image, just a happy accident. It was taken when we were setting the cameras and lights for the studio session of our S2 review. (That is the dark-haired model, Denise, from the S2 test just prior to make-up.) We had the the strobes on, so just the modeling lamps -- which are tungsten until they pop. I was getting the camera set up and the radio slave didn't fire because my shutter speed was too high. So this is basically a frame shot under weak lights at ISO 100, 1/250th at f11.
The frame is virtually all black in C1's browser, but I could see just the highlights on her face so I took a shot at processing it. I had to boost exposure all the way right which in C1 is 2.5 stops. Not enough, so I literally dragged the RH 255 side of the levels slider down to the hottest R channel, which was around 100(!). Backed that off just a tad to keep the hair just barely separated from the background for the Rembrandt look. Now of course this much file pushing makes for a noisy image (massive understatement) so I had to apply NR. So now I'm stuck with this grainy, soft image but am surprised at how much it resembles a pinhole shot -- and the fact it looks kind of cool. So I adjusted WB which just looked plain with neutral skintones, but took on the candlelight look at around 9500K. Thinking it wasn't too bad, I finished it off with some saturation, shadow and highlight tweaking to balance it out, then added a 1.5 stop vignette. Voila, this was the result. But honestly, I think it is pretty cool and may try to replicate it in the future.
Full irony is I do have a body cap modified for a pinhole, and it was in my bag
Jan Brittenson
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Re: Fun with MF images - Part 3
Nice Jim! Here's one of SF... 55AF and a pretty long exposure with the ZD back (~10 sec).
Nice Jim! Here's one of SF... 55AF and a pretty long exposure with the ZD back (~10 sec).
Steve Hendrix
Well-known member
Re: Fun with MF images - Part 3
Jim
Really like where you've been going with this and the other recent images along this line.
Steve Hendrix
Different day, different light (as well as raining)
Jim
Really like where you've been going with this and the other recent images along this line.
Steve Hendrix
jecxz
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Re: Fun with MF images - Part 3
H3DII39, 35mm, f4, 1/125 sec, 0.9 ND Grad
Happy holidays everyone!
Kind regards,
Derek Jecxz
http://www.jecxz.com
H3DII39, 35mm, f4, 1/125 sec, 0.9 ND Grad
Happy holidays everyone!
Kind regards,
Derek Jecxz
http://www.jecxz.com
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Woody Campbell
Workshop Member
Re: Fun with MF images - Part 3
Yesterday's blog post. H3D 39 + HC28.
Yesterday's blog post. H3D 39 + HC28.
Woody Campbell
Workshop Member
Re: Fun with MF images - Part 3
The camera is roughly level on a fairly steep hillside. Perhaps a failed experiment.Woody ---
I like the composition, but the "falling" horizon *REALLY* bugs me...
Sorry
jecxz
Active member
Re: Fun with MF images - Part 3
Woody, nice shot!
Kind regards,
Derek
Shooting on the ice was funBeing from California, I have to say that nothing about that looks "fun"
Woody, nice shot!
Kind regards,
Derek
Re: Fun with MF images - Part 3
Well, I can see that now that you mention it -- the trees and brush is growing "up." However, it still feels like like it's titled -- maybe it's just me?
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