Fun with MF images - ARCHIVED - FOR VIEWING ONLY

[Analog6]

One from the H2 & P20 with HC 80mm f2.8. I have fusticated madly over where to crop this so am including the original image from ACR (WB to shade and contrast to 35) and the finished image.

 

[Bill Caulfeild-Browne]

IQ180/150 mm

 

[Bill Caulfeild-Browne]

Frits, I really like your treatment of the PEI house - no gloom and doom for you!
Bill

 

[Guy Mancuso]

One from the H2 & P20 with HC 80mm f2.8. I have fusticated madly over where to crop this so am including the original image from ACR (WB to shade and contrast to 35) and the finished image.

Question where is the water flowing. Down , always give movement space to go. We normally would call that negative space. Try it

 

[Guy Mancuso]

IQ180/150 mm

WINNER. Print it big

 

[Frits]

Frits, I really like your treatment of the PEI house - no gloom and doom for you!
Bill

Thank you Bill .
That said, your "Abandoned": WOW!!

 

[Lloyd]

+1 from here. Great shot.

 

[David K]

Great shot...perfect processing Bill.

 

[etrump]

Fantastic Bill. A real winner. I showed it all around the office.

:thumbs:

 

[Jack]

Bill,

Abandoned is awesome, great job!

 

[rga]

One from the H2 & P20 with HC 80mm f2.8. I have fusticated madly over where to crop this so am including the original image from ACR (WB to shade and contrast to 35) and the finished image.

It seems to me that, in the original, you have a very narrow field of focus; the foreground and the background are not in focus. So your crop does put the foreground in focus, which to me is really important, but, as has been said, there is little negative space on the right for the water to "flow" into.
IMHO,
Bob

 

[Analog6]

Thanks, Guy & Bob - that OOF foreground was my dilemma - should I include it or cut it. I eventually did cut it, as you can see, but I'll try another edit

 

[Bob]

Posting here for the first time.

H4D-40 and HC 120mm Macro. Handheld.

Handheld! OMG!
-bob

 

[Bill Caulfeild-Browne]

Wow! I really appreciate all those positive comments on "Abandoned". Thank you all.

(I'm treating the IQ180 like I used to shoot 4 by 5, very slow and contemplative.)

Bill

 

[Wayne Fox]

Bill, the composition, tonality and mood of "abandoned" is stunning ... fantastic image.

 

[mvirtue]

Phase 645AF w/Leaf Aptus-II 7 Mamiya 55-110.
From a trip at the end of August to Fort Stevens State Park Astoria/Seaside Oregon

Alone

A man and his dog

 

[rga]

Thanks, Guy & Bob - that OOF foreground was my dilemma - should I include it or cut it. I eventually did cut it, as you can see, but I'll try another edit

Personally I think it's important in MOST situations that the foreground be in focus. That's how we normally see things. If it's OOF, it confuses me and makes it difficult to look at comfortably. Of course if there is a specific object you want the view to see and have only that in focus, blurring the foreground can work really well.

With your image I think you've done about as well as can be done. If there is anyway to extend it on the right to get some space between the specular highlights of the water and the edge, that would be great. I suspect if you do that, the OOF foreground may begin to appear, but it might work with just a little OOF. Certainly worth a try.

Keep 'em coming!
Bob

 

[SergeiR]

AFDIII + Leaf 54s and some lighting.
cant remember lens. Either 35mm MF or 55mm AF..


Enchanted forest - 7 by Sergei Rodionov, on Flickr

 

[Jack]

Sergei, VERY nice, love the pose, composition and lighting!

 

[SergeiR]

thanks