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Fun with MF images - ARCHIVED - FOR VIEWING ONLY

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aCIDfire

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Shashin: ..great beach shot :) Which lens you used?

Here is one shot from september with Mamiya 120/4 macro on Leica S2 (split screen served great:):


 

Shashin

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Tom, I think it is the foreground. The horizontal linear pattern is disrupted by it. It would also probably work better big.
 

tsjanik

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Thanks Will and Robert. It is obvious now that you have pointed this out. What attracted me to the scene were the strong horizontals*, which were disrupted and somewhat overwhelmed by the foreground.

:facesmack:


Tom

Original post said "verticals"; my Epson printer is acting up with vertical banding, hence my preoccupation with vertical.
 
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mediumcool

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Going through some older shots. Montana. I really thought this would be special when I took the shots, but somehow it falls short. Any thoughts as to why?

_IGP7856 copy by tsjanik47, on Flickr
I also think its the foreground.. just cropped it to see how it looks..
Too tight. This was a response to RVB’s crit: dunno how it came out like this. It’s after 3am here in the southern hemisphere, and time for bed.
 

jotloob

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Crop out the rocky broken stuff on the bottom—that will smarten up the comp, giving it some nice layers to concentrate on. IMO.
NO , don't crop out the bottom .
Why must an image be smart ? You dont crop off bottom , left or right from a Monument Valley or COLORADO river image just to make it look smart .
IMO , the rough foreground we see in the image is just wonderful and gives a great DoF for the image .
 

MGrayson

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I love these examples - getting to see what everyone would do to an image. So I'll play!

I like all the elements, but found the foreground dark and indistinct. Out of curiosity, I also expanded the middle in color space using LAB mode and increasing contrast on the A and B channels. This may be too far from the original idea.



--Matt
 
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GrahamWelland

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Ok, I'll bite - Maybe concentrate on the patterns and lose a lot of the uninteresting foreground. Added a little vignette top / bottom to bring in the eye.
 

AaronK

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I haven't shot much this fall, I've been too busy getting engaged and other things. We had good weather in Pittsburgh today, finally.



IQ140, Mamiya 35mm lens @f/11, 0.5 seconds. I'm really happy with Capture One Pro 8, it's been a nice improvement over 7.
 

darr

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A square because no one else has done this yet. ;) (I miss my Hasselblad Classic)
Added a little more saturation since I was seeing 'stripes of color' that could be brought out; added center brightness, cropped and frame.
 

tsjanik

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I love these examples - getting to see what everyone would do to an image. So I'll play!

I like all the elements, but found the foreground dark and indistinct. Out of curiosity, I also expanded the middle in color space using LAB mode and increasing contrast on the A and B channels. This may be too far from the original idea.


--Matt
Thanks everyone, now I know why I am confused by this image! I like the vignette and I like the lightening of the foreground. I have to ask Matt, what do you mean by expand the color space?

Tom
 

tsjanik

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A square because no one else has done this yet. ;) (I miss my Hasselblad Classic)
Added a little more saturation since I was seeing 'stripes of color' that could be brought out; added center brightness, cropped and frame.​


Hi Darr:

I really like this and I don't think square, even though my first real camera was a Yaschia MAT 124G.
We should do this more often: an image with potential but needs some help.

Tom​
 
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