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Henry, a very nice under pier image :salute:
Great finds :thumbup: :ROTFL:
:shocked: :wtf: :clap: :facesmack:Maybe a good excuse to finally plunge down on an A7 series, but still thinking about it :loco:
Thanks Seb for your kind words and interest...I'm definitely not as patient as I used to beI'm a little bit envious about your pictures.
Framing of the scene and also positioning of people are perfectly implemented. That's why I have to ask: Do you crop often? Do you place/move people in post to your desired position or are those actors you rented? :ROTFL:
I'm sure, you're just a patient man, which take his time to shoot a single picture. But as I'm jealous and impatient, that's why I had to ask.
Again Barry, thanks for sharing your wonderful work with us.
Thanks Seb for your kind words and interest...I'm definitely not as patient as I used to be
and yes I rent at least a dozen actors everyday just to entertain you guys :ROTFL:
Here comes the boring history bit...For a couple of decades I used to shoot 14x11 10x8 & 5x4 film (LF cameras together with MF 6x9 6x7 and 6x6 cameras) and having spent most of those years lugging around a heavy 5 legged alloy Gitzo tripod and then waiting for the light conditions to change outdoors (or not!...and then return back to the scene the next day) or pratting around and adjusting/tweaking studio lights for sets and then only just taking a few polaroids and a couple of sheets of film at a time....I desperately wanted to get back to the freedom of a smaller format and be able to just walkabout unhindered without the need of carrying around a tripod everywhere I go (although I do keep a CF tripod permantly in the boot of the car for should the the occasion arise). I think I have only used a tripod on just 4 pics that I have uploaded here and then only because of using a 10 stop ND filter to slow everything down.
On the day I went to Marazion (St Michaels Mount) I took 1,262 images (I always shoot Raw and a Jpeg...jpegs for quick evaluation) and try to cover an event by shooting from as many different angles as possible.
I do sometimes crop (as little as possible) and I do remove (clone out) anything that I think may be destracting fom an image (the odd seagull here or there etc...) but I don't (anylonger) move things around as it's to time consuming to do the job properly.
Regards the people on the raft I shot 87 Raw images and 87 jpegs in various positions.
Here is a dropbox link to those 87 SOOC jpegs and the one Raw image that I used in this particular instance....I will leave them up (48 hours) for you or anybody else that wants to download them and have a play about.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/y6kpk7pujgzkde9/AAC9kI7PCRFz1wuu5MgAZeT_a?dl=0
Hope that helps and gives you some insight to what I do and also explains why I do upload several images of the same subject matter as I have so many to choose from
No need to be jealous, just keep firing away as you have more chances of getting it right
Cheers Barry
Thanks again Seb, you are very kind...Slowing up using LF on a tripod (or any camera for that matter) will teach you to frame better and to consider your subject matter better IMO....Only portraiture and sporting photography do you need to work faster and be a bit more responsive.I knew it! You are working with profesional background actors and a whole crew trampling through your beautiful neighbourhood!
(Would be fun, to do that once with a whole crew (with props, lighning, actors...)!)
Your truth may be more boring, but it makes your results even more imressive to me. I try shooting the same way (as less crops as possible, without tripod, different angles, clone out, not moving things), with a little difference: my goal is to shoot only one picture of each frame. Even when I shoot action. It ends up in less pictures (obviously), but also in less keepers. On the other hand, it helps me to concentrate on framing. I'm still so used to my analog camera, I think. In the old days, your day at Marazion would ended up in 35 film rolls.
Thanks for your words and the link. Very helpful.
Cheers, Sebastian
Yes, that's a good 'un too!Great finds :thumbup: :ROTFL:
Best one I ever saw (but unfortunately I didn't have a camera with me) was "Unattended children will be given espresso and a puppy"
Well, my birthday is about 1 month away and to be fair, the thought crossed my mind :angel::shocked: :wtf: :clap: :facesmack:
Pieter, if you have a birthday coming up...why not treet yourself....I'm sure I'm not alone when I say it would be lovely having you shoot a A7? with the rest of us...Cheers Barry
:thumbs: :clap: :thumbs: :clap: :thumbs:Well, my birthday is about 1 month away and to be fair, the thought crossed my mind :angel: