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Interesting.Balloons over TriBeCa
Leica TL2+Voigtländer 10mm
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Matt
The halos are from darkening the blue response. I generally don't sharpen at all except a bit for printing.Interesting.
The concept is good, however... I'd have rather seen some detailing in the primary subject matter as it's not quite black enough or simple enough in shapes to give the 'silhouette' effect a clean shot. Of course the sky exposure makes this difficult. Also, there is a good bit of edge-highlighting which I suspect comes from over-sharpening.
It's fun to play with this wide a field of view in squares, eh?
The handy size/light weight of the V10 lens and a TL or CL body, along with the resulting 16Mpixel resolution, makes it an easy, playful kit to experiment with that can actually produce some lovely prints! I just made a pair of nice sized prints (9.5 inch square with .75 inch borders (long bottom), on 11x14 inch paper) that just kick it for me. At this size, I constrain the output to 360ppi on the Epson P600 .. nets better results than letting the printer's driver interpolate down from ~435ppi.
Fun fun fun!
The more I play with this setup, the happier I get. I wonder whether the additional mojo of the recently announced Hasselblad CFV50c II + 907x body, coupled with the XCD 21mm f/4 lens, would net enough of a gain for my intent to be worth spending the money for it. (Of course, the back by itself would also allow me to use the rest of my Hasselblad V system kit for a full digital capture workflow... )
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Hadn't seen that particular halo effect on the blue channel change before, that's interesting.The halos are from darkening the blue response. I generally don't sharpen at all except a bit for printing.
The color version may be better...
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Or more silhouette ...
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I have other versions where the foreground objects are more visible, but they seem very busy, and the balloons too insignificant. One where the Freedom Tower looks like a needle about to pop one of the balloons is cute, but not close enough to be convincing.
Matt
No experience with that lens ... But i have done a lot of square format on FourThirds format. 9Mpixel is enough for a decent sized print, and more than enough for a good web resolution photo, so don't let that stop you!...
However none of my regular cameras can switch the LCD/VF to a square crop so it still feels weird to try and find square compositions with it.
I still have an old Olympus EP3 which can do a square crop on the LCD/VF but then you would need a 7-8 mm lens to get in the SWC territory. I found this Laowa 7,5 mm lens for MFT on B+H does anyone have experience with it? Advantage would be that it gives me an almost dedicated camera for this type of shooting (my EP3 is hardly used) however it will only be a 9 MP square crop on a small (and outdated) sensor. Decisions, decisions.......
Thanks Godfrey, I looked into this a little further and found that with my "normal" FF cameras I can choose several grids. I usually have the 1/3 interval lines on (like you suggest) but another option I found in the menu is a tighter grid which devides the 3:2 aspect image in 4 x 6 small squares. So this means that the middle 4 x 4 squares can be used as "gridlines" for a square crop. :clap:With the CL, I turn on the grid overlay with reference lines at 1/3 intervals in H and V when doing square shots. It helps me get my camera level and keep verticals vertical, and I find it also helps me estimate the square a little better. A square crop or frame lines would be ideal, but once you get used to seeing square, it's not hard to frame accurately.
Thanks Godfrey, I only feel a bit shy to post images with a Sony camera and a Minolta lens in the Leica forum. I'm wondering if we shouldn't ask the moderators to move this thread to the "Artful Images" section to ensure it's brand agnostic (and only format/FOV specific). But since you're the OP I think that's really your call....Lovely photos, pegelli! A great start back into square land!
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Why? Minolta made some of Leicas best cameras and lenses. Since Minolta engineers moved to Sony when they bought Konica Minolta's camera division, the tradition carries on...Thanks Godfrey, I only feel a bit shy to post images with a Sony camera and a Minolta lens in the Leica forum....