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Fun with MF images - ARCHIVED - FOR VIEWING ONLY

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Jack

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Re: Fun with MF images - Part 3

Peter:

I suspect after your trip in Arizona, you will have an Phase back racing you home -- maybe even waiting at your door before you get there :D
 

Stuart Richardson

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Re: Fun with MF images - Part 3

Peter -- those are current. Those particular shots were taken with a Rollei 6008AF (black and white ones) and a Hy6 (the color 645 ones). I use an Imacon 646. It is a great scanner, but even it cannot fully replicate the color range and contrast range of a difficult slide -- slides are just really tricky. I agree that a good film shot and a good MF digital shot are miles away, but probably not in the way you are thinking. For me it is about the "look" of film. I honestly cannot explain it, but it almost always looks better to me than digital, and this is not just for my own photos, but what I see in others' work as well. It is just what my eye prefers. I will readily admit, however, that for almost all intents and purposes, digital wins on the technical details -- it has higher apparent sharpness, more resolution, wider dynamic range, and more flexibility. But for whatever reason, film seems to look better to me, which is why I put up with it.
 

ptomsu

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Re: Fun with MF images - Part 3

Peter:

I suspect after your trip in Arizona, you will have an Phase back racing you home -- maybe even waiting at your door before you get there :D
Well Jack,

I have similar fears :D

Lets hope I can resist for a bit otherwise my wife will not be too amused ;)
 

Jan Brittenson

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Re: Fun with MF images - Part 3

Poking around in the back yard looking for ideas... Mammy ZD back, 120 macro.

All garden variety, I know! :ROTFL:



 

Stuart Richardson

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Re: Fun with MF images - Part 3

Beautiful color Jan!

Here are two from a road trip I took on Saturday night. These were taken around 11:30pm.

The mountains are called north and south Hádegisfell (noon mountain?). It is on a road to Kaldidalur (Cold Valley).



 
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jmvdigital

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Nice Stuart!

A weekend trip to Colorado Springs a few weeks back. From the hotel window. Saturday morning, above; Sunday morning, below.
 

Don Libby

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Stuart - Great images you keep making me move Iceland up on my gota go there list.

Don
 
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jmvdigital

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Added two more to my Industrial Observations Within the Western Landscape series that I posted here a little while back.
 
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ddk

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Really like the last one Justin, it all seems to come together perfectly to convey the sense of solitude & serenity...
 

Stuart Richardson

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Thanks Don and Justin! It is definitely worth a visit here for people interested in landscape photography. And lovely photos both of you -- there is something really amazing about the American west and you both do a great job of conveying that sense of scale and epic-ness.
 

Bill Caulfeild-Browne

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Re: Fun with MF images - Part 3

I spent the afternoon "working" a waterfall. One frame worked, though I need to clone out that twig in the water upper left! Mamiya 28 mm.
Bill
 
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Stuart Richardson

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Don't clone it out! Nature's beauty is partly because of the fact that it does not conform to our rules...
Or do...whatever makes you happy. I just think too often we try to fix everything to make a "perfect" image, when the one that was unmodified was more interesting since it is less likely to conform to preconceived ideals of what's "right".

But I am the guy who doesn't like it when wrinkles and stray hairs are photoshopped out. I understand that for commercial work, but for art or personal work, I just want to see something how it IS, not how it looks after 20 minutes with a healing brush, masks and selective editing.

But it is a lovely photo, twig and all!
 

Bill Caulfeild-Browne

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Re: Fun with MF images - Part 3

TX Stuart. I'm like you - I rarely clone anything out because I want to show things just as nature left them. But I find that twig draws my eye...

I'll try it on my dear wife who has a very good eye for such things!

Thanks for your comments. I must post a few of my Iceland shots though they pale beside yours!

Bill
 

JimCollum

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Re: Fun with MF images - Part 3

Don't clone it out! Nature's beauty is partly because of the fact that it does not conform to our rules...
Or do...whatever makes you happy. I just think too often we try to fix everything to make a "perfect" image, when the one that was unmodified was more interesting since it is less likely to conform to preconceived ideals of what's "right".

But I am the guy who doesn't like it when wrinkles and stray hairs are photoshopped out. I understand that for commercial work, but for art or personal work, I just want to see something how it IS, not how it looks after 20 minutes with a healing brush, masks and selective editing.

But it is a lovely photo, twig and all!
i'd agree.. the twig works, and very nice image
 
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