Nathan, all great shots. Are you originally from Canada? Your images suggest an intimacy with the subject.
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Nathan, all great shots. Are you originally from Canada? Your images suggest an intimacy with the subject.
Extremely Nice! The house contrasts with both the foreground and background and neatly fits in. It's almost 2 dimensional.
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Thanks all for comments. Chassis, my wife was from Quebec, brought up on Christophe Columbe St. across the street from the Paroisse St. Arsene church. Spent a lot of time all over Canada and still do; especially the maritime provinces and Montreal.
Nate Potter, Austin TX.
Heroique, It's interesting that you show "Christinas' World". It is one of my favorite old classic ME houses still in sort of untouched beauty but with an ominous aspect to it. Weyth is one of my favorite artists and a big influence on my photography. Here is one of my views of the house (without Christina) from last September.
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8243/8...3d8ff3b7_c.jpg
45ME22-9-12H[t1 by hypolimnas, on Flickr
TK45, 75 mm Nikon W, Fuji Astia Quickload. Sept. 2012. Cushing ME. Two images V750 scanned, combined with HDR.
Nate Potter, Austin TX.
Nathan, I find these images incredible! Is this final image based on one single film exposure? I'm blown away by the sharp focus from near to far. And the lighting looks great. I assume you use graduated filters to control contrast with slide film?Quote:
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Lffbug, That is a single image with Velvia 50. Really awful stuff for a decent tonal range. But it is helped here by relatively flat foreground lighting. The sky was and still is a problem for me. Actually I used PS to generate two images one close to the density range (a bit lighter) of the original and a second identical to the first but at least 2 stops darker to retain some cloud detail. I then used Photomatix HDR software to combine the two images. Next brought the composite back into PS for a bit of dodging and burning then some modest sharpening. So... there is a considerable degree of manipulation here but I got more or less what I envisioned at the time.
Photomatix is OK for this sort of thing but I'm falling out of favor with it due to poor noise handling in film areas of high density. The image manipulation features are for me a bit arcane.
I have been favoring Fuji Astia for a few years now but my recent sensitometric plots of both showed surprisingly little difference in dynamic range - perhaps a half stop as I recall. I suppose I should look up that data and post it here.
Nate Potter, Austin TX.
Nate, thanks. I went out and looked at a few of your Flickr images and they are certainly impressive. I am only just starting out in LF, but this encourages me to go out and learn.
I see you're in Texas (as am I), and obviously much or your work isn't. I need to find or start a thread about traveling with a LF camera. I am sure that it has its challenges.
Thanks.
Jeremy
I'll be interested in that thread, wherever you start it, Jeremy.Quote:
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Fine shot, Nate!Quote:
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Love those ominous skies over the Wyeth house.
I’d even say w/ skies like that, who needs Christina? ;^)
In favor of what, if i may ask?Quote:
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