Gutter Posie
Aug 31, 2016 22:43:48 #
Shot with a HELIOS-44M-6 58MM F/2 on a D3 I had to estimate focus and composition because I had no way of seeing the viewfinder having had to get the camera in such a low position and shooting into the sun in the gutter across from my house.
Exposure settings were left to the D3. You could tape a jam jar on the front of one of these things and it would be spot one. (Some might say that I did that here)....
Given that these rather remarkable old lenses are made from old rocket parts by bulldozer mechanics smelling of potatoes, vodka and gun oil, these old lenses can produce some remarkably satisfying results.
For this image I admit that I bumped up the colour just a tad but as it is intended as a decorative image to be hung on a garden wall I think doing so is appropriate for the purpose.
Exposure settings were left to the D3. You could tape a jam jar on the front of one of these things and it would be spot one. (Some might say that I did that here)....
Given that these rather remarkable old lenses are made from old rocket parts by bulldozer mechanics smelling of potatoes, vodka and gun oil, these old lenses can produce some remarkably satisfying results.
For this image I admit that I bumped up the colour just a tad but as it is intended as a decorative image to be hung on a garden wall I think doing so is appropriate for the purpose.
Sep 1, 2016 09:47:00 #
winterrose wrote:
... For this image I admit that I bumped up the colour just a tad but as it is intended as a decorative image to be hung on a garden wall I think doing so is appropriate for the purpose.
It reminds me of Fujichrome. Not your best result but we can assume it will work if you don't print it too big.
Sep 1, 2016 12:50:01 #
With all due respect, and not to use that hollow obsequious fawning term as so often
seen on this forum since I truly respect you, both as a gentleman and a photographer,
I then feel free to express to you what I think of this picture.
Whatever that response may be, you probably know well that I reserve the term
photographer for those who can take...and even make... a photograph with a camera
alone, not dependent on RAW and the digital finger paint, to present what they claim
they saw yesterday.
It is of course well exposed and focused and with a difficult- to- use lens used very well, but
there is something a bit startling upon opening this picture which causes a reaction that sort
of gives me a jarring reaction which I have to examine rather than accept as a personal
response to a picture I otherwise consider so well done. It is in fact the intensity of the green
which seems to fairly glow and compete with the intensity of the red flower.
Recently I discovered a similar opportunity involving 2 or 3 red poppies amid foliage of other species on the other side
of a parking lot from my view, and immediately decided to experiment with two zoom lenses from two different cameras at
maximum extensions. They were in bright sunlight, although the wider view from the shorter zoom
more clearly showed some of the surrounding foliage in shade. My pictures looked similar to yours here,
although I much admire the "bokeh" possibilities from your lens.
Since that little experiment I didn't give much thought to trying different exposure..(the test was for
resolution at max. extension and amount of the scene in both frames)...the hi lites seemed a bit too much however.
My question then upon seeing your picture, is just how much (if any) a vivid red could be preserved in a sea of vivid
green in the CIRCUMSTANCES of being in the same light, that we encountered? To me the red and green seem to compete,
not having enough contrast.
But would all the presets in contrast and color control that exist in my Oly...(and it has all that the ff cameras have)
have made any difference if my experiment had been for THAT PURPOSE?
seen on this forum since I truly respect you, both as a gentleman and a photographer,
I then feel free to express to you what I think of this picture.
Whatever that response may be, you probably know well that I reserve the term
photographer for those who can take...and even make... a photograph with a camera
alone, not dependent on RAW and the digital finger paint, to present what they claim
they saw yesterday.
It is of course well exposed and focused and with a difficult- to- use lens used very well, but
there is something a bit startling upon opening this picture which causes a reaction that sort
of gives me a jarring reaction which I have to examine rather than accept as a personal
response to a picture I otherwise consider so well done. It is in fact the intensity of the green
which seems to fairly glow and compete with the intensity of the red flower.
Recently I discovered a similar opportunity involving 2 or 3 red poppies amid foliage of other species on the other side
of a parking lot from my view, and immediately decided to experiment with two zoom lenses from two different cameras at
maximum extensions. They were in bright sunlight, although the wider view from the shorter zoom
more clearly showed some of the surrounding foliage in shade. My pictures looked similar to yours here,
although I much admire the "bokeh" possibilities from your lens.
Since that little experiment I didn't give much thought to trying different exposure..(the test was for
resolution at max. extension and amount of the scene in both frames)...the hi lites seemed a bit too much however.
My question then upon seeing your picture, is just how much (if any) a vivid red could be preserved in a sea of vivid
green in the CIRCUMSTANCES of being in the same light, that we encountered? To me the red and green seem to compete,
not having enough contrast.
But would all the presets in contrast and color control that exist in my Oly...(and it has all that the ff cameras have)
have made any difference if my experiment had been for THAT PURPOSE?
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