Some technical details. These were shot with a variety of backs/bodies/lenses including:
P65+, P45+, P40+, P30+
Phase One AF, Phase One DF, Hasselblad H2
HC120mm Macro, HC100mm (rarely), HC80mm, HC50mm, HC35mm (rarely)
Phase One 120mm D Macro, Phase One 150mm D, Phase One 80mm D, Mamiya 45mm
A HUGE thank you goes to my generous employer Capture Integration which encourages me to use our rental digital backs and camera bodies for my own shooting as part of our companies' philosophy of hands on experience and testing.
Every shot was done tethered into Capture One and a Style was set so that the images came into Capture One with the look you see in the final product. This included a black and white profile drawing mostly off of the red channel (which reduced blemishes and blotches which are often less apparent in the red than in the green/blue data), an increase in contrast, a S curve with a aggressive floor to provide a pure-black, a slight increase in clarity, and a slight vignette. I must say shooting tethered for this type of work was incredibly helpful for three major reasons:
1) it's hard to fully visualize how the scene will appear as a contrasty b+w
2) seeing the image 30" wide at high resolution a few seconds after the shot allowed me to see how the focus and fall-off of focus would appear in the final (large) print much more than simply seeing the ground glass through the viewfinder
3) as you change angles to the light the exposure changes (since part of the light is now reflecting off of the subject and not just illuminating it) and the highlight warning tool gave me a highly accurate, easy, and fast way of seeing whether my exposure was accurate.
Doug Peterson
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