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Re: Re: Recent Professional Works 2
« Reply #1900 on: December 07, 2015, 04:09:56 pm »

I think the worst thing about digital (and it's a long list) is digital is the age of sharpness and pixel examining, not this forum but everywhere.

Right after the attack in Paris I helped a photojournalist friend cover a rally in our city for the victims. I used my D200 as well, but at times it got really dark because street lights are barely designed to do their job let alone be good lights for pictures, and in some the poor old camera couldn't be up to par with the D700 or D7000 in shadow noise.

So I got some flack for it because the pictures weren't pixel perfect, and I just couldn't care. I was taking pictures in the cold, trying to move through the mob and the other photographers, sweating and carrying all my gear. The subjects weren't that great, plenty of local politicians that wanted to join in and get pics with a group of Muslim immigrants to show that they were totally not xenophobes (hint: they are). And to top this all off, my D7000 had major issues focusing under those stupid sodium lights that have never been replaced since before I was born or something like that, so I was pretty much forced to use the older camera with the better AF.

And yeah, I understand that the D200 loses a bit at ISO 1600, but frankly for pictures that have to be resized to 600x400 and uploaded to the web, it was plenty good. But no, they had to be pixel perfect like shooting in the studio. I couldn't even use a flash most of the time because I had to take shots of the people holding candles as well.

Were people this anal when the D1 was the state of the art?
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Re: Re: Recent Professional Works 2
« Reply #1901 on: December 07, 2015, 04:53:04 pm »

Lots of way to make a glow or flare.

Tiffen soft focus filter with a little added diffusion.

Black Camera


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The very best was David Hamilton.  Caught some issues due to the age of the girls he photographed, but is a beautiful artist.
https://pp.vk.me/c616323/v616323550/636a/hNv8Ji1MpYU.jpg

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I think the worst thing about digital (and it's a long list) is digital is the age of sharpness and pixel examining, not this forum but everywhere.


Here you go, breaking my heart again. Honeys!

David Hamilton was very popular in Europe, and also, I think, Japan. His first book (at least, the first I saw) was Dreams of Young Girls and gave me a life-long love of women in those fabulous straw hats...

Then, years later, I bought his book Twenty Five Years of an Artist and though the work was still good, the trouble was in the writing as well as about four shots he shouldn't have shot: in my interpretation, he pretty much confessed an unwarranted, as in unhealthy, liking for the underage, the Lolita complex writ large. For some reason - innocence? - I didn't really pick up on that before he wrote about his feelings and not simply of his photography - I just loved the style and the atmosphere. Without hunting out the book to check, I think he used a Minolta in some of the mirror pix - which makes me think of your reason for tape (in BLACK)... ;-)

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Glad you are still posting, very glad.

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Re: Re: Recent Professional Works 2
« Reply #1902 on: December 07, 2015, 05:00:08 pm »

Right after the attack in Paris I helped a photojournalist friend cover a rally in our city for the victims. I used my D200 as well, but at times it got really dark because street lights are barely designed to do their job let alone be good lights for pictures, and in some the poor old camera couldn't be up to par with the D700 or D7000 in shadow noise.

So I got some flack for it because the pictures weren't pixel perfect, and I just couldn't care. I was taking pictures in the cold, trying to move through the mob and the other photographers, sweating and carrying all my gear. The subjects weren't that great, plenty of local politicians that wanted to join in and get pics with a group of Muslim immigrants to show that they were totally not xenophobes (hint: they are). And to top this all off, my D7000 had major issues focusing under those stupid sodium lights that have never been replaced since before I was born or something like that, so I was pretty much forced to use the older camera with the better AF.

And yeah, I understand that the D200 loses a bit at ISO 1600, but frankly for pictures that have to be resized to 600x400 and uploaded to the web, it was plenty good. But no, they had to be pixel perfect like shooting in the studio. I couldn't even use a flash most of the time because I had to take shots of the people holding candles as well.

Were people this anal when the D1 was the state of the art?


Don't know about other people, but as I've said before, the D200 gets more use from me than its sister, the D700. I've got the appropriate finder magnifying eyepiece for each of them, and wouldn't be without them now - fantastic help.

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Re: Recent Professional Works 2
« Reply #1903 on: December 07, 2015, 05:35:56 pm »

This one was also my usual Kodachrome 64, and the nonsense about TMAR Productions is just a joke - nothing to do with either the shoot or any reality. F2 and 2.8/35mm Nikkor, I think.

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Re: Recent Professional Works 2
« Reply #1904 on: December 07, 2015, 07:13:31 pm »

I love me some diffusion on digital... not for the architecture of course, but for our narrative films it gives the Red so much more of an organic, filmic esthetic.

This is with 1/4 Black ProMist over Cooke Mini S4s...



I think this one really shows the effect of the BlkProMist

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Re: Recent Professional Works 2
« Reply #1905 on: December 08, 2015, 01:08:55 pm »

Chris, such a beautiful rendering on the last one!

No diffusion, but this is a portrait from recent session.

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Re: Recent Professional Works 2
« Reply #1906 on: December 08, 2015, 01:49:14 pm »

You still do beautiful work, Michael, even when your models wear clothes and don't levitate!
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Re: Recent Professional Works 2
« Reply #1907 on: December 08, 2015, 02:14:10 pm »

Thank you Eric:) Here is one in a different setting. The plan here was to give a try to a new 7 foot parabolic umbrella... Fox Mulder did not flinch until the first gust of the wind. Following that I had to resort to  a 7" reflector on a StreakLight 360 Ws strobe, which worked pretty good with the sun.

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Re: Recent Professional Works 2
« Reply #1908 on: December 08, 2015, 05:00:00 pm »

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Sometimes less is more...but sometimes more is more. Fun fact: I really love shooting in the bright midday-sun!
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Re: Recent Professional Works 2
« Reply #1909 on: December 08, 2015, 05:16:36 pm »

Christoph, excellent.
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Re: Recent Professional Works 2
« Reply #1910 on: December 08, 2015, 05:49:08 pm »

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Re: Recent Professional Works 2
« Reply #1911 on: December 08, 2015, 09:20:30 pm »

Christoph, excellent.

Chris, that first shot looks like a man in a dress? I hope so, otherwise it must be the lighting which makes it appear that way.

Is that a problem?
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Re: Recent Professional Works 2
« Reply #1912 on: December 09, 2015, 03:33:55 pm »

No problem, just an observation. Since you brought it up I've removed it.

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Re: Recent Professional Works 2
« Reply #1913 on: December 09, 2015, 05:12:45 pm »

Here we go again.

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Re: Recent Professional Works 2
« Reply #1914 on: December 09, 2015, 06:24:33 pm »

Here we go again.

Rob C
And I was about to remark that Michael Ezra's latest looks like a woman in a dress, but I guess I shouldn't.   ???
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Re: Re: Recent Professional Works 2
« Reply #1915 on: December 09, 2015, 07:30:53 pm »

And I was about to remark that Michael Ezra's latest looks like a woman in a dress, but I guess I shouldn't.   ???

These days, hard to tell without the dress off...and even then ;)

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Re: Recent Professional Works 2
« Reply #1916 on: December 09, 2015, 10:59:18 pm »

Its a girl!

I hope this should help resolving any doubts:)

Although here it was a boy:)!
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Re: Recent Professional Works 2
« Reply #1917 on: December 10, 2015, 12:23:11 am »

I'm convinced.
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Re: Recent Professional Works 2
« Reply #1918 on: December 10, 2015, 03:43:52 am »

Two Thai girls asked me if I'd like to go bed with them; they said it would
be just like winning Lotto! I agreed, and they were right. We all stripped off,
and to my horror, we had six matching balls!
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Better than that fabled whiff of morning napalm! I'm trying to be PC. Inclusive, you understand.

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Re: Recent Professional Works 2
« Reply #1919 on: December 14, 2015, 10:42:40 am »

Shot these yesterday with a camera, 

P.S. and the only time it is acceptable to drink beer through a straw!
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