Re: Recent Professional Works 2

[svenS]

Is that an even reduced Universalis and a Rodenstock 45 mm without a shutter for use with the A7R2?
Do you also use it without a tripod?
Looks like a great view camera for a small bag.
Do you correct the color cast?

off to Morocco tomorrow for a little fun.  I managed to narrow my camera selection down to just these three... Phew!

[Craig Lamson]

New work, shot for a client selling his Lear 60.   I do love the challanges of confined space work.  5Ds, Canon 11-24.

[kers]

Just made a serie for Sonic Acts festival 2017...

[Chris Barrett]

Craig, those look great.  Impressive what you can do in a tiny space!  There's only a couple things I might have done differently... I often like to add a little vignetting to increase depth and I think that may help these shots.  Also, I wonder if you increase the hilight brightness in the clouds if that will make the view a little more believable?

#nitpicking

-CB

[Chris Barrett]

Really lovely project we recently shot in D.C.









CB

[Chris Barrett]

Sven, this is an older little view camera from the '90s.  Arca Swiss 6x9 F-Line.  It shoots to a roll film back.  I'm using a 6x9 back with it.  On the front I've got a Rodie digital 45mm.  Since I have such a short lens, I built it on a really short rail for compactness.  This is actually a little heavier and larger than the Universalis.  An awesome little view camera for roll film.  I was actually thinking of converting my Universalis to this sort of rig since I'm using the Mf2 exclusively these days for the Sony.

-CB

[graeme]

Just made a serie for Sonic Acts festival 2017...

That first shot is terrific.

[kers]

That first shot is terrific.

thank you...!
I like the diversity of photography and to be involved as a photographer with art and science...
i work fast/slow good light/bad light  etc.. try to look for all photographic possibilities...
Here some more from the same festival...
I like to make photographs of the audience

[razrblck]

Very cool!

[Craig Lamson]

Craig, those look great.  Impressive what you can do in a tiny space!  There's only a couple things I might have done differently... I often like to add a little vignetting to increase depth and I think that may help these shots.  Also, I wonder if you increase the hilight brightness in the clouds if that will make the view a little more believable?

#nitpicking

-CB

Thanks for the comments Chris. I agree on the vignetting.  In fact it is a standard part of my workflow for interiors.  I have an action that creates a duplicate layer, reduces brightness by 25 and increases contrast by 5.  I then erase selected areas or just the center of the image to the desired amount and then I fade the opacity to taste, say 25 to 35%. On this image I went really light on the opacity, maybe 7-8 percent. 

I think you are right about the sky.  I had a couple of different skies and I ended up wiht this one for the color.  It might be just a tad dark.  Thanks agin,

[Craig Lamson]

Really lovely project we recently shot in D.C.


CB

You do get some nice projects!  All the images are stunning but by far my favorite is the patio image with the monument in the background.  Really nice job of lighting the people.

[JoeKitchen]

A couple more products I brought back from Cuba and fooled around with in studio over the weekend. 

[Chris Barrett]

Playing with the 810 in studio.  Portrait of my friend Kirsten on Fuji Acros with a Nikkor 450mm at f/11.  Souped in Xtol a few hours ago...

[JoeKitchen]

My local market had some amazing looking figs last week and I just could not help myself.  Plus I like bourbon and cream soda! 

Fig & Bourbon Fizz. 

[bcooter]

contax and p21+



BC

[Pablovi]

My local market had some amazing looking figs last week and I just could not help myself.  Plus I like bourbon and cream soda! 

Fig & Bourbon Fizz.

Nice work! What you use as a backlight? To recreate sunlight?
A bare flashbulb? A Fresnel?

[Patricia Sheley]

~a flick of fleur de sel on the face of that fig and the board and I'm your gal!

[Chris Barrett]

flowers in the studio on the new 810.  Fuji Acros / Nikkor 450mm @ f/22  This is the first time I've shot Acros.  I dig it.

[razrblck]

Love it, Acros is one of my favorites!

[JoeKitchen]

Nice work! What you use as a backlight? To recreate sunlight?
A bare flashbulb? A Fresnel?

Thanks, glad you like it. 

Actually I wish I had a fresnel strobe.  In the future (not this year) I may have Bacht in Germany make me a dedicated 2400 w/s fresnel; the light is just so nice from those.  It would be awesome if they could make me one with an adapter so I could use it on Proforo and Broncolor packs, although I don't think this is possible. 

Anyway, you really need two lights to do direct sunlight right.  One is some sort of hard light, in this case the Profoto Narrow Beam, to create the harshness.  (Now the Narrow Beam has not so good shadow quality, so it was gelled with 1/8 diffusion to clean it up a bit along with Lee Wheat to add some color.) 

Now when we are outside, not only does the harshness of the sun come down, but the sunlight is reflecting off of the sky as well, giving a bit of softness too.  So I usually place a soft box near, but above, the hard light to simulate this. 

Here the hard light is left behind set and the soft box is directly behind the set. 

There is also a small soft box on the left going through a large diffusion panel and a very very very light ceiling bounce (that I usually gel with a 2 ND to make it even dimmer) for overall fill. 

Spending all of next week doing splash work; should be fun.