Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: cjogo on February 18, 2013, 02:52:29 pm
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Waited for this one to clear out tourists ... Super Wide camera with lots of Depth
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This has a quasi-surreal quality to it. I like it.
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The beauty of geometry!
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Is it snowing in the scene, or is much of the stone just wildly speckled in this image?
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I see a couple of tourists still :p
The speckled-ness is a bit distracting, but I enjoy the composition.
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The speckling (unfortunately ) is just dirt . from a hi rez scan ==from HP 5 film --- Never saw that speckling in a print from the darkroom .. but a quality scanner > will show all defects >:(
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Is it snowing in the scene, or is much of the stone just wildly speckled in this image?
Guess my water was not as clean as it needed to be -- had two filters in line BUT just not enough .. never appeared in a wet print from the darkroom ... tried rewashing ~~ no luck >:(
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I see a couple of tourists still :p
The speckled-ness is a bit distracting, but I enjoy the composition.
And thats after hours of spotting :o Too bad none of my images are from a digital camera ..they weren't even invented yet ;D
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And thats after hours of spotting :o Too bad none of my images are from a digital camera ..they weren't even invented yet ;D
No need... you could have just yelled: "50% sale at Galeries Lafayette"
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Damn! I wish I'd taken that!
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No need... you could have just yelled: "50% sale at Galeries Lafayette"
:D :D
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Damn! I wish I'd taken that!
I was chased out to the main street by the gendarme, shortly after -- I guess tripods are not allowed ??
In those days 1/30 was fast/normal shutter speed -- so tripods were a must.
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I' m going to rewash a few times -- see if I can remove more speckles .. maybe use a more sophisticated tool > than cloning & clean this image up. It sold well in the galleries ... But I never printed past 11 inch ..
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Damn! I wish I'd taken that!
Wish you would had been there with a DSLR -- ISO 100 --could had made a 20 X 24 enlargement
And I wish the film was speckle free :) Scanned film just is not like a 24 meg full chip DSLR -- maybe more like ISO 2000 with that digital camera and underexposed . Noise = grain --- :(
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Wish you would had been there with a DSLR -- ISO 100 --could had made a 20 X 24 enlargement
And I wish the film was speckle free :) Scanned film just is not like a 24 meg full chip DSLR -- maybe more like ISO 2000 with that digital camera and underexposed . Noise = grain --- :(
Still. I don't know. Do a 20x24 at a cheap lab, stand back a few feet...who knows? Might be worth trying anyway. I did not even notice the specks until you made me look. A little softness could go a long way, especially considering viewing distance.
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I spent 3 months photographing in Paris with an 8x10, and never had a problem. You used to need a permit for a tripod anywhere, but now there are only problems with spaces like Pere Lachaise cemetery, and the Luxembourg Gardens, which belongs to the Senate, and the guardiens are always on the watch for illegal photography. A friend of mine spent months with a pinhole camera, sitting on a bench in the Luxembourg, but they got him and he had a huge hassle publishing a little book of his wonderful pictures.http://www.lesphotographes.com/old-site/2011/09/19/the-photographic-processes-of-ian-paterson/ You would have problems in the Palais Royal, where you photographed the Daniel Buren columns. He owns a print of mine. Small world.
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I spent 3 months photographing in Paris with an 8x10, and never had a problem. You used to need a permit for a tripod anywhere, but now there are only problems with spaces like Pere Lachaise cemetery, and the Luxembourg Gardens, which belongs to the Senate, and the guardiens are always on the watch for illegal photography. A friend of mine spent months with a pinhole camera, sitting on a bench in the Luxembourg, but they got him and he had a huge hassle publishing a little book of his wonderful pictures.http://www.lesphotographes.com/old-site/2011/09/19/the-photographic-processes-of-ian-paterson/ You would have problems in the Palais Royal, where you photographed the Daniel Buren columns. He owns a print of mine. Small world.
I looked down at my rubber legs on my tripod > as skateboarders wiz by the columns ...trying to understand the gendarme~~ escorting me out of the Palais Royal ... ???
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C'est la loi. There were no skateboards when the laws were written, only tripods.
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C'est la loi. There were no skateboards when the laws were written, only tripods.
:D ;D
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GEOFFREY > sure your 8 X 10 stood out more ~~ than me with my little Hassy
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I find this very witty. I want to yell NOOO! WHAT ARE YOU DOING! TO YOUR RIGHT, LOOK TO YOUR RIGHT, YOU IDIOT!
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There's actually not a huge amount of difference except for the dark cloth. I have an incredibly light rig -- a Phillips Explorer with a small wide-angle dagor, which works on a Gitzo reporter, and I carried my film holders in an elegant leather hunting bag I bought in Lucca. I didn't take a single cab in three months -- all metro, bus or foot. Would love to go to Poland -- those eastern European countries fascinate me. In April I am planning to go to Ljubljana to check out the work of the great architect and urbanist Joze Plecnik. He also did interesting stuff in Prague. No more view camera -- the Leica Monochrom is plenty good enough for me.
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There's actually not a huge amount of difference except for the dark cloth. I have an incredibly light rig -- a Phillips Explorer with a small wide-angle dagor, which works on a Gitzo reporter, and I carried my film holders in an elegant leather hunting bag I bought in Lucca. I didn't take a single cab in three months -- all metro, bus or foot. Would love to go to Poland -- those eastern European countries fascinate me. In April I am planning to go to Ljubljana to check out the work of the great architect and urbanist Joze Plecnik. He also did interesting stuff in Prague. No more view camera -- the Leica Monochrom is plenty good enough for me.
Carried 8X & 4X for years in the States. The 120 was just easier in the Eastern European Countries .. but you still run out of film though. :D
And I wore a vest with 120 film across the front -- looked like I was carry shotgun shells through this little hamlets ???
My friend worked 5X7 in Iceland > had to Express film over from New York B&H :'(
I have 20 years of shooting architecture /people in Europe .. did work in Ljubljana. ;) Also 3 nice visits to Riga .. I went before the Wall came down -- so many places were still in tact --almost post WW II. Much too crowded now -- especially with a tripod.