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New Video and Article with Michael Reichmann
« on: August 05, 2018, 10:04:33 pm »

Wow, we just published a new article with video of Michael Reichmann talking about contrast.  Chris Sanderson found this footage recently and assembled a video and short article. It's so nice to see Michael on camera again.  I really liked the ending.  Take a look at it HERE
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Re: New Video and Article with Michael Reichmann
« Reply #1 on: August 06, 2018, 12:11:58 am »

Beautiful segment. What I love about Michael is his lack of pomposity, his ability to drive home insights without drawing attention to himself.

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Re: New Video and Article with Michael Reichmann
« Reply #2 on: August 06, 2018, 06:29:25 am »

Chris,

I could watch videos of that type all day long.

Those photographs illustrate just what an amazing, natural photographer Michael was, and why his site held so many people's attention and loyalty.

He came over as having such an easy air about him, with a total lack of affectation. I don't know how much pre-planning went into your conversation that day, but it came over as pretty much normal, person-to-person speech, which must be very hard to accomplish with a camera staring at one.

For myself, I find that the interesting part about photography not my own is that yes, the images are vital to creating the buzz, but after a point, the greater interest becomes in the person making them. A series, continuing from your Jay Maisel shoot, along similar lines, may be difficult to arrange, but far more interesting than cold, impersonal cameras and lenses. They can be seen online all over the place; not so with good interviews... any chance you might go that path?

A very welcome video then, but in the circumstances, also very poignant.

Thanks for all the work you put into the production; I would also love to watch a bio about you! Who knew you had such a wealth of experience behind you?

Rob

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Re: New Video and Article with Michael Reichmann
« Reply #3 on: August 06, 2018, 07:26:16 am »



  "A very welcome video then, but in the circumstances, also very poignant."


  Indeed it is. Chris, it must have been very difficult for you to put this together. I had a hard time watching it.
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Re: New Video and Article with Michael Reichmann
« Reply #4 on: August 06, 2018, 09:33:59 am »

Thank you Chris for this wonderful vignette of Michael at his gentle best.

I agree with Rob's comments ... the content is excellent - simple but so effective - but the relaxed delivery is almost as important - but for those of us who knew Michael personally - even only slightly as in my case - there is a bitter-sweet quality as well.  However I am sure that Michael would have waived that away with a parody comment such as " ah shucks " and rightly focussed our attention back onto the content that he was wanting to convey.

Thanks again Chris - you made my morning.
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Re: New Video and Article with Michael Reichmann
« Reply #5 on: August 06, 2018, 10:04:04 am »

Thanks for the comments! The piece was a pleasure to put together.

Indeed Michael was 'gentle', but he had reason to be less so: the first set of takes was completely ruined by out-of-focus footage. One of the perils of trying to be two places at once!

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Re: New Video and Article with Michael Reichmann
« Reply #6 on: August 06, 2018, 10:42:32 am »

Superb - there is so much to learn from this. I especially appreciated Chris's comments on Michael's powers of vision; Michael could see masterful photographs and capture them so quickly, so effectively, you didn't know what was happening till it was all done. An opportunity like this to see into his mind and learn about envisioning photographs is priceless. Thanks ever so much for finding and producing it.
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Re: New Video and Article with Michael Reichmann
« Reply #7 on: August 06, 2018, 02:02:35 pm »

Great video, great to see Michael.
I hate to be a picky fellow, but I do think we should properly consider the term luminosity that is used multiple times in the video.
Luminosity is a measure of the total radiant energy from a body. It has nothing to do with what a human observer perceives but rather describes the total radiant energy, such as watts/second of a source (the surface of a radiating object like a display). In Photoshop, the layer mode called luminosity is not what's happening here (I was told its something like the "Luma" which is an old TV RGB transform).

** Color geeks note **

"Luminance" is a property of an emissive surface or the result of 
refection from a surface. It is a measure of the light radiating from 
the surface and is expressed in cd/m^2 (candela per meter squared) it 
is a function of total luminous flux per unit area on axis with an 
observer. It is a photopically corrected unit and as such is not a 
measure of energy but of perceived lightness, however it is absolute, 
derived from radiometric measurement and does not reference a scene. 
50cd/m^2 may be very perceptually bright in one scene and very dark 
in another. 50 meters may seem very far to an ant and not very far to 
you and me it’s still 50 meters.

"Lightness" is a scaled value relative to the dynamic range of a 
system. In the CIE L*a*b* system L is "Lightness." Lightness is the 
perception of color without the chromaticity component and is scaled 
to a particular media or scene, such as a display, a print, or a real 
natural scene. L50 is perceptually halfway between the white and 
black of a system. L50 may be 100 cd/m^2 or 1000 cd/m^2 you don’t 
know unless you also know  luminance of white and black. 50 paces 
would be a unit perceptually similar to both an ant and a human.
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Re: New Video and Article with Michael Reichmann
« Reply #8 on: August 06, 2018, 02:09:51 pm »

Thank you Andrew. We are now enlightened.  ;D

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Re: New Video and Article with Michael Reichmann
« Reply #10 on: August 06, 2018, 02:25:07 pm »

I always wondered whether your total radiant energy was greater than it appeared!

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Re: New Video and Article with Michael Reichmann
« Reply #11 on: August 06, 2018, 02:27:17 pm »

Thank you Andrew. We are now enlightened.  ;D

Or are we illuminated?  :-)
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Re: New Video and Article with Michael Reichmann
« Reply #12 on: August 06, 2018, 02:28:48 pm »

I always wondered whether your total radiant energy was greater than it appeared!
Now brightness is the perception of Luminance. Maybe you're suggesting I'm a bright fellow?  ;D
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« Reply #13 on: August 06, 2018, 02:30:26 pm »

Without a shadow of doubt

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Re: New Video and Article with Michael Reichmann
« Reply #14 on: August 06, 2018, 02:30:52 pm »

P.S. Joking aside, I too have been guilty of this terminological lapse. So Andrew, how do you refer to the L* scale that goes from 1 to 100 in an image editing context?

(Now, would I be asking you this question if I didn't think you were a bright fellow? Or even an Illuminati in the field?
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Re: New Video and Article with Michael Reichmann
« Reply #15 on: August 06, 2018, 02:31:55 pm »

Now Chris, once you start confusing the picture with shadows there can be non-linear response - I'd be careful..........
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Re: New Video and Article with Michael Reichmann
« Reply #16 on: August 06, 2018, 02:33:04 pm »

So Andrew, how do you refer to the L* scale that goes from 1 to 100 in an image editing context?
If I understand the question properly, I did address that.
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« Reply #17 on: August 06, 2018, 02:35:08 pm »

If I understand the question properly, I did address that.

OK you probably did - reply 7 -"Lightness" ?
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Re: New Video and Article with Michael Reichmann
« Reply #18 on: August 06, 2018, 02:57:52 pm »

Very nice indeed, Chris. Inspiring. Makes me want to go shooting. I especially liked the quiet simplicity of the shots you've used as a closing sequence.

I used to write for motorcycle magazines and I frequently complained to the editors that their magazines were more about motorcycles than about motorcycling. I think the same thing applies to most photography sites.  They're too much about gear and not enough about photographing.

This story and the Charlie Cramer series are examples of the best content available in the web/photography ecosystem.  The more of this the better.
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« Reply #19 on: August 06, 2018, 04:54:56 pm »

Very nice indeed, Chris. Inspiring. Makes me want to go shooting. I especially liked the quiet simplicity of the shots you've used as a closing sequence.

I used to write for motorcycle magazines and I frequently complained to the editors that their magazines were more about motorcycles than about motorcycling. I think the same thing applies to most photography sites.  They're too much about gear and not enough about photographing.

This story and the Charlie Cramer series are examples of the best content available in the web/photography ecosystem.  The more of this the better.


Indeed; gear can be found in terrible depth all over the web. The need is for more interviews with photographers of note. Even images are in a state of overabundance - how nice it would be to find somewhere that gave grown-up interviews that probed under the surface and actually told us something about the person, male or female.

Art of Photography did some of that, but eventually ran into a contretemps with a sports photographer and decide to pull the particular video interview. Apparently, such videos, whilst gratifying for the website, fail to pull as many punters as do the "competitions" and stuff like that. I suppose people don't so much want to learn anything as see their snaps wearing garlands of flowers and glister.

Everybody can make a snap; I'd rather read a great interview - or watch one - than just see more pix. I have far too many of my own.
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