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[Snook]

Not shooting much 35mm lately here is an older one..
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[Ray]

Not shooting much 35mm lately here is an older one..
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Snook

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Nice one! Very atmospheric! Can I just say though, that the slight tilt of the band of blue sky (tilting up from right to left) is a bit disturbing.

[Snook]

Nice one! Very atmospheric! Can I just say though, that the slight tilt of the band of blue sky (tilting up from right to left) is a bit disturbing.
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Tilting up? Not sure I follow you, and disturbing is a strong phrase...?
Snook

[Ray]

Tilting up? Not sure I follow you, and disturbing is a strong phrase...?
Snook
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You've got a mixture of natural elements and man-made elements. Roads may follow the line of least resistance. Powerline poles are characteristically vertical.

You've got a perceptibly slanting horizontal in a prominent aspect of the sky which conflicts slightly with the man-made aspects of the scene, as well as tending to confirm a well advertised fact that the 1Ds3 has a probelem in correctly aligning horizons.

This all contributes to a slight esthetic disturbance in my mind. It's a bit like walking down the street and noticing that a lamp-post is not perfectly vertical.

If it's not perfectly vertical, perhaps most folks would not notice the fact. I do, perhaps because my grandfather was a carpenter.

[wolfnowl]

An image from Peggy's Cove, NS from a long time ago, simply mirrored and matched.  I think it works out alright.

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[ChrisJR]

Disused limestone mine in North Yorkshire. Creepy as hell to walk around but has a lot of character.

The attached were all taken with a Canon but also had a chance to take some shots with my old Hasselblad 503CW. Very different results.

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[Khun_K]

Jenna, a Canadian model, 1Ds MK3 and EF 85/1.2L, ISO 50, 1/200 at f/11

[Jonathan H]

Khun - lovely model and lovely image.  Just as an FYI - there's a blue cast on the right side of the image on the backdrop - different brand background lights maybe?

There's a noticeable "line" in the blue cast which leads me to think you were firing some heads into V-flats.

[Khun_K]

Khun - lovely model and lovely image.  Just as an FYI - there's a blue cast on the right side of the image on the backdrop - different brand background lights maybe?

There's a noticeable "line" in the blue cast which leads me to think you were firing some heads into V-flats.
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No, just one background light, I shape the volume so the background does not look too flat. Some may not like it.

[pcox]

Taken in fog near Pontoon, Co. Mayo in Ireland. Canon 5D and 24-70mm f/2.8L.



Cheers,
Peter

[Boris_Epix]

Canon 1Ds MK3 with 70-200 2.8 L IS

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[jjj]

D3 & Zeiss 100/2 MakroPlanar


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Badly exposed, the grain obscures the detail and it's not that sharp.
But it is absolutely beautiful.

[jjj]

Which of these images do you prefer? Why?
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Well as you asked.
The top one, as at least it's vaguely interesting as opposed to simply boring.

[wilburdl]

Couple of pics.

[kal]

2 days ago, running away from the storm (that actually never hit land)

[Andy M]

Moraine Lake, Alberta, Canada.

1Ds Mark III + 17-40L

[scottish]

Moraine Lake, Alberta, Canada.

Beautiful work, Andy.  I love the contrast between the sharply defined mountains in the mid-section and the way they fade into mist in the distance.

[semillerimages]

Autumn Arts Portfolio 2008
The Poet - Image 1 of 9
Shot for the New Times, San Luis Obispo CA - All shot with Canon 1dsmark2 with 70-200 for the first image, and the 24-70 for the rest.

This creation was a long journey over the course of several months with a multitude of locations, people and props. My arts editor Ashley Schwellenbach first brought up the idea of the portfolio back in May this year and I was reticent initially, but fell into the project quickly seeing as it would be a tremendous gift to my own portfolio.

The theme of this set of images is the immortality of art. You can read the entire story at Story page
Each artist picked would be represented deceased in one fashion or another. We started with LINDA CAMPLESE, a poet from Grover Beach, CA.

We trekked out to California Valley one nice June afternoon, had the makeup and hair done by Kristina Kolkowski and had tremendous assistance from her boyfriend Patrick Leonard. Lugging the bathtub out on to the soda lake was something that I shall not want  to do again, but lug it we did - there and back.

I brought out a ton of lighting equipment, but ended up only using a single strobe (An Alien Bee 1600 with powerpack) with a grid to give a little fill on the side of Linda's face and the bathtub.

This was the first image shot, and although I do love it, I realized almost immediately on the trip back to San Luis Obispo that it could have been better... I learned my lesson and applied it well to the upcoming eight more shoots.

Hair and Makeup: Kristina Kolkowski
Assistant: Patrick Leonard
Art Director: Ashley Schwellenbach
Photographer: Steve E. Miller

See the silly timelapse making of video on youtube here:
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Hair and Makeup: Kristina Kolkowski
Assistant: Patrick Leonard
Art Director: Ashley Schwellenbach
Photographer: Steve E. Miller

See the silly timelapse making of video on youtube here:
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Third up up is MARNI MUTRUX, a local painter.

July 13th, Paso Robles. Marni has a rooftop apartment and studio with a tremendous steep and long staircase leading up to it. The space was at a premium and the lighting was a little tricky with this one because of the ambient coming through the door and the lack of light on the upper part of the staircase. I stuck a stobe (AB1600 with bare reflector) through a window that looks onto the upper part of the staircase and I ran a remote cable down to the AB remote control on the front side of the building. The second strobe (AB1600 with bare reflector + trash can modifier), I taped a plastic Target trash can on the end of the reflector in order to make some bare bulbish light above Marni. I had my assistants (woohoo love having assistants!) hold my large white shoot-through umbrella over the camera/door area to shade in where Marni would have her face and hands. The set up and make up took quite awhile, the shooting was a matter of minutes really - with the minor modification of taking the door off it's hinges.

A fair amount of modification was done in photoshop, but it really boils down to dodging out a lot of the scene to make it darker. If the light is flat enough, I have found that you should more or less expose the image to collect the most information possible as it is much much easier to darken up an image and make it look good vs the vice-versa.

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If you would like to see the six other images, please check out my flickr page at

flickr.com/semillerimages

Comments are welcome,

Thanks!

*steve

[BernardLanguillier]

A quick one taken from the slopes of Mt Fuji at night earlier this week.



Pano made up of 5 Nikon D3 images.

Cheers,
Bernard

[Jonathan H]

Women Of Climbing

Shot as a personal project.  Lighting: 2 Dynalite 1000WS packs with three 4040 heads with 20degree grids, one head for each climber. Another 2000WS ring flash on-camera for low level fill. This is why the center climber's shadow is softer than the outer climbers' shadows.