Recent Professional Works

[Dragomir Spassov]

Just want to say Hello, whit these..

[fredjeang]

one hour 15 minutes later

Whao!! This post is not so recent and I missed it...congrats, this is a great serie. Love it.

[Rob C]

Hi Fred

I have been looking at my Sumo again as a kind of rest from the monitor. What surprises me is that, on looking more closely, which isn't always easy to do, I see that Helmut has been making a lot of use of store dummies instead of models.

If you can find a copy in a bookshop, have a look and tell me that those pics do not, in fact, represent the state/fashion for/of 'plastic' models that seems to be the vogue today. He was clearly a man before his time. Who needs Casablancas?

But basically, I still don't really like his work. I'm glad I bought the book because it extends the small collection a little (big) bit, but I can't say that I would have been proud to have fathered any of his images. For me, he utterly fails to find beauty and discovers only harshness instead. I also think his technique is very limited; perhaps he thought of it as his 'look'. God, I hope he hadn't actually worked on it.

Rob C

[haefnerphoto]

Here's what I did last Sunday.  These images are part of a series I'm working on of the significant structures of Detroit.  This building is the Fisher Building, built by the Fisher brothers of Fisher Body fame.  It houses the Fisher Theatre and several floors of offices.  The building was designed in 1928 by Albert Kahn, who was responsible for many of the grand buildings of Detroit.  His firm is still in business and are clients of mine.  There is one image taken with the P45, I want to be consistent with the thread you know.  Jim

I've transformed the last image a bit what do you guys think?

[Craig Lamson]

Are those the 17 tse Jim?  Nice but I think I like Belle Isle a bit better.

[haefnerphoto]

Are those the 17 tse Jim?  Nice but I think I like Belle Isle a bit better.

Craig, The shot of the full hall was the 24T/S, the balcony shot the 17 and the third image was the 28 on the P45.  Jim

[Kirk Gittings]

In general very nice Jim. I prefer the transformed floor of the second version. Adjustments like that make a composition really pop because they are more formal than the eye normally sees.

[Jeremy Roussak]

In general very nice Jim. I prefer the transformed floor of the second version. Adjustments like that make a composition really pop because they are more formal than the eye normally sees.

It looks to me as if it's sloping downwards to the left.

Jeremy

[Abdulrahman Aljabri]

Here's what I did last Sunday.  These images are part of a series I'm working on of the significant structures of Detroit.  This building is the Fisher Building, built by the Fisher brothers of Fisher Body fame.  It houses the Fisher Theatre and several floors of offices.  The building was designed in 1928 by Albert Kahn, who was responsible for many of the grand buildings of Detroit.  His firm is still in business and are clients of mine.  There is one image taken with the P45, I want to be consistent with the thread you know.  Jim

I've transformed the last image a bit what do you guys think?

Jim,


I like the second version more also, but how are the two versions composed differently, or is it post? 

[Dick Roadnight]

Craig, The shot of the full hall was the 24T/S, the balcony shot the 17 and the third image was the 28 on the P45.  Jim

Could you not have taken the passage with tilt & shift and avoided the distortion? ...or would that be the type of T & S (in different directions) for which you would need a proper technical camera?

I wonder if I would have had enough image circle to do it with my 47XL and shift and stitch?

[haefnerphoto]

Could you not have taken the passage with tilt & shift and avoided the distortion? ...or would that be the type of T & S (in different directions) for which you would need a proper technical camera?

I wonder if I would have had enough image circle to do it with my 47XL and shift and stitch?

Yes, a view camera would have resolved the issue I had with the perspective. Transforming the image in this manner is the same as swinging the camera back to correct for the diminishing vantage point.  Since I posted this I've reduced the correction a bit which stops the floor from running downhill and Fred gave me his input by outlining the floor and just correcting it which looks good too.  This shot was taken with my 28mm on the P45 so the 47 would take a significant amount of stitching to get this field of view, it also doesn't allow for any shifts.  Jim

[JoeKitchen]

Philadelphia's newest addition, or at least part of it.  

[JoeKitchen]

And a couple more. 

[john cox]

This is from a wedding a few months ago where the bride asked for a copy of the entire shoot in black and white.

[Kirk Gittings]

I really like the shot John. Very nice. I am no wedding photographer but personally I would clean up the edges and the pinpoint reflections. They distract the eye.

[haefnerphoto]

Philadelphia's newest addition, or at least part of it.  

Joe, I think this is a strong image!  It works really well in B/W.  Jim

[john cox]

I was very careful to keep her shoes in the shot (top right) I really wanted a spur of the moment (happy) feel, that embodied her on that day.

[JoeKitchen]

Joe, I think this is a strong image!  It works really well in B/W.  Jim

Thanks Jim. 

[JonathanBenoit]

Yes, a view camera would have resolved the issue I had with the perspective. Transforming the image in this manner is the same as swinging the camera back to correct for the diminishing vantage point.  Since I posted this I've reduced the correction a bit which stops the floor from running downhill and Fred gave me his input by outlining the floor and just correcting it which looks good too.  This shot was taken with my 28mm on the P45 so the 47 would take a significant amount of stitching to get this field of view, it also doesn't allow for any shifts.  Jim

Jim,

I really like this project. I've been doing something similar in Worcester, MA.
However, I guess I am in the minority. I prefer the original shot. I look at the far entrance and it slopes down and to the left. Horizontal perspective is a hard thing to edit.

[haefnerphoto]

Jim,

I really like this project. I've been doing something similar in Worcester, MA.
However, I guess I am in the minority. I prefer the original shot. I look at the far entrance and it slopes down and to the left. Horizontal perspective is a hard thing to edit.

Jonathan, I ended up with something in the middle.  I agree about the far entrance needing to be level so what I did was Edit>transform>perspective the image and in effect digitally swung the back.  Attached is the outcome.  Jim