Posts tagged ‘50mm 1.8 EOS’
As Kevin Requests . . .
This is the RAW file as I captured it.
I exposed for the brightest spot in the sky, aiming to make that middle grey. This meant that the scene, as observed on the spot, was much brighter than this looks, as that spot was probably, in a balanced exposure, Zone IX. I knew I wanted the scene to be dark.
EV +2
This is that raw file bumped about two stops, probably closer to the way it looked when I stood there.
Capture One Red Filter
I’ve been preprocessing almost all of my 5D files of late in Capture One first (doing any exposure balancing and such there, and then outputting a TIF). I just like the way that Capture One sharpens better than Lightroom 2 (of course, Lightroom 3 was just released, so I’m not sure yet what I’m gonna do there). This version had a Red b&w filter applied in Capture One, then output to TIF, as a sort of test of the idea. All final processing was done in Nik.
North Hills
5D with the help of Nik Silver Efex
This afternoon Peg and I were wandering around a newly discovered cemetery (new for us) and this image kinda presented itself to me. While the ‘real life’ version was far less dramatic, this version was what I saw in my mind’s eye when I looked up that hill.
The inclination to explore that place came as Peg and I discussed what we might do for SoFoBoMo. Peg’s inclined to participate, she has a pretty interesting idea (much more fully formed than mine). We were looking at the SoFoBoMo site because one of their featured books from last year was a book with infrared images captured in cemeteries. Peg was looking through the book and mentioned how some of the shots were clearly captured in Allegheny Cemetery, a place we had visited a few times. I emailed the photographer, asking him if he had indeed gone to that cemetery and where else he had shot. He told us about this other cemetery in the North Hills near where we lived, one we had never visited.
I debated whether to push this image as far as I did, but it kept wanting to go there as I worked on it.
Fort Warden Ladder
5D Silver Efex
Ray and I wandered to Fort Warden near Port Townsend. Ray had captured some images there from time to time, and I had heard about it as a location that Brooks Jensen had gone to shoot as well. It was a great location, and I did get some images I quite liked (the one above, for instance). But most of the images there were for this Grand Experiment I’m doing. As I may have mentioned in a reply to a comment, I need to develop a roll of HP5 I shot that day to really talk about the experiment, so that will have to wait a bit.
Skater Boy
5D, Silver Efex
Near the parade Port Townsend has a Skate Park where Ray has a number of friends. We hung out there waiting for the last bits of the parade to pass by so we could extricate the car. This young man was just waiting for a friend.
Port Townsend
Waiting for the Parade
Got back from a visit to Seattle and Ray yesterday, and just started going through the images today. I’ll be posting more images throughout the week. It was the Rhododendron Festival in Port Townsend this past weekend, and I got some shots of the excited people waiting for the excitement to begin.
Also began an experiment that day, which will take some film developing to deliver to you, so hopefully I’ll get to those rolls tomorrow night and have them scanned before the end of the week.
Also carried the 5D with me and those are the images I’ll be posting. This image was processed in Capture One and then in Nik Silver Efex.
Had a great time with Ray, btw.
Light and Texture
Light and texture on a rainy day
Sometimes I think I’m really an abstract expressionist. What I mean is that I react to a photographic opportunity very instinctively, and often don’t know why I press the shutter. I’ve commented earlier this week that I envy the photographer who can plan a shoot, pre-visualize, then execute. I don’t know if I have the patience for that. I’m gonna give it a try once I get all my equipment back together. Last post’s ‘still life’ of the Diet Pepsi can and the banana has given me some inspiration, but I really want to set up my flash and umbrella. I’d wanted to try portraits that way with my Mamiya until it fell over.
The end of the summer is approaching here in Pittsburgh and I saw this pattern in a puddle walking back to my car. Enhanced it a little with Color Efex. Liked what I saw, so I thought I’d post.
Capture ‘em where they lay
Just as I saw it
This image came out of a couple of blog discussions I’ve read in the last couple days. On one, Tom mentioned how wonderful a 50mm 1.8 lens was. Well, I slapped one on my Canon 10D and took that camera out with me today.
On another blog, I said that I tend to shoot things as I see them, and I don’t think much in terms of ‘setting up.’ Well, the image above is exactly that. I was getting in the car this morning, and put two elements of my lunch down on the roof of my Saab. Lit only by the garage light, I grabbed the shot and went on my way.
