This Week Through Your µ4/3 (2/20/2011)

SLOtographer · Feb 20, 2011

Happy birthday Ansel Adams and everyone else born on Feb 20! Hope you had a great week, and I'm looking forward to this week's contributions.

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LincolnB · Feb 20, 2011

C&C welcome

I have some thoughts about this one but I would like to hear other opinions. Cropped from 4:3 to 3:4. Played a bit with saturation and gamma and such in post. Taken with an Industar-61 55mm 2.8

Posted this same scene last week, took another crack at it a couple of days ago when I had more time to set up the composition.

Ray Sachs · Feb 20, 2011

More B&W 'street' work, but all of these are taken from a distance with a long lens. This is not how I'm used to shooting people shots - I'm usually right in the scrum and shooting at pretty close range. These are from at least a half block away, sometimes further. It's an entirely different exercise, at once more distant and voyeuristic and at the same time a bit more intimate in terms of the individual. The process somehow feels wrong, like its being sneaky (for those who read the long thread on street shooting recently), but I like some of the results a fair amount, because in a sense I can get closer into the faces from a distance than I can from up close. I guess I have to just chalk it up to another way to shoot and keep it as another tool to use when appropriate. But I don't see myself carrying such a big lens most of the time. These are all the 100-300 near or at full extension - which is an incredible combination with the AF power of the GH2.

-Ray

LincolnB · Feb 20, 2011

Ray Sachs said:
More B&W 'street' work, but all of these are taken from a distance with a long lens. This is not how I'm used to shooting people shots - I'm usually right in the scrum and shooting at pretty close range. These are from at least a half block away, sometimes further. It's an entirely different exercise, at once more distant and voyeuristic and at the same time a bit more intimate in terms of the individual. The process somehow feels wrong, like its being sneaky (for those who read the long thread on street shooting recently), but I like some of the results a fair amount, because in a sense I can get closer into the faces from a distance than I can from up close. I guess I have to just chalk it up to another way to shoot and keep it as another tool to use when appropriate. But I don't see myself carrying such a big lens most of the time. These are all the 100-300 near or at full extension - which is an incredible combination with the AF power of the GH2.

-Ray

I think these are a good result. They're a bit more "everyday slice of life" than the wide angle shots, me thinks.

In the shot of the skateboarder I would have cropped the sign on the right, but I really like the slightly elevated angle of this shot.

Ray Sachs · Feb 20, 2011

LincolnB said:
I think these are a good result. They're a bit more "everyday slice of life" than the wide angle shots, me thinks.

Thanks - I feel funny about the process but am ok with the results..

LincolnB said:
In the shot of the skateboarder I would have cropped the sign on the right, but I really like the slightly elevated angle of this shot.

I actually tried that - the shot is already cropped somewhat, but cropping the sign out made it look really unbalanced, and if I took as much off of the left, it was just waaaay too vertical. And I really kind of wanted to leave the "all way" sign, so I couldn't crop down to make it proportionate. Necessary evil I guess, but I was thinking along the same lines...

BTW, I think the crop you asked about in your first shot looks right. I don't know what, if anything, is going on outside the frame, but the para-sailer looks just right with the vertical orientation. Both shots are technically good too - very sharp, good colors, etc...

-Ray

Jerodequin · Feb 20, 2011

targa86 · Feb 20, 2011

I received my Pany 20/1.7 this week and had some fun at a local sculpture exhibition.

Earlier in the week I got a good shot of the moon.

Using an Orion 500/4.5 Maksutov with EF 2X converter and EF to m43 adapter.

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Bobo Hodls · Feb 20, 2011

LincolnB said:
C&C welcome

I have some thoughts about this one but I would like to hear other opinions. Cropped from 4:3 to 3:4. Played a bit with saturation and gamma and such in post. Taken with an Industar-61 55mm 2.8

It's a descent shot, very. I never care for things like the parking lot, but we don't always have a choice. Such as was for the bubble boy I have in mind (later). Might do a little NR on the sky, or add a little grain over all of it.

LincolnB said:
Posted this same scene last week, took another crack at it a couple of days ago when I had more time to set up the composition.

I do like this a lot more, in this context. Looks like some red paint too on the b/g stump. Was the area more trashed, or was this the extent of it?

The reds feel rather hot, unless that's what you were going for.

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Bobo Hodls · Feb 20, 2011

That's one way to shake up old habits, and indeed these are a departure. I just love 'em.

There was a fellow on another forum who tried to play it innocent enough, but it was all about pretty women. You're clearly just using a different lens for a different technique applied to your street work. The play one can have, from narrow DOF to compressed distances, are fun to work through, and certainly are more extreme than the usual.

At first the b/g bokeh on the down the street scene distracting (my favorite, after #1), but it has an interesting characteristic to it. I'd want to understand that more (when it's at its worst and best).

I can appreciate it feeling like cheating, but it ain't, you ain't either, and you should just go ~~girl~~ guy! I'd really like to see more of this approach.
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Bobo Hodls · Feb 20, 2011

targa86 said:
I received my Pany 20/1.7 this week and had some fun at a local sculpture exhibition.

It's nice in low light, that lens, yes? I like these sculptures. If you don't mind, in the one below I'd think about cropping out the three bright objects at the top of the frame. That isolates the main portion, suspending it in space to a degree. And I think it allows a little easier recognition, and thus easier to become even more engaged in it. (Expand the image view here, then scroll the image up until that top edge is obscured).

targa86 said:

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...Bob, NYC

'Well, sometimes the magic works. . . Sometimes, it doesn't.' - Little Big Man

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BrianKnoblock · Feb 20, 2011

I fished a MF Yashica 50 f2 out of the bay for 1 pound plus shipping, played with it the other night it was cold and dark out so my usual model made himself available.

C&C welcome

BK

Bobo Hodls · Feb 20, 2011

Oh, it was such a nice two days of mild temperatures. Just tried to get out in it, this being Thursday's time 'in the neighborhood'.

Tried to keep the Ultron 28/f2 on the E-PL2 for a good part of the day.

It was so nice I went out again after dinner.

E-P2 with the Hexanon 135/f3.5 (all E-P2 work on tripod, ISO 200)

E-P2 with Heliar 15/4.5 - nothing special, just another take on the familiar, or Same Place, Different Day

A parting shot w/E-PL2 and Nokton 35/f1.4 for a hand-held ISO 3200. Except for that sky banding. . . (I should take care of that with a pass through Dfine).

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...Bob, NYC

'Well, sometimes the magic works. . . Sometimes, it doesn't.' - Little Big Man

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Dija · Feb 20, 2011

Nice Set Bob!! For me the first ones are great street photos.

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Dija · Feb 20, 2011

Ray, I really like the set. You may feel a bit awckward at first but you'll get used to it. Sometimes is nice to deal with the restrictive FOV of a telephoto lens. That's how I came to enjoy so much the 45-200.

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Dija · Feb 20, 2011

Hey! here we go again!! Hope you guys like these...As always C&C welcome!!

THanks for viewing!!

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Ray Sachs · Feb 20, 2011

I love those sculpture shots. When I shoot stuff like that I'm always conflicted about whether I'm actually creating something cool looking or if I'm just documenting a cool piece of art that someone else created. In the end, I guess it doesn't matter if the photograph is interesting to look at. But in these cases, I think you brought something to the photographs well beyond what the sculpture did by the angles that you shot them and your care with the composition of the photos that included the space around the sculptures as well as the art itself. Or, in the case of the first one, really limiting the view to a select portion of the sculpture. In any case, nicely done...

-Ray

Ray Sachs · Feb 20, 2011

Just more great stuff Bob. The Park landscapes toward the end are uniformly fine and the shots of the bubble makers are really fun. The one of the little boy totally enclosed in the bubble is an absolute classic moment! Well done. Again. As usual!

-Ray

Ray Sachs · Feb 20, 2011

Another nice set Dija. I like the first one a lot - a very contemplative moment. I'd have probably tried it in B&W but that's almost down to reflex with me - it looks just fine in the muted colors in the shot... I also like the salt and pepper still life and the one of the train whizzing through the station with the guy's head in the foreground.

-Ray

Dija · Feb 20, 2011

Thanks ray! The first one is one of my all-time favorites. It was taken in a pub in Oxford. Here's A B&W version:

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LincolnB · Feb 20, 2011

This girl and her friends asked me to take their picture with their iPhone, so in exchange i asked if I could take a picture with my camera. This shot was held overhead while standing on a chair. The lens is an Industar-61 manual focus lens so the focus isn't perfect but I liked the artistic effect of angle plus it avoided a serious backlight problem. I added a bit of vignetting in GIMP and desaturated the color a bit.

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