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Critique By:
Ian McIntosh (K:42997)
7/30/2004 1:06:52 PM
Who wants to know?
I maen specifically, is it the tax department, the garage that did my car repairs a month ago, tha garage that did the car repairs this week, visa or the electrical guys, who's put you up to asking?
I need expensive digital for a wedding february and otherwise really enjoying reading out about the classic slrs and rangefinders that are round. So I'm looking for something second hand for round 100 American I suppose something to explore for a while and takle anywhere.
(BUT NOT UNTILL I'VE PAID ALL MY BILLS.)
Very bitter last night to watch a spotmatic ii body auction for from 30 u.s. to shoot up to closer to 150! These guys must be reading the same websites. I tell you... the human mind with out the eye behind a lens to keep it busy.
(THE CHECK IS IN THE MAIL)
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Critique By:
Hugo de Wolf (K:185110)
7/30/2004 12:19:23 PM
Hi Again,
Yes, I do believe his face looks a bit flat, especially in comparison with the fire. Dodging his face locally might work.
Don't think usm would hurt the image too much in terms of punching up the pixellation. As long as you go easy on the threshold and amount. Finetuning could be done with a soft sharpening tool And then there's still neat image; that'll remove some of the pixellation before usm. You did save it as TIF or PSD too, right? Further tweaking the JPEG file would definately reduce the quality....
Cheers,
Hugo
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Critique By:
lowell whipple girbes (K:13151)
7/30/2004 12:04:25 PM
so cool
love holga's pics
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Critique By:
Aurore Lynch (K:1687)
7/30/2004 12:00:39 PM
It's just those sort of 'chunky' spots you see in areas of an image... like an old computer game or something... I can see it in his face here, I think.
Well, the cameras were STOLEN... the darkroom was lost when we moved to a small place (small, bad - downtown, good). So... well, i guess it's all the same. Cept I didn't get any time to adjust to the loss of my cameras! Good thing I have a bunch and still have some at home to shoot with. REALLY missing the polaroid though!
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Critique By:
Aurore Lynch (K:1687)
7/30/2004 11:56:27 AM
lol. yes... I could never get to sleep. It's frightening! And now tonight I will pass out from exhaustion so I won't have to worry about being lonely ; )
His face was pretty bright, so I burned in his features a bit. Do the highlights look too flat now? This was the most detail I could get from his face... though I suppose I could see if I could squeeze out anymore by rescanning the neg.
The fire... yeah, I could try getting some detail... But omg... usm would REALLY punch up the pixellation bad. I sharpened it as much as I dared... keep in mind, this is a 3-5 second exposure of a six-year-old by a girl with shaky hands. lol.
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Critique By:
Aurore Lynch (K:1687)
7/30/2004 11:50:03 AM
I am SO poor, I know all about cheap cameras. lol. What's your budget?
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Critique By:
Ian McIntosh (K:42997)
7/30/2004 11:42:02 AM
I've heard pixelated but still don't recognize it. I'm starting to worry it's a blind spot of my own.
You poor thing. First the camera then the dark room.
Very nice image. Go the f/4!
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Critique By:
Hugo de Wolf (K:185110)
7/30/2004 11:38:39 AM
Hi Aurore, quite a sleepless night you must have... Stayed up all night?
Don't mid the pixellation so much. To be honest, I wouldn't have noticed it if you hadn't mentioned it... I think the boy could've been dodged a bit more. (or burning the fire, trying to revive some of the contrasts there, if there are any...) Have you considered applying a bit more unsharpen mask?
The shot itself is awesome. the way the kid blends in with the background and the "single" lightsourse give a very secure atmosphere. The spark flying up in the hot air adds a perfect touch, too.
Cheers,
Hugo
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Critique By:
Ian McIntosh (K:42997)
7/30/2004 11:18:53 AM
That's Nice Aurore. Great emotion and interaction.
How's a holga looking right now? I'm getting pretty bitter and twisted without a camera right now.
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Critique By:
Aurore Lynch (K:1687)
7/30/2004 10:49:22 AM
oops... my scanner always defaults to color (even when set to scan a b&w neg) and i hadn't realized this had a color cast until after i uploaded it. But maybe i should try a tone? How's this?
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Critique By:
Paolo Barthelemy (K:25552)
7/30/2004 7:51:56 AM
Very well conceived and presented, Aurore.
I like the soft mood in the background with its shadows/light games and I love your portrait in the foreground beacuse of your pose and your sweet look that has a mixture feelings: doubt, need for help, protection.
I see (my interpretation) the good and the evil in their contiuous fight that try to force your mind in their own direction and you, in the middle, that must take a decision (I apologize for my english).
Very emotional and well done, Aurore; you are a very emotional and clever photographer.
Congrats!
Best regards and have a nice week-end.
Paolo
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Critique By:
keith johnson (K:48)
7/29/2004 8:16:16 PM
interesting snap, and -for some reason- i like the funky polaroid quality.
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Critique By:
Brian T. Ach (K:1742)
7/29/2004 12:53:34 PM
Superb! Your portfolio is very fresh and fascinating!
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Critique By:
[[dead account]] (K:6692)
7/28/2004 4:19:05 PM
I am digging the emotion you captured on this kid's face. The colors, slight blurriness, and the darkness of the image help the viewer form a sense of thic child's personality.
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Critique By:
Paolo Barthelemy (K:25552)
7/28/2004 8:06:50 AM
Amazing result, Aurore! I like the little girl, that come more and more closer revealing her beautiful smile. Vignetting enhances the motion making it like an old film. Excellent!
Best regards, Paolo
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Critique By:
m.c. lopez (K:14766)
7/27/2004 9:31:22 PM
strange mood ! It disturbs me because your subject is a child (your child I guess) and the bloack haze given by the Holga creates a negative impression (I don't want to be more precise). Excuse me Aurore, it's just an impression !
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Critique By:
Carlheinz Bayer (K:14220)
7/27/2004 2:49:06 PM
I love the movie-like effect with the triple pictures which gives you the impression she drove by while you fired with a motorized Holga. Works great for me, I like it and IMHO the key is all three of them. Cheers! C.
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Critique By:
charles zhao (K:988)
7/27/2004 8:12:01 AM
nice to know you here, i like your lomo-graphy very much!
cheers,
Charles
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Critique By:
Ian McIntosh (K:42997)
7/27/2004 6:57:14 AM
Forgot to say thanks for your time Aurore!
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Critique By:
Ian McIntosh (K:42997)
7/27/2004 6:54:23 AM
Sorry bout your recent loss.
About the metering. I had looked your camera up on a website that said the f1 didn't have it so according to that particular expert your f1 didn't exist either! Very special. Could raise eyebrows with the insurance company.
I imagine flashes in such situations would be pretty intusive hence my interest in the big apertures.
I'm intrigued about the issue of brightness since noticing hardly any digitals go below 2 at present.
Just noticed a very very cheap range finder with leica mounts it seems called a Voigtlander Bessa Telemetro selling for $185 (I assume american dollars) it comes with a 1.7 and there is a 1.2 available it seems though I haven't worked out if that's reduced by an adapter.
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Critique By:
Aurore Lynch (K:1687)
7/27/2004 6:31:13 AM
I used the built in meter on my F-1. This was over 2 years ago and I didn't have a handheld meter for another year. Then I used some cheap little analog I got on Ebay for under $50. It wasn't worth it... always unreliable. I recently bought a Sekonic L-328. Nice inexpensive ($133 on ebay) digital meter that can be equiped with an optional 5 degree spot attachment. If I had the money I'd buy a Sekonic L-508 or a Gossen Starlite.
I didn't use a flash here. I pushed some 400 film to 1600 and just metered normally, because there were a lot of neon lights in the background (which i edited out) and all-in-all the balance of darkness and excessive brightness seemed perfect for an accurate reading. I guess it's just a matter of trusting your instincts and crossing your fingers. In fact, I never used flash until very recently, when, again, I bought one on Ebay. Still learning flash photography.
Ironically, I took a trip to the post office today, and was inside for 20 minutes. When my son and I returned to the car, my Canon AE-1 w/ 50mm f/1.2 lens was gone from the backseat. Apparently my son had forgotten to lock the door and I hadn't checked it. We live in a fairly crime-free city, but there's just something about cameras. It's the second one that's been stolen from me. The first one was my very first 'real' camera, a Canon FTb with a 50mm f/1.2 lens. Yes, f/1.2. According to all sources, my lens never existed. It was not the 50mm f/1.2 L w/ the plastic collar that everyone insists it must have been. And it was probably worth a lot of money. So, anyhow, I need to purchase a new 50mm lens also.
If you are currently short on cash and dying to shoot, but a Holga or, better yet, a Diana. They're quirky little plastic cameras with minimal technicalities that are wonderfully liberating to shoot with. Diana offers a bulb setting and about 1/100, and f/4, f/8, f/11. It takes 16 4x4cm images on 120 film. Look it up on Google. Have fun!
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Critique By:
Aurore Lynch (K:1687)
7/27/2004 5:24:50 AM
The vignetting is more than usual? In my experience the vignetting varies depending on the light, the background, etc. I took some indoor shots with 2 500W tungsten lights on slide film against a white background and got almost no vignetting... But I didn't alter this in any way, if that's what you're asking. : )
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Critique By:
Ian McIntosh (K:42997)
7/27/2004 4:52:48 AM
Very nice. History shared and imagine a flash here. I've only ever used zooms of some kind with my s.l.r.s but having some gear stolen has forced a re-think and am really excited about using an early 70's 1:1.4 with an old screw mount. I suspect a vast majority of plebs like me have not had the chance to go below two.
You are a fair way away. Can I ask what sort of meter you use? I just over exposed a lot of shots in a possibly similar situation. I'm imagining something exists these days you can point fairlay sharply to select you subject out of the gloom.
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Critique By:
Ian McIntosh (K:42997)
7/27/2004 4:38:28 AM
Hooray for Holga.
A camera well used is the perfect camera.
The vignetteing is yours or some quaint flaw in this particular unit?
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Critique By:
sunrise (K:6651)
7/26/2004 5:36:09 PM
great!!!!
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Critique By:
m.c. lopez (K:14766)
7/26/2004 10:32:55 AM
amazing !
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Critique By:
m.c. lopez (K:14766)
7/26/2004 10:31:36 AM
great use of that silly camera !
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Critique By:
m.c. lopez (K:14766)
7/26/2004 10:31:00 AM
I remember this photo... I still love it !
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Critique By:
m.c. lopez (K:14766)
7/26/2004 10:29:55 AM
excellent
it appears that all the fabulous jazzmen have a son or a daughter trying to continue or challenge them !
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Critique By:
m.c. lopez (K:14766)
7/26/2004 10:27:54 AM
splendid mood here !
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