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50mm f/1.8
Posted by gls on 18 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: Photography
I took an old Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 manual focus lens and put it on our digital camera. That’s one reason to go with Nikon: they’ve never changed their lens mount.
Surprise
Posted by gls on 22 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: LMS, Photography
Photoshopped
Posted by gls on 07 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: Photography
French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson (Wikipedia) was a purist. He claimed that he didn’t even crop any of his photos, let alone indulge in the darkroom magic of dodging and burning. Had airbrushing been available to HCB, I very much doubt he would have done much more than laugh at it.
In this digital age, it’s difficult to be such a purist. Yet there must be some limits, some standard.
How much digital manipulation can you do before it’s no longer a “true” image?
Wandering around Flickr, I’ve noticed a preponderance of heavily manipulated images — Photoshopped to an inch of the digital existence. The results are striking, but somehow false. I get the feeling that I’m looking at an advertisement of some sort.
Examples include:
I’m not discounting the quality of the composition, nor the impact of image, but it just seems to be a little too much.
When I do digital manipulation (and I rarely use Photoshop for that anymore), my goal is simply to make the image look as it did when I took the picture.
Self-talk
Posted by gls on 11 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: Photography
We got a new camera recently. It has a bulb exposure setting. This means that as long as you press the shutter release button, the shutter remains open. With a remote, it’s a little different: press the shutter release button once and the shutter opens; press it again, and it closes.
And with an off-camera flash, you can do really silly things…
Morning Walk II
Posted by gls on 01 Oct 2006 | Tagged as: Diary, Photography
We tried again this morning.
The light was not as great as it certainly will be tomorrow morning, driving to work. But still, better than yesterday.
