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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 6/15/2008
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I like the B&W very much too, Stan. It matches the "air" much better. I wish I had a real B&W film loaded, since the conversion to B&W is not really the same. It lacks that special kind of grain that a B&W film has.
Thank you very much for the info about your T90 set. Pretty much like the lenses set with which I started using the T90 and still use very often. Except of that 100mm 1:4 macro was stolen from me (sniff!!) and I didn't find any place to buy it again since then. Have much fun discovering the T90!
Cheers!
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 6/14/2008
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Yes, I have the same impression too though the sky added some more "space" in which the platform exists, Andre. But it is quite tiny as "space" and so in this case we can get rid of it. I cropped it off and turned it to B&W as Stan suggested and it really got much more definite!
Thanks a lot again!
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 6/14/2008
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Many thanks for the nice comment, Claudia!
Nick
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Stan Hill
{K:35352} 6/14/2008
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Nick, I did like the B/W conversion. What did you think? I am just wanting honesty and not ratings game to get in the way. All eyes are different. As far as the T90 I got, it has the 28mm 1:2.8, 50mm 1:1.8, 100mm macro 1:4 and the 70-210 1:4 Tele. I am currently using it for some black and white work. Thanks for your efforts and comments. Be well,Stan
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 6/14/2008
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You never "blabber" Visar! You expose thoughts of which I myself have ti think carefully about!
On this one I already cropped the sky off and turned it to B&W as Stan said, which brought a rather "tightened", or "cleaned up" image for my eyes. (Attachment in my reply to Stan.) The tripod would surely empower it further in the sense of a more detailed presentation, which I am inclided to anyway. So the problem gets more complex than I was thinking of when I was trying that. One component is the tightness of composition and the other is the clarity of detail. Perhaps a combination of both could be the best solution?
Another good question is that of the toning. Strange to see.. The B&W matches the mood as well but in some different way than the color image. The B&W surely simplifies things, and so I just have to like it ;-) At the same time those colors do underline the general mood too. So... the choise is hard here!
A good example of indecision! ;-)
Cheers!
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 6/14/2008
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And where's the attachment? Errrmm... here it is. :-D
Nick
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Cropped off sky and turned it to B&W after Stan's ideas |
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 6/14/2008
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Thanks a lot for the nice detaield comment and the ideas, Stan! So let's see what this looks like with a tighter crop (sky off) and as B&W. (Attachment) I think too that you are completely right! Converting it to greyscale is of course not the same as real B&W film, but we get the idea.
Have all the fun of the world with your new T90 and the set of lenses. (BTW, may I ask you what lenses they are?) Indeed, this camera is perhaos the most underhyped one of Canon. Andreas Gursky himself is said to have given the statement: "Expect their prices to explode in the near future, and that because of their absolutely compromise-free quality, sincereness, and reliability." Did you know that the nickname of the T90 is: "The tank"? ;-)
Some time ago I was on the mountains for a photo-session, I lost my balance, fell down, my T90 flew some meters away and rolled over the rocks and came to a stop in a cavity fullof water between two rocks. I thought, that was it! I picked it up and was completely stunned to see that it only had a small scratch on the back and no other damage. It didn't even open - the back was still holding absolutely firmly. I gave it to the local optics shop for a general measurement, i order to know exactly if anything bad had happened. But no! Exactly as perfect as ever! Well, I feel quite comfortable with my tank. ;-) I am too addicted perhaps, but here I have a good camera that tells me the truth, directly and sincerely, about what it sees, without "breautifying" anything, and being able to withstand all those hardest conditions under which we have to work. Love it? No! Much much more than that!
Another hint: Use it!!! Use it heavily! The more you use it the better! This camear is no "aristocrat" expecting to work only in "special cases". Actually, the only danger for the T90 is to not use it for a long time. The shutter curtain gets its problems then, because it gets "sticky" and responds very slowly. But if you use it regularly it remains as young and fresh as when it was designed and produced in such a dedication. This is powerhorse, not a diva! It's a girl with which you can go for beer *anytime*!!!
Sigh... I see now, I must be a very hot lover of that beauty in a black metal casing! So I stop singing hymnes to her now! Or else she will ask me if I took her for a diva! ;-)
Cheers!
Nick
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 6/10/2008
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Hi Nick,
I think I would probably have cropped away the bright sky in this case. It really doesn't add anything of significance to the image, and is probably a bit distracting.
Andre
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Claudia Perilli
{K:31090} 6/9/2008
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A beautiful capture, nice composition, nice perspective.
Claudia
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absynthius .
{K:20748} 6/9/2008
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No! :)
these last two shots Nick, especially the composition of them- and i am not harking here about the light and other elements, which i find them really great - are fantastic.
Here, removing the sky part i think the shot itself will lose much of the integrety- it will lose a very important reference that is making this composition very interesting. Though, i would suggest a tripod here and shooting from the very same spot with three different exposures/ in bracketing; but, still, i can only blabber about that cause i do not think that having details from the sky would play any major role.
I want to also say that the tones here are very 'compatible' with the mood of the picture-
cheers,
v.
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Stan Hill
{K:35352} 6/8/2008
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Nick, I think a tighter crop would be nice. Must be a grey sky because of the color being muted in the picture. Almost a B/W candidate. Looks lonely there. I just got a T90 a few weeks ago with four lenses and a flash. Great camera, and good exercise tool. Who needs weights. Be well,Stan:)
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