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Farmland out in Georgetown Tx. Thanks for looking.
http://www.williamscottgallery.com/artists/klemm/
It was getting pretty dark and I was leaning against a barbed wire fence, maybe about 10 feet from the road. Had the aperture opened up all the way but it was either 1/8 or 1/15. there was a slight wind enough to blow the grass around, which I think gives it a blurry effect on the grasses. It was more than 50 feet away and had the focus set at infinity.
I am going to be buying a tripod pretty soon, I am reading about them now and trying to decide on one that can do double duty for a medium format camera also. I actually did the color adjustments in PS elements to change some of the effects. The grass was darker before I adjusted the reds.
Carlos has been noticing my artifacts of over sharpening and so have I so I laid back on this one. For some reason I my monitor (Mac) it doesn't show up, but at work it shows up. hmm??
This is a place I am going back to because I like it so much, to get different lighting and sky shots. Hopefully I will come up with a version that you are more akin too. :-)
Hopefully I will be taking some classes soon on black and white in the darkroom so I think I will have a better understanding too.
ha, yes, i know...mine is huge. I have a tripod strap on the bottom of my camera bag(its a backpack sorta thing), i tried putting it on there, i nearly fell over backwards...(mind you im only 5'3"...) Its a small price to pay though for sharp pictures i guess.
And how do you walk gracefully with them. Just got one, and I felt more like a geek, went to where no one was to learn the art of the tripod, where's Yoda when you need him.
Congrats on wanting to get a tripod! I always went without a tripod, but now that i got one recently, oh man am i hooked!(bought a sturdy manfrotto with a head suitable for medium format, thank goodness because i just bought a medium format camera over the weekend :)
I dont use the tripod for everything of course, but tripods are MADE for shots like this! Also, if youre interested in starting more black and white work, invest in a red filter. The contrasts youll get will be incredible, especially with clouds, sky, etc. Even a cheaper coken kind will do.(or look on ebay, lots of cheap filters turn up there)
Hi Geoff, I finally found what I was after, this is the look I was going for but in black and white.
http://www.williamscottgallery.com/artists/klemm/
It was getting pretty dark and I was leaning against a barbed wire fence, maybe about 10 feet from the road. Had the aperture opened up all the way but it was either 1/8 or 1/15. there was a slight wind enough to blow the grass around, which I think gives it a blurry effect on the grasses. It was more than 50 feet away and had the focus set at infinity.
I am going to be buying a tripod pretty soon, I am reading about them now and trying to decide on one that can do double duty for a medium format camera also. I actually did the color adjustments in PS elements to change some of the effects. The grass was darker before I adjusted the reds.
Carlos has been noticing my artifacts of over sharpening and so have I so I laid back on this one. For some reason I my monitor (Mac) it doesn't show up, but at work it shows up. hmm??
This is a place I am going back to because I like it so much, to get different lighting and sky shots. Hopefully I will come up with a version that you are more akin too. :-)
Hopefully I will be taking some classes soon on black and white in the darkroom so I think I will have a better understanding too.
Geoff , I am actually looking up the right words to use to use to explain myself. This is my long week 12 hour shifts and I want to answer you properly.
Question: It says that you used Velvia slide film. So did you convert it to B/W on the computer? If so, how did you do that... because the contrast is really low (I don't really see any white). If my assumption is correct, you just made it into grayscale? One of the cool things about converting color to B/W is color channels. If you isolate one color channel, all of the tonal difference in the image is within one color (red green blue), and the contrast is typically higher. Or you could just play around with levels and see if you could whiten up the sky a bit.
Other than that, I like this image. The composition is nice with the big open sky, and the black bush weighs the image towards the corner and keeps the viewer grounded.
The composition and the isolation of the subject is very nice. Wondering how would this look in color. However the image seems a little fuzzy. IMO, Would have been great sharper and greater depth of field.
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