Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Philippe, A nice set of images, especially the first one, but all the pictures look oversharpened. Cheers, Nathan Philippe Orlent wrote: > Catching up again. > > Weeks 18, 19, 19 alt and 20 were all shot with a Ricoh Gr1s on a similar > event at different location: the Springfests of my oldest daughter, and of > her 2 nephews, who were all born on about the same time and all are 8 years > old now. > It's not Leica, true, but I'm so very impressed with its 28mm lens that I > chose to present them to you anyway. And I also thought such occasions > needed colour (plain and simple Kodak Royal, developed and scanned at the > lab, no PS tweaking, just some slight cropping sometimes): > > Wk 18: > http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/PAW2005/slides/Wk18.html > Or > http://tinyurl.com/buby3 > > is our youngest daughter, Hannah, at her nephew Karsten's Springfest, > showing that she isn't impressed with her dad making a picture. Again. > > Wk 19: > http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/PAW2005/slides/Wk19.html > Or > http://tinyurl.com/d83bl > > Is a group portrait of Marthe (wondering about her presents) and the 2 > daughters of her godfather in our garden. > > Wk 20: > http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/PAW2005/slides/Wk19alt.html > Or > http://tinyurl.com/ajznz > > Is a shot of the aircastle we rented for that occasion. Marthe's godfather > and 2 nephews having some fun of different sorts. Not as much G's as in > Ted's ride, though :-) > > Wk 20 alt: > http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/PAW2005/slides/Wk20.html > Or > http://tinyurl.com/ckjar > > Is a portrait of my 2 brothers having a look at something under the table. > I think it was Sushi, our cat, of which I'll gladly post some shots later > on. > > Wk 21: > http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/PAW2005/slides/Wk21.html > Or > http://tinyurl.com/86mum > > Was shot with my Digilux 2 during a shoot for a client of ours. I shot it > in > RAW mode, as a test shot for Tina's under- and overexposure technique to > expand dynamical range. I didn't do it as she described, though, but bought > the Fred Miranda PlugIn that IMO deals with these kind of problems > perfectly. > The loneliness of the model whilst everybody was pausing somehow struck me. > It was a four hour afternoon shoot, on an asphalt roof in temperatures of > +30?C. Maybe this had something to do with her mental absence. > The camera in the image is a Mamiya RZ67 with a 180 macro on it and a > polaroid back for preshots. > Tomorrow I'll do the postprocessing of the images that were shot, and I'll > show them later on. The photographer shoots in neg, and told me he > preferred > Kodak Portra because it was sharper than the Fuji products. I don't know if > that is your experience, too, but I always had something against Kodak > (colorwise) so never really treid itn but I think I'll might have to > reconsider. > > I hope you enjoye it and I'm looking forward to your remarks or > suggestions. > > Thanks and happy snappin', > Philippe > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com Stock photography: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman http://myloupe.com/home/found_photographer.php?photographer=507 Prints for sale: http://www.photodeluge.com