Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Welcome Paul. I recently attended a seminar by George Lepp, he also talked about this dual focus technique. Gene ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2011 4:18:52 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: Re: [Leica] Hello Welcome to the LUG Paul I'm particularly interested in this new focus stacking thing you've got going here - now I predict it will became a very popular thing with even causal shooters read: Kids as they were the ones doing all the stitching or merging every day during recess years before the photo world really got going with it. And now I am. But now its front to back instead of old fashioned side to side. I've been wondering about this and now I'm glad I'm seeing it as I've been wanting to figure it out. Also perfect timing as I was out shooting at f22 the night before last the first I'd used that f stop in a decade! f16 is also fun! Amazing you actually get stuff in focus! I'll get accused of being diffraction limited, but have been hearing that all my life. Even in the old fashioned side to side stitching realm which I've been having loads of fun with for just over a year now what I find intriguing is when I shift from left to right I can also refocus! So even wide open I'm getting very sharp information as I pan. Part of this is because I'm very fond also of having the various frames in a stitch stand out. I uncheck "blend" most of the time going for a bit of a collage look. I'm very fond of when things don't match up. Futurism. Only last week I got disembodied heads as I panned down from the closing of H&H as people walked past quickly down the sidewalk. I've been wanting to get that for a long time! But I'll upload it as photography is primarily a visual medium not one so much rhetoric and or figures of speech. So here's my stuff on the LUG gallery. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ By the way all my pix on the lug gallery have been uploaded using carbon pixels. This done by soaking my SanDisk overnight in crushed Tarryton cigarette filters in a shotglass of water. I'm more into black and white than most people you'll meet in this neighborhood. But there are more. I've printed portfolios with quad tone MIS inks but am now back to using plain vanilla Epson pigment inks and I love the build in black and white interface. Some day carbon. By the way I'm fond of how you are doing this merging or stacking with the built in Photoshop image blending and not some here today gone tomorrow third party stuff. I'm sure Photoshop in the next tweak will improve the image blending algorithms and or interface. Just as they have from version to version with the stitching. And we'll be having even more fun. I love anything on my computer which takes more than three seconds to do after I hit the enter key. That impresses me. Mark William Rabiner > From: Paul Roark <roark.paul at gmail.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 12:17:14 -0700 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: [Leica] Hello > > Hello LUG, > > I just joined this group and thought I ought to introduce myself. I > see a few familiar names -- like Bob and Tina. > > I'm a B&W landscape printer and now M9 shooter. As Tina has noted, > when I started the Golden Trout Photol Workshop > (http://goldentroutworkshops.org/ and > http://www.paulroark.com/GTthumbnails.html) she was the only Leica > shooter. Now it seems we're becoming an unofficial Leica users > workshop -- which is fine with me. > > My serious B&W started with medium format film (Rollei SL66 & TLR, > various Fuji's, and most recently the Bronica RF 645 with Technical > Pan film). As a backpacker, light weight became more important as the > years rolled on. But, being able to make sharp 22x28 inch prints is > also a top priority. I'm happy to report that the M9 does an > excellent job of delivering that performance with the least weight > (well, at least with my usually slower lenses). > > My usual forum has been the Yahoo B&W Print forum -- > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint/messages > -- but they get a bit testy with OT messages, and the B&W printing > field is becoming more mature. The OEMs have taken the bulk of it, > and 100% carbon inks have secured the top end for those who value the > most stable/lightfast images. So, volume on the B&W Print forum is > way down. > > For me, the digital workflows, particularly those that affect the M9, > are becoming much more interesting, and where I see most of the action > being for now. For example, I find myself increasingly using a > dual-focus shooting procedure. See > http://www.paulroark.com/BW-Info/Dual-Focus-Focus-Stacking.pdf > > I tend to post information relating to my various photo projects on > http://www.paulroark.com/BW-Info/ . These are often notes to myself > as well as things that I think might be of interest to others. My > latest inkset post, about setting up the Epson WorkForce 30 with a > custom B&W inkset based on the Noritsu-Epson (Claria) "dry lab" inks > -- http://www.paulroark.com/BW-Info/WF30-BW-Dye.pdf -- is actually for > my daughter who'll be using that combo at school. The WorkForce > printers are very fast, and the dyes are clog free (and make great > high gloss cards and brochures). > > Enough about me. I look forward to seeing your posts and pictures -- > which so far have been impressive. > > > Paul > www.PaulRoark.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information