Monday, December 17, 2007
Tall Load
Comments:
Ha! This is funny. It has a very dry humor about it.
I am guessing you were challanged by the contrast range, as this poor headless guy is in the shadows with the far building in the sun light. I am enjoying this mini passion play.
My thought was: Pizza delivery!
(Out of interest, my camera dealer says that he is still selling every Rollei TLR he can get - like double figures per week. Meanwhile Rollei 6000 SLRs gather dust)
Interesting question by Matt (not sure how rhetorical it is!): I'm pretty sure that it would work if only because there is so much detail that one feels as if one is right there on that newly-laundered tarmac being exhorted by a sign on a telegraph pole. But without the head there is an additional mildly surrealistic element: this man stuck on the street waiting for someone to rescue him.
You have the same tilt/counterbalance element as my "mummy ...look" shot: a general lean to the right held by the stack on the motorbike...just!
"tilt/counterbalance"
Part of the interest here is the question: is the man holding up the bike, or is the bike holding up the man? The tilt of the utility polls suggest that the world might have gone slightly askew.
My reaction was "what WAS he thinking?" Being headless might explain a lot.
Another clever image for the book. Very enjoyable.
Though slightly exaggerated, those utility poles are nowhere near straight. He had a head and he could ride this motorcycle with those boxes on the back, I did take a second shot but my candid skills with the Rolleicord still need much more work. A lot of that second shot was not in focus...
Stephane: This was scanned with Vuescan (not the Epson software as usual). Need to do much more post processing to keep you (and me) happy with the contrast!
Thanks for all the comments.
I do find this very humorous and I wonder how long he has been standing there attempting to achieve balance?
That pole on the left-hand side seems to be very necessary in the composition.
(I use the blogger box as a moveable temporary mask)
Guy,
VueScan is definitely not about delivering finished images. It is about giving you an electronic version of your negative. With that electronic version you can do anything one would do in a darkroom. The point being, in my opinion, you also *need* to do it :-)
There is not that much to do to this one, though.
Maybe try a PhotoShop curve with those 3 points:
Input 27, Output 8
Input 134, Output 150
Input 187, Outout 197
I think what we call post-processing is not post anything. It is integral to the making of the picture.
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I am guessing you were challanged by the contrast range, as this poor headless guy is in the shadows with the far building in the sun light. I am enjoying this mini passion play.
(Out of interest, my camera dealer says that he is still selling every Rollei TLR he can get - like double figures per week. Meanwhile Rollei 6000 SLRs gather dust)
You have the same tilt/counterbalance element as my "mummy ...look" shot: a general lean to the right held by the stack on the motorbike...just!
Part of the interest here is the question: is the man holding up the bike, or is the bike holding up the man? The tilt of the utility polls suggest that the world might have gone slightly askew.
Another clever image for the book. Very enjoyable.
Stephane: This was scanned with Vuescan (not the Epson software as usual). Need to do much more post processing to keep you (and me) happy with the contrast!
Thanks for all the comments.
That pole on the left-hand side seems to be very necessary in the composition.
(I use the blogger box as a moveable temporary mask)
VueScan is definitely not about delivering finished images. It is about giving you an electronic version of your negative. With that electronic version you can do anything one would do in a darkroom. The point being, in my opinion, you also *need* to do it :-)
There is not that much to do to this one, though.
Maybe try a PhotoShop curve with those 3 points:
Input 27, Output 8
Input 134, Output 150
Input 187, Outout 197
I think what we call post-processing is not post anything. It is integral to the making of the picture.