Flowers - Jean-Christian






Camera:   Contax G1
Lens:   Carl Zeiss Planar 45mm f/2
Film:   Velvia 50
Exposure:   1/180 f/8
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Filter:   no
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Posted:   24-May-2004

Rating: 8.00 (3 ratings)

Comments

cropping..

I find very nice your last three shots you published on the site, but why you posted it without crop it correctly? This one, for example, is rotated, spending just a while in photoshop you'd posted a correct image : ) See you at next one!!

Daniele Esposito     25-May-2004 at 03:07

It's a deliberate choice

Dear Daniele, My choice is NOT to crop and to show the slide as scanned, with the slide's borders. I like it that way. That is also to show that the image is not cropped afterwards, because to my mind the art of framing is very important. I understand your point of view, though.

Jean-Christian     25-May-2004 at 05:13

Cropping or scanning error?

I also like to avoid cropping when I can. However, it looks like this slide was not mounted squarely in the scanner when you made the scan and so displays a disturbingly black framing border that is not square to the image. Is this the effect you were trying to acheive?

Jonathan Goldsmith     25-May-2004 at 12:41

well, you are both right

about this scan : the border is not parallel. I'll repost it later. (for the 2 other images I think it is OK)

Jean-Christian     25-May-2004 at 15:16

I fully understand your point of view and I like it but I continue to find not useful the image twisted. Though, this is your point of view : )

Daniele Esposito     25-May-2004 at 15:43

???

I find the narrow DOF in this shot a bit perplexing. I mean, why did you shoot this image at 1/180sec at f/8, when clearly 1/90th sec at f/16 would have been much better, given the same amount of light reaching the film plane. For hand held shots I generally use the rule of 1 over the focal length of the lens for hand held shots, i.e. a 45mm lens would be 1/45 sec minimum shutter speed for hand held photography with this lens. Of course, I like to think I can get good results from much less. But?

Keefo     15-Jul-2005 at 12:18