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A Kodak moment in Gion
A black & white rendition of a night shot in Gion, Kyoto.
The gentle light peeking through the Noren curtain on the extreme right of the frame. More soft light filters through the wooden lattices showing off the lattice patterns.
I like it that the black is really black like Japanese Sumi ink with proper details instead of having shadows crushed into a featureless blob. The dark vs lighter areas are also clearly distinct.
Tilt-shift (T-S) lenses can be said to be facing their Kodak moment as well, negatively. They were useful back in the analog days and earlier digital era when sensor resolution was still low.
In today’s world of high resolution sensors and more sophisticated software, how many photographers still need expensive T-S lenses?
“Keystone correction + shift” software have become much more sophisticated these days besides. While keystone adjustments in the past might reduce sharpness in the image areas that are stretched, the interpolation and sharpening algorithms of some of these software today have become so good that this is hardly noticeable.
This image underwent keystone and shift adjustments in post-processing, no camera/lens was hurt in the process 😇!
A Kodak moment in Gion
A black & white rendition of a night shot in Gion, Kyoto.
The gentle light peeking through the Noren curtain on the extreme right of the frame. More soft light filters through the wooden lattices showing off the lattice patterns.
I like it that the black is really black like Japanese Sumi ink with proper details instead of having shadows crushed into a featureless blob. The dark vs lighter areas are also clearly distinct.
Tilt-shift (T-S) lenses can be said to be facing their Kodak moment as well, negatively. They were useful back in the analog days and earlier digital era when sensor resolution was still low.
In today’s world of high resolution sensors and more sophisticated software, how many photographers still need expensive T-S lenses?
“Keystone correction + shift” software have become much more sophisticated these days besides. While keystone adjustments in the past might reduce sharpness in the image areas that are stretched, the interpolation and sharpening algorithms of some of these software today have become so good that this is hardly noticeable.
This image underwent keystone and shift adjustments in post-processing, no camera/lens was hurt in the process 😇!