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Another one from the Blind Wino 618 camera, this time more of a straight scan for a true cross-processed look.
Ektachrome 100 film.
I thought it would be interesting to post a before and after on a digital frame after all the recent film colour which needs seconds to minor crop sometimes and then post, Canadian Film Lab do the heavy lifting but sometimes as here a film frame wouldn't have the look I was after. the sun was low and soft but the blue sky wasn't giving the Spring look I saw so off to CaptureOne.
The out of camera is just that, with some default sharpening in CaptureOne V10 that really doesn't affect the comparison and it can be turned off. It has a flat, called linear, profile, applied so no curve at all. The processed had adjustments to:
White Balance - to taste not accuracy
Crop - obvious on the OOC, I was view point restricted.
Colour Editor tool- to bring out the pink
Layers - just one to take down the upper branch exposure a touch as the colour had brought it up being similar to the selected pink hue. A bit heavy handed there, I need more practice and the mouse is not optimal for mask drawing.
RGB and Luma curves applied selectively
Levels just brought in a touch at extremes
Film Grain - Silver Rich
Clarity and Structure - just a touch
Sharpening on my default
How long on the job, I think about 5 mins in total, I'm getting better with the on-line tutorials but the new dedicated shortcut keyboard is attractive as is a Wacom tablet.
Taken on the Square Phase One P20 back Hasselblad V 500cm with the 100mm f3.5 CF Planar Hand held on the evening dog walk
Zeiss Otus 1.4/85mm Planar APO
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The nearly 9000 acres of soybeans and rice will begin harvesting soon in rural Arkansas.
Starbucks frappuccinos cheer me up every time I'm upset. Lol!
Took during one boring evening in Boracay.
Would you believe it? We found Starbucks in Bora! Heehee.
All the walking was worth it. :)
The more I tweak this project, the more I love it. Through controlled accidents, I got it to look rather Nebular. I will continue tinkering and if all goes well, soon I will have an audio-responsive universe!
Read about it here. There is a short video too!
Here was my process for the Ty Nant water shot:
1. One strobe above and in front of the bottle, bounced off my umbrella. This looks terrible! The blue is hardly noticeable, the reflection totally knocks out the label, and the label on the back of the bottle (marked with the *) makes a horrible white mark.
2. One light on the right of the bottle, bounced off the umbrella. I also cut out a piece of paper the shape of the bottle to put behind it. This bounces light through the glass, showing the blue. Unfortunately, you can see all the details of the umbrella in the reflection, and that label on the back is still there. also, the flash from my camera that I use to trigger the strobe makes an annoying reflection (marked with the *). I soak off the label, and cover my flash with a piece of cloth. That way it is still bright enough to trigger the strobe, but doesn't show up on the bottle.
3. Light below and behind the bottle, bounced off the black (!) backdrop. I removed the white paper behind the bottle for this, since it was unnecessary. I used a long exposure so that the lights from the windows on the sides and in front of the bottle would light up the label. Unfortunately, this makes for ugly reflections on the sides of the bottle.
4. One light behind and below bottle, bounced off backdrop. This is beautiful -- I love black-line glass photography, and the blue is gorgeous. Unfortunately for a product shot, the label is way too dark. And I don't have another light to snoot on it from the front. Have to go a different direction.
5. Light on the right side again, this time shone directly through a large plastic tub. That disperses the light enough that it makes a nice clean long white highlight. The paper is behind the bottle again, and I dropped the coins behind the bottle. But the paper behind the bottle is wrinkled, and that shows (marked with the *) and it tapers at the top of the neck where the water stops, which you can see. I cut a new piece of paper.
A sample image generated by Hull Developer.
Original image is www.flickr.com/photos/aaronpriestphoto/8713497571 .
I find drawing posed pictures straight onto the computer pretty horrible. There are too many choices, and the slick feel of the tablet leads to hasty, speculative strokes that go nowhere. I prefer to render a sketch in ballpoint pen then work it up.
The original picture was taken by Hand made 6x9 camera with Schneider
Super-Angulon 47mm f56 MC, KODAK T-Max400 (400TMY-2)
A contact print with A4 size digital negative and hand coated Kallitype paper.
2.5 minutes exposed under the winter Sun.
Usually I don't show my process steps.. I don't know what came up to me to do so...
FYI, it takes much of my time to find the correct theme of a picture.. This one spacifically took 3 days to finish!
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