M8 Renaissaince Faire photos from today

[SteveRD1]

Went to the Renaissaince fair today in Phx (90 degrees and sunny) and ate way too much junk and drank one too many beers. Had the M8 and 35 cron with me and took these shots.

 

[SteveRD1]

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[tedwhite]

JPEG image 90 is excellent. Beer helps in photography, but I didn't know they sold drinkable beer in Phoenix.

Ted (former owner of Electric Brewing, Bisbee - Arizona's oldest microbrewery).

 

[haagen_dazs]

steve
i like your avatar !

 

[dave lackey]

Steve,
Great photos...even if a few of the characters looks a bit weird! LOL...😉

What film did you use?


😀

Seriously, did not know the Renaissance thang was outside of our area, too! Must have been fun...

 

[SteveRD1]

Thanks!

Thanks!

As to what film I used, it is a new film called M8! The M8 B&W does look like film. I shot these RAW and processed them to JPEG with C1, then converted to B&W in PS.

Thanks for the comments!

 

[SteveRD1]

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Here are two more I liked.

 

[rsl]

Went to the Renaissaince fair today in Phx (90 degrees and sunny) and ate way too much junk and drank one too many beers. Had the M8 and 35 cron with me and took these shots.

Steve, I don't like to rain on your parade but it looks as if you're having a pretty serious problem with blown-out highlights, though it may just be the way the images come across on the monitor. I should add that I keep my monitor calibrated with Spyder Pro 2.2.

 

[KM-25]

Steve, I don't like to rain on your parade but it looks as if you're having a pretty serious problem with blown-out highlights, though it may just be the way the images come across on the monitor. I should add that I keep my monitor calibrated with Spyder Pro 2.2.

I think those highlights are out of range for any medium, not just the M8. A better choice of background is how to control those kinds of blown highlights.

 

[SteveRD1]

HIghlights

HIghlights

I see what you mean. On my display at home (macboko pro and 30" cinema display) they look fine. On my office display (an older NEC LCD) they seem blown out. Not sure why this is. It was a full on sunny day, shot between 12-2pm as well so it was NOT easy at all to expose for the subject without getting the BG a bit hot. This is full AZ sun, VERY VERY harsh.

In any case, I did process them with high contrast and should of backed off a bit anyway. But, in each shot, my subject (faces) is what I wanted properly exposed, not the backgrounds. I have the RAW's so Im sure i can re-process with less contrast and they would be fine, except for 1-2 which is not even possible with digital or film.

Thanks
S

 

[SteveRD1]

Also

Also

on my macbook 15" display they are not blown out either, and they look much better tonality wise as well. Not sure why this is.

 

[rsl]

I think those highlights are out of range for any medium, not just the M8. A better choice of background is how to control those kinds of blown highlights.

I'm not talking about the backgrounds. There's nothing you can do about the backgrounds in that kind of lighting except use fill flash, which I normally refuse to do. The clothing in the first image is blown out. Faces in the second shot are blown out. The third shot is okay. In the second batch, the first shot is fine. In the second shot, the guy's beard should have more detail than I can see on my monitor.

Since these aren't shots for sale or publication, I'm nitpicking. Doesn't really matter. Have fun with the camera.

 

[ywenz]

We should ask Steve whether he applied any highlight recovery to these images in the raw processor.

 

[boilerdoc2]

Steve, you need to change your name to "SteveRD1M8"!
Gorgeous shots. Blown hilites or not!
Steve