Pherdinand
the snow must go on
Just like the title says.
Any portraits made specifically with wide angle to use distortion? (accidental WA portraits that turned out great due to distortion are also welcome
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Here's a starter(24mm lens on 135 film).
I know i've seen a few in the galleries here and there so cough them up!
Any portraits made specifically with wide angle to use distortion? (accidental WA portraits that turned out great due to distortion are also welcome
)Here's a starter(24mm lens on 135 film).
I know i've seen a few in the galleries here and there
so cough them up!
Got ya goin' didn't I! I have some; mostly from the SLR's and from a long time ago. I'll Scan and Post!
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nwcanonman
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Is 40mm considered WA? That's all my Canonet can do, and it's closest focus is like 3 feet.
Well, I'm having a hard time finding obvious distortion due to snapping at a 'too close" distance. It also takes a bit of unusual point of view like Csab's nice pic above to do it...
Here's one example. That's me in the dentist's chair, and I have the camera in my left hand snapping the action from maybe 2/3 meter away. Obviously "too close" for portraiture... and the lens is the fixed 45mm on a Fuji GA645W, about equivalent to 28mm on a little camera.:angel:
Here's one example. That's me in the dentist's chair, and I have the camera in my left hand snapping the action from maybe 2/3 meter away. Obviously "too close" for portraiture... and the lens is the fixed 45mm on a Fuji GA645W, about equivalent to 28mm on a little camera.:angel:
Pherdinand
the snow must go on
Woaa Doug, that's scaringly cool
I have a dentist friend, maybe i'll try something similar next time i "visit" him, thanks for the idea! However, i;m not sure i can do it myself while being in this position, it should need a high degree of braveness.
I have a dentist friend, maybe i'll try something similar next time i "visit" him, thanks for the idea! However, i;m not sure i can do it myself while being in this position, it should need a high degree of braveness.
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nwcanonman
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Pherdinand.
I couldn't resist the $3.00 Olympus Trip 300 on Ebay last week. It's got a fixed 34mm lens, so I'll see if it works for street portraits this weekend. It is a P&S, not an RF, but if I lose it - eh? Who cares.
I couldn't resist the $3.00 Olympus Trip 300 on Ebay last week. It's got a fixed 34mm lens, so I'll see if it works for street portraits this weekend. It is a P&S, not an RF, but if I lose it - eh? Who cares.
Continuing with the thread, I found another that does have some perspective distortion. Fuji GA645Wi again with 4/45mm.
Oops!
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Rich Silfver
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Pherdiand, I like that photo a lot - hope you don't mind my 5-minute-quick-play with it in PS.
Pherdinand
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I don't mind it at all, Rich - but now you'll have to explain me, what exactly you have done
It became very richsilfverbergishseriously! I think it's the tonality and the greenish tint is what i mean, but i'm not sure.
By the way, i played with the contrast a bit myself, but the grains started to act weird (expired delta3200), see her teeth on your version too... and i'm not a very patient guy, when it's about postprocessing But i do like what you've done.
Doug, that's very cool Did you lie on your belly or just approximated the framing?
It became very richsilfverbergish
seriously! I think it's the tonality and the greenish tint is what i mean, but i'm not sure.By the way, i played with the contrast a bit myself, but the grains started to act weird (expired delta3200), see her teeth on your version too... and i'm not a very patient guy, when it's about postprocessing
But i do like what you've done.Doug, that's very cool
Did you lie on your belly or just approximated the framing?
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michael
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I don't know if this counts, but for once I had one more or less ready.
Thanks, Pherdinand! I just held the camera down low and didn't use the viewfinder.
I like Rich's editing of your photo... I had also edited it myself just to see what improvement might come from a simple tweak on the histogram in the Levels control. I think Rich did basically that too, but either did more than that too or was just more careful than I!
I like Rich's editing of your photo... I had also edited it myself just to see what improvement might come from a simple tweak on the histogram in the Levels control. I think Rich did basically that too, but either did more than that too or was just more careful than I!
chenick
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Pherdinand said:I don't mind it at all, Rich - but now you'll have to explain me, what exactly you have done
It became very richsilfverbergish
Yeah, what did you do Rich?
I tried curves, levels etc, but came nowhere near... each attempt killed the tonality!
-Nick
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Rich Silfver
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I can't remember reallly....
To me contrast and brightness settings are not always as 'scientific' as keeping on eye on your levels to see if you lose your shadow details - it's more of 'what looks good'.
I remember I did this;
- 1) Adjuststed the levels so that the triangles touched the beginning and end of end side of the levels
- 2) Unsharpening at 0.8, 130, 4
- 3) Converted to grayscale
- 4) Applied a standard photoshop dunotone (in the quad category)
- 5) Converted to RGB
- 6) Played with curves so that I got a faint "S" curve
- 7) Final tweaks in brightness/contrast
- 8) Zoomed up a bit and did some dodging on eye-whites and teeths.
And that's about it - the next time I'll document the steps more detailed if anyone cares
To me contrast and brightness settings are not always as 'scientific' as keeping on eye on your levels to see if you lose your shadow details - it's more of 'what looks good'.
I remember I did this;
- 1) Adjuststed the levels so that the triangles touched the beginning and end of end side of the levels
- 2) Unsharpening at 0.8, 130, 4
- 3) Converted to grayscale
- 4) Applied a standard photoshop dunotone (in the quad category)
- 5) Converted to RGB
- 6) Played with curves so that I got a faint "S" curve
- 7) Final tweaks in brightness/contrast
- 8) Zoomed up a bit and did some dodging on eye-whites and teeths.
And that's about it - the next time I'll document the steps more detailed if anyone cares
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Pherdinand
the snow must go on
yeah, rich, you just don't want to tell us the details of your secrets
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