John Francis wrote:
> PAUL STENQUIST wrote:
> > Nice shots, John. I missed the earlier part of this thread. Are these
> > Delta 3200 or TMZ? In any case, I like them. Midtone gradation is very
> > nice for what is apparently fast film.
>
> Thanks - I thought nobody had noticed!
> That was Delta 3200, shot and processed at 3200.
> The lack of sharpness is probably because I was down at 1/60th (@f2.8),
> and even with a monopod that's pushing it a bit for a 300m focal length.
> (That explains the nonexistent depth of field, too).
>
> There's a little more grain than I was hoping for, but the density
> variation is excellent - the noise in the dark areas is mostly due
> to quantization caused by the scanner.
Thanks for showing your pictures John.
They are nice. It seems you have carefully selected the moments when to shoot.
Since you asked, and not very importantly: I found them more pleasing to my eye, when
1) I reduced contrast. The grainy-ness of the background wall is subdued, the faces
still wouldn't lose their expressions and the bearing atmosphere would still be
maintained.
2) cropped both of them close to the shoulders at the far left of both pictures. This,
in my opinion, would emphasize the interaction/relation between the performers.
(3) Depending on the purpose I would even have considered digitally erasing the woman
in the background of the second picture.)
4) resized the guitarplayer/singer picture to a smaller version where the out-of-focus
quality of the woman singer is less obvious.
(I do not mean to say that my suggestions really would make a change for the better,
maybe they would take away something important to somebody else's eye. Just reporting
on what I intuitively(?) went on to do with them.)
Were you stuck and forced to use that 300mm or did you simply choose not to disturb by
going closer to the stage?
Thanks,
Lasse
> > John Francis wrote:
> > > OK - here they are. These are 900x600
> > >
> > > http://reality.sgi.com/jfrancis/temp/Frame02.jpg
> > > http://reality.sgi.com/jfrancis/temp/Frame35.jpg
> > >
> > > Any comments (on grain, exposure, composition, etc.) welcome.
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