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A walk through a park with MIR-1B and Tamron SP 70-210...
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 7:25 pm    Post subject: A walk through a park with MIR-1B and Tamron SP 70-210... Reply with quote
We have a nice park close by. And today we found some time to "promenade" a little.
Of course, I brought my cam. As my lenses for today I chose the MIR-1B and the Tamron SP 70-210 (Remember? The "broken" one?).

Here are some shots. (PP with PS CS)

(MIR)


(Tamron)










I just wanted to "test" and "play around" with the lenses a little, but I really started to like the lenses (OK, the MIR I already knew...)

Guess these photos might be a bit boring but are worth sharing.

Carsten

P.S.: The pictures with people follow. And I need to have my FED-3 film roll developed.


PostPosted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 7:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
And here are two of the shots in colour:





I can't make up my mind which version I like more.

Carsten


PostPosted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 7:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I like colours and I like your captures in colours much more than B&W. You have a nice park really and you made great captures.


PostPosted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 8:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Really like the results.
What the conversion steps/methods you used (to monochrome)... some PS plugin... The contrast really popping out...
Great ones...


PostPosted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 8:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yes, very nice results. I couldn't decide if I like bw- or color-versions more. The atmosphere is totally different.

Michael


PostPosted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 11:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
LucisPictor wrote:
I can't make up my mind which version I like more.


Nice pictures Carsten. Colour is a very subjective thing, I like the stone urn better in B&W (taken with the Mir-1B I'm guessing) but I like the house in colour, which I think I recognise is with the Tamron. I'm growing to like the way the Tamron lenses give a slightly cooler cast.


PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 7:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Carsten, all are great shots, but I prefer the house in color, too. The
house, could you tell me what period of architecture this is from? Some
interesting detail at the tippy-top of the roof...wouldn't be a "widow's
walk" since the town you live in isn't a seaport.

Very nice series, Carsten, thanks for sharing! Smile
Bill


PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 10:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ballu wrote:
What the conversion steps/methods you used (to monochrome)... some PS plugin... The contrast really popping out...
Great ones...


Thanks.
I used different ways to convert to b/w, depending on the sujet.

These are the levers I play with:

For...
...tonal range: Image - Adjustments - Levels
...contrast: Image - Adjustments - Curves
...general b/w conversions: Image - Adjustments - Channel Mixer
...toning: blending coloured layers or Duotone/Tritone and curves for each colour
...sharpening: USM or Smart Sharpen
...framing: Helicon Filters

and some alternating others.

Carsten

EDIT. correction!

Last edited by LucisPictor on Tue Apr 10, 2007 2:32 pm; edited 1 time in total


PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 10:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
katastrofo wrote:
...The
house, could you tell me what period of architecture this is from? Some
interesting detail at the tippy-top of the roof...wouldn't be a "widow's
walk" since the town you live in isn't a seaport...


Hi, Bill!

Have a look here: http://www.uni-giessen.de/uni/einrichtungen/Rauischholzhausen/about.html

Here are two more shots with details of the castle building:





Carsten


PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 10:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
[quote="peterqd"]
LucisPictor wrote:
... like the stone urn better in B&W (taken with the Mir-1B I'm guessing) ...


Hi, Peter!

No, I'm afraid only the first photo was taken with the MIR-1B, all the others were taken with the Tamron lens.

Carsten


PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 11:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Carsten,
my vote goes to the color versions. There is nothing wrong with your BW conversions, rather, it's me who often feels unhappy with the digital BW. I seldom use it, I only do when for some reason I am unhappy with the colors - never as a first choice.
Fact is, that certain "dontknowwhatness" of the film makes it for the BW for me. On digital, when I think about a possible BW from an image I often find myself wishing the image was less detailed everywhere and more organic and "whole".

EDIT to add: having that said, I would like to see the very last picture (that roof detail) in BW. I think it would be the best candidate.


PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 1:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hi, Orio!

This one is for you, my friend:


Carsten


PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 2:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Here are the "people pics"!

I like to work with the Helion Filters (as far as I remember a Ukrainian software).

These b/w conversions are also film simulations.


(Ilford HP 5+)


(Kodak T400CN)


(Ilford Delta 100)


(Kodak Tri X400)


You lose some details and some tones but this tool simulates the characteristics of the films well.

Carsten


PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 2:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Carsten, is that "Helios" or "Helion" plugin? I can not find reference of either on the web.
Is it a framing plugin, or a B&W conversion plugin?


PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 2:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ooops, sorry, typo!

It is called "Helicon Filter".

See here: http://www.helicon.com.ua/pages/

Originally, it's a plug-in collection (denoiser etc.), but meanwhile you can do almost a complete post production with it. Very powerful!

And the licensing is really fair, you can install it on 4 computers.

This collections was made by photographers for photographers - and this you easily realise.

Carsten


PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 2:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ah, ok ! Of the same software house, I was aware of the other plugin, the one for macrophotography.

If you were an Asimov reader, you would have never done the typo: Helicon is the native planet of Hari Seldon (Foundation series) Wink


PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 5:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Orio wrote:
If you were an Asimov reader, you would have never done the typo: Helicon is the native planet of Hari Seldon (Foundation series) Wink


Very Happy I just read one book by him, but this was a science book not a novel. Wink

I mean, no wonder I typed "Helios" with all that enthusiasm about Russian lenses... Wink


PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 5:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
LucisPictor wrote:

Very Happy I just read one book by him, but this was a science book not a novel. Wink


You are missing some great reading fun!
Besides, I like the BW version of the roof.
As for the Helios typo, in fact I thought about the possibility earlier Wink


PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 9:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Carsten,
Thanks for the roof detail pics and the link! Really like the Fed 3 pics, too,
did you do your own scanning?

Edit: so the people pics were taken with your Canon digital?

Bill


PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 9:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Oh, sorry, Bill!

Those are not the FED-3 pics. I still need to take the film roll to the lab.

The "people shots" were also done with the Tamron and a software film simulation.

Carsten
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