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November 7, 2011 Leave a comment
Snapped this one last month when out and about adding new shots and compositions to the main gallery. This location is in the Watsons Bay area of the Eastern Beaches of Sydney.
Shot on the Fuji GX617 | Veliva 50 slide.
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November 22, 2010 3 Comments
A few posts ago I showed you all a shot from this location on sunrise shot as a panoramic stitch shot on the 5D MkII. I even did a video tutorial for Rubbing Pixels on the post production involved to get the shot to it print ready status. Well this shot is the film version from the Fuji GX617 on Velvia 50.
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October 28, 2010
When you don’t have the ability to look through the lens on rangefinder cameras such as a Fuji or Linhof 617 panoramic, your knowledge of how graduated filters need to be aligned can be critical to getting that correct exposure.
In this tutorials we cover the correct setting up of your Lee Filter kit and then the thoughts behind the alignment and set up of the graduated filters to give you the best result each time without the use of a ground glass.
The camera we use in this tutorial is the Fuji GX617 but the same principle can be used on any panoramic or rangefinder camera system.
This tutorials is for Members Only and can be found in the “Film Lovers” section of the site. Click here to be taken to the tutorial.
September 2, 2010 11 Comments
There has been some nice sunrises getting around of late and this is one from last week. The light was so amazing you just didnt know what direction to point your camera. I think I made the right choice.
Fuji GX617 | Velvia 50.
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August 18, 2010 7 Comments
Last nights sunset was a ripper but I wasnt able to shoot it, so I made sure I wouldn’t miss this morning. Woke up and you could see the sky full of high cloud… as soon as you see that you know your on for sure.
Met up with a good friend and we headed down to MacMasters Beach. Gorgeous blood red sunrise that moved into great gold tones with blue sky. When the sky went red I went nuts running around shooting with digital, my GX617, Fotoman 624 and also the Hasselblad 6×6. Four cameras and only two tripods, with the light changing so quickly can get stress full changing camera mounting plates. Why so many film cameras… well they all give you different views. The Fuji G617 stayed home and had a sleep in.
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July 15, 2010 Leave a comment
Another shot from the batch of processing this one was taken on my Sydney City Day Course this month. Taken a bit earlier than the digital shot I posted a week ago. The sun was diffused nicely by some high cloud and it was low enough to give great saturated colour, that on top of the Velvia 50 film worked a treat.
Shot on the Fuji GX617 | Velvia 50 slide film
July 14, 2010 10 Comments
After shooting so much digital it was great to finally put in a swag of film and get it back. Especially with some of the great light we have had around of late. This one was taken on the sunset shoot of my magic hour course. There was a yacht in the background that worried me in regards to my exposure time as it was rocking badly and I didn’t want too much blur and I had my shutter speed as fast as I could get it without sacrificing DOF. I think I just got away with it on this shot… I shot a great sunset a few months back and the moving boats totally destroyed the image from being used for anything.
This shot is taken on the Fuji GX617 | Velvia 50 | imacon drum scanned with a minor contrast curve only in Photoshop that’s it, no colour editing at all. 100% as captured.
I’ll post more shots from this batch of processing over the coming days. Got some more crackers.
May 26, 2010 7 Comments
Shooting slide film at the best of times can be difficult to nail the exposure. Go under the canopy and it can be even harder to perfect. Slow film, reciprocity failure of that film, center filter adding one stop and then a polariser adding two stops. All adds up to quite a long exposure. At least under the canopy the lighting it quite even.
From memory this would have been about 3 min at F16 on the Fuji GX617. If shooting on digital I would have looked at getting my shutter speed to about 1 sec. You get better water detail and also it avoids the highlight at the bottom of the water fall. On this shot even though the highlight is bright it isn’t pure white which is good. If it was it would need repairing.
Heading out this weekend to shoot more under the canopy shots. Undecided if it will be the Blue Mountains or Barrington Tops. Kind of leaning towards the Barrington Tops. See how the weather is come Saturday / Sunday.
May 23, 2010 1 Comment
Going through a mountain of film from over the years and scanning all the shots you over look or don’t want to add to the site at that time, also heaps of stock images in there as well. Quite a task that’s for sure.
This is one that slipped through the net. What I love about this shot other than the great colour is that it was scanned and then only a slight “Exposure” adjustment layer was added to brighten the foreground. Thats it for the Photoshop side of things with this one. Got to love Velvia 50 slide film.
Shot on Christan Fletchers old work horse that I bought a few years ago, the Fuji GX617 with the 90mm lens @ F45. Click the image for a larger view.
April 15, 2010 16 Comments
I have been heading out quite a bit of late shooting, some brilliant light getting around over this side of Australia at the moment. On this morning I took my daughter Lily with me and her bear which basically is attached to her. The top shot is taken on the Fuji GX617 and the bottom one on the Fuji G617. I bought my old Fuji back off the guy I sold it to. Love that camera. As you can see still makes a cracker of a shot.
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