Yes, found him only recently, there is an article on how he works, bottom line is long hours to get "that" one shot but good to see a decent street photographer from the UK we have never really cut it before. There is a lot of "me too" work out there but this guy has a niche of quality work.
Pleased you all like him worth tacking one or two up over the screen for "one of those days" for light relief.
Sorry to stray a bit OT.

Some nice ceramics

AFDII+P45

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Taken April 9th in Great Smoky Mountain National Park

Mamiya 635AFD II
Phase One P30+
28mm Lens

beautiful result!

Very nice Ed.
That's what I love to see MF used for.
A

Beautiful image, Ed!

Thierry

Thanks Andrew.

All of us MF'rs (that doesn't sound complimentary) are detail junkies. Nothing like hiking through the wilderness with 30k+ in our backpacks but the 40x50 prints are worth it.

EC

A scan from slide film on Mamiya 645AFD/II

Frank!!!

You seem to be shooting more film! Oh my!

Actually my film shooting lately has been almost more than my digital shooting. And now I am turning in more and more assignments and shoots for publication shot on film. I like it!

What film did you use and which scanner?

Great photo! You have to send me an e-mail and tell me what you did for post processing on this so we can keep it a secret

Hi,
I hardly shoot film to be honest, maybe two rols this week one B&W and one slide.
I just do it with free work and when I think it fits the style :-)

I use an Epson V700 with a betterscanning tranny, love the results of that scanner, I got A2 prints that are razorsharp.
Still like digital better by the way :-)

Film was a Fuji Astia 100F

Photoshop work is mostly painted with light and some local saturation boosts.

One from today.



MvrGr
Frank

"Rethinking Iona" is a portrait taken of a well-known figure model in the midst of her retirement as a model.

Portrait shot in studio with a Mamiya 645AFD, 55-110, and Phase P30.

Ken

I’ve always thought that photographers are story tellers. One image can (or should) convey multiple levels of thoughts and feelings; I can see several stories in this image. While I don’t do people I still like looking at others who do and this is very good indeed. Thanks for sharing.

don

From today:





/Samuel

Phase One P25 + H1 50-110 zoom

Just pubished in Harper's Bazaar en Español....shot with a P30+/H2

I am continually amazed at the high quality photos coming from medium format digital and film. Even my own sometimes.

I do not, I repeat I do not want to start another mf vs. 35mm discussion. I do believe the photos stand on their own, over and over again. Among the big points I see are skin tones, fabric especially white fabric and a look that is superior.

There is a difference.

The third one has a (to me) very familiar IKEA children chair in it!

Lovely shots, BTW.

And is used to create an excellent composition (even the hair held at the perfect angle) with wonderful use of colour, rarely seen done as well as this. Simple and perfect.

Simple scan from Tmax400 Mamiya 645AFD/II

All Hassy H2 with PhaseOne P30+

Boris,

I really like the first and second color image. Nice back lighting.

Rollei 6008AF, Sinar e54LV, 80mm PQS f2.8 at f8

Graham I love those two images .... fantastic work !!!

Armin

first one is stunning Graham.

I like both Graham. Great work!

Graham,

I don't know how you did it, but these images are stunning. Congratulations.

Sean

Hasselblad H3D-31, HC 50-110mm@65. f/9.5, 1/125 sec.

Helping out a friend. H2/CF39/35mm.

Sinar Hy6 - eMotion 75 LV
Zeiss Planar 110/2
1/30 - f2
Cropped 25%

Thierry


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Thierry, that's a wonderful image. Any PS? or is just the effect of the f2?

Thanks Samuel.

I did a slight contrast correction and brought the levels a bit up then USM.

The blur comes from the windy day, but I like the effect.

What I am not "happy" at is the rendering on the web (one more not happy with it!): I have posted the same image on Get DPI:

http://forum.getdpi.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1659

The image is originally in Adobe 98, size 1415x1772 saved as JPG maximum quality (12) ---> 1.1 MB compressed, and posted the same on both forums:

Have a look on the image in Get DPI:

- the contrast/saturation isn't corresponding with my original in CS3
- the sharpness is right

Have a look and compare here:

- the contrast/saturation IS corresponding to my original
- the sharpness is way out of my original

I am scratching my head now, loosing my hears, asking myself what I could do wrong, either here or there.

BTW: I am using Safari.

Any help would be welcome.

Thierry

Even though Safari is color profile aware you should convert your image to sRGB for the web. I would normally convert with rendering of perceptual when going for the web.

After downsizing you could opt to sharpen it a bit again.

Image quality 12 is way too much BTW, 10 is more than enough and in many cases a good compromise between size & quality.

Even than, I still find a lot of times images turn out slightly different, even per website. Some websites strip the color profile from images and replace it with something sRGB'ish which can also account for the differences you are experiencing.

Thanks Dustback!

A field where I have much to learn (from you all here), the web editing.

What puzzles me, is that I DID convert to sRGB for the post on Get DPI, but it appears as "untagged", though sharpness right.
And here I did NOT convert, left it in Adobe 98, and it shows "Adobe 98", BUT the sharpness is away!



Thanks for the hint to save with IQ 10: I'll do it next time.

Thierry

peethirtyplus, contax, about 1 billion iso

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©James Russell, Ann Rutherford 2008, New York
May not be reproduced without written consent.

Stunning.

pee twenty one and one d ess two
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all©James Russell, Ann Rutherford 2008, New York
May not be reproduced without written consent

Love the tonality and shadows. I just feel at the moment I want more shadows.

A fantastic combination of fashion photography, story telling and humor (love the tree) with a lot of room for viewer's own imagination. Cool indeed!

Cheers,
J

James Nice light on the guy girl shot...:+}
Did you mix flash and ambient or was it all ambient.. very nice.
If you mixed how did you get all the same color?
All nice and soft..
Snook

We selected this location because it had beautiful streaming light and lots of windows, of course the day we shoot it's pouring rain and about black outside.

I used the curtains and some blackout to direct the window light as the key and a hmi par bounched into the room for fill, then shot the peetwentyone at 400 iso, f 2.2 at 1/60th.

I like the peetwentyone for this type of color as I find it less color sensitive than the peethrity and more depth than just shooting with the Canons.

I processed in Raw Developer as Brian's software rocks for single image processing for almost any make of camera. (I know Brian and though he is a techno guy you just know that somewhere deep in his dna is a lab rat).

Personally I love working with the Contaxs' for this type of work and can't believe that it's not an international law that all medium format lenses go to F2 and they shoot as smooth as the Contax.

Those old Contax's make even the dslr's seem like they vibrate.*

JR



*Please everyone do not go out and buy a Contax. The prices keep going up and I assume someday they will costs as much as a new Bentley which I think is pretty much the price of a full HY6 kit


This is another image from that session, just a simple photograph.

Thanks a lot james for your input..
I know you are a busy guy...:+}
1/60th? Wow.....
Would 400 iso on my Peethirty be more usaeble than on a peetwenty1?
Never even thought about trying it.. so far..
Ofcourse I never shot more than iso 200 on the 1DsMII either.. I am just a clean freak..:+}
Snook
Thanks again

That last image was f 2.8 1/60th hand held with an 80.

I don't think or worry too much about noise as if need be it can be fixed.

400 on the peetwentyone is good, about the same as the peethirty.

800 is a stretch if you in low key light with a lot of shadows, though high key seems to make all digital look pretty smooth.

JR

One from today.

James, I really liked both those guy/girl shots.

Went out last night to do some street photos with some friends (pictured below). Just playin' around and testing the back for max exposure time (30 s) and max ISO (400).

30 second exposure, ISO 50, 40mm lens, Rollei 6008AF, Sinar e54LV:




ISO 400, 40mm lens, 0.5s, Rollei 6008AF, Sinar e54LV:

Recent, recent...






/Samuel

Some shots from the last weeks....The disco was shot with the hassy h3D31II long exposure of about 30 sec at 200 iso, the tree is made with a mamiya ZD with tiltlens.
Best regards, Raf

Hey James
You're getting pretty good at this photography stuff, I think you should stick with it

Nick-T

I really like the first one,
the protrusion out of the earth
reminded me of this one from last week
cheers
m*