I enjoyed your webinar. I love the tone in your daylight shots. Are you capturing the shots as HDR frames then blending or are you only doing a little blending and not going the whole HDR route?
I discovered this via Flickr, thank you for your time and all the great information, keep it up with greetings from mountainous Switzerland by bennoH.🐼 a Videographer and Light- & Videoartist as well a digitalArtist & a architecture structural draftsman
The Philadelphia townhouse shots of the living room facing head-on to the fireplace and the shot in the den facing the window from the fireplace, it's quite obvious this was NOT done with a tilt lens as the chandelier in both shots shows distortion as its bottom is tilted toward the camera. I was very surprised to see this in your work since I've seen many of your other shots and know how fastidious you are about such things. Could you give some insight as to why you chose to use this shot rather than shot this room with a tilt lens? - I'm sorry that I overlooked including my thanks for such a very well presented webinar that's packed with extremely interesting information. I appreciate your abilities and the fact that you're so willing to share them.
Hello Kenneth! Thanks for watching and I'm glad you enjoyed it. I never use tilt in any of my work. I did use it in my 4x5 film days when the most common lens was 90mm and tilt helped with DOF, but for digital with shorter focal lengths and less tolerance for mechanical error, I don't use tilt. For the 2 shots you mentioned and everything else I do, I do all in camera perspective control. In the era of those shots, it was Canon 24mm and 17mm TSE (tilt locked out) lenses on the Alpa FPS body with the Phase One IQ3 100 Trichromatic back. The Canons worked well with Phase One, but that was an interim solution while I waited for the Phase One X-Shutters which I use now with the Rodenstock lenses, IQ4 150 and Alpa Tech Cameras. The net result is the same in regard to perspective control. In both those images you refer to, I am not sure what you are seeing exactly. When there is something central in a shot like a chandelier or table, I always try to place that object in the middle of the lens, even if it's not in the middle of the shot. This helps mitigate distortion of the shapes in the X-axis. Even with this technique, a table or chandelier will always have some stretch on the Y axis since its either above or below the optical center of the lens. Physics unfortunately, nothing else can be done about that in camera. Thanks for your reply and let me know if you have any additional comments.
Just one thing I don't understand is Reality . If I look at some photos and visit this place They look not the same. Same like McDonald's menu . Hamburgers look perfect in photos but when it comes to the table this is not same as in photos. Ok advertising but Most of the Arch. Photos yes they are nicely edited but not reality. But some photographs are just giving a feeling of space.
That's a great webiner! Very informative. Thanks Jeffrey and the people who arranged it. Love from Bangladesh.
I enjoyed your webinar. I love the tone in your daylight shots. Are you capturing the shots as HDR frames then blending or are you only doing a little blending and not going the whole HDR route?
I discovered this via Flickr, thank you for your time and all the great information, keep it up with greetings from mountainous Switzerland by bennoH.🐼
a Videographer and Light- & Videoartist as well a digitalArtist & a architecture structural draftsman
A great webinar. But the sounds coming from his mouth all the time were a little bit distracting. I could not finish it :(
Me neither 😫
I love the Tom Haverford "Oops how'd that photo get in there" headshot moment at 1:29:38
The Philadelphia townhouse shots of the living room facing head-on to the fireplace and the shot in the den facing the window from the fireplace, it's quite obvious this was NOT done with a tilt lens as the chandelier in both shots shows distortion as its bottom is tilted toward the camera. I was very surprised to see this in your work since I've seen many of your other shots and know how fastidious you are about such things. Could you give some insight as to why you chose to use this shot rather than shot this room with a tilt lens? - I'm sorry that I overlooked including my thanks for such a very well presented webinar that's packed with extremely interesting information. I appreciate your abilities and the fact that you're so willing to share them.
Hello Kenneth! Thanks for watching and I'm glad you enjoyed it. I never use tilt in any of my work. I did use it in my 4x5 film days when the most common lens was 90mm and tilt helped with DOF, but for digital with shorter focal lengths and less tolerance for mechanical error, I don't use tilt. For the 2 shots you mentioned and everything else I do, I do all in camera perspective control. In the era of those shots, it was Canon 24mm and 17mm TSE (tilt locked out) lenses on the Alpa FPS body with the Phase One IQ3 100 Trichromatic back. The Canons worked well with Phase One, but that was an interim solution while I waited for the Phase One X-Shutters which I use now with the Rodenstock lenses, IQ4 150 and Alpa Tech Cameras. The net result is the same in regard to perspective control. In both those images you refer to, I am not sure what you are seeing exactly. When there is something central in a shot like a chandelier or table, I always try to place that object in the middle of the lens, even if it's not in the middle of the shot. This helps mitigate distortion of the shapes in the X-axis. Even with this technique, a table or chandelier will always have some stretch on the Y axis since its either above or below the optical center of the lens. Physics unfortunately, nothing else can be done about that in camera. Thanks for your reply and let me know if you have any additional comments.
Just one thing I don't understand is Reality . If I look at some photos and visit this place They look not the same. Same like McDonald's menu . Hamburgers look perfect in photos but when it comes to the table this is not same as in photos. Ok advertising but Most of the Arch. Photos yes they are nicely edited but not reality. But some photographs are just giving a feeling of space.