Wow! What a holiday treat. Great take on the large format, love the shots! You really cover it ll and have great tips! I love this channel, feels very welcoming. 🎉
Great video !! I just wish that in the "show more" area you could put some more info ... - like what f-number did you shoot at ... - watt-second power that the strobes were fired at ... - how the actual prints were made, i.e. how were the 3 "color" negatives merged (probably scanned, but then what?) - etc. Thanks !
Glad you enjoyed the video. I don't remember the exact f-stop but it was wide open... probably around f6 or something like that. The power supply on the flash system is 2400 ws and I had everything cranked up to maximum. Even then, I was worried I wasn't getting enough exposure. As it turned out, the exposures were adequate. To make the tri-color prints, I scanned the negatives directly on a flatbed scanner with a transparency adaptor and then aligned and composited them on photoshop. (If you look around in the other videos on this channel, you can find my kind of long video on the photoshop work as well as another video on making the platinum prints.). Martin handled the color prints by sending the photoshop files to an online lab.
You know, I didn't really think about it - I am so used to seeing motion blur in old photographs. I looked very closely at the scan, and I still think it is an eye blink. We did have quite a bit of ambient light and were simply using "bulb" when firing the strobes, so I'm sticking to the motion blur story. Anyway, I do appreciate you giving this a look. We had a lot of fun doing it, but I pretty nearly drove Lars crazy.
Yes. As Martin mentioned, there is motion blur because I opened the shutter in bulb mode and then fired the flash with my light meter. So there is a relatively long ambient light exposure made by opening the shutter for perhaps a second or so as well as the very brief exposure when the flash is fired. Most of the exposure is made by the flash, but there is enough ambient light to have a bit of blur.
The prints look awesome!
Thanks!
WOW! That was absolutely Amazing and Espectacular Sri Color Shot!!! I love it!!! You guys Really Rock!!!
I like the dynamic you guys have, and I look forward to your future videos. ❤
Wow! What a holiday treat. Great take on the large format, love the shots! You really cover it ll and have great tips! I love this channel, feels very welcoming. 🎉
Brilliant stuff and thanks for the, ‘Christmas Special.’
Great video !! I just wish that in the "show more" area you could put some more info ...
- like what f-number did you shoot at ...
- watt-second power that the strobes were fired at ...
- how the actual prints were made, i.e. how were the 3 "color" negatives merged (probably scanned, but then what?)
- etc.
Thanks !
Glad you enjoyed the video.
I don't remember the exact f-stop but it was wide open... probably around f6 or something like that. The power supply on the flash system is 2400 ws and I had everything cranked up to maximum. Even then, I was worried I wasn't getting enough exposure. As it turned out, the exposures were adequate.
To make the tri-color prints, I scanned the negatives directly on a flatbed scanner with a transparency adaptor and then aligned and composited them on photoshop. (If you look around in the other videos on this channel, you can find my kind of long video on the photoshop work as well as another video on making the platinum prints.). Martin handled the color prints by sending the photoshop files to an online lab.
When using rise on the 2D pull the knob out to lock it in place.
I think it was mentioned that there was "motion blur" on one of Santa's fingers (?) ... how would that happen with strobe lighting?
You know, I didn't really think about it - I am so used to seeing motion blur in old photographs. I looked very closely at the scan, and I still think it is an eye blink. We did have quite a bit of ambient light and were simply using "bulb" when firing the strobes, so I'm sticking to the motion blur story. Anyway, I do appreciate you giving this a look. We had a lot of fun doing it, but I pretty nearly drove Lars crazy.
Yes. As Martin mentioned, there is motion blur because I opened the shutter in bulb mode and then fired the flash with my light meter. So there is a relatively long ambient light exposure made by opening the shutter for perhaps a second or so as well as the very brief exposure when the flash is fired. Most of the exposure is made by the flash, but there is enough ambient light to have a bit of blur.