Richard Irwin - Photoblog
Jacob's Broken Dream
Posted by Richard Irwin (Belper, United Kingdom) on 11 January 2009 in Abstract & Conceptual.
Skyladders
Shot on Ilford Delta 400 using Nikon F100 & 35-70mm Nikon lens
Lorraine from Gatineau, Canada
You've taken his broken dream and made it into an envious art piece!
11 Jan 2009 2:38pm
Anthony Lambert from Bielefeld, Germany
I take it you have a very good scanner to get this detail from paper into the pc,or is there a different way of doing it ??
11 Jan 2009 3:21pm
@Anthony Lambert: Thanks Anthony. I use an Epson f3200 film scanner. I feed the film into the scanner, and use a piece of software called Silverfast Ai to manage the scan process. I set to scan at 2400dpi to 3200dpi, depending on what kind of quality I want. Then I edit in Photoshop.
baobab from Cambridge, United States
as always beautiful treatment of light. I also like the starkly simple monochromatic composition.
11 Jan 2009 4:57pm
António Pires from Lisbon, Portugal
I like very much the tonalities of this image. Another thing that strikes me is what I would call the "smooth contrast" (does it have any meaning to you?). The background (the sky?) is not uniform, there is a kind of texture due to the non-uniformity of the emulsion, I presume, that isn't unpleasant at all.
11 Jan 2009 5:57pm
@António Pires: Thanks Antonio. In the original scan the sky tone is very smooth, but for AM3 I have to cut the image down to size in Photoshop, and then compress it as a small JPG. This tiny jpg I post on the blog can't handle the gradation of tones very well (due to compression), and this manifests as that textural effect in the sky. I don't mind it at all on the blog, but for prints, I work straight off the original, and even at A1 size, the tones remain smooth.
António Pires from Lisbon, Portugal
Sorry, I continued to thing about this image and my previous comment and it's not contrast that I should have said but sharpness: the image is "smoothly sharp".
11 Jan 2009 6:52pm
Steve Rice from Olympia, United States
Awesome. Great tones and textures in the stone.
11 Jan 2009 10:28pm
Craig from Vacaville, California, United States
I agree, great tones and texture!
12 Jan 2009 12:22am
Cheryl from Texas, United States
great composition and subject. I've never seen anything like this, thanks!
12 Jan 2009 12:31am
martie from United States
Amazing composition Richard - and I am delighted you are so gifted at scanning the film images in for us to enjoy!
12 Jan 2009 1:21am
