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Jacob's Broken DreamPosted 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
Comments (20)
Lorraine from Gatineau, CanadaYou've taken his broken dream and made it into an envious art piece! 11 Jan 2009 2:38pm Anthony Lambert from Bielefeld, GermanyI 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 Statesas always beautiful treatment of light. I also like the starkly simple monochromatic composition. 11 Jan 2009 4:57pm António Pires from Lisbon, PortugalI 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, PortugalSorry, 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 StatesAwesome. Great tones and textures in the stone. 11 Jan 2009 10:28pm Craig from Vacaville, California, United StatesI agree, great tones and texture! 12 Jan 2009 12:22am Cheryl from Texas, United Statesgreat composition and subject. I've never seen anything like this, thanks! 12 Jan 2009 12:31am martie from United StatesAmazing 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 |
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