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(SI) Round, Round We Go explained.
The mandate Jim chose was a good opportunity for me to illustrate how the
visual and tactile can meld. I chose the apple and the cup because I knew the bumpy, translucent material of the cup would produce an interesting highlight pattern, as long as the exposure was controlled. If I set the flash too high, the background tended to gray out so much that the highlights weren't very pronounced. And, of course, if I underexposed too much, there was nothing to see. While the final result is a bit dark, I think it does a good job of conveying how using the sense of touch can produce a subject / background combination as visually distinctive as it is tactually interesting. I hope everyone enjoyed the pic. Take Care, Dudley |
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(SI) Round, Round We Go explained.
Dudley Hanks wrote:
The mandate Jim chose was a good opportunity for me to illustrate how the visual and tactile can meld. I chose the apple and the cup because I knew the bumpy, translucent material of the cup would produce an interesting highlight pattern, as long as the exposure was controlled. If I set the flash too high, the background tended to gray out so much that the highlights weren't very pronounced. And, of course, if I underexposed too much, there was nothing to see. While the final result is a bit dark, I think it does a good job of conveying how using the sense of touch can produce a subject / background combination as visually distinctive as it is tactually interesting. I hope everyone enjoyed the pic. I hate to disappoint you but I found it bland. The geometry is interesting. I think if you had set this outside in warm light, you would have gotten something much more pleasing color wise in the glass, with or without a pop of flash (about -1 to -1.5). Or pop the flash from off to the side through the glass. (For the SI, I would suggest that 1024 x = 1024 be the maximum dimension of the image. This, oddly, would have strengthened the contrast...) Cheers, Alan -- -- r.p.e.35mm user resource: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- r.p.d.slr-systems: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpdslrsysur.htm -- [SI] gallery & rulz: http://www.pbase.com/shootin -- e-meil: Remove FreeLunch. |
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(SI) Round, Round We Go explained.
"Alan Browne" wrote in message ... Dudley Hanks wrote: The mandate Jim chose was a good opportunity for me to illustrate how the visual and tactile can meld. I chose the apple and the cup because I knew the bumpy, translucent material of the cup would produce an interesting highlight pattern, as long as the exposure was controlled. If I set the flash too high, the background tended to gray out so much that the highlights weren't very pronounced. And, of course, if I underexposed too much, there was nothing to see. While the final result is a bit dark, I think it does a good job of conveying how using the sense of touch can produce a subject / background combination as visually distinctive as it is tactually interesting. I hope everyone enjoyed the pic. I hate to disappoint you but I found it bland. Oh, don't worry, it takes a lot to disappoint me. The geometry is interesting. I think if you had set this outside in warm light, you would have gotten something much more pleasing color wise in the glass, with or without a pop of flash (about -1 to -1.5). I tried it outside, but the highlights disappeared. Instead, I ended up with a blurred background, only slightly different than would have been obtained by using a wide aperture. It was interesting, but, I wanted the starkness of the blackish background interrupted by the patterned highlights. After all, I was after a visual representation of a tactile pattern. Or pop the flash from off to the side through the glass. That is exactly what I did. I positioned my HF DC-1 flash about 10 feet to the side, and it was triggered by the A720's flash set to low. This was part of the problem I faced in getting this shot. Since the apple and cup were right at the end of my lens, it was difficult to keep the in-camera flash from greying out the highlight pattern. When I shot the pic, the room was totally dark, and I wanted the pattern to be as consistent as I could get it throughout its diameter, so I tried as much as possible to keep the surroundings from showing through as blurred splotches. Since the flash was remote, the exposure wasn't entirely controlled by ETTL, but I was able to use the exposure compensation to adjust the relative brightness of the shot. Also, I didn't have the camera positioned over the apple; instead, I had the cup and apple on its side, and I had the camera on a tripod in the same configuration you see when you view the pic on your monitor. A reflector was positioned under the apple and cup to help get the light to wrap around to every side. This way, some light reflected off of the white ceiling, and some off of the reflector under the subject. It took a while to set it up, but I think I achieved the affect I was after. If you found it bland, I guess that, er, it's not your cup of tea? (For the SI, I would suggest that 1024 x = 1024 be the maximum dimension of the image. This, oddly, would have strengthened the contrast...) Yeah, I think you are right about that point. I tried out a few different sizes on a few different people, and I went with the plurality as the size I chose. But, I personally liked a small size for the image. But, then again, I can't fit too many large images into what is left of my restricted visual field, so I tend to defer to sighted opinions as much as possible. Thanks for the feedback, Alan, I appreciate it. Take Care, Dudley |
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(SI) Round, Round We Go explained.
Dudley Hanks wrote:
Thanks for the feedback, Alan, I appreciate it. Alan is pretty good with lighting... interesting discussion. I think the image came out very well. The darkness in the center is odd but helps to emphasize the ring of glass. link to the smaller 'large' version that fits on a screen: http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/98216633/large -- Paul Furman www.edgehill.net www.baynatives.com all google groups messages filtered due to spam |
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