imvitasoy

Bingo !  咁都比在下撞中，果然係日鏡！

In fact I didnt look at your contrast, and your film type was not any concern to me at all.  
I felt it was like Canon (literally, I meant any jap lens) simply because the entire 白位 was a little greyish,  which is common to  almost 99.9999999% of japanese lenses.

快樂牛郎

Bingo !  咁都比在下撞中，果然係日鏡！

In fact I didnt look at your contrast, and your fil ...
imvitasoy 發表於 2012/4/2 23:58

haha you can see a lot of things that I can't. I chose this camera for the size and the format. The lens is nowhere near my Leica but it's such a nice little camera for such a large piece of film.

快樂牛郎

Bingo !  咁都比在下撞中，果然係日鏡！

In fact I didnt look at your contrast, and your fil ...
imvitasoy 發表於 2012/4/2 23:58

so do you have a favorite lens? or multiple favorite lenses?

imvitasoy

回復 33# 快樂牛郎


   
在下一向物慾太多現金太少....favorite lens 亦隨時改變。

暫時渴望擁有的，包括 :  
一部 fujifilm xpro 1,  
一支 K仔 50 及 75
一支cooke 仔 (任何都得，試下而已)
一部 suzuki sx4 ( civic coupe  都OK)

不過，最重要，仍然是.....身體健康....

Look4chrisng

回復 23# chobit

chobit:  
Not all photos need to be in a bell curve shape. In fact, photos with bell shape are *usually* boring.  If this photo is a bell shape, it will be very overexposed. That's why most photos taken with auto exposure look bad as the camera tries to protect highlights and everything into a bell shape.

This picture has a good exposure.  The baby and father is at the entery of store front, therefore closer to the light.  Your are an engineer, you must understand better the inverse square law than most of us here.  The light difference between the background and the subject makes the subjects pop more.   Cowboy made a decision to expo for the baby, and let the background darker to draw viewers eye to the subject.

That's the reason photography lesson no. 1 is "White on White, Black on Black, White on Black and Black on White.

That's also why I don't care much for the matrix exposure or auto exposure on cameras,  it is hard to program aesthetics into cameras.

快樂牛郎

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chobit:  
Not all photos need to be in a bell curve shape. In fact, photos with bell  ...
Look4chrisng 發表於 2012/4/3 08:46

I have learned not to trust any meter or auto exposure on my cameras. A tiny ambient meter in your palm beats any on camera meter you can have. The only time I would use auto exposure is when I use a TTL flash.

Look4chrisng

This image here is so ironic of the current China.  The young man with a quintessential Chinese face  performs miracle on the dough, and yet he is uninterested in the show, and so mechanical he is barely alive.  The shutter speed/ light on the subject also help to tell the story.

It is my version of China, entire country is a Foxconn factory.  It is the sort of photos in National Geographic.

快樂牛郎

This image here is so ironic of the current China.  The young man with a quintessential Chinese fa ...
Look4chrisng 發表於 2012/4/3 09:08

I agree with your comments but the visual language or presentation is not in line with National Geographics. When I think of National Geographics, I think of intense vibrant colors and the photos are shot in an editorial way.

This photo, along with many of other chobit's photos, belong to the category of commercial photography which you often see in magazines like Travelers, Seattle Met, Business week, etc.

Look4chrisng

"I think of intense vibrant colors and the photos are shot in an editorial way."
No, useless you think working in Foxconn is a vibrant thing.

It is even better if the photo has the florescent green cast. ie, not so white balanced corrected.

快樂牛郎

"I think of intense vibrant colors and the photos are shot in an editorial way."
No, useless you thi ...
Look4chrisng 發表於 2012/4/3 09:45

If it was a feature on Foxconn, the shot would probably be an overhead shot with probably thousands of workers below all performing the same task with front to back sharpness on a large format camera.  Basically, the editorial shots in National Geographics are the ones that you could see hanging in a gallery.

Again, I agree with all of your observations about this photo. But to say that it can be featured on the front page of National Geographics is just over the board.