Ridiculously awesome video

Synchronicity! Old cameras? Just got sent a box full of goodies - a couple Twin-Lens Reflex, Polaroid, bunch of filters. Architecture? Started working with an architectural photographer in LA.  Now, there's this sweet video by Alex Roman at Third & Seventh combining the two! It's 12mins, so give yourself a nice long break. Love the swings in depth of field, and it's paired with awesome music.


The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo.

Headed to Big Sky

Here's an image from somewhere in Indiana.  It's actually three images merged for exposure using Photomatix (exposure blend, not HDR). Another cool thing that I believe is new in Photoshop CS4, is auto blend with images at different depth-of-fields. Translation = super in focus images at all distances to lens.

Leaving MN today, headed to Denver for the weekend.

More Tilt Shift

The Canon 24mm  TS-E is awesome.  It's a bit different from using a view camera; takes a little getting used to the knobs and controlling the axes (took some brainpower to realize I needed to use the tripod head as a rear standard, not the lens).

Part of the the fun / trouble, is choosing between getting the lines vertical, or using the low depth of field (f/3.5) and miniaturizing things.  For the image with the statue, I took the image "out-of-whack," then corrected the lines in photoshop to try and achieve both effects.

Another cool use is to merge photos.  The image below of the door is actually three separate exposures - I simply shifted the lens, left, center, right.  In photoshop, I chose File > Automate > Photomerge - then followed the dialog box.  There's an article on this in the July/August Picture Magazine