Category: Photo Notes
Explanation of how a photograph was taken and the techniques used in shooting and/or editing the picture.
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Hand-held Double Exposure Creates Artistic Motion This is a fun image created with a double exposure, but there is another few tricks involved beyond just doing an additional exposure. After coming up the sidewalk in Chicago to Miller’s Pub, I knew this needed to be a picture, so I stopped and contemplated for a short…
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Get a dramatically darker sky for a more impactful image. Most film photographers at some point become aware of the benefit of filters to enhance the impact of images. These may include circular polarizers (CP), particularly for color pictures, that can make colors more saturated and darken the blue sky. Shooting at a right angle…
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Using a trick to add texture, depth, and mixed reality. This is an example of adding depth, texture, and even movement, to an otherwise ordinary or dull picture. A tripod mounted camera and double exposure was utilized to capture this image. The trick in this image was executed by taking the primary shot, focused on…
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Combining people with surreal light for some abstract effect. This photo was a fun experiment with slow shutter speed along with double exposure, and all on infrared film. The Mamiya C330 twin lens camera was perfect for this composition as I put the dark R72 (720nm) filter on the bottom film exposure lens and still…
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A look at a swirling retro carnival ride in motion. This is a fun look with that county fair vibe back from 1998. This film stock is no longer available unfortunately, but the readily available Kodak E100 Ektachrome is and I’m sure would give equal-to or better-than results. I shifted in these later years to…
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Luminescence from down under. This is a fun picture with just a single light source. The glass chessboard and chess pieces were perfect for capturing an otherworldly shot using a slow shutter speed to show movement of the hand and piece. This image was captured by setting the chessboard on two chair backs at the…
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Industrial equipment is an interesting art form! I was driving down a back country road over curving and lightly rolling hills, when I came around a curve to see this enormous, bright white pump jack. It was like a shining beacon in the middle of a field, and I was fortunate to have my trusty…
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An interesting shot using Cinestill 800T film. In a previous post about Kodak re-formulating their Vision 3 cinematography film, of which Cinestill 800T and 50D are derived from with the remjet removed, I commented that I wasn’t really a fan of the halo effect that comes with these films. Because the anti-halation remjet has been…
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Movement in two directions. I took this shot from the back of a taxi and used a fairly slow shutter speed of 1/30 for the 85mm lens. The movement of the car blurred just about everything in the direction the car was going, but I panned with the motorcycle going the opposite direction, and got…
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Another motion-blur shot from hand-held camera. Two things I like about this shot: The train speeding by, and the red donut of light from the oncoming train. The latter effect is a property of Cinestill film, a re-spooling of Kodak Vision 3 motion picture film with the remjet layer removed, and thus the halation from…
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