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ChrisRaper
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abpho
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Peter De Smidt
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| ChrisRaper wrote: |
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Sorry about that. The post was in the Lounge, which isn't open to non-members. (I'm not sure why.) Here's what Q. T. said:
"I am asking that you do me the favor of voting for me.
Here is why:
In the video, names that have been put forward are Joe McNally, David "strobist" Hobby, Zack Arias, and Gregory Heisler. While they are all excellent photographers, they have all made their mark using strobes and staged set-ups involving people. You don't need to have a camera with amazing dynamic range to do that, since you are controlling the light.
On the other hand, when you are trying to photograph the natural world, you want the resolution and dynamic range. Nature is fractal so there is never too much resolution. Resolution is the primary reason why I have completed my project to photograph each of the 58 US National Parks in large format. Using a high-resolution digital camera is a logical continuation.
In recent years, I expended the project, trying to capture more dynamic night images with star fields. For this, film did not provide enough sensitivity, so I have resorted to digital (often 24/1.4 @ 1600 ISO) to capture things such as:
- moonbows: http://www.terragalleria.com/parks/n...yose52598.html
- northern lights: http://www.terragalleria.com/parks/n...gaar52591.html
- geyser and moon: http://www.terragalleria.com/parks/n...yell49300.html
- volcanoes and milky way: http://www.terragalleria.com/parks/n...havo49497.html
When you look at the last image, you can see how it would be interesting to have the dynamic range, since the incandescent plume is so bright compared to the stars that details are lost in it, even though the Milky way could have used more exposure. In the previous image, the moon is reduced to a circle of light.
I am certainly not as accomplished or well-known as the photographers mentioned above, but I am also not a total unknown. Ken Burns featured me in "The National Parks" in 2009 and this has been seen by more than 60 million viewers. More bio info and some press: http://www.terragalleria.com/statement.html
Thanks for your help ! "
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| Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 3:49 pm Post subject: Re: Can I fit this in my bellows? |
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That gives 112 megapixels of monochrome, says the video.
For an off-the-shelf camera body that would integrate easily with bellows, consider the Hasselblad H4D-200MS, a medium-format camera that captures 200 megapixels using a moving sensor technique. See http://www.leswalkling.com/tethering-the-h4d-200ms-in-the-field for some discussion, or search Google.
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Will Milne
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Interesting thread- Nice to see the technology expanding. The stuff about QT Loung"s plea is also interesting in a different way.
I'm often struck by the difference between photographers and artists. Never having seen his/her work before QT Loung seems to be very much a photographer. I wont name names but I have very much enjoyed the work of a number of artists who have shared their work on this forum.
At least for me it is a wonderfull thing to see an artist with a vision use their chosen medium , in this case photography, to mine their passion as something other than an expression of the medium they are using ,in a way that leads to an ever deeper understanding that leads to even more exploration and discovery , that leads to...... It is far less interesting to see a photographer make ever more better photographs that lead to even better photographs etc etc.....
Not knocking QT Loung but there are tons of photographers out there but very few artists.
just a few thoughts
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seta666
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I have always wondered what would be like to do focus stacking work with a medium format back; I am sure some enlarger, duplicating and industrial lenses would do a very good job. Microscope lenses would need to be pushed up quite a lot though.
| rjlittlefield wrote: |
For an off-the-shelf camera body that would integrate easily with bellows, consider the Hasselblad H4D-200MS, a medium-format camera that captures 200 megapixels using a moving sensor technique. See http://www.leswalkling.com/tethering-the-h4d-200ms-in-the-field for some discussion, or search Google.
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I remember reading about this camera a while ago, it seems a clever method of getting higgest quality with a RGB colour sensor.
However I find it a bit unpracticle for stacking work, well, not really; just would need more time and a quite powerfull computer
Anyway, both cameras are and will ever be far beyond my budget
As I said would be nice to try them though ;-)
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ChrisR
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I think it's very difficult for anyone to stand out amongst a whole swathe of competent photographers who can go to the world's attractive places with good hardware, "get up the mountain at 4a.m. to be ready for the sunrise", and come back with jolly nice pictures. There's craft in there, not necessarily art.
I'm personally turned off by the reuse of the same old tricks - polarise to excess, shove the saturation slider too far, over-darken the sky, overuse long exposures on water...
Every now and then, someone consistently conveys more of a subject than what's in front of the camera, but I'm getting very hard to impress.
Oh sorry this is the Equipment section. Interesting camera - would be fun to play with. Perhaps someone will use it to show us something which hasn't been, or couldn't have been, done before. |
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Craig Gerard
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I like some of the responses to that YouTube video, one in particular.
Someone asked, with childlike innocence and due respect: 'Are you are a wizard?' (classic!)
Chris,
This brief video has some aspects that may appeal to you. I like the photographer's general philosophy with regard to his personal approach.
http://www.niksoftware.com/silverefexpro/usa/entry.php
This quote from C.S.Lewis is also relevant.
| Quote: | Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
C. S. Lewis |
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ChrisR
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| Posted: Sun May 20, 2012 3:13 am Post subject: |
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| Perhaps the "Are you a wizard" question was prompted by the guy's unkempt appearance? |
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Craig Gerard
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Nah,
It's just Zeke being Zeke.
They are only a small company and a project such as this is a rather large undertaking. They enjoy building "outrageous" camera systems. Hats off to them. I hope they find good photographers to test drive this device. They are asking for suggestions in regard to candidates....
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seta666
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| Posted: Sun May 20, 2012 4:46 am Post subject: |
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| Craig Gerard wrote: | Nah,
They are asking for suggestions in regard to candidates....
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Me, me, meeeeee!!!! je, je; I would not mind to give it a try
Just kidding, I would not know what to do with it or where to put it 
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