hasselblad b&w Fort Point Window

The last shot of the day at Fort Point with Jed. Before pressing the

shutter, I decided to go for a very shallow, deep contrast DOF. A 5

second shutter at f2/8. It was the last shot in the roll of

bracketing for this shot at f/22. I wish I had done more at f/2.8

after seeing this one. The print is mind blowing. So glad I took the

Hasselblad with me that day.

Hasselblad 500cm Zeiss 80mm C T* Kodak 400TX Tmax Dev @ 6 min w/

agitation @ ea. 30sec.

i love how you come up wit ideas . i my self have a hasselblad 500c not c/m mine is a bet much older it's alittle hard to get used to . . by the way did you use photoshop on some of these photos?? if you don;t mind answering ?? if not then ( WOW ) ur shots are real nice .

I do, but only within the tolerance of an untouched image. I work on digital images all day long, and I feel that it's cheating if I do anything other than curves in photoshop. because my scanner is not the best (awaiting a new one this week that is not a flatbed), I do sharpen a small amount.

Lately, since Lightroom 1.0 was released, I use the curve editor there, in that it's possibly the best image processing control I've ever used. Try the curve editor once, and you'll never be the same. That is the extent of this image. Slight contrast curve, and 25% sharpening.

The payoff here came from shooting an entire roll of film at the same spot. 11 of the shots were at f/22, and I bracketed from 5 seconds, all the way to 16 seconds. The last shot, I told my friend, "I'm going to try one focused on the broken boards on the floor at f/28"... so... luck had a big hand in this too :)

Download the Lightroom 30 day tryme.. import a few of your scane, and just try the curve editor. You'll crap your pants. I move my pen over the area in the image i want to bend, and use the up/down arrows to push or pull that area. Insane.

Good luck.. and keep shootin! your Hasselblad is no different than mine. I can swap my grainglass, and you can't w/ the 500c. That's the only dfference!

cheers,

j