Stanmer Church

I've got to say you are really finding a voice with these new shots. Great photo. This has a haunting quality, also an antique feel with the wonderful choice of subject matter. The oddly bland yet utterly captivating narrow tonal range you are getting is fantastic. I do not know how much this is a result of your PP and how much is from the new set up but it works well with the toning and the tilt lens. I like the log narrow crop it shows off the blur to good effect. I look forward to following your journey down this path, so far it seems quite rewarding.

Oh I don't know if this classes as landscape or not, but I have

trouble fitting categories. Anyway, this was taken late today -

5.18pm, rapidly fading light. Grabbed a few minutes to play more

with the Arax tilt adapter and Mir 26b lens. Decided to go for

the "old" look in sepia as it suits the subject and the colours were

none too interesting being a pretty dull evening.

 

I wonder though about the crop. This is the full frame. I am toying

with the idea of a 5:4 crop taking slightly more off the right hand

side compared with the left. Any thoughts on cropping, along with

overall impressions of the image would be much appreciated. Does

tilt suit the subject?

 

Many thanks.

Gord, many thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts on this. I tend to agree about the long 3:2 uncropped version - it does show more of the blur from the tilt. You mention the low tonal range. I THINK this is just down to the lighting. This was taken only about 10 minutes before darkness. But I notice the tonal range in my Windmill picture is also pretty low. Maybe it's to do with applying the sepia tint as well. The Windmill picture was also taken in poor light, though not as poor as it was this evening. Either way, it is, as you say, giving an "old" look to the pictures that suits the subject matter. And I'm enjoying the experiments. I'm still undecided at times about sepia tint and wonder if I should leave as BW? When I do this though the images tend to look cold so I dunno what to do. Each is so different.

 

I did some very slow shutter shots tonight as well. I'm working on these at the moment!

 

thanks again Gord.

Gord, I've finally worked out (this afternoon!) that I can move the sliders on the histogram in Canon DPP to alter the highlights and blacks and I guess increase the tonal range. I don't seem to be able to do it with this image though due to the lighting (lack of) as if I try to brighten the highlights I lose the detail on top of the church spire, and if I try to blacken the dark areas I lose too much detail. But I agree with you anyway that the blandness of the low tonal range works for this one.