Yadkin Junction: Franklin St. Buildings from the Railroad Side (B&W)

Urban Landscape: Comment welcome.

--Lannie

Actually I like the straight monotone image best since the shapes of the buildings, poles and wires against the early evening sky alone are enough to carry the picture without the distraction of the bit of color which, to my mind, draws far too much attention to itself. Comparing this picture to the other version, it has more of an HDR quality which usually I dislike but which seems to work very well here to emphasize the grittiness of the place. You seem to be the Eugene Atget of the South, or at least of your small town.

Hi Lannie,

A good capture of what one might expect from buildings found nearby a railroad.

The use of the f-stop limited the definition in the scene , but that works because the image

remains rustic. The aperture stop is also evident from the diffraction pattern of the lens iris blades in the street light to fall right of the image.

Best Regards my friend, Mike

Mike, it was shot wide-open.

 

--Lannie

Mike, what appears to be the "starburst" around the light resulting from [what appeared to be] a small aperture can be seen to be, upon examining the full-sized file, a pattern of shadows.  You could not have seen this on the size that was posted, however, and so  you made a reasonable inference.  The illusion was reinforced by the fact that the processed version you saw was in fact over-processed and saved too many times, resulting in data loss.  If I were going to print it, I would do it all over and make all changes, and then save it once.

 

The 100 percent crop shows the primary cause of what created the illusion of the "starburst" caused by using a small aperture.  Again, however, the aperture was as large as it was going to get.  (ISO 100, f/2.8, 4 sec exposure)

 

As always, thanks for visiting.

 

--Lannie

Finally, Mike, what you are seeing was right at the edge of the frame.  The zoom lens was simply not capable of optimal sharpness wide open at the edge of the frame.

 

Thanks again, Mike.  Frankly, given the edge problems, and given that we are dealing with a zoom (set at 50mm on the 24-70mm range), I actually would likely have gotten somewhat better edge resolution had I shot it stopped down a bit.  In this case, however, that would have resulted in some pretty long exposures and I might have gotten a car with headlights traveling through the picture.

 

--Lannie

Hi Lannie,

I appreciate seeing the original data on how this image was obtained.

I did not want to speculate on the image because I did not know the EXIF data at the time.

Yes, any "object" in front of a bright source will cause diffraction effects. As the focal length decreases, the source becomes more "point like" in appearance and this further increases the diffraction seen from such settings.

 No doubt, many zoom lens at the edge of the field do have issues that can be better managed from stopping them down one or two f-stops.

Best Regards my friend, Mike