ENSAYO SOBRE UN PIE DE NIÑO

Clever and...bold proposal: nice and interesting idea&result!

Thank you very much for your encouraging words. About the photo, I must add a couple of details:

 "under the moonlight, a sleeping child"

 Just an attempt exploring new aesthetic ways, and my camera capabilities. Thank you again.

Hi Carlos,

I really like what you presented here. A very creative effort my friend.

I was curious to see if you actually under-exposed this image to the level that it is presented , what I call the "analog use of the camera and lens" , or was this processed for this effect.

I simply adjusted the levels. I like what resulted as well.

Best Regards, Mike

Thank you for your interest and your effort working out on this photo. It belongs to a large series of shoots, playing with aperture, exposure and ISO, some years ago during my summer vacations with my 10 y.o. son (this is his feet when he was sleeping early in the morning).

This photo was taken in manual mode with the Pentax 43 mm F 1.9 Limited, at F 22, 1/1000 s, ISO 200, after a lot of experiments this is one of the results that I guess well worth the effort. Strong direct sun light, harsh contrast, playing with camera/lens settings to avoid burning preserving skin details, keeping dark zone not too noisy at all. 

Processed to bw with Gimp for MacIntosh, touching levels to darken more the image to achieve a kind of isolation of the main subject (I don't like the curtains at the background). As you say, analog use of the camera and lens, but with a little help of the post-processing software.

Thank you very much again and best regards my friend.

Hi Carlos,

Thank you for offering some expanded details as to what you did here.

From a technical point of view (the first place I was start) , I would shoot a lighting scene like this wide open to one stop below that  setting with a very good lens. In your lens case, this would be from F/1.9 to F/2.8. The ISO 200 would remain the same, as that is the best starting point for any DSLR sensor package today. This would leave the point of focus and the exposure the only variables to set.

Since the need for "highest definition" is not required in a scene like this, any f-stop would work, but on a better lens, the contrast and definition remains highest when the aperture is opened up. The "analog" use of the lens would "isolate the foot" (if that is my point of focus) and allow the background to blur naturally. This in turn would effect the way the lighting intermixed with the scene components.

The outcome can always be adjusted in the post processing stage, as the same end result here could easily be accomplished.

In my very diverse areas of photography, obtaining the most from a lens system is the highest priority. For any other "end results sought after", it is straight forward to do that in post processing, knowing that no compromise was ever made during the capture.

The  best technical image provides the maximum data possible, while a compromised image can not ever recover data that is not there in the analog phase to start.

Best Regards my friend, Mike

I appreciate a lot your wise pro observation. Well,  as i told you this was a large series testing all different variables possible. 

I did it, I mean, set F1.9 ISO 200 and much higher speed with the same Pentax 43mm lens, the problem is that I must remember where is the file!! ;:-D I am a complete mess.

I will post it in a short time in order to compare results.

Best regards my friend

A very nice result with impressive lighting, Carlos!

Hi Carlos,

Thanks for your honesty my friend, although I doubt that you are a mess.

As for any testing, that is best done in the optical lab facility, but it is very helpful

to use your camera and lens in as many ways as possible.

Best Regards, Mike

I am glad because you like this humble exercise, thank you!

Mike

I am honored by your words.

Superb mystery and use of light.

-Cheers

Thank you very much! this was a photographic experiment on my little boy sleeping, glade because you like it.