john_riedel

I like the feeling of the photo and what you have captured, however, on my screen it looks very light, no true blacks.

I love the picture, the idea, the title and the choice of pepper to go with the pear. The lighting is also good, simple but does the job.

 

The picture makes me think of a couple rather than two pieces of food.

Molly,

 

No I don't know his work. Do you have a link, pointer to his work?

 

A little more information, this picture was at a conference. The art director said she needed some shots to show the excitment/buzz of the event. The art director ended up using this picture in the next issue of the magazine.

 

Again, thanks for your comment.

 

The image was not tweaked in Photoshop. This was taken on slide film, with a shutter time of around 30 seconds. The slide was scanned in a Nikon 4000 at 4000 DPI to a TIFF, and then converted to jpeg for web upload with ImageMagick. The only settings used on the command line were quality, shave (to remove about 50 pixels on each edge), normalize, and of course resize.

 

If had Photoshop and used it, the first thing I would have done was to take out the lens flare in the bottom right, and then if you look close, and airplane crossed part of the frame, it goes thru the big dipper.

 

Remember that on long exposures film starts doing funny things, and each color layer does funny things in different ways, hence color shifts that are hard to filter out and grain.

 

Also the frame had mixed lighting, the sky, a few porch lights from the other houses, and light at the bottom of the frame from street lights a block or two away, some were mercury and some were sodium.

 

Ken, Thanks for the comment. I was going for more of dim, smokey kind of look rather than punchy and crisp. Maybe I went too far in that direction. Again thanks for the feedback.

Chris is a flight instructor and her family owns the field and the plane. It was hard to get her to just touch the prop. The first time she really did turn it, just out of habit, her dress didn't get in the prop.

Look in the folder, I have another picture that I did change the focus to the girl.

OK, I've played with Imagemagick to get the black point set better, and adjusted my monitor. Thanks for pointing out what I missed, that's why I love photo.net

OK, I've played with Imagemagick to get the black point set better, and adjusted my monitor. Thanks for pointing out what I missed, that's why I love photo.net

Dave, thanks.... both this and the other were on the same roll, same time, same scan. It looks hard black on the contact sheet, I may have to play a little more with the levels to get blacks set right. Again, thanks.

My first try at black and whites with this style of lighting

My first try at black and whites with this style of lighting