allan engelhardt

May 26, 2002

That is a great face! <tt>:-)</tt> Well caught!

What happens at the lower right corner? Her white arm somehow

disappears in a black blurr?

March 13, 2002

may be ancient news to many of you, but it is one of the most powerful set of portraits that I have seen in a long time.

Remember Steve McCurry's iconic picture of a green-eyed Afghan girl, hair covered in a red shawl, that made it to the cover of <cite>National Geographic</cite> around seventeen years ago?

Well, Steve went back again and again until he found her. Iris scanning proves that it really is her, and the pictures are (still) powerful.

Has anybody else done similar before and after studies??

That link again for the text readers: <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1870000/1870382.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1870000/1870382.stm</a>

January 21, 2002

Kenneth,

You don't need aperture priority or anything else. I

often use my Voightlander which is manual mode only: pre-set the

distance and check the exposure reasonably frequently. Use

print-film, of course.

That being said, I'd go for aperture-priority of full automatic if

I had to use my SLR.

January 13, 2002

One word: Gaffer Tape

Think I'm kiddin'? You know that ad with like a score of children

in a long line all sitting on the pot? There was an interview with

the guy who did it. Yes, he really did glue them to their pots :-)

December 8, 2001

"Kool webdesignz" with JavaScript pop-ups and Flash animations????

Each to his own taste, I guess....

October 31, 2001

Something universal about that expression--I see it on at least a

third of the people I see sitting alone on a bench.

</blockquote>

heh! - I see that in the mirror every morning. :-)

October 31, 2001

Did you plan it such that the man (?) would be exactly

between the car lights, or did it just happen that way? In any case:

a lovely shot with great texture in the pavement, though I tend to

prefer night shots in color...

Thanks, again, for sharing.

October 31, 2001

Perfect!! I love your photographs, Tony. Thanks for sharing this

one.

Any chance of printing or digitally editing to get a little more

detail into that white bag??

September 6, 2001

Lori,

If in doubt, carefully clean the front element of your lenses and

then put a (clean) multi-coated UV filter on them. Jung James gives

most of the reasons why.

you should keep a UV or Skylight filter (doesn't really matter which)

</blockquote>

A Skylight filter has a very slight warm up effect, so it will make

your pure whites slightly pink. Of course, if you are shooting Velvia

you may not notice :-)

any extra glass on the front of the camera reduces the quality of the

light coming through but in my opinion it is negligible with a UV or

skylight filter.

</blockquote>

The argument is always: If the lens designer had wanted a piece of

glass there, he would have put it there. Of course you loose quality

but with a decent filter you'd have a tough time spotting it. That

being said, I always remove the filter when shooting against the

light, to reduce flare.

I've heard from some people that the linear filters can play havoc

with the light metering systems of modern auto-focus cameras.

</blockquote>

It can. But since you won't be able to (auto) focus it isn't much of

a problem, is it? :-) Just buy the circular polarizers, though they

are not as effective as the linear type.

August 8, 2001

Nigel,

Love you last picture! Any chance of a bigger scan? It is a little

dark but I'm guessing that the room was dimly lit so it is an accurate

reflection of the scene?

Why that film?

--- Allan.

(Off-topic: Is it me, or are there more 'Get Rich Quick' postings than

there used to be? :-P)

June 30, 2001

I agree with Jeff: a very distinct "look and feel" to this image, and

I like it a lot. The model isn't very clearly separated from the

background on my monitor (dark blue background - black dress), but I

still like it.

June 30, 2001

Deep respect, Mike. Love it.

May 9, 2001

I'm probably the only one who was confused, but just in case: The

KR1.5 is the <A HREF="http://www.schneideroptics.com/filters/menu.htm">B+W</a>

specific name for essentially the same filter as the Kodak Wratten 1A

Skylight filter. (See <A

HREF="http://www.schneideroptics.com/filters/list/1/uv2.html">this

page</a> for more information.)

Allan "I only ever use Hoya and Lee filters" Engelhardt

(So as to not start a flame war: B+W (a.k.a. Schneider) is supposed to be nice, but my

shop doesn't stock them, and they have traditionally been hard to get

on back-order in this country.)

May 9, 2001

Yow! Great shot! Dunno what to say, really. Great model, great

light, great scene. Wish the uplaod was better (bigger, and with less

aggressive JPEG compression) so I could see her face better, but it's

great. Thanks for sharing.

Would it have been fun if the ball had been lying in the distance?

This image reminds me that all weather is good weather for

taking phototgraphs. "It's not the weather, stupid, it's the

photographer," as they didn't quite say in the election campaign. In

this case we obviously have a great photographer.

OK, I'll bite: what's an Octabank?

Allan "Natual Light" Engelhardt

May 9, 2001

Moderator, please kill this one if you can...

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Fixed the HTML in this post and nuked the other. Lovely legs now

:-)

May 2, 2001

<TABLE>

<CAPTION ALIGN="BOTTOM">Generation Gap (1)</CAPTION>

</TABLE>

I thought it was about time I contributed some pictures to this forum, especially since I'll be travelling for a couple of weeks (I'll try to log in now and again from an Internet cafe, where I can find one).

I have been fairly productive recently, and this is one of my favourites. Sometimes things just fall into place right in front of your eyes....

March 26, 2001

Wow, Robert! Nice picture! Could we have some more,

please? :-)

March 26, 2001

Oh, wow! Remind me not to cross that guy...

Seriously: Your model is great, the expression is fantasic, and the

face is wonderfully lit! Well done!!

Now, if I had to critisise something then it would be the

deep shadow by his left hand, which I find somewhat disturbing. His

neck turns into an blob where it merges with the hand. I'm not quite

sure how to fix it: a reflector, perhaps, but without adding to the

light on the face which is just so right. Certainly keep the

fingers with the hand, and not down the neck.

And if I had to nit-pick: fix the shirt sleeve on the right hand.

Tape down the opening or something...

But I like it -- honest!

March 10, 2001

Mmm, lovely. The exposure seems to be spot-on. Well done!

A couple of niggles:

<OL>

<LI>The image could probably do with a tighter crop: the expanse of

white mesh does not seem to add much value in the compostion for

me.</LI>

<LI>What happened to the right hand index finger? It looks like it's

amputated, but I guess it is just out-of-focus? You are not going to

throw the background out of focus anyhow, so next time use f11 to

ensure the whole baby is sharp, or use f1.4 on a long lens to

ensure that only the eyes are sharp and the rest is visibly out

of focus. The latter seems to work better in black and white than

colour, and I wouldn't really recommend it here: she's simply too cute

</OL>

But it's a fine picture.

February 18, 2001

<IMG

SRC="http://www.photo.net/photodb/image-display?photo_id=167112&size=lg"

WIDTH="768" HEIGHT="518" VSPACE="16"></A>

Tony,

All sorts of reasons spring to mind. Some people may have wandered

off to the new forum (what happened to that post -- can't find it

again?). I have been terminally depressed ever since I discovered

that Kodak has stopped the Photo CD service (well, maybe not

terminally, but wondering what do do next). I've been trying out a

new camera for light travel (Voightlander Bessa-R with 15mm f4, 35mm

f1.5, and 70mm lenses) and while it is a great (GREAT!) little camera

with truly wonderful lenses, I'm still trying to get used to a

rangefinder so about a third of my images are out-of-focus.

And finally, I just have not been taking many people shots lately.

Photographs with people in them, yes, like the one shown here of

German commuters starring at a television screen on the central

station. The funny or slightly surreal thing is that they'll stand

and watch for half-hours at a time, but the screen only ever shows

adverts for the national railways (DB). Bizzare.

Anyhow, how about this: everybody please post their latest

image with people in it, even if it is crap like mine, to get a little

traffic and discussion going. Also suggest what you would like to see

in the forum.

February 2, 2001

<img src="http://cybaea.com/pictures/pcd3732/JVF16-04.04.1.jpg"

width="192" height="128" alt="[Viking Battle]"

hspace="10" align="right"></a>

Good luck with your new <a

href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FashionPhotography">Fashion

Photography</a> and <a

href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FashionPhotographyContacts">-

Contracts</a> forums. I hope they go well. For myself, I find the

advertising on Y sufficiently annoying that I probably will not be

participating much.

However, this raises a question for me: there seems to be a lot of

photography forums around theses days. (I was recently looking into

stock photography, and there are at least three important dicsussion

boards and a newsgroup / mailing list.) Is it worthwhile having an

admin posting here where people can add pointers to other forums

having to do with People Photography? I do not propose to add

all photography forums, just those that may be interesting to

the people on this list.

Let me know what you all think.

January 12, 2001

Nice moment (I like the cigar!) and well captured. The print is a

little bleached out on the left, maybe dodge a little?

But I really like re-enactment pictures to be a little more dynamic

and graphical. This (old) Viking photo is probably over the top, but

should illustrate what I mean: direct eye contact and strong graphical

forms. I guess you could say "un-subtle". <tt>:-)</tt>

<img src="http://cybaea.com/pictures/pcd3732/JVF16-13.13.2.jpg"

width="256" height="384" alt="[Viking Warrior]"></a>

There are bigger version on the linked web page, if you feel like

exploring...

January 3, 2001

Oooh, nice. I like this onw. There is, perhaps, a bit much road

in the bottom left corner (would portrait format have worked?) and it

is, arguably, weak on the "people side", but I still like it very

much. Thanks for sharing.

Is the show still on? Where is/was it?

November 25, 2000

Oh! Wow. Like that cover. Very powerful indeed. Mmmm, well

done. Like it a lot.

Funny thing is it surprised me after having seen the original

shot. I hadn't seen it comming, as it were. Very interesting

illustration of how one can create covers. Thanks.

November 11, 2000

Yes!! :-) I used an ´ for the second "apostrophe" and wrote

<tt>it´s</tt>.

End of off-topic section. We apologise for the interruption and

return to the scheduled broadcast on People Photography with your host

Shawn Gibson.

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