joel aron

This photo does nothing for me either. I understand the depth of the body against the flat nature of the environment, but it's the hollow composition, and stark light ratio that. Clever and original, I am going to disagree with. The shot has a look of a poorly lit diorama at the museum. Maybe a litle less light on the set, and more front fill from camera left, and you've got something... otherwise, this shot is empty and lacks direction.

From my series of the Punks in the Copenhagen Main Square. Critiques

welcome, as well as others in the series @ www.joelaron.com The

series is in the portfolio '7 countries in 15 days' I'm looking to

get a strong series from the punks shots as a stand alone portfolio as

it grows.

 

thanks for for your comments!

Thank you for your comments!

 

 

shot candid from my M6 hidden in my scarf. Rode the metro for about

an hour, waiting for a moment like this. Ahhhh Paris!

Thank you for your comments!

 

 

shot candid from my scarf hidden M6, on a beautiful spring day in Paris.

Thanks for your comments! :)

 

-j

Thanks for your comments!

comments welcome!

off the charts stunning. this opened up when I clicked on the image, and I sat here looking at it for what felt like an eternity.

 

so gripping, so full of shapes, and depth. a classic, timeless image that I hope you're very proud of.

 

fantastic work.

 

-j

John, thanks.. I appreciate that very much! I feel the same w/ with the 7's.. so I am honored!

 

cheers.

-j

Yes, I can see it being dark on some monitors. Looking now, at work, on my calibrated HD display, all values are there, with a slight drop near the dark tones..and that would cause an LCD, or laptop display to drop the bottom away.

 

thanks again for the comments! :)

 

cheers,

j

Comments welcome!

round two of the hallway of dooorways. this time around, someone

installed a door.

 

 

comments welcome! thanks!

I do, but only within the tolerance of an untouched image. I work on digital images all day long, and I feel that it's cheating if I do anything other than curves in photoshop. because my scanner is not the best (awaiting a new one this week that is not a flatbed), I do sharpen a small amount.

 

Lately, since Lightroom 1.0 was released, I use the curve editor there, in that it's possibly the best image processing control I've ever used. Try the curve editor once, and you'll never be the same. That is the extent of this image. Slight contrast curve, and 25% sharpening.

 

The payoff here came from shooting an entire roll of film at the same spot. 11 of the shots were at f/22, and I bracketed from 5 seconds, all the way to 16 seconds. The last shot, I told my friend, "I'm going to try one focused on the broken boards on the floor at f/28"... so... luck had a big hand in this too :)

 

Download the Lightroom 30 day tryme.. import a few of your scane, and just try the curve editor. You'll crap your pants. I move my pen over the area in the image i want to bend, and use the up/down arrows to push or pull that area. Insane.

 

Good luck.. and keep shootin! your Hasselblad is no different than mine. I can swap my grainglass, and you can't w/ the 500c. That's the only dfference!

 

cheers,

j

The last shot of the day at Fort Point with Jed. Before pressing the

shutter, I decided to go for a very shallow, deep contrast DOF. A 5

second shutter at f2/8. It was the last shot in the roll of

bracketing for this shot at f/22. I wish I had done more at f/2.8

after seeing this one. The print is mind blowing. So glad I took the

Hasselblad with me that day.

 

Hasselblad 500cm Zeiss 80mm C T* Kodak 400TX Tmax Dev @ 6 min w/

agitation @ ea. 30sec.

thank you all! the camera was dead straight. that wall on the left, and the floor are tilted. I tried to straighten it, but it became an 'idiot bolt' that kept spinning on both ends.. To straighten one line, sent the others out of wack.

 

In then end, I kept it the way it was in camera.. it had the most life that way :)

 

 

thanks again!

 

 

I was very deliberate in my camera height, to push the perspectives as

far back as possible, down the center line for a balanced harmony of

the shapes and lines. Any lower, the far doorway goes too high, and

any higher, the scale would be off. I had to use the trick of closing

one eye when lining it up to remove any stereo depth that our minds

calculate. Seeing with only one eye, is how the camera would see the

depth. (thank you Ansel! ;) )

 

Hasselblad 500cm

Zeiss 80mm C T*

Kodak 400TX

Tmax Dev @ 6 min w/ agitation @ ea. 30sec.

From my b/w series of Apes, documenting their personalities.

From my b/w Ilford series of China Camp State Park, in northern

California.

From my b/w series of Apes, documenting their personalities.

Possibly the best lunch hour shooting. Jed and I decided to follow

through with our plan of going on a shoot together. Armed with his

new Minolta SRT-102, we ventured to the fort below the Golden Gate

Bridge. We were approached by a National Parks Ranger, as we were

about to start taking pictures of the severe angle of being directly

below the bridge. The Ranger told us that the fort was open, and

that we should go in.

 

Jed and I were kids in a candy story, and all the candy you could eat

was free. It was just freakin cold and windy! An easy price to pay.

 

I shot with the Hasselblad, and with only a few shots left in my roll,

I turned the tripod over to Jed.. and when I stood back, I saw the

image that summed up the day. And took it.

 

I'll get around to posting my images of the day, but this one I just

had to present first. It was Jed, in the moment... alone with his new

33 year old manual SLR.

 

Hand held, I had to brace against the wall, and get the lens as fast

as possible. I'm very happy with how the DOF turned out. I do wish

there were more detail in the distance, but I feel that it would pull

attention away from Jed.

 

Hasselblad 500cm

Zeiss 80mm C T*

Kodak 400TX

Tmax Dev @ 6 min w/ agitation @ ea. 30sec.

 

very kind comments, and I appreciate them very much!!

 

I am so glad that you feel as I do about b/w images!

 

-j

Guangzhou Train Station, looking straight up at the center dome.

 

The one thing that you will see all over China, is construction. What

you will also see, is that most of the scaffolding is bamboo, and tied

together with either twine, or the more modern plastic zip-tie. My

thought was that it probably promotes safety, by the age old 'be

careful' rule of construction.

 

This was taken at about 6pm. When I was taking it, my colleague says,

"did you see the guys working?". that's when I zoomed out,

and found the center of the room as quickly as I could. That turned

out to be the escalator ride up to catch the train.

Frank Lloyd Wright... sooooopah geeeenius!

 

The local watering hole for traffic court, and civil action..is the

last of FLW's buildings. Seen in Gattica, and always remembered from

THX-1138. This place is amazing, and wonderful to visit on a slow

Sunday if you can find the one working elevator on that day!

Both sides of Market Street. Part of my 2 building abstract series.

 

3 blocks away, with the 100-400L. Parked in the rain on 3rd street,

facing north to Market St. in Downtown San Francisco. This lens

makes it harder and harder to arrive at places on time, when I have to

pull over to take pictures of my favorite building in the city.

 

One of the first images with this lens. Possibly the sharpest, and

straightest piece of glass I've ever had on my camera. I had borrowed

the lens from a friend, and 3 weeks later, I had one of my own. I

went deep into 'abstract orbit' after that.

 

20D

100-400L IS USM

A brisk, hard week at work. Relaxing for the weekend, I managed to

have the time to get my nearing 'Vinnie Barbarino' hair cut. It had

been a while..since October.. yikes.

 

Bill's Barbershop, a 5 minute walk into town from the house. I got

there a few minutes early to catch up with Bill, and take a few

pictures. It was a beautiful Saturday, and Magnolia Street was glowing

with sun for the first time in weeks since the winter rain and fog

dropped in.

 

I shot through an entire roll of 400tx while waiting. Moments before

I was in the chair, another regular patron rises after his cut,

compliments Bill, and finishes his story about why he likes Mac laptops.

 

Hasselblad 500c/m : 80mm Zeiss C T* : Kodak 400TX Pro

 

Developed w/ Microdol-X (mix straight)

1 min agitation

 

Wish I had a 1/2 stop more in the exposure.