"what about us" 17th September 2010 from benedict chen on Vimeo.
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Thursday, September 9, 2010
abolute sharpness is overated.
I am starting to fall in love with old leica glass specfically mandler era glass. My mentor prefers even older leitz glass.
Basically pre asph lens allow a continuity of vision across planes. This is prefered since i make pictures with multiple subjects often counter-balancing each other. Some might describe it as painterly.
Modern lens have the of kind of sharpness that calls attention to itself. When accurately focused it can create out of world kind of imagery. But if inaccurately done it screams error.
These problem are often at large aperture say 2.8 and wider.
Another thing is that when viewing on LCD it seems that sharpness is magnified. When on matte print it is less the case.
Basically pre asph lens allow a continuity of vision across planes. This is prefered since i make pictures with multiple subjects often counter-balancing each other. Some might describe it as painterly.
Modern lens have the of kind of sharpness that calls attention to itself. When accurately focused it can create out of world kind of imagery. But if inaccurately done it screams error.
These problem are often at large aperture say 2.8 and wider.
Another thing is that when viewing on LCD it seems that sharpness is magnified. When on matte print it is less the case.
Thursday, September 2, 2010
KISS printing.
Its a horror to print your pictures. Color incorrect argh..
Its ok if you are the expressionist but for protraits family shots it a pain.
Black and white you might face color cast warm/neutral you never quite sure
Suggestion: BW
USE specialize ink
http://www.inksupply.com/bwpage.cfm
A3+ you can use Epson stylus office 1100 (asia)IE workforce 1100 for (north america)
For better sharper detail print you can get Epson R1900 better as the droplet size is smaller.
But workforce 1100 with MIS ink doesn't seem to need to deal with as much software work.
Its ok if you are the expressionist but for protraits family shots it a pain.
Black and white you might face color cast warm/neutral you never quite sure
Suggestion: BW
USE specialize ink
http://www.inksupply.com/bwpage.cfm
A3+ you can use Epson stylus office 1100 (asia)IE workforce 1100 for (north america)
For better sharper detail print you can get Epson R1900 better as the droplet size is smaller.
But workforce 1100 with MIS ink doesn't seem to need to deal with as much software work.
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