Some very good work Chuck! Amelia 2-22 is perfect. Some of the shots have
some distracting hot spots in the background but overall a very good job. I
would have tried some B&W with Nancy and a yellow filter to try and lighten
up the freckles. Plus I think with the black top and paler skin and hair it
would make for some nice contrast. Have you tried converting any to B&W to
see how they come up?
Also when the model is wearing a wide brim hats it may be better to shoot at
around f5.6-f8 to get a little extra DOF. You should still get good BOKEH at
the close range you are shooting from.
Cheers Adam
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus mail list" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 7:35 AM
Subject: [OM] A little 85/2 work
> Hi, guys and gals. A few weeks ago I took an outdoor portraiture class
> from a local pro. I finally have some of the better ones scanned and a
> simple web page built which you can see here:
>
> <http://home.comcast.net/~chucknorcutt/photos/index.html>
>
> Amelia is a relatively new local model who spent a few hours modeling
> for the class of 6 photogs in exchange for free pics for her portfolio.
> Nancy is a high school junior who also modeled for a couple hours in
> exchange for free pics for her "senior year" photos. Both of them will
> end up with hundreds of shots to choose from. All of the class were
> fairly experienced photogs and a lot of good stuff was produced.
>
> All of my shots are with an OM-2sp and 85/2 silvernose. Film used on
> Amelia was Fuji NPC 160 which soon ran out. By the time I got to Nancy
> I had to run off and get some Fuji 200 at the local drugstore. Pics
> were scanned on an Acer/Benq Scanwit 2720s using VueScan which,
> amazingly, has no film profile for the Fuji NPC.
>
> In order to get quick feedback on our results the film was run over to
> the local drugstore's one-hour processing desk at noon. They actually
> made some decent 4x6 prints but my negatives came back horribly
> scratched both horizontally and vertically. It has been many, many
> hours at the computer fixing up the pictures of Amelia. Her pictures
> had multiple scratches passing through her hair and the mesh of her hat
> on many of the frames. Argghh!!
>
> Only one other person had a film camera... a mid-price, Nikon
> wunderbrick. The others were shooting with Nikon and Canon 6mp digitals
> with lenses that would make my 85-250/5 look as though it had been on a
> diet. But my bokeh beats their bokeh! I shot everything wide open at
> f/2 which has given a nice softness to the images.
>
> One interesting trick to pass along. Note the "sunset glow" on Amelia
> 2-11 (first frame in second row on the thumbnails). This shot was
> actually made about 11:00am in open shade with her face lit by an
> extremely powerful incandescent flashlight (or "torch" for you folk on
> the other side of the pond) imparting the yellow/orange color from about
> 15 feet away (or 5 meters for you folk on the other side of the pond).
>
> Comments welcome.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
> Woburn, Massachusetts, USA
>
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