The composition in the first one is a little strange, but compelling
in a forbidding sort of way, Dawid.
The second is beautiful.
The third has some interest in the zigzag of the walkway but otherwise
I suppose it's part of your hOMage to the 90/2 ...
Thanks for showing us.
Chris
On 9 Nov 2009, at 14:06, Dawid Loubser wrote:
> This one was exposed at about ISO 1600, it was really really dark in
> the church. In retrospect, this
> was a bad hurried scan (the print has highlight detail) but ti still
> conveys the general look:
>
> http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs51/f/2009/313/3/0/Pulpit_by_philosomatographer.jpg
>
> Notes: The composition etc. is pretty bad, and the groom is lost in
> the black, but from where I was
> sitting, I couldn't do much about it, and this was not a job for me,
> just a casual "memory" snapshot.
>
>
> This one was exposed at the opposite end of the scale, at ISO 50:
>
> http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs50/f/2009/313/4/5/Flower_Bubble_Girl_by_philosomatographer.jpg
>
> Notes: This was one of the young flower girls. I barely noticed her
> coming to stand next to me, as we
> were waiting outside for the bride and groom to exit the church.
>
> I wanted to isolate her from the background as much as possible, so I
> opened up to f/2.0, focused on here eyes, and made the image.
> I would have liked her to blow some of her bubbles across the
> "negative space" in my image, but even without that, I feel the subtly
> textured negative space balances the soft image of the little girl.
> But damn, I can't imagine ow AF on any DSLR would allow me the
> same focusing accuracy and composition in an instant. I *really* do
> not miss AF.
>
>
> Just to post another example of why I love the Magnificent 90/2.0,
> this was a recent street shot early in
> the morning, taken on more conventional FP4+ film, of the people using
> the bridge(s) to cross the busy road and
> walking to/from the Durban morning market (I was there on a recent
> business trip).
>
> http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs51/f/2009/313/0/f/Bridges_to_the_Market_by_philosomatographer.jpg
>
>
> Anyway, your comments appreciated. I just wanted to share some
> experience with XP2 film, and I must say, it's
> quite compelling, apart from the drag of me not being able to develop
> it myself. If I had to chose ONE film
> to put into ONE camera, across a wide range of conditions, XP2 would
> be quite high up on my list.
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