You are very fast, Lasse. I haven't really had a chance to look at them all yet.... I will soon - but myweb connection is ad slow as a dial-up connection at the moment. Grrrr.....:-/ Regars Jens
Jens Bladt http://www.jensbladt.dk -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Lasse Karlsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 14. februar 2006 21:40 Til: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Emne: Re: Weekend crop: A gallery of jazz photos Thanks all who took the time to look at my pictures and comment on them. I put all replies into one post. See below. From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Love some of the motion blurs. Good stuff, Lasse. > Paul Thanks Paul, I was - and still am - a bit hesitant about how, when and in what kind of presentations to use this technique, not to mention trying to refine it some more. Knowing that you are into shooting and writing for ads and similar I take it that you may see the same use for this kind of blur and play with colors and shapes as I do - if used and executed successfully it can make a great tool for catching attention in advertising or similar presentations. However if you want to create pictures of long lasting and artistic qualities it will take a bit more than just neat and spectacular play of colors and motions. From: "Rick Womer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Some nice shots here. You must be taking motion blur > lessons from Frank! > Rick Thanks Rick, As Frank probably would put it: "Lessons? Who needs any st***ing lessons? I've got enough talent for not finding correct focussing point just as I am..<g>" From: "Butch Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi Lasse > Nice overall set, but the dragging the shutter technique did little for > me. > I think I would have preferred the images had you set a shutter speed to > get > just a touch of blur. Two of the pictures of the drummer 066 and 105 best > exemplify it. > Butch Hi Butch, I appreciate your comments and your being specific very much. (See also my comments to Paul above.) I feel rather ambivalent about the motion blur thing. I also realised that in doing a shoot like this one, maybe I should set out with more clearly defined (different) aims. I collect pictures in areas that I like, like of music and musicians, sports, beautiful (in a very wide sense) female models, as well as historical and documentary pictures and pictures of art and "art-photography". I am also a trained reporter doing documentary reports, also in pictures. In this I mostly go for accuracy and high technical quality. For instance I collect pictures of Jimi Hendrix (or Charlie Parker, or...) and mostly I intensly dislike "artsy"-pictures (for instance in the same technique that I now shot). Then there is the artful presentation of various activities like music, including jazz - the milieu and the musicians, or like sports etc. when you try to get a bit deeper, under the surface and present something maybe universal in a human being's relation to whatever he/she is into. I want to pursue both of these shooting approaches. However, I am also very much intrigued by some of the effects that can be achieved by "serious motion blur" as when people's faces get distorted or rather "poly-shaped". This actually goes back to very early painting efforts I have done and which I might explore some more in my photography too. I don't know how far, or if to any extent at all, I will be able to reach in doing so, but as I said, I will try to explore it some more. From: "Jens Bladt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I can't say that I knopw this band, even though I may have heard them. > Can you plese tell us what camera was used, and at what ISO, please? I feared somone on the list would ask me this, of course... :-) All were shot with Canon 20D and a Sigma 18-125 zoom. The ISO:s used were all the way from 100 up to 3200. However just by looking at the pictures in this gallery, it won't necessarily tell you too much, since most of the pictures were cropped and subject to quite a few adjustments - curves, colours, brightness etc. as well as selective sharpening. I was in many instances stretching slow shutter speeds to, or below the limit of what I could get away with... I'd also say that most pictures in the gallery look a half to a full stop brighter than intended. Finally the software of the site processed them and made them look like having been saved in low quality setting... In brief I am not satisfied with the look of the pictures in the gallery. Anyway, if you or anyone wants specifics or even take a closer look at (a crop of) the original capture of any of the pictures, I'd be happy to provide it. Regarding Jazz Kamikaze, it is quite a new band and they are quite young, why I guess they are not very well known. However I'm sure that you will hear more about them in the future. Thank you all, Lasse > Regards > Jens > Fra: Lasse Karlsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sendt: 13. februar 2006 21:38 > Til: pentax-discuss@pdml.net > Emne: Weekend crop: A gallery of jazz photos > Hi all, > Friday night I shot a concert by young Danish jazz band Jazz Kamikaze who > played the "Mariehamn Jazz, Roots & Blues Festival 2006". > They were really, I mean really, good. (Maybe Jens B. knows about them?) > Anyway I uploaded a selection of pictures at the following url: > http://assearlssonhotography.fotopic.net/c860256.html > Please note that this site, "fotopic", reduces the quality of your files. > I > didn't know, or remember, until I noticed the deterioration. It's a shame > for a site that pretends to be a site for photography. > Anyway, the pictures are still viewable and you are very welcome to take a > look, and comment on any aspects of the pictures, the gallery and the > presentation, if you find it worthwhile. > You will notice that I have used a particular shooting technique for quite > o > few of the pictures and I am curious to hear whether you think it works > for > you as presented, or if it simply doesn't. > Thanks in advance. > Lasse
