Retired translator hiding out under a rock in Tokyo, Japan. Expertise includes photography, jazz guitar, juggling, Materials Science, Go, Japanese literature, comp.sci., and AI.
@mattblaze@federate.social
Matt: Looking at more images is, of course, good advice. You’ve mentioned in the past several names I wasn’t aware of, so, thanks.
I got stuck on the Minor White/Ansel Adams axis in high school (68-72 or so) when every issue of Aperture was jaw-dropping amazing. I really wanted to study with Minor White (who was at MIT when I was), but realized a hyperactive computer nerd might grate on White’s sensibilities…
An attempt from those days…
@mattblaze@federate.social
Feel free to tell me I’m dizzy, but:
I find correctly perspective corrected images to make the buildings look top-heavy. You’ve got the lines straight and parallel, but what I’d want would be a perceptually realistic (yes, that doesn’t mean anything: sue me) rendering. And I don’t know how to do that.
I let my Canon 24 TSE II go because with the adaptor it was just too much of a clunker on a mirrorless. Sigh. So I haven’t put in anywhere near the amount of effort this deserves.
@mattblaze@federate.social
Ah. Cold pixels. I see. That’s how you keep the noise down.
(Translation: Nice one!)
@mattblaze@federate.social
Do you have the negative at hand? What is it’s actual size in mm?
FWIW, the '85 Hasselblad 500CM here is 53x53mm, the '53 Rolleiflex T is 54x54 mm, and the no longer here Mamiya 7II was a seriously glorious 54x70 mm.
Although I’ve never used a GX680, I was photographed by one once (they were standard for wedding/family studio group photos here in Japan in the good old days).