Tim Tucker
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This was a toughie and is very close to my initial visualisation. It also goes back to my roots as a B&W fanatic as it was always visualised as a B&W shot. This is also not a shot that I wouldn't have attempted with film.
Sorry to bore you with details, but I'll keep it brief,
The scene itself is of the abandoned torpedo testing station on Loch Long.
What drew me to the image was the broken glass on the second pane up, (the lower panes are within the reach of schoolboys and have long since disappeared), an how it was an abstraction of the sky. I furthered the abstraction by deliberately placing the plane of focus on the window. This also (I hope) plays with the perceptions of foreground and background. The slight tilt up needed to bring the horizon in the lower pane obviously created converging verticals that were corrected in Photoshop.
Shot into the sun, (it's behind the upper left pane of glass, the hole being it's abstract counterpart) this inevitably gave low local contrast but a high DR. I wanted a soft background and f16 gave the required look. Though shot into the sun contrast was maintained by the frosted glass above and the high acutance "glassy" water balanced it below. There is little detail or contrast in any other part of the image.
It is three separate exposures of -2EV 0EV and +2EV. I've used the -2EV as a base and the other exposures are carefully masked and blended in photoshop to bring up the values of specific areas without destroying the "mood".
Hope I succeeded.
BTW - Shot with a Micro-Nikkor 55mm f3.5 Ai, the newest lens I currently own for the Nikon.
Sorry to bore you with details, but I'll keep it brief,
The scene itself is of the abandoned torpedo testing station on Loch Long.
What drew me to the image was the broken glass on the second pane up, (the lower panes are within the reach of schoolboys and have long since disappeared), an how it was an abstraction of the sky. I furthered the abstraction by deliberately placing the plane of focus on the window. This also (I hope) plays with the perceptions of foreground and background. The slight tilt up needed to bring the horizon in the lower pane obviously created converging verticals that were corrected in Photoshop.
Shot into the sun, (it's behind the upper left pane of glass, the hole being it's abstract counterpart) this inevitably gave low local contrast but a high DR. I wanted a soft background and f16 gave the required look. Though shot into the sun contrast was maintained by the frosted glass above and the high acutance "glassy" water balanced it below. There is little detail or contrast in any other part of the image.
It is three separate exposures of -2EV 0EV and +2EV. I've used the -2EV as a base and the other exposures are carefully masked and blended in photoshop to bring up the values of specific areas without destroying the "mood".
Hope I succeeded.
BTW - Shot with a Micro-Nikkor 55mm f3.5 Ai, the newest lens I currently own for the Nikon.
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