Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Grainy picture
I like this shot. Don't care that it's grainy. It's kind of a visual pun. Grain cars lined up for the harvest of wheat -- grain. And, you can't get that kind of grainy look with a digital camera -- it takes film. ("Pixely" is not the same.)This was 200-speed Kodak film with my trusty Pentax K-1000, with a -- shoot, I don't know, a 70-210 mm, stetched out, and a 2X behind it -- (about a mile? half-mile?) south of a grain elevator in Frederick, Okla.
Shot at -- LOL, hell if I know, I bracketed it all ways.
But it was film. And it'd look good bigger with the right frame. And I like it. :-)
--ER
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Frederick was my old stomping grounds for my first decade and a half. So that's on the old Frisco line, which then became the Katy, and is now Farm Rail.
Neat picture, good comp, diagonal lines, repeated patterns, good 2/3rds-1/3rds split, and neat line of transition, pretty much a golden phi comp.
But don't be a film chauvinist, you can add what ever grain or reticulation you want with an advanced version of Adobe Photo Shop. Remembering of course that grain and reticulation were faults in the film or the processing of such. Pixelyness is also a flaw. One is molecules and the other is digital pixels.
Neat picture, good comp, diagonal lines, repeated patterns, good 2/3rds-1/3rds split, and neat line of transition, pretty much a golden phi comp.
But don't be a film chauvinist, you can add what ever grain or reticulation you want with an advanced version of Adobe Photo Shop. Remembering of course that grain and reticulation were faults in the film or the processing of such. Pixelyness is also a flaw. One is molecules and the other is digital pixels.
That will make a great enlargement.
Think about digitizing it before you get it enlarged. Should be able to a larger cheaper print.
ER: "I am a film chauvinist, and will be for awhile yet."
Soapbox Warning!
Once upon a time, me too.
It will be about 5 years or less and then film will not be readily available. I've been experiencing that all my life. First the 4x5 film got rare, and then the two and a quarter roll film, and the the 620 mm film, and then the 25 asa color and then all silver based B&W became almost extinct thanks to the Hunt brothers in Texas, and so on and so forth. Finally I lost all control over film processing and printing and had to let other processors interpret my vision.
Digital has cut cost per 8x10 to 1/20th or less of film and digital products are archival with 100 year papers and ink and won't fade (Epson R800 and Adobe). I have control again of the medium and the product. And my digital camera (middle value) has a Zeiss 15X lens with 5X digital(equals about 5X 35mm size negative) which gives the basic camera without extra lens the micro ability of microscope at 60x and a macro telephoto of 75X. All you do is change the settings. Damnedest thing I ever saw.
I have been converted.
The Digital Photography God has captured my devotion.
Not to mention I can digitize any slide or film positives/negatives that I already have.
Examples of micro:
http://lobojosden.blogspot.com/2008/04/flea-and-cats-eye.html
Examples of macro:
http://lobojosden.blogspot.com/2007/10/grandfathers-gifts-bear.html
Think about digitizing it before you get it enlarged. Should be able to a larger cheaper print.
ER: "I am a film chauvinist, and will be for awhile yet."
Soapbox Warning!
Once upon a time, me too.
It will be about 5 years or less and then film will not be readily available. I've been experiencing that all my life. First the 4x5 film got rare, and then the two and a quarter roll film, and the the 620 mm film, and then the 25 asa color and then all silver based B&W became almost extinct thanks to the Hunt brothers in Texas, and so on and so forth. Finally I lost all control over film processing and printing and had to let other processors interpret my vision.
Digital has cut cost per 8x10 to 1/20th or less of film and digital products are archival with 100 year papers and ink and won't fade (Epson R800 and Adobe). I have control again of the medium and the product. And my digital camera (middle value) has a Zeiss 15X lens with 5X digital(equals about 5X 35mm size negative) which gives the basic camera without extra lens the micro ability of microscope at 60x and a macro telephoto of 75X. All you do is change the settings. Damnedest thing I ever saw.
I have been converted.
The Digital Photography God has captured my devotion.
Not to mention I can digitize any slide or film positives/negatives that I already have.
Examples of micro:
http://lobojosden.blogspot.com/2008/04/flea-and-cats-eye.html
Examples of macro:
http://lobojosden.blogspot.com/2007/10/grandfathers-gifts-bear.html
My first thought was, "That looks like Frederick." Then it was, "Hey, that says Cassidy, it is Frederick." Then you took the fun out of it and said it was Frederick. :-)
I worked at the Co-op one summer during harvest weighing the trucks and grading the wheat. I love this time of year. Great shot.
I worked at the Co-op one summer during harvest weighing the trucks and grading the wheat. I love this time of year. Great shot.
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: 9:59 AM
Great shot. It would be nice with sound too. My favorite high rises in Oklahoma always were the grain elevators.
Thanks, Junk ... I wrote a tacky letter to the editor back in the day complaining that a deejay referred to the "metro area" of STILLWATER once, pointing out that any place where the tallest structures were a grain elevator and a couple of dorms on the campus of a land-grant university did not qualify as a "metro area." :-)
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