Recent content by Scriabinesque

You might lose detail if you shoot a painting with a softboxes, say you have to capture accurately the thicknesses and texture of paint. Strobes are a standard requirement in the kit, and I'm much used to referring to strobes as flashlights, my bad. However if your article is small, then a...

Film usage is a combination of personal preference + job requirement, i used Velvia 50 for shooting food closeup last time. very beautiful texture, close to grainless.

shooting paintings/art pieces is a very specialised genre of technical photography. if the clients are serious enough they would require you to use LF 4x5 film or at least 120 6x7 with one or two color charts alongside the painting for color matching. 4x5 works well since it provides perspective...

film is the most beautiful thing. the larger the light sensitivity area is, the longer lens you use to compensate for field of view, less odd looking distortions you'll get mm for mm. and even if there's distortions on film it still looks less irritating.

get a weather cover, and go get wet in the rain.

Hehheh. I had 1k a month take home pay for hell work.

polarisation of light is a very physical quality, it alters the physical quality of light. likewise, how can you cut surface reflections out of your images in PS? have you tried stacking two polarising filters together and rotate one of them while looking through it?

filters tweaks the wavelengths of light hitting the sensor. post production is just putting tints/colors into the finished products. different actions.

You're almost there. Your f stop is still too small. try larger f stop. Watch reflections while working with mirror finishes, you may want to reflect some white into the fork. the highlights are still harsh, you might want to bring those highlights down, bring down the contrasts a bit. With...

different exposure factors, different point of focus, different distance from the lens. how can we decide what is favourite?

$10k of photography equipment in the digital age is nothing. At best it pays for a standard photojournalist grade DSLR, one flashlight and one lens, and the equipment will not be first hand. but $10k on film equipment will be very good, you get 2 photojournalist grade film cameras, two...

wow how's the sharpness? i need the texture of the grains to show.. my MF been sitting in the cabinet for sometime. shooting and professing is fine, but scanning costs at least 15 bucks per image at fotohub at A3+ size for offset print standard, quite a pain. or about 40 bucks per image at...

The black in the background creates hard contrast. You seem to be using a small aperature too, somewhere between f8 to f16? its a good start. try a light background, large aperture. overall softness is also affected by point of focus too. High passing will further sharpen pixels making...

Wow. If it happens in your camera sensor, there's a likelihood that your lenses are attacked by that too. Have you checked?

You're welcome to check out the images in my fotologue http://fotologue.jp/serviam/