WARREN CONNECTICUT – Maria and I went snowshoeing today – the snow is actually chest deep. This is the most severe winter in memory. I took my Hasselblad and a 28mm lens and captured this on the way back.
On this day one year ago: a not very interesting IR image.
WARREN CONNECTICUT – Here we are after a snow storm. Again. Lovely light and rapidly moving clouds made this image of illuminated trees against a dark background possible. Taken with my Hasselblad H4D-60 and a 300mm lens.
On this day last year: My best barn of the past year. Terry Tanner’s barn in enveloping light.
WARREN CONNECITCUT – I’ve been experimenting with tilts and shifts on my Hasselblad with an HTS 1.5 tilt/shift adapter. One of the traditional reasons to tilt the lens on a view camera is to extend depth of field by tilting the focus plane; the technique is known as the Scheimpflug principle. I’ve been struggling with getting accurate focus with the HTS 1.5 so I’ve gone back to an alternative digital solution to the problem of extending depth of field, focus stacking. The idea is to take multiple images with the focus point shifted slightly from image and stack the images in specialized software to achieve an image that in focus throughout. See my post for January 4, 2011.
Here’s an image taken with my Hasselblad H4D and an HC 300 mm lens. I used the long lens to obtain compression in the image and to compose it to my taste. The 300 mm lens has shallow depth of field, even when stopped down, and there are image quality issues with stopping down to extreme levels. So I took 9 frames moving the focus plane through the image, and stacked them in Helicon Focus. The process is relatively painless as long as you have a lot of computing power. As I’ve noted previously black and white conversions from the Hasselblad are more like large format film than any other camera that I’ve used since I started with digital.
On this day one year ago: Snow drifts! How about that. Also taken with my Hasselblad. I guess this demonstrates that there are only so many landscape subject to photograph when the landscape is covered by snow. I prefer this year’s effort.
WARREN CONNECTICUT – We had a heavy snowfall Friday night so we stayed in Manhattan and drove up to Warren on Saturday morning. There had been very little wind so the snow stayed where it fell on tree limbs etching them against a darker background. I stopped at a rest stop on I 684 North of Goldens Bridge New York. Ok but not splendid photographs. When we arrived in Warren I captured this with my Hasselblad H4D-60 and a 300 mm lens.
On this day last year: An “out my window” in good light.
WARREN CONNECTICUT – A perfect clear, cold day for landscape photograph. I took this image with my Hasselblad H4D-60 and a 150mm lens and converted the image to grayscale. This camera is producing the most film-like results that I’ve gotten since I started using digital.
On this day one year ago: Blizzard!
WARREN CONNECTICUT – I took my Leica M9 out today with a wide lens (24mm Summilux) looking for wind-carved snow in fading, oblique light. I was pleased with what I was seeing and enjoyed take the images, but on reviewing the images none jumped out at me. Perhaps this is a worn-out subject (at least through my eyes).
We had dinner with some friends at Winvian, a nearby inn. A woman at the next table turned out to have a food blog. She included a reference to me – an odd experience for someone who avoids the limelight – in her entry on Winvian. Here’s a link: It’s All Fare.
Anyway here’s wind-carved snow:
On this day one year ago: Luke Tanner’s cornfield.
WARREN CONNECTICUT – A quiet day in the snow-covered countryside. This with my Hasselblad H4D-60.
On this date one year ago: Out my office window in lovely light.
