Need advice on telephoto lens selection

[antonyb]

loosing focus towards the camera from the focal point is something i fall foul of all too often. Now I realise I am doing it (a recent discovery) I shall watch out for it as i do with the plane of focus going away from the focal point.

Great shots as usual Marc.

I would be interested to know what camera bodies these pics were taken with.

Antony

 

[fotografz]

Antony:

#1 Canon 1DsMKII with Zeiss 85/1.2 60th Anniv; available light

#2 Leica DMR/9 with R90AA; Hensel Ring-Light

#3 Hasselblad H2D/22 with HC150/3.5; Available light filled by Profoto Mono head and umbrella.

Part of 200 commercial images shot for a Medical Spa and Salon last Sunday.

 

[antonyb]

thanks!

 

[wang]

How about this one ? You could tell me if any of the photoshop CS2 technique should be applied to this shot.

Well, I am going for holiday lasting for 8 days, hopefully I will be able to show you people some nice shots. Cheers.

 

[woodyspedden]

Chi

I suspect your monitor is not calibrated as the picture has a strong green cast. I just calibrated my monitor with the Gretag eyeone photo so I think mine is in pretty good shape. Also I think the saturation is a bit strong. If this was shot raw I would try to recover some of the highlights. there are sections of the image that look blown out.

Hope this helps
Woody Spedden

 

[coyot]

Chi,

On my monitor, there is no green cast. The images is lovely ... maybe a bit to contrasty and looks a little bit over sharpened. However; overall, a nice shot!

Michael.

 

[djg]

I can see some yellowish-green cast in the lower face (lighter skin colors) AND a bluish-magenta cast in the darker areas? Could be a combination of white-balance and over-saturation / contrast?

I for one can't criticize as I like over-saturated / contrasty to a lesser / larger extent depending on subject, portraits tending to a lesser and landscapes to a larger (sometimes ludicrous) degree. But I do find that if the white balance is good, the image will over-saturate gracefully for a pleasant zing. A bad white-balance will show suspect colors that will look more out of place as the saturation increases (surprise!!).

But it's a very nice portrait to start with, as Michael points out, and that's the important part

... the rest you can play around with until you get a nice result.

 

[antonyb]

"I can see some yellowish-green cast in the lower face (lighter skin colors) AND a bluish-magenta cast in the darker areas? Could be a combination of white-balance and over-saturation / contrast?"

I can see this too and agree with DJs analysis. For what it's worth

 

[biggles3]

Alan, going back to the original thread - I tried out the Zeiss 300 with the MutarII shot fully open. The 'standard' pic is taken on an E-1 with the standard lens at 54mm. I've marked the area for the 2 pics taken with the Zeiss lenses on the E-1. The 'distant' shot is 2.5 miles as the crow flies. Not bad considering all the glass elements involved - mind you at that distance, a good tripod helps just a little... Sorry about the heavy compression.
Cheers.

 

[wang]

I think the best thing is to specifify the colour spaceBThe portrait was scanned with Adobe colour space with the monitor set at the same space in my Apple it looks alright but When I looked at it in other monitorCit is full of casts with different coloursB