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In Reply to: Fabulous your take on filters,mirrors my findings.Although I'm more artist posted by Joe M on January 12, 2003 at 10:51:36:
Photoshop or some other processing software can do wonderful things, but I'd prefer to get it as close as possible first. Hence the fussiness about filter specifics. The bright retaining ring on some Hoys filters, for example.A hood almost goes without saying, but we should say it. Not everyone has gotten the message. Unfortunately, my Nikkor 28-105 AF lens takes a hood that's both huge and ineffective. It looks like a cereal bowl! Fortunately, the lens itself is quite flare resistant. The Nikkor manual focus 35-105 was a fine sharp lens (at least mine was, but they did vary a lot), however, it was very flare prone. And guess what? The dedicated hood made things worse. I ended up using the Nikon HN-3 hood from my 35 mm prime lens. After that I started testing my lenses for flare. Use a Mini Maglite and while looking through the finder, wave the beam around the front of the lens. Mounting the camera on a tripod helps, and a dimly lighted room does, too. But it doesn't need to be pitch dark. Try looking for flare at each end and the middle of zoom ranges and largest and smallest apertures. Usually the widest focal length is worst. I've had a lot of surprises doing this. Some pleasant and some unpleasant. A Vivitar Series 1 28-105 f/2.8-3.8 (the older one with the shiny finish) has very low flare and ghosting. The Nikon 35-105 was terrible. Go figure.
It's not so much a techie versus artistic approach. It's really more of a "be prepared" and "leave nothing to chance" sort of thing. I took a note from Ansel Adams books. He was highly technical, measured, calibrated, and tested everything; and his preparation for a shoot was like a military campaign. (read about his preparation for "Moon Over Half Dome", he consulted an astronomer) Yet no one could ever say he was less an artist for it.
I happen to be a retired engineer, so the measuring and technology comes naturally. But when I go out to shoot, I know how my stuff behaves and I can concentrate on the artistic side. This habit started long before Photoshop was around to help me, and it continues today.
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- Re: Fabulous your take on filters,mirrors my findings.Although I'm more artist - Bold Eagle 13:39:57 01/12/03 (2)
- points well taken...But I read that Ansel Adams was not his best at printmaking,John Sexton among - Joe M 15:14:54 01/12/03 (1)
- Re: points well taken...But I read that Ansel Adams was not his best at printmaking,John Sexton amon - Bold Eagle 17:14:44 01/12/03 (0)
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