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Urban Echo


DonPilou

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Good afternoon,

 

I come back here with a new ultraviolet project in an urban environment. The main interest of ultraviolet photography here is to standardize the colours and create a warm and soft feeling. I did not work a lot on the colours, I simply swapped the green channel between the blue and the red ones.

 

About the gear, I used the Kolari UV bandpass filter with the Super Takumar 35mm F/3.5 to replace my Soligor 35mm F/3.5. The Super Takumar is really good and sharp, offering a better UV transmission than the Soligor. For long distance shots, I used the Nikon EL 80mm F/5.6 and the Nikon EL 105mm F/5.6.

 

Here are the results :

 

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Feel free to give me your technical and artistic feelings.

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WOW!

 

Very good framing. I like it, to have people in these kind of pictures (architecture, landscape) and your model seems perfectly placed. Are these selfies? My favourite from the series is #2, as his/yours looking guides you through the picture.

You managed to get a very "clear" view, often UV-pictures are more hazy.

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Thanks to both of you.

Daryll : I adjusted the white balance with a grey chart on the camera to assure a good exposition of each shot, then I managed to align the red and blue histograms on computer before the channel swap.

Alaun : the human subject is a model I use to work with, this way it is easier to place him the right way ;).

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Well seen; beautifully precise perspective correction. I like the narrative element and intrigue introduced by the human figure.
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I'm intrigued as to how you were able to shoot the scenes with no other people except for your model. It gives such a strange feeling of the world being abandoned. In the last photo the last remaining person in the world has collapsed. (Later he picks himself up and flees to the countryside to live with the abandoned animals and plants. He makes friends with a fox.)
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Thanks to all of you. To be sure there was no one else than the model in the pictures, the shooting day was fixed on Sunday. And the minimum 4s exposure of each shot helps to "dissolve" the other people ;).
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The highly UV reflective clothing really makes the images stand out. Interesting comment about "dissolving" other people, I would have thought they would appear as ghosts after such a treatment. :blink:
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Bill De Jager
Very nice soft colors yet a sharp rendition (not hazy). I'd say this approach produces very appealing results.
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Thanks for the new comments. Concerning the channel swap, it consists in a distribution of 50% red and 50% blue from the green channel.
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