sean_reid Posted February 21, 2007 Share #1 Â Posted February 21, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) I'm headed south later this week and will be working on a long-term photographic project in Florida through the end of March. I'll check in with the forum but not as regularly as usual so if I seem to be ignoring a question (directed to me) it will probably be because I'm out photographing and haven't seen it. A lot of the lenses I've been testing need to go back to Zeiss and Leica (for PMA) but I'll try to get at least an introductory article about the ultra-wide RF lenses up in the next week or two. Since I won't have full sets for RF lens testing (for the next while) I've asked Leica to send me a D-Lux 3 and a Digilux 3 to test and so I'll be trying them out this coming month as time allows. Â The introduction of the M8 has been tumultuous, to be sure, but I do love seeing the number of people who've been working on solutions, profiles, workflows, cyan drift correction alternatives, hand coding charts, etc. Its great to be part of a forum that is, on the whole, constructive. Â Cheers, Â Sean Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Guest guy_mancuso Posted February 21, 2007 Share #2 Â Posted February 21, 2007 Have fun and keep in touch you know my numbers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
innerimager Posted February 21, 2007 Share #3 Â Posted February 21, 2007 Have a rewarding and fun trip Sean, and thank you for your ongoing, extremely helpful contributions here. best...Peter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
carstenw Posted February 21, 2007 Share #4 Â Posted February 21, 2007 Thanks for your great contributions, and enjoy your trip! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rosuna Posted February 21, 2007 Share #5 Â Posted February 21, 2007 I am very interested in a comparison of 75mm lenses. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterv Posted February 21, 2007 Share #6 Â Posted February 21, 2007 Have a good trip, and thanks for your patience over these past months. Â Peter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cindy Flood Posted February 21, 2007 Share #7 Â Posted February 21, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) Have a great time while working on your project. It is supposed to warm up down here finally. I hope you have nice weather. Thanks for all your help and contributions. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott kirkpatrick Posted February 21, 2007 Share #8 Â Posted February 21, 2007 Motorcyle week? Hope it gets warm enough for folks to be comfortable in outlandish costumes. Are you changing you approach to reflect your current interest in catching larger groups of people at middle distances? Â All the best, and forget about studying lenses six at a time for a while... Â scott Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wparsonsgisnet Posted February 21, 2007 Share #9 Â Posted February 21, 2007 Have a great trip and bring some warm weather back! Â Thanks in arrears and in advance for all your valuable assistance. Â Regards, Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sean_reid Posted February 21, 2007 Author Share #10  Posted February 21, 2007 Motorcyle week? Hope it gets warm enough for folks to be comfortable in outlandish costumes. Are you changing you approach to reflect your current interest in catching larger groups of people at middle distances? All the best, and forget about studying lenses six at a time for a while...  scott  Thanks everyone!  Cindy, I hope the weather is good but either way, it will be a lot warmer than here and I can get back to riding instead of driving.  Ruben,  I'll have at least one of the 75s with me.  Scott,  The key project is the series of "wall pictures" during Daytona Bike Week (and perhaps also Spring Break) and those will continue to be made from the same vantage point, the same distance, etc. Later this year I hope to do an edit of the whole project to date (2001 - 2007) and then put that final set into play. For the final set to work as I intend it to, the framing, distance, color palate, etc. need to remain consistent and the variations will continue to be the scenes that take place within that fixed frame.  Then I'll see what happens. My primary raw material (people in public places) is down there in abundance and I have several ideas about what else I may want to do. To be sure, these pictures of small figures in the landscape (normally seen against some sort of plane or semi-plane such as a beach, a parking lot, a frozen river, etc.) will be part of what I continue. I'll keep track of what lenses I use each day so that the experience and examples can find their way into the lens reviews. Also, the Digilux 3 and D-Lux 3 just arrived so I'll work with both of them as well.  It's actually going to be easier to do lens and camera testing in Florida (this time of year) than it is in Vermont. The weather allows more flexibility. I'm going to bring down three shift lenses (for EOS) and work on that article as well. I've already used the Canon 24 T-SE and Oly 24 Shift for side by side pictures (as part of a recent architectural shoot).  You're absolutely right about the pleasures of not working with six lenses at once. Its necessary for comparison testing but, frankly, it gets in the way of my workflow.  Below is a sample workprint from that series. This one happened to be made with a D2.  Cheers all,  Sean Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wattsy Posted February 22, 2007 Share #11 Â Posted February 22, 2007 To be sure, these pictures of small figures in the landscape (normally seen against some sort of plane or semi-plane such as a beach, a parking lot, a frozen river, etc.) will be part of what I continue. Â Street photography is usually not my bag but there is something slightly disconcerting about the 'side-on' view that your shot provides. It reminds me of one of Robert Frank's images in The Americans (captioned "Canal Street, New Orleans"). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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