2020 Project 52 by Antonio Correia - 1rd Quarter

[Antonio Correia]

I do like wide angles. When I get photos without or even with little distortions, I am pleased.

I went today to this museum in Setúbal and I made a few shots.
To begin with, let me share with you one of photographs. I have crossed posted it in this thread.

I have done a few more but as it is very easy for me to go there again, I will repeat the same captures in a better way perhaps tomorrow.

[Antonio Correia]

A shot of the largest room and another one of an excellent sculpture which is connected to previous Portuguese political situation when there was a political police which was supposed to watch our steps, arrest us and so on... nothing innovative.
Today this work is easier, globally done and often with our own willingly happy cooperation.

[Geoff F]

Verticals are upright and the highlights are bright but not over exposed. Maybe a few bright areas on the polished surfaces but I suspect those would be impossible to avoid whatever you did.

[Antonio Correia]

Verticals are upright and the highlights are bright but not over exposed. Maybe a few bright areas on the polished surfaces but I suspect those would be impossible to avoid whatever you did.

Thank you Geoff for commenting !
Yes, indeed specular lights are hard to avoid.
I think I made a good work managing the wide angle. After all it is just a 24mm in FF... not difficult to master I suppose.
(flattering myself for a change ! )

[Shadowman]

Nicely framed and exposed, I too like shooting with UWA lenses but I also like the exaggerated perspective which can be created.

[Antonio Correia]

Nicely framed and exposed, I too like shooting with UWA lenses but I also like the exaggerated perspective which can be created.

Can we see those photos, John ?
I am just looking at a 18mm... but I must resist !

[Antonio Correia]

Last Tuesday the group I am in decided to take pictures under the theme "people" during the next month.
As I always try to make something different - not always with success - I made some shots this morning.
Yesterday I have been around the Sony digging in the menus, playing a bit and customising the camera my way.

When I saw the time laps, an ideia came to my mind: To photograph people moving or slightly blurred by movement and stack all images so it would look like a larger number of people.
I went to the market and made 4 shots with the camera on time laps, then I came home and stacked and aligned all the photographs and made some masks to show people in movement, ghost like.
This is something I have to repeat but far more carefully.

I had done something similar before...

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[Geoff F]

I have certainly seen examples of this sort of idea, which have worked well. But it needs to look as though it was a deliberate composition not a mistake; which is tricky to achieve and I suspect there will be many rejects.

With the market place, I think you need to have a sharply focused foreground. It doesn't matter if the background fades into out of focus blur. Maybe just a smaller number of moving people would give a better impression of ghostly images amongst an everyday scene.

Or alternatively, everybody moving so as to give an impression of movement against a static background. Perhaps making the viewer feel that everybody is so busy that nobody has time to stop and look at anything.

Definitely an interesting project and I think you will eventually end up with some really interesting results.

[Antonio Correia]

Thank you Geoff for your comment.
The manipulated photographs are just attempts and experiments. Perhaps I spend too much time experimenting this and that...
In the market the shots were done on the nearest place I found without any special concerns. The camera was posed on oranges !
I didn't care much about focusing as it was in the simple "automatic" but as it is a wide angle, the precision in this case doesn't look important.
I not sure if I will try again. Perhaps I will...
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Today I have been installing *icc profiles from paper samples I was given some time ago and I started to print a collection of images for my "Devotion" project. The one I am showing bellow is already refined. The white areas on the paper are to allow people to hold the photo without placing their fingers on the image itself.
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Side note - Perhaps the idea of Project 52 is not the daily report of activities...

[skitterbug]

Hi Antonio - I find your photo work interesting so I enjoy seeing your posts. A thought about your Side note: "Perhaps the idea of Project 52 is not the daily report of activities..." - Your P52 is whatever you want it to be. Personally, I appreciate the extra information you add. But it is whatever works best for you!

[Manfred M]

Antonio - I agree with Sandy - a Project 52 is really what you want it to be, but the intent is to get people out and creating images. This can be important to get people into a routine as we only improve if we practice the craft frequently. You are someone who gets out with his camera a lot, so I suspect you don't need to learn to practice and hone your shooting and post-processing skills.

While I shoot and / or process and / or images every week, I don't post everything I am working on. I don't like the concept of a Project 52 because it imposes an artificial timeline on my work.

[Antonio Correia]

Thank you Sandy and Manfred for your comments.

I am not doing the P52 not as an obligation but rather like a way to make me shoot in a daily basis. While doing so, I learn how to use the camera in more or less depth (the repeated leitmotif ), learn where the commands are, learn what I miss, learn what I am missing, learn the custom buttons I change so often and so on.

Next Saturday I mean tomorrow, my wife is making an exhibition of 6 images. I will share the shots of the event for you. You are/would be welcome.

Cheers !

[Antonio Correia]

Today's print from the same project...

[Geoff F]

Last image looks good to me, Antonio. Plenty of fine detail and some good highlights on the forehead and cheeks; but nicely constrained to prevent any over exposure.

[Antonio Correia]

Thank you Geoff for your comment.

This image like some others, are refined and adjusted according to details as for example to show areas out of gamut for the specific paper I am using. This one I printed twice as the first did not came out "decent"/acceptable.

I like images printed with all that area around...
Have a nice week end !

Cheers !

[LenR]

Today's print from the same project...

Hi Antonio, nicely done. What paper are you using?

[Antonio Correia]

Len, I am using Ilford Galerie Gold Fibre Silk 310gsm - 315 micron

[LenR]

Hi Antonio, IGGFS is a paper I have used for years. I also like Ilford Gold Fibre Gloss 415 micron which has a wider colour gamut. Also Carson Baryta. Similar to GFS with a cooler tone.

[Shadowman]

Can we see those photos, John ?
I am just looking at a 18mm... but I must resist !

Hi Antonio,

I just posted on in this thread Tourist or Street 2: Sparkle City

[Shadowman]

Time lapse, nice efforts, this style can be tricking to time just right, keep at it.