Gazelle-1:

Mamiya 645 210mm lens Kodak Tri-x minolta auto meter III.

-- Bahman Farzad (exposeit-right@spotmetering.com), December 07, 1999

Answers

Bahman

Thank you for sharing this beauty, please post technical info too.

Ranjith

-- Ranjith Wijekoon (kranjith@gisqatar.org.qa), December 08, 1999.

Beautiful image!

The positioning of the second animal behind the horns is slightly distrating.

How did you achieve the effect? What developer did you use? Or did you achieve it digitally? Inquiring minds... :>

-- Keith Clark (clarkphotography@spiritone.com), December 08, 1999.

Thechnical data: Camera was handheld. The background animal was there and was blurred due to a shallow DOF. Film was processed and exposed normally. The background was sunlit and it simply washed out the foreground was shaded. The aperture was wide open at f-4. No shutter speed was recorded. The photo was taken at the Birmingham Zoo a few years ago. I spent a lot of time waiting for the right moment. The negative was scanned directly using Microtek scanmaker 4 (I do not recommend it - it is a pain). The negative was scanned as color and mode was changed to grayscale (Microtek is also a very poor B&W scanner and does not pick up any detail from B&W neg) then changed back to color again. The toning was achieved by adding +Y and +R in PhotoShop 4. I hope this answers your questions.

-- Bahman Farzad (exposeit-right@spotmetering.com), December 08, 1999.

Really nice. I love the grain of Tri-X. I think the out of focus Gazelle in the background really adds to the image, but I would like it a little better if it was not directly behind the subjects head. I find it a little distracting there. Maybe a horizontal composition and a slightly different shooting position would have given you a little more room to place the animal off to one side a bit, but still have it in th frame. Overall though, a very pleasing image.

-- Mark Castiglia (markus777@earthlink.net), December 09, 1999.

Beautiful picture. I actually like the out of focus animal in the background. It's a wonderful shape and gives the picture some depth.

-- Billy Gorum (Herphoto@aol.com), December 09, 1999.

Would you mind writing an article on your sepia toning technique in Photoshop?

I'm sure a lot of us would like to experiment with this.

Keith

-- Keith Clark (clarkphotography@spiritone.com), December 13, 1999.

Keith: 1) In photoshop, if the image mode is not grayscale, convert it grayscale 2) Convert the mode back to color 3) add (R) and yellow (Y) until the desired color is obtained 4) save

-- Bahman Farzad (exposeit-right@spotmetering.com), December 14, 1999.