{"id":556,"date":"2007-03-23T10:59:48","date_gmt":"2007-03-23T15:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/23\/long-lenses-results\/"},"modified":"2007-07-20T19:11:21","modified_gmt":"2007-07-21T00:11:21","slug":"long-lenses-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/23\/long-lenses-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing with long lenses: results"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>About a week ago, I took a walk in a local park with a Hasselblad 501C\/M and a 350mm lens to see if I could get down with long lenses, which I generally don&#8217;t like very much (see <a href=\"http:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/15\/long-lenses\/\">previous post<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t feel like I&#8217;d done very well at the time, and the film I got back from it yesterday confirms that I was right. As I&#8217;m not used to shooting with long lenses, I&#8217;m not surprised that I didn&#8217;t really feel like I was shooting as myself. At times I felt like I was trying to look through <a href=\"http:\/\/vickyslater.com\/\">Vicky Slater<\/a>&#8216;s eyes, but doing a crap job of it.<\/p>\n<p>I should also note that I have a really hard time connecting with landscapes through &quot;normal&quot; (sharp, even coverage) lenses in general.<\/p>\n<p>As promised, here are some of the results, shot on the new Kodak Portra 400NC-2.<\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/blogimg\/peach-hill-350-v-tree.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"552\" alt=\"Peach Hill photo: split tree\" class=\"border\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Close to something, maybe, but no cigar.<\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/blogimg\/peach-hill-350-hill.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Peah Hill photo: orchard tree line on hilltop\" class=\"border\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These are the lab&#8217;s proof scans. I think this shot has the most potential, if I can pull more detail out of the trees when I re-scan it. I&#8217;ll reserve judgment until I see it.<\/p>\n<p>It feels kind of pretty, in a really classically conservative way. Which I think may be my problem with long lenses and &quot;clean&quot; landscapes in general: when I like them, they usually feel very reserved and forced into a box. I may find something aesthetically pretty in what I&#8217;ve shot after the fact, but it&#8217;s not how I generally see, especially not landscapes.<\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/blogimg\/peach-hill-350-cross.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Peach Hill photo: branches and high tension tower\" class=\"border\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t great, but I suppose it&#8217;s passable as geometric masturbation, which is a type of photo I love to make but don&#8217;t think necessarily makes for compelling viewing unless it&#8217;s done <i>extremely<\/i> well. Kind of like playing a 20 minute jam with a band: really fun for the people playing, but not something you&#8217;d inflict on anybody else.<\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/blogimg\/peach-hill-350-wires.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"492\" alt=\"Peach Hill photo: valley and power lines\" class=\"border\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Depth of field test with a long view\/burn frame at the end of the roll. Safe crap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a week ago, I took a walk in a local park with a Hasselblad 501C\/M and a 350mm lens to see if I could get down with long lenses, which I generally don&#8217;t like very much (see previous post). I didn&#8217;t feel like I&#8217;d done very well at the time, and the film I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1045,1569],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artmaking","tag-long-lenses","tag-seeing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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