HTS 1.5

[Alex Maxim]

28mm + HTS + .6 ND + .9 ND Grad, f51 @ 1:21


Kind regards,
Derek Jecxz
www.jecxz.com

Wow to the two last shots, Derek!
They would look good printed really big.

[rem]

Derek, this two picture are really woooooooooonderfull!
rem

[Steve C]

Nice work Derek.  For the second photo, what was the role of the HTS in the shot?  Also, which camera did you use to get a 1:21 exposure time?  I'm hoping that you are beta testing long-overdue firmware for the H4D60!  Please keep posting your beautiful work.

[Alex Maxim]

28mm + HTS + .9 ND + .9 ND Grad


Kind regards,
Derek Jecxz
www.jecxz.com

Derek, do you by any chance remember the location of this place? I'd really like to go there one day.

Thank you,
Alex

[jeff.grant@pobox.com]

Derek, I just followed that link. The images are taking seconds to load.

[Alex Maxim]

Derek, do you by any chance remember the location of this place? I'd really like to go there one day.

Thank you,
Alex

Of course! Every image on my website has a map with the location. When you view the image, click the link below the it and the map will appear. That's where it was made. Keep in mind, tide was out when I made this photograph, so the stream is probably a daily thing. You must know your tides. This image is in my latest works link: http://jecxz.com/main.asp?mode=latest

;d

Thank you!

[jonathan.lipkin]

Derek -

Do you create scene calibration images when you shoot? I've been experimenting with a piece of plexi (the 95mm filter size of the 35mm lens I'm using precludes the use of a white balance filter) and  it works pretty well, although the software does not like images that have any vignetting.

[jonathan.lipkin]

Interesting. My first shoot with the HTS I didn't either. But, the images had a very strong green/magenta cast on them, especially those which had a lot of rise/fall (called shift on the HTS), far beyond what was aesthetically acceptable. Perhaps you have a different lens combination or dont' use much shift. Here's a crop of an image of sand on the beach. The image had 10mm of shift and 2.7 degrees of tilt

[jfober]

Godd Question,
normally the HCD28 image will be cropped, but with the 1.5 extension it must be fine.
But i have decide for me, that the wide angel lens of my equipment is the 35mm and i have only work with this lens in combination with the HTS.

[MW]

HTS 1.5 + 80
ƒ16 50 ISO


First attempt at portraiture with HTS... It was easier than I imagined to get the mic and eyes on the same plane.  I'll be using this setup more consistently.

[rem]

MW, nice Portrait! What for a movement you had to do with the HTS? Tilting down? I still a bit confused and dont use it much... thanks, rem

[jonathan.lipkin]

Rem - can't speak for him, but I suspect that he tilted the adapter forward. For any lens and camera combination, there is a 'plane of sharp focus', this is the plane in the subject which is brought into focus as you focus the lens. With a traditional SLR, the lens does not tilt, to the plane of sharp focus is parallel to the film plane. When you tilt a lens forward using the movements of a view camera, or by using the HTS adapter on the Hasselblad, you tilt the plane of sharp focus in the direction of the lens tilt.

The tilt of the plane of sharp focus is considerably more than the tilt of the lens. Ie, a tilt with the HTS adapter of 2 degrees will tilt the plane of sharp focus more than 2 degrees.

From what I gather, the HTS adapter uses axial tilt instead of base tilt.

More info here:

http://www.trenholm.org/hmmerk/HMbooks3.html#SRpic
http://www.largeformatphotography.info/how-to-focus.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View_camera

There's an

[rem]

Thank you Jonathan for your explanatorys, thats what I thought with "tilting down". I know about in the theory but should really take me more time to use it! Also many thanks for the Links!
remo

[MW]

Thanks REM. Jonathan is correct. It was purely a visual estimated tilt. I didn't use the HTS much either for a while but once you wrap your head around it, you'll wonder how we ever fully accepted rigid plane cameras.
MW

[Monty Rakusen]

I must say theres some great work been done with the HTS amazing.

Is anyone using it as drop focus for portraiture? I'd like to see some examples if you have.
I used to shoot everything with drop focus, I know stupid but I'm considering going back to it just a bit.

I've been doing some work for GE and this video caught my eye....I've nothing to do with this really nice piece of work. I like the engineer with the aircraft engine and I'm hopefully doing a shoot like this soon, I can't decide if the drop is done in post or they are using real camera movements.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2MIIbuJ4Gc&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Kind regards

Monty