19 May 2009

Motorcycle rider


Credit to Vintage Photo.

6 comments:

  1. Hi, can't figure out how to send you a message directly so I'm posting one here. Stop messing with your blog. This fixation on fast loading is ruining it. Where's the freakin' previews on the videos? sucks the life out of them not to see the teaser.

    And the photo's along the side? I loved those.

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  2. Message received (all comments come to one of my mailboxes).

    Right now the front page has seven videos, and with my Firefox browser all of them have preloaded and show the classic middle frame. I don't know why you would be having problems in that regard. Nothing I have done would change the preloading of the videos - as far as I know (conceding that my geekiness is that of an English major...)

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  3. is it possible to have elliptical vignetting? I would think that this is a clear sign of manipulation designed to vignette all edges evenly, presumably to make a picture look old. I could be completely wrong here but as far as I understand a round lens always produces circular vignetting.

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  4. Perhaps it is round, but just more prominent in the featureless sky than in the detailed bottom half?

    Or could the bottom half have been shaded somehow during the process to produce a semicircle vignette?

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  5. I'd say pretty confidently it's definitely not round. I don't have photoshop at work to enhance the contrast but holding a lid in front of the picture leads me to believe if the vignetting was round it should start to be visible at about the top of the tires.

    It is entirely possible and to introduce oval vignetting deliberately in the darkroom, (or even with a oval lens hood). I hadn't considered that, I always thought that historically vignetting would have been avoided or corrected when possible and that it was only embraced as a technique once it was better controlled as a side effect. That's just based on what I'd consider logical, but I should know better than to apply that kind of thinking to the art community.

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  6. thought a little more about this...
    The depth of field is relatively large which means the aperture couldn't have been wide enough to introduce that much optical vignetting. I think it would have had to be deliberate.

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