Using a filter holder + Cokin filters you can play with black and white the good old way. First I tried with filter and then I tried the photoshop / lightroom way - I used the predefined color filter option that is available in photoshop in order to make a fair comparison. Click for “the big picture”. The black and white “real” images are made by using the monochrome wb option inside SPP. And yes, it could have been a more intresting scene but it works. You get similair result directly from camera if you select in-camera black and white jpeg mode. see this image.
When I bought my mini cokin A (amature) holder then I bought some filters at the same time. All ND’s were sold so I had to buy some colorful ones instead. One was called tobacco or coffee grad - can’t remember what word they used. Both works. :) And I have done several black and whites with it on and it works great. One cool thing is also that when you put camera into black and white mode (jpeg) and use a filter such as this you get really nice nice results directly out of the camera. Feels cool too when you aim as you see the result directly on the LCD.
Direct output from camera using filter and black and white mode: (ISO800)
My little sister Anna Ingvarsson went away to shoot nature and lent my DP1. She came back a day later with lots of really nice shots - I’m only going to show you one because that’s the only one I dealt with (making it black and white). I think it’s beautiful! What do you think?
I sometime visit a local school to spend time with local youngsters - most of the time I bring my DP1 and a snap a few. Always at ISO800 (badly needed). Colors looks ok but black and white is just so much better! These have had some vignetting added in Photoshop - so it’s not the lens fault. :D - And no, I wouldn’t use the flash as it would feel wrong. Btw, these are made black and white using the monochrome mode in Sigma Photo Pro.
My little brother just had his first kid - a little fellow named Jakob. These are just a few shots taken with the Dp1 the very first time I saw him. :) I’m a very proud uncle! (a few more over at my flickr account)
I’m just having a smaller vacation from blogging. I’m also waiting for some good light for photos. Especially street photos. I just upgraded my blogs engine to Wordpress 2.5 - and I’m looking into different possibilities to make my site a little bit better without scaring people away. :)
[edit - Sigma today announced the new version for PC and Mac here as well as first DP1 update]
I’ve been lucky enough to get my hands on a beta of the next SPP 2.x and for those of you being irritated of green corners I can now tell you that green corners are now only a bad memory! :D I could only test the PC version but it ran extremely quick under vm-ware, actually much faster than my Mac version of SPP3.1. I did try some SD14 files and especially reds are now better. But this article will concentrate on DP1 images.
I thought that my photos from Elmia foto video 2008 could be used for this preview and at the same time you can see what I do in SPP and maybe learn something about processing. In every image there is important data inside. Exposure, ISO, White balance as well as processing. All kinds of situations ranging from high iso mixed light to long exposures in tricky situations. And as an extra bonus - studio shots! Continue to read this article.
Thank you Sigma for making my SD14 better and better! First you gave me ISO50, and wonderful colors that comes with that - and now 2 minutes exposure!! I love you! :D Will try and show images as soon as I’ve upgraded. I was soooo tired two minutes ago but now - I’m wide open and trying to find my tripod! :D
Red is a new camera (brand) embraced by directors such as Steven Soderbergh and Peter Jacksson - Red is the new cool thing in the world of cinema. And what you probably didn’t know - the DP1 is like a tiny Red. Extremely simplified, but still.
The Red has a sensor-size of 24.4×13.7 mm and DP1 has 20.7 x 13.8 mm. (see comparison) This means that the Red sensor is slightly wider (as in 16:9) than the Foveon equipped DP1. This makes them very similar - the depth of an actual movie using a f4 lens at 28mm would look more or less the same (at least at extremely small size).
Now, what would happen if the next Sigma SLR would have the DP1s movie mode AND with higher resolution. Wouldn’t that be a real killer?! (plus mic in etc) :D
I’m even sure that the Dp1 will get much improved movie mode with time. Sigma is known for good firmware upgrades (at least on the SD14) and hopefully this will continue with the Dp1.
Link to Red.com
Here’s a small little video showing depth from Dp1. :)
I was asked to stand in the Sigma booth at another photo fair here in sweden, Elmia Foto & Video the 4-5th of April. I will show the Dp1 and SD14 to the public. If you have any nice shots that I could use then send them to carl@rytterfalk.com in JPEG format. Will be printed as A3 if I like what I see. :)
I was asked to stand in the Sigma booth at another photo fair here in sweden, Elmia Foto & Video the 4-5th of April. I will show the Dp1 and SD14 to the public. If you have any nice shots that I could use then send them to carl@rytterfalk.com in JPEG format. Will be printed as A3 if I like what I see. :)
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