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#1
Share Your Photos / HDR portrait
August 26, 2013, 03:49:33 AM

A portrait we took with our Canon 550D, pairing the HDR function of Magic Lantern with one of our fave retro lenses - the Helios 44M 58MM to help capture more detail in the shadowy areas of a particular light set-up.

Thanks for viewing!

Ian & Dominic

www.pixelrevolutionfilms.com
#2

Thanks to suggestions we had from the friendly folk here, we decided to experiment with a different kind of retro lens to our FD set and went for the the Olympus OM lenses. Doing a bit of research we found that these got pretty good reviews, feedback and scores on various comparison charts, so we thought we'd get some and try them out for ourselves.

Above is a test photo taken with the Olympus OM 50mm.

We found the bokeh to be less creamy than our FD lenses but the detail was certainly more sharper too. Overall we felt the images out shined those captured with FD lenses, although we are still fans of our FD lenses too. We'll just be getting a lot more use out of the Olympus lenses...

Thanks for viewing guys, and special thanks to all those who left suggestions under our retro lens posting, as to what other old style lenses we could try.

Ian & Dom
#3


Hi guys,

Thanks to suggestions we had from the friendly folk here, we decided to experiment with a different kind of retro lens to our FD set and went for the the Olympus OM lenses. Doing a bit of research we found that these got pretty good reviews, feedback and scores on various comparison charts, so we thought we'd get some and try them out for ourselves.

We found the bokeh to be less creamy than our FD lenses but the detail was certainly more sharper too. Overall we felt the images out shined those captured with FD lenses, although we are still fans of our FD lenses too. We'll just be getting a lot more use out of the Olympus lenses...

Thanks for viewing guys, and special thanks to all those who left suggestions under our retro lens posting, as to what other old style lenses we could try.

Ian & Dom
#4
Share Your Photos / Re: Hdr dragonfly
July 02, 2012, 06:12:48 PM
Thanks Randles!

Ian & Dom
#5
Share Your Photos / Re: More HDR experiments
July 02, 2012, 06:11:48 PM
Thanks Randles!

Ian & Dom
#6
Share Your Videos / ML Rack focus test
July 02, 2012, 06:10:55 PM


It's a now where near as smooth as we wanted, but then that's down to the fact we need to practice (and experiment) a bit more with it. Not to mention we were using the basic 18-55mm kit lens....

But overall, we loved this function.

Thanks for viewing!

Ian & Dom
#7
Share Your Photos / Re: Hdr dragonfly
June 30, 2012, 05:21:40 PM
Cheers Screamer!

Ian & Dom
#8
Share Your Videos / Re: FD lenses and magic lantern
June 28, 2012, 11:53:49 PM
Hi b4rt,

We've included the info in the flickr set now. Most of the Hdr are multiple exposures (usually two) and tone mapping in post.

Anything else you need to know just let us know.

Thanks again!

Ian & Dom
#9
Share Your Photos / Re: Hdr dragonfly
June 28, 2012, 11:51:10 PM
Thanks Malcolm!

Ian & Dom
#10
Share Your Photos / Re: HDR photos
June 28, 2012, 11:50:01 PM
Very nice examples of good HDR photography!
Ian & Dom
#11
Share Your Photos / Hdr dragonfly
June 26, 2012, 12:29:56 AM


We used the Hdr Efex pro plugin for Photoshop on this one. Very easy to get to grips with and lots of room for creativity.

Thanks for viewing!

Ian & Dom
#12
Share Your Videos / Re: FD lenses and magic lantern
June 25, 2012, 11:17:51 PM
Hi guys,

First off, thanks for the suggestions and comments, some great ideas there. We'll take them on board for sure.

b4rt, thanks very much for the offer of posting the pics in the gallery too. We've uploaded them to a flckr account now.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelrevprints/

Thanks again guys.

Ian & Dom
#13
Share Your Videos / Re: FD lenses and magic lantern
June 24, 2012, 07:31:54 PM
Thanks for the comments b4rt.  Although we don't use many "on camera" filters, we do a lot of work grading wise on all our images in After Effects, Photoshop and Premiere Pro, if you check out our blog you'll see the kind of stuff we do in regards to grading/image manipulation in post. In fact we shoot with grading in mind, so we always use various flat picture styles when filming the original image. The main reason for using FD lenses for us is budget, but we do happen to like the natural creamy softness of the image to.

Thanks again for viewing!

Ian & Dom
#14
Great images! Really interesting and love the textures!

Ian & Dom
#15
Share Your Photos / Re: More HDR experiments
June 23, 2012, 09:20:32 PM
Thanks Screamer!

Ian & Dom
#16
Share Your Videos / Re: FD lenses and magic lantern
June 23, 2012, 09:19:20 PM
We used an adapter in order to fix the FD lenses to the camera, but we don't think it's horrible, does a good job of allowing us to use good quality old fashioned lenses. We liked the results our testing produced and we now use FD lenses regularly because of the creamy filmic look they are capable of producing when used right.

Thanks for taking a look.

Ian & Dom
#17
Thanks for the kind words screamer! Yeah, we were trying to give the first two photos a fairy tale feel - so thanks for picking up on that!

Ian & Dom
#18
Share Your Photos / More HDR experiments
June 23, 2012, 07:36:40 PM




More experimenting with HDR....

Thanks for viewing!
Ian & Dom
#19






Some photos we took using our 550D/Rebel T2i running magic lantern and utlizing HDR and tone-mapping in post using Efex pro software.

Thanks for viewing!
Ian & Dom
#20
Share Your Videos / FD lenses and magic lantern
June 23, 2012, 07:28:23 PM


A test video we shot using FD lenses on a 550D/Rebel T2i running magic lantern.

Thanks for viewing.

Ian & Dom