Author Topic: Rodenstock XR-Heligon 95mm 1:1.4 (Read 8325 times)

golunvolo · « **Reply #15 on:** May 23, 2016, 12:36:30 »

Thank you guys for the encouragement. At this state, failure or success is big part chance as I´m just getting acquainted with the particularities of the new tool. Still trying to use it in a conventional way and I should be paying more attention to what it can do differently, I guess.
Fun all the way.
Dream maker for sure.

On a side note, I tried to print that one last image A3 size -297 x 420mm or 11.7 x 16.5 inches. It was a nightmare... That shooting, processing and printing are 3 different specialized ways of dealing with images today is not a secret but I haven´t tried something so personal and delicate for some time and the results were way off mark. Thoughts for another time. Now, to keep on shooting.

golunvolo · « **Reply #16 on:** May 24, 2016, 00:08:14 »

I keep on going. I pass by a particularly photogenic spring fence yesterday and came back today to try the new toy. It is an interesting mix of excitement and frustration. Things that use to work now are impossible or plain silly and some "mistakes" open new way to approach the image making. On top of that, opening the files later on the computer has become kind of a mystery.
I´m trying hard to stay away of everything I already know from the images I have seeing in this forum, not to cut any corners, and find how the lens performs for me and how it affects the shooting experience.
Some shots from today: 3 visions of normal subjects through Heligon. Still trying to shot as I use to.

golunvolo · « **Reply #17 on:** May 24, 2016, 00:14:17 »

3 visions of the same subject. One thing about this lens, it seems capable to shoot "through" objects, making them disappear in front of whatever you are focusing on. The relationship in the space between objects in the frame came make them a mist, invisible, dreamy, background vivid colors...

Bjørn Rørslett · « **Reply #18 on:** May 24, 2016, 00:16:10 »

Seems to me you are well underway to find your own path through Heligon-land, Paco

golunvolo · « **Reply #19 on:** May 24, 2016, 00:17:41 »

The useful frames rate has dropped dramatically. I´m just happy this is the digital imaging era... With this image, I didn't know what was going to happen. I doesn't look like I took it. I love that

golunvolo · « **Reply #20 on:** May 24, 2016, 00:21:28 »

Quote from: Bjørn Rørslett on May 24, 2016, 00:16:10

Seems to me you are well underway to find your own path through Heligon-land, Paco

Thanks Bjørn! It is a beautiful path, full of surprises.

That last one actually looks like a piece of a map

Jakov Minić · « **Reply #21 on:** May 24, 2016, 10:23:07 »

Paco the barbed wire series is showing all the qualities that heligons deliver.
Couple that with your qualities, and voila

John Geerts · « **Reply #22 on:** May 25, 2016, 18:18:36 »

Yes, very nice series.

Well, the Heligon is thé lens with the lowest succeed rate in the number of pics, a few in the hundred or something

But then, these are exceptional, as you show it.

golunvolo · « **Reply #23 on:** May 29, 2016, 01:14:23 »

Thanks! I´ll keep on going. Next step should have even a lower rate: look for suitable subjects.

golunvolo · « **Reply #24 on:** June 05, 2016, 21:42:35 »

On the verge of being boring -meaning you have already seing similar images from other members here- I do enjoy what comes out of this lens. Nothing really new, but for me. Images call for hard post. Some images from today