• Matt Blaze@federate.socialOP
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    24 days ago

    This is a high resolution stitch of three captures with the Rodenstock 32mm/4.0 HR Digaron lens, yielding a 230 MP image with roughly the angle of view of a 14mm “full frame” rectilinear lens. The high resolution invites you to look closely for signs of life, but they remain elusive.

    While this is literally a photo of the street, it’s not a “street photo” at all. The empty nocturnal streetscape is completely devoid of life and human activity, though it hints at sometimes being a bustling place.

    • Max Leibman@beige.party
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      24 days ago

      @mattblaze@federate.social Love it. I’m always very drawn to spaces that should be (or are normally encountered as) teeming with people at odd moments when they are completely empty.

    • Matt Blaze@federate.socialOP
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      24 days ago

      So this was mostly a play on the concept of “street photography”. The street is the literal subject, but everything about it - the absence of people or any depiction of street life, the use of a heavy, tripod-laden camera, the compositional formality - defies the conventions of that genre.

        • Matt Blaze@federate.socialOP
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          24 days ago

          @GustavinoBevilacqua@mastodon.cisti.org I’ve never used the two-polarizer trick, but I use ND filters a lot. Sometimes for ultra-long exposures, but usually just to get a bit of motion blur in there.