3/19/2024 0 Comments Spot my photoA quick update for you, and others in this thread (by the way, is there a way I can update my thread where everyone who posted will get a notification?):Īnyway, I found out the culprit. It's been my experience that this only shows up under certain conditions and you seem to have found one. It wasn't a problem in film days so most lenses from that era don't have that. When you see that a lens was "designed for digital photography", many times that means the rear elements of the lens were coated to help prevent flare from the sensor. I'm going to vote for light reflecting off the sensor, too. In post a localized loss of contrast can usually be compensated for, but sometimes you get a fairly hard aperture-shaped hot spot that is blue or purple with definitive edges - a bit more challenging. Play around with it and different angles and apertures to see when it gets better/worse. Very often background diffuse light is a bigger problem than direct light (photographing something indoors with a bright window behind it, even if the light source isn't in the shot), but it just depends. The angle of the light in the scene can also make a difference. Also look for light leaks around the mounts when using any weird set-ups. Also crappy extension tubes that might not be as light-absorbing along the edges as they could be (or anything scratched in the light path that has become silvery/shiny). (And an old lens might have loss of interior paint, etc). Using a lens normally you have to watch out for older lenses with flat rear elements and there are a few with aperture blades that cause reflections. Just an invocation of author John Steinbeck’s ideal of opening an eyeful of pages to let in an earful of tales.Any sort of reversed lens will be somewhat unpredictable - new or old could cause a problem - depends on lens shape and coatings. It was just as valid to shut up, look, focus and let light hit film. But my grandmother-with the fewest words possible-taught me that the secret to life was to shut up, listen and pay attention to the stories happening all around us. These images are from a time when men were still stupid, women were still pretty, music was still making people do unthinkable things, skating on cement was still making folks wanna climb walls and fly, and a world of overlapping possibilities was still eluding the modern “experts” who thought they had some clever fix on what was really happening in life. For better or worse, we plodded ahead not caring who the hell believed in us or who the hell didn’t. Thankfully, the town’s post-bop jazz culture made it one of the staunchest holdouts of Beat sensibilities on the West Coast.Īt the restless end of the 70s, the South Bay’s just as restless surf/skate/art/music counterculture was in flux and had no choice but to move forward from post-Vietnam War depression and Disco complacency, and to do so with no glamorous expectations. In the early 1960s (thanks to the Jan & Dean song) it gained notoriety as “Surf City” but by the mid-1970s that connection was lost (even though most of the iconic surf shops were still there). Hermosa Beach was the “Under-Dog Town” on which the media rarely focused its cameras. Obvious historical perspectives can be mundane, and sights unseen are often more interesting. This is simply what I lived, in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It’s impossible to declare any as “definitive” of a particular era. Some of these images appear in that book, but many are unpublished photos that establish a new collection. My book “Sounds of Two Eyes Opening” hit the streets in November of 2014.
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