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After 18 years of managing Porsche and BMW shops I have gone back to being a working professional still photographer. Yesterday I was covering a vintage baseball game for my local newspaper, and decided to do some features for myself. I had in my mind I needed things to look vintage, but I wanted it to be optically done in camera. I was really inspired by the mindset on The Assassination of Jesse James. I pulled out my set of tilt shift lenses and kept working the subject matter. I was also hoping to get an “action” shot that looked like it was done in the old times. My 90mm tilt shift actually accepted the 1.4 extender I had which allowed for more distortion in the file, but also more reach. Anyway hope people enjoy seeing what I worked up.
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Roger this site has been wonderful and has inspired me so much with my getting back to my roots, I can’t thank you enough for this resource and the work you have done.
My love of films is what got me into photography. When I was a kid I wanted to be to a comic book artist, at the age of ten I decided I couldn’t draw well enough (yeah I know ten years old) but I fell in love with movies. I decided I wanted to be a filmmaker, I thought I would have to have photography to get into film school and I found my answer. I work with the 2d still image of drawing but the tech and tools of the filmmaker. My photography geared towards to sports as it was what I drew as a kid and the closest I could get to photographing the super heroes I used to draw. I could share some sports photos if people were interested. I worked for ten years as a sports and newspaper photographer.
Anyway as to what I used I’ll gladly share what I did. I use the Canon EOS series. I have my “secret” sauce camera an EOS 1ds mk 3, it came out in 2008, but the file is one of my favorite files from a digital camera. It was when the camera makers still tried to make a “film” look to image quality and taste. So I shot with that camera to begin with. I used both my 45mm and 90mm canon tilt shift lenses. I really wanted to get an action shot that looked like it was old time. The 90mm was still a bit loose and then I realized how much room there was behind the rear element. My canon extenders all stick out a little so I figured I would give it a try, it mounted the 1.4 extender up and gave me more reach for the action shot. It also gave some chromatic aberration which I could even see in the view finder, but I didn’t mind that. I like to use tilt shift lenses to draw the eye around. Sometimes too I feel a tilt shift lens is the only way to make the feel of how we actually see. Like this photo below I took in my favorite local cinema. The effect is slight but there. This shot however is with an EOS R and is an exposure composite and the 24mm tilt shift.
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