Final Images

The Crit

Every term one of the most exciting and enjoying part is the crit. Unlike previous ones which we printed and stick on white walls, this year we use projector. The Rollei film projector is amazing with such a vivid cinematic quality, but as the film mount is only good for 6 X 6 or 6 X 4.5 and our trannie is 6 X 7, we have to use the digital projector to project the scanned images, which the quality can not compare with the film one. 

MAMIYA RB67 LENS

We used 90mm f3.5 lens for the project, but there are a wide variety of lenses available for the RZ67:

4 wide-angle lenses:
37 mm f/4.5 Fisheye, the widest RZ lens ever produced, 18 mm equivalent in 135-format
50 mm f/4.5 ULD L, 2 versions (the older one is inferior in terms of contrast and resolution, the ULD version has an additional floating system focus ring), 24 mm equivalent
65 mm f/4, two versions (the second one has a floating element), 32 mm equivalent
75 mm f/3.5, with floating element, 36 mm equivalent


3 normal lenses:
90 mm f/3.5, 44 mm equivalent
110 mm f/2.8, smallest of the RZ lenses, also has largest aperture, 53 mm equivalent
127 mm f/3.5 and an older model f/3.8, 62 mm equivalent


8 telephoto lenses:
150 mm f/3.5, 73 mm equivalent
180 mm f/4.5, 87 mm equivalent
210 mm f/4.5 APO, apochromatically corrected design, 102 mm equivalent
250 mm f/4.5, 2 versions (newer one is APO), 121 mm equivalent
350 mm f/5.6 APO, 170 mm equivalent
360 mm f/6.0, an older lens, 175 mm equivalent
500 mm f/6 APO and an older model f/8, longest of the RZ lenses, 238 mm equivalent

6 specialty lenses:
75 mm f/4.5 Short Barrel, possible to use with a tilt/shift adapter for perspective and focus plane control, needs an SB spacer for normal 75 mm use, 36 mm equivalent
75 mm f/4.5 Shift, perspective control lens, needs manual cocking of the shutter, 36 mm equivalent
140 mm f/4.5 Macro, two versions (the newer one with floating element system), able to shoot 1:3 without extension tubes or bellows and 1:1 with extension tubes 1 and 2, 68 mm equivalent
180 mm f/4 Variable Soft Focus, uses three interchangeable diffusion and spherical aberration disks for soft effect, 87 mm equivalent
180 mm f/4.5 Short Barrel, for tilt and shift adapter, needs an SB spacer for normal 180 mm use, 87 mm equivalent
100-200 mm f/5.2 Zoom, the only RZ zoom lens, 48-97 mm equivalent

Getting ready for Print

Yesterday we looked at preparing some of the images for print.

We managed to print two that worked well.  The third shoot image needs a little more work in photoshop or to use another transparency that is better lit.

The two we have printed successfully so far are:

Shoot 4 digital shots: getting the light right and composition

We discussed using a different person to be the priest but in the end we decided to keep it consistent.   

This meant that I didn't get to press the shutter button but I did more that just act the priest for each of the images. Each image was a group creation, collectively making the image - crafting the light and composition was a joint affair.  We problem solved together and managed to sort out a rogue light that was lighting up the background unknowingly and causing a strange light spill on the background.  Someone had mistakenly plugged in an additional light that was hidden behind one of the soft boxes, messing up our lighting - until this was discovered.   Robert 

Polaroid from 4th and final shoot - hopefully!

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Final shoot: less flesh in the shots makes a difference, so we needed to ensure that any exposed flesh was well lit.   


Composing the image to suggest a tension between the woman gazing at the priest whilst being held by the hand and in the loving? desiring? gaze of another woman.  


Suggesting a conflict between the women and the priest, the church and beyond regarding their relationship?  Sexuality?


There is an absence of rhetoric from the church about love between women, sex between women thus made invisible and therefore silenced.    The image suggests all sorts of possible relationships between the characters.  The priest is looking away which is significant - a way of ignoring, silencing the 'other' and not acknowledging their existence, visibility.  

Red filter on the backlight.  We used a honeycomb in front of the snooded light too to soften the light and light up the hands. 

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Polaroids from 3rd shot

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The priest holds onto a little red book? Mao's red book, a prayer book?  


Does this image refer to the catholic church's colonial project?  Its anti communist position and its colonial history in China?  The church's relationship to the state and the impact it has had on silencing many.  The Cathars for example, silenced through the crusade slaughters in France from the 1100s onwards.  Radical theology attacked by the catholic church in Latin America. 100s of years of missions 'converting' the other in their native lands.   


Digital images from the shoot:

We needed to ensure that the face of the kneeling actor was lit well enough.