mexican wedding
While in Oregon last week my daughter and I were priveleged to donate our combined photography to this sweet couple above. We worked for the joy of watching the dancing and all the Sangria we could drink. There was lots of loud Mariachi music, lots of dancing, and a 5 gallon pickle bucket of home made Sangria wine. FUN!
Asher was asking about the soft focus lens in the Rowan Portrait thread.
These little Spiratone Portragon's typically fetch about $50 on ebay. They have a thread mount with a host of adapters possible. There is no aperture, it's at f4 for better or worse. They really don't lend themselves to color photography and the picture above is a clear example of why. The lens is nothing but a simple meniscus. All three colors land in a different focal plane so the blue purple band is what you see with color.
Still I photograph with it in color and then convert the images in PS. My work flow goes something like this; (not as difficult as it looks)
Open
Convert to grayscale (discard the color info)
Convert back to RGB
Levels (in levels I simply hit the 'auto' button for a beginning, then I choose 'blue' and tweak it to a ghastly yellow, then red to tweak it back towards brown. Yechh. It looks like dog doodoo at this point.)
Hue Saturation (I desaturate to about 96%. This gives the almost imperceptible warm hue you may or may not see)
Duplicate Layer (choose soft light for this layer. Use the Opacity slider to adjust to taste.)
Flatten Image
Curves (final tweak for contrast to please)
Image Size (as needed)
Done.
Something fun to try although it's maddening that it's just about useless for color images.
