M.Zuiko Digital ED 60mm f/2.8 Macro, Abstract Expressionism

Creative Arts: Image making with an Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 60mm f/2.8 Macro, shot wide open, post-processed with Tone Curve doodles.

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An evening out in the garden with images captured with the M.Zuiko Digital ED 60mm f2.8 Macro, and post-processed with tone-curve doodles. The M.Zuiko Digital ED Macro is a weather-sealed lens that is equivalent to a 120mm lens in full-frame photography. It can focus on objects as close as 7.4 inches and has true 1:1 macro magnification.

Olympus E-P5, M.Zuiko Digital ED 60mm f/2.8 Macro

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Canon nFD 50mm f/1.8, A Touch of Impressionism

Creative Arts: Image making with a Canon nFD 50mm f/1.8, post-processed impressionism.

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The Canon FD 50mm f/1.8 was not without its own merits. The lens was the lightest and the cheapest of all Canon FD interchangeable lenses, and the only lens in the Canon FDn series that came with only the SC (Spectra Coating) coating as opposed to the others that came with SSC coating. Handling was superb, and its solid reputation for stable picture quality and sharp, crisp pictures has always been acknowledged.

I had the lens mounted on the Canon AE-1 Program and had a few frames left from the session I was using earlier. Took the chance of taking these few handheld night shots here. Well, shooting handheld means that whatever can go wrong will go wrong; you will surely end up with washed-out colors, camera shakes, out-of-focus images, and all.

Canon AE-1 Program, Canon nFD 50mm f/1.8

Rather than letting the shots go to waste, I took the images and went for a doodle with the Tone Curve tool on the image and post-processing editor, Olympus Viewer 3. The result was an interesting modernist art effect close enough to what I understand as being part of the Impressionist movement. I might be wrong, of course. Nevertheless, I persisted with the doodle and added a few more images for the post this week.

Canon AE-1 Program, Canon nFD 50mm f/1.8

Introduced as a successor to the Canon AE-1 (1976), the Canon AE-1 Program (1981) is one of the most popular cameras of all time. The 35mm SLR saw the introduction of the Program AE mode, which enables both the shutter speed and aperture to be automatically set by the camera, with the metering slightly biased towards the shutter speed setting.

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Olympus XA1, Street Scene Abstracts

Creative Arts: Image making with an Olympus XA1, post-processed street scene abstracts.

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I recently did a hipster-style walk-through of a public place, taking snapshots of the people and activity with the Olympus XA1 held at hip level, with image framing done visually without looking through the camera's viewfinder.

The resulting images are quite interesting and diverse. While some are sharp and properly framed, others turned out unframed, unfocused, and blurred by camera and body shake. Getting these images together into a visual storyline was done with the tone curve tool in post-processing.

Olympus XA 1

The Tone Curve tool, as available on Olympus Viewer 3 (OV3) as well as most image editors, is a graphical representation of the tonal range of your image and the tool allows you to manipulate the brightness and contrast of the RGB color gamut of the image or the individual red, green and blue channels by picking the color separately from the drop-down list.

The tonal range of an image can be changed by first placing cursor points on the diagonal representation of the image and then by dragging the points up or down from their original location. The line can be removed at multiple points along the line for varying results, and curves are controlled by using several anchor points placed along the line.

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