Lens Cleaning

chrismoore · September 19, 2009

Just playing around...

adbsgicom · September 19, 2009

Fantastic!!

I've never been any good at stuff like that. Is the reflection fabricated in PS, or did you have the original infront of a piece of glass to have the reflection already?

IPClark · September 19, 2009

WOW WOW WOW!!!

Fantastic concept, superbly done. I am envious that I didn't think of such a cool idea.

DaddyO · September 19, 2009

Yeah.... very neat piece of work.

What a fun visual.

I suppose I really don't need to say
about the right foot.

dlplumer · September 19, 2009

Will come come by and do mine when you get a chance.

Very cool shot

Azzaro · September 19, 2009

Well done!!!!!

azzaro

rwells · September 19, 2009

Excellent creative vision and skill to pull this off.

Joie · September 19, 2009

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Dogdots · September 19, 2009

Did you get it spotless

Very good --

AFBlue · September 20, 2009

Very nice; like the way your mind works. Made me laugh out loud.

Jerry

chrismoore · September 20, 2009

Thanks for all the great feedback! Sorry it took me awhile to reply, I'm out shopping for a *sturdy* tripod to hold this thing

adbsgicom: I took two separate shots of myself, the one you clearly see with my back towards the camera, and a second one where I switched hands with rag and Lysol and attempted to mirror my original pose. I added that in as a layer mask with 15% opacity. I shot both the lens and myself with the same lighting setup to keep that as constant as possible.

DaddyO: the right foot I switched at the last minute. I did have it lower, where you would expect the outer rim of the lens/filter is, but it just kept looking fake to me. So I moved it up and positioned it as if I were standing on one of the inner elements of the lens which, even if not totally believable, looked a lot better.

I sent this to a friend of mine and he thought it would be interesting to calculate the actual size and weight of such a lens (he likes to do these things):

it's about 24 times the height of the real lens (8 foot lens here vs. ~3 inch in real life ), thus 32^3 its mass. at a guesstimate 500g for the original lens that would be 0.5kg x 32^3 ≈ 16,000 kg = 18 tons. And the filter size is gonna be about 2300mm.

I would up that a couple of tons, the L lenses always feel heavier than you expect.

Joie · September 20, 2009

On second thought, I was wondering if you had considered submitting this to a photography magazine. . . . .

Wil Davis · September 20, 2009

Brilliant idea…

…but if you think about it: if the lens surface is where it should be (according to the picture of the lens), then from the angle we're viewing, we would see your reflection to be to your left. The picture you show would only be correct if the surface of the lens was turned about 90º from where it is.

Sorry to pick nits, but you know "…the devil is in the details…"

Also, the problem with submitting it to a photo mag or as an ad shot (for Lysol, say) is that some idiot might actually use Lysol on their lens etc. etc.

Great idea (wish I'd thought of it

)

- Wil

chrismoore · September 20, 2009

Wil Davis wrote:

Brilliant idea…

…but if you think about it: if the lens surface is where it should be (according to the picture of the lens), then from the angle we're viewing, we would see your reflection to be to your left. The picture you show would only be correct if the surface of the lens was turned about 90º from where it is.

Sorry to pick nits, but you know "…the devil is in the details…"

Also, the problem with submitting it to a photo mag or as an ad shot (for Lysol, say) is that some idiot might actually use Lysol on their lens etc. etc.

Great idea (wish I'd thought of it )

- Wil

You're right, and I did think of all those things (after I had already taken the shots). maybe if I find some time I will redo it on a larger scale- get the footing and the reflections perfect, and maybe make the setting/background a big warehouse with a puddle under where I'm working.

bdcolen · September 20, 2009

Very, very, very cool!

chrismoore · September 20, 2009

Ok, I had to give it a second go-round...

Wil Davis · September 20, 2009

Ahhhhhhhhh!

…much better! Love the broom! …brilliant!

- Wil

black mamba · September 20, 2009

Stunning work here, Chris. It's very imaginative and executed exceptionally well. Kudos all around.

Tom

adbsgicom · September 20, 2009

Fantastic!

chrismoore · September 21, 2009

Thanks guys!

Hyperiate · September 22, 2009

I really like this second version, though the broom seems to stand out too much -- maybe blend it into the composition by brushing in a diffuse shadow at the very bottom and changing the white balance of that layer to be a little cooler -- reflecting the cool blue light on the right side of the lens. If you can figure out a way to composite it BEHIND the lens cap a bit that would go a LONG way toward integrating it into the composition.

Cheers,
Tom B

chrismoore · September 22, 2009

Hyperiate wrote:

I really like this second version, though the broom seems to stand out too much -- maybe blend it into the composition by brushing in a diffuse shadow at the very bottom and changing the white balance of that layer to be a little cooler -- reflecting the cool blue light on the right side of the lens. If you can figure out a way to composite it BEHIND the lens cap a bit that would go a LONG way toward integrating it into the composition.

Cheers,
Tom B

Thanks, Tom. You're right, the color balance was a bit off with the broom. I shot the broom with same lighting and WB as the rest of the comp but it did turn out warmer. A friend of mine pointed this out to me but I didn't repost as it looked like the thread was dead. But I added a Curves layer to the broom only and pulled up the blues. The difference is subtle but I do think it blends better now. I thought it would be a nice touch, though now I'm thinking of deleting it altogether.

kdog · September 22, 2009

So cool!!!

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Most excellent idea and execution. Wish I had the skills and creativity to pull off something like that.

Cheers,
-joel

dinanm3atl · September 22, 2009

Wow!

I LOVE IT!

time2smile · September 22, 2009

Very Cool...

is that the new 5kmm F2.8L glass

chrismoore · September 22, 2009

time2smile wrote:

Very Cool...

is that the new 5kmm F2.8L glass

Thanks, the glass is the 135mm f/2.0L ... A true beast of a lens!

chrismoore · September 23, 2009

time2smile wrote:

Very Cool...

is that the new 5kmm F2.8L glass

Actually, you're pretty close... the lens would weigh 18 tons, filter size 2300mm, and focal length of 4320mm. Cost... priceless

time2smile · September 24, 2009

chrismoore wrote:

Actually, you're pretty close... the lens would weigh 18 tons, filter size 2300mm, and focal length of 4320mm. Cost... priceless

Dont let Sigma see this, they will make it....

NeilL · October 1, 2009

What a delight, and the editing is so impressive!

Neil

Richard · October 1, 2009

Hmmm...I missed this thread till now, but :jawdrop. Terrific concept and execution. If you want to get obsessive about it (and I know how that goes), there's still something a little off about the broom, but I can't quite put my finger on it. Maybe just darken it a tad, or better still, move it up and back a bit and have it cast a shadow on the lens.

Can't wait to see you cleaning the sensor

Excellent work.

clap

NeilL · October 1, 2009

Richard wrote:

Hmmm...I missed this thread till now, but :jawdrop. Terrific concept and execution. If you want to get obsessive about it (and I know how that goes), there's still something a little off about the broom, but I can't quite put my finger on it. Maybe just darken it a tad, or better still, move it up and back a bit and have it cast a shadow on the lens.

Can't wait to see you cleaning the sensor

Excellent work. clap

The broom seemed to me to be a bit too small to be in correct proportion with the figure (?).

N

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