In March, I was asked to provide five photos to be hung in the hallway in Carson Taylor Hall (on the Louisiana Tech Campus). Carson Taylor Hall has the department office for Physics and Chemistry and a few chemistry labs. So, I chose to document the very special structures in the chemistry labs - with my set of vintage lenses on a Sony A7Rii.
The first image (at the top) was first taken with the blinds closed. I had already collapsed the tripod when I looked at the blinds. After opening them, everything looked so much better, with the high contrast from the back-light. This was taken with a Carl Zeiss Jena Flektogon 2.4/35mm lens.
The second picture captures more of the details of the experimental setup. It was a good idea, to position the "upside-down water-bottle" exactly in front of the dark back door, to emphasize its edges. I took this one with a 2.8/100mm lens (Meyer-Optik Görlitz Orestor) at different apertures, so I could later pick the one with the prettiest bokeh.
A few of the water faucets were dripping, some of them very slowly. So I set up my Micro Nikkor 3.5/55mm lens to capture some of the water drops.
This picture captures the full depth of the room, together with the hood in the front. It was taken with a 1.4/50mm Canon FD S.S.C. lens.
Finally, I also wanted to add a capture of the whole building. I liked the perspective from the street, looking directly on the corner with the stairs in the front. The first attempt was taken with a 2.8/28mm SMC Pentax-M lens, but I wasn't happy with the corner sharpness - especially since this was supposed to be printed at 30" x 18". So, I decided to come back with the Carl Zeiss Jena Flektogon 2.4/35mm lens, and I captured this as a panorama image, stitched from 7 single captures in
Hugin.
Probably, four pictures might have been sufficient, but I really wanted to have the middle image (which defines the perspective) and I decided also to include the middle-top and the middle-bottom image to help with the stitching. It took some effort, to deal with all the artifacts on the brick walls and the stairs, but the result came out really nice, with a significant improvement of the corner sharpness, as compare to the first attempt.
More of my photography is posted here.
