Today’s Post by Joe Farace
It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work. —David Hockney
David Hockney is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered to be one of the most influential British artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.—from Wikipedia
When it was launched in October 2007, the Olympus E-3 broke new ground and as the company’s flagship camera it moved the Four-Thirds system into new directions that were uniquely Olympus. Giving up on the CCD sensor in all the previous models, the E3 used what Oly called a “Live Mos” CMOS sensor that, I believe, introduced the Live View concept to the world. (I’ll admit that I was hesitant to try it, preferring the traditional viewfinder approach to framing an image. But I got over that.) The camera had lots of features that other camera companies promptly copied, acting for all the world as if they had invented them. In 2011, the 12.3 megapixel E-5 that was introduced and built on the Olympus E-3’s goodness while making it an even better camera.
Homage to David Hockney
How I Made this Photograph: Like most contemporary mirrorless cameras the Olympus E-5 let you shoot in several aspect ratios including 4:3 (default,) 3:2, 6:6, 5:4, 7:6, 6:5, 5×7 and the 16:9 used here in this homage to the paintings of David Hockney. The lens used was the Olympus 70-300mm ƒ/4-5.6 with an exposure of 1/320 sec at f/5.6 and ISO 250 with the Dramatic Tone Art Filter applied adding a “David Hockney” look to what was otherwise a candid grab shot made in Albuquerque while I was having a cup of tea at Starbucks and writing on my iPad.
The Olympus E5 has ten in-camera Art Filters including Dramatic Tone, which adds a pseudo HDR effect that can enhance certain images and you can use Art Filters in all shooting modes, Program, Shutter Priority, Aperture Priority, and Manual and video capture. The then-new Dramatic Tone filter joins the Pop Art, Soft Focus, Pale & Light Color, Light Tone, Grainy Film, Pin Hole, Diorama, Cross Process and Gentle Sepia filters previously available on Oly’s E-30, E-620 and PEN series cameras.
I know that some of you hate adding any kind of special effects at time of capture. Since the E-5 offers four different RAW+JPEG capture options, you chose one of them and end up with two files: The untouched color RAW and a JPEG with the Art Filter applied
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