Works on Helios by Ulyana Bukanova

Brief note-gallery with portraiture on one of the lenses of the Helios family.

Works on Helios by Ulyana Bukanova

Works on Helios by Ulyana Bukanova

Ulyana Bukanova (Mizinova) works as a photographer in Novorossiysk (as well as Krasnodar and Rostov-on-Don). According to her, she takes a lot of thematic photo shoots on the Soviet lens. MS HELIOS-77M-4 1.8 / 50. Some clients specifically ask to shoot in this style, as shown in her portfolio, and often it is about the pictures obtained with MS HELIOS-77M-4 1.8 / 50.

Several works on Canon EOS 6D

Gallery on the Canon EOS 60D

Examples of works Ulyana kindly provided especially for readers of Radozhiva. I just converted the photo to a size of 3000 X 2000 pixels (6 MP) with 80% compression and imprinted at the bottom of the photos the name of the author, the name of the lens and the camera on which the photograph was taken.

Many more works from Ulyana can be found at the following links:

MS HELIOS-77M-4 1.8 / 50 quite rare, so I decided to find practicing photographers who use it in their daily work and asked them to share their photos and impressions. This is the second gallery note dedicated to the Soviet MS HELIOS-77M-4 1.8 / 50, still wonderful examples of photos on this lens can look here.

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Comments: 54, on the topic: Works on Helios by Ulyana Bukanova

  • Roman

    All is well. Both in sharpness and in bokeh, an interesting pattern, the nature of the image. With a good idea and implementation (well, post-processing) it’s quite an interesting modern lens. What proves once again - there is nothing to be measured, it is necessary to remove.

    The only drawback of the glass (and not the pictures, the pictures are all very good) - the border around bright objects in the out-of-focus area immediately distinguishes them and distracts them. Even the Canon fifty-kopeck piece copes with this better, but his drawing is more ... well, bland or something.

  • zengarden

    Here, the merit is not the lens, but the photographer, who was able to “find his soul”, advantages and disadvantages, choose the right composition and correctly process the photo.
    And, most likely, she does not have the VOMZ lens, but Jupiter.

  • Dim

    Some photographs are very reminiscent of modern picture films. In my opinion, the brand of the lens in general and the lens itself in particular do not play any significant role in the construction of these images, any other lens could be on the carcass. Well, maybe the camera and the lens form, let's say, an underpainting for the image and nothing more. I believe that the lens brand is more of a marketing ploy, hinting that the author pays attention to everything and that is called looking for a soul in his instruments. In “Shrek 2” it was well furnished when the heroes reached the “house” of the fairy godmother ...: o)))

    • Maria

      Well, I don’t know, after all, the beauty of the old optics is that it was sharpened for bw, because a priori it helps the camera to read more differences in illumination, micro-contrasts. Don't you believe that the experience of translating to bw and back - works? Well, not only Soviet, of course, but also the one from which it was copied.

      • Dim

        I have lenses from different eras, not that I'm some kind of expert. Comparison shows that: 1. Technologies have made great strides forward; 2. Previously, they tried to sharpen the lenses for the system or "rivet" to the carcass, so that it was impossible to rearrange or compare one with the other with impunity; 3. Now they rather emphasize that the lens has a lot of chances to fall apart, and, of course, they trust the electronics to block the “left” ones. Therefore, old lenses are pleasant to hold in hands - their construction and materials are appropriate for photography. Maybe there was some kind of sharpening for bw, but too much has changed along the way, it is hardly a determining factor. It seems to me that a greater contribution is made by the fact that: on very old lenses there is no light-cut-off coverage of a certain spectrum, the difference in the used brands of glass, simple optical schemes of old lenses compared to new ones, blackening on old lenses or not, or it fell off and. etc.

        • Maria

          For your information, the observation is this: this wonderful green color ... so far only Gelik has managed to convey it. The Nikkors painted strange green swamp. Or maybe I'm a handshake?
          Exaggerate)
          No.
          But green with a bunch of Nikon + Gelik I like more

    • Alexey Ovoshchnikov

      everything is important and equipment too.

    • Roman

      Movies are reminiscent of the same color scheme used.

  • Pavel Gorbunov

    Everything is great. Photographs managed not to slip into kitsch, having passed along the edge, and this is already art.

  • Maria

    Good selection.

    In principle, it fulfills its task - to show the skill of the photographer, but also with reference to a specific technique. I agree that the author could have had photos with other optics just as well, but this is the very lens that demonstrates its potential.

    Only, I am not an expert, but multiple views of the Cannon photos gives rise to the feeling that the camera is sort of “drying up” the picture, although it may be post-processing, or maybe both.

  • Alexey Ovoshchnikov

    Just a wonderful gallery. Very nice photos. There is nothing supernatural in them and the processing is ordinary, but this is good. I myself looked a lot at the technical side of photography and now I see that it is too dry. Also, the material on the site needs to be diluted with creative galleries, and maybe some sort of competition. Competitions can be either purely technical or creative. On a specific topic and so on.

    • Maria

      The idea is good. even wonderful. Only any such undertaking will require volunteer assistants. It's one thing to create an overview on the sly. Another thing is to announce and monitor the competition, so that no one leaves offended)

  • Pashqwert

    A funny effect in several shots, which is a consequence of a lot of attention to the hands when shooting and their complete neglect during processing: due to the barbaric elimination of authenticity elements from the faces of models, the face fades into the background due to the effect of ambiguity (= defocusing) and the eye follows the sharpest / detailed / bright points, to which the author seems to let us down by setting the composition and all sorts of tricks. But then suddenly you realize that your gaze is on the hand (as the end point of the view). And analyzing why this happened and what I do not like about this, you deduce the foreignness of the hand.

    • Maria

      Yeah. Alienness. Especially in the last three photos)

      • Michael

        I wonder where the alien is? I liked the two last but one and the first one the most ...

        • Pashqwert

          Everything is alright with them. I meant just a few shots in which the naturally wrinkled texture of the hand does not fit with the emasculated-tinted perception of the face, and the location in the foreground and accordingly increased proportions relative to the face increase the anti effect. Just caught myself when viewing and voiced the idea. I didn’t want to say anything bad about the pictures, because the pictures were about the lens, so I just voiced the noticed anti-effect.

        • Maria

          It was sarcasm in response to the comment above.
          I also really liked the elderly couple. And of course, such stories honor any photographer.

        • Maria

          "Uh-huh" hints

      • Pashqwert

        On the last three, the hands convey the idea of ​​the picture, and the smiles on the faces convey the mood.
        A pale hand with a tattoo only draws attention to itself and emphasizes the manipulations performed with whether ..., although no, we will blame the canon's bad skin tone, we are here about the technique.

        • Pashqwert

          I make a reservation, this is a joke in response. My message is about the effect, not about the pictures.

        • Roman

          It's hard to blame skinton, there is absolutely custom teal orange as a color scheme. And it looks quite organic. In defiance of all connoisseurs of COLOR.

    • Dim

      How observant you are! Really. I looked carefully at the photograph, where the young lady outside the window with a bouquet of lilacs, for example, with long admiration, begins to feel that the limb pressed to the window may not belong to her. It is the same with the Harry Potter female, in the latter case, the effect is enhanced by the tattoo as if separating the hand from the face, and the dreads are something borderline - I personally perceive them at first glance as a headdress, and only then as hair. Although, perhaps this is the idea of ​​the hairstyle.

  • Onotole

    Well, some pictures are pretty good. This time, at least without decoration, it worked well.

    • Maria

      It's hard to imagine portraits with "Razukrashka")

      • Onotole

        Pffff, yes any number: https://vk.com/fotopozdnakova?z=photo95177930_456239487%2Fphotos95177930

        Please note that the technique is one-on-one as in the previous issue about mushrooms.

        • Maria

          Fall down where you find them.
          well, it’s all bad here, I don’t even comment on that, there is visible both the price and the target audience for that.

          Yes, for fungi, decorating is more appropriate, whatever one may say.

          I would like to see a publication on Alexandra Bochkareva.
          Although she now has several developmental ideas that are fundamentally interesting in development, some allusions are being read, it’s interesting to keep track of what's new.
          Although here I see a world conspiracy (crossed out) a certain state order from the zenith.

          • Roman

            Art, Maria, genuine art, is to shoot an old camera from the Neva sanatorium to the surrounding barracks on a hot Siberian afternoon. On all four available lenses, one of which was found in the trash. Then add a photo of a rickety child among the green foliage to this, so that everything is in reflexes. Or a cousin from a wedding eating a cake, while his centered spouse dashingly dances against a carpet. Or he doesn’t dance anymore, but poses in a crown of dandelions with flowing make-up.

            Then it is supposed to spit with relish, poke and say to the sky: “WITHOUT PROCESSING” And go into eternity.

            • Maria

              Art is good in all its manifestations, both reporting and staging. The main thing is not to go to extremes.

              Thresh - when taken seriously - is a very genre in itself. But not everyone knows how to balance on the edge. Most "add" very thick.

              The balance is thick and thin - a relative thing, but nevertheless, bad taste or cheap shocking can be distinguished, I think.

              Do not agree?

            • Roman

              Thresh as a genre is good when the author understands that he works in the thrash genre. More often the opposite. Half removes the walls, worlds and arrows of tower cranes per kilometer, COLOR and is measured in bits by bit in the capacity of the ADC, the other half considers their homework to be high art, and any examples of successful work are branded as unnatural, as cellulite fats do with phonies.

            • Onotole

              These photos are just a complete analogue of a brick wall - in the sense that basically it is here that the work of photographic equipment is well demonstrated with almost complete distraction from any artistic part. Technophiles rejoice and ask for more.
              By the way, what is interesting, in the discussed collection there are green reflexes and crowns from flowers, what can you say?

              • Roman

                That, unlike most “look at how he DRAWS”, “look what shade of yellow the crane cabin has in a kilometer”, “look how few magenta in freckles on the forehead” I like both the photo and the processing. These are not the best and not the most brilliant photographs that I have seen, but they are two or three heads higher than what, unfortunately, you have to see. Meaningful and soundly. Using the features of technology.

              • Onotole

                And I would say that almost all of them are good, but technically.
                On some, quite decent work with light is visible.
                But not one of the photographs is either interesting or memorable. Okay, this is subjective.
                But objectively: the plot - one might say no, the composition - is absolutely absent everywhere, and even the layout is lame in places.
                That's why I say - a complete analogue of a brick wall. And those who claim that they like it - here either a small spectator experience, or think in other categories (bokeshka / sharply / skintone), well, or just out of politeness.

              • Roman

                You judge in absolute terms, I judge in relative terms. 99% of the photos posted in the comments do not have all this, except for the author's pride “without processing”. Therefore, I consider this series as “if you are shooting“ just photos ”, then shoot at least THIS”.

              • Maria

                Dear specialists! So no one wrote to me about Cannon. Where does the feeling of a “burnt out” picture come from?
                Nikon + nikkor has a kind of "wet" glossy. Feels like manual light as it should.

                The feeling that the Cannon system is losing something at the exit, and only they know how to preserve some kind of freshness and naturalness. The faces are whitish and a little unnatural. I understand that the photos are cool (if anyone likes to say “he’s a fool himself,” then yes, I’m a fool himself, and I can do that. But something in Cannon’s picture is annoying.

                And this is not some kind of whim, but just making understanding and getting a little involved in the process of creating a picture of the world

              • Vitaly N

                I don't think it's worth evaluating processed photos. They have colors “as the artist wanted”.

              • Roman

                Yeah. The same Bochkareva has very similar colors, although she takes off on Sonya. And Sony, most connoisseurs of color despise for unnatural green tones. Although just about the same color palette is used (if not the same profiles). This is a matter of taste and style, not the technical limitations of a particular platform.

              • Maria

                Well, I don’t know, then.
                The feeling of some kind of dryness of the picture. Like from the Sahara desert.

                If you don't immediately understand what I mean, then a photo of a girl with a wreath of hawthorn branches on her head. - Such an unnaturally bleached face, almost disappears into a plane. And here the Cannons once again have such a picture. Nikon often has something deeper and more saturated, with a thinner outline. Maybe because it is easier to spoil it (in terms of bits and other technical points, again I apologize for the dullness).

                Again, absolutely no offense to Cannon, the author of wonderful photographs.
                Just some kind of psychophysical sensation from the work.

  • Oleg

    Photography is both art and a commodity. Most photographs are a commodity, so their success determines the demand: if the photographs are bought, they are successful, successful to the extent that they shell out money for them. It's a simple fact - a photographer doesn't need everyone to like his pictures, he needs them to be liked by whoever pays for them.

    As for the processing, this is all subjective and also comes to the conclusion that photography, or rather, the final result of the photographer's work, is a commodity, and if they pay for it, the work is successful, and successful to the extent that it was evaluated with money, and not the terms "horizon, golden ratio, etc.".

    The only thing is, if the picture has undergone serious post-processing, it doesn't matter what we call the brand of the lens, because we don't see on the finished result how this lens differs from another - the colors are corrected, the skin or other details are processed - what sharpness what contrast the lens has is not clear. The background can be processed, we do not understand where the native bokeh is, where it was corrected, and so on. PS This is me in general, and not specifically on the pictures from this article.

  • Ytsuken Fyva

    It would be nice to know what the proportion of Photoshop is in these photos) However, it’s necessary that the author shoots on Canon 60d, that is, it’s not 50, but 80 mm, and we don’t see how it draws along the edges

    • Maria

      How to draw glass? Google and drains to help you) the brand of the lens and camera is indicated almost always.

    • Roman

      This is another very serious illness when photographs cease to be rated as photographs, and if something other than an unprocessed brick wall and dials is displayed, then there’s nothing to look at.

      • Maria

        Reading the inscription "you want more of these French rolls" by timesnuroman

      • Alexander

        Photography as such is no longer there ... There is a technodroche, within which it is assessed how a particular lens and a camera shoot ... I do not see another on the Internet ... Why do we need photographic equipment at all - does anyone else remember ... It is needed so that the memory of people would remain, and this is the main thing ... And also - as art (landscapes, still lifes, nature and so on) ... Magazines with naked girls now no one needs a football player with a ball, advertising is all the useless wear and tear of photographic equipment ...

  • B. R. P.

    Thank you Arkady for introducing us to interesting photographers.

    • Maria

      +++++ 10 degrees

      I’m requisitioning Alexander Bochkarev.
      And so
      Truth. I wonder what local meters will say ...

      • SashOK

        Recover as always, what else will they say.
        Either the color is not the same, the model is not the same, then there is some kind of bullshit, the lens is not correct ...
        Here even read kamenty.
        Meters, damn it!

  • Peter Sh.

    I really liked it. You can see both style and taste. There is life in the frame.
    Very pleased with these artists.
    And then from the endless stupid landscapes already rolls longing.

  • Andrei

    Wow, those damned capitalisms. So they took and created Sonya Nikon, Canon, Olympus, Fuji, Panasonic and a bunch of smaller companies in a small war-torn Japan, some of which did not survive to this day. In turn, these companies have created a huge variety of cameras and lenses of the film and digital era. Ah ah ah.
    Is it the case of the mighty communes that could make on captured equipment from captured materials according to captured drawings and captured hands, recall how many models of cameras and lenses? But the sausage is 2,20 and medicine is free without drugs and equipment.
    The theme is excellent photos with good post-processing.

    • Andrei

      Have we already switched to you? Well, “hello, Ulan-Ude”.

  • Ruslan

    very good pictures

  • Sergey

    Most models have a mysterious look and some kind of question in their eyes ... Not everyone suits. Photos are average, but of better quality than in publics about Helios ...)

  • SashOK

    I really liked the lens and the photo from it !!!
    Shoemaker and Nikon Polteneg never draw such a bokeh.

    • Andrei

      That and so is not cheap, where to inflate?

  • Andrei

    In an offensive look around as a camera, there is a need to add five pictures of cowboys, because the children cannot be allowed to buy, he wants to be surprised. I obov'yazkovo, schob tse bulo BEZKOSHTOVNO. I’m talking about it.

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