Excellent b&w photographs George, Samy, Scott, Ray, James and Siphiwe.
ocean2059, great photo of the Manley. I came darn close a while back to picking up the silver face plate Stingray. That was a darn good looking piece of gear.
Balto, very popular bronze monument specially with the youngsters.On a decent weather day, it is usually a crowded spot.
The Central Park Zoo. Lucky timing as the seals are normally not this visible unless it is feeding time.
Georg, I really like the "Star of Hope" ship portrait. Beautiful.
georgms wrote:
Some shots from a walk on new years eve (? - january 1st, please excuse my lacking english), all with a D750 and the 50/1.2 Ais wide open:
I'm in a selling mode, saving money for the upcoming Z-lenses and maybe a "Z500".
Perhaps a NKJ 7.5mm or a NKJ 2.1cm if I can find a reasonable priced one.
"Only" bought a nice 16/3.5. since June last year
To all of you guys and gals souping C41 and E6 film. Please be careful about getting the chemistry on your skin
(wear gloves) and inhaling the vapors - particularly while mixing them (mask). Some manufacturers made them to neutralize each other after use - I think it was Agfa's E6 you held the used developer in a tank, then added the used Blix etc, before dumping it down the drain. The end used chemistry was safe for local water treatment this way. Even fixer in B&W chemistry has been linked to increases in pancreatic cancer. Just follow the instructions carefully.
Excellent b&w photographs George, Samy, Scott, Ray, James and Siphiwe.
ocean2059, great photo of the Manley. I came darn close a while back to picking up the silver face plate Stingray. That was a darn good looking piece of gear.
Serge, many thanks for your kind comments. Regarding the Stingray, when you have an opportunity, go pick one, as Manley's EL34 tube based amp is so musical, a real jack of all trades and master of all amp.
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Trying to decide if I like the color or B/W photos better
but its a tie in my eyes
I never think to shoot something as simple as that
Well Done
Had some fun with the battered 35/1.4 Ai on the Fuji X-Pro 1 today.
At f/4 this old lens will produce really nice „sunbursts”. And will turn small focused lightsources into „stars” too.
Many other lenses will not produce nice stars or only at f/11 or so.
this one was taken at f/8 or so
„Vielmaster” or trying to get as much reflections in to the frame as possible...
The outdated Fuji-camera is able to deliver very nice results. It's use is just a bit more cumbersome compared to more recent cameras.
The beaten-up 35/1.4 Ai is at full aperture not really useable on this camera, at f/4 and f/5.6 it's very nice.
And some shots with the neat 135/3,5 Ai on a D700:
old cranes in the crowded city-harbor
some folks have a lot of spare time and a lot of wool: covered banisters
double zero snowman
The fairly small 135/3,5 Ai is one of my cheapest lenses. Got my copy with a dented filter-thread.
It's a great performer on the old 12MP-FX-cameras, especially at close range.
Gibellini Bellatrix 810, Nikkor-AM 210 5.6 macro lens - which covers the 8X10 frame, Tri-X 320 sheet film, developed with Cinestill monobath in SP-810 tray.
Took a while to get the bellows stretched out to 17 inches (I think it can go more on the Gibellini but this was enough), and get the flower lined up in the frame and in focus. Quite cumbersome working with an 8X10 camera, I don't know how people work with larger formats. And then try and look up bellows compensation calculations. The settings were 1s at f/11. Not sure what the magnification was.
The bright ring at the corner, I believe, is a reflection of the Nikon ring flash off the pot
Gibellini Bellatrix 810, Nikkor-AM 210 5.6 macro lens - which covers the 8X10 frame, Tri-X 320 sheet film, developed with Cinestill monobath in SP-810 tray.
Took a while to get the bellows stretched out to 17 inches (I think it can go more on the Gibellini but this was enough), and get the flower lined up in the frame and in focus. Quite cumbersome working with an 8X10 camera, I don't know how people work with larger formats. And then try and look up bellows compensation calculations. The settings were 1s at f/11. Not sure what the magnification was.
The bright ring at the corner, I believe, is a reflection of the Nikon ring flash off the pot ...Show more →
Next time you do a shot like this with the 8x10, would love to have a behind the scenes shot of your rig.
Just looked at the Original size of this shot on Flickr. Wow!
gbohannon wrote:
Next time you do a shot like this with the 8x10, would love to have a behind the scenes shot of your rig.
Just looked at the Original size of this shot on Flickr. Wow!
I'd love to see a behind the scenes shot, too. I've have a lot of experience with a 4x5, but that's the largest I've ever used. I can't imagine wrestling with an 8x10.
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Trying to decide if I like the color or B/W photos better
but its a tie in my eyes
I never think to shoot something as simple as that
Well Done
Reagan
Thank you, Reagan. I find a lot of inspiration in this thread. I would never have considered a door as a photographic subject but ever since I started following this thread, I don't look at them the same anymore.
Thought I would share a scene occurring all over America - the death of local Newspapers. This
paper had a daily circulation of 145,000, and a Sunday circulation of 281,000 during it's heyday.
Keeping people informed about their local, state, and federal government has been irreparably
damaged by the closing of these newspapers.
16mm f3.5 ai while driving at about 60 mph - "The Newspaper Where I Used to Work"
35mm f1.4 ais Drive by shot - "Where my desk was when I left" (red rectangle)
105mm f2.5 ais Drive by shot - "Where I spent 30 years of my life" - Photo dept by right-hand crane
16mm f3.5 ai while driving at about 35 mph on exit - "weeks of demolition almost done"
metadata says 85mm? - can't be right so not sure - "Somebody Didn't Get The Memo" Note Gatorade on desk
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BTW...this paper is still dying. It flat lined in August of 2008, and dies a little more every year. It went on to build a modern
press (ordered from Germany in the 1990s) in a new building, closed that building in 2020, and now prints the local news
by literally a handful of employess many hundreds of miles away at another paper that the parent company is killing slowly
as well.
James Markus wrote:
Thought I would share a scene occurring all over America - the death of local Newspapers. This
paper had a daily circulation of 145,000, and a Sunday circulation of 281,000 during it's heyday.
Keeping people informed about their local, state, and federal government has been irreparably
damaged by the closing of these newspapers.
Edit
BTW...this paper is still dying. It flat lined in August of 2008, and dies a little more every year. It went on to build a modern
press (ordered from Germany in the 1990s) in a new building, closed that building in 2020, and now prints the local news
by literally a handful of employess many hundreds of miles away at another paper that the parent company is killing slowly
as well....Show more →
Great and sad series Jim. Sounds like our local newspaper. Closed up shop in the local town and is now consolidated into one of many smaller town newspapers. Who knows where it is printed now. We supported it until about two years ago. Became mostly out of town opinion articles and very little local news. Mostly cut and paste on information that was posted on the main AP feeds days earlier. I always looked forward to the Sunday paper, but I really did not want to know what was best for my lawn and garden in California when I lived in NC
I did not feel guilty canceling once it was all moved away and the local staff gone.
Or local paper is combined to about 4 small towns now
and they have an online version
Problem is that the paper is about 2-3 days behind the online version
