Hey party people. Showing up on this sixth week of my time out of action. On week four, I managed to catch Covid. Except for a lingering throat irritation, I'm okay now although some days I feel drained.
SiMuMe wrote:
Hey party people. Showing up on this sixth week of my time out of action. On week four, I managed to catch Covid. Except for a lingering throat irritation, I'm okay now although some days I feel drained.
Bummer that you caught it. When you get that drained feeling, give into it and nap. Your body is telling you to rest up. I'm not sure if my tiredness is from my bout of covid or from working so darn much even after having it. I've taken to devoting half my lunch hour to a power nap... if I snore, my coworkers get to listen to it.
SiMuMe wrote:
Hey party people. Showing up on this sixth week of my time out of action. On week four, I managed to catch Covid. Except for a lingering throat irritation, I'm okay now although some days I feel drained.
Ballard wrote:
James, great flower shots with post-processing that emphasizes the mood!
Peter, I totally agree. For many years I've liked shooting dead flowers. Here's one from 10 years ago with the 85/2.0 on my old D700. Just resized and converted to jpg.
My dad was an electrical engineer who worked for an aerospace firm (Lear Siegler Inc.) that provided critical instruments (Attitude indicator, Altimeter, and +?) for all commercial planes, and US space capsules from Mercury to Apollo in the 1960s. He and thousands of engineers contributed to achieving this before calculators even existed; using tools that few people today even understand. The slide rule is much like an abacus, calipers, and endless drawings at a drafting table - are now all old school. Technology marches on finding new and better ways to do things that are already being done, or that have never been done before. Here are three items from my father that he used during this time. His slide rule, caliper, and a billet of depleted uranium mixed with nickel and other metals from which Apollo's gyros were fashioned.
D800 w/105mm f2.5 ais awhile ago
Here is some more of that technology getting better. I had the D7200 on a tripod aimed at the bird feeder. Near dinner time I could barely see a squirrel gleaning seed off the ground. Even the SOOC jpg is brighter than what my eye saw, and the raw is a fiction of the reality at the time. I always shoot best setting jpg, and raw - so this is the same frame recorded two different ways at ISO 25,600. I am not only surprised it came out as good as it did, but I am truly shocked the 400mm f5.6 with a modified 1.6X TC actually seemed to have no trouble focusing.
D7200 400mm f5.6 ais + modified tc-16a ISOs I have never used before - shot Feb 21st 6:12pm
SiMuMe wrote:
Hey party people. Showing up on this sixth week of my time out of action. On week four, I managed to catch Covid. Except for a lingering throat irritation, I'm okay now although some days I feel drained.
Thanks for the insight of your father's career. The story adds weight to an already great photograph.
Indeed things have come along way considering modern stabilized cameras and lenses have micro machined (MEMS) 2-axis and/or 3-axis accelerometers/gyros buit-in to them.
Colin
James Markus wrote:
My dad was an electrical engineer who worked for an aerospace firm (Lear Siegler Inc.) that provided critical instruments (Attitude indicator, Altimeter, and +?) for all commercial planes, and US space capsules from Mercury to Apollo in the 1960s. He and thousands of engineers contributed to achieving this before calculators even existed; using tools that few people today even understand. The slide rule is much like an abacus, calipers, and endless drawings at a drafting table - are now all old school. Technology marches on finding new and better ways to do things that are already being done, or that have never been done before. Here are three items from my father that he used during this time. His slide rule, caliper, and a billet of depleted uranium mixed with nickel and other metals from which Apollo's gyros were fashioned.
Here is some more of that technology getting better. I had the D7200 on a tripod aimed at the bird feeder. Near dinner time I could barely see a squirrel gleaning seed off the ground. Even the SOOC jpg is brighter than what my eye saw, and the raw is a fiction of the reality at the time. I always shoot best setting jpg, and raw - so this is the same frame recorded two different ways at ISO 25,600. I am not only surprised it came out as good as it did, but I am truly shocked the 400mm f5.6 with a modified 1.6X TC actually seemed to have no trouble focusing.
D7200 400mm f5.6 ais + modified tc-16a ISOs I have never used before - shot Feb 21st 6:12pm
SiMuMe wrote:
Hey party people. Showing up on this sixth week of my time out of action. On week four, I managed to catch Covid. Except for a lingering throat irritation, I'm okay now although some days I feel drained.
SiMuMe wrote:
Hey party people. Showing up on this sixth week of my time out of action. On week four, I managed to catch Covid. Except for a lingering throat irritation, I'm okay now although some days I feel drained.
Some long over due photos taken from my walk with the pups this morning. Brought the D700 and 105 1.8 along, not much time lately but this was a good step back in to making photos. Nothing to exciting but at least I got them to stay still for a second.
Thanks a lot, Ray and everyone. I'm grateful things worked out. Was a bit heavy on one of the kids landing in hospital. First day test was negative. Only tested positive on the third day as doctors were baffled why the fever wasn't getting under control so they ordered another test. That was the worst. Kids do bounce back much quicker though. For me it felt like the days after getting the vaccine. Incredibly sore but lasted three days. This has been a good week, with only one of those tired days.
My dad was also an engineer, and he carried a round slide rule in his shirt pocket. For the longest time, he would wear nothing but white shirts. He finally gave in to wearing pastel colors in his later years. At my husband's wake, he agreed to don one of the Hawaiian shirts. I took a photo of that momentous occasion and sent it to my step mother. No I'm not posting it here for two reasons.. one is that I'm in it, and two, auto focus lens.
James Markus wrote:
My dad was an electrical engineer who worked for an aerospace firm (Lear Siegler Inc.) that provided critical instruments (Attitude indicator, Altimeter, and +?) for all commercial planes, and US space capsules from Mercury to Apollo in the 1960s. He and thousands of engineers contributed to achieving this before calculators even existed; using tools that few people today even understand. The slide rule is much like an abacus, calipers, and endless drawings at a drafting table - are now all old school. Technology marches on finding new and better ways to do things that are already being done, or that have never been done before. Here are three items from my father that he used during this time. His slide rule, caliper, and a billet of depleted uranium mixed with nickel and other metals from which Apollo's gyros were fashioned.
Here is some more of that technology getting better. I had the D7200 on a tripod aimed at the bird feeder. Near dinner time I could barely see a squirrel gleaning seed off the ground. Even the SOOC jpg is brighter than what my eye saw, and the raw is a fiction of the reality at the time. I always shoot best setting jpg, and raw - so this is the same frame recorded two different ways at ISO 25,600. I am not only surprised it came out as good as it did, but I am truly shocked the 400mm f5.6 with a modified 1.6X TC actually seemed to have no trouble focusing.
D7200 400mm f5.6 ais + modified tc-16a ISOs I have never used before - shot Feb 21st 6:12pm
I failed to mention what those engineers achieved - they put people on the moon - with the most mundane tools available. In later reading I learned LSI was making personal computers from the early to mid 1970's. Initially at $1500 apiece, and by the third version they had it down to $995 - Then the head of the company suddenly died, and it all withered away. LSI would have an annual open house, and my only interest at that time (I was a boy in the 1960s) was getting turns on the flight simulator. When paying bills once, Montgomery Wards gave me a credit card solar powered calculator, just for paying my bills on time. I can remember a bit of a fuss between my mom and dad about the hundreds of dollars he had spent on one of the first commercially available calculators. My dad was so stoked to get his hands on a calculator it was comical.
NightOwl Cat wrote:
My dad was also an engineer, and he carried a round slide rule in his shirt pocket. For the longest time, he would wear nothing but white shirts. He finally gave in to wearing pastel colors in his later years. At my husband's wake, he agreed to don one of the Hawaiian shirts. I took a photo of that momentous occasion and sent it to my step mother. No I'm not posting it here for two reasons.. one is that I'm in it, and two, auto focus lens.
Light was variable yesterday - so lots of room for improvement. I am noticing all the birds and squirrels are quite fat compared to when I resumed feeding them. I got to train them to use a lilac near the feeder as a perch for more natural looking photos. The shear numbers (apparently birds talk a lot) is forcing many into the lilac to wait turns for the seed on the ground. Yesterday, there was close to 30-40 birds within a six foot circle.
Ani,
Love the bokeh in this group from the 105mm f1.8.
Jim
anitrone wrote:
Some long over due photos taken from my walk with the pups this morning. Brought the D700 and 105 1.8 along, not much time lately but this was a good step back in to making photos. Nothing to exciting but at least I got them to stay still for a second.
