With all this talk about who does the work on the farm, I must come clean and state that the attached image taken several years ago was STAGED and that person in the image was just standing around while Barbara was off camera to the right doing ALL the work! So glad you guys were able to get together. By the way, image taken with the 28 f2.8 Ais on a NIKON body.
Scott
Uh oh don't get Reagan started Ben! I actually am curious about your vantage point from where you get those strategic shots day after day.
Scott, great view into that venerable 2-seater cockpit through your 18 3.5!
Leighton, I wondered myself why Ken was hiding his shiny D500 under the hat. I am sure it had nothing to do with the green dots feeling their age though
mp356 wrote:
With all this talk about who does the work on the farm, I must come clean and state that the attached image taken several years ago was STAGED and that person in the image was just standing around while Barbara was off camera to the right doing ALL the work! So glad you guys were able to get together. By the way, image taken with the 28 f2.8 Ais on a NIKON body.
Scott
Lestor and Samy - I have no secret to reveal. I was happily taking shots of the Opera House and the harbour bridge when one day Philippe called my work "banal". My french is not the best but I assumed it is was as unflattering in French as it was in English.
So I got very self conscious, stopped taking landscape pics and started going darker and darker. I figured that if I got really really dark, so dark that you could hardly see the subject then you wouldn't be able to criticise it.
And voila!
I don't do anything special - what you see is what you get - I try and shoot people in the sun against a dark background. There's a lot of luck in that - but when someone steps into the light - you get that selective highlighting you referred to Lestor. But of course when it's overcast - then I'm stuffed. I've been very lucky lately because we've had very sunny days even though it's winter.
I want you to look at the table. The Fuji standing proud and Ken's hat covering his camera in embarrassment.
One more thing...Ben is right!
Leighton, Leighton, Leighton I'm just a humble man that lives in the South who removes his hat while at the table and covers his belongings so as not to show off while a guest in someone's hometown. 😁😁😀
Ken Hill wrote:
Leighton, Leighton, Leighton I'm just a humble man that lives in the South who removes his hat while at the table and covers his belongings so as not to show off while a guest in someone's hometown. 😁😁😀
I just returned from an 8-day trip to the Rocky Mountains and Black Canyon in Colorado, so I have a lot of catching up to do in reviewing all of the images posted since I last visited.
I'll post a few photos from the trip over the next few days, but try not to overdo it.
All photos taken with Fujifilm X-E1 & Nikkor 24 f/2.8 AI.
The image quality of the 85mm + TC combo have surprised me a lot, just some traces of deterioration at the border. I wouldn't use them for serious landscape photography but it's nice to have a quite good 145gr heavy and 17mm long 135mm.
bruni wrote:
Lestor and Samy - I have no secret to reveal. I was happily taking shots of the Opera House and the harbour bridge when one day Philippe called my work "banal". My french is not the best but I assumed it is was as unflattering in French as it was in English.
So I got very self conscious, stopped taking landscape pics and started going darker and darker. I figured that if I got really really dark, so dark that you could hardly see the subject then you wouldn't be able to criticise it.
Very nice view of the falls through the gap.
