Was wondering if we were going to get some fresh Crusing Grand shots this year. Always love to see these Rafael!
George
rafaelcasd wrote:
Came back to my first Cruising Grand street of the year, went tired but got some shots, with the55mm 1.2 970xxx, meaning the very first series.
And what comes down the street? a 1910 Pierce Arrow! I told the owner "Thanks for bringing it" and he says "you are welcome"
Has anyone heard from Glen? He mentioned a while back that he was swamped with work but that has been a while. Hope all is well.
Samy, excellent work with the 55/1.2 and great soft colors at the Baltimore water front. Terrific saturated colors above with the heavy duty gear, it sounds complicated..
James, great captures with the 16/2.8 fisheye a few pages back. One does not see much of the f/2.8 version around here.
Andy, excellent photographs and color. The landscape with the clouds is killer.
Brad, great captures at the concert.
Scott. great light from the Maine waterfront.
A day trip to Malaga from Sevilla to meet friends. I have very few photographs since most of the day was wasted with travel.
The marina, not your run of the mill floating vessels. Unlike Sevilla, Malaga had a boat load of modern condo type buildings.
Excellent framing on the first one Serge. Is that your boat in the middle?
serge07 wrote:
Hi, everyone:
Has anyone heard from Glen? He mentioned a while back that he was swamped with work but that has been a while. Hope all is well.
Samy, excellent work with the 55/1.2 and great soft colors at the Baltimore water front. Terrific saturated colors above with the heavy duty gear, it sounds complicated..
James, great captures with the 16/2.8 fisheye a few pages back. One does not see much of the f/2.8 version around here.
Andy, excellent photographs and color. The landscape with the clouds is killer.
Brad, great captures at the concert.
Scott. great light from the Maine waterfront.
A day trip to Malaga from Sevilla to meet friends. I have very few photographs since most of the day was wasted with travel.
Plaubel Makina W67, Kodak Vision3 250D film. This is ECN-2 film, which means its been cut directly from 70mm movie film so it has the remjet layer intact. The only lab that made sense to send it to was NYC Film Lab. A couple of other options seemed shaky, one of them just put ECN-2 film through the C-41 process after removing the remjet. Anyway first try at this film. George, sorry, no center filter
Love this, Samy! The deep, rich colors really do it for me.
Another pic with the Kodak Vision3 250D roll in Plaubel Makina W67. The only folks here not in the queue to get a tour of the docked USS Marinette are Canon guy and myself. Not quite sure what Canon guy is pointing the long lens at - goose droppings?
George, I had never been a fan of circular fisheye images until Raphael and now you started posting them. I am fascinated at the compressed edges, and the level of detail they retain. My aesthetic is rectilinear, but i do like the barrel distortion the fisheye provides within that frame. I did some portraits of my kids with the 10.5mm fisheye on a crop sensor (D2X or D300), and they reminded me of those old oval framed portraits where even the glass was dome or convex shaped. It adds depth to the image, and pulls you in. I've got an experiment i want to try with the 8mm. I was shocked at the build quality - it being way better than I expected. (it feels like it is all metal, and very smooth focus ring) Sharpness impression - not so much. I didn't even know the manufacturer sold lenses under their name. The ebayer claimed he used it three times, and it looks it.
GeorgeBo wrote:
Or you could go with 8mm circular fisheye to full frame coverage 15mm in one lens. Have had this in my cart a number of times but never had the right project to justify it. I could sell the 8mm/2.8 and 15mm and 16mm fisheye and more than cover it, but would never be the same shooting experience and build.
rafaelcasd wrote:
So, Back from Pascagoula, did not take a tele lens as my photos would be in the yard and the ships are big. The photos from inside I cannot show you.
from the Singing river bridges and other islands I used the super sharp 50mm 1.2, plus Adobe ultra resolution to create 160 MEGA pixels from the 46 MP of the Z7, then cropped, the 160MP JPGS arein Flickr but if you are interested you must download to get the full size.
Love this yard and its people, but not the weather.
Actually, last one is not a crop but full size, also on Flickr, but clicking on Flickr twice to get the largest view is not the largest size, for that you have to download. the image is 16K*10K more or less.
A more complete Aegis destroyer, and a nearly done LH.
James Markus wrote:
You know when you are at the checkout counter and some item catches your eye? A bit of candy, a pocket knife, a doodad for something or other. Well it happened to me on ebay in those ads across the bottom of the page. The ones that claim people looking at stuff like me found these interesting as well. After George and Raphael post 20mm projection circles achieved with the Nikkor 8mm f2.8 and other fish-eye Nikkors - I got curious about how many elements and groupings of elements it took? How big was the lens? What does a good used copy cost? Does anyone else make 8mm lenses? What is their lens formula? How much do these wannabe Nikkors cost? Is there any similarity among all the 8mm lenses? (See what owning a boatload of cats does to the human mind) However, the last question is what made me do this - What are the differences of all my widest lenses on FX; what would that look like? When I got my Nikkor 10.5mm f2.8 afs dx fish-eye - almost immediately people began cutting off the built in hood to get even more coverage. I noticed that Rokinon, Samyang, and a bunch of other 8mm dx lens brands were essentially the exact same lens branded with different trade names. I'm sure there are some differences, but for $65 I was willing to take a chance on a 10 element in 7 groups lens. There are 3 Nikkors in this 6 lens comparison, and the new lens has the ability to remove the hood - exposing an impressive front element. I shot with and without the hood to show the difference. There is 5 seconds between each animated gif frame - 7 frames total covering 8mm - 17mm (fish-eye and rectilinear) I'm linking it, because only one is a MF Nikkor.
Its hard for me to frame wide angle correctly, I just don't have it. The widest lens I have is the 15mm QD C, and once or twice I thought I got reasonable results from it, but its hard work. I can't even think about getting anything wider.
One thing I want to add, while I have trouble with extreme wide angles, I do enjoy them and appreciate what folks post here!
mp356 wrote:
Nice use of the fisheye George. My mind saw your image and then thought what would that wagon wheel look like centered in a fisheye view.
Scott
Serge,
I do have the f2.8 version of the 16mm, but I only post the f3.5 ai in this thread? The change in Malaga and Torremolinos since 1970 is astonishing. The La Colina Hotel in Torremolinos was surrounded by sugar cane fields and navel orange orchards. I could walk to Malaga, and a nearby plaza. Decades later I told a co-worker about how pastoral or rural it seemed (not withstanding the cathedral in Malaga), and the beautiful landscapes. She came back with photos of the coast featuring high rise buildings as far as the eye could see. I didn't even recognize it anymore. These two are from an Argus C3 my first camera - thought you might find it interesting.
Has anyone heard from Glen? He mentioned a while back that he was swamped with work but that has been a while. Hope all is well.
Samy, excellent work with the 55/1.2 and great soft colors at the Baltimore water front. Terrific saturated colors above with the heavy duty gear, it sounds complicated..
James, great captures with the 16/2.8 fisheye a few pages back. One does not see much of the f/2.8 version around here.
Andy, excellent photographs and color. The landscape with the clouds is killer.
Brad, great captures at the concert.
Scott. great light from the Maine waterfront.
A day trip to Malaga from Sevilla to meet friends. I have very few photographs since most of the day was wasted with travel.
So, I went to Cruising Gran Street too early, had not comprehended that summer is on us and one should wait to be there later for the best light. Saving grace is the 'old' Z6 that handles the strong contrast well in post processing. My old D3 would get very noisy in the shadows under these conditions.
I was photographing the group of Packards and Pierce Arrows, ignoring the not-so-vintage group of Rolls Royces, struggling a bit with the strong sun heating me up, and listening to some owners speaking (boasting) of their made to order town car from 1936, a million+ dollar affair and the only one like it in the world.
Down the road comes chugging the grandaddy of them all, a 1910 Pierce arrow, complete with grandma, grandpa, and the kids. I did not ask them how they came to own and care for this beauty but I loved that they were dressed like anyone else and acted totally down to earth. My guess is that they were old California money, not dot com or Hollywood but orange growers whose land became gold. I have met some of these folks over my lifetime - very normal people who are serious about money and business but do not think themselves better than anyone else. (The way Leighton and I would be if our farm had been in Orange county )
One such person I met was the owner of Rainbird Co. Tony LaFetra, in his family's Azusa farm the irrigation sprinkler was invented. Tony has left us, and he was a good man.
Enough talking, on to photos:
Arriving, this first one by the way is at 1.2 with strong sunlight, sure there are better lenses, but this is a good one!
It is one thing to see a car like this in a museum, altogether different to see it driving around town.
Always love to see these Rafael!
