CGrindahl wrote:
John, I see TWO girls in braces... which translates into LESS money for toys...
But they look much more comfortable than the steel braces I wore for five years as a teen... and that was after four teeth were extracted. Since my girlfriend also had braces we often ended up the evening with bruised lips...
Nice to see you daughters growing up John. I won't tell them you posted their photos...
Yes, A LOT LESS $$ for toys, college tuition, etc. Fortunately the payments for one have now ended and the other one has only 6 months to go.
Oosty wrote:
Philippe - you have a lovely daughter and well photographed. However, these pictures bring home to me how I have aged on this thread!! She was a "little" girl and suddenly she is a beautiful young woman.
John Hinkey, please don't post pics of your girls. I already know how I've aged
Ran a few arrends today. Stopped by with my kid to watch the old limestone quarry here in Malmö. It´s shut down now and only open for visitors together with a guide. Lot´s of unusual flower and insect species are having their habitat down there. All shots taken with the Nikkor-H.C 85mm f/1.8 .
Arvid very happy after watching all the trains, trucks and cars running back and forth between Sweden and Denmark. Arvid by Kristian Hagelin, on Flickr
bobbelbob wrote:
Ran a few arrends today. Stopped by with my kid to watch the old limestone quarry here in Malmö. It´s shut down now and only open for visitors together with a guide. Lot´s of unusual flower and insect species are having their habitat down there. All shots taken with the Nikkor-H.C 85mm f/1.8 .
Ok, next time, rinse a few out for me and pop them in a zip lock bag. I'll open them outside I brought back small shells from the beach on the Cape last year. Rinsed well and the house doesn't stink.
Foggy14 wrote:
Thanks, Laura.
I'd send you one, but we left them in NorCal. They would have been a little too pungent for an 11 hour car ride.
Thanks! True Leighton. In this shot I had no hood, lots of backlight and aperture on f/2 (was supposed to be fully open but it sometimes get stuck in between 1.8 and 2.8..) and still it turned out pretty decent. There sure are some secrets left to reveal with this one
leighton w wrote:
Love the last one. I am finding out that that is where this lens shines, at this range and closer.
leighton w wrote:
Curtis, that portrait of Jesse and his daughter is great. I like when the subject isn't looking at the camera.
+1
Curtis - I've been following the whole series on Flickr. I was going to comment on each individually - but you're so aloof on Flickr that I wasn't sure you'd even see it. I thought many of the pics were standard children's birthday parties - but the weird thing was that having seen Jesse over the years - all those shots made me feel something of what it was like to be there. Photographically speaking - I admired you using the 55mm f1.2SC - manual focus at a kid's party is a brave choice - and congrats for getting focus on some of the movement shots, like the shots of Jesse's daughter running.
Lestor - love the shot of the little girl - to me it's the B & W pp that makes it.
Jay - all that white paint in that cottage shot must have been a nightmare to balance out with the other colours.
Kristian - your family obviously likes to raise their arms for portraits - or is that you directing them?
Chuong, I hope you enjoy your 15/5.6. I find that it requires about 2/3 stop overexposure on my Df to get proper metering. It's a tricky lens to use outdoors because of the well-known blue blobs from bright sources like the sun. That said, it can produce stunning results. I should use mine more. It takes commitment to carry that big chunk of glass around. It also attracts attention, which I try to avoid.
I got mine decades ago from a pro photographer who was selling all his equipment to become a computer programmer. At the time I had only enough money to buy that one lens. Too bad because there were great deals on lots of Nikon and Hasselblad equipment. After just a few years he gave up on programming and went back to photography.
