I was about 10 minutes too late this morning getting a good shot of CVN 74 (John C. Stennis) getting escorted into its home port of Bremerton this morning.
300/4.5 ED-IF AIS @f/5.6 and some not that great post-processing.
Hmmm . . . that picture is much sharper on my screen when I view the jpg file locally.
FM must really be compressing the heck out of it when it loads it up.
this evening I was walking back to my daughter's high school when a young man with a thick southern accent asked me where the football game was.
I told him he was in the wrong place and he explained that he was from Tennessee, in the Navy, got in to town this morning, and just came over from Bremerton to see the high school football game. I asked if he came in on the John C. Stennis and he said that he did!
In October of 1973, during the Watergate scandal, the Nixon administration proposed the Stennis compromise, wherein the hard-of-hearing Stennis would listen to the contested Oval Office tapes and report on their contents, but this plan went nowhere.
Both taken with the venerable FM2 + Micro-Nikkor 55mm f/2.8 ais + flash; Fujichrome RDPII ISO 100 from January 2000, Serra da Canastra National Park, gallery forest inside the Brazilian Cerrado Region (savannah).
Digital dupes using D610 + PB-6 bellows + Micro-Nikkor 55mm f/3.5 ai @f/8 + PS-6 slide copying adapter + SC-17 cable/SB 400 flash behind slide.
All shots with D610 + Nikkor 85mm f1.4ais at ~1.3m + tripod at f/2.
The newers of the bunch are ~43 years old, whereas the older one is 56 years old!
No doubt all of them will be working faultlessly the next 50 years... cannot say the same about the G & E plastic fantastic AF lenses...
All shots with D610 + Nikkor 85mm f1.4ais at ~1.3m + tripod at f/2.
The newers of the bunch are ~43 years old, whereas the older one is 56 years old!
No doubt all of them will be working faultlessly the next 50 years... cannot say the same about the G & E plastic fantastic AF lenses......Show more →
Jose.....Jose, Jose, Jose.....I am dying here! That collection is magnificent - and I love how you've arranged it and shot it. Thank you so much for showing it.
That second shot is so good Philippe. I just noticed he's carrying a drink container - is that to protect the bridge piece or just somewhere to rest his drink?
It really doesn't work on the horizontal? say, cropped down a bit closer to his head and extended out on the right? It's a great shot either way.
bruni wrote:
That second shot is so good Philippe. I just noticed he's carrying a drink container - is that to protect the bridge piece or just somewhere to rest his drink?
It really doesn't work on the horizontal? say, cropped down a bit closer to his head and extended out on the right? It's a great shot either way.
ben
He is a street musician actually (the guy on his left is an accodionist) so I guess the drink container is for receiving coins of bystanders...
No it doesn't work on horizontal - it was a reflex shot : I didn't have time to compose/frame and those wide-angle lenses are not always easy to use for on-the-fly street shots.
collection for 2017
