I offer a belated Happy New Year to everyone... belated because a flu bug grabbed right around the time an SD card I'd recently inserted into the Df decided it was no longer friends with the card slot at the rear of my iMac. I figured I could offload recent images using a cord connecting the Df through a USB port, but unfortunately, I didn't have that particular cord. I got one cheap on E-Bay and was finally able to process the few photos I took during a recent trip to Berkeley. That is how desperate I've become... Sue's doctor's appointments are becoming my excuse to take street photos...
I was shooting with the 85 f/1.4 AI-s and caught this end of the year rose.
I know that folks on the other side of the country are contending with some nasty, COLD weather. I have enough experience living in Minnesota that I can feel your pain. I even worked outside one winter with the Minnesota Highway Department. That was before the days when wind chill factor was understood. The survey crew that I worked on had two weather related rules to determine when we could get back in the heated truck. In summer it was 11 drops of rain in one square inch on the windshield. In winter it was when the temperature dropped to 20 below zero Fahrenheit. Of course, we were working on elevated construction sites with wind whipping across the plains. The wool scarf wrapped around my face was always dripping icicles by the time we got into the truck.
Stay warm everyone. In my neck of the woods we're hoping for rain, lest we return to drought conditions.
Here on Vancouver Island, unlike regions to the east (it hit -40 C in the area around Calgary, Alberta last week ), the winter temperatures have been hovering in their usual range between -2 and +5 C. However, having lived in Central and Eastern Canada for many years, I have sympathy. So are a few more summer images to help those east of here (and well north of Florida!) remember what warm weather is like. In this set, the first two photos were shot with the 28 f/2 N, the third with the 85 f/1.8 HC, and the fourth with the 16 f/3.5 Ai.
Glad your flu bug wasn't more serious. Also glad you chimed in today after the "small" EQ that hit the SF area today. I'm hoping that the replica of Motif #1 survives the hurricane force winds currently generated in the New England area.
CGrindahl wrote:
I offer a belated Happy New Year to everyone... belated because a flu bug grabbed right around the time an SD card I'd recently inserted into the Df decided it was no longer friends with the card slot at the rear of my iMac. I figured I could offload recent images using a cord connecting the Df through a USB port, but unfortunately, I didn't have that particular cord. I got one cheap on E-Bay and was finally able to process the few photos I took during a recent trip to Berkeley. That is how desperate I've become... Sue's doctor's appointments are becoming my excuse to take street photos...
I was shooting with the 85 f/1.4 AI-s and caught this end of the year rose.
I know that folks on the other side of the country are contending with some nasty, COLD weather. I have enough experience living in Minnesota that I can feel your pain. I even worked outside one winter with the Minnesota Highway Department. That was before the days when wind chill factor was understood. The survey crew that I worked on had two weather related rules to determine when we could get back in the heated truck. In summer it was 11 drops of rain in one square inch on the windshield. In winter it was when the temperature dropped to 20 below zero Fahrenheit. Of course, we were working on elevated construction sites with wind whipping across the plains. The wool scarf wrapped around my face was always dripping icicles by the time we got into the truck.
Stay warm everyone. In my neck of the woods we're hoping for rain, lest we return to drought conditions.
I'm still in the grip of the flu bug I'm afraid...
The earthquake woke me up Laura. I couldn't help but think about the woman who moved her from New York City last summer who lives in the house in front of my cottage with her sister. I'm sure she's happy to be avoiding the cold and snow but if you have never experienced the jolt of an earthquake, it can be pretty frightening. Fortunately, nothing tumbled to the ground or broke, so life goes on. A few window rattles are par for the course...
That one rattled the house for a few minutes. Got up, checked the kitchen to see if the stove had walked or cabinets emptied, and got the kids back to bed, finally started to fall asleep, and then...
This one hit. I was done sleeping after that and not a happy camper either.
I was the advancement chairman for the Boy Scout troop my two boys were in, and I'd volunteered to go up to their camp site at Big Bear for summer camp, which was about 3 weeks after the quake... could still feel aftershocks.
Lived out there from Feb 1989-Jan 1993.
CGrindahl wrote:
I'm still in the grip of the flu bug I'm afraid...
The earthquake woke me up Laura. I couldn't help but think about the woman who moved her from New York City last summer who lives in the house in front of my cottage with her sister. I'm sure she's happy to be avoiding the cold and snow but if you have never experienced the jolt of an earthquake, it can be pretty frightening. Fortunately, nothing tumbled to the ground or broke, so life goes on. A few window rattles are par for the course...
CGrindahl wrote:
I offer a belated Happy New Year to everyone... belated because a flu bug grabbed right around the time an SD card I'd recently inserted into the Df decided it was no longer friends with the card slot at the rear of my iMac. I figured I could offload recent images using a cord connecting the Df through a USB port, but unfortunately, I didn't have that particular cord. I got one cheap on E-Bay and was finally able to process the few photos I took during a recent trip to Berkeley. That is how desperate I've become... Sue's doctor's appointments are becoming my excuse to take street photos...
I was shooting with the 85 f/1.4 AI-s and caught this end of the year rose.
I know that folks on the other side of the country are contending with some nasty, COLD weather. I have enough experience living in Minnesota that I can feel your pain. I even worked outside one winter with the Minnesota Highway Department. That was before the days when wind chill factor was understood. The survey crew that I worked on had two weather related rules to determine when we could get back in the heated truck. In summer it was 11 drops of rain in one square inch on the windshield. In winter it was when the temperature dropped to 20 below zero Fahrenheit. Of course, we were working on elevated construction sites with wind whipping across the plains. The wool scarf wrapped around my face was always dripping icicles by the time we got into the truck.
Stay warm everyone. In my neck of the woods we're hoping for rain, lest we return to drought conditions.
Max Power wrote:
I’m not much of a flower guy, but that rose shot is stunning. Do you need to do much PP on the Df?
I would think with the chill you've been experiencing in the Twin Cities that you'd LOVE seeing flower photos...
A couple of days ago I spoke with my niece living there and she spoke about the temperature not approaching freezing. I recall when the temperature didn't pass zero degrees...
I do minimal post processing. I download RAW NEF files into Lightroom where I manage them. Then I review and cull unwanted images. I use the star system Adobe makes available. After review I begin processing from highest to lowest rating. I use the cropping tool to rotate and crop the image. I may reduce highlights or exposure. Rarely, I add saturation or vibrance. I may use the "darken" slider that intensified the colors. Finally, I'll use the sharpening slider before uploading the image to Photoshop where I size the image, run a final pass of Smart Sharpen and convert from 16 to 8 bits before saving the file. I checked this file and all I did was reduce exposure, reduce highlights, crop and sharpen... pretty straightforward stuff.
I love playing with the digital darkroom. Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop and Silver Efex Pro 2 give me everything I need. Hope that is useful for you Max.
Very sweet Chuong. What a gorgeous little lens. It was Ani's offer to loan me a 5.8cm f/1.4 S that got me curious about these older lenses that cannot be converted. With the Df I can play with such toys. I so enjoyed the lens I borrowed that I decided to buy one of my own. Then it seemed natural to pick up the 5cm f/2. Here is the copy I picked up for the princely sum of $81. No complaining about that for sure...
CGrindahl wrote:
I would think with the chill you've been experiencing in the Twin Cities that you'd LOVE seeing flower photos...
A couple of days ago I spoke with my niece living there and she spoke about the temperature not approaching freezing. I recall when the temperature didn't pass zero degrees...
I do minimal post processing. I download RAW NEF files into Lightroom where I manage them. Then I review and cull unwanted images. I use the star system Adobe makes available. After review I begin processing from highest to lowest rating. I use the cropping tool to rotate and crop the image. I may reduce highlights or exposure. Rarely, I add saturation or vibrance. I may use the "darken" slider that intensified the colors. Finally, I'll use the sharpening slider before uploading the image to Photoshop where I size the image, run a final pass of Smart Sharpen and convert from 16 to 8 bits before saving the file. I checked this file and all I did was reduce exposure, reduce highlights, crop and sharpen... pretty straightforward stuff.
I love playing with the digital darkroom. Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop and Silver Efex Pro 2 give me everything I need. Hope that is useful for you Max....Show more →
Curtis,
Do you use 'P' for pick and 'X' for rejects when culling you photos in LR?
After import I view my images and use the X or P keys to flag the image.
Then it is an simple pull down menu command to remove all of the unwanted rejects from LR - with an option to remove then from the hard drive as well.
CGrindahl wrote:
I offer a belated Happy New Year to everyone... belated because a flu bug grabbed right around the time an SD card I'd recently inserted into the Df decided it was no longer friends with the card slot at the rear of my iMac. I figured I could offload recent images using a cord connecting the Df through a USB port, but unfortunately, I didn't have that particular cord. I got one cheap on E-Bay and was finally able to process the few photos I took during a recent trip to Berkeley. That is how desperate I've become... Sue's doctor's appointments are becoming my excuse to take street photos...
I was shooting with the 85 f/1.4 AI-s and caught this end of the year rose.
I know that folks on the other side of the country are contending with some nasty, COLD weather. I have enough experience living in Minnesota that I can feel your pain. I even worked outside one winter with the Minnesota Highway Department. That was before the days when wind chill factor was understood. The survey crew that I worked on had two weather related rules to determine when we could get back in the heated truck. In summer it was 11 drops of rain in one square inch on the windshield. In winter it was when the temperature dropped to 20 below zero Fahrenheit. Of course, we were working on elevated construction sites with wind whipping across the plains. The wool scarf wrapped around my face was always dripping icicles by the time we got into the truck.
Stay warm everyone. In my neck of the woods we're hoping for rain, lest we return to drought conditions.
That's a lovely lens - I also have one and I'm sure Samy and Rafael also have one each. Enjoy.
Perhaps we should have a "nifty fifty" challenge to stimulate interest and get us shooting in this New Year?
Chuong - congrats on the "tick mark" 5cm! They are sweet lenses.
I agree with Peter. I think a "nifty fifty" challenge would be a great idea. Going to put my 5cm on my Df today and take it with me on my trip down to the university my son attends.
I read with amusement the stories of the earthquake near San Francisco the other day. Some nostalgia and my only experience.
Being stationed at the Marine Corps Air Station - Yuma Arizona in 1967, a bunch of us were at a buddies house playing poker and drinking everything in sight.
Well halfway through the night, my buddies wife’s china cabinet came crashing down with most of her mother’s China destroyed. Since we were all “drunk” we really didn’t know who was to blame. So we sort of sobered up and felt really bad. Ready to catch hell when she got home.
Morning arrived, and my buddy‘s wife, a navy nurse came home after her shift. She threw her arms around him and said “thank God you guys are all right.” Well we all looked at each other in amazement and learned about a massive earthquake in nearby El Cajon, Ca.. Now we knew why we couldn’t find anyone to blame and never felt the earth shaking!
And now they tell you to secure bookcases and cabinets like that to one of the studs in the wall.
Ken Hill wrote:
I read with amusement the stories of the earthquake near San Francisco the other day. Some nostalgia and my only experience.
Being stationed at the Marine Corps Air Station - Yuma Arizona in 1967, a bunch of us were at a buddies house playing poker and drinking everything in sight.
Well halfway through the night, my buddies wife’s china cabinet came crashing down with most of her mother’s China destroyed. Since we were all “drunk” we really didn’t know who was to blame. So we sort of sobered up and felt really bad. Ready to catch hell when she got home.
Morning arrived, and my buddy‘s wife, a navy nurse came home after her shift. She threw her arms around him and said “thank God you guys are all right.” Well we all looked at each other in amazement and learned about a massive earthquake in nearby El Cajon, Ca.. Now we knew why we couldn’t find anyone to blame and never felt the earth shaking!...Show more →
Or you should have been playing stud poker...
-Jay- NightOwl Cat wrote:
And now they tell you to secure bookcases and cabinets like that to one of the studs in the wall.
), the winter temperatures have been hovering in their usual range between -2 and +5 C. However, having lived in Central and Eastern Canada for many years, I have sympathy. So are a few more summer images to help those east of here (and well north of Florida!) remember what warm weather is like. In this set, the first two photos were shot with the 28 f/2 N, the third with the 85 f/1.8 HC, and the fourth with the 16 f/3.5 Ai. 
