gbohannon wrote:
Well for me the season change has brought on a new work in video a couple times a week and I am volunteering shooting video for our area high school graduations. There is one very large venue that just about all the high schools and community college use for graduations. So there are 6 or 7 coming up the next few weeks. Will be just doing live video feeds to two large video displays.
It is a 3 camera set up feeding a video mixer/switch to two jumbo displays. Most of the time traditional video cameras are used, but I am going over tomorrow morning and see how we can utilize my X-T2 with the versatile Zoom-Nikkor 50-300ED AIS. Hoping to utilize the large sensor (relative to the Sony camcorders) and aspects of the Nikkor for some unique angles and shots. Also taking the 200/2. So still keeping it real with these great manual focus lenses.
I am firmly in both camps (mirrorless and Nikon DSLR). Df for most of my F mount glass, X-Pro2 almost exclusive w/ Nikkor rangefinder glass (do have a couple native Fuji lenses) and the X-T2 is quickly becoming quite the video workhorse for me.
My son is home from college and we are heading to the mountains camping this weekend through next Tuesday and it will be the X-Pro2 and Nikkor rangefinder glass in the pack.
Scavenger hunt? Ok, you have piqued my interest. Do tell more
Sounds like never a dull moment in your life George! Since your son has already graduated this is obviously an act of generosity for your community. More power to you... and glad you can take advantage of your Nikon lenses when playing at this particular game. I'll look forward to what you discover during your forthcoming camping trip. Must be nice to have your son home.
With regard to a "scavenger hunt" it is a fully unbaked idea that I threw out for a reason that completely escapes me. Now IF there were interest among the folks hanging out on this thread we could have a conversation about what such a game might look like. When I was at TrekEarth, about twelve years ago, the hunt had a list of 10 subjects that need to be found and photographed. I mentioned the one that called for photographing something over a hundred years old. I imagine we could entertain suggestions and then someone would create a list to be shared with folks who want to play... something like that.
Just an idea, but it is worth considering only if there were interest among the usual suspects...
Some public art shot while running errands downtown today. All 3 with 135/3.5 AI-s at f/11 on Df. At f/11 diffraction effects are degrading sharpness, but I needed the depth of field. This is truly an underrated lens. I bought mine years ago used for $40. It's a little gem—sharp, small, light weight, inexpensive.
CGrindahl wrote:
I hate to say it Chin but I think whatever it is... it just took a dump...
Hahahahahaha
"Papa, is that monster poo poo?"
That's what Raylan asked out loud in the near silent gallery
Ahh, the world through a two-year-old's eyes...
Zichar wrote:
Buddy, can I request that you take some photos of your crabs? Sounds really cool
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I think they call this art...
At the Singapore Art Museum - they're having a 3 month-long kids' themed exhibit iirc
Filled with craft corners and stuff for the kids to get their hands on, tactile feel and interactivity
Don't ask me what this was!
Chin, I can certainly give that a try. Will need some serious magnification to get the Geosesarma clearly visible, but I'll make that a photographic journey for today. Document some stuff about crab keeping
I once tried to keep some but they escaped within 2 hours of me introducing them to their nice new terrarium. I suspect they somehow climbed on to one of the plants, their weight bending it towards the glass wall and then stretch-boosted up to the lip of the aquarium. Then slipped out the window of my ground floor dorm room and into the misty wet jungle freedom of the night. All this after I stepped out for dinner, and coming back to an empty tank, spending the next hour checking all gaps to see where they could have squirreled into...
the solitaire wrote:
Chin, I can certainly give that a try. Will need some serious magnification to get the Geosesarma clearly visible, but I'll make that a photographic journey for today. Document some stuff about crab keeping
CGrindahl wrote:
Sounds like never a dull moment in your life George! Since your son has already graduated this is obviously an act of generosity for your community. More power to you... and glad you can take advantage of your Nikon lenses when playing at this particular game. I'll look forward to what you discover during your forthcoming camping trip. Must be nice to have your son home.
With regard to a "scavenger hunt" it is a fully unbaked idea that I threw out for a reason that completely escapes me. Now IF there were interest among the folks hanging out on this thread we could have a conversation about what such a game might look like. When I was at TrekEarth, about twelve years ago, the hunt had a list of 10 subjects that need to be found and photographed. I mentioned the one that called for photographing something over a hundred years old. I imagine we could entertain suggestions and then someone would create a list to be shared with folks who want to play... something like that.
Just an idea, but it is worth considering only if there were interest among the usual suspects...
Blondes,Brunettes and Redheads scavenger hunt
I might even buy a Nikon camera for that one
I would have to start away from home as its all grey at our house
Reagan wrote:
Blondes,Brunettes and Redheads scavenger hunt
I might even buy a Nikon camera for that one
I would have to start away from home as its all grey at our house
Reagan
You get the Nikon and I'll send you my 400/2.8 for the hunt. If you are going down that rabbit hole, go big
With regard to a "scavenger hunt" it is a fully unbaked idea that I threw out for a reason that completely escapes me. Now IF there were interest among the folks hanging out on this thread we could have a conversation about what such a game might look like. When I was at TrekEarth, about twelve years ago, the hunt had a list of 10 subjects that need to be found and photographed. I mentioned the one that called for photographing something over a hundred years old. I imagine we could entertain suggestions and then someone would create a list to be shared with folks who want to play... something like that.
Just an idea, but it is worth considering only if there were interest among the usual suspects...
That is a very nice quilt Curtis and a very nice story too. Thanks for sharing.
My plan for tomorrow is to meet a friend who owns some land on the countryside, Im gonna bring the extension rings and perhaps the PC-105mm f/2.5 :-) Hopefully I'll retuen with a few shots!
//Kristian
CGrindahl wrote:
You're right on that count... old friends can be a pleasure when we feel the inspiration to pick them up, as I did yesterday with the 180 f/2.8 AI-s and as I did this afternoon with the 20 f/.8 AI-s. You won't see what I shot today, however, because it was a rather mundane task.
My grandmother had sixteen grandchildren. In 1949 when I was eight years old she had a stroke that left her with a limp left arm/hand that were little more than a dead weight. I grew up watching her slowly limp across the kitchen as she went to the drawer where she kept cinnamon rolls that were always in good supply when I visited from the city. When I was older I learned that AFTER that stroke, my grandmother stitched together patchwork quilts for each grandchild!!!! That's sixteen quilts sewn together with one hand lying immobile on top of the fabric while fingers of the other hand did the stitching.
As i write this I realize I have to upload photos to share. These were taken with the 20mm AI-s lens.
Since I don't have children of my own, I'm in the process of deciding to whom I should give this quilt. It has resided on a closet shelf for 25 years and really deserves a new home. Sadly, the colors don't fit in my home. This is definitely the time having a second bedroom would be nice... but no luck. I don't even have ONE bedroom.
(For the most discerning viewers you will likely make out camera bags to the left of the bed... so little room, so much camera gear... )...Show more →
I didn't plan on SNARING Reagan with that scavenger idea but here he is in all his glory. I guess we'd need to have ONE item on the list that says "something found on the beach..." We KNOW what that would be for Reagan, especially if he had that 400 f/2.8 lens George is offering. I'm afraid if he had that he'd NEVER go home... except to download picture.
And Peter, it would need to be more generic than that... maybe "something unusual with wheels..."
Zichar wrote:
Hahahahahaha
"Papa, is that monster poo poo?"
That's what Raylan asked out loud in the near silent gallery
Ahh, the world through a two-year-old's eyes...
Smart boy Chin... though, of course, poo poo looms very large in the lives of infants, so I guess we shouldn't be surprised. But with that insight, he may have a future as an art critic...
here is another idea - pick a single subject/object and shoot it with every lens you have. Rafael would be rather busy, others not so much.
I was thinking about doing this to demonstrate a few things about optics with my photo club at work - lots of beginners in the club who could use ae primer on focal lengths, depth of field, field of view, perspective, compression etc.
I like that idea Peter but it might be too narrow a focus to engage everyone. My experience with the scavenger hunt was that everyone was being creative in how they interpret the instructions. We know, for example, that something on the beach could mean a crab for Buddy and Chin, a blonde for Reagan, a sailboat for Georg, a dune buggy for you...
Perhaps your idea could be massaged so that rather than EVERY lens in a kit, the task would be to shoot with a wide angle, standard lens, short tele, long tele, micro lens, with and without extension tubes, color and black and white...
My guess is the scavenger hunt would be better as a first attempt at this because it has so few limitations it would likely generate the greatest interest... but that is just me. Let's see how this unfolds. Could be fun...
I was cleaning out a closet yesterday, pouring through boxes filled with memorabilia from my past and came across a large photo of my grandmother with one of the quilts she'd made across her lap. She was a tiny woman, a bit over five feet tall. And as I said, she'd had a stroke so her left side was paralyzed. Here she is... a photo of a photo...
