photoomaha wrote:
Had to get this thread back to the front page!!
It feels somewhat like a ghost town here now. There once was a gold rush with 60+ posts a day an a lively discussion, we all remember the bar fights and great pictures but almost everyone has migrated to the A7 thread.
I purchased a mint Minolta 35-70 macro on the forum recently, a sharp copy on my NEX 7 at f/16 for this shot at Thompson's Mills, Oregon's oldest surviving water-powered grist mill. What you see is the floor where a man stood all day filling 50-pound sacks with grain (later, animal feed) and loading them onto a handcart. Repetitive moving, seven days a week, over 30 years. No wonder they call them The Good Old Days
Week 8, Saturday - First strokes
"I'd like to think that exploring my own photographic eye and starting to understand different individual and cultural elements behind it is most rewarding experience one can have with his own photography. It's also the reason why I felt I needed to depart from usual family&holidays photography and begin this journey into my own visual world. Having said that I believe that my own photographic eye isn't somewhere out there in hibernation just waiting to be found. I carry the individual and cultural seeds within me. [...]"
just got back from a weekend getaway to Sedona AZ. It was mostly a people visit so I knew there wouldn't really be much picture time so I just took the NEX-7 and Sigma 30mm f/2.8
Nex 5N is such an awesome camera for the price vs performance AND size vs performance. I hate to let it go but I guess there is no point having many digital cameras around.
Week 9, Wednesday - Stored memories
"I’ve already told you that I have some old film in our fridge, but what I didn’t tell you is that some of those rolls have pictures in them. Grown at the digital age I never clicked with an analog film, but there is one thing I’ve always liked about it – its physicality and worldly character. Image forms into a film with the aid of emulsion which contains light-sensitive chemicals. As such it is trace of physical reality and light that once run through the emulsion. Film rolls that are situated in our fridge contain these kind of traces from at least ten years back when me and Sari where younger and the life we now live didn’t yet exist. [...]"
I hardly ever use the AF lenses on NEX, but boy that 16mm is the best kit pancake ever, I don't care what any of the detractors say, it was a bold mover for the start of NEX.
16mm E, that sony flash with the two AAA batteries, N6, alien skin exposure "agfa optima"... lake worth street painting festival
