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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Zorki5 on January 15, 2016, 05:15:09 pm
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I never ever leave home w/o a camera in a small holster on my belt. These days, it is Sony RX100II, and before it it was Fuji F200EXR, and before it it was Fuji F31fd. Somewhere in between I used a small Panasonic, which got lost along with its holster (presumably) when I was getting into a car and costed me images from one of the US trips... But well.
Anyway, every now and then having these little cameras grants me an image I wouldn't have taken otherwise. Below is one such picture, taken with RX100II during evening walk on Rhodes. BTW, EXIF says focal length was at 37.1mm, or 100mm in FF terms (i.e. fully zoomed in), and ISO at 6,400; so cell phone just wouldn't do it.
Do you have a camera that is always with you, except for the one in your smartphone?
If so, please share images taken with it in this thread.
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I never ever leave home w/o a camera in a small holster on my belt. These days, it is Sony RX100II, and before it it was Fuji F200EXR, and before it it was Fuji F31fd. Somewhere in between I used a small Panasonic, which got lost along with its holster (presumably) when I was getting into a car and costed me images from one of the US trips... But well.
Anyway, every now and then having these little cameras grants me an image I wouldn't have taken otherwise. Below is one such picture, taken with RX100II during evening walk on Rhodes. BTW, EXIF says focal length was at 37.1mm, or 100mm in FF terms (i.e. fully zoomed in), and ISO at 6,400; so cell phone just wouldn't do it.
Do you have a camera that is always with you, except for the one in your smartphone?
If so, please share images taken with it in this thread.
I take my Canon 5D MKII literally everywhere except to bed and to the shower! It is an eye opener, so to speak. As you're very aware there are always Opportunities to make an image that will pass you by if you're not equipped to capture it.
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I take my Canon 5D MKII literally everywhere except to bed and to the shower! It is an eye opener, so to speak. As you're very aware there are always Opportunities to make an image that will pass you by if you're not equipped to capture it.
As a 5DmkII owner myself (and thus being aware of its bulk), I can only admire your persistence! :)
Here's a shot taken at Playboy's Chicago HQ in 2010 with Fuji F200EXR that I know I'd have missed if I hadn't have a pocket camera with me:
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Moving between terminals at O'Hare (same 2010). Again, not exactly a place where you'd have your DSLR ready... But -- drawing Fuji F200 from its holster is always an option:
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Moving between terminals at O'Hare (same 2010). Again, not exactly a place where you'd have your DSLR ready...
I had :)
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I had :)
OK, Slobodan, I'll give you that one... 1:0 in your favor :)
Here is BTW a very different kind of an airport, the one of the island of Krete (Heraklion). I was waiting for departure, about to board. And, again, this is not a situation where I'd have an ILC ready, but -- RX100II to the rescue:
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Here is BTW a very different kind of an airport
And, while we're at it, another airport-related one: this time, descending to land... at Orange county, if memory serves me. Fuji F200EXR.
Any DSLR shots through airplane window? :)
BTW, this forum's thumbnail generator sucks. Almost all thumbnails look muddy, definition is lost, which is going to hurt this particular shot... But well, I'll post it anyway (sigh).
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As a 5DmkII owner myself (and thus being aware of its bulk), I can only admire your persistence! :)
Here's a shot taken at Playboy's Chicago HQ in 2010 with Fuji F200EXR that I know I'd have missed if I hadn't have a pocket camera with me:
Bulk and weight. For some strange reason..the metal body with a 24-105mm lens weighs more than it did a could of short years ago.
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Bulk and weight. For some strange reason..the metal body with a 24-105mm lens weighs more than it did a could of short years ago.
Same here. Speaking of... objective measurements, my Canon 24-105/4 is 670g., and Zeiss 16-70/4 (current companion of my Sony a6000) is only 308g. So Zeiss wins, hands down, even before we get to resolution charts and/or bokeh evaluation.
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... Any DSLR shots through airplane window? :)...
Yes :)
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Yes :)
OK, fair enough... 2:0 :)
It still seems to me though that, in tight situations, so to say, a pocket camera is (much) more convenient to properly frame the shot. Look, for instance, at these (first is most probably Denver -- Orange county, second NY -- Moscow):
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in tight situations, so to say, a pocket camera is (much) more convenient to properly frame the shot.
BTW, second images wasn't cropped even by a pixel on either side. Both taken with Fuji F200EXR.
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Hey Slobodan: Is there any place you don't take your DSLR? (Blush, blush!) ;D
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Hey Slobodan: Is there any place you don't take your DSLR? (Blush, blush!) ;D
Yeah... That's what I'm trying to figure out, too. :D
Here, how about this: statue of Bulat Okudzhava, Moscow, Arbat. Taken with with Fuji F31fd, on a walk:
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Hey Slobodan: Is there any place you don't take your DSLR? (Blush, blush!) ;D
I wish that would be true. In reality, I leave my cameras (DSLR or p&s) at home way too often. I wish I have Zorki5's tenacity to "never ever leave home w/o a camera."
And yes, I took a camera (though not a DSLR) to that place you probably have in mind too. ;)
You see, during my years in Russia, I traveled on business to some areas quite different from the westernized expat refuges (i.e., glitzy restaurants, hotels, and shopping malls) in Moscow in the mid-nineties. Hotel accommodations in those other places was more in line with Soviet standards. For instance, Krasnodar, in the south of Russia, had one floor of one hotel (!) renovated to western standards (by Turkish contractors - something that won't be possible as of this year). Clean bathrooms, marble, Italian faucets, etc. The price was reasonable, about $60 per room. At one point, however, there was some sort of convention in town and I was forced to stay in a Soviet era Intourist hotel, the only chain allowed to host foreign tourists in the past. Their prices reflected that old mentality of charging more to foreigners, coupled with the fact that they probably knew everything else was already fully booked, so the price was $100. But their rooms, and especially bathrooms, were a far cry from the Turkish renovated, Italian marble, etc. ones in the other hotel. So I took out my p&s (an Olympus Stylus at the time) to document something more akin to a public toilet in a seedy part of town than a $100-a night hotel. Sorry, can't show it to you now, my then-wife tore up the print, as too inappropriate to keep ;)
The only other time I left my DSLR at home for a significant trip (and have regretted that to this day) was my trip to Belgrade in 2010. I just took a Canon G10. To make matters worse, I made another one of those once-and-never-again decisions, i.e., to shoot only jpeg. I thought that, with no options to download the memory card during the trip, it would be prudent to save some space on it. Big mistake.
Nevertheless, I made two shots that have a special meaning to me. One of my now-late father:
(http://www.slobodanblagojevic.com/img/s9/v2/p1595968745-4.jpg) (http://www.slobodanblagojevic.com/p947292936/e5f208ce9)
... and the other on a layover stop in Paris. The Paris shot, in spite of being a straight-out-of-camera jpeg from a p&s, printed on a 30"x40" canvas, is now my best selling print at art fairs:
(http://www.slobodanblagojevic.com/img/s5/v117/p1605754575-3.jpg) (http://www.slobodanblagojevic.com/p691731907/e5fb5decf)
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Two splendid shots, Slobodan. Bravo!
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Two splendid shots, Slobodan. Bravo!
I agree.
I recognized your father. Excellent portrait.
My two times in Paris it never rained. Maybe that's why I don't sell many prints. ;)
Eric
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I wish I have Zorki5's tenacity to "never ever leave home w/o a camera."
Believe it or not, it's not exaggeration... Missing weight on the left side of the belt, to which I'm so accustomed, is very noticeable, much more so than missing car key in pants' right pocket.
Yeah, mid-nineties were less than pretty... We rented office on Bolshaya Kommonisticheskaya ("Big Communist" :D ) street, now Solzhenitsyna st., 5 min walking from Moscow's Orchard circle -- in the building of a dying research institute. I won't even start describing what restrooms looked over there...
Oh well. Here's a prettier view, shot during another evening walk. Mallorca, Spain, RX100II:
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I never ever leave home w/o a camera...
I've come across a gem of a short video, featuring an 82-year old New York photographer, Ken Van Sickle, musing on the subject of "What makes a photographer when everyone is taking pictures?" Well worth 3 minutes of our lives, in my humble opinion.
https://youtu.be/hA_uVCCD5Is
For the purpose of this discussion, however, I am attaching a relevant screen shot. The sentence before that one was "I carry a camera..."
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Ha, I found a cheap flight to Europe in 1986 on JAT (Yugoslav Airlines). Aside from the flight itself (smokers on the left, non-smokers on the right, broken seat, an oxygen leak which fortunately prevented the smokers from lighting up at risk of immolation), there was an obligatory night in an "International" Hotel in Belgrade. I remember a dining room that must have been able to set 400, with 1 diner... and in the room, my bed was in an alcove that was quite a bit shorter than me. Fortunately Jat was paying.
I also bought some local slide film, with a mail-back processing envelope. It faithfully captured all possible shades of brown, but processing didn't include mounts. Different.
Anyway, two phone pics: one in the Tuileries in Paris, almost exactly a year ago; the other in my office last week.
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Oh, another with DSLR: I volunteered to be a model for a friend's life drawing class, and turned the tables at the change of pose:
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Ha, I found a cheap flight to Europe in 1986 on JAT (Yugoslav Airlines). Aside from the flight itself (smokers on the left, non-smokers on the right, broken seat, an oxygen leak which fortunately prevented the smokers from lighting up at risk of immolation), there was an obligatory night in an "International" Hotel in Belgrade. I remember a dining room that must have been able to set 400, with 1 diner... and in the room, my bed was in an alcove that was quite a bit shorter than me...
Yes, it was often said that if you came to Belgrade from the West, it looked like the East. If you came from the East, it looked like the West :)
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A shot of my now gone father while playing his favorite game; in an airplane taken with Canon Powershot S100. I moved to Sony RX100 since but I still have the Canon, very compact and good if the light was decent.
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I've come across a gem of a short video, featuring an 82-year old New York photographer, Ken Van Sickle, musing on the subject of "What makes a photographer when everyone is taking pictures?" Well worth 3 minutes of our lives, in my humble opinion.
https://youtu.be/hA_uVCCD5Is
For the purpose of this discussion, however, I am attaching a relevant screen shot. The sentence before that one was "I carry a camera..."
Thanks for the link; the central station shot at 1:45 reminded me of a shoot I took while on a night walk with my wife in a small Ukrainian town; taken with 5D (original) and 16-35/2.8 II... I had Fuji f31fd as the time, but also grabbed 5D as it was dark outside already.
The street was lit with mercury-vapor lamps, which gave the scene quite a surreal look...
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S90, taken at the library in Davis, Ca.
I was fascinated by the light patterns.
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I often carry a small SLR, a Pentax KS-2 with a few of those lovely little jewels, the DA Limited primes. Or sometimes the weatherproof 18-135 but it's a little bulkier. Almost always worth it to have along!
Those O'Hare shots remind me of this Detroit International shot from last fall.
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/680/21940392474_b872b17a5b_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/zqNfhS)IMGP2615-Edit (https://flic.kr/p/zqNfhS) by Matt Burt (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattbnet/), on Flickr
I take it on dog walks.
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1611/24443739406_e784db7461_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Df1y7S)IMGP5422-Edit (https://flic.kr/p/Df1y7S) by Matt Burt (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattbnet/), on Flickr
...and people walks.
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I was fascinated by the light patterns.
This is something I quite like myself -- patters, geometrical compositions...
I'm fond of Rodchenko's works largely because of that, even though geometrical figures per se were rarely his subject. His use of angles and unusual perspective though is something of a very similar nature.
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I often carry a small SLR, a Pentax KS-2 with a few of those lovely little jewels, the DA Limited primes. Or sometimes the weatherproof 18-135 but it's a little bulkier. Almost always worth it to have along!
Sometimes I used to carry 5D with Tamron 28-300 even on a walk, just in case. One such walk, with quite a story behind it, led me to the observation deck of the Christ the Savior Cathedral. Good Lord, what a view of Kremlin was in front of me... Pretty good weather, just the "right" clouds, and only a Tamron superzoom with me. Would prefer having my 24-105/4.
Still regret now being better prepared then, but that's that. Bumping "clarity" in post never has the same effect as contrast of a good lens:
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Some robot show, RX100II. Can't remember this guy's name, unfortunately.
The lighting was a blitz of blue and magenta, really hard on the eyes let alone the little Sony; here's what I managed to salvage:
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Still regret now being better prepared then, but that's that. Bumping "clarity" in post never has the same effect as contrast of a good lens
That said, a superzoom do have its perks:
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I won't even start describing what restrooms looked over there...
I was in St. Petersburg in March 1998, in a sort of secondary school residence. I remember well the bathrooms, they weren't dirty, but had deposits very similar to those of caves, I was very impressed by that mysterious and baroque underground world on a high floor. I had my old Canon FTb, but the light was insufficient to take shots.
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Out on a snowshoe again with Luna and that KS-2/18-135 combo for quick snaps.
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1473/24302139280_e54165fabc_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/D2uPko)IMGP5589-Edit (https://flic.kr/p/D2uPko) by Matt Burt (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattbnet/), on Flickr
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Out on a snowshoe again with Luna and that KS-2/18-135 combo for quick snaps.
High-key made her face look strangely human to me; I just spent several long minutes staring at the image -- for the second time. Maybe it's just me, I don't know. Uncanny.
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I love a window seat when flying, and am always on the lookout for signifiant views. Here are two from my early days with digital. Both were made with an Olympus E-1 (5mp). The B&W printed quite well on a 42" canvas and is now in our livingroom.
Enjoy!
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I love a window seat when flying, and am always on the lookout for signifiant views.
Terry, many thanks for sharing. Kilimanjaro is one of those places that truly fascinate me, but I'm pretty sure I've never seen any view of it similar to your first image. Almost top-down views, or similar to your second, but not the first one. Also, Kilimanjaro shots taken from a plane tend to look... documentary at best, while yours is very nicely composed.
Here are two from my early days with digital. Both were made with an Olympus E-1 (5mp). The B&W printed quite well on a 42" canvas and is now in our livingroom.
My first digital camera was Sony F717, a tad older than your E1; also 5Mp. Wouldn't say "your mention of 'early days with digital' provoked lots of fond memories" though :D Nope, I quite like where we are today, technologically. I could barely live with necessity to stick with ISO100... barely, but could... But AF was completely and truly nightmarish for someone trying to catch that moment.
Here's a shot I took with F717 during a trip to San Diego's Sea World:
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High-key made her face look strangely human to me; I just spent several long minutes staring at the image -- for the second time. Maybe it's just me, I don't know. Uncanny.
She has an expressive face for sure, especially her eyes. Thanks for the comment. If I can make an image someone wants to linger on I consider it a success!
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Saw this gentleman while waiting for a train in a small Ukrainian city on New Year's Eve. Grabbed my X-T1 and the 18mm lens and ran out into the snow chasing after him, shooting the whole time. The locals probably thought I was crazy -- didn't see a lot of people shooting street photography over there.
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Saw this gentleman while waiting for a train in a small Ukrainian city on New Year's Eve. Grabbed my X-T1 and the 18mm lens and ran out into the snow chasing after him, shooting the whole time. The locals probably thought I was crazy -- didn't see a lot of people shooting street photography over there.
Fantastic! This could/should go viral!
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Fantastic! This could/should go viral!
Thanks, though I expect it'll just be my Christmas card next year. :)
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I wish that would be true. In reality, I leave my cameras (DSLR or p&s) at home way too often. I wish I have Zorki5's tenacity to "never ever leave home w/o a camera."
And yes, I took a camera (though not a DSLR) to that place you probably have in mind too. ;)
You see, during my years in Russia, I traveled on business to some areas quite different from the westernized expat refuges (i.e., glitzy restaurants, hotels, and shopping malls) in Moscow in the mid-nineties. Hotel accommodations in those other places was more in line with Soviet standards. For instance, Krasnodar, in the south of Russia, had one floor of one hotel (!) renovated to western standards (by Turkish contractors - something that won't be possible as of this year). Clean bathrooms, marble, Italian faucets, etc. The price was reasonable, about $60 per room. At one point, however, there was some sort of convention in town and I was forced to stay in a Soviet era Intourist hotel, the only chain allowed to host foreign tourists in the past. Their prices reflected that old mentality of charging more to foreigners, coupled with the fact that they probably knew everything else was already fully booked, so the price was $100. But their rooms, and especially bathrooms, were a far cry from the Turkish renovated, Italian marble, etc. ones in the other hotel. So I took out my p&s (an Olympus Stylus at the time) to document something more akin to a public toilet in a seedy part of town than a $100-a night hotel. Sorry, can't show it to you now, my then-wife tore up the print, as too inappropriate to keep ;)
The only other time I left my DSLR at home for a significant trip (and have regretted that to this day) was my trip to Belgrade in 2010. I just took a Canon G10. To make matters worse, I made another one of those once-and-never-again decisions, i.e., to shoot only jpeg. I thought that, with no options to download the memory card during the trip, it would be prudent to save some space on it. Big mistake.
Nevertheless, I made two shots that have a special meaning to me. One of my now-late father:
(http://www.slobodanblagojevic.com/img/s9/v2/p1595968745-4.jpg) (http://www.slobodanblagojevic.com/p947292936/e5f208ce9)
... and the other on a layover stop in Paris. The Paris shot, in spite of being a straight-out-of-camera jpeg from a p&s, printed on a 30"x40" canvas, is now my best selling print at art fairs:
(http://www.slobodanblagojevic.com/img/s5/v117/p1605754575-3.jpg) (http://www.slobodanblagojevic.com/p691731907/e5fb5decf)
Thanks for the stories. I studied the picture of you father before reading the backstory. It held my attention on several levels. I totally get the Parisian scene. It's impressionistic, colorful, and "romantic." Now and again, I'll have set my camera on low-res jpg and make do with what's there. On occasion, through careful post processing, I've been able to salvage a picture--mostly because the subject transcended the technical limitations. One of my mentors always said: "Impact trumps technique."
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Thanks for the link; the central station shot at 1:45 reminded me of a shoot I took while on a night walk with my wife in a small Ukrainian town; taken with 5D (original) and 16-35/2.8 II... I had Fuji f31fd as the time, but also grabbed 5D as it was dark outside already.
The street was lit with mercury-vapor lamps, which gave the scene quite a surreal look...
I like this photo--it shows something we've all experienced: The interplay of glowy orange light with misty darkness. A perfect setup for the lone person riding his bike away from the camera, into the edge of light. ... Nice.
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...Any DSLR shots through airplane window? :)...
Well, not "D" but an SLR anyway, together with another indispensable item "that is always with me." ;D
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My Pentax KS-2 with the DA 40 pancake is easy to have along. Even if I'm just going to to walk the dog.
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Ah, the days when you could carry your booze on the plane with you.
And Matt, the shot of your dog is fantastic.
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My Pentax KS-2 with the DA 40 pancake is easy to have along. Even if I'm just going to to walk the dog.
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1455/25231724676_bc8f19c4c4_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/ErDbFN)
great
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Despite that they are jpeg, well done, again, Slobodan!
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Thanks Bob and Ken!
I was out Sunday with the same body (KS-2) but with a weather resistant 18-135 zoom which is my go-to ski/adventure camera setup. Not the highest of quality but durable, light, and versatile.
We climbed and skied this nearby peak Sunday which was my first Alpine tour since breaking my shoulder in December. I'm a little out of shape but it felt great to be out there again!
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1470/24992102149_a375e28231_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/E5t4fV)IMGP7208-Edit (https://flic.kr/p/E5t4fV) by Matt Burt (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattbnet/), on Flickr
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Well, not "D" but an SLR anyway, together with another indispensable item "that is always with me." ;D
Way cool :)
Slobodan, what's the story behind the shot?
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Way cool :)
Slobodan, what's the story behind the shot?
Oh, god, I wish I know. I stumbled upon the image in an online travel magazine. The article was about first-class flying/drinking or something. It resonated with me, as my first Hasselblad, inherited from my uncle, was with a silver lens. Years later I got myself a 503CW with CF lenses. It also reminded me of a bygone era of flying, when people even shaved and showered (!) for a flight, let alone put on a suit and tie.
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Some robot show, RX100II. Can't remember this guy's name, unfortunately.
The lighting was a blitz of blue and magenta, really hard on the eyes let alone the little Sony; here's what I managed to salvage:
Just stumbled upon this one; same place, same camera:
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This was with my K-S2 and FA 77/1.8 prime from a bike ride recently. (pano made in Lightroom 6)
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Just stumbled upon this one; same place, same camera:
Interesting picture - not something I want to take to bed with me, though.
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Rob C
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Went to the Dealership to change oil. Had camera in car and took with me to waiting room. What should espy in the show room- abstracts created by all the reflecting surfaces. How could I resist.
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Went to the Dealership to change oil. Had camera in car and took with me to waiting room. What should espy in the show room- abstracts created by all the reflecting surfaces. How could I resist.
I wouldn't be able to resist either! I dig the first one.
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Thanks Matt. My only handicap was low light levels and I had to shoot handheld. So many shots came out blurry. Can't raise the ISO too much on these point and shoots due to excessive noise- the Canon GX1 with very large sensor.
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On some local Zoo tour, Mallorca, Rx100m2.
The guide stopped the bus next to an old, very old giraffe and said only kids could get out.
Well, that sounded close enough -- I'll always remain a kid at heart! :) So I jumped out -- the bus was more like a moving platform with a fence on its perimeter. Yeah, was reprimanded afterwards, but still got the shot (not an easy one as I was shooting almost into the sun):
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I stopped by our local museum as part of a citizenship class I was taking. Love these old cars and shiny things in general! :)
Pentax K-S2 & DA 15/4 Limited (a wonderful little lens)
(https://c8.staticflickr.com/8/7611/27827101015_d2a0f74edb_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/JoZaDH)IMGP6252-Edit (https://flic.kr/p/JoZaDH) by Matt Burt (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattbnet/), on Flickr
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I've come across a gem of a short video, featuring an 82-year old New York photographer, Ken Van Sickle, musing on the subject of "What makes a photographer when everyone is taking pictures?" Well worth 3 minutes of our lives, in my humble opinion.
https://youtu.be/hA_uVCCD5Is (https://youtu.be/hA_uVCCD5Is)
Nice link, and an interesting format - you could take half an hour to say not so much.
On a tangent, I have heard and read about "rent controlled" property in NY a few times over the years, often from less than rich artists whose neighbourhoods have gentrified. Sounds like an interesting bit of social policy. I guess landlords are not so happy.
Back on topic, I do have a decent enough camera always with me in my smartphone, but haven't really made the best of it because I somehow don't think of it as a camera. Plenty of examples here and elsewhere to suggest I might change my mind.
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LA, 2005.
Both are crops from 5Mp Sony F717, which was forever locked to ISO100, and still produced grain... But that was the least of my worries, as the true nightmare was its AF! That said, I do not remember having anything smaller and more "always with me" than F717 at the time...
I'm amazed I managed to get the second shot (the smoker), as it was done through a window of a moving car (which still shows, unfortunately). First made a version with cropped out "Broadway Gold Center" at the top, but for some reason liked it less, so posting here what's closer to the original framing.
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Misplaced my regular camera on an outing, thinking it was in my bag. But left it in car. So a friend lent me his point and shoot-cybershot Sony. Here are three of the better ones. 90 percent of all my shots were soft. See the one with the two wheels, very soft and flare prone. But I am not blaming camera entirely. I know I drink a lot of coffee, so with my arms stretched out, things are very unsteady indeed. Just can't get used to holding out the camera like a cell phone and make decently sharp images. Pressed against body at waist level is not bad, but even those are so so. Almost everything else lends itself to soft images. I was wondering, is this the case for most of you with these point and shoot cameras?
JR
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My family and I celebrated the 4th by enjoying our public lands and climbing a mountain. We summited Ruby Mountain near Crested Butte and had a picnic at 13,227'.
I carried the Pentax K-S2 with the 18-135 lens mounted which is a sealed combo and a good size for human-powered adventures.
Perfect day for it!
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I like the contrast between the background and foreground a lot -- had to strain my belief a bit that it's not a collage :) Nice image!