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Ray · « **Reply #80 on:** April 13, 2008, 01:46:17 am »

Here's a close-up of the peak on the far right in my previous panorama, Machupichre (Machupuchare, Machapuchare, whatever), taken with my 100-400 IS zoom at 200mm, a little after dawn.

This peak, 6993M, looks very difficult to climb. As far as I understand, it's one of the few unconquered mountains. At least, if someone has climbed it, they are not boasting about it. It's a scared mountain and according to Nepalese law, it's illegal to climb it.

I came across the following background information doing a Google search.

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Machapuchare's delicate summit will sometimes materialize out of the mist at sunset, to appear suspended in a golden haze almost 15,000 feet directly overhead at an altitude of 22,943 feet above sea level. The mountain is so imposing that for the people living near Annapurna, it acts like a magnet, drawing to itself whatever deity they regard as the highest and most powerful. Villagers with whom I spoke referred to it variously as the abode of the Hindu Gods Vishnu and Siva, a local deity named Pujinim Barahar, and Tara, "the Savioress of Tibetan Buddhism," as well as Amitabha, "the Buddha of Boundless Light."

A small expedition led by Wilfred Noyce, a British climber of Everest fame, nearly reached the summit in 1957. Grooves of slick blue ice stopped them only 150 feet from the top. Realizing that the Deity of the mountain had defeated them, they turned back and descended without regrets, content with what they had achieved. After their attempt, the government of Nepal declared Machapuchare a sacred peak, off-limits to all climbers. And it remains to this day unclimbed, one of the few places left on Earth reserved for the Gods.

Here's my glimse of it from a height of 3,000M at Poon Hill.

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bernie west · « **Reply #81 on:** April 13, 2008, 03:52:11 am »

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It's a scared mountain and according to Nepalese law, it's illegal to climb it.
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To get one back at you, on behalf of Tony,.... How are we supposed to interpret that one?!?

Regardless, an impressive image anyway. Now don't be telling me you took that with a point and shoot!

Ray · « **Reply #82 on:** April 13, 2008, 05:26:05 am »

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To get one back at you, on behalf of Tony,.... How are we supposed to interpret that one?!?

Regardless, an impressive image anyway. Now don't be telling me you took that with a point and shoot!
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A good P&S like the Canon G9 would have been just fine in the circumstances, considering I had to get up at 4 am for a 2 hour hike up an 800 metre hill in the dark to catch the rising sun .

As it was, all the camera gear I was carrying slowed me down. I got to the summit a bit late. The sun was already rising. My lens kept misting over due to the cold air. Setting up my flimsy tripod which is not high enough and trying to find a firm footing for it caused me to miss a few good shots.

The G9 at f2.8 has about the same DoF as the 5D at f13 and a shutter speed at ISO 100 about the same as what I would get at ISO 1600 with the 5D at f13.

Autopano Pro can stitch and merge to HDR in the one process. If I'd been carrying a G9, the basic technical quality of the images might have suffered slightly, but the shots might have been more interesting.

bernie west · « **Reply #83 on:** April 13, 2008, 07:40:14 am »

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If I'd been carrying a G9, the basic technical quality of the images might have suffered slightly, but the shots might have been more interesting.
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Or maybe you should just get up earlier, or get a bit fitter...

Ray · « **Reply #84 on:** April 13, 2008, 08:48:06 am »

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Or maybe you should just get up earlier, or get a bit fitter...
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There are lots of options. It's the result that counts.

Maybe this shot is more interesting; street photography with flash.

Canon 5D, 24-105 zoom at 45mm; ISO 100, F5.6 1/200th .

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jjj · « **Reply #85 on:** April 13, 2008, 09:39:38 am »

A recent favourite of mine and unusually [for me] in a studio.
5D, processed in LR and sharpened in PS.
No Exif data to hand, but I think it was 50mm @ F2 with Elinchroms 100 ISO.

Ray · « **Reply #86 on:** April 13, 2008, 10:04:49 am »

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A recent favourite of mine and unusually [for me] in a studio.
5D, processed in LR and sharpened in PS.
No Exif data to hand, but I think it was 50mm @ F2 with Elinchroms 100 ISO.
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Now that's what I call a shallow DoF.

This guy looks extremely 'fed up', angry and disillusioned. Good shot!

Ray · « **Reply #87 on:** April 13, 2008, 11:10:09 am »

But here, perhaps, is a nicer, more appealing shot, to soothe the soul.

Another street photo. Notice the Adam's Apple?

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jjj · « **Reply #88 on:** April 13, 2008, 11:59:02 am »

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Now that's what I call a shallow DoF.

This guy looks extremely 'fed up', angry and disillusioned. Good shot!
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I also needed a couple of smiling shots of some people from this shoot and his 'laughs' were very, very peculiar/bizarre/freaky. Just as well some others could do happy. Though this was my joint favourite shot.

jjj · « **Reply #89 on:** April 13, 2008, 12:09:28 pm »

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But here, perhaps, is a nicer, more appealing shot, to soothe the soul.

Another street photo. Notice the Adam's Apple?

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I though the chap in the previous shot had big balls, that hadn't dropped! So to speak.

Ray · « **Reply #90 on:** April 13, 2008, 12:20:49 pm »

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I though the chap in the previous shot had big balls, that hadn't dropped! So to speak.

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There were several chaps in the previous shot. Which one are you referring to?

No need to answer that .

Ray · « **Reply #91 on:** April 16, 2008, 12:11:59 am »

Well, I hope these glimses of transvestites' boob jobs have not put anyone off this thread. We get a few nudes in the MFDB section, ya know!

Here's a recent reworking of a scene from Poon Hill showing what was considered once to be the highest mountain in the world, at the beginning of the 19th century. A whole generation of Westerners, including Americans, were under this delusion for about 30 years.

The mountain, Dhaulagiri, in the centre of the left half of the picture is actually the highest mountain in Nepal at 8,167M. Everest straggles Tibet and Nepal.

Mt Everest was first surveyed by the British (of course) in 1865. The local Nepalese name, Sagarmartha, actually means "Godess of the Sky", a slightly more alluring name than Everest, wouldn't you say?

The guy who surveyed the "Godess of the Sky", ex army officer Andrew Waugh who was Surveyor General of India at the time, with typical British modesty named the mountain after his predecessor, George Everest.

Dhaulaigiri, actually the 7th highest mountain in the world, simply means White Mountain, although there is some other Sanskrit derivation of 'mountain' that means 'girl'. Is there some sexual symbolism going on here? .

Generally, I find it difficult to portray the emotion of such scenes in a mere photograph. I keep reworking it in Photoshop, hoping some day I shall get closer to the experience.

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jjj · « **Reply #92 on:** April 16, 2008, 07:54:36 pm »

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Well, I hope these glimses of transvestites' boob jobs have not put anyone off this thread. We get a few nudes in the MFDB section, ya know![a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=189865\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]

There were some nice pussies in that section too!

Here's one I took today of Loki

1/200th@f3.2 1600ISO, 70mm

And this is Ianto

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1/160th@f3.2 1600ISO, 50mm
Both new arrivals and I think we will delay replacing the carpets until they've calmed down a bit.

jeffok · « **Reply #93 on:** April 16, 2008, 08:47:10 pm »

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But here, perhaps, is a nicer, more appealing shot, to soothe the soul.

Another street photo. Notice the Adam's Apple?

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Street photo you say. What street do you live on, Pat Pong Avenue?

Ray · « **Reply #94 on:** April 16, 2008, 09:05:01 pm »

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Street photo you say. What street do you live on, Pat Pong Avenue?
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I didn't say I lived in this street. The last time I was in the vicinity of Pat Pong Rd I saw mums & dads with their toddlers ambling down the road, just looking and occasionally buying from the market stalls that basically fill the whole street and get in your way.

The above street shot you refer to was actually taken in Bangla Rd, Phuket. I don't live there either, but I guess I could if I wanted to .

semillerimages · « **Reply #95 on:** April 16, 2008, 10:26:34 pm »

Recent studio session with my friend Ethan:

Canon 1DMarkIII - 50mm macro

*steve

larkvi · « **Reply #96 on:** April 17, 2008, 02:42:38 am »

A couple more:

Light and Stone, Christ Church, Mainz

Late Afternoon Reflections, Yellowstone River

condit79 · « **Reply #97 on:** April 17, 2008, 03:21:13 am »

5d + 55mm 1.8 smc supertakumar

and a landscape in andalucia...on the right is a shepherd and his sheep. To see all the details, I´d have to post this way bigger than this. Oh well. Shot on a 5d with 24-70 f2.8 L

sojournerphoto · « **Reply #98 on:** April 17, 2008, 04:30:23 pm »

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Lichen, test shot really with the 1Ds3 and zf35. Stil thinking about the tonalities.

bwpuk · « **Reply #99 on:** April 18, 2008, 04:20:11 am »

Recent snap. D200 Super Takumar 50mm 1.4

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