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Fun with MF images - ARCHIVED - FOR VIEWING ONLY

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ptomsu

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Re: Fun with MF images - Part 3

Bob, you are a man of impeccable taste and credentials, clearly! My current mains squeezes are

* P45+ with Cambo for MF
* 5DII with assorted glass, especially an R 50 Cron for 'slr' type stuff
* Pentax K20D for surfing shots (I have a nice telephoto for it)
* M8 for street and anything requiring gorgeous bokeh
* Panny G1 for lazy outings where anything might happen but the intent is not photographic
* Sigma DP1 in the glovebox
* Ricoh GRDII for drunken nights out (it slow sync is verrry cool!)
* Sony W300 with housing for fun in/under water use

The Sony can make very large and exciting prints when the wind is in the right direction and is a real sleeper

And Guy thinks he's a gear slut. Boy oh boy!

;-)
Cannot add in the moment WRT MF (simply because I need to buy one - lucky me), but it will likely be a Phase or Haselblad solution.

But on the rest:

1) 5D2 is my favorite DSLR, much preferred to my Nikon stuff I am slowly selling ....
2) M8 for street and people shots, great system once you learn how to deal with the issues :angel:
3) Panasonic or Dlux4/Dlux3 P&S, the G10 I owned went very fast for sale again, I just did not like the operation of this camera

WRT tech camera - not sure yet, but this is another appealing version if I go with a Phase system and thus with a Phase back (most probably the P45+ for its great price / performance / IQ combination) ;)
 

jlm

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Re: Fun with MF images - Part 3

the bowl room with a couple of hull templates on the wall, probably been hanging there for 70 years
 

Dale Allyn

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Re: Fun with MF images - Part 3

Nice work, John. The bowl room is very cool. I like the light that you captured there. That space looks like one could spend hours there photographing any number of things. Thanks.
 

steflaurent974

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Re: Fun with MF images - Part 3

John , these shots are really gorgeous ; I do particuliary appreciate the colors and rust textures. Do you set AWB, or do a manual greycard recording when shooting ? In fact I'm sure these shots are plenty of rust details.
Since I'm looking at this thread, you have a serious series on this (boat, shipyard, ...)

thanks for sharing.

stephane
 

carstenw

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Re: Fun with MF images - Part 3

Gorgeous portraits, Graham! Is that a 150mm for the first and 50mm for the second?
 

carstenw

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Re: Fun with MF images - Part 3

Interesting. I thought about the 40mm for the second one, due to the proximity of the piano on the right, but I would have expected to see some distortion somewhere. Good lens.
 

jlm

Workshop Member
Re: Fun with MF images - Part 3

thanks for the props.
i was shooting raw with the P20 iso 50, set to daylight,processed in C1, no color adjustment was used, just a tweak of the exposure curve
that bowl room shot was a 4 sec exposure at f8

i have been shooting in the navy yard for quite some time, and still find something interesting
 

steflaurent974

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Re: Fun with MF images - Part 3

Well john,
the daylight WB preset gives you really good results. From my part I do prefer using the greycard shot to be sure of the colors.
Especially with landscape photo, I don't at this time manage to have the colors of that particular tropical light we've got here with the P25+ ; even at sunset, the light is hard, and the colors difficult to render.
 

Graham Mitchell

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Re: Fun with MF images - Part 3

The natural light is beautiful. Good portraits, handheld or tripod ?
Thanks - it's mostly not natural light, but I'm glad you thought so :) I was shooting handheld to experiment with compositions and once I had the framing I wanted, it was on the tripod (so these shots are tripod mounted). It was really necessary this time as the piano shot required 0.5s exposure to get the windows looking bright!
 
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ddk

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Beautiful portraits Graham, love the warm tones in the first one.

One question, was the piano really called estonia or is that your pp?
 
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