Fun with MF images 2024

[PeterA]

... i can't wait to see which bike you ride when you have expanded your new hobby with a couple of kids!!!
: )

Ahhh provenance and timelines...our children are all grown up now and independent(ish) ...

The 996 SPS (Pista) was manufactured in 1998 for British market only. My model was manufactured in 1999 - one of three sold in Australia out of a total of 150 world wide. Most of these bikes have long since been 'totalled'....mine was sold to a collector for 4X the original value some 15 years later as it was in pristine condition and included unused Factory Racing stickers in box with non race factory exhaust it was as good as new with less than 2000 miles on the clock mufflers etc ...My wiffy always took a jaundiced view of track days and was aghast at me taking my children for rides as pillions on a (relatively ) comfortable Motto Guzzi 1000Sport - years before I purchased and many more before I sold the Ducati.

A motorbike for me these days is (like my collected photographs ) - a stocktake of happy and some not-so-happy memories and an exercise in nostalgia.

PS teh modern bikes with all their ABS and computer chipped lean angle control and wheelie control and this and that safety features are more like playing a video game - @drevil 's 1199 Panigale is probably the last of the truly beastly Ducatis to ride in anger if one is so inclined...these days everything is being safetied into boringness - which is probably a good thing for 99% of riders.

Aaaaanyway back to fun with MF pichas.

Cheers
Pete

 

[drevil]

Ahhh provenance and timelines...our children are all grown up now and independent(ish) ...

The 996 SPS (Pista) was manufactured in 1998 for British market only. My model was manufactured in 1999 - one of three sold in Australia out of a total of 150 world wide. Most of these bikes have long since been 'totalled'....mine was sold to a collector for 4X the original value some 15 years later as it was in pristine condition and included unused Factory Racing stickers in box with non race factory exhaust it was as good as new with less than 2000 miles on the clock mufflers etc ...My wiffy always took a jaundiced view of track days and was aghast at me taking my children for rides as pillions on a (relatively ) comfortable Motto Guzzi 1000Sport - years before I purchased and many more before I sold the Ducati.

A motorbike for me these days is (like my collected photographs ) - a stocktake of happy and some not-so-happy memories and an exercise in nostalgia.

PS teh modern bikes with all their ABS and computer chipped lean angle control and wheelie control and this and that safety features are more like playing a video game - @drevil 's 1199 Panigale is probably the last of the truly beastly Ducatis to ride in anger if one is so inclined...these days everything is being safetied into boringness - which is probably a good thing for 99% of riders.

Aaaaanyway back to fun with MF pichas.

Cheers
Pete

also the 1199 has TC and ABS, the superleggera even got wheelie control and launch control if i am not mistaken.

just by the look i would love to get my hands on a 1299 superleggera, the paint job is amazing and this wsbk exhaust is a dream

 

[PeterA]

also the 1199 has TC and ABS, the superleggera even got wheelie control and launch control if i am not mistaken.

just by the look i would love to get my hands on a 1299 superleggera, the paint job is amazing and this wsbk exhaust is a dream

now you are talking exotica! and to think you can pick one up for less than a Phase One thingy and a couple fo Rodenstocks...what a bargain!!

yeah the BMW has all that plus...wait for it.....rear power slide control....I can go in late on the brakes lean over ridiculously and hit the throttle whilst on teh rear brakes and slide around as if I am on slicks...the rev/brake/lean angle and wheel rotational calculations all keeping things under control...well that is the theory a theory I am not willing to test on a track anymore...

 

[anwarp]

Stacks of fun with medium format.

XF, IQ4, 120AF, naked profoto B10

 

[lookbook]

A few recent ones (from Highclere and Arundel castles), all 645DF, P25+ with variery of lenses:

... a beautiful, comprehensive work and story -
very well told with the camera!

 

[anyone]

Hamburg



Cambo WRS, Digitar 35XL, CFV100c, Stitch of two images

 

[guphotography]

A few recent ones (from Highclere and Arundel castles), all 645DF, P25+ with variery of lenses:

Downton?

 

[davidsuchoff]

Enjoying the Hostas before the deer do:
Hasselblad 100C + Arca Swiss Universalis + Rodenstock Apo-Sironar Digital 150mm

 

[jotloob]

A few recent ones (from Highclere and Arundel castles), all 645DF, P25+ with variery of lenses:

Love number one ad three .

 

[diggles]

Here are a few from a recent interiors project. Fuji GFX 100 II and TS lenses, Profoto flash, and ambient. All images were made while tethering to Capture One.

Canon 50 TS-E Macro. The image on the screen is from the same shoot and was added in Photoshop.


Canon 50 TS-E Macro.


Canon 90 TS-E Macro


Fuji GF 30 TS. The 16x9 aspect ratio was chosen to crop out the excessive amount of ceiling and floor.

 

[Greg Haag]

Spent part of last week at the river, I intended on doing a little more photography than I wound up doing. This is on the North Fork river which is a tailwater to the White river in north central Arkansas, it was named one of Trout Unlimited's Top 5 Rivers to fish last decade. Fishing is exceptional for four species of trout—brook, rainbow, cutthroat, and brown (with a world record German brown caught in 1988 that weighed almost 39lbs). Sadly all of the old records are still in place, but such a relaxing place to be.


GFX 100S 23mm

 

[lookbook]

Here are a few from a recent interiors project. Fuji GFX 100 II and TS lenses, Profoto flash, and ambient. All images were made while tethering to Capture One.

Canon 50 TS-E Macro. The image on the screen is from the same shoot and was added in Photoshop.
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Canon 50 TS-E Macro.
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Canon 90 TS-E Macro
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Fuji GF 30 TS. The 16x9 aspect ratio was chosen to crop out the excessive amount of ceiling and floor.
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... great work Warren -
my favourites are the 1st and the 3rd photo.
all four photos are very good,
but I find these two photos even more exciting!!!

 

[JoelM]

how could you sell a 996 SPS?

It happens as I've sold my RC30 and OW01.

 

[diggles]

... great work Warren -
my favourites are the 1st and the 3rd photo.
all four photos are very good,
but I find these two photos even more exciting!!!

Thank you!

I agree. It was really refreshing to work with a client who appreciated focusing on smaller details rather than showing the whole room in every shot. Frequently, less is more when it comes to conveying a specific message or feeling.

 

[tenmangu81]

Hasselblad X1D II
XCD55V

 

[Photon42]

X2D/38

 

[hasselblad 503cw]

Hasselblad 503CW
CFI 120mm F4 @ F5.6 1 sec
Variable Extension Tube 63-85
Extension tube 32E+56E
Phase One P65+ ISO 50
30 images focus stacking

 

[darr]

ALPA Max + SK72/5.6 L + P45

 

[MGrayson]

ALPA Max + SK72/5.6 L + P45

Darr,
What a wonderful range of textures!

 

[jng]

Circle of Life by John Ngai, on Flickr
907x-CFV100C | XCD 3.2/90 | f/11 | 6-image focus stack​

I spent a nice morning this weekend with some good photography friends wandering around the Mt. Diablo foothills of the San Francisco East Bay Area. Shooting in broad daylight isn't really my thing, but the beautiful spring blooms were calling. This scene, with the remains of a once vibrant tree framing the patches of yellow flowers on the distant hillside, captured my attention.

John