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Fun with MF images 2025

Ray Harrison

Ray Harrison

Well-known member
AlanS said:
It feels like all the "fun" has been sucked out of this thread!!!:(

Teesdale...
GFX100s, Canon EF70-300mm f4-5,6L


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Lovely image in fantastic Teesdale.

I think if we remember that criticizing (dart-throwing) is easy and not terribly interesting or always useful, but providing constructive critique is hard, it can get back to being fun. Not many people do critique well as it needs to be practiced a lot. I mean sure, all feedback can be a good thing, but I always have the excellent Alexander Pope in the back of my head for reference :cool:.

It's been a rough-ish year for me so I haven't been able to participate here as much, but I still value this community of people who share their knowledge freely and in valuable ways. It is unique. I'd love @lookbook to reconsider and continue to post images, for example.
 
Ed Hurst

Ed Hurst

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Catherine Hill Bay Jetty - NSW

The jetty - built as part of the extensive coal mining infrastructure in the area - is the latest in a series of structures. Trains used to run here carrying coal from the nearby coalfields to ships. The first jetty dated from 1873, but was short-lived. A replacement, built more robustly, was constructed in the late 1880s. This was replaced in time, but was largely destroyed in the 1974 'Sygna Storm'. What you see here was built following that storm, and was the first here to be constructed not from wood, but from steel. It's disused and its condition is questionable but remains a famous icon of the Bay.

The lights you see beyond the jetty are from modern ships waiting to dock in Newcastle a few miles up the coast - all part of the modern coal transportation industry that has left Catherine Hill behind.

Fuji GFX100S with Laowa 20mm lens

Catherine Hill Bay jetty by Ed Hurst, on Flickr
 
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sbjornda

Member
Ed Hurst said:
Fuji GFX100S with Laowa 20mm lens
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Is that the Shift lens? If so, did you have it shifted at all? I wonder what the scene would look like if the lens were shifted 45 degrees to the upper left and then recomposed to this framing? There might be some interesting distortion at the edge of the image circle. Just my idle thoughts.

Thanks for the gorgeous image and the effort it must have taken to get it!

Best wishes,
Sterling
 
Ed Hurst

Ed Hurst

Well-known member
sbjornda said:
Is that the Shift lens? If so, did you have it shifted at all? I wonder what the scene would look like if the lens were shifted 45 degrees to the upper left and then recomposed to this framing? There might be some interesting distortion at the edge of the image circle. Just my idle thoughts.

Thanks for the gorgeous image and the effort it must have taken to get it!

Best wishes,
Sterling
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Hi Sterling,

Thanks for your message! It was indeed the shift lens though, in this case, used without shift applied (I wanted the line of the jetty to go slightly weird like it has, rather than being corrected. I am interested in how it would look if I were to do what you suggest; an experiment for the future, perhaps!
 
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