Fun with MF images - ARCHIVED - FOR VIEWING ONLY

Morning

Went back to the last location with a neighbours daughter last night as the sun was getting low to see if it would work with as a portrait location, not too bad for a test shot, will definitely shoot here when the leaves change, should match her hair which will be nice.

Flower from the garden
Macro focus stacking using a DIY motorized rail.
Leica S 006 with Summarit 120mm lens. 20 exposures stacked together using Helicon Focus and Capture One 10. Each exposure aperture f/8, 1/125s and ISO100

tomerik1972 said:

Flower from the garden
Macro focus stacking using a DIY motorized rail.
Leica S 006 with Summarit 120mm lens. 20 exposures stacked together using Helicon Focus and Capture One 10. Each exposure aperture f/8, 1/125s and ISO100

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Superb!!!:thumbup:

Pentax 645d

ckhfrankie said:

Pentax 645d

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Wow, somebody is having too much fun!
Well done!

Mat, it is really nice seeing how you work through scouting and pulling your vision together. Even preliminary shots with your motif, very interesting! Can't wait to see the Fall colors!

Re: Yesterday's Sky




I will be trying to photograph the solar eclipse with film today. A partial 85% eclipse is what we are suppose to see if the clouds do not block it out.

Bonsai Rock, lake Tahoe. Lake is almost at max level, so many rocks underwater that are often exposed.


XF/IQ3 100, Phase 40-80 at 70mm, 13 secs at f/25, 6x ND, 3 stop ND grad

Wayne Fox said:

Bonsai Rock, lake Tahoe. Lake is almost at max level, so many rocks underwater that are often exposed.

XF/IQ3 100, Phase 40-80 at 70mm, 13 secs at f/25, 6x ND, 3 stop ND grad

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Excellent! I love the color, composition, textures, everything!

Pentax 645Z

Well yesterday I was presented the chance to photograph a new subject. Unfortunately they wouldn't stop moving and were in such a rush, they barely gave me 2 minutes of their time. Therefore I had to move quickly before they headed off to their next appointed rounds. It certainly was otherworldly. Posted here are a couple of very quick edits...all in good fun!

At Adam's Landing in South Carolina.
(Pentax 645Z; Fa 300 f4 + 1.4x with conservative crop)

Pics in order:

1. Large Corona

2. Midpoint of totality

3. Moments past totality (sometimes referred to as the diamond ring)

645d + SMC FA 75/2.8

On a forest trail near Middleton-in-Teesdale, northern England, I came upon this fallen tree which looked worth a quick shot:

Fallen tree by Mark, on Flickr

500 C/M, 50mm, CFV50C

Ray

My daughter..


Leica S2 + Hasselblad HC 100/2.2

Dave and I watched the same event. My version, taken in KY. 645Z, 600mm + 1.4x

_IMG6185 copy 3 by tsjanik47, on Flickr

Lovely Tom, a wonderful capture, especially with the detail you captured of the corona. I too was going to take along and shoot with the Pentax 600mm f5.6 645 lens too, but had commitments afterwards where lugging such a beast of a lens would have been problematic. Anyhow they say witnessing a total eclipse is a life altering experience. What I noticed afterwards for myself were three things.

1. I immediately changed camera brand affiliation.

2. That the number of pixels a camera has is now irrelevant...only how the camera cosmetically looks as a fashion statement.

3. Anchovies on pizza has now become the #1 choice in toppings. In fact its the only topping thats worthwhile..LOL.

OK, here are two more images from this event. The second one with an orange filter placed over the lens...one of a number of filters I tried placing over the lens during the eclipse. I hope we all never get complacent and begin to feel "when you've seen one eclipse, you've seen them all"

Dave (D&A)

Morning!

Nice eclipse images gents, top work!

Here's a messing about shot, it's a composite because this reindeer just wouldn't go where I wanted him too so used it as a processing exercise to get the shot I had in my mind standing there, anyway, just for fun.

mjr said:

Morning!

Nice eclipse images gents, top work!

Here's a messing about shot, it's a composite because this reindeer just wouldn't go where I wanted him too so used it as a processing exercise to get the shot I had in my mind standing there, anyway, just for fun.

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Bravo!

Struggle is good, right?:thumbup: Great solution over the obstinance of nature...

Thanks Dave, I have decided that reindeer are crap models, they just don't do as they're told!

Mat