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Post by hifidez on Feb 27, 2017 16:42:04 GMT
My three grandkids with the new one :-) Attachments:
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Post by marveltone on Feb 27, 2017 17:21:43 GMT
Good looking bunch!
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Post by Rabbit on Feb 27, 2017 17:39:09 GMT
What a lovely picture. Beautiful in black and white as well Derek. It looks professionally posed too.
What great looking kids.
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Post by hifidez on Feb 27, 2017 21:18:25 GMT
This is, as much as can be managed, an unprocessed copy from the RAW file. I was lucky with the lighting. Natural light from large french windows to the right. Diffused lighting from a hallway to the left. Pose was luck: trying to get the two 5 yr old boys to cooperate was a job and a half. This one was the best of 5 shots. Appreciate the positive comments :-) 1/15s (handheld with shake reduction) at f3.5, ISO 1600. 18mm focal length (35mm equivalent = 28mm). 'Alien Skin' film emulation: Kodak T-MAX 100. Dodging and burning facilities courtesy of Adobe Elements 6. Attachments:
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Post by Rabbit on Feb 27, 2017 21:36:17 GMT
The black and white version has an old fashioned look about it. I guess using 1600 ISO adds to that effect with the grain, but handheld at 1/15th? That's pishing it and also surprising was the wide angle lens - the distortion that you often get from wide angle isn't at all obvious.
It almost looks posed Derek. Really nice composition - put it onto canvas and it would almost look like a painting.
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Post by juke on Feb 27, 2017 23:22:33 GMT
Great shot Derek, the modelling is A1, I guess there's something acting as a partial reflector?
Even with shake reduction I'm impressed how sharp it is.
More importantly, lovely subject matter!
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Post by hifidez on Feb 28, 2017 8:54:41 GMT
The black and white version has an old fashioned look about it. I guess using 1600 ISO adds to that effect with the grain, but handheld at 1/15th? That's pishing it and also surprising was the wide angle lens - the distortion that you often get from wide angle isn't at all obvious. It almost looks posed Derek. Really nice composition - put it onto canvas and it would almost look like a painting. Yes, wide angle lens. But I did compensate for barrel distortion in Elements, just by eye. I also have 'Lightroom' which would have 'known' the lens and done it automatically. I haven't learned Lightroom yet though.
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Post by hifidez on Feb 28, 2017 9:01:03 GMT
Great shot Derek, the modelling is A1, I guess there's something acting as a partial reflector? Even with shake reduction I'm impressed how sharp it is. More importantly, lovely subject matter! Syd In my son's room, where the shot was taken, all the walls are white. Gave a nice studio lighting effect didn't it? The lad on the left is a bit blurred. He was not going to keep still at any price and 1/15s wasn't quite up to the job! I get good results from the image stabilisation / shake reduction. It's the Pentax system where the sensor shifts to compensate for the movements. It knows the focal length and does some sums. If you are using an older Pentax lens then you tell the camera body the focal length so you have the facility on ANY Pentax mount lens of ANY age. I like that.
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Post by hifidez on Feb 28, 2017 10:00:54 GMT
The phot obove was with the 'kit' Pentax 18-55mm. Year and a half ago I bought a Pentax 55-300mm and haven't used it much. By that I don't mean I haven't used that particular lens, It's that I haven't done much photography at all. While on the trip down south for the arrival of the new g'daughter we took her brother out for a walk along the shore. Here's that 55-300mm...
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Post by juke on Feb 28, 2017 13:28:33 GMT
I had to laugh when you mentioned Lightroom, I bought it in one of my 'must get the cameras out' revivals then just went on using my old software, just too lazy to start a new learning curve.
It's great you have the vibration tech in the camera body, with my Nikons it's in the VR lenses. They're getting on a bit so it may be different now.
We're pretty spoilt with photgraphic gear now, I started with a Halina 35X !
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Post by Rabbit on Feb 28, 2017 14:44:48 GMT
I started with some camera from the 40's using roll film and went on to a Mamiya 120 roll film camera. I also had a couple of twin lens cameras and then when 35mm became really popular, I moved over to an Olympus with assorted lens and filters.
If I wasn't working, I used to make my own cibrachromes at home and put them in frames to sell.
Now, I'm really lazy and use digital quickie cameras. I'm more into movie film nowadays than stills tbh. I became tired of the never ending effects and filters that became almost normal with still photography so that photographers were going out with a rucksack full of filters along with a tripod.
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Post by hifidez on Feb 28, 2017 17:15:52 GMT
Never managed the leap from 35mm to 120 film TLR, Started with an English camera, an Agilux rangefinder job, 2nd hand, along with a Weston meter. Then it was the Zenith B, a Praktica Nova 1A, Cosina SLR, Pentax P30 (still have it) then to Penatx digital.
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Post by Rabbit on Feb 28, 2017 17:35:52 GMT
All were good cameras too. The Praktica lenses had terrific contrast. Zenith was a tough old workhorse. I reckon you must have read photographic magazines!!
I went the other way ..... from 120 roll film to 35mm and the production of cibrachrome prints. I did it for money though so there was a hint of desperation. I loved the bliss of the cibrachromes and the depth of colour that they could give.
I had a lovely 120 Mamiya slr as well. Loved that yo bits. Instead of giving square shots, it gave rectangular which was a novelty for 120. I could produce posters with it. (And did) The old Mamiya twin lens cameras were great. I had two of them (c330 I think they were called) Dead crude looking and you looked down into a mirror system so everything appeared backwards, but the shots they took were fantastic.
Big difference was that in those days, you took shots on film based on calculations to get exposure right but nowadays, you can shoot away like a machine gun and check the shots straight away. Plus the fact that digital manipulation is dead easy now so that you see Miriam's of 'special effect' shits really, where they are almost over produced and seem halfway between a painting and a photo very often.
That aspect of still photography put me off a bit since so many are overdone or just done badly!! So I turned more to movie films, which I love doing. It includes the technical aspect of photography if you want good movie footage plus the manipulation of time when you put it all together. Plus the soundtrack, so for me, it's really interesting whereas still photography has become just a collection of memories for me really.
The most useful thing on still photography manipulation is the histogram. Often totally overlooked and tonal values are smeared over with filter effects which kind of disguise the poor photography in the first place!!
Composition of photos is still interesting to me though. That's what drew my eye to your picture Derek. The girl looks really protective with the boy on the right, seeming to really love his sister and a great look of confidence from the boy on the left. She looks really proud of the group.
It's a lovely shot, nicely cropped and so well timed. A difficult shot to do; even by accident. You could try sepia, which will give it a sense of past.
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