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For me it was truely a hobby but I did occasionally sell a print or two. I was in three art shows and won 2 honorable mentions and a first place.
My area of interest is main still life and nature photography.
Now, well into my senior years, my cameras have grown dusty but I still enjoy the web sites.
Here is a technical teaser. Do you know your camera magnification when you take photos?
I love close up and macro photography. Two of my favorite photos are old b&w prints from 35mm negs. One is a close up of a red cabbage cut in half down the stem. I like to ask people what it is. Most guess that it is some kind of river tributary system. Another is a close up looking straight down the neck of an empty Pescovino wine bottle (you know the fish shaped wine bottle). It's got very high contrast with just a hint of a cobweb in the opening. Nobody ever guesses that one.
As far as your teaser, I'm sorry to say, I don't know the answer but I will look it up.
For the images that I take with my phone, I first transfer them to my computer. Then I work on refining the image in photoshop. I then print it on my printer. If the image is not what I was looking for, I go back to step two until I am satisfied.
Most of the photos that I hang on my walls are from my old cameras but some are from my phone.
I have a few that I really enjoy that were taken from my phone.
I hope this answers your question.
After I grew up, I started shooting Pentax but quickly switch to Ricoh. I just liked the feel and balance of the Ricoh. I carried that camera over hill and dale for the ten years that I chose to live out of a back pack. And even after I settled down and finished my education, I still carried it wherever I went.
I later bought a Mamiya medium format camera that produced some nice high quality photos. When I switched to digital, I bought a Canon. I still favor Canon products.
For lenses, I always chose Tamron.
And yes, I had my own B&W darkroom for nearly thirty years.
I hope that you will tell me about some of your favorite photos and that dcline35 will tell me more about wood grain.
BTW, I took your suggestion and posted a few of my favorites.
Thanks for the compliments!
Here we don't have autumn colors. In fact, we really have only summer and winter. Spring and fall just get sucked into summer. It's 83 degrees here now and I'm considering turning the AC on. As far as colors, we have just green and brown. When I rake leaves, I gather about 20-30 palm fronds into the bed of my truck and haul them out to the road.
Please share some more of your work.
Back in the early 70's, I went through an architecture phase while living in San Fransisco. I must say that if I had seen this sculpture, I would very likely have taken the same shot.
BTW You and the other photographers have re-inspired me and I have dusted off my camera. All that's left is to dust off my photorapher's eye (ha ha).
Thanks
Mickey
Second of all, I've never heard of or even thought of putting two lenses together. Can you please go into more detail as to the mechanics of this process.
I have shot spider webs before but never in the dark. I would like to do some experiments.
Thanks
Mickey
I was just looking up the concept of putting two lenses face to face. II think I'll purchase a coupler and give that a try . . . Thanks.
I just ordered a scanner that can scan film and I have dug out my film binders. There are images in the collection that I haven't seen in decades. This is turning into a new / old adventure.
He was actually quite a nice, cooperative fellow and was quite happy when I turned him loose back into the woods.
The Indigo is an endangered, non-venomous constrictor I felt very honored to have met him.
Several years later, I found a baby diamondback rattler in my garage. I did not pick him up by hand. I used one of those reacher / grabber sticks that so many of us seniors have. I put him in a bucket and took him out by the pond. I tipped the bucket over away from me and took a step back to watch. A moment later, he peaked out from around the open top and looked at me as if to say, "Thanks for not killing me. I'll try to return the favor."
6:30 here. Happy New Year.
The image appeared as a small circle in my view finder. I had a lot of trouble focusing the image and resorted to using an f22 stop with a timer shutter release.
The resulting cropped photo looked like a brown, slightly out of focus mountain range.
First tries are first tries. I could not run a marathon when I first learned to stand and walk but twenty years of practice led me to be able to do just that.
I'll keep you posted with future experiments.
Thanks
Mickey
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An old pal got me interested in photography a fair time ago starting with an old Zenith. I still have my old film cameras including a Voigtlander Vito B which has a wonderful lens. Along with a couple of Pentax I have a Bronica ETRSi which is a great medium format camera (I'll have to brush off the dust and get some film in). Up to date I have a Canon 40D DSLR which I enjoy using. For my travel pics I use a now old TZ10 which does the job nicely but would like a more up to date model such as Olympus 4 1/3 system.
I haven't been out since before lockdown the last real shoot was at the Beamish museum. Prior to that was a really enjoyable Peaky Blinders themed shoot at the Black Country Living museum near Dudley.
I enjoy landscape, historical places / vintage shoots and street/architecture photography.
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Very willing to talk about photography.
Perhaps I could make a strange request here ! Some years ago Panasonic produced the GF1 micro 4/3 camera. The white version and the Sakura (cherry blossom) pink cameras were never imported in to the UK. I would very much like to obtain one of these, or both. If anyone is aware of one for sale then please let me know.
What camera are you using now ?
I’m new to it by about 2 years, but I’ve recently lost my mojo with everything going on. I was doing a professional course but gave up on that because I found it too hard. Although I’m still in with a chance of continuing with an extension I was given. I was at the portrait stage. I passed all the earlier modules but it was too pressured for me. I’ve also been doing another course running alongside the first which taught me far more than the first. I started with an old canon dslr then moved onto Fuji. I’ve also gotten some good portraits with my Smartphone using manual. I don’t care for portraits I like black and white, architecture, micro, and street.
I shoot with Canon 6D and 600D and would love to hear from others with the same interest.
Those are the subjects I like to do. The 40s weekends at the Severn Valley railway are always very good as are the ones at the Black Country living museum and Beamish. I have done a few model shoots on a theme. The Film noir theme shoot was really good but my favourite was the Peaky Blinder themed shoot at the museum. It really does help you escape.
Kind regards,
Stephen.
Why am I suddenly having problems uploading my photo's to the showcase page, only certain ones will upload and it seems to be the newer one's I've taken that won't upload as I have no trouble with older photos. Any help would be gratefully appreciated
I have had problems too and when I looked at the specification, for the photos which wouldn't upload, on the Picasa website (which I use for editing my photos) they were all very colourful photos and were about 8.0MB and over so perhaps they were too "big".
Regards
I looked at a lot of peoples shots on photo page, I thought some of them lacked a bit of sparkle, including mine, so with software I put more sparkle into mine.
the last couple of days I have been using my MacBook Air to view the same pages, and there it was every body else's shots looked fine and sparkling, and mine were starting to look a bit over cooked. lucky enough I had put original photo's onto both lap tops, so for me All is not lost.
What I'm wondering is, is this the case with anyone else ??? or is it that somewhere I have my settings wrong on my windows ????
be interested if anyone else is lucky enough to have both laptops, and whether they have had the same experience ?
My most used lens is the cheaper 40-150: It is very light weight for its focal length, so can stay on the camera (OM-D EM-1) all the time. I keep looking at the PRO range - but the money in the pot never gets up to that amount!
If you want a very low-light lens, then there are some f1.2 and f1.4 prime lenses available now.
cheers
patrington
Still use my G15 canon but very rarely.
How many of us use phone now for photography??