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An important part of a vinyl record player, the tonearm holds the cartridge on one end and keeps it at the right "azimuth" which is the left to right tilt the stylus must be adjusted to in order to track the vinyl record grooves. Cartridge cables run through the inside of the tone arm to transmit music to the preamp. On the opposite end of the tonearm is a counter weight which helps determine the correct vertical tracking force (VTF) the stylus manufacturer recommends.
ODC: Mechanical
Montreal seen with Ricoh GR III. NO presets or digital filter used. Only some manual colour grading.
.... here the fabric that was previously made by the woman on the loom is decorated with ornaments before he goes to the dyeing shop.
"If you have nothing more to tell, look at your hands - and let them tell." ( Elmar Schenkel )
I Want to Start out the Day in the Mountains...
feeling a cool breeze across my face
with the sun shining and shadows cast
with the rustle of leaves from each passing breeze
with a symphony of birds waking in their roost
I want to start out the day and then journey forth.
Another work of short poetry or prose to complement the image captured this late morning around the Vivian Park with the peaks and ridges of Timpanogos off in the distance. While there was a bright afternoon sunlight that day, I was able find a good enough exposure in Manual mode to bring out the much of the colors present across the mountainside.
File: M09-01
(Files: 2021001-0040 and 2021001-0041)
At a college for the Deaf, Leger Way, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. Date unknown, circa 1987, give or take a year.
About the photograph.
Those candid photographs were taken with a Minolta X-700 35mm film SLR camera, and either a 135mm lens or 80-200mm zoom lens. The roll of film was Ilford, likely to be either FP4 or HP5, as those are the two black and white film that I ways use.
The photographs were taken from the window of the guest room at the top (third) floor of an accommodation building for deaf students who lives far away and stays at the college.
As deaf people communicate by sign language, which is a visual form of communications, there is no need to be within earshot of each other or to shout over long distance, like hearing people do. Thus a lot of deaf people can simply communicate to each other between outside and inside, across a room, or even across a playing field, as long as there is a line of sight.
This Deaf guy, came over to the building, simply stayed outside and chatted with other deaf students who were at a second floor window.
Here in the photographs, he is seen asking “Why?” in British Sign Language (BSL). I don’t remember if he just asked a single word question, or it was the start of a question like “Why do you…”
In BSL, the sign is done by a tapping the side of index finger to the front of the opposite shoulder, and kind of bounce it off your shoulder (as seen in the second photo).
The facial expression is often used to express the kind of mood. For example: A curiosity “Why do you ask?” or an angry “Why did you do that?”
The photographs were taken about slightly more than a second apart, just the length of time to manually wind on the film, as I did not have the motor drive at that time.
Why did I take those photos?
In 1985, in my last year at a deaf school, I decided that I wanted to attend college to study photography with the aim of becoming a working photographer. But the teacher explained to me that it is not something suited for me, because of my being deaf and having communications difficulties. I told my mother the same thing, but my mother and my family were even less supportive.
Today, it is easy to look back on this and recognise that it is a discrimination, pure and simple.
Despite my efforts to try to apply for a college course in photography, I ended up on a one year further education course at college, suited for school leavers unsure of careers. It was during that time, I redouble my efforts, and tried to get the kind of college course I wanted.
There were different courses available to me, at different colleges, including a deaf college in Doncaster, in South Yorkshire, which is approximately 130 miles away from where I live. Arrangements were made for me to visit the college and have an overnight stay at a guest room, so that the next day, I would have a formal look around and an interview.
I travelled by train to Doncaster, stayed at the guest house, and like any good photographer, I bought along my camera. I decided to do some documentary-like photography while I was visiting the college, and during the early evening, I saw this guy standing there, chatting with the others in the building, so I decided to take a candid shot.
I developed and printed my own photographs, it was only about a couple of years ago, that I decided to scan the prints.
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Tourists enjoying the float on the Gondolas( the row boats) of Venice, Italy
A Regular Scene at the famous and historic St, Marks Square (Piazza San Marco) Venice. These small boats are called gondolas which are rowed around manually by the boatman in slow pace all around the lake and the smaller waterways to the sides ( which together forms the sole conveyance other than on foot in Venice) as the riders enjoy the cool fresh air and seeing the sights on the sides..
Kevin is my favorite appraiser on Antiques Roadshow. We saw him walking, and we introduced ourselves, and he was kind enough to pose for a quick photo!
On social media, I won two tickets to the Santa Fe recording of Antiques Roadshow. I took a couple of lenses, and Kelly took her great-grandmother's ring. The ring appraised for a decent amount. The appraisers who looked at my lenses weren't very knowledgeable about camera gear.
Leicaflex SL
50mm Summicron
Fomapan 100 in Rodinal (1:50 for 7 minutes)
Floral City, FL
The trees are still loaded with blossom and fruit at Banes Grove, the retired citrus grove at our Airbnb in Floral City. Dawn walks proved a little too dark for photography and we had to wait until the sun rose high enough to penetrate the trees. Molly and I used this as the perfect excuse to catch an extra hour of sleep!
Manual for a very popular camera , made in Germany . Printed in 1959 .
For "Macro Mondays" ; theme : "Vintage" .
Draft v1
Inspiration credit: www.flickr.com/photos/martinsmart/
www.flickr.com/photos/martinsmart/29144354324/in/faves-58...
Just bought a Nikon FM vintage camera. Put my first roll of film on it and made a few pictures. I will be posting the results in a couple weeks.
Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Post-processing: 5 manual blending exposures processed with CC. Some more adjustment was done by Nik software (Pro Contrast, Skylight filter, Tonal Contrast and Darken/lighten Center)
Nikon D300s & Tokina AT-X 11-16mm f/2,8 DX
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Another from my recent trip to Crater Lake, Oregon. This one is a six-shot panorama. Had a lot of trouble getting the usual software packages to stitch this one together, but was finally able to do it with some manually entered control points in the PTGui software.
I've wanted this shot for some time, and am really happy with how it turned out! Now I just need to return there someday when there's more & cleaner snow... and maybe with a D800E instead of my D700! :-)
Oh, and this shot is today's (June 19, 2013) NASA Astronomy Photo of the Day (APOD):
Manual lens. Pretty sure this was with the reverse-mounted Asahi Opt. Co. Super-Takumar 1:1.4/50 2066316. Lean-to to focus. Some minor post production adjustments.
The locomotive was red, though somewhat faded. The purple hue is courtesy of the Lomography film: "...this unique color negative emulsion lends a whiff of retro charm and classical analogue character ... fascinating blue nuances, glowing reds and tender pastel hues ..."
Deutsche Bundesbahn's Class 217 was a derivative of the earlier V 160 mid-size diesel-hydraulic locomotive. V160s were a very common sight, but have now all been phased out.
I don't know much about the steam loco standing next it, except that it was in bad shape and would need a lot of restoration effort.
Seen at Eisenbahnmuseum Kranichstein, Darmstadt, Hessen, Germany
Nikon EM
Nikkor E Series 50mm f/1.8 manual focus lens
LomoChrome Color ’92 35 mm ISO 400, exposed at ISO 200
Developed and scanned by www.meinfilmlab.de
These old boots have been with me on many hikes and walks and after over ten years they still keep my feet warm and dry. True friends.
This was a bit of a fun experiment with "manual HDR". Essentially, I took multiple exposures, then selected the best one for the sky and the best one for the foreground and edited them together using layers and a mask in Photoshop. This is the result. Further editing would be required if this were to be used in a formal capacity. This becomes obvious around the tower at even the 2048 resolution. It's fixable, but requires more time than I feel like investing at the moment.
Strangely enough, Explored at 355, 3/26/2015...