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August 1972 - This was originally on Kodachrome. I must have loved my bicycle when I was 13 years old as I took a picture.
On occasion, I will try to digitize some personal, historic photos. Prior to 2002, all my images were done chemically. It will take a while to get a representative bunch on flickr.
To see a bit more up-to-date information, you are welcome to visit my eJournal and images.
Speed Painter Dan Dunn putting the finishing touches on his portrait of Ella Fitzgerald at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
I just happened across this. It is one of a series and this naturally is one of the last.
Tip #1 Hands out in front when falling to avoid breaking neck.
Tip#2 See Tip#1
Speed Graphic, 127/4.7 Ektar, TXP in HC-110. Negative scan; unfortunately I find this negative fiendishly difficult to print and haven't gotten results I liked yet.
This photograph was taken on the 25th May 2015 at the 1940's Weekend on the East Lancashire Railway. I decided to take a short walk outside Ramsbottom Railway Station and follow the railway so I could get a different angle because I had already seen a path [from the train] you could just walk along which looked promising. The locomotive is LMS 2-6-0 No.13065 which was built at Crewe Works, England in 1927. Between 1926 and 1932 there was 245 of this type of steam train made; of which sadly to say that this only one out of three which has survived as the rest where scrapped by British Railways.
I went down to Laguna Seca late last month to check out the Speed Ventures track day and Radical Sports car and EXR races. I took a bunch of photos digitally (to be posted shortly), but also brought along a new-to-me old film SLR; a Nikon F-801s. I thought this was supposed to AF with all of my Nikkor lenses, but it wouldn't work for me; so pardon some missed-focus shots; I had to do it manually. If R1 is in the image name, it was taken on Agfa Photo Vista 200; R2 was Ektar 100. Taken with one of the following lenses:
Nikon 24mm f/1.8G
Nikon 50mm f/1.8D
Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 VR II
Nikon 300mm f/2.8 VR I
Civvie version? Who knows. It's got an improved user-interface, so you're not as likely to crash. And it doesn't require a frog for operation now. It's recommended though, because frogs make EVERYTHING better.
Saw this high speed chase today at NW 50th and Meridian, two cop cars involved, 6 or 7 shots went off, You can try to run from the police, but it will not help you, you will be caught !
I only have another week or two to spend with my Hummingbird friends this year, so I'm trying to make the most of it. Rather than taking the usual approach of pushing for high-speed shots, today I went for the lowest shutter speeds I could manage (between 1/100th and 1/125th of a second). It was interesting. Really tough to get any of the bird in sharp focus - they move so darn fast, but you got a chance to see the different ways they flapped their wings when going forward, backwards or hovering. Also, they tend to pump their tails, which puts the whole bottom half of the bird out of focus. I got a decent number of shots that show pretty nice wing blur with the bird more or less in focus. It was nice to have lots of depth of field to work with and the chance to use some of the lower ISO settings on the camera for a change!
This is a shot of a female taken at 1/125th of a second, f/11 at ISO 160 using a 300mm f/2.8 lens with a 2X teleconverter from about 10 feet away. Very slight crop to make up for poor "composition" skills.
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Speeder bikes build night, with a presentation from me featuring guidance and builds advice from Dan Ko