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Somehow I inherited old books from my family of origin. Such as this one, printed in 1900, entitled "The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas More; Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes". The thin piece of tissue or vellum protects an old photo or lithograph of the man himself.
Do you remember when vintage or antique books were assembled with such care?
Less than 3 inches/ 7.6 cm across.
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Ingredients:
Sony ILCE-7M2
Pentagon 1.8/50 Multi Coating
Manual setup and focus, available light, handheld. Hope, you enjoy! All visits, faves and comments are appreciated!
My tiny little helpers from little world gave me once more a helping hand. They did the presets for my last manual focus shooting. :)
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Die kleinen Helferlein aus little world haben mir ein weiteres Male geholfen. Diesesmal stellten Sie für mich die Blende an einer MF Linse ein. :)
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Lauw's Chinese Cake Factory
The workers are manually stirring the hot dough
Rolleiflex 3.5F
Kodak Portra 400
Ingredients:
Sony ILCE-7M2
Pentacon MC Electric 1.8/50
focus on the droplets on the right crocus
Manual setup and focus, available light, handheld. Hope, you enjoy! All visits, faves and comments are appreciated!
... I am enjoying my all-year-round tulips : ))
This lovely cyan glass vase is textured / kind of multi-faceted and has a golden coloured handle ... so perfect to get some bubbly bokeh with the vintage Oreston
Hope you have an enjoyable weekend
[ Pentax K-5 + vintage manual Meyer-Optik Görlitz Oreston 50mm f/1.8 ]
Die Witwenblumen, auch Knautien oder Knopfblumen gibt es in vielen Farben. Wir haben uns für unseren Garten für diese entschieden.
in my garden...
I love this plant and have it growing everywhere... but when I found these at a nursery, in bloom, I had to pick up four more to add to my collection!!
Flesh Fly | Sarcophaga sp. | Sarcophagidae
Samsung NX1 & Helios 44M - 58mm f/2
10mm Macro Tube | f/4 | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld
All Rights Reserved. © Nick Cowling 2021.
I went to a forest called "Rude Skov" - yes, the name is weird in English but I assure you that it is not rude ;)
I had all my gear with me but decided only to shoot handheld and to do so in manual mode, so no help from anything but the meter inside the view finder; it was so much fun and actually not that hard. Going manual gave me a sort of peace of mind, knowing how the camera was set and that the shutterspeed or aperture wouldn't change unless I wanted them to. I really encourage you to try manual mode for landscape if you haven't already.
The shots are basically of the same subject around a small lake in the forest but with variations in perspective and composition. Hopefully it's not too boring to look at.
Here's to experimentation! I plan to do a lot more of that in the near future.
Thanks again to Adam and his Landscape Masterclass at First Man Photography - without that I really wouldn't have considered going manual and not even gotten the shot because going through that masterclass has made me rethink how I shoot landscapes. I am still learning; I still struggle when looking for interesting subjects and also the composition. Also, ISO, aperture and shutterspeed is something I still need to incorporate into my workflow for each shot because I tend to forget checking and setting them. Heh.
Samsung NX1 & Kiron 105mm f/2.8 Macro
Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld
All Rights Reserved. © Nick Cowling 2017.
Sunrise in Moll del Petroli (Petrolium dock), Badalona.
Simple shot in Manual mode with 416 seconds (7 minutes) of exposition. A double filter (Haida ND3.0 and Haida ND1.8) was used.
This shot was taken and published in 2019, being processed under the display-scene workflow. Now I repeated the process under the scene-referred workflow and version 6 of the Filmic module in Darktable. The result is much more realistic.
Though I do have technologically advanced cameras, I tend to prefer older cameras (all these are second-hand cameras with a 16MP sensor) and use them manually. I am not rejecting technological excellence and sophisticated algorithms. All I am saying is that I have more joy when working manually and that Fuji's old 16MP sensor is really good enough for my purposes. This shot was done with my new (ten year old) Fuji X-Pro1.
♫ Alessandra Amoroso, DB Boulevard - Camera 209
♫ Olivia Ruiz - My Lomo & Me (Jacqueline)
♫ Depeche Mode - Photographic (Paco)
Another attempt with this old manual lens. There are some C/A tracks on contours, but the total result is good. (Small white points are by light rain drops, not lens fault)
Crane Fly | Tipula sp. | Tipulidae
Samsung NX300 & Helios 44M - 58mm f/2 Lens | 10mm Macro Tube | Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld
All Rights Reserved. © Nick Cowling 2016.
Back again folks, photography has been taking a back seat for the last few months hope to catch up on your pics over next week or so.
― John Muir
🌸 Happy Friday / Weekend, everyone 🌸
[ taken last Saturday with the manual SMC Pentax-M 50mm 1:1.7 - wide open (I think) ]
Program:Manual
Lens:24-70mm f/2.8 G VR
F:11.0
Speed:1/250
ISO:560
Focal Length:34 mm
AF Fine Tune Adj:+16
Focus Mode:AF-C
AF Area:Dynamic Area (3D-tracking)
Shooting Mode:Single-Frame, [3], Auto ISO, [9]
VR:On
Metering Mode:Multi-segment
WB:Auto0
Picture Control:Neutral
Focus Distance:3.98 m
Dof:inf (1.87 m - inf)
HyperFocal:3.50 m
Motorsegelschiff im Hafen von Travemünde.
Hier die zwei mittleren Hauptmasten mit hochgezogenem Segel und der Takelage.
Heute wird es von einem Motor angetrieben und dient als Passagierschiff von Lübeck nach Travemünde und zurück.
Motor sailing ship in the port of Travemünde.
Here the two middle main masts with the sails drawn up and the rigging.
Today it is powered by a motor and serves as a passenger ship from Lübeck to Travemünde and back.
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