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the street arts festival in worcester on sunday (9/25/16) featured demonstrations of fencing and dancing and martial arts and acrobatic tumblers, among others. here the fencers look like they are using lightsabers ~grin~
This was the first model of the Pouva Start, manufactured beginning 1951. I love the viewfinder on this model. Imagine a TTV contraption for it!
The "Hamaphot P56L" is a close cousin of the Start.
A very wise man recently said rather than try to go back to where things were, starting with something simple might work. So here we are. A nice simple basic close up with a little saturation added.
I kind of like that you can see all the marks around her lips- she's been with me a very long time now, it just adds character. :)
Our Daily Challenge - Sparkling
J&B Whiskey is currently running an ad campaign called 'Start a Party' Where people roll around these big disco balls............................... now John and I are off to find the whiskey!
and an alternative below - happy weekend :)
photo by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid
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Passengers wait in anticipation for the train doors to be released, the 07:00 departure to Wrexhan General from Shrewsbury on Tuesday 7 June 2016.
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When I started this project I didn't know the world was going to be struggling with a pandemic. So achieving a 100 portraits seemed possible back in early March when I started. During the first lockdown there was a real scarcity of people and people were more tentative especially about talking to strangers. The 2nd lockdown is just about to finish in England. Far more people have been out and about and thankfully the infection rate has been low in West Suffolk. So I have been trying to take more street portraits.
On a bench near the market I saw Enrika and Abigail and they were wiling to have their photos taken.
Both of them are students at West Suffolk University studying a BTEC Diploma in Animal Studies. From what they said it sounded as if it was a mixture of practical sessions in an Animal Centre and theory. They are in their first year so they weren't sure what jobs they might do afterwards . Armed with the qualifications they may end up working with animals perhaps at a Vets or in Retail.
They both travel into Bury by bus everyday from Brandon in Suffolk. Enrika becomes 62 thank you.
I started the day in the same place as it finished, although I rather wish I'd gone elsewhere for this working with the extent of vegetation. I've also let the train come on a little further than intended as I was momentarily distracted by the LNER class 91 hauled set passing behind.
The working is the 11.09 Chaddesden - Kings Lynn sand empties.
And the 2023 Spring Track Season is On!
I found myself standing right next to the woman with the starting gun, so I figured I would get a few shots (pun intended). It is not nearly as loud when the gun is facing away from you!
photo by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid
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ODC-Start
This is how we start our day throughout spring, summer and fall. Shizandra gets her exercise, Stu examines the garden and I take photos.
August 7, 2021. I left today on my bike packing challenge. This is my bike fully loaded 10km in (1 percent complete!). I'm at a campground near Manotick, forgot a few things, but am otherwise off to a good start
The Starting Line, December 17th 2021, Franklin Music Hall. Philadelphia PA.
This was the first concert I got to shoot with the Nikon Z9. The lighting at this venue is not very good, as you can see, there was not a lot of front light. Without a front "white wash" or "spot lights", your images will be all over the place.
Without the spot or white wash, you have to bump your ISO higher than normal, and work the files a lot more in post.
With all of that being said, I still love the files I get from a Nikon. The cameras SUPER QUICK when it comes to taking photos. I shot it only in 20 FPS mode as you can't get RAW files at 30 FPS. Plus, you don't exactly need 30 FPS in this situation. (i wont be using 30 because it's JPEG).
In therms of Auto Focus, the focusing boxes were all over the dam place due to the lack of light in the face. It might find the eye in some situations, then jump to something else because there wasn't a lot of light.
Stephen was at the show shooting with the Canon R3 and ran into the same problem with the face detect and eye af bouncing all over the place.
What I can say, is the Nikon glass all the way around is slower focusing then Canon and Sony. Especially the 1.8 lenses, they are not as quick as I would like. The 70-200 is better, but in my experience using all flagship systems, the Nikon lags behind with focus speed. With that being said, it's lightyears ahead of the Z6 and Z7 and I could use it without an issue. I think I would on occasion miss some images that the Sony or Canon wouldn't miss, but it would be fine.
In terms of Banding, I did run into some issues caused by flickering LED lights. This is normal for all stacked sensor cameras from the a9 to a1 to Z9 and R3. The Canon and Sony's offer you variable shutter speeds to try and match the flickering. The issue there, when you have multiple types of LED lights, there's no way to match all of them. As a last resort the a1 and R3 also have a shutter and the Z9 does not. Stephen switched the shutter on and if he was above 1/400th of a second, even with the mechanical shutter, he still saw some banding. I felt the Z9 with Flickr mode on and off (it does not have variable shutter speed) did a very nice job. There's only so much you can do with these LED lights and I think the Nikon handled it really well. This was just a crap lighting situation that really pushes all cameras to the extreme.
This is just one concert setting, I shot with MUCH BETTER lighting the next night and got some great images, I will share those another time.
Another issue I ran in to, it's hard to know when you're taking photos when you can't hear the digital shutter noise. Theres white lines that show up around the outsides of the frames, but it's mostly out of my field of view. So it's hard to know when you're shooting unless you take your eyes away from the subjects, which I don't want to do. In fact, I handed the camera to my friend Richie to give it a shot, he took 350 images in 3 minutes because he said "there's no indication i'm taking photos". Canon puts a box more in the middle of the frame so you know when you're shooting.
It's been a while since i've uploaded all the FULL RES edited jpegs for people to see, but it was time to do it again.
I will have a lot more to say about the Z9 as I continue to use it. The good news is, i've shot two concerts, birds flying and a basketball game so far. Is it perfect....no, is it horrible, far from it. It has it's quirks, it needs some tweaks and I will pass my findings back to Nikon and everyone else who's interested.
WZFO Start
Fotopan NB04 200 at 25, expired in 1982
Something went wrong and the film curled up improperly, I got only 6 of 12 frames. I'm guessing that the film has detached from the backing paper.
Develpoed in Divided D23 7+4min at 22C
This is the start of a new album: Dunwich Dynamo 2015.
Here we are making our way to Leicester's Train Station to catch the 17:00 to London's St Pancras International.
My riding partner is my Brother in Law.
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The Dunwich Dynamo is a turn-up-and-go challenging free-entry overnight 120 mile bicycle ride on-tarmac from London Fields in Hackney, London to the lovely, lonely Suffolk beach at Dunwich.
The event is usually abbreviated to "Dun Run" or "DD".
It’s not a race. It’s unsupported. There’s no van following. It’s a long way. This year It starts at around 20:30 on Saturday 4 July. Yes, that's through the night people!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunwich_Dynamo
The last time I completed the Dynamo was in 2012, circumstance has prevented me completing it since.
Challenge 19: Object / High-Key
High-Key:
A very clear, almost white, overexposed but not burned image, on which only some reliefs or darker details are highlighted, an image which proposes a light, soft and pure vision of an object in diffuse light with a background not necessarily white but clear and without particular texture, the shadows remaining everywhere very discreet.
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Une image très claire, presque blanche, surexposée mais non brûlée, sur laquelle seuls quelques reliefs ou détails plus foncés sont mis en évidence, une image qui propose une vision légère, douce et pure d’un objet en lumière diffuse avec un arrière-plan pas forcément blanc mais clair et sans texture particulière, les ombres restant partout très discrètes.
In 2006 I hiked part-way up Cobb Peak in the Silver Island Mountains (northeast of Wendover, Utah). This is my "start of trek" photo. Cobb Peak is out of view to the left. In the background is the lower northeast ridge of Graham Peak.
The photo below shows me at the high point, about half-way to the summit. I ran out of time after starting late in the morning..
Software:
- Windows 7 Start Button Changer
- Rainmeter 2.1 beta
- Omnimo UI
Resources:
- Windows modern Wallpaper by djeric from deviantART
- Rainmeter "Elegance 2" by lilshizzy from deviantART
- Eclipse 2 Icon Pack by chrfb from deviantART
- Trans Token Style Start Orb by my99 from deviantART