Today is 7/8/9 (July 8th 2009)

At 12:34:56 California time, we had 12:34:56 7/8/9. and I unfortunately missed it by one second!

My "atomic clock" is in synch with the "atomic clock" satellite, and therefore very acurate.

I always see a few Whinchats near to where I live in the Pennines, though this male was taken in the Harthope Valley in Northumberland. They usually nest in bracken litter on moorlands, but despite that being an abundant habitat Whinchats are scarce and declining. They are red-listed because of a 57% decline 1995-2010. But the European breeding population seems to be holding up which suggests the problem is in Britain rather than on the African wintering grounds. This may be that they are out of synch with their insect prey that peaks earlier due to climate change. In Britain they have also suffered a 47% range decline and have all but disappeared from the lowlands, apart from on Salisbury Plain.

at the lighthouse keeper's house..

Our trip to the Northeast began in Portland, Maine, where we stayed at a really nice Hampton Inn. Got up before dawn to get here, to the Portland Head Lighthouse - the most famous, most photographed lighthouse in the US - and luckily, one of the most accessible. No more than a ten-minute drive from our waterfront hotel in Portland..

I made the decision not to attempt bringing a tripod on the plane, and really, this was the only time I wished I had one. But I made do with a fence rail, held my breath, waited till both lights synched up, and I'm satisfied with the result. I like the notion that the two lighthouses are communicating somehow, echoing each other's message to passing mariners..

This was also the only dawn of the trip that had any color in the sky, as we were blessed with ridiculously beautiful weather for the entire trip. And in Maine - that's quite a blessing. As was us choosing this particular morning to be at the lighthouse when dawn broke..

A Mourning Dove fans its tail and stretches a wing to get the flight equipment in synch....

As I approached their nesting gourds, they began to fly around my head. I was able to synch speeds and get my glass on this one for a few shots. It's sometimes like shooting gnats with a BB gun to photograph swallows, martins, and swifts.

Woken by Claire at 6.45 am to the news the lake was flat calm as she looked from our hotel window on Grasmere Lake we got ready and shot around to the foot of Loughrigg Fell.

I took this pano which consisted originally of 15, yes 15 shots taken with the Canon 24-105 in portrait orientation at 105mm. The light was poor, sky flat and I found it really difficult to get a shot where the sky wasn't blown out. I had a 0.9 SE grad for the sky then a 0.75 SE grad upside down for the reflection of the sky on the water. Even with them it was still difficult to control the dynamic range.

I did take bracketed shots but found the middle exposure to be workable so stuck with that.

In this final version i've cropped quite a lot of the left hand side as it didn't help with the comp.

The shot really made my Macbook struggle for teh first time ever and froze while trying to make a layer in Colour Efex Pro 4. The tiff file was 1.7 gb!

Techy Info...

Canon 5D Mk3

Canon 24-105 f4

f7.1

15 shots taken between 1/5 & 1/80 in Manual.

ISO 100

Filters...

Lee 0.9 Soft Grad for the sky

Lee 0.75 Soft Grad inverted for the sky reflection

Processing Info...

I opened 15 RAW files in Adobe Camera Raw and made some basic lens corrections with all 15 shots synched before importing them to Photoshop.

I stitched the pano using Photomerge but when the final image appeared it was very skewed down to the left. Using the Transform Perspective tool I retrieved the shape then using the Warp tool I pulled the bottom right down and the top left up to fill in areas so that I wouldn't have to crop more out of the height.

I used Colour Efex Pro 4's Pro Contrast filter to add more definition to the trees and land.

I felt that the composition looked to heavy on the left so cropped approx 1/4 out to make the shot more balanced.

Lastly after saving a Tiff file and 300dpi jpeg I used Tony Kuypers Resize & Sharpen action to resize to 900px for Facebook and saved as a PNG file.

I think I really need to try visiting the lakes in the winter months so I can catch sunrise or sunset for some nicer light but I was just happy to actually get calm waters for the reflections :D

Anyone who is on Facebook I've had a Photography page for a couple of months now so feel free to pop in and say hi :)

Photography by Phil Whittaker

Sidenote, liking the new Flickr layout! Its back to how it was before the big change but better :)

Looking over Waverly Station towards St Andrew's House the home of the Scottish Government. To the left is the old Calton Jail and the tower in the background sits on Calton Hill. Its called Nelson's Monument built to commemorate the Battle of Trafalgar it used to have a ball that dropped in synch with the One o'clocl gun so sailers could keep time.

Shepherds Synchronized Sunday Sleeping Parallel Poses Positions Photo - IMRAN™

(My 138th Flickr Explore!)

It is funny how regularly K2’s pisé and position is identical to Kennedy’s. They’re not related by birth but are so amusingly in synch. Even in sleep.

This is actually a night time photograph with only one low corner lamp. The handheld long-exposure night-mode on the Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max makes it so well-lit. See 3D at lnkd.in/dEHNUdhQ .

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The Santa Monica Pier at sunset with the old ferris wheel. Timing the spin is everything. No HDR

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Settings etc.:

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38-second exposure @F16 - No circular ND filters

Canon 5D, Canon 17-40L @ 28

ND soft grad 0.9 over the top half of the frame.

After getting a really nice sunset image from this spot and a 4 minute exposure from under the pier, I waited for the sun to go down. An extra long exposure and a little light still in the sky allowed the scene to become evenly lit. The wheel spun about 5 times during this exposure. The spinning wheel turned out to be the most import factor to getting a good photograph.

Sometimes the wheel stopped, and the dynamic feel of the resulting image was lost. Sometimes it would turn too quickly and become out of synch with the way the lights on the spokes worked, creating odd-looking effects. So a lot of experimentation was required to get a smooth and dynamic look without distracting features. Improvisation is often required to get the best photograph possible.

Also, the sand was reflective like this only part of the time. So that had to be factored in.

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I made this little video in April 2008. It's very simple...basic...but it's the only 'movie' I've ever really made, and I'm really rather fond of it.

[Music: Broken Social Scene]

Manufactured by Miranda Camera Co., Tokyo, Japan

Model: 1966, type 1

All Miranda Sensorex produced between 1966-1972

as to Miranda Camera Co

35 mm SLR film camera

Lens: Auto Miranda 35mm f/2.8, in 5 groups 6 elements, fully automatic diaphragm coupled to TTL CdS exposure meter, w/ diaphragm setting and DOF preview levers, interchangeable, Miranda bayonet mount, filter thread 46mm, serial.no.2222339

Aperture: f/1.9 - f/16, no click stops

Focus range: 0.3-5m +inf.

The lens mount also has 44mm inner screw for Miranda 44M or other screw mount lenses via adaptors

Lens f number selector dial: settings between f/I.4 - f/8 , on left front side of the camera

Lens release: While pressing the lens lock lever on the right side of the lens barrel, turn the lens counterclockwise l/8 of a full turn. When the red dot on the barrel stops at the red line on the camera body, the lens comes off easily.

Focusing: by multi-microprism screen center, ring and scale on the lens, w /DOF scale

Shutter: cloth, horizontal focal plane, speeds 1-1/1000 +B, red marking of flash sync.1/60

setting: by a knob on the winding lever

Shutter release: on the left front of the camera, close to lens mount, w/cable release socket

Film counter: advance counting, auto-reset, left side of the pentaprism on the top plate Cocking lever: also winds the film, retractable, short strokes, double exposure prevention, on the right of the top plate

Film winding indicator (shutter cocking): red: cocked, white: not cocked; beside the cocking lever

Mirror: Instant return

Viewfinder: SLR Pentaprism, interchangeable, (but not screen), no parallax (difference between the area covered by the viewfinder and by the taking lens)

Vievfinder release: by small silver button on the back of the top plate, slide the knob to left and slide the finder to backwards

Exposure meter: CdS meter, TTL, bottom-weighted average metering (eliminates the light-influence of the sky), fully open aperture light reading

Exposure setting: firstly set the desired speed, set film ASA, set the lens selector dial for the lens on the camera, and turn on the meter switch, then turn the aperture ring until the needles (one is in open C shape) match in the viewfinder, (indeed these needles are on the screen)

ASA setting: 25-1600, window on the speed dial; setting: by lifting and turning the outer ring

On/Off switch: near the re-wind knob ,

On/Off indicator:, small window beside the "Battery" stamping, on the flash synchronizer selector ring on the bottom of the re-wind knob

Re-wind lever: knob with collapsable crank

Film rewind release button: on the bottom plate of the camera

Flash PC socket: left side of the camera

Flash synch: FP (flash bulbs focal plane) 8t, X 1/60t, setting via flash synchronizer selector ring, small window beside the "Flash" stamping, on the bottom of the re-wind knob

Self timer

Back cover: hinged, w/ double safety self-locking device; detachable

Tripod socket: 1/4''

Strap lugs

Body: metal; Weight: near 1000gr

Battery: only for lightmeter, Mercury 1.35v PX625, (accepts PX625A / LR9, but better is 1.35v Zinc/air)

Battery chamber: on the left back of the top plate

serial.no.705778

w/ case and old leather strap

Miranda Sesorex is a system SLR camera with a wide interchangeability of both viewfinders and lenses. It is TTL progression from the Automex models in 1967.

There are seven almost-the-same but distinct versions of Sensorex.

There are two very peculiar features in Miranda: the interchangeable prism (the Nikon F was the only other camera at the time with this feature), and the front-mounted shutter release.

Low noise shutter and vibration-free mirror mechanism.

After removing the pentaprism, the camera is fully functional, can still meter and focus, especially handy for close-up work.

Sensorex was the flagship model at that time. Miranda was apparently the first Japanese SLR manufacturer, and for a time, Miranda used to compete with Nikon and Topcon for build quality and optics.

The Miranda was also sold as Soligor in Europe.

The Miranda Camera Company, originally named the Orion Camera Company, manufactured cameras in Japan between 1955 and 1978. Their first camera was the Miranda T. Unlike many Japanese made cameras, Miranda did not make their own lenses and had to rely on other manufacturers to supply them.

Many Miranda SLRs had advanced or sophisticated features for their day. Almost all Miranda SLR's shared the same basic lens mount, but the mount complexity increased over the years to accommodate more aperture and metering controls.

Unable to keep up with the increasing manufacturing automation of the larger manufacturers, and the increasingly sophisticated electronics of competing cameras, Miranda ceased producing cameras.

More info: Miranda Camera Co ,

in J Ollinger Camera coll , Miranda in Wikipedia, Manual in Butkus org, Karen Nakamura, Miranda in Camerapedia

Photos by Miranda

This weeks I spy is a bit different. Find the letter of the alphabet and two objects that start with that letter (except X, which is sad with only one object). Make notes on the picture and I'll (TRY to) keep track of score. Whoever finds the most wins!

**Explored** #120 Sept 12/08

The Winner is Out of Synch (43), in second Jaspinder.singh (19), in third spacelee 99 (14) and last but not least Krysia.Today with 2.

Thanks everyone for playing!!

A - (army man), jaspinder.singh (A), spacelee 99 (arrowhead)

B - out of synch (bell), me (B), jaspinder.singh (boot) extra jaspinder.singh (beaver)

C - spacelee 99 x 2 (c, Canada) out of synch (clock) hint this tells time

D - out of synch x3 (d, die, domino)

E - out of synch x2 (elephant, eightball) Krysia Today (E)

F - out of synch x3 (F, feather, four) and a bouns if you can find the real third F (four was extra) and the bonus goes to jaspinder.singh for FROG! and jaspinder.singh (five)

G - out of synch x2 (g, gnome) spacelee 99 x1/2 (guiness)

H - out of synch x2 (H, hat), spacelee 99 (heart)

I - out of synch x2 (iPod, Ivy), jaspinder.singh (I)

J - out of synch x2 (J, jack), me (jade)

K - out of synch x2 (K, key) jaspinder.singh (knot)

L - out of synch x3 (L, locket, lock) hint i use this to secure things

M - out of synch (M) jaspinder.singh x2 (match, map)

N - spacelee 99 x2 (N, nickle) jaspinder.singh (newspaper)

O - out of synch x2 (O, orange), jaspinder.singh (ornament)

P - out of synch x3 (P, piano, present) hint: I love getting these on my birthday!

Q - out of synch (Q-tip) jaspinder.singh (Q, the queen on a quarter)

R - out of synch x2 (R, ring) jaspinder.singh (robot)

S - out of synch x3 (S, sheep, sword)

T - out of synch x3 (T, tack, thimble)

U - out of synch x2 (U, umbrela) hint its already been tagged as something else, but its part of a cow....udder!

V - spacelee 99 x3 (V, vasoline, vial)

W - out of synch x3 (W, whale, wheelbarrow) and extra jaspinder.singh (wrench)

X - jaspinder.singh (X, xylophone)

Y - Krysia Today (Y), jaspinder.singh (yarn), spacelee 99 (yen)

Z - spacelee 99 x3 (Z, zebra, zipper)

Someone kindly suggested on my last shot that another fly looking across might be interesting... so I gave it a shot. It certainly works for me =). Thank you Gary! And, credit where credit is due: I really liked this shot by Jemenu so wanted to have a play too! So this is, I think, a pair of greenbottles (not bluebottles, I promise you they look green compared to the bluebottle I compared them to at the time!), they're rather mundane creatures but not without a certain aesthetic appeal when you look at them like this. A blue background: a different blue to last time which is gradiented towards purple. I wanted a bit more vibrancy and I think this gave it to me!

Posing this wasn't easy. I used the Watkins & Doncaster Insect Examination Stage with some cork cut out in a 2 cm by 1/2 cm by 1/2 cm strip mounted at the tip. Then I cut a groove into the cork for each mounted insect according to the angle which I needed for the shot. Each of these insects were mounted on a thick black ent pin. Then I fiddled, swore and cursed for 30 mins to get them parallel and in the positions I wanted, cutting off the end of the pins that went beyond the cork so that it could all fit into the chip cone diffuser. These chip cones are handy because they're shaped so that they diverge so allow relatively big things inside the diffuser (mine just sits on the end of the lens with a custom reverse lenscap made from a black party popper) but they're also the right shape so that there's stilll enough omnidirectional light of a similar intensity (because of similar distances, not quite a perfect hemisphere but better than other things I tried). With close flashes I get away with 1/32 and 1/64.

Technical: Gradient in CS4 piped into SmallHD using HDMI matrix used as ambient lighting for the background; strobing has rear curtain sync. 1s exposures; 121 photos into 34 sub stacks, retouched from Dmap composite, finished off with CS4 & Topaz Detail. Step size of 30µm, polystyrene chip cone diffuser. Cropped then resized 10% to lessen noise. Componon 35 f/4 reversed on flat bellows so about 1:1 ish; 2 Pentax 540& 1 Pentax 360 off camera flashes triggered wirelessly by Metz 58 II cam-connected controller; all manual trailing synch to eliminate flash ghosting, strobes manual at @1/32; perpendicular to flys at @2,6.30 &10 o'clock.

Looks nice on black! www.flickr.com/photos/jingleslenobel/7191333770/lightbox/

Link to full size image: farm9.staticflickr.com/8158/7191333770_da753c467e_o.jpg

UPDATE 2014 - I have put together an extreme macro photography learning site to explain the techniques and equipment used for all my macro photos here in Flickr which is now ready. To point to a few of the links that people who want to learn this stuff might like to have a browse of:

Focus Stacking, Focus Stack Preparation, Shooting A Stack, Stack Processing, Stack Post Processing, Schneider Kreuznach Componon 28 mm f/4, Schneider Kreuznach Componon 35 mm f/4, Schneider Kreuznach Componon 80 mm f/4, Nikon El-Nikkor 50 mm f/2.8N, Reject Enlarger Lenses, JML Optical 21 mm f/3.5, 20 mm Microfilm f/2.8, Anybrand MP-E 65 Macro Lens, Manual, TTL, Rear Curtain Sync, Extreme Macro Backgrounds, Single Colour Background, The Gradient Background, Adjustable Flash Shoe Mounts, Extension Tubes, Eyepiece, Field Monitor, Flash Bracket, Focusing Helicoid, Holding Tools, Lens Adapters, M42 Iris, Macro Tripod, Making A Macro Beanbag.

Olympus Pen F ~1963

F. Zuiko Auto-S 1:1.8, f=38mm

Olympus Zuiko Zoom 100-200, 1:5, preset

Rotating shutter 1- 1/500 and B, flash synch at all speeds.

Half format SLR, using a quite complex optic arrangement, to avoid the traditional bulge on the top plate.

This is a half format camera, one gets twice the number of exposures, per roll of 135 film, with half the size. Holding the camera horizontally the exposures have portrait orientation.

Design of Yoshihisa Maitani, designer of other iconic Olympus cameras as the OM-1 and the XA.

The story:

I found the zoom in a flea market and bought it very cheap.

Went to evilBay and bought the camera. When my friend Juan Felipe Gómez T knew of this offered me the 38mm lens, send it by a friend who came to Porto, last week, Gracias Juan.

Here you can see some pictures taken with it

Made Explore on April, 25, 2010

Highest position: 312 on Friday, September 16, 2011

You can read an article about Yoshihisa Maitani at Classic Cameras

Manufactured by Zeiss Ikon, Stuttgart, West Germany

Model c.1956, type in Zeiss Ikon Index 526/24

Camera is not labelled as 1b

35 mm film Viewfinder camera

Lens: Novicar Anastigmat 45mm f/2.8, Filter thread 27mm

Shutter and aperture rings are coupled according to Exposure Values, 3 to 18, rings turn together

Aperture: f/2.8 - f/22, setting separately: by pushing down the handle and turn the aperture dial ring on the back of the lens-shutter barrel

Focusing: front element manual focus, ring and dial on the front of the lens, w/DOF scale

Focus range: 1-10m +inf

Shutter : Prontor SVS, speeds: 60 sec - 1/300 sec. +B, setting separately by pushing down the handle and turn the speed dial ring on the lens-shutter barrel

Shutter release: on the center of the cocking lever, w/ cable release socket

Cocking lever: also winds the film, short stroke, on the right of the top plate

Frame counter: coupled with cocking lever, advance type, manual setting

Re-winding knob: on the left of the top plate

Re-wind release: a small silver button on the bottom plate

Memory dial: on the re-winding lever

Flash PC socket: on the left lower front of the camera, X or M for flash synch sets by V X M setting lever on the back of the lens-shutter barell, set to X or M

Self-timer: V X M setting lever on the back of the lens-shutter barell, set to V

Cold-shoe

Tripod socket: modern 1/4''

Back cover: hinged, opens by a latch on the left side of the camera

Reliefs on the back cover leatherette: Zeiss Ikon, Made in Germany Stuttgart

serial no. R 11918

The Contina first arrived in 1951 as a folding design but the first of these compact models arrived in 1954.

More info: McKeown's 12th ed. p.1047

in Camerapedia

a.k.a. Loons in Dunes: the Movie.

Slow synch flash with shutter at 3 seconds. Used tripod with panning of stationary Matchbox VW which measures 1 5/8 inches in length. Required a number of attempts playing with Exposure Triangle variables to achieve the desired effect of the car being more or less in focus while simultaneously giving the illusion of it being in motion. Alternate image of 5 x 5 x 25 mm multi-colored blocks is technically good but cars are inherently associated with motion and wooden blocks not so much: www.flickr.com/gp/blackjackstone/Aa5473

... now that’s eifel, too! whatever-the weather, get out and shoot, see it experience it, enjoy it, decellerate, regenerate and synch yourself.

DC-GX9, 35-100/f2.8mkII, Haida M10 sGND1.2, lion rock 35

Tank top by Banana Republic

Skirt by BCBG Max Azria

Shoes by Nine West

Two Vivitar 285HVs camera left, one lighting Michèle's face and one lighting her legs. White reflector camera right. Sunpak 383 into a small softbox overhead for hair and rim light. Exposure set for f/8, synched at 1/200s combination of Skyports and optical slave triggers.

Since coming back from NYC i've mainly focused on editing my Infra Red shots and this is another which is a 13 shot pano. Im so glad we managed to get around nearly all of Central Park, a beautiful area situated within the streets & avenues of the concrete jungle

This lake is just South of the middle of the park and spans from the West side to the East side with Loeb Boathouse over to the East side. It also has a beautiful cast iron bridge spanning its narrowest point named Bow Bridge which has featured in many blockbuster movies. I had seen photos of it at the many art & photo sellers around Manhattan so asked one where it was. The guy said it was East which hampered us finding it and led to much zig zagging around the park but we weren't complaining as we ended up finding many other great spots.

For the record the twin buildings in the background are 145 - 147 Central Park West, The San Remo Buildings which are luxury apartments.

Tech Info...

Panasonic G5 converted to Full Spectrum

Olympus M.Zuiko 9-18 f4-5.6

13 shots

9mm

1/320 - 1/500

f6.3

ISO 160

Filters...

I'll be honest here and say it was either the Heliopan RG665 or Hoya R72, I cant remember.

Processing Info...

I opened the 13 RAW files in Adobe Camera Raw, synched them and applied a lens profile to them all.

I then made a few adjustments before importing them to PS CS6.

Next using PS's Photomerge option I stitched them together to make the panorama. I pulled the corners out a little using the Transform Warp tool to fill the blank white spaces left, something that happens in panos.

Next using Khromagery's Action I switched the red & blue channels to get yellow foliage and a blue sky. I darkened the sky a touch then using a Luminosity Mask I selectively lifted the exposure on the right side of the Bridge as it was a little dark. The one thing i've found with Infra Red is that shadows are really accentuated so it can be tricky at times when you have trees looming.

I think one thing i've learned is its very important to go to these locations when the sun is in the correct position so maybe early afternoon rather than morning. That said by the time we got to the Guggenheim Museum it was very dull and cloudy... if only we could control the weather eh!

If youre on Facebook stop by my page for some info on IR and many other things aswell as some of my photos :)

Photography by Phil Whittaker

[Explored]

Sandy & Junior R.I.P.

No, it's just an old recorded CD, I would never buy Sandy & Junior!

Sound-triggered synch.

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1st place in the Stop! (Freeze a moment in time) contest in Winner's Circle.

Published on Cactus wireless flash trigger catalog, "When light dances", this catalog is shipped with the Cactus kit. See here my Cactus V4 overview.

Featured in Light Stalking "Perfectly Timed" post.

As if it wasn't hard enough to choose one form a dozen of snaps, the usual dilemma (again) between colour and BW :(

Floodplain of Red Cedar River, Riverfront Park, Meridian Township, Michigan.

Shot with single off-camera flash (Leica SF60/Leica SF C1 trigger), modified with rectangular diffuser, placed to right of subject at height of subject, high-speed synch, TTL metering.

When you first take an astrophoto with Seestar you get terribly excited. You are astonished that you've captured a deep space object perhaps hundreds of millions of light years away with a small inexpensive device about the size (but not the shape) of the Maltese falcon. After a while as your critical eye improves you begin to notice shortcomings. The star colors seem garish, the stars are bloated, poorly defined and they overpower the galaxy or nebula, which is the subject. After some research on YouTube you figure out a way to control that.

For all the wonderful qualities of the Seestar it doesn't track all that well. What that means is that as the camera is exposing the sky the motor moves the camera with the rotation of the Earth. Fine. But I've noticed that the two are perfectly in synch, which leads to stars that are slightly stretched in one direction. While there is a multi-step process to correct that with software the easiest solution is to make each exposure shorter. Even though the Seestar will now do one minute exposures, I have found that 10 second exposures produce the least stretching problems.

The above image used 20 second exposures and I went through the process to make them round once again. I think it was a success, but a lot of work that could have been avoided by using shorter exposures. I think each Seestar is slightly different and I've found that some angles/elevations are more of an issue than others.

Ciro-flex Model D with case and intact strap, f3.5 85mm Wollensak Velostigmat in Alphax shutter, speeds to 1/200, with synch.

2 second exposure, using the studio strobe's modeling light for the ghostly portion, rear curtain synch flash to catch Kyra at the end of the exposure time. We had a fun time shooting is a dark studio!

Ciro-flex C with f3.5 85mm Wollensak Velostigmat in the better Rapax shutter, speeds to 1/400, no synch. Case is missing strap.

Emerging after the site visit at the subterranean parking. Our project team task to transform the parking space....with limited budget (Everything cut one!!).

I am clueless.

A low light capture with the Olympus Trip 35. Using some old trick....shooting flash mode with aperture selection - flash synch speed shutter and f2.8. The Zuiko and Trip does it's job well.

Olympus Trip 35 - Black Button, D-Zuiko 40mm F2.8, Ilford Delta 100, Home-Development, Ilfotec DD-X @ 1/4th 5.5 minutes, 26D Celcius, Ilford Rapid Fixer @ 6minutes, Wide Open, Flash Mode, Flash did not fire

Textures by~

Joes Sistah~http://www.flickr.com/photos/27805557@N08/4370446864/in/set-72157621763107414/

Unaciertamirada~ www.flickr.com/photos/unaciertamirada/4597579655/in/set-7...

I Kandy~ www.flickr.com/photos/mcviewty/4457870272/in/set-72157623...

Encounter Laura~ www.flickr.com/photos/dontellaura/4372971071/in/set-72157...

Friendbrook Meadows~ www.flickr.com/photos/friendbrook/4558621319/in/set-72157...

Fly Edges~ flypapertextures.blogspot.com/

50/365 Photo Manipulation Project

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Ciro-flex Model E features the f3.5 85mm Wollensak Velostigmat in the better Rapax shutter with synch, speeds to 1/400. Like most Ciros, the case strap probably broke years ago, and a previous owner fashioned a replacement short strap, held to the case with copper rivets. This one has the rare lens cap, instruction booklet, accessory brochure and a brochure on flash synch with the Ciro-flex.

Unlike the previous hummingbird image I posted, this image was taken using a multi-flash (4 flashes) set-up. By eliminating the ambient light and using multiple synchronized flashes set at low power, you are able to capture images at what is effectively ~1/8000 - 1/20000 of a second (i.e. even though the camera's shutter speed is 1/200 of a second (under the flash synch speed), the effective time to discharge the flashes when set at low power (the only source of light affecting the exposure) is much, much faster).

4M45 Felixstowe - Garston passing Grendon, getting near the end of the 86s on Freightliner services. Pantographs nicely in synch, and the 'right' way round, aesthetically. This was the last scheduled run...adding a note on 14th Jan, they've done the last three days on this 4L60/4M45 circuit!

This is another shot of the MTB-Tour we did last Saturday. There's a lot of autumn leaves on the ground now so that not only the upper part has these nice colors, but the whole image (except the rider) gets yellow and orange.

I used my YN-568 in FP-Synch Mode for this one, too and I also put a gel filter in front of it to get a warmer light.

Next thing to try will be a "over-the-fog-mtb-shot".

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This was my one and only attempt at this sort of thing. I'm not sure my son will be quite so accommodating next time. Apparantly a suspended water balloon didn't ring any alarm bells and he didn't connect it with our earlier conversation about bursting water balloons over his head! Not the image I was looking for and there's some out of synch flash I think but I think it still makes for a good photo. Re-worked to darken a messy background.

Black & white version can be viewed here www.flickr.com/photos/mark-edwards/15975683822/in/photost...

This is the first in a series of images I intend to do called "Endeavour". It will be about people who challenge themselves in any sport, hobby or vocation or business but will probably not be just about fighters. More fighting in the everyday sense of the word and not just fighters who fight in the ring.

The intention is to create very much stylised images. My aim is not recreate reality but convey emotion, mood and atmosphere in the images. For me photography is not about replicating reality, its about evoking emotion. Its about creating drama and evoking a reaction in the viewer. This is not a representation of the Madra Mor Gym. There is no window with cobwebs lit by the light of the moon. It's a clean and functional gym lit with natural light and fluorescent lighting but is that type of lighting going to evoke emotion?

Background To This Image

This was a shot I took at the Madra Mor Boxing Academy (www.madramor.co.uk/) of boxer and trainer Gavin Conway. I used four studio lights. The Lencarta super fast flash units: 2 x 300 & 2 x 600 Super Fast studio lights. I have been very pleased with the Lencarta lights both in the studio and on location. I also have the 1000 LED studio light for continuous lighting (not used on this shoot).

For this shot I used two of the 30 X 140cm strip box diffusers and for the main light their large 150cm Octagon umbrella softbox. Using their flash synch I can control all the heads from the transmitter on my camera.

Processed in Photoshop CC using 45 different layers as I experimented to get the look and feel I was after. Not all layers have been used in the final image and I clone stamped the image a few times. In the final image I left some layers invisible. I took my time to decide if I wanted the different effects I had created. In the end I decided on this image a less saturated version. The pure B&W seems to work as well.

I left the image 24 hours and then went back to it with fresh eyes to make the finishing touches. Total processing time probably 5 hours give or take.

A very enjoyable, though brief visit to Tynemouth Beach with Mr Quornflake. We had to leg it after this shot as the tide was heading decidedly inwards.

I talk to G-d but the sky is empty

- Sylvia Plath -

This is a totally processed shot, for some reason the shutter was synched way to high and alot of my images were just underexposed..so, i started to fool around a bit and all of a sudden - great looking sky!

From the Big Trip 3D slide archives - 2004.

This shot takes in a lot of things. First is my darling wife Carol, who often jokingly referred to herself as my 3D "roadie"! She often had the task of carrying various pieces of gear to help me in the quest for the right shot. Here she is taking her own 2D shot, while standing between my 3D rig.

The view is taken from the top of a small hill in Alice Springs within the Olive Pink botanic gardens. We are looking west to the Western MacDonnell ranges. In the mid left, you can make out the dry riverbed of the Todd River.

This also shows one of my two main 3D camera set-ups that I used on the trip. This is the twin rig consisting of two matching Canon 300V SLR film cameras. They are fitted with 24-85mm zoom lenses and are both fired off in perfect synch using a single infra red remote control. To get perfectly matching exposures, they had to be used in full manual mode, which meant setting each one individually with the right matching settings for aperture, shutter speed, and focus, as well as trying to match the zoom. Here you can see the left tripod containing one camera on a special aluminium bar that holds some Manfrotto slide bar mounts that allowed me to vary the separation of the two cameras when side by side on the one tripod. In this shot, they are actually on separate tripods for some extreme 3D effect. This is a technique called hyper-stereo which gives an exaggerated 3D effect for views which are distant and would otherwise appear flat in standard 3D. It was a fun technique to play with. The separation of the cameras could vary a lot. My record is something like 1000 feet! Although I took a shot here with the twin rig in the position shown, it was not a keeper. I took this particular shot with my other main purpose built RBT 3D camera.

Taking some seemingly simple shots was sometimes an involved process, and it kept us both on our toes and kept us fit too! It was challenging, but always very good fun.

(Slide scanned using Canon RP with 24-240 and Nisi close up lens. Original taken using Fuji Sensia 100 slide film)

Kids can be so nice. We were on the bach and I wanted to learn action shots. So they have been very patient and jumped and jumped again. Thanks you two.

This is a crop of www.flickr.com/photos/denniskuhn/3326657110/

an old shot from the summer. it was sitting on the computer and I had forgotten about it. couldn't resist uploading it, even if its winter and pretty out of synch.