Nikon WedNEsDAy PiC #23 - Old Thread, June 3 2009

<p>Nikon EM - 50mm Series E lens<br>

Kodak Ektachrome slide duplicating film ISO 12 - pushed to ISO 25</p>

<p>Taken in Vendieres - France.</p><div></div>

<p>Alejandro,<br>

" in this shot we were trying panning at/100. (although not exactly perpendicular at the horse as should be.."<br>

Perhaps next time you'll consult with Lex. ;-)</p>

<p>Mikhail:</p>

<p>Actually our dog, Asher, is a mutt -- part Lab and we think, part Heeler.</p>

<p><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2469/3590195336_fee07054e5_o.jpg" alt="" width="593" height="800" /><br>

D40x 18mm f/3.5 ISO 100 -2/3 EV</p>

<p>Reading - Istanbul, Turkey</p><div></div>

<p>thanks all.</p>

<p>My favourite of this week is Chris Courts night shot. It´s one of the few exceptions where a tilt really does work and in fact the long and vertical lines now tilted are very complementary with the dynamics of night life as are those repetitive lines, those colours and the slightly out of focus silhouetted girl. Nice and subtle details are the hint of someone inside and the nearly out of the frame disappearing shoulderbag which create a nice counterbalance. It´s a perfect example of what´s there for all to see but more often than not is overlooked by most and all combined in a very succesfull and well balanced composition. In short, a very good photo.</p>

<p>Wow, sure is filmy in here this week! Good to see so much diversity.</p>

<p>Mike McDermott: I'd like to see more of your photos with pushed color slide film in future Wednesday Pic threads or elsewhere online (you can get freebie accounts with Flickr too). Funny, in 40+ years of photography that's one of the few things I've never tried. I haven't even seen many examples of pushed slide film in publication or online.</p>

<p>Reminds me, I need to dig out my scanner. I'm way behind on scanning some negatives and slides... again.</p>

<p><strong>BIG</strong> Thanks <strong>Hamish</strong> , <strong>Lil </strong> and <strong>Justin</strong> .<br /> <strong></strong></p>

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<p>I haven't even seen many examples of pushed slide film in publication or online.</p>

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<p>David Muench typically underexposes his chromes by 1/2 stop and pushes them in development. From what I've reach, he claims thiat this boosts contrast and saturation. I push only when I need the extra speed.</p>

 

<p>This threat has especially good people photos! Too many to start listing... </p>

<p>thursday postscript: i would trade my shot for aguinaldo's any day, since i'd have to be in rio to take it!</p>

<p>nice filmy look from mike mc d., but what about paulo's d40x shot?</p>

<p>shuo, definitely the best example i've yet seen of DoF in a roadkill shot.</p>

<p>I love this thread ... tons of great shots. Hey Susan ... some wonderful emotion in your shot! Nothing exciting from me. Just an old lonely organ ... Ray.</p><div></div>

<p>Ray, that's hysterical. Great street scene. And there's emotion there, too. Lonely.</p>

<p>Eric, if you were referring to my shot...Thanks!! I took it while bored and while testing the camera (I am really new to photography and rely a lot on learning by trial - and error ahah). After I noticed it could have a nice "geometrical" effect if properly cropped...<br /> ..so I processed the pic in CS3 and played a bit with channels/black&white filters (again, tryin to learn "making B&W in photoshop)</p>

 

<p>"David Muench typically underexposes his chromes by 1/2 stop and pushes them in development. From what I've reach, he claims thiat this boosts contrast and saturation. I push only when I need the extra speed."</p>

<p>Galen Rowell is another one who constantly wrote about setting Kodachrome 1/3 stop or so slower on the ISO scale to underexpose slightly. I did the same thing back then. </p>

<p>Even now I find I get better colors - not fake oversaturation like using "Vivid" mode - by underexposing a bit. But I'm still shooting all-JPEG. It's probably different in RAW, and I know my technique is giving me more noise than necessary. Reducing "exposure" in JPEGs with editing software does not seem to give the same effect - just makes things darker, not better.</p>

 

<p>I was decided not to write more than two lines, but I`ll leave it for the next week. The level of your pics grows every week, congratulations to all.<br /> <strong>LOL,<strong> Ray</strong>, good shot. Hilarious. I understand it, I also have one of this machines. I`m tempted to do the same.Bernard</strong>, thanks, each week I find it more difficult, I feel I cannot compete here.<br /><strong> Dieter, Justin, Ilkka</strong> (beautiful clean colors)... well, I cannot mention all the pics I like. <strong>Stop</strong>.<br /><strong> Nina</strong>... although my biggest obsession in life if to avoid dust, finally my sensor is full of them! There is even a little piece of hair! You`d need a Karcher to clean the sensor! :P<br /><strong> MS Keil</strong>, yours is also summer atmosphere. Looks like we will have a breath nest week.<br /><strong> Monika</strong>, yours is beautiful, clean, sharp, 3D. BTW, I have ordered the book, I`ll try to learn anything, thanks.<br /><strong> Gary</strong>, <strong>Kris B</strong>., I`m pleased. Thank you for contributing.<br /><strong> Richard</strong>, looks like you are guilty of the 80-400 increasing sales. I`m also tempted to buy one.<br /><strong> Wayne Cornell</strong>, another very good pic. Very inspiring to me.<br /><strong> Lester</strong>, very interesting, looks like taken with an Ikonta.<br /><strong> Hamish, Gary, Anish, Tiffany, Eric A.</strong>, thank you for your kind comments.<br /> <br /> My favourite pic from this week, <strong>Port Pireus at night, from Paul B</strong>. I´ve found this pic specially inspiring to me. I like how an enormous 3D subject turns flat at the same time, I like how it is welded to the background, the color, texture, etc. I`d hang it on my office. I find it a brave proposal (together with Jim Interlicchio`s Buddy).<br /> <br /><em>(For those who haven`t posted their pics yet, I suggest to wait for the next <strong>WedNEsDAy PiC #24</strong>.</em> <em>I`m already thinking (working) on my next pic, I encourage you to do the same. Thanks all.)</em></p>

<p>hahah Jose, i don't care! Ship that baby to me and i'll attack the dust like resistance attacked the terminators....</p>

<p>(haha i watched terminator last night... meh at best)</p>

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<p >Wow! Thanks so much for your positive feedback, Ton. It's comments like that that make me want to grab the camera and run straight out to see what else I can get a shot of! Thanks also to Richard Armstrong, Susan Wolfe, Gert, Bernard, Dave and Lil for your notice.</p>

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<p >I very much enjoy the sense of camaraderie (har har) that this thread carries, and I agree with the previous poster who said there are no bad photos here. </p>

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<p >Aside from Monika's beautiful pic, the shots that most grabbed my eye this week are Dieter's Evening Haze, Bernard's tap, Ton's portrait, Justin's jellys, Ilkka's elf, Sjoerd's outrageous hair, David Love's café (where are Bogie, James Dean, Marilyn and Elvis?), Richard's fiddlehead, Curt's waterfall, Doug's guineahen, Wayne's cyclo-commuters, Shamsaldin's stalk, Colin's and Tiffany's models, Don's dancers, and Bogdan's street vendor.</p>

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<p >Great work everyone, and see y'all next WedNEsDAy!</p>

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<p >Chris</p>

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<p>Ray, that is absolutely marvelous. Besides the emotional connection - my grandmother had a pump organ exactly like that - it's even more poignant because it's apparently been discarded without regard for the craftsmanship that went into those instruments. I was upset when my grandmother's pump organ went for less than $100 in auction, but to see one simply discarded... it's something of a metaphor for how the elderly are discarded without regard for their value simply because it takes a little more effort to extract a few notes.</p>

<p>The fleeting glimpse of a passing school bus - a symbol both of youth and a reminder of the inadequacy of education as a substitute for experience - punctuates the message.</p>

<p>I hope someone recognized that organ for what it really is and gave it a new home.</p>

<p>Nikon P90 f/2.8 1/50 - Williamsburg, VA<br>

<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3351/3600106748_189a4367b0_o.jpg" alt="" width="576" height="1024" /></p>

<p><img src="http://www.patriciomurphy.com.ar/foros/nef/20080222_043.jpg" alt="" width="428" height="640" /><br>

Shot with Nikon D200 and an old AI Nikkor 20mm f/3.5.</p>

<p>"Connectivity" A mannequin coming out to take a call? <br>

Nikon D90, Nikkor 18-200 VR</p><div></div>

<p>Wow, I was fascinated by the photos that I have seen here. I am definitely hoping to get one in next Wednesday - oh that's tomorrow - well maybe the following Wednesday then. One photo that stood out for me was by paul sooHoo's 'Crescent'. I can see the power of D300 in that photo.</p>

<p>All of these pictures are great!! Boats and glassy water is beautiful.</p><div></div>

<p>Woops, wrong thread!</p>