Low-light rowing pictures

My website:

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has some pictures that I took before dawn in February. I was out with my rowing team with an M6, a Noctilux and plenty of Ektachrome P1600 and Delta 3200. Good fun. Some of photos from later in the morning were with a Nikon and a long lens - you can probably tell which - but foolishly, I didn't take notes after I was done (I was too bloody cold!).

I discovered that rowing shells are easy to photograph in the dark with a rangefinder: they have a nice bright light on the stern; perfect for focusing on.

fergus

You have some great mood shots there, Fergus. Both the color & B&W

seem to convey the early morning light very well. Is the one with

vignetting a Super-Angulon shot?

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Regards and keep up the good work.

I was also curious about 3 of the shots that exhibit severe

vignetting --were those taken at f1.0? Nice effect if used to its

advantage--like having a built in matte box frame. I love shooting

in low light late in the day, and you never know exactly how the

images will turn out.

Yes, tell us about the vignetting. Is this really what the Noctilux

gives you at f1? The color shots seem to be manipulated but the b+w

in the bottom row, is that a natural vignetting? Tks.

Now, I'm really regretting not taking a notepad with me!

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Let's see...

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No Super-Angulon, Bob; just the Noctilux. However, I think the color

shots with the severe vignetting were actually with a Nikon 80-

200/2.8. Both the second from the left and second from the right on

the third line down were modified slightly in Photoshop (Levels, of

course).

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The black and white shots were all with the Noctilux. I used the

Levels command on them only slightly - making the scan more like the

original, rather than for anything else. FYI, I used a Nikon LS-4000

to scan these.

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This is my favorite Noctilux photo:

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href="http://www.dingoboy.com/0012/images/120300pool.jpg">pool</a></p>

My girlfriend picked up the Leica and snapped this one night. Bloody

brilliant. The guy on the right always refers to this as the "package

shot"! I'm in the middle.

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fergus

Never encountered even the slightest vignetting with the 80 to 200

Nikon lens. Sure looks like the Nok at f1.0