Photo of the Week 06/01/2008

Why hasn't the POW thread started? It's very late...where is Maria? OK, well

here goes. And yes, I did recover my SD card from that magpie's nest, allowing

me to take some pics this week. It was a pretty good week, in fact, but I'll

limit myself to the requisite 3 pics. Was that the maximum we had allotted?<br>

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<b>The Wind Tunnel</b>

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<b>Caffrey's</b>

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<b>A Pavement in New York</b><br>

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Note: Pavement = side walk.

Interesting sample, Mis! Wind Tunnel makes for a fun scroll but I like the way my system crops "pavement," taking off just a bit of the front tire at the top.

 

I have two. This one was a one of my first shots with the 300mm<div></div>

I took this during a post-museum snack with my daughter (with her its all about the food all the time.)<div></div>

<p>The wind tunnel is incredible. Those clouds in the second are menacing. Thanks for sharing.</p>

 

<p>I shot more than normal this past week due to the arrival of a new lense. Hope you enjoy these:</p>

 

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<p><a href=" title="Euclidean Pigeon #2 by TravisTruman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2401/2539527488_c514ec0f73.jpg" width="500" height="400" alt="Euclidean Pigeon #2" /></a></p>

 

Constructive critique always welcome.

Travis, those are great shots - what lens? Love the colors, especially on the second. And I agree that wind tunnel is spectacular - can I ask what is actually going on there, Mis?

 

I saved one of my sigma mini-wide shots for this post, my favorite. Previous owner planted a glorious patch of strawberries in our front yard, and things are already starting to look good. I got another "new" lens too (I am so off the wagon) but will try to do it justice before posting. "Know thy lens" indeed!<div></div>

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Thanks for starting the thread Mis.. by the way, you should go have a look at the very end of last week's Photo of the week post :-) and point it out to Maria! lol. I did not get out much this week, took only a few photos from around here. The wind tunnel and the storm clouds are neat, but I do like the bicycle, and your serendipitous click of the shutter :-) <p> Dave, the network photo is quite cool. I am not sure where you found the food stuff at the museum.. but it's neat.. would not have crossed my mind to shoot something like that. </p><p>Travis, I kind of like your rusted panel in the second photo</p><p>Nick, I think your strawberry photo will look much better when it is ripe. lol. </p><p>

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Javier, that second photo is really really cool.. love the perspective. I take it you were using the 18-250?

Haig

Thanks. Yes, that was with the 18-250 Tamron. I wish I could take the credit for that image, but my son Daniel took it.

Here is my attempt. Found a mis-labeled Vivitar 100mm 2.8 macro on ebay last week and picked it up relatively cheap.

 

I am new at this, but what a lens. It just seems to make things easy. Could also partially just be getting better with practice. I can't imagine the money I would go through if it was still the film era. Any criticism is welcome.

 

Andy<div></div>

Wow Miserere. I remember back when I started visiting Photo.Net (a little over half a year ago) and you were this guy who was kind of a mediator when tempers flared or people would go way off topic on this forum. Plus you posted a lot of funny comments. I thought, "that guy's cool" and clicked on your name to see an unassuming picture of some brown plants in the snow. Now, about seven months later, you're batting them out of the park with amazing picture after amazing picture like 'Morning Tears' and this week's offering. All three are fantastic.

 

Dave, "Limited Liability 101" is good but my favorite from yours is "On the Grill". I really like the color in the well-used cooking equipment and the warm highlited focal point of the shredded potatoes in the foreground. That's a great shot.

 

So what is the new lens, Travis? Is it a prime? Macro?

Your first shot is great. It's nicely composed being symmetrical but visually interesting on both sides. I like the colors in your second shot. Euclidean Pigeon is nice in and of itself with the architecture but the pigeon on the concrete beam really makes it. I don't know if I would have noticed him if it were not for the title of the photograph. For whatever my advice is worth, I recommend getting some popcorn, throwing it on that beam to lure your model back, and seeing if you can't get an angle that both highlights the cool architecture and the pigeon.

 

As for me, this week stunk for taking photographs. I was out there taking plenty including a cool festival called <a href="http://www.realfloridaphoto.com/gallery/5067604_Rmt5a#P-1-15">Planes, Trains and Barbecue</a> in Tavares Florida which should have been ample opportunity for some very cool shots but, there's just one little thing wrong with each one.

 

I like the intimacy of the father and son looking at the Sea Plane in this one but could have done without the tail fin on the right.

 

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It was wicked hot and a lot of people were stumbling around the festival being cranky. In a spot of shade under a tree, this group was having a great time drinking and laughing. Once again, the background bites me in the butt with the pontoon boat wrecking the focal point of the circle of people.

 

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Finally, I tried to photograph an orange stand but I did it at mid day so the pictures were either bleached out or looked too much like a post card. I did like this one I took of the oranges themselves, though. This is straight off the tree. Not like you find them in a supermarket.<div></div>

P.S., Everyone who posted since I posted has great shots as well. They just pop up too fast right now to comment on ;-)

Well, maria is right here, feeling pretty out-classed this week! The only time the

camera came out was a week ago today (it's still sunday, I haven't been to bed yet)

when we got an hours notice of a wedding. Ok, 2.5hrs, and it was right there at our

church.

 

Between spending all Tue in the ER w/ my gma, then all Wed at a funeral & burial

for friends of a friend (did the young couple dying in a tornado in their car Fri b4

memorial day make the news past KS?) & then taking same gma to follow up doc

instead of being @ the zoo w/ the girls..... wow. was that only this past week?

sheesh!!! Ok, I'll quit whining and show my 2 fav's from the wedding.

 

Speaking of - I think that wedding set a record for fewest shots ever for me. Hard to

take more than about 40 pix when the ceremony is all of 10 minutes!!!<div></div>

The funniest thing about this wedding - the bride was so happy she was bawling. So

her 2 boys see momma crying and start crying themselves. So the rest of us are

telling them about how us silly chicks are always crying at everything, and everybody's

very happy<div></div>

PS mis: WOW on the storm clouds. I keep swearing we're going to go chase a storm

this year. The evening the tornados were close enough we could get to em, I made a

small effort to talk matt into it, knowing it would be dark by the time we got there.

Good thing, to. That was the storm that killed our friends. No chasing tornados in the

dark!!

2 shot stitched panorama from memorial day weekend.

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Pentax K20D, DR expansion, ISO200, SR+, DA21mm f/11, handheld.

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Great pic's all.

 

Mis: The wind tunnel shot is fabulous although the Magpie's love for your Memorycard seems to have sucked all the colour out of it :-) Great photo.

 

As for me it's been a slow week since I've been far to busy looking for bargains on the bay to actually go out and take pictures. 5 items should be arriving this week :-) I think Hin must have given me something :-)

 

Even so, this is a small hommage to one of the all time classics.

 

Cheers

 

Fredrik<div></div>

Told you it's been a slow week.

Great to see others who haven't.<div></div>

Ahem..

 

As in Haven't had a slow week.

Despite having no reaction on my last photos form the park of Swiss artist Bruno Weber I show you again 3 photos made there with a Sigma 24mm wide II lens and the Tamron 90mm macro on the K10D.

Greetings to all the Pentaxians and you made really great contributions this week here.<div></div>

Beside constructing a concrete skulpture park Bruno Weber painted a lot as well.<div></div>

See yourself in the mirror<div></div>

Maria, was this a shotgun wedding? 10 minutes? wow. Maybe the groom had a tee time.. You got some nice shots anyhow.<p>Justin, have you been holding out on us? When did you get your mitts on a k20d? <p>Andrew that's a nice lens. <p> Morgan i agree with you about the wing in the first shot.. maybe you can ps it out? <p> Fredrik, sounds like your week was almost as bad as mine. :-) <p>Markus, cool paintings, how do you like that lens (Tamron) by the way? The peacock posed perfectly for you!

Hi Haig

I have two Tamron macro lenses, the old 90mm full metal 49mm filter sized and a newer more plastic constructed 52BB one with a 55mm filter size which is a little lighter but larger. All my Tamron SP series lenses are of high quality and I'm happy that I have 2 of the very rare Tamron Pentax KA adaptall2 (beside the manual K-mount) adapters as well. I often restrict myself to the Pentax A-24mm or sigma and a 90mm Tamron macro as 2 lens setup. (Pentax A50mm macro for 1 lens setup) The older Tamron shares the filter size with my other 50mm Pentax lenses and has a more solid feeling. I got the

newer Tamron 90mm macro for less than $100 and the Sigma 24mm for less than $60 2 weeks ago so I was lucky with lens buying as well :-) The Tamron SP 70-150mm F 2.8 portrait lens is also fantastic on the K10D but heavy so I use it mostly with a Monostat monopod. For 1:1 magnification I use an old wonderful Takumar M42 F4 50mm macro or the 100mm F4 Takumar bellows. Maybe I post some macro comparison photos one day here...

Thanks Markus.. that's a steal for the Tamron 90.. well done!