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Full sun, fill-flash, kit lens (65mm @ 35mm eq.), A-mode, F14, 1/160S, ISO-200.

Captured by a photographer. Wonderful image Michael.

 

John

I agree. The lighting here is soft and lovely, too.

 

In planning our trip in October, We are passing closer to Toronto than Montreal...when are you coming back to Boston?

Thanks, John. A grab-shot as we walked along a grassy area.

 

My D70 is always set to Single Area Focus (page 66-71 in the manual), and the focus point manually selected (through the Multi-Selector) usually preset to the Left or Right sensor. I also have CSM-15 configured to AF-Lock Only and CSM-17 to Focus Area: Wrap.

 

This makes a shutter release a two-step operation: Raise the camera, frame subject over the preset Focus Sensor, find an edge, then press the AE/AF Lock button (next to the viewfinder) to lock focus followed by a full press of the shutter release. Sounds more complicated, but once used to, is actually much faster and more predictable - I find.

Gee, Linda, I was just in Toronto and going again next January. I hope you and Roger have a wonderful trip! I hope to visit Boston again next summer - let's hope they fix the Big-Dig tunnel ceiling tiles by then. :-)

The fill looks wonderful here - not quite a convert, but beginning to see the light! Quite lovely skin tones, Michael...

Here's another, Lee. Full sun to one side that would have been a nightmare without fill. I'm trying a different workflow through shooting RAW, still trying to get the hang of it...

beautiful portrait of a pretty young lady. i guess she has some nice portraits of yours, too.:)

Kay, I suspect she has no idea what I look like... this is how I always appear to her.

If that is you behind that camera you should use it as your bio pic. Nearly every bio pic I have seen today is a body with a camera for a head:) I think most photographers are camera shy in reality.

hahaha... probably you don't give her a chance to see a different look.

Michael, you look great with a camera as a head.... ;-))thanks for the beauty on the other side ! light is very soft and nice.

Ok Mike, First of all let me say that you are lightyears ahead of me on doing the computer stuff to your pictures......Now, Tony uses a Hoya R-72 plus a 1, 2, or 3 stop ND filter on his 717 or his DSC-V3 with excellent results. I didn't have as good as results using them on my 828, so I got to experimenting. Ended up with an 87C (LEE) sandwiched between a linear polarizer and a UV filter. To me, it's near perfect. But if I had the money I would do the same with my 828 as Sondra has.....Now this ND400 is a 4.00 density, right, a 13 1/3 stop ND.....I have a 10 stop ND (3.00 density), maybe I'll do a little IR experimenting with it. I bought the Lee 87C from Freestyle Photo in L.A. It's a polyester filter, 4 in. square, you can cut 2 filters out of it. As I recall I used a 55mm filter to trace the circle that will fit just the right diameter to fit between the two 58mm filters....Of course, setting the 828 on Night Mode........Well, hope this has been of some value to you.....All the Best.....Jim, P.S. If it's of any value, I live about 45 mi. NE of Indianapolis

Thanks for that, Jim. Most interesting (and useful)!

 

I don't expect to be as committed as you, Tony or Sondra, rather to hopefully contain it to an experiment to possibly add technique to my arsenal of tools. My primary interest is to use the IR spectrum for the luminance layer in LRGB (for terrestrial) imaging; it's unconventional and technically incorrect, but I'm not bound by rules.

 

The ND400 trick was posted in a forum elsewhere which appeared to offer interesting results, and the attraction of double-duty for long exposure "normal" imaging tips the scale for me. It seems every little experiment somehow finds a way of creeping up on us in time, dollars and effort, but I guess that's the nature of photography.

 

Yes, Sondra's modified camera (if it's the Maxmax version I'm thinking of) would be the ticket. On the other hand, I'm constantly lead to think it shouldn't be a big deal to klooge a switch to disengage the 828's internal IR filter - it does this (audible clicks) when you switch in and out of NightShot mode - I believe it's the firmware that shuts you out, and I can't think of a reason why you couldn't force the IR filter out of the way in other modes. Maybe I'll hack the camera when it accumulates more mileage.

Yes Mike, I have noticed that sound when switching as you say, thinking it probably is just that....May I ask if you live here in the States? It really doesn't matter, I'm always curious as to where I'm talking to......That Lee 87C filter is pretty cheap, about $25 plus about $5 s+h it does work very well if used as I discribed.......Now don't get the idea that I think you should try it, just because I told you about it, it is all up to you. I'm thinking you have some pretty good ideas all your own......Jim

I will give the Lee filter a try, Jim; the cost will be noise level compared to the total effort and time spent. Also we don't have well-stocked photography stores nearby so acquiring goods can often be inconvenient. I'm in Montreal - used to indicate such in photo details but have gotten lazy. :-)

 

Any guess as to how much attenuation is possible with stacked Polarizer filters? I thought perhaps that might be adequate but also have to check its spectral response.

Mike, Yes I have tried 2 polarizers together, touchy affair, they need to be taped together once rotated just right.....I was messing around trying it as a ND filter at the time, it seemed to have a 9 stop filter factor or close to it.....I don't know what problems you will have mail ordering from Freestyle Photo in Los Angeles(they are on the internet). It may very well be that you could sandwich the 87C between 2 UV filters.....this arrangement also pretty well gets rid of the vignetting problems one has when stacking 3 filters when the lens is at the wide angle end, which I was doing when I was trying to use the R-72 with 2 ND filters.......The 828 seems to shoot at 1/30 at f 2to 2.8 when doing IR, which means one really should use a tripod or at least a monopod if shooting at or about the 200mm end......I haven't gotten out shooting IR near as much this summer as I would have liked due to some health problems.....good luck on your experiments......Jim

Jim, I just came across this link on SONY 828 IR at the bottom of the page. Looks like quite a popular thing to do with these cameras with many creative ideas.