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Photo of the Day: July 2013
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Really love this photo rchip!
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I'm shooting a series of photos for a friend. She makes these really cool "art dolls" and has a gallery showing coming up in August here in Portland...
"Fantoccini" Terrarium Girl
Opening August 1st 2013
Dolls by Amanda Sue Myers at Blackfish Gallery
Further information at - www.amandasuemyers.com
(photo by Craig Anthony Perkins)
I did this shot last winter with 28mm and snow. Now with 14mm in summer. The water in the foreground is from intermittent spouts below street level.
Incredible photo! The clarity of the shadow outline is amazing!
Wow, that's a fantastic photo of Lady Liberty! Good work.
Thanks
Another from the NYC trip. This one is from Greenwich Village. One of the "specialty stores" in that area.
Thanks, the 'model' is our photo club president. We was meant to have a couple of actors for the evening but they couldn't make it, so he borrowed one of the theatre's costumes.
I love both of these (the first more than the second). I'm mostly a B&W person. These are wonderful.
You've posted a few abstracts in this thread. Possible I've missed some earlier ones. I really like these Doylem. Not your usual stuff (which I also like), but I think these are interesting. Nice.
I like this. Works well in B&W. Strong subject that dominates the frame with an interesting sky.
Yay, a fellow Leica shooter! Most of your images seem to be from your Canon. Curious as to which you like more and why. Apples and oranges obviously.
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I like this. Nice shot.
My photo for today is another from my NYC trip. This one taken looking outside my hotel window. Room reflections often make hotel shots a little tricky.
The clouds were forming an interesting pattern that caught my eye. Wanted to catch a little detail in the buildings, but it was really about the sky.
Yup , apples and oranges .... Both give great images , but each has its' own advantages . I like the M9 because it's small , unobtrusive , and , being manual focus , forces me to slow down , think a bit ,and get a grip on what I'm trying to do.Can't blame the camera if I screw up . A great walk around the city piece of gear. It's pretty much my M6 with digital guts .My Leica kit ( camera,3 lenses ,tiny flash , extra battery in a small Domke 5XA (?)bag ) ,weighs a shade over 5 lbs.I can carry it around all day with no problems . It's what goes into my carryon when I'm travelling on bus or train.
I use the Canon stuff more mostly because its more versatile . It'll go wider than I can with the M9 , and longer , has higher usable ISO , will do macro , and can use polarizers ,ND grads and such without any drama . I also have no guilt over exposing it to dust , occasional water spray , and temperature extremes . And if I drop it I won't have a coronary, I'll pick it up and keep on going .Both bodies ( I have a 5D2 and a 50D ) seem to be pretty much bulletproof.
But they're big , and heavy, once you stick a 24-105 on it. I also find I take a lot more shots with the Canon , but at the end of the day I won't necessarily have more keepers. My Canon gear (5D2 ,17-40,24-105,100-400 , 430EX flash , plus the usual CF cards and spare battery) , in a Domke F4AF bag goes
around 18 lbs. No way I'll walk around with all that stuff , this only goes with me if I'm flying as my carryon , or driving .
A somewhat convoluted reply , but the best I could do . Guess it boils down to grabbing the gear I think will work best for me at the time.
Nice reply, despite your misgivings about it. I echo some of your feelings about shooting with a rangefinder.
For me personally, I found shooting with a rangefinder liberating. I have a set of Nikon gear. Like an idiot, I spent one trip to NYC carrying around a 14-24 and 70-200, both f/2.8. Learned my lesson, will never do that again. The weight of the gear made me grumpy by the end of the day.
I bought an M9 and it was a breath of fresh air. Light. Easy to carry around. At first I missed having a zoom. Then I learned to zoom with my feet. Missed having auto-focus. Then I became comfortable focussing manually. And then learned the advantages of using the depth-of-field markings on the lens to focus. Something to be said for setting the aperture, adjusting focus based on desired depth-of-field, and then holding the camera in various positions without looking through the viewfinder knowing that if you set things correctly you will get the image you want even if the camera is held at arms length.
[Example: Empire State building. Photo of my wife and niece. Had to hold the camera in front of me for the composition and couldn't look through the viewfinder. God only knows what a DSLR with auto-focus would have chosen to focus on. Doing it manually, with the camera held at arms-length and at a right angle, I knew what I was getting before I tripped the shutter. I had chosen my aperture and focused using the depth-of-field scale on the lens barrel.]
There are things I still can only shoot with my Nikon gear. But for my own personal style, a rangefinder camera is perfect. For most of what catches my eye, I only need a 35mm lens. Zooms are nice, but in my experience a 35mm prime does the trick most of the time for what I find interesting to shoot.
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I love the way the sun has only lit the closest half of this waterlily flower, the shadow was caused by a tree outside this glass building. It was taken in a tropical house at the botanic gardens where there is probably 60-80% humidity and I had to wipe the lens front dry between shots.
Canon 6D, 24-105mm f/4 IS
Canon 6D, 24-105mm f/4 IS
