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What I've been up to...
« on: September 14, 2004, 07:25:06 PM »
Having sold the rig for a camera setup here are a couple of pics.  I got a Nikon D70 with the kit lens (18-70mm f3.5-5.6 ED) and a Sigma 105mm f2.8 Macro.  Need more glass (this is a lot like taping!)  ;D


















Glad I sold the rig and got a new camera rig....I'm getting so much more use and enjoyment out of the change!  ;D
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« Reply #1 on: September 15, 2004, 05:53:10 AM »
those are really nice.  seriuosly.  the one of the rocks in the water...awesome!


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« Reply #2 on: September 15, 2004, 06:48:23 AM »
Thanks  ;D
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« Reply #3 on: September 15, 2004, 07:04:34 AM »
VERY nice Brian!

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« Reply #4 on: September 15, 2004, 09:59:18 AM »
I was thinking that if your eye is as sharp as your ear, your new "tapes" would be really nice... 

And they are!  Great photos!  Keep up the good work.  I use nature shots as backgrounds on my PC all the time, I'm stealing a couple of yours up top!

Good thing about photos, you can sell them to help your hobby...  Can't sell CDRs...

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« Reply #5 on: September 15, 2004, 12:15:44 PM »
beautiful!

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Re: What I've been up to...
« Reply #6 on: September 15, 2004, 04:34:40 PM »
Great shots, there!  +T

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Re: What I've been up to...
« Reply #7 on: September 15, 2004, 04:47:28 PM »
Thanks guys and +T to you all.   :)   I needed a creative outlet of some sort and taping was not it.  I run my new "rig" almost daily.  ;D

Terry...if you or anyone else would like high resolution copies just PM me. 

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« Reply #8 on: September 21, 2004, 07:14:32 PM »
hey bob,
pictures look great.  i was wondering what mode are you shooting in?  raw, jpeg fine or what?  how much post processing did you do?  where did you buy your camera?  looks like i'll be buying a d70 real soon.  just sold my f100/mb-15/sb-28 part of my camera rig.  i still have the 35-70mm and 180mm lens.  i think i have enough to buy the kit.  i really like your wide angle shot of the rocks in the water.  look for some pics from me in the next week or so. 

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« Reply #9 on: September 21, 2004, 08:33:40 PM »
hey bob,
pictures look great.  i was wondering what mode are you shooting in?  raw, jpeg fine or what?  how much post processing did you do?  where did you buy your camera?  looks like i'll be buying a d70 real soon.  just sold my f100/mb-15/sb-28 part of my camera rig.  i still have the 35-70mm and 180mm lens.  i think i have enough to buy the kit.  i really like your wide angle shot of the rocks in the water.  look for some pics from me in the next week or so. 

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I'm Brian  :)

Always shoot in RAW (at least so far).  Processing...not much...at least I don't think so. :)

So far I love the D70.  I can do what I remember doing with my old film SLR 10 years ago and a LOT more!

I really like the kit lens for landscapes.  If ya can afford it get it! ;D
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« Reply #10 on: September 21, 2004, 11:09:48 PM »
hey bob,
pictures look great.  i was wondering what mode are you shooting in?  raw, jpeg fine or what?  how much post processing did you do?  where did you buy your camera?  looks like i'll be buying a d70 real soon.  just sold my f100/mb-15/sb-28 part of my camera rig.  i still have the 35-70mm and 180mm lens.  i think i have enough to buy the kit.  i really like your wide angle shot of the rocks in the water.  look for some pics from me in the next week or so. 

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I'm Brian  :)

Always shoot in RAW (at least so far).  Processing...not much...at least I don't think so. :)

So far I love the D70.  I can do what I remember doing with my old film SLR 10 years ago and a LOT more!

I really like the kit lens for landscapes.  If ya can afford it get it! ;D

i'm very sorry, brian.  why would i think you're name is bob??  as for old flim slr.  you don't pay for bad shots with digital.  my main gripe with film is that have to pay for bad shots.  with digital, delete the bad ones and process the good ones.

sorry again brian.  that b for some reason made me think of bob :)

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Re: What I've been up to...
« Reply #11 on: September 22, 2004, 05:01:27 PM »
hey bob,
pictures look great.  i was wondering what mode are you shooting in?  raw, jpeg fine or what?  how much post processing did you do?  where did you buy your camera?  looks like i'll be buying a d70 real soon.  just sold my f100/mb-15/sb-28 part of my camera rig.  i still have the 35-70mm and 180mm lens.  i think i have enough to buy the kit.  i really like your wide angle shot of the rocks in the water.  look for some pics from me in the next week or so. 

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I'm Brian  :)

Always shoot in RAW (at least so far).  Processing...not much...at least I don't think so. :)

So far I love the D70.  I can do what I remember doing with my old film SLR 10 years ago and a LOT more!

I really like the kit lens for landscapes.  If ya can afford it get it! ;D

i'm very sorry, brian.  why would i think you're name is bob??  as for old flim slr.  you don't pay for bad shots with digital.  my main gripe with film is that have to pay for bad shots.  with digital, delete the bad ones and process the good ones.

sorry again brian.  that b for some reason made me think of bob :)

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No problem at all on the bob thing.  :)

I agree on digi vs film.  If I was shooting film I wouldn't take a 1/10th of the pics I do now.  I often take up to a dozen shots of the same "picture" so that I'll have the image I want in the end.  I usually bracket at 3 different f stops....something I would never do with film.


As for deleteing the "bad" ones..............I've taken about 2000 pics in the last month......and maybe 30-40 are keepers with maybe 6 I'd consider hanging on a wall.  :P
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Re: What I've been up to...
« Reply #12 on: September 24, 2004, 01:10:02 AM »
nice pics brian! +T!  i just bought a canon 300d from damon.  just got it today and haven't got a chance to use it yet, but those pics got me itchin to try it out :)
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« Reply #13 on: September 28, 2004, 12:11:18 AM »
that's a wicked scarp slope in the 2nd and 3rd shots... where is that?
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« Reply #14 on: September 28, 2004, 07:50:00 AM »
that's a wicked scarp slope in the 2nd and 3rd shots... where is that?

It the Canon Cliffs, Canon Mountain, Franconia Notch, NH. 
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« Reply #15 on: September 28, 2004, 09:53:54 AM »
Excellent photos! the details are just incredible. Makes me want to get rid of the N80 and pick up the new slr digital. With all the lenses I already have it would be a great option. Keep posting your work cause I throughly enjoyed looking at them.  :D

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« Reply #16 on: September 28, 2004, 03:35:35 PM »
Excellent photos! the details are just incredible. Makes me want to get rid of the N80 and pick up the new slr digital. With all the lenses I already have it would be a great option. Keep posting your work cause I throughly enjoyed looking at them.  :D

after close to 30 years of film i finally went full digital.  sold my nikon f100, mb-15, and sb-28, and bought a d70 body.  i also bought the ml-l3 IR remote.  no more shutter release cables :)  i'll have my d70 tomorrow--also picked up a sandisk 1gb ultra II CF card.  next on my list is a ultra-wide prime.  the kit lens was redundant from 35-70mm--i have the af f2.8d version.  can't wait to get this camera!

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« Reply #17 on: September 28, 2004, 03:37:01 PM »
+t Bill...hope you enjoy.

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« Reply #18 on: October 01, 2004, 10:18:18 PM »
great photos brian.  glad you're enjoying your new rig
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Re: What I've been up to...
« Reply #19 on: October 03, 2004, 12:54:13 PM »
great photos brian.  glad you're enjoying your new rig

Thanks John.  Here's one I took this morning....fall's here.  :)

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Re: What I've been up to...
« Reply #20 on: October 07, 2004, 12:00:07 PM »
was out shooting on the mall here in DC the other night and came up with these while messing around with the star effect filter.  i like the washington monument shot for the overexposed Walk sign which randomly created the red/white/blue burst in the foreground of the memorial.  kinda neat.  the others are mediocre but night shots are fun.






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« Reply #21 on: October 07, 2004, 12:04:02 PM »
star filter much?  nice shots though :-)

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« Reply #22 on: October 07, 2004, 12:05:55 PM »
i just got the filter and hadn't used it before.  i now know what happens when you over expose with the star filter.

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« Reply #23 on: October 07, 2004, 12:17:10 PM »
the star filter is a great toy, but the one fault most people come into when they first get it is that they just use the hell out of it.  i love it for certain things, but man can it get overdone quick.

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« Reply #24 on: October 07, 2004, 12:21:02 PM »
definitely.  but i figured the only way to learn with it was to go out and shoot a bunch of shots and see what happens.  nice toy to have in the bag though.

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« Reply #25 on: October 07, 2004, 12:27:40 PM »
absolutely, that and a red filter, both just great tricks to have with you at any time.  i realized i forgot to pick up a uv0 filter for my summalux.  ugh.  well ill just be very very careful with it.  problem with the leica lenses is that they are super strange sizes sometimes.

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« Reply #26 on: October 07, 2004, 01:04:29 PM »
What type of camera/lens did you use to shoot the pics of DC? Star filter looks like a nice toy to keep in the arsenal.

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« Reply #27 on: October 07, 2004, 01:24:42 PM »
canon 10d body.  lens for the first shot: 70-200mm/f4, other two: 24-70f/2.8.  to be honest though, the only essential piece of equipment for those shots was a good tripod.  they are all 6 or 8 second exposures.

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« Reply #28 on: October 07, 2004, 01:25:45 PM »
I'm looking at the Vivitar tripods ... anyone ever use one? Damn, Damon, your lens arsenal has grown!
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« Reply #29 on: October 07, 2004, 01:47:11 PM »
you people and your zoom lenses :-P

i have used the vivitar tripods, they are ok.  im not so much a tripod guy as a monopod guy.  it's rare for me to have exposures that long, but sometimes it happens.  generally i can get away with a monopod though and it is way lighter to carry around
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« Reply #30 on: October 07, 2004, 01:50:46 PM »
matt, the arsenal hasn't so much grown as changed.  i sold the 17-40 and am looking to sell the 28-105 on ebay.  picked up the 24-70 which is just an awesome piece of glass.  so i have the 24-70/f2.8L, the 50mm/f1.4 and the 70-200/f4L.  the next lens purchase will not be for a while, but it will be the 135mm/f2L.

if you're doing any night shooting whatsoever, you need a tripod. the monopod will not get it done for exposures slower than 1/15 or so.  you'll get all sorts of blur from trying to keep it steady.  sorry, don't know anything about the vivitar tripods.

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« Reply #31 on: October 07, 2004, 01:55:14 PM »
good point damon, i wasn't even thinking night work.  i was thinking mainly day exposure stuff.  i hate shooting with a tripod, i just hate it. 

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« Reply #32 on: October 07, 2004, 02:04:34 PM »
no doubt they are a pain in the ass.  but for shots at sunrise, dusk, sunset, night or for landscapes where you want a very small aperture, they are essential.  i've gotten over the geek factor of shooting with them and don't have a problem with them now.

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« Reply #33 on: October 07, 2004, 02:08:18 PM »
ive shot on and off for probably 12 years now and i still cant bring myself to use one.  just kills me every time.  took me years to get to a monopod.  my hands are pretty steady when it comes to shooting tho

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« Reply #34 on: October 29, 2004, 07:25:25 AM »
No tripod?!?!?    :P   I shoot with a tripod AND using a remote shutter release about 90%  of the time. I shoot mostly landscapes so I quite often am using large aperatures and slow shutter speeds.  I also find the tripod forces me to really think about what I'm capturing instead of just lifting the camera and shooting.  If I take the time to set up the tripod I  take the time to fully consider the composition, lighting, speed, aperature, etc.....something that I wouldn't do as fully without the tripod.

Geek factor?  We should all be used to being geeks by now.  ;) 
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« Reply #35 on: October 29, 2004, 09:08:30 AM »
No tripod?!?!?    :P   I shoot with a tripod AND using a remote shutter release about 90%  of the time. I shoot mostly landscapes so I quite often am using large aperatures and slow shutter speeds.  I also find the tripod forces me to really think about what I'm capturing instead of just lifting the camera and shooting.  If I take the time to set up the tripod I  take the time to fully consider the composition, lighting, speed, aperature, etc.....something that I wouldn't do as fully without the tripod.

Geek factor?  We should all be used to being geeks by now.  ;) 

you wanna talk composition?  try going back to a camera without auto focus and that has no digital controls on it whatsoever :)

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« Reply #36 on: October 29, 2004, 04:52:34 PM »
No problem....I shoot fully manual anyway. 8)   I have recntly discovered the world of hyperfocal charts so now I manually fucus without looking through the lens and have always used manual shutter speeds and aperatures.  Jonny....a DSLR can be just as "manual" as a film camera...even a Leica film camera.  :P

I know you really prefer film to digi but unless you're gonna get into medium or large format a DSLR is the way to go.
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« Reply #37 on: October 29, 2004, 04:59:50 PM »
No problem....I shoot fully manual anyway. 8)   I have recntly discovered the world of hyperfocal charts so now I manually fucus without looking through the lens and have always used manual shutter speeds and aperatures.  Jonny....a DSLR can be just as "manual" as a film camera...even a Leica film camera.  :P

I know you really prefer film to digi but unless you're gonna get into medium or large format a DSLR is the way to go.

ill make the jump to digital when leica releases the digital back. 

learning this rangefinder has been a challenge to say the least- you don't look through the lens as you do with an slr, you look through a view window with excellent bracketing.  it's very very strange.  i like it though.  i plan on processing and scanning this weekend so ill show you all what i've got so far in the coming week or two.

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« Reply #38 on: October 29, 2004, 10:39:47 PM »
Nice....I'm looking forward to seeing some pics from ya! :)
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