Re: ZX-5n
jim kerslake wrote: It's official: film is dead. It's not dead - it's resting... Pining for the fjords :-) With $1k 10-megapixel bodies popping up like daisies, it's likely to be a long rest. I could not resist a bit more... (sorry if it's been done before) .. 'Ello, I wish to register a complaint. I wish to complain about this roll of film what I purchased not half an hour ago from this very boutique. Remarkable film, the Fuji Velvia, innit squire? Beautiful saturation The saturation don't enter into it ee's stone dead. There, it moved! No, it didn't, that was you winding the spool! I never!! Yes, you did! Look, I took the liberty of examining that Velvia when I got it home, and I discovered the only reason that it had been sitting in its camera in the first place was that it had been NAILED there. Well, o'course it was nailed there! If I hadn't nailed that film in, it would have over-exposed itself, and VOOM! Feeweeweewee! VOOM?!? Mate, this film wouldn't voom if you put four million volts through it! 'E's bleedin' demised! Well, I'd better replace it, then. Sorry squire, I've had a look 'round the back of the shop, and uh, we're right out of Fuji Velvia. I see. I see, I get the picture. I got a CF card (pause) Pray, does it render the plumage of a Norwegian parrot onto beautifully saturated transparencies at ISO 50? Nnn...not really. WELL IT'S HARDLY A B* REPLACEMENT THEN, IS IT?!!???!!? --- et cetera :-) - Original Message - From: Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 6:08 AM Subject: Re: ZX-5n jim kerslake wrote: It's official: film is dead. It's not dead - it's resting... Pining for the fjords :-) With $1k 10-megapixel bodies popping up like daisies, it's likely to be a long rest. -- Mark Roberts Photography Multimedia www.robertstech.com 412-687-2835 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 8230 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Wild Oats II
Sorry Jack, I asked the last question badly - I was just wondering whether you had used a coloured filter on the actual lens :-) (I've just been experimenting a bit with red and yellow filters for bw film shots, and still trying to work out how best to use them) I'm lucky enough to have full Photoshop at work - (UK educational licensing is quite cheap :-) so I don't know too much about Elements. But it is certainly possible to select just parts of your image, then apply effects such as levels, contrast, sharpness etc to just that selected sub-region. So you could perhaps apply very different treatments to your sky, the dark barn wall, and the foreground. Of course that then looks really weird and artificial along the joins between your manipulated regions. So you can first feather (soften) the edges of your selection (by say 25 pixels), before you apply any effects as above. Beyond that, people get really nerdy by making several identical copies of the same starting image, applying different effects to each one, stacking them up in Layers on top of one another, and then controlling how much of each one shows through onto the one above. That's a textbook in itself. As you might imagine, you can go on almost indefinitely - and I certainly don't have the skill to do all that without going too far and ending up with an artificial looking result. But it's best to start simple and learn what each tool does slowly. This page has an interesting use of the dodge tool - which I have never tried before - so I might give that a go sometime :-) http://depts.washington.edu/trio/train/howto/pieces/images/photoshop/elements2.shtml Cheers, jim - Original Message - From: Jack Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 6:26 PM Subject: Re: Wild Oats II Jim, Thanks for you interest and suggestion. I'm Elements 4.0. Do I have colored filters? If so, how would they be applied? I simply scan (Epson 3170) in PS. I mainly applied levels, as I remember. In reviewing it, I feel the sky could be somewhat lighter. Halo is greatly reduced by so doing, of course, but It's difficult to be certain after looking at it for awhile. I'm open to any suggestions you may care to offer. Please keep it dumb, for my sake. :)) Thanks, Jack --- jim kerslake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like the contrast and rather abstract lines / composition - I like the foreground detail of the larger version more - but the edges of the barn now have a distracting pale halo effect that looks a bit Photoshoppy, so I prefer it without that. I'm guessing you are scanning bw negs into graphics software? It's probably possible to avoid that halo but still get the same foreground effect (a few days in a room with a Photoshop manual and plenty of coffee: adjustment layers, masks and airbrushes) but sometimes life is just too short - I seldom bother with any of that myself, since the more I fiddle about the worse it seems to get :-) Any coloured filter used to increase contrast in the original shot? cheers, jim - Original Message - From: Jack Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pdml@pdml.net Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 7:51 AM Subject: PESO: Wild Oats II I couldn't resist trying another (and last) upload with a larger file. I realize it's contrasty, but as I explained before, it suits my taste for this image. I know it won't be to everyone's palate. Last request for comments. Thanks. Jack http://photolightimages.com/aspupload/detail.asp?ID=140 __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 8142 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 8230 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Lonely Bull(?)
Like the 'mood' of this one a lot - the unusual pose of the bull makes it, and its position relative to the fence and skyline just seems right to me. A car windshield instead of a graduated filter... great idea - patent it quick - in a range of colours :-) -- jim - Original Message - From: Jack Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pdml@pdml.net Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 4:46 PM Subject: PESO: Lonely Bull(?) A final offering for today. It was getting late and I had just given up trying to make something out of another scene in the area. I returned to my car, laid the camera in the floor and as I started to hook up my seat belt, looked up and saw this bovine silhouette. Instantly loved the stance, grabbed up the camera (LX w/A 70~210 f/4) and got this shot before it moved. Was taken through a top tinted windshield. I've wondered if the sky would have pleased me as much had I stepped out of the car. Would like your opinions. It has met with a variety in the past. Jack http://photolightimages.com/aspupload/detail.asp?ID=143 __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 8230 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: ZX-5n
It's official: film is dead. It's not dead - it's resting... Pining for the fjords :-) - Original Message - From: P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 6:05 PM Subject: Re: ZX-5n It puts me in mind of this probably apocryphal graffiti... God is Dead! --Nietzsche Nietzsche is dead. -- God. Replace Nietzsche and God as appropriate. Mark Roberts wrote: Walter Hamler wrote: I am considering selling my only film camera body as I am so happy with digital. If anyone is interested I will give you a good price. Is film dead? I dunno, but my MZ-S on eBay has had 7 bids and met the $500.00 reserve price in only two days. -- When you're worried or in doubt, Run in circles, (scream and shout). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 8142 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: PESO -- Angst on the Rocks (I and II)
Ah - in the light of this new information I'm sure you were wise not to get in between her and the water's edge ;-) -- jim - Original Message - From: P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 3:58 PM Subject: Re: PESO -- Angst on the Rocks (I and II) You're making my life a lot more interesting than it actually is. I never actually met the lady. She was there, I was there, and I had a camera. Six frames out of about 40 had her as a part of a composition. I thought about lending a sympathetic ear, but I'm probably a bit too old for her, though you never know... jim kerslake wrote: Were you... um... in the midst of an argument with your 'subject' here? (not that one wishes to pry...) Something along the lines of I wish he'd put that ** camera down and just talk to me, perhaps? Been there :-| I prefer the first - great hair. Hope you're speaking to one another again now (I shall only worry... ) -- jim - Original Message - From: P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 3:14 PM Subject: PESO -- Angst on the Rocks (I and II) A couple of PESOs of photos I took a couple of days ago inspired by all the talk of the Magic Hour. Especially ironic since the subject seems to missing the magic... Well anyway here they are. Angst on the Rocks I http://www.mindspring.com/~megazip/PESO_--_aotrckI.html Angst on the Rocks II http://www.mindspring.com/~megazip/PESO_--_aotrckII.html Tech. Info.: No tech. info. I'm feeling lazy today. -- When you're worried or in doubt, Run in circles, (scream and shout). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- When you're worried or in doubt, Run in circles, (scream and shout). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 8142 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Wild Oats II
Like the contrast and rather abstract lines / composition - I like the foreground detail of the larger version more - but the edges of the barn now have a distracting pale halo effect that looks a bit Photoshoppy, so I prefer it without that. I'm guessing you are scanning bw negs into graphics software? It's probably possible to avoid that halo but still get the same foreground effect (a few days in a room with a Photoshop manual and plenty of coffee: adjustment layers, masks and airbrushes) but sometimes life is just too short - I seldom bother with any of that myself, since the more I fiddle about the worse it seems to get :-) Any coloured filter used to increase contrast in the original shot? cheers, jim - Original Message - From: Jack Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pdml@pdml.net Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 7:51 AM Subject: PESO: Wild Oats II I couldn't resist trying another (and last) upload with a larger file. I realize it's contrasty, but as I explained before, it suits my taste for this image. I know it won't be to everyone's palate. Last request for comments. Thanks. Jack http://photolightimages.com/aspupload/detail.asp?ID=140 __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 8142 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: PESO: Horse Tail Sky
The left side is very dramatic, but, over time, the cropped left side version is more in keeping with my file of compositional rules. Requesting your opinions. What's the point in having a file of rules if you can't break them? ;-) (another vote for the wide) cheers jim - Original Message - From: Jack Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 10:04 AM Subject: Re: PESO: Horse Tail Sky This is double click Jack. (?) Thanks, Mark for your valued opinion. I agree. Without the left side cloud streaks, there would be no question. Jack --- Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jack Double Click to Close Window Davis wrote: The left side is very dramatic, but, over time, the cropped left side version is more in keeping with my file of compositional rules. Requesting your opinions. http://photolightimages.com/aspupload/detail.asp?ID=137 http://photolightimages.com/aspupload/detail.asp?ID=138 I like the wider version better, even though the subject matter is more centered. I'd have pulled over too for that! -- Mark Roberts Photography Multimedia www.robertstech.com 412-687-2835 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 7982 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
PESO: the long walk home
Hopefully this is not a discouraging PESO - I think it has some obvious flaws, but would like others' opinions. This is from my first ever roll of bw film (Ilford FP4) through an original Spotmatic with the standard 55mm Takumar - So plenty of grain then :-) I'm not the best at scanning negs either. http://www.jimkerslake.uklinux.net/pentax/go_home_smaller.jpg larger version of same: http://www.jimkerslake.uklinux.net/pentax/go_home.jpg From a previous thread: Why do we shoot people we don't know? Maybe to make some universal statement about the human condition, yuppie or tourists or kids or otherwise. - Marnie aka Doe I think I just sympathised with this guy - I seem to spend half my life trudging to and from work like this. I wanted to capture a sense of the world bearing down upon him, as well as the rain. I was in two minds about cropping off the whole top third of the image - but in the end opted to leave it. -- jim ee it's grim oop north ;-) -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 7982 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: PESO: Horse Tail Sky
I, also, realize I'm allowed to chose the one I like for my wall. Where ever did you get that idea? Jack - I think we also need a photograph of your wall, so that we can judge the proportions of the available gap G I'd be happy to have taken anything that I could stand looking at every day on my own wall... Mostly bare picture hooks at the moment :-/ cheers jim - Original Message - From: frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 2:39 PM Subject: Re: PESO: Horse Tail Sky On 7/18/06, Jack Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I, also, realize I'm allowed to chose the one I like for my wall. Where ever did you get that idea? LOL cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 7982 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: PESO -- Angst on the Rocks (I and II)
Were you... um... in the midst of an argument with your 'subject' here? (not that one wishes to pry...) Something along the lines of I wish he'd put that ** camera down and just talk to me, perhaps? Been there :-| I prefer the first - great hair. Hope you're speaking to one another again now (I shall only worry... ) -- jim - Original Message - From: P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 3:14 PM Subject: PESO -- Angst on the Rocks (I and II) A couple of PESOs of photos I took a couple of days ago inspired by all the talk of the Magic Hour. Especially ironic since the subject seems to missing the magic... Well anyway here they are. Angst on the Rocks I http://www.mindspring.com/~megazip/PESO_--_aotrckI.html Angst on the Rocks II http://www.mindspring.com/~megazip/PESO_--_aotrckII.html Tech. Info.: No tech. info. I'm feeling lazy today. -- When you're worried or in doubt, Run in circles, (scream and shout). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 7982 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: PESO: the long walk home
I would have preferred it with him further back in the frame, without the railway bridge and the signs, and a little closer. yes, agreed, so would I... sadly I was also holding an umbrella at the time (with my chin shoulder), trying to prevent my new (old) Spotmatic from getting rained on... I was just a second too slow really. It really was bucketing down... Oddly, I think this was a Sunday. Why the poor man had to go to work in a suit on a Sunday... who knows. Comments much appreciated, thanks :-) -- jim - Original Message - From: Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' pdml@pdml.net Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 3:39 PM Subject: RE: PESO: the long walk home I think I can see what you're after, but there are a couple of problems with it, from my point of view. In black white photos the viewer's eye is naturally drawn first to the lightest objects, in this case the shopping bag and the road signs, and that unfortunately detracts from the main subject, so it took me a moment to fix on the man and his umbrella. I would have preferred it with him further back in the frame, without the railway bridge and the signs, and a little closer. I think that would still have conveyed effectively the dilapidation of the environment and the sense of a dull walk in the rain. -- Cheers, Bob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jim kerslake Sent: 19 July 2006 07:34 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: PESO: the long walk home Hopefully this is not a discouraging PESO - I think it has some obvious flaws, but would like others' opinions. This is from my first ever roll of bw film (Ilford FP4) through an original Spotmatic with the standard 55mm Takumar - So plenty of grain then :-) I'm not the best at scanning negs either. http://www.jimkerslake.uklinux.net/pentax/go_home_smaller.jpg larger version of same: http://www.jimkerslake.uklinux.net/pentax/go_home.jpg From a previous thread: Why do we shoot people we don't know? Maybe to make some universal statement about the human condition, yuppie or tourists or kids or otherwise. - Marnie aka Doe I think I just sympathised with this guy - I seem to spend half my life trudging to and from work like this. I wanted to capture a sense of the world bearing down upon him, as well as the rain. I was in two minds about cropping off the whole top third of the image - but in the end opted to leave it. -- jim ee it's grim oop north ;-) -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 7982 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 7982 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: GESO: The Hobo and the Tramp
I initially thought the man was menacing the woman, but looking more closely he seems to have a kind of patience or even an odd form of chivalry. The surrounding people don't quite work for me, in the first photo. I dislike intensely the patronising looks on the faces of the couple top-left. Maybe that's part of your point in the image - but I can't look at that smug little bald guy without wanting to thump him. This being sadly impossible, I would crop him. I like the surrounding people much more in your second image - the worried little girl, and a disembodied pair of legs... But I'm afraid, for me, the ice cream eater in silly blue hat would have to go - similar reasons! The event caught me by surprise - I didn't have time to set the camera right. What setting (AF setting) would you guys use to be preparet I think I would be much more concerned not to have that glass of lager thrown over me - or worse. You've got more courage than me, pulling out a camera in those circumstances. -- jim - Original Message - From: Jens Bladt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2006 11:55 AM Subject: GESO: The Hobo and the Tramp ... well, actually not much of a gallery - just two images. The event caught me by surprise - I didn't have time to set the camera right. What setting (AF setting) would you guys use to be preparet - Auto Select AF point and a fast speed (Tv) - let's say 1/500-1/250 sec. ? Or what? http://www.flickr.com/photos/bladt/190190764/in/set-72157594192565406/ Regards Jens Bladt http://www.jensbladt.dk +45 56 63 77 11 +45 23 43 85 77 Skype: jensbladt248 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 7800 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Snap du jour: the honey-heavy dew of slumber
Has a timeless quality - Dickensian or Shakespearian - in a way quite moving. Only the logo on the boots really dates it to now. (Amazing that even this guy does not escape a corporate brand.) Wish I could read all of the plaque behind - it looks as though it should be proclaiming some philanthropic Charter on the Rights of Man - which would have been astounding. -- jim - Original Message - From: Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' pdml@pdml.net Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2006 1:37 PM Subject: Snap du jour: the honey-heavy dew of slumber ... a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing (John Keats) http://www.web-options.com/P7150791s.jpg Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 7800 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: PESO: magic hour
LOL - sorry if I spooked you - I guess it is a bit witchy :-) The little tree is a holly, whose long-dead leaves really were shining that strange copper-pink. Something about it is severely foreboding, almost evil. As I say, it was all sprayed and killed shortly afterwards by the farmer. Maybe it knew... ;-) Thanks for the comments. Don't have nightmares... -- jim - Original Message - From: Doug Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 11:35 PM Subject: Re: PESO: magic hour Keith McGuinness wrote: Doug Franklin wrote: Paul Stenquist wrote: Interesting, I like it. Paul On Jul 13, 2006, at 4:53 AM, jim kerslake wrote: Some evening colours for you... Just a small illustration of Magic Hour light - falling on some otherwise quite dull vegetation. There's something terribly wrong with that photo. I can't yet put my finger on what is wrong, but something is. Wrong? I'm not sure. It looks strange and I'm not sure whether I like it or not. I'm not sure yet. I think it has to do, at least somewhat, with the drastically oversharpened feel I get from the photo. The colors are somehow not right, too. Something about it is severely foreboding, almost evil. That probably says more about me than the photo. :-) -- Thanks, DougF (KG4LMZ) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 7701 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
PESO: magic hour
Some evening colours for you... Just a small illustration of Magic Hour light - falling on some otherwise quite dull vegetation. Right now Magic Hour is about 8:30 to 9:30 in Yorkshire - I am told there's another one in the morning, but so long as there is a Snooze button, I have no chance of ever seeing it :-( This is the Asahi Takumar Super Multi Coated 135mm f/3.5 lens, attached precariously and grumpily onto a D-SLR which shall be nameless. Totally the wrong lens for the job really - I had to walk backwards for miles..! I'm sure there is a point of focus in there somewhere, but I'm not too sure where it is. http://www.jimkerslake.uklinux.net/pentax/littletree3.jpg About a week after I took this photo, the farmer sprayed the field... quite a lot of what you see there is now dead :-( No room for sentimentality when you've got sheep to raise. -- jim -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 7621 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: just stopping by
Thanks to everyone for the welcome :-) And for comments on the photo - never put one up for comment before, but it is really instructive to hear it through someone else's eyes (um - or whatever - you know what I mean!) Just a few quick replies: From: Joe Strain I have a small stable of Pentax lenses and they are not described as old they are classic Ah - great - I wonder - can I apply the same terminology to myself..? I'm feeling more classic by the day... You must have a lot, if they fill a small stable though ;-) I prefer my Sekonic L-28C incident light meter. looks good - and not too expensive? I have a truly 'classic' Leningrad 4 - which has the advantage that when I stare at it, everybody assumes that I'm making a phone call :-) Tell me, does Yorkshire have PUBS older then the US? Almost everything in Yorkshire is older than the US ;-) From: Boris Liberman If you use M42 glass, you could buy yourself a proper DSLR, and be full-Pentax ;-). I'll save pennies and see what they're coming out with next... From: Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just saying Hi, from Yorkshire UK. [snip]. Yo. Cotty in the sarf of England mate innit. Now then - think on lad... I do similar nutty things: http://www.cottysnaps.com/snaps/mods/eoskmount.html LOL - love the meat cleaver... does that come as standard with the Canon DSLR kit these days? So many potential uses... From: Jostein Øksne Regarding your shot and the observation of smoothness, I assume you mean the out of focus areas? I couldn't agree more. It has a lovely softness about it. Maybe you are familiar with the term bokeh? From past discussions on this forum I've learned that this particular trade-off between sharpness and bokeh is indeed one of the design characteristics of Pentax and Takumars. It's incredible how they do it - I sometimes find modern super-sharpness a bit much - do you know if the more modern Pentax lenses continue to behave like that, or did it die a death in the 70s along with the Tank Top and the Space Hopper? (does anyone outside the UK have a clue what I'm talking about?) Cheers, Jim -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 7547 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
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Just saying Hi, from Yorkshire UK. Thought I might join your rather prolific list for so long as my mailbox can stand it. I have been taking photos for a couple of months - no idea what brought it on. Some kind of madness. I mostly enjoy using my father's old Pentax Spotmatic F with a broken lightmeter. I have another Spotmatic (not F) which actually works, but I really don't enjoy fiddling about with that black metering switch on the side. I did buy myself a digital SLR recently - (not a Pentax - sorry - I wanted anti-shake in the body at a time when Konica-Minolta was the obvious and very affordable choice), but I dunno - I'm more of a film type I think. I only really enjoy using the D-SLR when I stick old M42 Asahi Super Multi Coated Takumar lenses onto it. So I consider the results of that to be at least half-Pentax. I am obsessed with old Takumar lenses, since they seem to have magical qualities of sharpness mixed with smoothness that I can't get any other way. They almost seem to melt things, like the brickwork here: http://www.jimkerslake.uklinux.net/pentax/oiljug.jpg So - well - Hi then :-) -- jim -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 7480 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
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comments very welcome - thanks. It was supposed to be a 'test' shot, the first time I ever got the 135mm f/3.5 Takumar to work on my new D-SLR (which was a bit heart-stoppingly scary in that horrible techno-stress way) so the result has always been tinged with that triumph! They're just pebbles on an outdoor set of garden shelves - crop was problematic, leaving more in or taking more out..: http://www.jimkerslake.uklinux.net/pentax/bottle_1.jpg Since it's my yard, I could always remove the pebbles and shelf - the latter mostly falling to bits on their own anyway ;-) cheers, jim - Original Message - From: Jack Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 4:25 PM Subject: Re: just stopping by Most welcome, Jim, Very much like your shot. Does the green thing at the top edge have any reason for being? Would be too tight a crop to get rid of it, obviously. Unknown clutter at left, while color complimentary, is a bit distracting. Wall, jug and stand are very nice elements. You didn't ask for comments, so hope OK.(?) Jack --- jim kerslake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just saying Hi, from Yorkshire UK. Thought I might join your rather prolific list for so long as my mailbox can stand it. I have been taking photos for a couple of months - no idea what brought it on. Some kind of madness. I mostly enjoy using my father's old Pentax Spotmatic F with a broken lightmeter. I have another Spotmatic (not F) which actually works, but I really don't enjoy fiddling about with that black metering switch on the side. I did buy myself a digital SLR recently - (not a Pentax - sorry - I wanted anti-shake in the body at a time when Konica-Minolta was the obvious and very affordable choice), but I dunno - I'm more of a film type I think. I only really enjoy using the D-SLR when I stick old M42 Asahi Super Multi Coated Takumar lenses onto it. So I consider the results of that to be at least half-Pentax. I am obsessed with old Takumar lenses, since they seem to have magical qualities of sharpness mixed with smoothness that I can't get any other way. They almost seem to melt things, like the brickwork here: http://www.jimkerslake.uklinux.net/pentax/oiljug.jpg So - well - Hi then :-) -- jim -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 7480 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 7480 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
