Photography thread

[JohnMOhio]

Agree with you Doc. I had a 59 Biscayne, my first car, and I don't remember the roof line looking like that and the windshield seems to be taller. The body looks to be the same as I remember. Thanks for the compliment on the Hawk Photo. I have a couple of photos of the hawk showing its colors, however, to large a file to post here.

[Doc Sharptail]

however, to large a file to post here.

Shoot me a p.m. and get them e-mailed to me- I'll get them posted and re-sized if you like.

Regards,

Doc Sharptail

[Doc Sharptail]

That old Tamron zoom I picked up a few weeks ago is turning out to be quite the art-house lens.

Tamron QMZ 85-210mm F4.5 Macro at 210mm and f8, ISO 800, 1/320 sec on the D-810.

Image has been manipulated a bit in post, mostly for contrast and exposure, and slightly sharpened.
Picture distance was 80-90 feet. In the right setting, that oldster certainly is sharp for it's vintage.
I need to explore these some more.

This was a guy still fishing for carp. He caught a Goldeye shortly after I took this picture.
The usual Sturgeon Creek haunt...

Regards,

Doc Sharptail

[lyman]

Impala bubble top coupe from the show last week-end.
Car has been heavily modified.
I'm not sure if this was a factory option, or a custom build. The interior layout is definitely strange...

Regards,

Doc Sharptail

looks shortened,

https://www.automobile-catalog.com/m...html#gsc.tab=0

[Dragonsdad]

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Thanks for the compliment on the Hawk Photo. I have a couple of photos of the hawk showing its colors, however, to large a file to post here.

You might consider Doc's offer.
Another option would be Irfanview, @ Irfanview(dot)com, a free to download and use program without many of the bells and whistles of Photoshop (payware) or Photoscape (freeware). Youtube is good for tutorials on the various features of all three. I use Irfanview mostly due to the simplicity of it's re-sizing options. Step through it a couple of times and it'll become second nature.

[Doc Sharptail]

You might consider Doc's offer.
Another option would be Irfanview, @ Irfanview(dot)com, a free to download and use program without many of the bells and whistles of Photoshop (payware) or Photoscape (freeware). Youtube is good for tutorials on the various features of all three. I use Irfanview mostly due to the simplicity of it's re-sizing options. Step through it a couple of times and it'll become second nature.

I do all my re-sizing with the Windows 10 photo editing suite. It takes about 5 sec to resize a full frame (7200 w) raw converted to jpeg, which is laser like compared to anything I've found on-line. I use imgur for hosting everything I post here.
There are some very basic tools in the Win 10 suite that seem to work fairly well, albeit minus the finesse of the bigger pay and go outfits.
If I were to work directly from raw, I would most certainly need something like photoshop, or better. For now, I'm content with the very basic manipulations that came built-in on my computer...

Regards,

Doc Sharptail

[Dragonsdad]

so...
Neither of us use Photoshop.

[Phloating Phlasher]

I had a very nice photo editing package, but it became no longer supported.
Based on suggestions from photographer friends I went with some nice free shareware.
Gimp for photo editing (very like Photoshop)
"Raw Therapee" which interfaces with Gimp, or "S7RAW" for RAW file manipulation.
I'm completely happy with both.

[Dragonsdad]

I had a very nice photo editing package, but it became no longer supported.

We call that a subscription service. Do you remember what it was?

Looked into Gimp and decided, not unlike Lightroom/Photoshop, it had more features than I'd ever need or use.
Not exactly intuitive or user friendly.

[Phloating Phlasher]

"Microsoft Digital Image Pro 10.0" The program was an old one running in a compatibility window in Win 8, into Win 7. It wouldn't even do that when the Win 10 upgrade happened.
It was a purchase, not a subscription.

[JohnMOhio]

Thought I would try a little photo editing. Only downsized the photo size.P1070023 (3).jpg

[Dragonsdad]

[Doc Sharptail]

Tamron 85-210mm f4.5



Definitely worth working with a bit more.
The American Black Ash outside our back door is flowering~ something I had never seen it do before. We have been here a good 12 years or so, and it's the first I've seen of this.
At 210mm here and f5.6, 1/320 sec at ISO 800 for the dense shade.
The rendering is something else, as long as one is willing to put up with the slightly glowing high-lights.



Same subject again, with the macro lug engaged at 1:3 and f8.
Both frames unmanipulated except the macro shot has been cropped quite a bit.

Regards,

Doc Sharptail

[Doc Sharptail]

Nikkor S 35mm f2.8 at ISO 800 and f 5.6. Shutter speed was about 1/30 sec here, right at sunset. Monochrome from the camera, and not a conversion. About a 95% crop here, showing a bit of camera shake induced blur, and more than a bit of noise.

This is one of the best times of day for photographs. The monochrome camera setting makes what would be a some what bland photo a lot more interesting, especially with the long sunrays. I have up-graded this 35 to a much better condition, and older O.C. 35mm F 2.

Regards,

Doc Sharptail

[Doc Sharptail]

Chev Cameo 1/2 ton nicely done.



Lot's of chrome on this one, and I'm fairly certain by the hood ornament that it's pre-'55.



Cameo badging on the box sides.



Detail of the hood ornament.



There's a view of the front.

No sunstars here- almost all of these were taken with the 35-105 f3.5-4.5 nikkor zoom wide open...

Regards,

Doc Sharptail