Photography thread

I was hoping you weren't goin to say that. Fix her up and enjoy bud.

 

I actually ordered those pipes and was sent these....since I was charged for the ones you have, they couldn't get those anymore. ..they ate the difference.

 

I think those look better than mine. I feel like mine look really industrial. But I cant complain about how they sound at all. I actually really like how the stock, triangular dual pipe mufflers look.

 

I did this from my phone with an online editor, hope it looks okay.

 

If the app will allow, jack up the contrast.

Not a clue what you are shooting with. Just a suggestion. Shoot in RAW if at all possible and pop for a real editing program. For the pix you have already shot probably in JPEG that need "a little something" , Try Google's Picasa. It's a real no BS freebie. Two features of Picasa that are very cool are it first searches the drives for pictorial data and loads it into the program. It also is next to impossible to destroy an image.

For a few dollars more (Thanks Clint) Scout oot maybe a back issue of Adobe's Photoshop Elements, that somebody has lying around. For around $100.00 the latest version can be had including Adobe's

Lightroom.

I always thought that Clintflic should have been, "For A Few Pesos More" or "For A Few Lira More". Escudos too maybe..

Next up will be v. 15. There are other editing programs out there too. Adobe is the industry standard. This includes a much more sophisticated program called just "Photoshop" at aboot 600 pesos a pop and a learning curve in months.

Lots of plug in software oot there too that is compatible with most "Photoshop" software. Some free, some a few pesos, most with a trial up to sometimes a month. This includes the Photoshop stuff too.

 

From what I hear aboot those bigass snakes that somebody cut loose down your way, your son got you the right thing. An old friend in Kentucky who has more pesos than most folks have has a working Thompson and keeps it in a fiddle case.

 

Thanks for the advice! I am shooting with a Sony A57, but with older Minolta lenses. I do often shoot in RAW. I ask trying various editing programs.

 

A back issue of Adobe Photoshop Elements from a private party should be aboot 15-20 pesos. All issues are useful. Adobe has 30 day trial versions of their latest issue as do many of the plugins that are compatible with the Adobe product. Tons of freebies and mini versions of all sorts of effects stuff out there too.




Best deal is starting with the best original image possible.

Many of those "older" lens' are great, especially the primes. I have a macro lens that has to be 50 years old that is spectacular. It's not terribly fast, it doesn't have auto focus but the images are razor sharp.

 

Oz outback. Way outback

 

IMO a rusty salami would be best presented as a sepia tone.

 

Yep some of that Old glass was very sharp. I have some old Nikor lenses that are extremely sharp. Not to say that some of the new glass isn't excellent too. But remember Kodachrome 25 was very high res film and a lot of those lenses had to be very sharp.

 

For sure..

The sharpest lens I have is a non AI (now modified) 105 mm Nikkor. Probably 1960s. Not a lens to photograph any chica over aboot 35.. . The macro is another non AI 55mm Micro-Nikkor, also now modified.

KC 25 and 64 were grainless.. I remember when "the industry" used to use KC 25 as the basis for strobe calculations. Then "the industry" change to ASA/ISO 100 which doubled the number of the power of the strobe. I think the industry was in cahoots with Harley on that one..

The new primes are razor sharp too.. Not much experience with one yet but renting one for a day or so is not that many pesos..



Did a shoot one time with a borrowed Leica rangefinder with a 90 mm Thambar using KC 25.. Brutally sharp..

A brag... I was at a street sale here I call "Le Tour de Junque" Spotted a dusty Nikkormat EL with a lens for five bucks. Someone had poked the spindle release too hard and it was inside the camera. Could have been fixed but the lens was Nikkor (non AI) 55mm f 1.2..

We got serious Bokeh with that puppy.

 

Another good program is Lightroom. It's made by Adobe. It's basically an easier to use version of photoshop with presets you can save to make editing photos easy. It's also cheaper than a copy of Photoshop. I use it for everything that I do. It also has a lot of the same tools photoshop has that allow you to remove imperfections you find in your photos.

 

I miss shooting on film. I have a Mamiya RZ67 with a 220 back that has a half shot roll in it. It's just so expensive to shoot and develop film. And it's hard to beat the look of a good LUT on a Canon 5Dmkii or III. I think one of my all time favorite lenses is the canon 28-300. It's a bit slow as it's a 3.5-5.6 but the range! 28-300! It's spectacular. It was also a punch pull lens. Out side of that primes are always my favorite. The canon L series 85mm 1.2 bokeh is just perfect. I've got a cool little tool called a lens baby. It's a bellows style lens so you can change the focus spot like a tilt shift. They also make a lot that allows you to make your own aperture shapes. So you can cut a shape and use it and get star shaped bokeh, heart, half moon, whatever shape you cut the aperture disc into. It's a very specific unique look that really only works in very specific situations but when you need it, it really gives it that wow factor.

 

LOL, I still have a 105 Nikor. Bought it in while in photo school, is probably a 60's lens and is very sharp. Was my favorite lens for portraiture back then. A lot of my friends liked the 85 f2 (which is a great lens, have 2 of them) but the 105 I think was perfection for portraiture. 55 micro was a very different lens, had several of them. They had a close focus that was in inches and I still don't know how they got them to be so fast with such a small element. I mean the glass were very small but they were still 2.8. I'm selling my old Nikon 300 2.8 telephoto by the way. If any of you guys want it I'll let it go for a good price. It weighs a ton and is huge but a great piece of glass,

 

Recently sold an RZ67 and recently bought a Mamiya C220 to go with my Mamiya C3 and three lens/hood combos. 220 is a hard row to hoe.. I don't think it even available any more.. 120 yes.

I have not tried Lightroom. I may get it if I buy PSE 15 when Adobe releases it. I have several plug in programs the best being IMO, from a small source in Germany.

http://thepluginsite.com/

Never tried a Lensbably either.. I used to shoot 4X5 and use bellows swing for the same effect. Nikon made a bellows attachment that had swing capability too.

Different strokes for different manufacturers. Canon has a coupled lens extender for their macro line. Nikon doesn't.. My Nikkor f1.2 is 55mm. Canons is 85mm.

What a lot of camera owners miss is the use of the old film formulas as guidelines to making good initial images. Some are specific, some are digitally obsolete, others are more than viable.

Just one: Headshots are best when the focal length of the lens is 1.5-2.5 X the diagonal measurement of the film. 35mm film stock is 24X36 mm. Digital shots need to account for sensor size..There's a formula for that that is hairy... Best to look it up. My fingers get tired..

 

Both my 105 and 55 Micro Nikkors were old style AI with the solid clevis. Slower than the newer ones I sent them off to a guy back East who modded them for use on a DSLR.. They worked without the mods but Nikon told me it was risky.. I have a manual 105 AI Micro Nikkor too. Great lens.
I hope here the dudes that are looking at all this don't get the idea that some of us have deep pockets and run out and buy all this stuff in one fell swoop like harleydoods in a Harleyfarkle shoppe..

Same deal... I have a 200mm f4 that I keep thinking about selling but about a day after it was gone, I'd need it.. Not the same story for the 43-86 Not one of Nikon's best,

that one..

Another one for the guys who are kinda new at this stuff, The major manufacturers have compatibility lists using older glass on newer cameras. Nikon has the same basic mount developed in the 1940s. Many of the old lens with fit and work on the DSLRs.. Not always 100% but damned good. Best to check.

 

What mount is it?

 

Its an AI mount, will fit any Nikon. Can only shoot manually with it, no auto aperture or auto focus. Super sharp and great color. I have been slowly selling off my Nikon lenses. Use to only shoot Nikon in the film days then got a D1X which was great back then. But soon I had clients wanting full frame sensors and higher res files and Canon was about 2-3 years ahead of Nikon and I jumped ship. So I have 2 great collections of glass. I have multiple bellows, tubes and lots of accessories for Nikon Macro/micro close up work.

 

Bummer, I own a Sony.