Single In Single in September (SiS) 2023 - day 15

rayvonn said:
Couldn't fail today, I was out relatively early, it was sunny and I was at Tower Bridge, indeed I could have just taken a picture of the bridge, the put the camera back in the bag and all would have been done for the challenge within a 60 second period. But it all seemed a bit too easy, a challenge it was not. So I made my accomplices wait around a little bit while I hung around to try and get some other angle/ interpretation.
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I'm in a bit of a touchy mood today, and maybe that's why I punched the "winner"-button on this one. But there's just so much right in this composition of yours - all the leading lines and the framing of the arc above, the motion of the stairs and the travellers, the colours...

Splendid work, good sir, just splendid.
 
The Electric Squirrel said:
I'm in a bit of a touchy mood today, and maybe that's why I punched the "winner"-button on this one. But there's just so much right in this composition of yours - all the leading lines and the framing of the arc above, the motion of the stairs and the travellers, the colours...

Splendid work, good sir, just splendid.
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Thank you so much. Tomorrow will be my comeuppance though, dark and cloudy all day so no glorious images, that I can almost guarantee you.
 
JensM said:
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Finally some time to roam a little bit...
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I like this shot a lot, Jens.
And forgive me for stating the obvious, but once you stopped using the initial lens which you began the SiS with - which never ever seemed to be able to generate a clear image (and obviously was suffering from one or more borderline fatal ailments) - and replaced it with the 20mm, all of a sudden your daily pictures have become much more interesting (to me) and so much more nicely rendered.
 
Day 15
The toys still haven't been put away, but the Tyrannosaurus now has some company. Hard to say which is the more threatening predator...

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The Electric Squirrel said:
Rain and dark clouds are what have made some of my best images...

Or to paraphrase and misquote Thomas Heaton, when life gives you dark moody weather, you've got to make dark moody images.
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I'd ordinarily agree with you (for example the grimmer the weather conditions the more spectacular the images in my experience from talking to wedding photographers) but what I had in mind is that 3 megapickle CCD sensor. I definitely have a head start when the weather's fine and light abounds everywhere. When it's not like that, my work's really cut out.
 
OK, from the viewing platform at the sewage plant/ artificial wetland with both the orange and a circular polarizer. No crop, no perspective correction, minimal processing in Pentax DCU 5, resized and exported as jpg for web. A couple other images from the same spot looking in the same directions as a couple earlier moodier images, and a bit more info/ discussion in outtake/ discussion threads.
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SIS day 15 Flowers around the arch.

Sue is exhibiting at the "Art in the Garden" show tomorrow at a local nursery so we had a ride up there to meet with the organizer to discuss arrangement for unloading etc. for tomorrow. I had a short walk around and looked at possible shots for day 16 as we will be there most of the day.

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MiguelATF said:
I like this shot a lot, Jens.
And forgive me for stating the obvious, but once you stopped using the initial lens which you began the SiS with - which never ever seemed to be able to generate a clear image (and obviously was suffering from one or more borderline fatal ailments) - and replaced it with the 20mm, all of a sudden your daily pictures have become much more interesting (to me) and so much more nicely rendered.
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Thanks Miguel,

The 17mm was a frustrating lens to try making do with. I have done some further experimentation with it and on the OG EM-1 it seems to work decently, so I will do some further shooting with it.

I knew from the onset that it had a rep for not being especially sharp, but the results with it on the E-PL3 and the E-PM1, which incidentally share the same internals, was way under par. With the current results with the EM-1, I cant but wonder if there was something with the combination of bodies and lens that brought forth the worst of each other, or some sort of stacking of intolerances, which the EM-1 does away with.

The 17 f:2.8 had just a four year lifespan, introduced in 2009 and was somewhat silently let out the backdoor in 2012 with the introduction of the f:1.8, probably with good reason.
 
gordo said:
OK, from the viewing platform at the sewage plant/ artificial wetland with both the orange and a circular polarizer. No crop, no perspective correction, minimal processing in Pentax DCU 5, resized and exported as jpg for web. A couple other images from the same spot looking in the same directions as a couple earlier moodier images, and a bit more info/ discussion in outtake/ discussion threads.
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I like this a lot, Gordon, for many reasons. But also, for reasons I don't really understand, I'm not crazy about the bottom section of the photograph - the part with the fence, and just above it what looks like a whitish dirt or sand road. I do like the complexity and structure of the bruch immediately above it (it looks like sagebrush to me?) as well as the rest of the photograph - and the relatively wide perspective - and of course the mountains and the clouds. It's really an interesting image and I keep wanting to look at it again... and again.
 
JensM said:
Thanks Miguel,

The 17mm was a frustrating lens to try making do with. I have done some further experimentation with it and on the OG EM-1 it seems to work decently, so I will do some further shooting with it.

I knew from the onset that it had a rep for not being especially sharp, but the results with it on the E-PL3 and the E-PM1, which incidentally share the same internals, was way under par. With the current results with the EM-1, I cant but wonder if there was something with the combination of bodies and lens that brought forth the worst of each other, or some sort of stacking of intolerances, which the EM-1 does away with.

The 17 f:2.8 had just a four year lifespan, introduced in 2009 and was somewhat silently let out the backdoor in 2012 with the introduction of the f:1.8, probably with good reason.
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I can't help wondering about your 17mm lens too. Confession: I owned not one but two copies of it and got very very nice results with both. I was using one on an old GX1 - and the other on an equally old earlier generation digital Pen, the E-P1 - and in both cases, the copies I had rendered really nicely and gave me great images. So... I wouldn't give up on yours just yet. Maybe keep playing around with it, on your E-M1... :)
 
The decisive moment !
So started working this morning with my mind on at least tomorrow and less than 1/10 of a second after I realized I was being careless I launched this piece into my upper thigh . There is a mark. Just out of curiosity I goggled kickback and the average speed is approx 147 mph coming at you. This might have been a little faster because I used that initial awareness that I messed up to try and combat the piece which is what caused it to achieve a better purchase as witnessed by the arc cut all the way through. My other saw is 1.5 hp and I can sometimes contain things but my main saw is 5hp and it doesn't negotiate . But !! On the bright side todays photo was simple and just to feel better that it didnt happened because I'm old and decrepit I realized it was over 35 years ago that I encountered my last nasty kickback which was on a very large machine and left me urinating blood for a week so I can still claim stupidity.:headbang:
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MiguelATF said:
I like this a lot, Gordon, for many reasons. But also, for reasons I don't really understand, I'm not crazy about the bottom section of the photograph - the part with the fence, and just above it what looks like a whitish dirt or sand road. I do like the complexity and structure of the bruch immediately above it (it looks like sagebrush to me?) as well as the rest of the photograph - and the relatively wide perspective - and of course the mountains and the clouds. It's really an interesting image and I keep wanting to look at it again... and again.
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Thanks Miguel. Yes, the diagonals are gravel roads through the artificial wetland area. Foreground is ugly IMHO, can't get any higher, and tilting causes distortion. From a distance the ground brush might look like sage brush, but it isn't. I can't remember what it is.

Probably should have posted my preference of an XPan crop instead of almost SOOC. May as well post that in the outtakes.
 

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