Ivan and Anthony - thanks for the encouragement!

Thank you for the kind words

don

very nice! I like the mood a lot, is it just enviormental light? looks very natural.

Yes, this one was all natural light.

More landscape ...

Horseshoe Bend
Mamiya AFD II/P30+ and 28mm lens

Wow! What were you doing? Hanging over the edge?

Love that spot. Lets see a 100% of one of the rafts.

Not quite ...Sandy took this while I took the shot



don

Let me see what I can do...

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Best I can do for the moment ...

don

Very nice, indeed.

Thierry

Hasselblad H3D-31 50 - 110 mm HC lens

1/125 sec. at f / 5.6, ISO 100, 100mm


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From last night. Rollei 6008AF, 80mm f2 lens at f8, iso 50, 4", stitched pano (not finished yet)

Nice shot, but it's hard to get a sense of scale. OTOH, if there were any people walking about at that hour, they'd probably be about 2 pixels high...

Mike.

From a few hours ago. Rollei 6008AF, Sinar e54LV, iso50, 80mm f2 @ f2.8

Image taken in northern Idaho on our way home from Alaska

Mamiya AFD II P30+ and 28mm lens. This is two images merged together in order to work on the sky and foreground separately. Jury is still out as it might still be a tad too dark in places




don

Don, What a beautiful location!! The sky does look a bit different from the landscape, perhaps a little desaturation would help. Great shot! Jim

Don... Great image...:+}
Snook

JR

Sinar 54LV 25ISO F8 Hassy H1 ish..

S

Last week. For honda catalogue.
H2 + p45+

Hope you like it.

Natural Bridge in Bryce Canyon.



Mamiya AFDII/P30+ 2 shoot pano using 28mm lens. The final image came from CS3, photomerge and my own custom IR conversion.

don

Hi JR,

I really appreciate your contribution to these forums!

Erik

Thank You

JR

Thanks Snook - any word on you P30?

don

Some stuff with the borrowed P45..:+]
they look good at print but at 100% I find them less sharp than my P30.
Might be a connection problem??

This was RZIIPD and P45 with 65mm f11...
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PS. How do you all post big images in here?
Thanks
Snook

From a few hours ago. Rollei 6008AF, Sinar e54LV, first shot is 80mm f2.8 PQS lens at f4, others are 150mm PQS at f5.6, f8.

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Graham

You’re making me rethink shooting people! Great work

don

Deadhorse Point Utah. Sunday evening. P45+ 35mm

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A few from today's session with Ralph.

Mamiya RZ67 ProII, leaf aptus 22

Model : Ralph

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Greetings,
Frank

hi frank,

what lenses have u used for these shots?

sid.

180mm f3.5 and 110mm f2.8

I am normally a lurker here. Thanks guys for all the valuable information and nice images in this forum. Last week, I made some nice images during a workshop in Toscana (Italy) with my H1 with 16Mpx Kodak 645 back (yes! some "poor" guys still using it!). Mostly done with the 80mm+1.7x at maximum aperture.

The complete slideshow "Visions of Women" is at http://www.fotoclublugano.com/~ivo/portfolio/tff08 but is a mix with Nikon D2x images. Happy viewing.

I have been thinking of doing a Tuscan workshop, too. Which one was it? Abitavo a Firenze tanti anni fa....

Ron Weissman

Ciao Ron,
The one I went to was www.toscanafotofestival.com (TFF). There is another workshop more famous in Toscana the TPW (www.tpw.it) but also much more expensive. I took a class with Gabriele Rigon. Firenze e vicino!

from yesterday. big nose job:






sorry they're so big

Great works! love the second one.

regards
Dustblue

Nice shot's Kipling
Very Olef Blecker Looking... very similar lighting..
nice Job, what did you shoot it with and at...:+]
Snook

Very nice images, and very nice post.

In my eyes, at least in the commercial realm, all of our future successes depends on either your own abilities with post, or your ability to team up with a fine retoucher. that is what will set you apart -- not your choice of camera. Everyone here obsessed with megapixels, or 35 vs MF, and when you see an arresting picture like this, do you think -- "wonder how many megapixels that camera was?" Not a chance in hell. It's about defining a look, and not having the images looked like they just popped out of the camera, untouched. Because, honestly, every one of us who is shooting digital is basically shooting the exact same camera. Digital is digital; in the big picture, all identical, when it pops out of the camera. Untouched, not an ounce of difference -- Hasselblad, Sinar, Phase, Canon, Nikon, whatever. I still insist that the tens of thousands of dollars of difference invested between 35 and MF would be much better spent, searching for a month-long excellent retouching class. You want to change your images? Change your post technique.

(Or, up the content: http://tinyurl.com/5mfyvx).

Nice images.

Thanks,

Snook:
Aptus 22/h2/50mm@5,6 & 1/250th with Profoto packs and heads. All with Magnum reflectors straight on , one umbrella fill and two lights for the background and side back light.

gwhitf:
Thanks, agree to a certain extent. Light is certainly more important than which sensor you're using (but it should and needs to serve the purpose of enabling you to work successfully - software, buffer, ISO, etc.) , and having a bit of an idea involved in the shot is also something that I think is very important.

When I think fashion I think Tim Walker. Brilliant ideas, brilliant light, brilliant setting. What he shot it with is probably irrelevant. It worked because he made it work.

Different? Crucial!

Rob C

As I have an Escort just celebrating its 10th birthday, perhaps it might be handy to have the name of your car restorer?

Just kidding - great pics!

Rob C

Good forum post!

... And don't forget the Liquify filter!

http://bluefly.com/pages/custom/custom.jsp...yp%3D&objType=2

Use the blue scroll bar to see the rest.

And here is some video from the shoot:
http://flypaper.bluefly.com/archives/2008/...xclusive-b.html

(sorry, but this was a Canon shoot. Er, and the designers made her skin a little too saturated...)

HE RETURNS! Welcome back.

Here's a dog that waundered into my studio yesterday.

@kipling,
WOW

Thank you very much for the link to Phillip Toledanos work: Days with my Father.

By far the best and most moving work I have seen from this site for a very very long time.


A little link in return:

http://www.joakimeskildsen.com/

Check his body of work: The Roma Journeys


Cheers

Torben

Thanks Torben,

I love this photograph.

http://www.joakimeskildsen.com/files/hungary/hu_007.jpg

I also like this guys work, though there is only one image there.

http://torbeneskerod.com/

JR

It's beautiful

JR

"Thank you very much for the link to Phillip Toledanos work: Days with my Father.

By far the best and most moving work I have seen from this site for a very very long time."


I totally agree!

While viewing the images,tears were streaming down my face.

I regret not having photography my own father in a way like that!


Willem.