Interesting choice of title. To me she seems pensive, as if waiting for someone to come home...

Mike.

Just shot it today.

Canon 1Dsmk3
35-70 Leica lens

God, I miss smoking.

Maybe this'll help:
I'm a family doctor in a small town. In my little practice in the last two months I've diagnosed four more patients with advanced lung cancer. Every single one of them is going to die from their disease. Think chest pain, coughing up blood, and slowly suffocating to death. I know, the whole lung cancer/heart attack thing is abstract while that cigarette is concrete and right here & now. But miserable death from cigarettes is a concrete, here & now reality for me every freakin' day.
Heroin is safer. Seriously.

My father in law died of ung cancer...terrible disease! Never smoked a cigarette in his life though....
You could die tomorrow in agonising pain a million different ways and those car keys in your hand are probably worse than your pack a day monkey.
Smoke ,drink and live it up..just keep shooting!

Vicoden is a really good thing right before really stressful shoot, like the one I did yesterday. It allows you to think without that nagging freak-out feeling flowing through your veins, preventing you from thinking slowly, methodically, without going into instinct mode. I hate that.

So anyway I got a call from a group of Fire Dancers that needed some promotional shots. They live in my area and I shot them once before, but as an event photographer. They liked the images, and decided to call me--three hours before they wanted to shoot!

I shot three people each in as much as ten different poses using all the light angles I had. It was way, way too much for one shoot, but I think I got a few keepers. Next time it's going to be a much more planned operation.

here are some quick grabs from the camera with some fast cropping on a couple of the images. And now I have to get to work processing.

Hi!

The image is a snapshot taken late in the evening (1/6s, f2.8 iso 1250). For myself it communicates the feeling of totally relaxed atmosphere with the only sound being a nightingale (and unfortunately the shutter). However, people who were not present at the time of the shot will most probably see the image differently.
But to be accurate I must say that the word "peace" was not meant as the title of the shot but more of a greeting to the forum while at the same time trying to communicate my own emotion associated with the image. Thanks for your thought provoking comment.

Cheers,
J

Beware of river banks when you visit Australia.

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Tread carefully!

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Three images from my rooftop stitched together.

It's the smile that'll kill me.

Nice shot (as he sits smoking a cigar with his 2nd coffee of morning). How do you like the 35-70 - am seriously considering it for my 1Ds2 (long time Leica/CZ shooter on EoS)?

Just want to give you a short answer here. I have owned a Canon 24-70, 24-105, leica 35-70 and Zeiss 35-70.

Let me say the following: The Canon has autofocus, which is not bad, if you need it. The IS of the 24-105 is amazing and I sometimes still use it. On my 1DsMk2 I went with the 24-10, why ? Because the IS is really good and the image quality was quite, good. The 24-70, is in my eyes not really better and is lacking the IS.

I started with the Canon on my 1DsMk3 and I have to admit I was shocked. It looked like crap. So I got my old 24-70 out and tried it again, well a littlbe better, but still looked ugly especially the edges are horrible.

I than bought the Leica and Zeiss. Both are really amazing, I mean there is a world of differences between these two lenses and the Canon crap. (sry ^^ but it is as it is)
Just for pure Image quality, the Zeiss has the edge, it is a little sharper. But there is a big BUT, when it comes to handling the Leica wins hands down. The main let down on the Zeiss is that it still is a push and pull zoom. To sum it up both the Leica and the zeiss are much better than anything Canon produces right now.

One final word. I know some people will start screaming, how I can test a 24-70 to a 35-70 lens. Well I did not. I tested both zoom lenses against Canon primes I used before I switched to the Leica zoom. (35 f1.4L;50 macro;85 f1.8) Sorry but after doing a lot of testing I have to say, there is no need for Canon primes. Isn't it sad that they are not better than a Leica zoom ? Well that's how it is. I don't think we have to argue on how much the Canon primes are compared to Canon zooms ^^

if you have further questions you can write me a mail or PM.

EDIT: I hope it's readable ^^ was too late when I wrote this stuff.

Excellent. Thanks for the candor. I'm sure they'll be some forthcoming flack

I almost exclusively use Leica and to a slightly less degree CZ/Hassy on my 1Ds2 and while I own/have owned & used a LOT of Leica primes, I've never used a 35-70/4 and am interested in one.

As you know, once you've used Leica or CZ or some Hassy/Zeiss (110/2 F) on a FF Canon, going back to EF glass (with some exceptions - e.g. 35/1.4, 85/1.2 V2, 135/2) feels like a BIG downgrade. Canon's long & fast sports glass (300/2.8 IS and up) is a different matter - much closer (with the exception of APO glass) contest.

The CZ and Leica draw differently, but vs. EF "L" (what a farce) glass, they are sharper, deliver better color, are MUCH better built, have no QC issues (other than odd stiff focus ring in neglected glass), were designed for manual focus -- and they feel like they're worth the $$ you paid.

Leica have their issues, but damn, they know how to make and test (PRIOR to shipment) lenses. CZ glass is no slouch and are some of the best bargains in glass these days, but you have to be a bit pickier on what lenses.

Thanks again.

BTW - saw your web site, nice work.

recent work?

Canon 5d, 50mm f1.4 prime at f22 1/400 sec, ISO 200.

This is a photograph in the late afternoon looking towards the (unseen) Black Sea, north of Batumi, Republic of Georgia.

I am finding the for the most part, my non-"L" primes are sharper than the 5d can capture so I'm not yet tempted to get a Lieca or Ziess lens yet...

One more from Batumi, Georgia....

50mm lens, f4.5

and one more from Tbilisi with the 24mm 2.8 lens....and Canon 5D

Bruce - very nice.

My latest Promo Piece.

Nice, but watch the shadow on the left, inside of the plate. I found those finger looking shadows a little distracting.

Also, I may be mistaken, but I think I see two light sources: The shadows on the left inside of the plate and a very light shadow on the right inside of the plate. That makes it look like light is coming from two directions. Am I right?

If we had two suns each casting its own shadow, lighting with only one shadow direction (from one source) would look strange to us? That's always been a very interesting philosophical concept for me.

It was open shade and a piece of foamcore for fill.

20D, 300 mm f2.8 & 1.4 TC. Location: Hidden Valley, Serengeti, Tanzania

Lovely.

Leica R8/DMR, 560mm f/6.8 Telyt-R, shoulder stock & monopod
Sacramento County California

Doug Herr
Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com

Hmmm. Strange you got those shadows then. It should have been virtually a flat light, like you want for that sort of subject. But there had to be direction or you would not have needed a fill, right? You didn't use any artificial lighting?

Yeah this is quite nice.

Yep, very nice.

here is one from a few days ago

cheers

tom




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Beautiful work Doug and Tom, love the color and contrast in the woodpecker shot and the sepia tonality of the watering can, really well done. Here is one of mine shot last weekend with my new toy D60 and 55-200mmVR

Don

Thanx for the kind words...

you got yourself some nice light in yours

t

Tom - and thanks back at you, I love to go out and shoot flowers after a rain or just in overcast weather while most everyone goes on to other things....

Not shure a Sony Erikson comes under 35mm, but oh well.
As science marches on and the male roll becomes less defined and some would say redundant. There is evidence of a back lash to this developing situation, no more will the male of the species be the robotic obedient servant, seduced by the carrot on the stick of clean shirts food and sex.
The writing is on the wall.
http://homepage.mac.com/kevin_allen/Future/PhotoAlbum16.html

Kevin.

another new one from last tuesday

cheers


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Conner,

What adapter are you using for the hassy glass on the canon and where did you get it?

Thank you,

*steve

Its been a pretty wet start to winter in New Zealand, two heavy storms passed recently -





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I wouldn't mind some nice photogenic storms like those. Nice images!

-Eric

this is really nice, all the background animals in the different levels of clarity

Didn't have much of a background to work with at the Beijing Race Track but I think that the sun reflecting off the surface of the road helped as well as a little burning in at the top of the frame. 5D with 24-70.

A gloomy day on the beach:






Olympus E-330, 14-45mm kit lens, really hoping to upgrade that lens soon...

That image on the left is wonderful.

I may have commented on this before, but I was looking through this thread again, and just wanted to say that this images keeps me looking at it uh, forever. Great job.

I was in San Francisco last week. I don't think I got anything landscape worthy, and once again, I fell into shooting people.

I'll post more when I get time.

This particular image is of a young friend who is attending an art school in Sacramento for movie production. She agreed to be my grip and do all the navigating around San Francisco--which I was completely clueless about--as long as I paid for everything. Deal!

She was a great grip and even greater navigator and tour guide.

Anyway, I was waiting for a cable car to get back to it's turnabout around 12PM and got bored, so I shot Dottie under a street lamp as we waited, left image. Fisherman's Wharf.
f2.8 @ 1/20th, ISO 1600: 70mm hand held with a 24-70L.


This second shot was done with one Alien Bees 800 and a Photoflex Qsoftbox for a portfolio. Kirsten.

Montalbetti+Campbell using CANON EOS-1 Ds MkIII

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Just had enough time to do a quick resize and some fast ACR on this file from my trip to San Francisco. It was a one shot no repeat, and it may be the best of this view I got, which isn't saying much, however. After all, when you shoot the Golden Gate, you better have a REALLY good shot, since every photographer out there has shot it.

That's pretty nice, IMHO, dwdallam.

Hi Denis, the first one is my favorite, I like it very much!

Thanks, which one?

I was referring to the bridge shot, which is quite different from the usual cliche of the GG bridge.

Of course, my alltime favorite GG photo is Ansel's one of the "Golden Gate Before the Bridge."

-Eric

That's a good point. Too much sky for my taste, w/o better cloud cover, but now that you have mentioned the perspective, as did one of my friends, I think I'll try to perfect it next time I go. Thanks for the comment.

Shot a couple of days ago in the studio. To advertise chocolate mooncakes for a local restaurant. 1Ds III with 90mm TS lit with single Profoto head through a roll of 216 Lee diffusion.