Random Photos

[morrobay]

Too hot for this

 

[DennisN]

Flowers in evening light:

(shot with Meyer Optik Görlitz Oreston 50mm, and deliberately shot to get some backlight "washout" in the photo to enhance the feeling of incoming light)

..and a black and white version:

 

[DisneyStitch2000]

Some autumn photos taken in the evening a couple of days ago, using long exposure and a tripod,
which in this case is a must unless you have spectacularly steady hands (lens: Canon FD 50mm):

Yellow autumn tree in backlight:
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Autumn evening path:
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Red autumn bush:
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Yellow autumn tree with a man in the evening:
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Pond fountain with purple lights (exposure: 1 s):
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Where was this taken

 

[Rive]

The other cat:

Little pearls on string:

A nice garden + the lone, only few km diameter raincloud in the whole country making a bullseye on the drying laundry + CPL => full of colors:

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[DisneyStitch2000]

These are Irish Dance Solo Dresses!!!!

 

[DennisN]

Where was this taken

In Malmö, Sweden.

 

[DennisN]

CPL

So you got a CPL filter now? Great, I think you will enjoy it very much .

 

[DennisN]

A scene from Dune: Part Two that was shot with the Helios 44 (inset). My note: Christopher Walken is shown to the right.

Look at the background blur in the shot above and notice how it's distorted (it "swirls").

Helios swirls revisited

I just got me an early version of the Helios 44, a 13 bladed one I found for a good price on a Swedish online auction site. They are pretty sought after and can be hard to find under $100 nowadays.

It's pretty worn, but the optics are fine. I'm going to do some maintenance on it.

Front with the 13 blades shown.

First session with the lens was on a lovely, sunny day yesterday, and I'll show what this lens can do (three shots with swirly backgrounds and four more "normal" shots).

I was using it on my Sony A7R full-frame camera so the full character of the lens would come through.
Furthermore I shot with a CPL filter and "vidid" mode on the camera (which boosts colors), and I did not do much postprocessing of the shots.

White flowers on tree (swirly background):

Daffodils (swirly background):

White flowers on bush (a little swirly background):

Purple Allium:

Pink tulips:

Red tulips:

Yellow tulips:

 

[Flyboy]

 

[collinsmark]

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Revenge of the fifth.

 

[Flyboy]

Revenge of the fifth.

 

[DisneyStitch2000]

And the sunset View attachment 294261View attachment 294263

Where was this taken?

 

[morrobay]

Where was this taken?

F

 

[morrobay]

And from same location 10 degrees Westerly showing Sanctuary of Truth

 

[berkeman]

Wow...

 

[morrobay]

Kind of a drag. being an alien

 

[jtbell]

Guarding a furniture store:

 

[FranzS]

And from same location 10 degrees Westerly showing Sanctuary of TruthView attachment 344653

I was there a few months ago.

 

[Flyboy]

Found a robin nest at Iowa State University. Mama Robin was not amused by my presence so I took my photo and left quickly.

 

[DennisN]

I processed some shots from last year when I visited a lovely botanical garden.
I spent several hours there shooting lots of different plants and also birds, and I haven't yet gone through all those photos . It can also be fun to let the shots "rest" for a while so you almost forget what you've shot and thus get an extra surprise when you look at them again.

Here are some processed today:


Red tulips:

Red tulip, closeup:
(I think it's the same flower as above, also probably shot with a macro lens)

A tree with white flowers:

White anemone:

White anemone (closeup):
(I really enjoyed seeing this one, there was a lot of detail in the original (probably shot with a macro lens))

A yellow anemone with a bug present:

And last, two yellow tulips:

Edit, three more:

Daffodils:

Daffodil (closeup):

 

[Andy Resnick]

Another opportunity to shoot macro: (55mm Micro-Nikkor + M2 extender), mostly @ f/8 and close focus, handheld:

 

[berkeman]

Beautiful dandelion.

Scary bugs. Why'd you have to post bugs.

 

[Flyboy]

Bit old, but I saw it in the wild a few years ago…

 

[DennisN]

Another opportunity to shoot macro: (55mm Micro-Nikkor + M2 extender), mostly @ f/8 and close focus, handheld:

Very nice!

 

[docnet]

Bit old, but I saw it in the wild a few years ago…

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The wrap-around windows look kind of cool, like the nose of a little airplane. The driver probably has a commanding view of the road lol.

 

[morrobay]

Here is a wraparound windshield you can almost see from the back. About 1955 Oldsmobile, Lower East Side. Along Tompkins Square park

 

[docnet]

Here is a wraparound windshield you can almost see from the back. About 1955 Oldsmobile, Lower East Side. Along Tompkins Square parkView attachment 345071

Google street view of the same spot

 

[morrobay]

RuPaul in Tompkins Square and that same inter section

 

[morrobay]

Some more wrap around beauties from car show in Jersey. And that red wine is looking good too

 

[morrobay]

Skating in Central Park. And I wonder what this Asian girl is tripping on?

 

[DennisN]

Here is a wraparound windshield you can almost see from the back. About 1955 Oldsmobile, Lower East Side.

Some more wrap around beauties from car show in Jersey.

The last couple of years I have actually become a bit of a collector of model cars.

Here are some of the American cars I have in my collection:

Cadillac Eldorado (1955)

Chevrolet Corvette 1957

Ford Crown Victoria 1955

Ford Thunderbird (1955)

Lincoln Continental

Chevrolet Bel Air, Police of Norwich USA 1973

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...and here are a couple of non-American cars I have, but that I want to show
because they are cool :

Alfa Romeo 2300 Spider (1932) - this is one of my favorite cars I have

Lotus Super 7 (1957-1973)

Mercedes Benz SSK 1928

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The coolest and most beautiful model car I have seen is this one:

Horch 853 (1937) 1:18

They are exquisitely made and thus quite expensive, and I haven't found one yet for a price
that suits me . But one day I will probably own one.

 

[jack action]

That was my "wrap-around windshield" car:

The only car I regret selling. But I wanted to travel across North America in a convertible, so I sunk my money in my '69 Firebird instead:

Still, for the ultimate wrap-around window treatment, you need the "flat top" design, like this Chevrolet 1960:

 

[jtbell]

I've seen the Wienermobile a couple of times on the road, but wasn't able to grab a picture. I do have a pic of the L.L. Bean Bootmobile!

(In Cincinnati, during my 2017 road trip but not pictured in that thread)

 

[BillTre]

I've seen the Wienermobile a couple of times on the road, but wasn't able to grab a picture. I do have a pic of the L.L. Bean Bootmobile!

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(In Cincinnati, during my 2017 road trip but not pictured in that thread)

That should come in pairs.

 

[DennisN]

What a wonderful day I had today... ...walking around the city in perfect weather and somehow so many things seemed to work just right. I have no idea why, but I got a load of great photo opportunities just coming at me at full speed. It was wild, I think I shot 5-10 times more photos than I would have thought.

Here's one, quickly processed and shot less than an hour ago:

(shot with Sony A7R + Yashica ML 50mm + B&W pol. filter)