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Random Photo thread

Sandy said:
Great shots Bob. I've got and couple of old prime Nikon G lenses hanging around. Guess I'll have to get myself one of those adaptors
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Thanks.
It really is fun, at least I think so.
When I got my first mu4/3 camera, the GH2, I just bought the body, and picked up a couple old Canon legacy lenses off eBay.
Didn't get a real mu4/3 lens for a couple months. 20mm, I think it was.
 
Bob baatfam,
You got me thinking about needing more macro lens capability.
Great detail on small flower (what I was going for, but cant focus close enough)

Glen dorkburger,
A fork n new tire picture.
Made a nicely light scene, and Captured it well.

Sandy,
ANother of your great scenery scenes.

Scott Marvinsc,
You got the KLR (right?) and have some riding buddys, and good place to go.
 
The lighting was..... hot. I used one of those old halogen quartz type of floodlights. The ones that are very hot and bright. I put an old pillowcase over the front to soften it. After about 15 minutes the white pillowcase turned brown.
 
It looks cool with that lens.

My lighting took on a yellow hue as I progressed. The light was near me and I knew it would get hot so I had my eye on it. Almost to the point of distraction. I?ll definitely make a safer setup next time.
 
Ha, Glen. Am chuckling, think about you concentrating on the framing the scene, but looking over to see if that was going into flames.

Little daffodils in front yard by the road, had me rolling around on the ground.
These ones lined up to fill the frame.
P1060910 by Dave Redman, on Flickr
 
Glen, color temp wise, that halogen lamp you’re using is going to be around 3200deg kelvin (will photograph with a yellow tint). Your camera likely has a white balance setting to handle this. Back in the film days, we compensated for this either by using a tungsten balanced slide film (don’t remembering any negative T films), or a blue filter. T films were slow, ASA 64. Blue filters were dense, 2 stops at least.
 
Well Bob, with your great flower shots you got me thinking macro again. I had a Vivitar 100 macro lens back in my Nikon film days which I sold a long time ago with one of the Nikon systems I had, loved that lens but it would be too long for the m4/3 anyway. Still have a few lenses and a couple of bodies. Anyway, I was digging through some stuff this afternoon and came across a set of Hoya close-up filters I bought over 40 years ago and they just happen to fit the extra 45-150 zoom that came with the Panasonic I picked up. They are a set comprising of a +1, +2 and a +4. So I stuck the +2 on the lens and voila, one of my wife's Orchids. It was just an experiment under room lighting so the ISO was high but I was able to turn the noise down a bit. Looks like a bit of blue fringing happening (lower left) but I did shoot fully stopped down to see how the DOF was which probably didn't help. Good thing is the filters will fit the old Nikon 50/1.8 prime I still have. Just need the adaptor. Now I just need the wildflowers and weather to figure it's supposed to be spring.



Orchid-1 by soates50, on Flickr
 
Rich, Sandy, the whole filter thing is another item I know little about. I'll check out the attached links. My camera did come with ND filters and polarizer filters. Did a bit of reading on those, but have yet to try / test them.
 
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Glen, your water shot above would have been a great place to try a circular polarizer filter. It changes the reflective nature of the water depending on sun angle and how you spin the filter. Also has effect on sky and cloud. Put it on next time and try it out.
 
Sandy said:
Well Bob, with your great flower shots you got me thinking macro again. I had a Vivitar 100 macro lens back in my Nikon film days which I sold a long time ago with one of the Nikon systems I had, loved that lens but it would be too long for the m4/3 anyway. Still have a few lenses and a couple of bodies. Anyway, I was digging through some stuff this afternoon and came across a set of Hoya close-up filters I bought over 40 years ago and they just happen to fit the extra 45-150 zoom that came with the Panasonic I picked up. They are a set comprising of a +1, +2 and a +4. So I stuck the +2 on the lens and voila, one of my wife's Orchids. It was just an experiment under room lighting so the ISO was high but I was able to turn the noise down a bit. Looks like a bit of blue fringing happening (lower left) but I did shoot fully stopped down to see how the DOF was which probably didn't help. Good thing is the filters will fit the old Nikon 50/1.8 prime I still have. Just need the adaptor. Now I just need the wildflowers and weather to figure it's supposed to be spring.
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Nice! Surprised how well the filters worked. Did not know that, never tried them.
I own, and have used extension tubes. They work, and are very reasonably priced.

I would try the Vivitar 100, also. I have a 70-210 Canon macro, and it has some fun uses.

BTW....If you need more DOF, the GX85 does focus bracketing. :)
 
Rich82GS750TZ said:
Glen, your water shot above would have been a great place to try a circular polarizer filter. It changes the reflective nature of the water depending on sun angle and how you spin the filter. Also has effect on sky and cloud. Put it on next time and try it out.
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Agreed! Fun....I keep one in my camera bag, and almost always forget to try it.

Also, you can use the ND filters to set a slower than normal shutter speed, (probably need tripod/support).
Slower shutter speeds, 1/4, 1/2, 1 second etc., can give your water shots a different look. Especially the moving stuff.
 
I?ve have noticed that when using a long exposure to blur moving water the moving parts loses contrast and looks washed out. I wonder if a filter will help that.
 
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