shortscale photography thread.

[plopswagon]

I thought I’d post some photos from the performances I’ve shot this season. I do most my shoots during dress rehearsal ad they run the show as opposed to setting up shots and having the actors pose.

This is from Athena

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Exit the King

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Box

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I don’t know why Athena is showing up twice. It doesn’t look that way in the editing window?

[Bacchus]

I meant to reply to these. I like them, good shots. I suppose it's a tricky thing to get good photographs of? Sometimes compelling things don't make for compelling photographs, and you end up scratching your head afterwards wondering how you missed. But these are good! I especially like the King, sitting on his phone.

[mkt3000]

I took a quick trip to Puerto Rico to visit family and brought along my recently thrifted Pentax Zoom 60X. Decided to keep it simple - just tossed in a couple rolls of Fuji 200 and Kodak 400 and spent a few hours shooting at the beach in between keeping my son safe and drinking beers with the family.

I wasn’t expecting much from this camera, but surprised me. Metering was solid, autofocus did fine even in full sun, and it handled the tropical humidity without issue.

Family shots stayed private, but I figured I’d share a few of the beach scenes here.

[mkt3000]

We took kiddo out to the parks tonight because he wanted to see fireworks, since we didn't go out on the fourth.

I had my Pentax Q10, a 50mm f/1.9 equivalent (because crop factor), a tabletop tripod, and about three minutes to find a spot and set up.

ISO locked at 100. Manual focus to infinity. Shutter speeds from 1/2 to 2.5 sec.

And I haven’t shot a nighttime show in nearly 18 years.

Somehow… four shots I don’t hate.

Maybe I'll go back and show up earlier to scout a good spot, bring a proper tripod, and some wider glass.

[plopswagon]

I picked up my dad's old Olympus OM-1. This is the test roll. Kodacolor 200 ISO straight negative scans no additional adjustments

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I also dug mrs plop's Mamia medium format camera to play with too.

[dots]

beautiful!

[plopswagon]

Sometimes the attachments reorganize themselves unexpectedly. The way this post is looking right now it’s giving you the false idea that the last photo was taken on the medium format camera. It was not.

[dots]

interesting... i was also thinking of a resize script like i've seen on other forums. it keeps the page easily scrollable but also allows you to click/zoom pretty easily. we had one back on the old forum, but it was java based and had mixed support among membership.

my guess is it might help keep a little more order by necessity than the baked-in support for attachments.

[plopswagon]

Artificial lack of intelligence?

Artificial anal retention?

[Bacchus]

Very nice. I thought the one of the Buddha was a double exposure for a minute.

[plopswagon]

Thanks, I liked the way the light was hitting it. (It’s Kuan Yin btw)

[Bacchus]

Thanks, that's been a fun and diverting Wikipedia rabbit hole!

I need to read more...

AND take more photos. Hm, maybe tomorrow.

[NickS]

Sometimes the attachments reorganize themselves unexpectedly. The way this post is looking right now it’s giving you the false idea that the last photo was taken on the medium format camera. It was not.

Looks like the last pic hasn't been "insert"-ed

[plopswagon]

I grabbed the work Leica M9 to play with. First time shooting with a rangefinder camera. I'm not used to the framing so I cropped them in photoshop. Only had any adjustments after cropping.

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[mkt3000]

work Leica M9

wut.

My work camera is a Canon DSLR. How does one get a work Leica?

[plopswagon]

I usually shoot on a Canon DSLR.

The Leica was purchased by the theatre for our founding artistic director, she did all the photography for the theatre back in the day. After she passed our archivist used it for production photos.

I started using it just recently though I prefer the canon because of the auto focus and I’m not used to rangefinder focusing.

I couldn’t figure out why our archivist’s photos were blurry until he gave me the camera with advice on how to shoot and found out he was shooting with the setting that makes the shutter speed automatic and too low an ISO so the shots were blurry from movement.

[mkt3000]

I usually shoot on a Canon DSLR.

The Leica was purchased by the theatre for our founding artistic director, she did all the photography for the theatre back in the day. After she passed our archivist used it for production photos.

I started using it just recently though I prefer the canon because of the auto focus and I’m not used to rangefinder focusing.

I couldn’t figure out why our archivist’s photos were blurry until he gave me the camera with advice on how to shoot and found out he was shooting with the setting that makes the shutter speed automatic and too low an ISO so the shots were blurry from movement.

Ahh, that makes sense. Leica glass is incredible.

For me, my work camera is a Canon DSLR. On the personal side, I bounce between a Pentax Q and a Sony a7ii for digital, and a Minolta X700 and SRT-101 for film. I also recently picked up an oddball Chinon CE-3 as a film platform to experiment with vintage Soviet lenses.

[plopswagon]

My current arsenal are digital: Canon D2000, Leica M9; film: Olympus OM-1, Mamiya 645E. I haven’t bought any of them. The Canon and the Mamiya are my wife’s, the Leica is the theatre’s and the Olympus came from my dad.

I bought a Pentax Super Program but I need to work on it. I’ve also bought a couple of lenses for the Canon.

[NickD]

I'd love a Leica but I don't think I could justify the cost.

[mkt3000]

At some point my son will take his nap today, and then I'll run across town to pick up my Minolta SRT101 body and my 85mm 1.7 lens from their respective CLAs.