This morning. The weather was dull and I was a bit uninspired!
Not the most spectacular sunrise I've ever seen!
Sigma FP & Funleader 18mm f8 cap lens
July 27
Today's post makes up for the meager posts yesterday and the day before...
The old lady walking her dog kept up with the weed cutting boat.
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The boat is a bit more efficient than a punted wide raft and two men with scythes...
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Gräsgården bastion as seen from Dag Hammarskjöld's road.
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... and from the service road that leads to the castle kitchens.
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Views from right outside the county governor's garden.
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The Gunilla bell on top of the bastion Styrbiskop.
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Cannons aiming for the cathedral.
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Gräsgården bastion as seen from Styrbiskop bastion.
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The cathedral seen from the road to the castle.
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July 27
D750 Nikkor 20-35mm f2.8
Oppressive heat and high humidity made for a good day to stay in the air conditioning, but did I? Oh no, I changed oil in the truck, lubed it, and gave it a good look under the hood. Then it was time for refreshment! Please excuse the dirt on the truck hood, it drives on dirt roads sometimes.
35mm 1/80 f5.6 M 500
Approaching...
1/180 f5.6 M 500
Closer...
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Time to put the camera down!
The rest defines, ''Ahhhh!'' The truck hood slants a bit, but I assure you, not a drop was spilled.
Today, I only did one... A light drizzle all day long.
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This chimney is art commemorating the many brickworks that were the main industry in the northern parts of Uppsala.
July28
D750 Nikkor 20-35mm f2.8 D
35mm 1/250 f4 M 100
I had been meaning to photograph these derelict buildings In Berrysburg for a while now, I find them interesting. This one, a former appliance store as the oval sticker on the right door indicates they sold and serviced, ''Hoover'' vacuum cleaners. and other decals survive on the door and window to the right.
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This building was a church.
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July 29
Live steam!
Running with the coal box first as there is no turntable at Uppsala East.
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The stoker jumping on board after decoupling.
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Reversing slowly past the points.
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Stoker on the footplate again after switching the points.
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So timeless, I just had to render this in black and white.
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Filling the oil pump.
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Filling the individual oil reservoirs, no level glasses or central oiling system in 1909 when the engine was made.
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Departure.
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So the Sigma FP has 6 very comprehensive custom settings in its mode menu. There used to be only 3 but they added 3 more in the last firmware update. One of mine is set for the FunLeader in square format and monochrome - you know, for those days when you want to pretend you’ve got a classic Hasselblad! Anyway, today I used that.
Impy (foreground) and Tinka
You’ll need to look at this full size to see what got Bedlington Bod so excited! The Sigma FP & Funleader are not made for spontaneous wildlife action!
July 29
Rainy day here, but it cleared off before dusk and I had nothing but a Colt .45
D750 Nikkor 20-35mm f2.8 D 35mm
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Colt Bisley Model revolver made in 1898, caliber .45 Colt.
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The Bisley was Colt's attempt to capture the British target shooters market in the mid 1890's. It failed, and it's said there were more Bisleys on the open range than the target range. Production stopped during WWI.
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If you think the Bisley looks like the classic Colt Single Action Army, (cavalry/western revolver) you're not far off as many of the parts will interchange.
Only two famous men carried Bisley Models in the course of their business, Bill Miner-Canadian train robber carried one in .41 Colt, and Pancho Villa Mexican bandit and revolutionary, his was chambered for the .44 Winchester cartridge.
Just because sepia was popular at the time.
I'm surprised at how well the 35mm did here. I would have normally shot this with my Tamron 90mm Macro.
July 30
D750 Nikkor 20-35mm f2.8 D
Taylor's School Museum
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The local Historical Society bought and restored an old one room country school and turned it into a museum, (open by appointment only).
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I'm not sure, but I think there should be another out-house there...
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July 30
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Goonhilly, this afternoon.
Sigma FP & Funleader 18mm f8 Caplens
590D3655-2F1D-4DBC-8C8F-9AAAD336CEB1.jpeganyone know how to turn this round to the correct orientation?
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It can be done in post processing, Affinity anyway, or imgur.
I just copied it, added it to imgur and edited it.
It can be done in post processing, Affinity anyway, or imgur.
I just copied it, added it to imgur and edited it.
Thanks, I understand that. My problem is that it’s already the right way up when I upload it from my iPad but about 50% of the time I upload portrait format files to here, they spin round to landscape. I wondered whether there was an editing tool on here that would let me correct it without having to re-upload it.
Thanks, I understand that. My problem is that it’s already the right way up when I upload it from my iPad but about 50% of the time I upload portrait format files to here, they spin round to landscape. I wondered whether there was an editing tool on here that would let me correct it without having to re-upload it.
I understand this is a bug/miscommunication in the forum software.
I've seen it happen on other forums as well.
Not always but always from the same users if I'm not mistaken. The fact you mentioned "uploaded from an iPad", triggered a memory. I believe it is somehow connected to iPad or iPhone.
Perhaps just the upload or perhaps the editing on that class of device?
July 31
D750 Nikkor 20-35mm f2.8
Just a goof-off day and a few photos of the morning and early afternoon
1/4000 f14 M 800
Started out the day playing around with my Bell-o-shade. No filters, just the shade. Supposed to work from 35mm-135mm lens varying its length to match the focal length. 35mm the bellows needs to be compressed to 2''. I still got the bellows shadow around the edges. Maybe this big lens with it's 77mm filter size?
I did get a nice sun star...
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At the local Farmers Market. Just one shot, I had my buddy on his leash in one hand and soon had a dozen ears of corn to manage...
1/125 f16 M 100
It's not about getting it all in. I'll do a write-up on my thoughts later on using a 20-35mm lens for a month, (35mm primary)
From the top of Peter's Mountain with the Appalachian Trail just behind me a few feet. I also had a D700 with a Nikkor 80-200mm f2.8AF D ED lens which was the proper tool for the job at hand. Here's some of the better views in 35mm looking North.
The atmospheric conditions wasn't the best for these shots, but acceptable. The water in the center is the Susquehanna River. Way too much of the mountain vegetation in the foreground.
The best shot with a 35mm focal length
This taken with the D700 at 200mm from right behind me, a foot bridge on the trail crossing the busy road on the mountain. It's a dangerous place to cross because of the sharp turn in the road on top.
Here's the same bridge taken at 35mm
I understand this is a bug/miscommunication in the forum software.
I've seen it happen on other forums as well.Not always but always from the same users if I'm not mistaken. The fact you mentioned "uploaded from an iPad", triggered a memory. I believe it is somehow connected to iPad or iPhone.
Perhaps just the upload or perhaps the editing on that class of device?
I wondered if it was that. Maybe I’ll stick to uploading from my desktop in the future. Thanks.
I didn’t use the FunLeader lens yesterday! I usually only take one lens out with me and yesterday a really wanted to get some pics of the dogs in action so I took the 65/2 instead. However, I did start the challenge a day or two late, so I’ll see what I can do today and see if I can find something different to finish on.
l love this lens but due to the restrictions it imposes - wide angle of view, fixed aperture and fixed, hyperfocal, focus, it has been challenging to use it every day for a month and still try to vary the style a bit. I’d have liked to have thrown a bit of street photography and indoor event stuff into the mix but Covid restrictions and the fact that I don’t live in a teaming metropolis have put paid to that idea.
Time to evaluate this exercise.
I had three goals for this month.
I have definitely achieved these goals.
Getting back to basics with "only" a good 35 was definitely refreshing. My first lens in a 135 system was a Super Takumar 35/2 in M42. They are constantly among my most used primes. I don't have quite as many 35 as 105 mm lenses, but it is close if you don't count the MicroNikkors...
The Z6II has its quirks, but I no longer have to think *too* much when I use it. It is not as intuitive to use as my old faithful D700, but as I have shot well over 250000 frames with my D700s, that isn't unexpected.
The subject I have shot the most of during the month isn't worth sharing as the photos all look the same. An unsharp Colorchecker chart is even more boring than a brick wall, unless you are after building a lookup table for calibrated sensor response in different lighting. I still have to shoot far too many of these in low light, under different types of street lighting and indoors to build a full set.
I was really uncomfortable with PhotoNinja after so many years using Aperture, Adobe products and Capture NX-D for my raw conversions. I don't remember what the version number was around 2013 when I last had a license for the software. I used it then, but never got quite proficient with it. When the culling and grouping in groups needing similar developing in a DAM solution is done, PhotoNinja is very fast to use but the browsing inside the application is awful.
I use Photo Mechanic for all selection, keywording and final export for different usage.
My main reason for finding another raw converter is that Capture NX-D don't handle my Leica files and I don't want to use two different applications depending on what camera was used. ACR was out of the running as I don't like the rendering of some colours from any CMOS Nikon. Adobe's handling of the CCD colours was second to none, but from the D3/D300 onwards, there have been better choices in my not so humble opinion.
Now, the basic conversions are as easy as in Capture NX-D, which surprises me as I didn't think I could do it in one month...