Thanks all for the thoughts...Adding one of our favorites from the trip to Florida over Thanksgiving that I took with my Nikon 1 ...He and his older brother were very blessed by having their grandmother around the house...
Thanks all for the thoughts...Adding one of our favorites from the trip to Florida over Thanksgiving that I took with my Nikon 1 ...He and his older brother were very blessed by having their grandmother around the house...
Had a great time at Conowingo damn, so hard to pick out just a couple. But here they are.
Eagles fishing-1 by James Childress, on Flickr''
Eagle high five-1 by James Childress, on Flickr
Eagle cluster-1-5 by James Childress, on Flickr
Wow, you'll remember that forever. What a privilege to see such a spectacle.
And I guess I'll start us off this week--this was my assignment for last week for Project 52 Pros (I shot it tonight--a day past deadline...oops). We were to come up with an illustration for a story about the new year, and I decided to make it ambiguous. You could look at it as a mysterious gift or treasure, or you could interpret as Pandora's box. Who knows what the year holds? But let's hope for the former, right? I also went for some symbolism and included the hourglass, which had just been turned.
A Mysterious Gift by Nicole Fernley, on Flickr
Used the 85mm 1.8G for this one. ISO 100, f4.5, 1/100. Three speedlights: one gelled with orange and yellow inside the box (which had a piece of white paper taped to the lid to spill the light back onto the table a bit), one above and behind my sweet model to light her hair a bit (draped the diffuser cover from my softbox over it), and one more camera left quite a few feet back to light the back of the chest.
My six-year-old has informed me just how unoriginal this idea is. After seeing the picture, she said excitedly, "Lots of movies have light coming out of a book or a box." Sigh... Well, at least I got some good lighting practice.
Great shot. I remember when this forum started. Your skill and artistry has continued to improve and evolve. You really have a talent for composition and lighting and the skills to bring your vision to fruition. Sometimes our kids are our harshest critics. You should meet my daughter.
Late to the party - was sick last week, this week- catching up and getting ready for the now falling blizzard of 2016.
Last Saturday was sent a 1970s Jupiter-3 50mm F1.5 lens to adjust, it was an utter mess and I parted it out. Made a "new lens" from the parts sent and a really nice 1962 optics module that I had left-over from a Sonnar conversion. Worked on it for ~8 hours to get it all working. Sick of being Sick!
Black_ZOMZ_J3_1 by fiftyonepointsix, on Flickr
Bokeh, Close, F1.5- focus on Stem of leaf by fiftyonepointsix, on Flickr
Getting the focus this accurate means setting it within 0.01mm of the correct position in the mount. The Jupiter-3 was in production from 1949 to 1988, based on the Zeiss 5cm F1.5 Sonnar that goes back to 1932. "Lomo" (lomography) just announced a partnership with the original Russian company to start producing a new version of the Jupiter-3.