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[TBonz]

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...

 

 

[Kenafein]

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.

[OTRTexan]

Oddly enough, it was so far out that it was hard to tell what was going on. The pictures show the story much better than I actually saw. Really happy with the series though. Put the rest up on Flickr

[Brian]

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.