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Photo of the Week 6 Aug 2009.


neil poppleton
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a bit of photoshop + cgtextures worked in on this one, so i don't know if it is officially a 'photo' of the week, but thought I'd throw it up anyhow. Probably about 75% is still original photo.

 

"Division"

 

Still working on it a bit. any suggestions welcome :)

 

It's the rooftop garden at SFMOMA

 

Claudio, I like the story behind your photo.

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And now for something completely different - a straight up architectural shot!

 

San Francisco federal building (yeah, I'm still scanning California slides that are trickling in, but next week I'll have new material). This is on Kodak E100GX with my Minolta XD11 and Vivitar S1 28-90.

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I use the Panosaurus tripod head which I'd recommend to anyone wanting to try their hand at panos without spending a fortune.

http://gregwired.com/pano/Pano.htm

 

Stef, what's the build quality like on that thing? Do you think it would be able to take an SLR with a battery grip and long lens? I have a Manfrotto 302 Pano head but was thinking about getting a Nodal Ninja as the Manfrotto only works on a horizontal axis.

 

Lovely panorama by the way :)

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The build quality is actually pretty good. Though I think it isn't recommended for camera/lens combinations weighing over 3lbs. It does tighten up really good though and I've never noticed any movement due to gravity on the swing arm.

 

You can read a review of it here and a comparison to other options including the Nodal Ninja where it rates pretty good: http://www.tawbaware.com/panosaurus_review.htm

 

And you must've read the wrong bit Craig as it is fully spherical!

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Sounds pretty good, thanks for the info :)

 

BTW, you work in Skypark right? I was on the roof of your work taking photos of Glasgow a while ago, what a view you get from up there... beware of the seagulls if you go up though, they were not happy!

:mad: Dammit, I've been trying to get up there for ages but to no avail!! We were going to do it a while back to film some time lapse skies but the management wanted us to fill in a lengthy method statement and risk assesment etc and it was more hassle than it was worth in the end. So how did you manage it?

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:mad: Dammit, I've been trying to get up there for ages but to no avail!! We were going to do it a while back to film some time lapse skies but the management wanted us to fill in a lengthy method statement and risk assesment etc and it was more hassle than it was worth in the end. So how did you manage it?

 

Really? I was doing some work for the company that owns the building that you work in... don't think I can show the image yet though.

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My first post here! :)

 

This just caught my eye - a small wind gauge near a house I was photographing today.

The first photo was taken with a Nikon D200 at shutter speed: 1/320 and f/9

The second photo was taken with a Nikon D200 at shutter speed: 1/20 and f/29

I like doing this effect with Wind Turbine farms, too. Get a shutter speed slow enough to let the blades blur and crank the f/stop up high enough to compensate for the slow shutter speed for lighting purposes.

 

 

The 2nd set of photos was on a rural property in the middle of rural Victoria, Australia.

There's 40 acres of (some crop) behind the Tree, and the Tree just seemed to be calling to me.

It looks old and somehow in pain. The first one shows the shot of tree/water trough/fence and the second shows what I was trying to get. Somehow bringing the weathered fence rail in with the tree. I was stooping when I took the photo and I think the end of the fence rail dominates the scene more than I wanted. Both shot with a Nikon D200 1/250 @ f/8

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