DM: Dyxum Gathering in Detroit

Had a great time at the "meeting" with Kirk at Greenfield Village.
It was old time cars weekend, so there were plenty of old cars and bicycles to shoot.

I want to thank Kirk for letting me use his CZ 24-70 & 135 stf. What a great couple of lenses to use.
They are both super sharp and heavy! The only downside is that now I want to buy them both!

Here are a couple of shots from the gathering.

Kirk, with his CZ 24-70 taking pictures of some glass blowing demo. Yeah Right!
Looks like a chaser setup to me. :-)


Some big wheels. Taken with my A700 & the Kirk's CZ24-70


A shot with the Sal 135 STF & A700. A great lens.


Some "olde tyme" music.


A picture of the way "CC" (George Mock)dressed when he was a child.


Overall a great day and lots of fun things to do.
Next time we will have to try to get more people involved.

More pictures at : www.pbase.com/photoman989/greenfield_village_2008

Great shots, especially like the statue studying the ancient car

Edit : removed the cross reference as mods now combined the threads

Edited by pegelli - 07 September 2008 at 11:54

Is that Bob I see in Kirk's 3rd shot ?

A great selection from both of you :)

A few more from yesterday's outing...

#5 CZ24-70


#6 135STF


#7 CZ24-70


#8 CZ24-70


Edited by Kirk - 07 September 2008 at 13:12

pegelli wrote: Great shots Kirk and aresee. Especially like the 3 ladies with their beautiful hats. The "old tyme" is also nice but a bit too sharp to be real old . You probably need to find a plug-un that fades the sides, puts in creases, fuzzies it up and adds grain. It's amazing how technology performance improved.

Thanks pegelli,
I agree that was a quick effort using Google's Picassa.
It now recognizes Sony A700 ARW files. The new 3.0 beta version.

Here is another try at "olde tyme" look.




Here is the original jpeg file look.



I would be interested to see what type of treatments others could use to make it look like an old photograph. It would be fun to see how they turn out.


Here is the link to the file:Photo Link

Thanks for looking.

Great shot guys. I like them all and makes me disappointed I couldn't attend. The weather was great and while I was out yelling at kids I kept thinking I should be in Detroit looking at old things.

O-well, there's always next time.

TFS

Aresee wrote: @ my-spot Sorry we missed you there. It was great weather and a lot of fun cars, for sure. Your pictures give a nice feel of the car details. Is the last one off of the railroad crane?

Yep, that old yellow hook has always been a favorite of mine.

The village was at least 4 times busier then I have ever seen it before (and we are members), but I could see why! The weather was perfect for this event and there were hundreds of old time cars to shoot! Even though I didn't see ya'll, my wife and I had a great time.

Great shots guys!