Photo 150 - pegelli

I've made up my mind for the three topics I will cover for the Photo 150 challenge

1:
A day prime or month prime shot of the week (so combining with other Dyxum Challenges). In weeks there is no day or month prime I'll use a zoom with the restriction that it's somewhere in the zoom range and not at one of the zoom ends.
01: 02: 03: 04: 05:

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2:
Vintage digital macro, using my 15 year old KM5D and my 13 year old A700 with one of the A-mount macro lenses I have
(Minolta 100/2.8 D and Sigma 180/3.5)
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06: 07: 08:


3:
A dig in the archive, the shot needs to be taken at least 12 month ago and not be posted before
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Topic 1 and 2 will be in some cases combined with HDR, Panorama or focus stacking to practice my technical skills with those techniques.
I will also use the 1:1 and 21:9 cropping options a lot more than I would normally do, but still use one of the full dimensions of the sensor (maybe just a very small loss caused by minor straightening)

Topic 3 will be sequential and by quarter, starting 1Q2006 (when I got my KM5D) and ending 50 quarters later (2Q2019)




Edited by pegelli - 23 February 2021 at 12:35

so this is our first ( legit, non-week-0 ) starter image
the 64:27 shape is really growing on me

and a neat reminder that I meant to get myself an orchid as a moving in plant (a year and a bit ago)
... will seek one out during my next essential food shop and respond with a photo at some point
[like a game of tag!]

week 1 - topic 3 (dig in the archive)

Since there are about 50 quarters since the day I got my first DSLR in January 2006 I'll start at the beginning and pick one quarterly "typical" image from that time.

Peter Pan and friends (February 2006)

KM5D + Min 18-70 kit

We took the kids to "Disney on Ice" and I took my new camera with me to see how it would work, this is iso 3200 and 1/30th handheld at 90 mm FF equivalent. It's not a great image by any means but so much more (and better) than what I had ever done with film before that. I still want to show it here as an archive dig from the very beginning.

Edited by pegelli - 08 January 2021 at 14:51

Week 2 - topic 2 (Vintage Digital Macro)

Orchid

A700 + Sigma 180/3.5 telemacro, helicon focus stack of 13 frames, moved the camera ~24 mm in 2mm increments on a geared macro rail

So for this challenge I bolted on focus stacking and a square crop

Edited by pegelli - 11 January 2021 at 15:48

This will be another interesting one - especially with the new techniques coming in. I can't believe you are ready for Week 2 shots already! I especially like the Peter Pan shot

Week 2 - Topic 1 (day or month prime shot)

Another one from the Mastenbos


A7ii + Minolta MC Rokkor 17/4

Specifically composed to 7,11 x 3 at the upper edge of my viewfinder in order to keep the camera horizontal and avoid having to use keystone correction to straighten the trees at the edges of the frame. So it's probably about a 6 mm "poor man's" shift that way

Thanks Manfred, It's newly processed. The requirement for the archive shots for topic 3 is that they must not have been posted before and this usually means they're processed for the first time.