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Other Stuff => Your other hobbies => Topic started by: RC_cola on June 25, 2011, 12:55:32 pm

Title: Photography
Post by: RC_cola on June 25, 2011, 12:55:32 pm: I enjoy creating images so Im an audio/visual guy. I have taken pics of my musical buddies for a long time. Live music images is tough but fun since I really dont like using a standard flash unit, makes everything look flat. Getting saturated color is more appealing to my eye than an easy nasty flash pop look.

The second pic is Unkown Hinson, he is an awesome guitarist!
Title: Re: Photography
Post by: EL34 on June 26, 2011, 11:16:51 am: Cool stuff
Love the moving drummer parts.

The guitarist looks like a vampire!
:laugh:
Title: Re: Photography
Post by: RC_cola on June 26, 2011, 06:21:20 pm: Yes, thats Unknown Hinson, king of the country western troubadours but he is a rockin fool with a guitar. He is also the voice of Early on the Squidbillies cartoon.

Unknown Hinson - Venus Bound (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk1_DAXTu_A#)

http://www.youtube.com/user/monsteranus?blend=23&ob=5#p/u/43/Wvko_Bue7hU (http://www.youtube.com/user/monsteranus?blend=23&ob=5#p/u/43/Wvko_Bue7hU)

I dont know if these two liks will show. The second one I took at a small club in Atlanta, he is killer live!
Title: Re: Photography
Post by: RC_cola on June 26, 2011, 06:26:56 pm: The second link is my Youtube page, I have videos of several musician buddies from my area. We are blessed around here with very talented musicians. Now the two clips of the band at the county fair I do not personaly know. That was a most interesting performance too.
Title: Re: Photography
Post by: thermion on June 27, 2011, 01:41:35 pm: Holy crap, that's Early?!?
Waka waka waka woo! Donkey kong!
Title: Re: Photography
Post by: simonallaway on June 27, 2011, 04:07:33 pm: Nice images RC.

I'm an enthusiast too, and hate flash with a passion. I'd rather shoot at high ISO and get a bit of grain than use a flash. If only fast lenses weren't so damned expensive! ;)
Title: Re: Photography
Post by: RC_cola on June 27, 2011, 07:43:49 pm: Yep, thats Early. He plays small venues all over the country. You would not be dissappointed if you catch one of his shows. He also Plays guitar with the Boxmasters, Billy Bob Thorntons band. Speaking of Billy Bob, he just wrapped up a three day shoot for a new movie he is doing in the town I live in. It was a zoo around here for a few weeks! I live a half a block from where the production base camp was set up, it was crazy here!

Flash makes a flat lifeless image. At one time I made a handfull of flashes remotely triggered using color media on them, worked great. That was back in the film days, I will see if I can find one to share.
Title: Re: Photography
Post by: thermion on June 28, 2011, 01:09:56 pm: I do some photography too but my subjects are much smaller:
Title: Re: Photography
Post by: simonallaway on June 28, 2011, 02:13:42 pm: wow! are all those visible light via a microscope?
Title: Re: Photography
Post by: thermion on June 28, 2011, 03:18:06 pm: The top 2 are breast cancer cells imaged with a laser scanning microscope (~630x magnification, blue is the nucleus of the cell) and is visible light. The last one was done with a transmission electron microscope (~220,000x magnification) which uses an invisible tuned electron beam. The TEM is really just a huge half million dollar vacuum tube running at 80KV. Notice the scale bar at the bottom of the TEM micrograph...
Title: Re: Photography
Post by: birt on June 30, 2011, 04:58:35 pm: don't know if this will show (facebook picture).
(http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/247767_10150206597419078_745844077_6863278_1819837_n.jpg)
it's a Sony NEX-5 with 1927 Voigtländer Anastigmat "Voigtar" lens. Cut from a Voigtländer VAG camera and modified to fit the Sony. I've been playing around with this kind of things lately.
Title: Re: Photography
Post by: RC_cola on June 30, 2011, 09:01:52 pm: Thats something I never expected to see, a bellows digital. Do you focus the digital to the lens on the bellows?

Do you have any pics to post made by this beast?
Title: Re: Photography
Post by: RC_cola on June 30, 2011, 09:35:02 pm: Another pic of Unknown from the EARL in Atlanta.
Title: Re: Photography
Post by: RC_cola on June 30, 2011, 09:40:40 pm: Our local theater just recently used as a location shoot for a movie by Billy Bob Thornton.
Title: Re: Photography
Post by: birt on July 01, 2011, 10:18:00 am: Quote from: RC_cola on June 30, 2011, 09:01:52 pm
Thats something I never expected to see, a bellows digital. Do you focus the digital to the lens on the bellows?

Do you have any pics to post made by this beast?

i focus it by moving it on the rail. since it is made for BIG film there is a lot of cropping. here's some pictures:
(http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/247792_10150206597169078_745844077_6863272_2654581_n.jpg)
(http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/270775_10150250795219078_745844077_7150767_7106820_n.jpg)
(http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/264421_10150250848954078_745844077_7151269_6499916_n.jpg)
(http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/269488_10150250839409078_745844077_7151138_2983974_n.jpg)

it has a lot of flare and very little contrast so i use photoshop quite a lot (i don't care about authenticity of pictures, i edit them until i like them best. i adjust contrast, colors, brightness...). but i like what this lens can do. from macro to tele, very sharp details but still dreamy photos.