My One-a-week project (2011)

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Last saturday I had a running race, preceded by a non competitive run. These two guys (surely friends, because in the last meters they managed to arrive equal first) were however faster than me in the competition .

 

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Technically, this is not a good picture, but I like it from some other point of view.
I was around during a wine-related event ("Open cellars": wine producers were open to visit during the last week end). In every cellar there was a also a UNICEF fundraising initiative, and in this specific cellar these children (by chance, here rare, from different ethnic groups) were playing with the flags. Since I was tasting wine and was the third cellar , I lost time before figuring out I could take a picture... so I didn't have much time.
It was just a moment and I was not able to correct exposure (light background), so that it is underexposed and then cured in PP. Composition is not far from the original, I just cropped out a detail on left. I see the uploaded version is also slightly overdone in pp, I'll go back some step.

 

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I bet I'm late with the project. Anyway, this is a picture of the moon during yesteray eclipse, done with an old Hanimex 400/6.3, plus cheap teleconverter. Cropped 100% and here resized, since in the original the moon has about 1300 pixels of diameter. I will revise the crop: perhaps I need more room on right.
The lens is something that in the '70s was sold as "girl watcher" . Its physical length is its focal length.

 

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Taken with the same old 400/6.3 as the last moon, this morning, from my home door. When cropping, I tried to give some composition, according to diagonal lines and hare position. And the lens deserves a deep hood, but I did not have much time.
I know, I'm a little bit late with one-a-week...

 

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A quick shot with builtin flash (no time for mounting the other one). Some technical defect, but I like it. I wish reflection was more evident.

 

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Here I played with a vintage preset in LightRoom (because she felt old ). I like how I rendered the contrast between the necklace and the rest. Light is from an open door, late afternoon. Lens is Helios 58/2. Due to manual focus, my camera and my hands, I've not nailed focus at best.

 

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Sort of macro abstract, made with a Tominon 105/4.5 I saved from the bin (it was the lens of a Polaroid scientific camera). Mounted on bellows.

 

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Before a bottle of wine...

 

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I've done this with an old MF lens (Helios 58/2), with my camera driven by the computer, placed in front of me. Automatic series of 5 pictures, review, trash, etc.

 

[christian.rudman]

Really great series sir, it's nice you see you shooting a wide range of subjects and experimenting with styles. Nice that you are also keeping up with your project, even with missing a few days here and there.

Good luck with the rest of the 52!

 

[enzodm]

Really great series sir, it's nice you see you shooting a wide range of subjects and experimenting with styles. Nice that you are also keeping up with your project, even with missing a few days here and there.

Good luck with the rest of the 52!

thank you! however, I'm running slightly late... this should be week30 or so...

 

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I did this picture on purpose, it will go with a book review. Books in the back are of the same writer, and the one highlighted is loosely related to the reviewed one. The page, in the focused area, tells something (for me) crucial on the book interpretation.
All this as an exercise, of course .

 

[christian.rudman]

nice combo shot! love the bokeh and the way you highlighted his other book.

 

[enzodm]

nice combo shot! love the bokeh and the way you highlighted his other book.

Thank you!

 

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This picture has been taken in the Venice lagoon (actually, closer to Chioggia). Just on the side of the navigable channel, there is a large area with shallow water, were people goes for clams. I was on a sailboat, so no much possibility of choosing angle of view. It is a crop.