My One-a-week project (2011)

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The previous one and the next three are from vacations, so I'm slightly out of week precision. I'm also aware that nice places do not make necessarily a nice picture, however I tried something I never know how to do well, landscapes.

This is Chioggia:

 

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From the mountain over the beach:

 

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I was in Helsinki for work, but I added a couple of days to visit city & surroundings. This is Kotka. Seen from here seems slightly underexposed.

 

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Since I'm without camera, hopefully now only for some more hour , I publish another one from vacations. Landscapes are something I like but I'm unconfident to shoot. This one is slightly against sun (so, I had to work with LR a little).

 

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The 60D is finally arrived, and I'm testing it. I do not know which kind of insect it this one, however I did not notice the wings until I took the picture.
I did it with an old Helios 58/2 on an extension ring, at f/8, and with builtin flash. Position was not much practical to use a tripod.

 

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Ok, I promoted this one as part of the one-a-week series. It is an attempt of doing an high key portrait. I like it although I had to expose more instead of recovering in pp. Lens was a 1958 Carl Zeiss Jena Triotar 135/4, wide open.

 

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[Ron Evers]

I really enjoyed your series of pictures. :thumbup:

I see you get a lot of use from your Helios 58/2 as do I. Lovely lens.

 

[enzodm]

Thanks Ron, and yes, even if I have a number of fifties, when I need sharpness and that extra bit of reach, I go with Helios. By the way, it was my very first lens, +/- 22 years ago, on my first Zenit .

 

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Just after late summer, we had the first snows on mountains. To be honest, this is the second one, but I did not have occasion to go hiking two weeks ago.
I do not like this picture too much. The weather was partly sunny, slightly foggy, so that the picture was flat and odd in colors, and not really sharp. I tried to recover the possible. The result is slightly innatural at my eyes.
And: I do not yet have confidence with landscapes. I always end up with postcards.

 

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This and the following two are two pictures I took in Cape Town, where I was for work. This and the next are done with a cheap P&S I brought with me due to te safety problems I heard of, although the places I visited were not so dangerous, at end.

 

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... seen from Table Mountain. Colors seem a bit odd to me, but I'm not able to identify why. By the way, one early morning I went running (and then walking, and then climbing... ) on the Lion's Head, the mountain you see on the left. Here I could have gone with my dSLR, since it was full of people. However, plenty of light and need for large DoF make P&S less limited than usual.

 

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... and this again with my 60D. I did not see many wild animals .

 

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Season of slightly sick roses again... with some reference to our political situation today.

 

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Slightly abstract. I liked the 3d aspect of leaves on the left vs. the flat water area. I have some more pictures from a walk in the hills close to my town, but are more of the postcard kind .