Throwback Thursday!!

bc_steve · Jul 11, 2014

2006. One of my first shots with an SLR but re-edited a while back. I got a little lucky with this one.

ladybug vs aphid 2006 by Steve Dinicol, on Flickr

oldhippy · Jul 17, 2014

Summer time and the livin is easy.

ronlane · Jul 17, 2014

oldhippy said:
Summer time and the livin is easy.

Yee Haw!!!!!!!!!!!!! Giddy up boys, we done got us a hot date! :mrgreen:

JustJazzie · Jul 17, 2014

Well, I am not sure I've posted it here before, but it is definitely a throwback. I took it in high school, end of freshman year I believe...Maybe sophomore? Its not dated and my memory of that time is up in a cloud of smoke. ;-) Anyways, taken with my first nikon SLR with whatever generic brand of film they gave you (it was a white case usually, sometimes red), scanned on a terrible scanner.

JustJazzie · Jul 17, 2014

Derrel said:
A shot from 2003 "Morning Dew"

I liked the way the dew had collected overnight on these new rose leaves. It was a cloudy morning,so I used Shade White Balance,which in my area,works pretty well. I shot at f/6.7 mainly for the background rendition,but also because there was a slight breeze blowing and I needed a moderate shutter speed, like 1/90th,to ensure against wind motion blur. These are very small rose leaves,and very,very tiny droplets. With the 45-P I was within about four inches of the front element when I shot this photo. I consciously included the out of focus,withering yellow rose as part of the backdrop in the upper left to remind and to show that this is a yellow rose, but now am wondering if perhaps I should have repositioned the camera and tripod and eliminated that background element. Regardless of that,I really do love the smooth bokeh that the 45-P has when there is a lot of out of focus background,which is typically the case in macro shooting,and despite the working distance limitations the 45-P imposes,I think I'll continue exploring the use of it as a close-range lens with an extension tube added.FujiFilm FinePix S2 Pro ,Nikkor 45P +extension tube
shot 10/06/03 9:53:09 AM 45mm-P Nikkor + Kenko 20mm extension tube,tripod, f/6.7 @ 1/90th,ISO 400, Shade WB, Org-Org-Off 12MP in-camera JPG Fine ]

Derrel, Those colors are to dye for. :giggle: Really though, I love the rich colors in this shot! Perfection.

keyseddie · Jul 17, 2014

I like throwback Thursday. Probably because I'm a throwback and I can bring out old stuff. I'm a new guy so none of it has been posted.
The client was Tinazzi, the importers of these wines. It was for a poster so had to be the proportional dimensions you see. The corkscrew is my own personal Lagouille that I bought when inebriated in Paris one afternoon. We took it outside with the light coming from the left to mimic the light in the bg, which is a 30x40 print of mine from Vernazza harbor propped up behind the scene. Hot spot on the scroll sucks and the corkscrew screw should have been pointed more toward lower left corner.

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minicoop1985 · Jul 17, 2014

2007 ish? Thought this was good then. Don't really now...

hamlet · Jul 17, 2014

Here is my first shot i put any thought into and that got me into photography:

Poof is like 1 month old here.

Derrel · Jul 17, 2014

JustJazzie said:
Derrel said:

A shot from 2003 "Morning Dew"

.FujiFilm FinePix S2 Pro ,Nikkor 45P +extension tube
shot 10/06/03 9:53:09 AM 45mm-P Nikkor + Kenko 20mm extension tube,tripod, f/6.7 @ 1/90th,ISO 400, Shade WB, Org-Org-Off 12MP in-camera JPG Fine ]

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Derrel, Those colors are to dye for. :giggle: Really though, I love the rich colors in this shot! Perfection.

Thanks Jazzie. You mentioned the colors: that was one of THE major strengths of the Fuji S2 Pro d-slr: the color palette it had. The S2 Pro took F-mount lenses and had really nice color! I shot a LOT in JPEG mode in those days, since at that time Adobe software wasn't what it is today. People forget, but back then, RAW image processing was very slow, and was pretty much a one-file-at-a-time process, and there were not nearly as many differing apps. As you can see, that was shot Original-Original-No Sharpening, in 12 megapixel JPEG capture, then processed in Photoshop.

I went back through some web uploads of that same 2003 era. Here is one of my son, who is now 11 years old, when he was 13 days old.

[ DSCF4264_Day13Blaze.jpg photo - Derrel photos at pbase.com ]

Here is the originally-published caption from 2003: "The name of this prolific rose is Blaze, an old standby rose that grows here very well. Jill got this idea to put the baby in his bassinet and to surround him with roses she had cut. Spencer is just starting to grab onto things, and he grabbed this bunch of roses and moved them to this position all on his own. I couldn't resist snapping this shot."

mishele · Jul 17, 2014

My first attempt at a selfie 2009!!

limr · Jul 17, 2014

I've got Slovenia on the brain because I'll be there for a week in August. I can't get to pictures I took the first time I went (my computer crashed and my replacement hasn't arrived yet) but here are a couple of my favorites from the last time I was there:

Day 220 - Hopping by limrodrigues, on Flickr

Day 212 - Losing balance by limrodrigues, on Flickr

Day 213 - A brief flirtation by limrodrigues, on Flickr

Day 212 - Boat and rattail by limrodrigues, on Flickr

Day 211 - Boats in Strunjan cropped by limrodrigues, on Flickr