• Members 938 posts
    Aug. 26, 2023, 9:19 a.m.

    Good morning to everyone wherever you are in the world...I'm afraid we have someone that just posts and runs, not going to mention any names just yet. 😃

    • This long-running thread originated on DPReview has grown into an all-inclusive community in which all brands of camera are welcome.
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  • Members 938 posts
    Aug. 26, 2023, 9:24 a.m.

    Experimented with ND filter and hoped some seagulls would remain still enough.

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  • Members 929 posts
    Aug. 26, 2023, 9:57 a.m.

    I put my name Q3 waiting list after its launch. But I did not like how Leica treats its customers and decided not to wait and bought S5II. Guess what happened, after the day I bought S5II, Leica UK sent me an email to tell me there is Q3 is ready for me if I want to buy. It was too expensive anyway but after buying S5II, no way! However one of my friends wanted to buy it and asked him if he wanted to buy and he did. Bonus point for me, I can borrow his camera if I wanted to. Last night we met and I took a few shots. I have mixed feelings, but I used for a couple of hours so far. And these are half decent shots I managed to take.

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  • Members 929 posts
    Aug. 26, 2023, 10:04 a.m.

    A short break in Mühlbach
    So time for hiking of course. Here's a few from various trips last week.
    I'm still waiting for the B&W film that I took to be developed and scanned, and curious to see if that worked OK, but in the meantime here's a few digital shots

    Up & over.
    Here's my son on a swing on the top of a mountain; positioned so it looks like he's really high and over the top of the next mountain :-)
    No photoshop here!
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    Down to the "red river"

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    Red & Green
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    A sea of some kind of moss
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    A meadow and a mountain :-)
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    ...just enough room to squeeze by
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    And one last shot from our balcony, looking across to the hill with the meadow being surrounded by a group of clouds :-)
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    Great to be out in the mountains again !

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  • Members 390 posts
    Aug. 26, 2023, 11 a.m.

    Lenin's Palace of Culture and Sport. Such was name for building which is now called City Hall. It was built for 1980 Olympic games and was quite extraordinary building, now it's not used anymore and in bad shape, decaying and rotting. Last activity was there when Nolan filmed opening scenes of Tenet, there you can see also this impressive main stage area, otherwise it is closed. But this summer there was exhibition organized and this opened opportunity to view this place from inside, maybe last time.

    Approacing building, first are stairs then bridge over railway, which is now deconstructed and new road building in this place is going on. After that is ice rink area and then higher part it main stage building.
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    After getting up stairs this is the view what opens. On left are stairs going down to ice rink, in background entrance to main building.
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    In hall area. On right are coat hangars, on left windows toward sea can be seen.
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    One of exhibition items
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    On left what appears to be clothes on stand is one of exhibition items, these 2 big balls on right background are another.
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    In restroom video installation was made. Otherwise it was completely dark, I used flashlight, provided with ticket to illuminate it bit better.
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    Coat hangar area
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    Exhibition item, illuminated again with flash light
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    Short film presentation
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    Those concrete worms are called "sisters"
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    Concrete items on coat hangar rails
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    Viewing video performance
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    This shows sorry state of building with leaking roof, accommodated with this indicative smell of water damaged building.
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    Look to outside. Getting out of there was like getting out of prison.
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  • Members 1330 posts
    Aug. 26, 2023, 11:29 a.m.

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  • Members 1330 posts
    Aug. 26, 2023, 11:30 a.m.

    I like that murky water and the bird!

  • Members 1330 posts
    Aug. 26, 2023, 11:35 a.m.

    I like your first and last most. Great renditions!

    Maybe you could loan Q3 for comparison and see what it does...

  • Members 1330 posts
    Aug. 26, 2023, 11:37 a.m.

    Top shot for me!

  • Members 938 posts
    Aug. 26, 2023, 11:42 a.m.

    @Daneland
    I put my name Q3 waiting list after its launch. But I did not like how Leica treats its customers and decided not to wait and bought S5II. Guess what happened, after the day I bought S5II, Leica UK sent me an email to tell me there is Q3 is ready for me if I want to buy. It was too expensive anyway but after buying S5II, no way! However one of my friends wanted to buy it and asked him if he wanted to buy and he did. Bonus point for me, I can borrow his camera if I wanted to. Last night we met and I took a few shots. I have mixed feelings, but I used for a couple of hours so far. And these are half decent shots I managed to take.

    For me, spending £5.5K on a fixed lens camera is the very definition of madness. And a 28mm at that.
    I would buy the Panny all day long over the Q3. And still have money left over to buy a Sony full frame compact too.
    They are very different beasts though, I'm wondering why those were the two models left on your shortlist.

    As for the pictures, 2 and 4 are very good, 3 and 6 are excellent.

  • Members 1330 posts
    Aug. 26, 2023, 11:42 a.m.

    What a great series! Historical and documentary. That 17mm really serves you well.

  • Members 938 posts
    Aug. 26, 2023, 12:09 p.m.
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    Aug. 26, 2023, 12:12 p.m.
  • Members 938 posts
    Aug. 26, 2023, 12:13 p.m.

    The light in the first is lovely.

  • Members 319 posts
    Aug. 26, 2023, 12:32 p.m.

    Sunset at Black Coppice

    I had planned to head up to Great Hill again on Thursday evening and the weather looked quite promising too, but general apathy meant I only managed to drag myself out relatively late, leaving slightly less than two hours from the moment I first set boot on moor until the time sunset was due to occur.

    My first port of call was Black Coppice where I'd intended to spend a few minutes exploring the area where I'd planned to go last week before the other photographer set up shop there, before moving on deeper into the moors. This plan also hastily went out of the window and I ended up spending way too long exploring the top of the quarries and seeing what compositions I could come up with incorporating the the heather that's probably a little past its best now, but still rather vibrant. I got a few nice shots, but nothing particularly exciting considering the amount of time I spent.

    Eventually I set off up the Black Brook path that leads deeper onto the moors. After 20 minutes or so of repeatedly stopping to grab shots of backlit heather or awkward shots of the heather laced grass on the far bank I realised that if I carried on I was going to end up totally cut off from any sort of view when sunset happened and took the executive decision to turn back and spend sunset on Black Coppice where at least there would be views, although, as it turned out, very little time to really think about what to do with them.

    All images taken handheld with the Nikon Z7 plus either 24-70 f/2.8S or 100-400 f/4.5-5.6 VR S. Processed from single raw files in Capture One Pro 23.

    1. The Goit

    The Goit is a man made canal running from the Roddlesworth (yes, that's a real place name) reservoir chain to feed into the Rivington chain at Anglezarke (that one is too!). I've taken this shot a few times now in different evening conditions. Here, the upper the canopy is a little less intensely lit than it has been on previous occasions, which I think adds to the weight of it when used to frame the rest of the image.

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    Just lately I've been watching quite a bit of Steve O'Nions on Youtube, who shoots a lot of B&W film which has inspired me to try a few B&W conversions, included here as bonus pics. When processing these, I've been thinking about what my preferences were when I used to shoot on film back in the stone age late 1980's. I was never a fan of grainy film, preferring to shoot on fine grain high contrast emulsion like Pan F and then print on multigrade paper at a middling contrast level, so this is what I've aimed for here. With some selective colour biasing, plus a bump in contrast and exposure this conversion seems to have taken on a bit of a glow the colour original didn't have. I almost feel like getting the Bronica out. I wonder if it still works?

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    2. Backlit Grass

    I was quite taken with this backlit grass set against the colours of the quarry. I tried a number of shots here, but this is the best one I came up with. Not quite what I was aiming for, whatever that was. I do like the grouping of three trees in a row at the back, which also feel like they need further investigation.

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    3. Sheep In a Quarry

    An inquisitive sheep inspects a nook, or maybe a cranny. Regardless of whatever kind of orifice it's eating ferns from, I liked the subtle tones here between the heather, grass and rocks, plus the texture on the quarry wall.

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    I also figured this one would make a nice B&W conversion, which is kind of ironic considering how much I've just waffled on about subtle colours. I think it emphasises the rocky textures quite nicely though.

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    4. Nab and Quarry

    Looking towards the setting sun (just off the top of the frame), really pushing the flare rejection of the 24-70, which it handles admirably.

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    5. Cricket and Heather

    Looking in the opposite direction towards the cricket ground, what most local people think of when someone mentions White Coppice, but that's actually the name of the grassy hill leading off out of frame on the right.

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    Another B&W conversion that once again reminds me of high contrast fine grain film. Somehow, this image looks old.

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    6. Black Combe

    A shot from the 100-400. Not as good visibility as last week, but still a recognisable lump in the distance. Having walked most of the Lakeland fells over the years, Black Combe felt a bit odd as it's on the coast, which gave a strange feeling having nothing but sea to my left as I followed the path curled around its western flank that leads to the summit. I haven't used any dehaze tools on this (in fact, I find their effect quite objectionable most of the time), but it's interesting how there's a sudden demarcation in visibility around about the middle of the frame. The trees on the other side of that hill are probably a lot further away than they appear.

    It's also worth mentioning how good the image stabilisation is on the 100-400, particularly for static subjects. This shot was taken hand held at 400mm and is pin sharp at just 1/125 and I've handheld equally sharper images at much longer exposures than that. It's fair to say, I quite like this lens.

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    7. Layers

    Looking through the growing haze towards the Mormon temple at Chorley North. I like how the scene is divided into discreet layers of tone.

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    8. Mysterious Fiery Ball In The Sky

    A wider shot including this strange, rarely seen orb that I was lucky enough to snap as it slowly descended in the sky.

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    9. Where It All Went Wrong

    This had been such a promising sunset, with nary a cloud in the sky and hints of what looked like the Isle Of Man visible on the horizon, so I had high hopes for how it would end, but alas, my old nemesis, the fog bank, was lurking over the Irish Sea, practically invisible until the sun started to clip the top of it and revealed it hiding in plain sight, as it began strangling the vibrant life out of the nascent sunset.

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  • Members 1803 posts
    Aug. 26, 2023, 12:45 p.m.

    Reims

    Still dinning out on my holiday pictures.

    This is the less famous Gothic Basilique Saint-Remi in Reims- Much less visited but quite spectacular.

    Sorry if I do not participate much this week. The provincial theatre that I worked for (second job) doing performing arts photography have acquired my negatives of the work I did for them back in the nineties for their historic archives. I am busy making digital scans of the stuff that interests me, before I hand them over. I am going through about 78,000 frames. It is quite nice reliving old times and finding shots I missed the first time around.

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  • Members 1330 posts
    Aug. 26, 2023, 12:45 p.m.
  • Members 1330 posts
    Aug. 26, 2023, 12:49 p.m.

    All of them are amazing, but this one is spectacular!!!