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A Multi-Generation Family Portrait

28 Friday Apr 2017

Posted by castl23 in Film Cameras, film photography, hasselblad digital, still life, Uncategorized

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35mm, 35mm cameras, analog, analog photography, camera bodies, cameras, film photography, nikon, nikon f, nikon f cameras, nikon f photomic, nikon f2a, nikon f2as, nikon f3 hp, nikon f4, nikon f5, nikon f6, nikon film cameras, nikon slr

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Nothing outstanding, just something I’ve had in mind to do for a while and finally got bored enough to do it. I’ve been collecting Nikon film SLR cameras off that auction site. These represent what I think is an unbroken chain from the F, front center, of around 1957, to the F6, top center, from around 2004 to the present. Yes, Nikon does still produce two film cameras, the FM10 and the F6.

I have other Nikons not in the line of royalty here:  EM, FM, FM2/T, FM3A, FE, FE2, FA, F100 and a black F2A.

Ironically, the camera used for this portrait was a Hasselblad H5-D 50 with the 50 – 110 zoom used at 110mm. A monolight was on the right about subject level with a silver umbrella reflecting the bare bulb. A large, white reflector did a little fill on the left.

I do use the cameras! They are all quite operational and most in near mint condition. I hope my son will enjoy his inheritance someday…and have the space! Or, maybe they’ll appreciate in value and he can sell them back to where they were found.

More Primroses

12 Wednesday Apr 2017

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close up flower photography, close up nature photography, close up photography, evening primrose, flower, hasselblad digital, macro, macro photography, nature, primrose, texas evening primrose, wildflower

This has a darker than necessary interpretation, at least according to the LR histogram. I hope it works out. My screen is set at max brightness on the iMac. Otherwise it goes black and is a pain to wake up again!

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The camera was Hasselblad HD 5 with 200mm f4 lens and Canon close up lens attached, hand held. Aperture fairly wide, don’t recall exactly and don’t really care.

Primroses

31 Friday Mar 2017

Posted by castl23 in Digital Photography, hasselblad digital, nature, Uncategorized

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buttercup, evening primrose, flower, hasselblad digital, macro, macro photography, nature, nature photography, primrose, texas evening primrose, wildflower

They are also called buttercups, I believe. These are in morning light, but also known as Texas evening primroses. I crawled around this morning with a heavy Hasselblad and 120mm macro lens. Two ladies walked by on the pathway and said they were concerned that something was wrong with me as a was shooting from below flower level to get the first shot you see here.

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Another Flower for You

29 Wednesday Mar 2017

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blue, blue and green, bluebonnet, flower, hasselblad digital, macro, macro photography, nature, spring, spring flowers, texas, wildflower

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The obligatory bluebonnets. Light was too harsh, really. I tried to rescue somehow with bokeh. (Why doesn’t any computer like the word bokeh? Here, bokeh, bokeh, bokeh! Take that!)

The camera was a Hassleblad (no misspelling, believe me, error messages galore!) The lens was the highly ventilated 120 f4 macro.

Do you know the legend of the bluebonnet?

Take care…a flower for you.

The Tree in the Wind

29 Wednesday Mar 2017

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hasselblad digital, mesquite tree, nature, new spring leaves, spring foliage, sunny day, tree

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I’ve watched this mesquite for years as I’ve passed by but have never had a camera and light together at the same time. Today I was shooting elsewhere and was on the way home when I noticed the light and the bright, green, new spring foliage. It was windy and that probably helped arrest it in some nice configurations in some of the shots.

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Flowers for You

28 Tuesday Mar 2017

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flower, hasselblad digital, macro, macro photography, nature, spring, texas

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Aubrey, Texas

27 Monday Mar 2017

Posted by castl23 in Digital Photography, hasselblad digital, Portraits and People, Small Town, Travel, Uncategorized

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corrugated building, decay, Digital Photography, grain elevators, hasselblad digital, international harvester, north texas, old sofa, old truck, portraits, rural, rural texas, Small Town, small town in north texas, texas

My wife and I recently took a short Sunday afternoon excursion looking at the countryside and small towns just north of the DFW Metroplex. I think I’m trying to find the unspoiled village where chain restaurants and retailers have yet to bury their roots to leech out more wealth from the locals.

In Aubrey there was, of course, Main St. which had Mom’s Restaurant and other quaint establishments. The folks there did seem friendly enough and I kept hearing the theme song to Andy Griffith running through my head.

However, Main St. wasn’t that interesting to me. It was too dressed up for the tourists, too clean. We did notice not too far from this center of commerce some interesting, genuine, old, perishing parts of the town that appealed to us photographically.

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Truck is from 1953 and is in better shape than I am.

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This wasn’t too far from the truck.

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The grain elevators gave some nice shadows.

Altogether, a nice visit. We hope to see more of them!

Oh, PS

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Blooms of White

19 Sunday Mar 2017

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This was with H5D and 120 macro shot two stops down from wide open at 200 ISO. There was a pestilent wind keeping things shook up, and as I was, in the late evening light, at 1/60 or slower, I had to watch the stamens carefully to see when a pause was in order to fire.

Winter’s Death Rattle

19 Sunday Mar 2017

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dusk, evening, fishing, hasselblad digital, landscape, low light photography, nature, person fishing, pond, sun in picture, sunset, texas

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Yesterday I went out to shoot some blossoms with macro lens on H5D just to see if I could successfully find fractions of a second of breaks in Texas’s incessant wind. I got a few shots, but as I was leaving I noticed the sunset only two days from spring. With the fisherperson on the shore, the strolling people on the path, the bare tree silhouetted by the setting sun, I was compelled to stop and grab a quick hand held shot with the 120 macro lens I had been using.

What I suppose mainly supports the title here are two aspects of the subject:

  1. The still leafless tree.
  2. The green grass.

We Stopped

17 Tuesday Jan 2017

Posted by castl23 in "photography", Digital Photography, hasselblad digital, landscape photography, nature, Uncategorized

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autumn, autumn foliage, fall, fall foliage, landscape, landscape photography, nature, nature photography, oak tree, texas, tree, vibrant, vibrant foliage

One of the hardest things to do when traveling is to stop and take a picture, especially if it involves any trouble, like setting up a tripod. We had noticed this subject a few days earlier between Tyler and Dallas, closer to Tyler. As we knew we would return very soon, we made a note to stop next time! The shoulder of the toll road wasn’t very wide, so we decided to make the necessary extra trip to get to the farm to market road running next to the tree. I used a Hasselblad H3D-39 hand held with the HD 35 mm lens on it.

 

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