This week's Photo Friday challenge – Analog – has caused me a great deal of problems, not least because a) I now only shoot digital, and b) I don't really like submitting something that I didn't take recently. I did shoot a roll with my £1.00 eBay purchase, a point-and-shoot Vivitar IC 101 panoramic camera this week, but all the shots were utterly crap. Anyway, rather than miss a challenge I decided to use this shot, the one and only 'analog' image on chromasia.
It was my first entry for this blog, but I don't imagine that all that many of you (other than myla) have trawled this far back through my archives, and was taken some time around 1993 on my Nikon F4 with a Sigma 70-210 APO lens. All I really remember about this shot is that it was the only one from about ten rolls that looked even half decent. The remaining 300 or so seagulls looked as though they'd either been shot, or suddenly paralysed mid-flight ;-)
(This entry was updated: 20th August, 2004).
camera lens capture date aperture shutter speed shooting mode exposure bias metering mode ISO focal length cropped?
Nikon F4
Sigma 70-200mm APO
some time around 1993
I forget
not all that fast
aperture priority (probably)
+0.0 (maybe)
matrix
probably 100
round about 200mm
yes
comment bymyla at 06:16 AM (GMT) on 11 March, 2004
I know how hard it is to shoot birds, and I've got to tell you that the 287 were worth it for this shot. The wing extension is fantastic and the colors are beautiful. I just finished "shooting" ducks -- (photographing them, that is). . . magnificent feathered creatures all.
a remarkable photo -- the detail of the feathers is wonderful!
comment bySandra Rocha at 07:41 PM (GMT) on 21 August, 2004
lol I had the same problem, only use digital these days also and my entry for this challenge is (so far) the only reflex shot in my blog ;-)
anyway, still wish I could capture a "greeze" like this with any of my cameras, I usually end up with tail feathers ;-D
~~
comment by m at 06:26 AM (GMT) on 3 September, 2004
Great shot, I feel better that you're roll of film did not warrant publishing ;-)
How much PS work has been done and how was the shot scanned ?
I'm interested to see how much of the texture was down to using film and howmuch was down to post production changes.
comment bydjn1 at 09:04 AM (GMT) on 3 September, 2004
m: the grain is a consequece of the fact that this was originally a transparency that was printed, that was then scanned with a cheap scanner. So it's more to do with image degredation that ethier the scanning itself or any post-production.
comment by Lillian at 07:00 PM (GMT) on 8 March, 2005
The best photos I've seen!!
comment byMartin at 08:37 PM (GMT) on 21 December, 2005
Hello David.
I just wantet to find your first pic and how that all startet :-)
So I got it.
If you got time tell me how you learnt and moved so far ...
I would be thankful :-)
Martin
comment by Jake at 08:01 PM (GMT) on 23 June, 2006
Couldn't stop looking, kept going, and i ended up here. Thank you for your wonderful photos, I visit them everyday...
comment bySarah at 09:54 PM (GMT) on 6 September, 2006
This is comical, its like I've just entered a time warp and gone back to the beginning. To leave a comment on the first picture would only be fitting. I used to do the same thing, shoot roll after roll of HP5 / TRI-X or TMAX, in the hope to get one good shot, but actually most of the images were poop becuase I didnt have a decent lens. Money was tight and trips to London Camera Exchange to chop in old kit were a regular thing... ahhh the good old days. Not a bad frame, even tho it is only a seagull.
comment byCraig at 03:36 PM (GMT) on 27 February, 2009
Some people trawl back this far :)
comment by Jouna at 04:10 PM (GMT) on 22 August, 2010
This week's Photo Friday challenge – Analog – has caused me a great deal of problems, not least because a) I now only shoot digital, and b) I don't really like submitting something that I didn't take recently. I did shoot a roll with my £1.00 eBay purchase, a point-and-shoot Vivitar IC 101 panoramic camera this week, but all the shots were utterly crap. Anyway, rather than miss a challenge I decided to use this shot, the one and only 'analog' image on chromasia.
It was my first entry for this blog, but I don't imagine that all that many of you (other than myla) have trawled this far back through my archives, and was taken some time around 1993 on my Nikon F4 with a Sigma 70-210 APO lens. All I really remember about this shot is that it was the only one from about ten rolls that looked even half decent. The remaining 300 or so seagulls looked as though they'd either been shot, or suddenly paralysed mid-flight ;-)
(This entry was updated: 20th August, 2004).
lens
capture date
aperture
shutter speed
shooting mode
exposure bias
metering mode
ISO
focal length
cropped?
Sigma 70-200mm APO
some time around 1993
I forget
not all that fast
aperture priority (probably)
+0.0 (maybe)
matrix
probably 100
round about 200mm
yes
I know how hard it is to shoot birds, and I've got to tell you that the 287 were worth it for this shot. The wing extension is fantastic and the colors are beautiful. I just finished "shooting" ducks -- (photographing them, that is). . . magnificent feathered creatures all.
a remarkable photo -- the detail of the feathers is wonderful!
lol I had the same problem, only use digital these days also and my entry for this challenge is (so far) the only reflex shot in my blog ;-)
anyway, still wish I could capture a "greeze" like this with any of my cameras, I usually end up with tail feathers ;-D
~~
Great shot, I feel better that you're roll of film did not warrant publishing ;-)
How much PS work has been done and how was the shot scanned ?
I'm interested to see how much of the texture was down to using film and howmuch was down to post production changes.
m: the grain is a consequece of the fact that this was originally a transparency that was printed, that was then scanned with a cheap scanner. So it's more to do with image degredation that ethier the scanning itself or any post-production.
The best photos I've seen!!
Hello David.
I just wantet to find your first pic and how that all startet :-)
So I got it.
If you got time tell me how you learnt and moved so far ...
I would be thankful :-)
Martin
Couldn't stop looking, kept going, and i ended up here. Thank you for your wonderful photos, I visit them everyday...
This is a beautiful shot, David.
This is comical, its like I've just entered a time warp and gone back to the beginning. To leave a comment on the first picture would only be fitting. I used to do the same thing, shoot roll after roll of HP5 / TRI-X or TMAX, in the hope to get one good shot, but actually most of the images were poop becuase I didnt have a decent lens. Money was tight and trips to London Camera Exchange to chop in old kit were a regular thing... ahhh the good old days. Not a bad frame, even tho it is only a seagull.
Some people trawl back this far :)
Ah, I hate seagulls. But I like your photos.