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Razor sharp this one, RW!

What's the lens?

Try to ask here in BKK:

http://www.avcamera.com/index.php/contact-us

AV-Camera is a great photography shop, and M. Mana is very commited and helpful.

I dealt with this shop several times and service is outstanding. Never done any repair, but M. Mana told me it can usually be done localy.

Maybe worth a try...

PS: M. Mana speaks an excellent english

Thanks for your interest Shaggy.

Wow Ray.....this is going to take some getting used to,am so used to seeing your work in monochrome and off a roll.

I'm curious about many things. And i'm well aware I have a lot of work going on. For now I've just to learn more about digital...

I did read somewhere that you were thinking about buying a body to use your vintage lenses with,which make/model did you opt for?

Thanks for part to FracturedRabbit's comments, then because of a great second hand offer in a BKK shop (AV Camera), I went for an Olympus OM-D E-M5 with its Zuiko 12-50 kit lens (still originally boxed and barely used).

I'm blown out by this camera (yet it's my first digital camera ever, so...), and it's a lot of fun to play with my vintage legacy lenses (more to come here about his).

Am also curious about what you think about developing your images via a computer now,instead of a darkroom!

For now I'm like a kid with color pencils on my computer: I'm testing everything to try to understand how digital works. But, as it is at present, I must confess I miss the "handling" of the "real" thing (film, paper, chemistries, and so on)... and the smells.

Sure, let's see what happens in the next months...

My comments in blue...

Cheers,

Ray

Congrats to the winners!

I wish you a nice stay in "the luxury villa in Pattaya", Shaggy.

As well the longest phone call ever, to you Roodujardin.

Enjoy your prizes!

This HDR is a tough one, I don't know the answer, it's an art form, and we are Photographs and Arts...

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I do agree.

Art/expression has no limits. If someone likes to use HDR why not?

It's up to the photographer and/or the jury in the present case.

And where does enhancement begin and stop? Just an light exposure editing is already an enhancement IMHO...

No-no: just have fun to process your own pics as you feel its good for you, and don't bother.

This competition is just to have fun (again!), so don't take it too hard...

Cheers

Just to be clear: I'll never use HDR because I don't like its "fake" rendition

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Clouds, you gain some and you lose some...You've got to decide which one is more relevant to the mood of the pic.

We sometimes tend to forget. Our imagination is also a very powerful tool...I myself don't want to see every single details and tend to treat negative space with deep reverence.

There are academic works and there are real life works, where feeling and emotion come first.

Photography is said to be an art/expression, so a pic "has to speak" as the photographer speaks.

IMHO, of course...

Part 3

Done!

These pics are just scanned wet prints with no editing. Different vintage cameras and lenses, but same 135 B&W films and papers all along...

Wet prints have been willingly processed a bit roughly to better give the "heavy" feel of this day.

The wole "story" is longer, so I did some cuts not to be too boring here. As well there is a dynamic rythm given by portrait and landscape pics alternating formats, but it's too difficult to make it working here.

Oh! And please, don't be too serious with that. It's just for fun here...

Cheers,

Ray

Part 2

Ok, back to the basics...

So, a short story in three parts (as it is from now on).

"Down the street just before the storm"

Part 1

Still life inside a handicraft workshop...

Vintage soviet Helios-44 58 f/2 lens at f/4

Happy birthday, Assurancetourix!

A new MT bike or a new camera as birthday gift?

After the basic, the elemental...

"Bubbles-effect" due to the Pentax K SMC Takumar 28 f/2.8 lens full open.

Double flowered Hibiscus... with tiny bubbles!

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You see?..

The bubble test I've been itching to do, but my fairy lights are in the loft and my LED strip needs batteries.

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Thanks for your post RW, as well to share the video...

No, at the moment, I didn't test the Alienskin software. I'm still learning my "new" toy, then when at ease with it I may have a look at it...

BTW pictures in the video just show what was the Kodachrome look: warm tone, good resolution, good contrast and a rich skin rendition.

I liked Kodachrome a lot...

And please, don't take for granted pics rendition I submited above. It's far too much

Cheers