Weekly Assignment #50: 50
Nikolai
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Hey, we got to an official anniversary, this is our 50th class! :barb
For this class we going to have something rather challenging (or so I hope).
First of all, you are only allowed to use 50mm lens. Zooms are OK, but please make sure they are set to 50mm. I'm not gonna be too picky about one-two mm off, but any more than and you get a yellow card :deal .
Next you're gonna shoot full manual, just like it used to be done in the 50-ies :-)
Next, subject-wise, please try to frame something that would can possibly be considered as a credible 50-ies shot. Classic cars are your primary choices, but anything "period" would do, as well as some "eternal" stuff, like an architecture, landscapes, etc.
And finally, please do the post processing to match 50-ies style duotone pictures, both color and style :deal .
B/W preferred, sepia is fine.
Please use Internet for research (google, wiki, etc).
As usual, fresh pictures only. EXIF is mandatory. Post process according to the plan above.
For the rest of the rules, class index, etc., pleas use this sticky.
Let's see those fifties!
For this class we going to have something rather challenging (or so I hope).
First of all, you are only allowed to use 50mm lens. Zooms are OK, but please make sure they are set to 50mm. I'm not gonna be too picky about one-two mm off, but any more than and you get a yellow card :deal .
Next you're gonna shoot full manual, just like it used to be done in the 50-ies :-)
Next, subject-wise, please try to frame something that would can possibly be considered as a credible 50-ies shot. Classic cars are your primary choices, but anything "period" would do, as well as some "eternal" stuff, like an architecture, landscapes, etc.
And finally, please do the post processing to match 50-ies style duotone pictures, both color and style :deal .
B/W preferred, sepia is fine.
Please use Internet for research (google, wiki, etc).
As usual, fresh pictures only. EXIF is mandatory. Post process according to the plan above.
For the rest of the rules, class index, etc., pleas use this sticky.
Let's see those fifties!
"May the f/stop be with you!"
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real 50mm or 50mm after crop ?
XTi, G9, 16-35/2.8L, 100-300USM, 70-200/4L, 19-35, 580EX II, CP-E3, 500/8 ...
DSC-R1, HFL-F32X ... ; AG-DVX100B and stuff ... (I like this 10 years old signature :^)
The simplest way: put on "nifty fifty" and go have fun
Wow, this is a tough one for my first weekly
These were the only things I found around the house from the 50's. A 1954 nickle and a grade school yearbook of my dad's that my grandma gave me. I thought the yearbook was interesting because it's tattered and falling apart and it's tied together by strings, which you don't see too often anymore, but when I took a picture of the outside of the yearbook it wasn't as interesting as seeing the pictures inside, especially since the date isn't on the outside, but is on the inside.
These were shot with a Nikon D50 with a 50mm/1.8 and SB-800
Exif Info #1
Exif Info #2
Thanks!
Can you please update your post with the EXIF links?
I wish there were more "feel" to the entries rather than just having period subjects, but hey, this will do to boot this show up:-)
Ya.. well I'm here to make everyone else's entries look that much better
Sorry about the missing exif links... I'm a newb... had to figure out how to do that
But will you Nikolai confirm :
What you want is a picture which might be shot in the 50 ies.
Some kind of this for example:
You do know the picture on the left already.
May be if the photo was shot and developped in the 50.ies/60.ies it shouldn't be so sharp. No. It could be as sharp as this one.
My grand mother, was photographed in the 60.ies and the photo is as sharp as the towell one. I photographed her with the Rolleicord. I still remember where I made the shot !
I do have a plan to go and shoot some of this moody pictures !
But that will only be possible tomorrow, in the evenning.
Yes :-)
I will post it at home, editing this post, because here I can't make a correct screen capture.
( Why the <photo tools> don't have the exif ? I must make a poll for this one of these days ... )
Shot Manual, with flash. The lens was at 62mm. Is that acceptable ?
No. It is not.<img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/mwink.gif" border="0" alt="" >
Do I have to re-shoot ? Yes I must.:D
A very classical motive, non creative, but working very well for this assignment.
but I don't feel 50's around it even a bit
As you said lens is from 60's (62mm exactly
that's not bad,
but my overall feeling is around mid 80's ?!
Let's do it again (me of course too
XTi, G9, 16-35/2.8L, 100-300USM, 70-200/4L, 19-35, 580EX II, CP-E3, 500/8 ...
DSC-R1, HFL-F32X ... ; AG-DVX100B and stuff ... (I like this 10 years old signature :^)
It is true that you and me, we do have a very different life experience.
In the 40.ies until the 25 th April 1974, Portugal was a country under the dictatorship of Salazar. I am sure you do know about this.
There existed the sensorship to allow only the publication of certain articles which were not against the regime.
Photography was also part of that system and the very naive themes were well accepted even if people were starving in Alentejo. (I am not communist).
So, my picture of the vase with roses is OK, it could have been shot at that time.
I remember one of my father's photo: a boy - some 6/7 years old - eating in a staircase out in the street. Naive theme: Simple.
And so are the roses.
This is one of my father's pictures shot in the 60.ies. Not a great composition but very simple and straight. The fishermen where inside the wooden boat, which very few exist these days.
What distinguishes this picture of the dictator Salazar from one which could be shot today ? The costume may be ... the pose, very circunstancial and convenient. The smile ... the future, while people were tortured in prison...
May the halo around his head ... like saints use to have.
Well, I will post more pictures which will look like from the 50.ies/69.ies with the "correct" focal distance.
In fact many pictures were shot not in 35 mm but in 6*6 !
Americo Ribeiro was a photographer from Setubal who shot many aspects of the city. Here we can see some af his valuable work. I remember he was using a 6*6 and later, a 35 mm
This model brownie was around with Malt shops and Pink Cadilacs,so it only seemed fitting to shoot it.
Shot at 1.8 to give the feel of an old camera and processed into B$W with some grain added..
The over exposed look is also what this camera produced most of the time..
i have no idea how to embed exif data ,I can do a print screen that shows it.
Regards Dave.
http://DavidRodgers.naturescapes.net.
http://DavidRodgers.smugmug.com
Could someone explain how to add it to an image for me
Regards Dave.
http://DavidRodgers.naturescapes.net.
http://DavidRodgers.smugmug.com
The way I did it was go into my smugmug gallery and choose "Critique" for my style. On the right side there's a link that says "Photo Information". At the top of that page, there's a link to use to display Exif info externally.
I did notice that when I photo shopped my pic, the exif data was gone, so I linked to the exif data of my original photo.
That tutorial is here, not in the <photo tools> !
Just picture look WAY to modern (about 30 years to modern
XTi, G9, 16-35/2.8L, 100-300USM, 70-200/4L, 19-35, 580EX II, CP-E3, 500/8 ...
DSC-R1, HFL-F32X ... ; AG-DVX100B and stuff ... (I like this 10 years old signature :^)
Sorry, amigo, focal lens is off, and the overall feeling is way off, too...<img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/ne_nau.gif" border="0" alt="" >
I should say, though, for me this image does not deliver the period feeling. Maybe it's modern-day glasses, maybe something else...
EXIF: in worst case scenario - simply type stuff in manually, way easier than adding a screenshot.
HTH
Whats the limits on processing ,ie selective blurring ETC..
in case anyones curious I collect and shoot old cameras,theres tons of reference photos available..
Regards Dave.
http://DavidRodgers.naturescapes.net.
http://DavidRodgers.smugmug.com
I love it when the skys the limit..
Regards Dave.
http://DavidRodgers.naturescapes.net.
http://DavidRodgers.smugmug.com
I only wish there were no galsses
You win
Heres another without the glasses:cry
Focal length 50mm
Flash front curtain
Flash manual
exposure mode manual
metering multi pattern
is0 200
shutter 1/50-f/2.8
Regards Dave.
http://DavidRodgers.naturescapes.net.
http://DavidRodgers.smugmug.com
Very cool, man! Thank you!
The ONLY thing - there used to be WHITE border, not black
this is my first entry into the weekly assignments so here goes!
C&C always apreciated
exif:
Date Modified 2007-08-29 21:21:32
Date Taken 2007-08-29 19:24:35
Camera Canon EOS 400D DIGITAL
Exposure Time 0.0005s (1/2000)
Aperture f/1.8
ISO 1600
Focal Length 50mm (guess: 78mm in 35mm)
Photo Dimensions 2712 x 4008
File Name fotoassignment Dgrin 50 copy.jpg
File Size 9.46 MB
Detailed
Flash flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode
Exposure Program manual
Exposure Bias 0 EV
Exposure Mode manual
White Balance auto
Color Space unknown
You can simply edit your original post.
the exif info is available when you click the photo but i think i can paste it as well.
OK, I like it VERY much!
I like the way you used the high ISO to produce some grainy image, duotone treatmeant and the rest of the period entourage also looks impeccable. Overall, great entry! I'm very happy you joined us!
i really like going out on a mission to shoot a certain style or thing, i'm sure i'll participate in other assignments as well
I am still learning this post-processing stuff, and right now I'm travelling, so I can't do a whole lot to this one, of course that makes it fit the assignment better.
Crossings
Since I am not at home, I haven't been able to put a white border on it.
EXIF http://george-1.smugmug.com/photos/newexif.mg?ImageID=189490363
B/W conversion by Smugmug.
Thanks for all I've learned on these assignments, I don't have all the techniques down yet but I'm working on them.
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George Pollard
http://george-1.smugmug.com
George, welcome to the Class and thank you for the entry!
One thing, though: EXIF says it's auto mode, the requirement was full manual