Weekly Assignment #50: 50

NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
edited September 7, 2007 in Assignments
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!
"May the f/stop be with you!"
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  • z_28z_28 Registered Users Posts: 956 Major grins
    edited August 24, 2007
    One tech question :
    real 50mm or 50mm after crop ?
    D300, D70s, 10.5/2.8, 17-55/2.8, 24-85/2.8-4, 50/1.4, 70-200VR, 70-300VR, 60/2.8, SB800, SB80DX, SD8A, MB-D10 ...
    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 :^)
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited August 25, 2007
    z_28 wrote:
    One tech question :
    real 50mm or 50mm after crop ?
    Real 50mm, forget the crop :-)
    The simplest way: put on "nifty fifty" and go have fun
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • SnakerootSnakeroot Registered Users Posts: 43 Big grins
    edited August 26, 2007
    Stuff around the house
    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
    188188296-S.jpg


    Exif Info #2
    188188253-S.jpg
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited August 26, 2007
    Snakeroot wrote:
    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

    Thanks! thumb.gif
    Can you please update your post with the EXIF links? deal.gif
    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:-) mwink.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • SnakerootSnakeroot Registered Users Posts: 43 Big grins
    edited August 26, 2007
    Nikolai wrote:
    Thanks! thumb.gif
    Can you please update your post with the EXIF links? deal.gif
    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:-) mwink.gif

    Ya.. well I'm here to make everyone else's entries look that much better rolleyes1.gif

    Sorry about the missing exif links... I'm a newb... had to figure out how to do that :) They're in the original post now!
  • Antonio CorreiaAntonio Correia Registered Users Posts: 6,241 Major grins
    edited August 26, 2007
    I am of those who reads the f manuals at hight speed or don't read it at all.mwink.gif
    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:
    168040199-M.jpg132581419-M.jpg
    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 ! :D I loved this woman !iloveyou.gif

    I do have a plan to go and shoot some of this moody pictures !
    But that will only be possible tomorrow, in the evenning.
    thumb.gif
    All the best ! ... António Correia - Facebook
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited August 26, 2007
    Antonio,
    I am of those who reads the f manuals at hight speed or don't read it at all.mwink.gif
    But will you Nikolai confirm :
    What you want is a picture which might be shot in the 50 ies.
    Yes :-) thumb.gif And I will even accentuate those fifties look by adding grain, vignetting, 5mm white border and and other film-era related nasties :-)
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • Antonio CorreiaAntonio Correia Registered Users Posts: 6,241 Major grins
    edited August 27, 2007
    This exif thing is always a drag to get.<img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/headscratch.gif&quot; border="0" alt="" >
    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&quot; 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.
    188453208-L.jpg
    All the best ! ... António Correia - Facebook
  • z_28z_28 Registered Users Posts: 956 Major grins
    edited August 27, 2007
    Hmmm... Antonio - nice picture,
    but I don't feel 50's around it even a bit eek7.gif
    As you said lens is from 60's (62mm exactly mwink.gif)
    that's not bad,
    but my overall feeling is around mid 80's ?!

    Let's do it again (me of course too rolleyes1.gif)
    D300, D70s, 10.5/2.8, 17-55/2.8, 24-85/2.8-4, 50/1.4, 70-200VR, 70-300VR, 60/2.8, SB800, SB80DX, SD8A, MB-D10 ...
    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 :^)
  • Antonio CorreiaAntonio Correia Registered Users Posts: 6,241 Major grins
    edited August 27, 2007
    z_28 wrote:
    Hmmm... Antonio - nice picture,
    but I don't feel 50's around it even a bit eek7.gif
    As you said lens is from 60's (62mm exactly mwink.gif)
    that's not bad,
    but my overall feeling is around mid 80's ?!

    Let's do it again (me of course too rolleyes1.gif)
    Excuse me but I have to desagree with you regarding the contents of the picture.
    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.
    135568589-Th.jpg
    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.
    200px-Salazar1933.jpg
    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
    All the best ! ... António Correia - Facebook
  • D.RodgersD.Rodgers Registered Users Posts: 212 Major grins
    edited August 27, 2007
    Brownie
    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.
    brownie.jpg
  • D.RodgersD.Rodgers Registered Users Posts: 212 Major grins
    edited August 27, 2007
    Best I can do for exif Data..
    Could someone explain how to add it to an image for mene_nau.gif
    untitled-2.jpg
  • SnakerootSnakeroot Registered Users Posts: 43 Big grins
    edited August 27, 2007
    Exif
    D.Rodgers wrote:
    Best I can do for exif Data..
    Could someone explain how to add it to an image for mene_nau.gif

    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.
  • Antonio CorreiaAntonio Correia Registered Users Posts: 6,241 Major grins
    edited August 27, 2007
    Exif
    That tutorial is here, not in the <photo tools> ! ne_nau.gif !
    All the best ! ... António Correia - Facebook
  • z_28z_28 Registered Users Posts: 956 Major grins
    edited August 27, 2007
    Antonio - it's not about politics, roses or vases !

    Just picture look WAY to modern (about 30 years to modern mwink.gif )
    D300, D70s, 10.5/2.8, 17-55/2.8, 24-85/2.8-4, 50/1.4, 70-200VR, 70-300VR, 60/2.8, SB800, SB80DX, SD8A, MB-D10 ...
    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 :^)
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited August 27, 2007
    This exif thing is always a drag to get.<img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/headscratch.gif&quot; border="0" alt="" >
    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&quot; 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.

    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&quot; border="0" alt="" >
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited August 27, 2007
    D.Rodgers wrote:
    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.
    Thank you! thumb.gif
    I should say, though, for me this image does not deliver the period feeling. Maybe it's modern-day glasses, maybe something else...ne_nau.gif
    EXIF: in worst case scenario - simply type stuff in manually, way easier than adding a screenshot.
    HTH
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • D.RodgersD.Rodgers Registered Users Posts: 212 Major grins
    edited August 27, 2007
    Nikolai wrote:
    Thank you! thumb.gif
    I should say, though, for me this image does not deliver the period feeling. Maybe it's modern-day glasses, maybe something else...ne_nau.gif
    EXIF: in worst case scenario - simply type stuff in manually, way easier than adding a screenshot.
    HTH
    I knew I blew it on the glasses thought I could pull a fast one :cry

    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..
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited August 27, 2007
    D.Rodgers wrote:
    Whats the limits on processing ,ie selective blurring ETC..
    In this case - go have a ball:-) thumb.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • D.RodgersD.Rodgers Registered Users Posts: 212 Major grins
    edited August 27, 2007
    Whoo hoo ...
    I love it when the skys the limit..
    hawk.jpg
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited August 28, 2007
    D.Rodgers wrote:
    Whoo hoo ...
    I love it when the skys the limit..
    Way better now!thumb.gif
    I only wish there were no galsses mwink.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • D.RodgersD.Rodgers Registered Users Posts: 212 Major grins
    edited August 28, 2007
    Nikolai wrote:
    Way better now!thumb.gif
    I only wish there were no galsses mwink.gif

    You win rolleyes1.gif
    Heres another without the glasses:cry
    brownie16.jpg

    Focal length 50mm
    Flash front curtain
    Flash manual
    exposure mode manual
    metering multi pattern
    is0 200
    shutter 1/50-f/2.8
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited August 28, 2007
    D.Rodgers wrote:
    You win rolleyes1.gif
    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

    Very cool, man! Thank you! thumb.gif
    The ONLY thing - there used to be WHITE border, not black mwink.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • Chrissiebeez_NLChrissiebeez_NL Registered Users Posts: 1,295 Major grins
    edited August 29, 2007
    hi all!

    this is my first entry into the weekly assignments so here goes!

    189394104-L.jpg

    C&C always apreciated iloveyou.gif


    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
    Visit my website at christopherroos.smugmug.com
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited August 29, 2007
    hi all!
    this is my first entry into the weekly assignments so here goes!
    C&C always apreciated iloveyou.gif
    Chris, I like it alot thumb.gif , but before I go further, can you please provide the EXIF data? deal.gif
    You can simply edit your original post.
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • Chrissiebeez_NLChrissiebeez_NL Registered Users Posts: 1,295 Major grins
    edited August 29, 2007
    hey nikolai,

    the exif info is available when you click the photo but i think i can paste it as well.
    Visit my website at christopherroos.smugmug.com
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited August 29, 2007
    hey nikolai,

    the exif info is available when you click the photo but i think i can paste it as well.
    Oh, I see, sorry, there was no "hint" :-) :hide

    OK, I like it VERY much! iloveyou.gif
    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! clap.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • Chrissiebeez_NLChrissiebeez_NL Registered Users Posts: 1,295 Major grins
    edited August 29, 2007
    wow, thanks for the kind reply! :D

    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 wings.gif
    Visit my website at christopherroos.smugmug.com
  • george-1george-1 Registered Users Posts: 48 Big grins
    edited August 29, 2007
    My first attempt
    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
    189490363-M-1.jpg

    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.

    --
    George Pollard
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited August 29, 2007
    george-1 wrote:
    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.
    --
    George Pollard

    George, welcome to the Class and thank you for the entry! thumb.gif

    One thing, though: EXIF says it's auto mode, the requirement was full manual mwink.gifdeal.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
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