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January 12, 2024, 04:04:21 PM »
January 1st. 2024
The new year starts with a motorcycle. Always …
This is a sort of “normal” snap shot (for me, anyway).
Should have moved the orange rubber cone before taking photos.
(I tend to overlook those small things when taking photos quickly.)
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This one, I spent more time, to get the “look” I wanted, which is “Dark, sinister” look, something that looks like a still shot from a movie.
That darkness & cold looking light are intentional. (Shot with “Cinestill 800T film sim).
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I came back home, late at night.
Got out from the car, went to check the mail box.
When I turned around, I saw this “smiling face”.
(Two “eyes” are the suction cup mount of Valentine One. The white part is just condensation on the wind screen. I didn’t realize this while I was driving home.)
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Sometimes, I take still photos for Youtube thumbnails.
Sometimes, as “test shot” of certain “look” I’m trying to create.
Inspiration
“Sabotage” (2014) Last gunfight scene
“The good The bad and The ugly” (1966) Angel Eyes “When I’m paid, I always follow my job through.” scene
“Sicario”(2015) “La hora de conocer a Dios / Time to meet God” scene
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Re: How to be happy when there’s nothing really to be happy about (playing w/ camera
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January 12, 2024, 04:14:07 PM »
Very nice shots.
I've been eyeing the X100V for if my Ricoh GR ever konks out. Good to see it lives up to the hype.
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January 13, 2024, 01:36:51 PM »
Super cool photos!
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January 18, 2024, 03:24:25 PM »
Thanks for the nice comments!
Shot this morning...
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January 18, 2024, 03:29:00 PM »
Looks strange. The snow is missing.
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"The Vincent was like a bullet that went straight; the Ducati is like the magic bullet in Dallas that went sideways and hit JFK and the Governor of Texas at the same time."--HST **"A man who works with his hands is a laborer. A man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman. A man who works with his hands, brains, and heart is an artist." -Louis Nizer**
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January 18, 2024, 11:39:44 PM »
I took some photos when I was leaving the parking lot after I got off of work tonight.
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Shot with Tiffen Black Pro Mist ¼ filter, with CineStill 800T film sim.
(I also tweaked the image with Peter McKinnon’s LUT. So, it’s a little bit cheating.
One is diffusion filter, which I use every once in a while, not all the time. Another is PM LUT pack set. Again, I do that sometimes, but not all the time.)
All three photos I posted here today, are basically the same theme, “Shoot Emotions, rather than the Subjects”.
And the “emotion” would be, … “isolation, solitude, darkness, cold, something that could be in Michael Mann film, “Thief”, “Heat”, “Collateral”… there’s something I really like about the night scenes in his films.
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January 19, 2024, 05:15:37 AM »
Quote from: Monsterlover on January 18, 2024, 03:29:00 PM
Looks strange. The snow is missing.
Ha. Try spending Christmas in Hawai'i. Garlands and ornaments in every hotel and on every palm tree while Mele Kalikimaka plays on repeat and you drink your pineapple juice at breakfast staring at a garden of orchids. A true seasonal brain melt for us northerners.
Nice shots as always, S21FOLGORE.
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Quote from: S21FOLGORE on January 18, 2024, 11:39:44 PM
I took some photos when I was leaving the parking lot after I got off of work tonight.
DSCF2015_1
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T K
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Shot with Tiffen Black Pro Mist ¼ filter, with CineStill 800T film sim.
(I also tweaked the image with Peter McKinnon’s LUT. So, it’s a little bit cheating.
One is diffusion filter, which I use every once in a while, not all the time. Another is PM LUT pack set. Again, I do that sometimes, but not all the time.)
All three photos I posted here today, are basically the same theme, “Shoot Emotions, rather than the Subjects”.
And the “emotion” would be, … “isolation, solitude, darkness, cold, something that could be in Michael Mann film, “Thief”, “Heat”, “Collateral”… there’s something I really like about the night scenes in his films.
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"The Vincent was like a bullet that went straight; the Ducati is like the magic bullet in Dallas that went sideways and hit JFK and the Governor of Texas at the same time."--HST **"A man who works with his hands is a laborer. A man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman. A man who works with his hands, brains, and heart is an artist." -Louis Nizer**
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Re: How to be happy when there’s nothing really to be happy about (playing w/ camera
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January 19, 2024, 08:27:02 AM »
For the reference,
"Collateral", "Yo, homie. Is that my brief case?" scene.
"Heat"
"Thief"
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January 27, 2024, 10:09:38 AM »
Godox TT350F
So, I picked up this Godox TT350F about a week ago, for about $56, from B&H used department.
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I haven’t used flash for SO LONG, I forgot pretty much everything about flash photography.
I’ve been practicing how to use flash, in a situation like this (for now).
The main subject is back lit. (There’s a big light source, which is windows, in the back ground. I want to capture both the main subject AND the background, WITHOUT making the picture looking like obviously shot with flash.)
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I placed Apture MC (output lowered to 7%) at 11 o’clock, put a white towel over “Welcom sign” (this is inside of the restaurant) and placed it at 9 o’clock, swiveled the head of TT350F at the towel so that I can bounce the light.
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Done very quickly, in a “improvised / guerrilla film making” style.
(When I shoot videos and photos, almost all the time I do it without permission … so I had to do it that way.)
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April 06, 2024, 12:37:42 PM »
04-05-2024 Friday
Part one
“Shige Suhi in Sonoma, CA”
(All photos shot on Fuji X100V, except two reference photos at the end)
Yesterday (April 5th Friday) evening, I went to my friend’s place in Sonoma.
When I’m working, I can never go out Friday night.
So, this was one of the really rare opportunities.
(Also, I didn’t inform him beforehand. I went there on kind of impulse.)
I got there shortly after 7pm, and the place was packed, really busy.
BUT, it wasn’t the same kind of “busy-ness” like Sushi to Dai for.
(Shige-san doesn’t do door-dash, Uber eat. That’s why kitchen & sushi bar stuff, servers, everyone was not overly stressed out.)
I waited until there was a space at Sushi bar.
Started with Age Dashi Tofu.
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Then, Chirashi (There’re no photos of Chirashi. Because I was kinda hungry. So I started eating right away, then, realized that I forgot to take photos.)
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Sort of “Nigiri Sampler”, all white meat fish. (Renko-dai, Sawarai, Hirame, & Striped Bass)
What I really, REALLY like about his place is the interior decoration.
Shop
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A lot of movie posters and advertisement stuff from 1960s and early 1970s.
The way walls are decorated, the way inside of the dining area is lit, creates real retro feeling, even though you actually haven’t been in 60s and 70s in Japan.
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[Part 2 of 04-05-2024]
Now, these were taken before leaving home to Sonoma.
The last thing I purchased before losing job …
Manfrotto Nitrotech 608 Fluid video head
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This is normally out of my budget range. But, I found it on B&H used section, at a little bit over $400.
(The reason I wanted this one is because it allows me to move the camera diagonally (doing tilt AND pan AT THE SAME TIME.
Most (pretty much all) budget fluid heads can’t do that. You get that “staircase effect”.)
And, the first thing I purchased after losing job…
Vintage Canon FD 80-200mm f4 S.S.C.
50 bucks …nice and clean…
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As you can tell from the silver locking ring, this is an earlier version of FD (which I like better, than N-FD)
It’s got an integrated hood…
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… and it’s an internal zoom. And the front element doesn’t rotate together with focus ring, like some of the vintage zoom.
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Vintage Canon FD 80-200mm f4 lens Quick test
(Shot at 200mm)
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They are not mine.
My friend and the entire family had to go Riverside, for three nights / four days.
So I’ve been dog-sitting now.
The first picture. When I looked the dog through the view finder on my X-T4, the first mental image that came to my mind was 1990 film, “Jacob’s Ladder”.
(It may sound crazy, but that’s how my mind works.)
Reference photos
Somehow, I’m a big fan of dark, grainy, moody look. (Oh, and
haze
, I really love that hazy look in certain movies.)
But this is not my place. So I had to do with what I had.
Turned off the living room lights (the room the dog is sitting).
Turned on the back room light (so that the dog is back lit.)
I placed Apture MC(about 20% power output, 3200K color temp), behind the wall, to light up the dog a little bit from the left side of the frame. (The light is on the table. I moved to the position where the light gets just behind the wall.)
The other dog, I couldn’t get him to pose, or place, something cinematic.
The middle picture, I tried to do “dark-bright-dark-bright” contrast look.
The last picture. I was trying to do some “frame within a frame” look.
But, it didn’t really workout.
Wanted to do something like this…
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