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There is my "holga 120" project, which is a daily flash project and not to be confused with shooting with a holga.



I have my Greenland project (a landscape project), which has been running for almost 27 month, I have yet to find out what it will end up as, currently looking into a few ideas, possibly an exhibit or book...



I have quite a few travel projects I am currently working on.

Mostly frequently visited cities or places. it blends in perfectly with my travel photography assignments.



I have a thing about a certain sign in Kagnerslussuaq Airport that seems to be developing into kind of its own project too...



Ohh, not to mention the ever ongoing "Miss Duplo" project :)



Most of what I do is part of a project in some sense...
Guess that sums it up in terms of personal projects...

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Thomas

Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool
http://main.duplophotography.com/
 
Hey Duplo,

That Copenhagen and North Pole sign really strikes me. Where's it located? And are there any more signs below those two?

Miss Duplo has a nice sparkle in her eyes (as always).

Have a great day!
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Cheers,
Roger Hayslip
 
With some minor machining the K mount will accept the Contax/Yashica manual focus lenses and K mount lenses. So a Pentax body can serve two systems at a much lower price than adding a 5D, nice though it is.

Size is also an issue, the Contax system belongs to my girlfriend and she has much smaller hands than I do. The 5D would just be too big for her and the T* lenses are not light-weight to begin with so something like the K100D is a much better option.

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Steve

http://www.pbase.com/steephill
 
hayslip said:
Hey Duplo,
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Hey Roger...
hayslip said:
That Copenhagen and North Pole sign really strikes me. Where's it
located? And are there any more signs below those two?
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I have more than a few... yes there are many, giving flying times to New York, Rome, Lond, Paris, Copenhagen, the north pole, and a few other places.
It is located in Kangerlussuaq airport in Greenland.

Here are a few more of it:




hayslip said:
Miss Duplo has a nice sparkle in her eyes (as always).
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I will pass on your kind compliment Roger.
hayslip said:
Have a great day!
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You have a great day too.
hayslip said:
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Cheers,
Roger Hayslip
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Thomas

Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool
http://main.duplophotography.com/
 
Jonas B said:
Do you have any photographic "projects"? I have some categories of
pictures that I always get back to by adding pictures to the archive.
These "projects" can be steadily in work, or they are more loosely
held, sometimes only a label in my DAM.

Some examples; Neon Lights, A Building a Week, Elisabeth Monthly and
Shadows. I would appreciate any posts here, with or without samples,
describing any of your long term projects!
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I decided to drop my Photo-A-Week project
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1036&message=26234705

to focus on more specific ones, but as it happens I haven't started anything new yet :-(

One thing I want to do is catch up with some scanning work, I still have whole periods of my photographic life to tidy up and hopefully find some interesting stuff to add. I would also like to feed my "seen in Italy" gallery with some photos from not so well known areas, I already have several to sort, plus many more places to visit and shoot. And then I'd like to do some night scenes in Pavia (nearest town to where I live), some weather related shots (really like rain scenes), some portraits, some street photos.... etc etc.

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Pablo
GMT + 1hr



http://www.pbase.com/pablof
 
Hi Pablo,

Sometimes I spend way too much time at these forums. Still, I entirely missed, not only your Happy New Year wishes, but also your entire PAW project. What a shame.

Well, I hope your 2008 has started well. I checked your PAW 2007. It was a pleasure and the 50+ pictures didn't fell ike too many at all to look at.

I found 3 favorites: April 16; a picture build up from many elements and I often like that. June 3; happy kids, that's always heart warming. June 7; not bad at all... a sort of picture I immediately can like. All in all I think your PAW is of good quality. I like the way you see patterns.

I know I wouldn't be able to commit myself to a PAW project.

Scanning... I bought a simple scanner about a year ago. I still have to even begin to get some work done.

Thank you for your input, and for some inspiring pictures.

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Jonas
 
Pattisboy said:
Jonas B said:
Do you have any photographic "projects"?
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Yes. Trying to master? the photographic process.

Been at it since 1947.
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But you are not giving up... I'm sometimes close to... but of course, if mastering the photographic process is the goal I guess you'll stick to it for the rest of your life. There is no need for a second plan.

regards,

--
Jonas
 
Yes, you got a few ones running Thomas...

Mind the gap... Lol - that always puzzled me. I wonder if they had a lot of accidents in London with people getting stuck with their feet in the gap?

I have no doubts your Greenland project will end up in some notable way. I know you have the material.

Excuse me for asking about technicalities but I can't help to notice the not Pentax like rendering in your Miss Duplo picture (which btw is great thanks to her facial expression). I checked the EXIF and found relatively high ISO paired with a short shutter time; when I had the 5D I sometimes got sloppy/lazy and didn't always care to set lowest possible ISO value.
Is your experience the same?

regards,

--
Jonas
 
Eric C in OK said:
Jonas B said:
And then you are intended to import 17.000 pictures into Lightroom...
Eric, your keeper ratio is impressive!
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They're not necessarily "keepers", I just didn't throw them away.
Quite a few baseball games where I took 200-300 shots and kept all
the images so the different kids will have shots of themselves
batting and fielding. When they graduate, we present them with a
plaque showing them in action.
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Ah, OK, I didn't think of that sort of pictures. That explains it.

I use iMatch. I use a tiny fraction only of the possibilities offered by that software. If you run a Windows machine it should be a DAM to your taste (wild guess); fast, with scripts available and possibility to write your own and a lot more. But you have probably already looked at it.

Choosing a DAM wasn't easy. In the end I just picked an application I guessed would last for all my needs, and being able of handling a lot of pictures swiftly and easy to back-up.

Now I try to sort and label my pictures typically every second week. When slacking it feels bad. Discipline!

regards,

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Jonas
 
I didn't know you could machine the camera mount to fully accept both the lens mounts. Pretty cool.

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Jonas
 
Hi Roger,

I nearly missed your post.

You certainly have some projects rolling. And just as another poster you have got your scanner working. I wish I had some routine, or at least idea, about how to get my old negatives scanned.
hayslip said:
Eye project: Thanks to Jonas and Keitha, I've just remember that I
promised my wife some nice pics of the kids eyes (a long time ago).
Very nice eye pics, by the way, both Jonas and Keitha. My wife likes
Keithas best, I'm more partial to Jonas' eye pic.
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Thank you. Eyes are interesting. Here is a heavy crop that will sway both of you to Keithas more tasteful eye pictures:



and the eyes above are taken from short project Winter Morning Eyes. Here is a clickable link (360kB) to a unfinished small web version of the final 50x30cm print:
http://photos.imageevent.com/jonas_b/dprmonthly/enstakabilder/WME_sRGB_web1.jpg
hayslip said:
Composition work: A while back I got a book on composition work from
my local library (something to do in my spare time). It consists of
thirty different exercises that mostly seem to be outside my comfort
zone of shooting kids and pets. I've completed an excercise on rocks.
Started one on eyes. And have been looking for likely subjects for
the exercise on signs.
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That is something I could think of to do as well. If you find the exercises good I would like to know what book it is.
hayslip said:
Post Processing Skills: Like another poster, I really need help with
post processing. I mostly shoot jpg and tweak with Picasa. I'm pretty
comfortable with that workflow and it does have it's upsides. Lately
I've been trying out RAW and processing with RAW Therapee. I've tried
a demo copy of Lightroom as well. But I'm not getting it just yet.
And layers? I don't have a good handle on that concept yet. Maybe
someone needs to draw me a picture.... lol
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For me raw is the only way to go. With my low keeper rate I don't mind processing my pictures. Unfortunately I barely understand how layers work and when people are talking about layer masks and stuff I'm lost.

Thank you for #153!

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Jonas
 
Jonas B said:
Yes, you got a few ones running Thomas...
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Yep.
Jonas B said:
Mind the gap... Lol - that always puzzled me. I wonder if they had a
lot of accidents in London with people getting stuck with their feet
in the gap?
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They must have had that in the past... anyhow it is somehow symbolic of London to me.
Jonas B said:
I have no doubts your Greenland project will end up in some notable
way. I know you have the material.
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Thank you Jonas. appreciate that compliment.
Jonas B said:
Excuse me for asking about technicalities but I can't help to notice
the not Pentax like rendering in your Miss Duplo picture (which btw
is great thanks to her facial expression). I checked the EXIF and
found relatively high ISO paired with a short shutter time; when I
had the 5D I sometimes got sloppy/lazy and didn't always care to set
lowest possible ISO value.
Is your experience the same?
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No need to excuse anything Jonas.

Most of the rendering you see in that photo is my processing of it and the fact that she had put on some rather shiny lotion just before.

Well I was using my two tiny Holgas for the shot a Nikkor 70-200 VR @ 200mmm so a shutter of 1/100 is not exactly high and the two holgas was a fair bit away from her, so I need the ISO 400 to get the look I was aiming for.
Prefer some of the more natural portraits of her myself:)

my caution with ISO depends highly on what I am shooting, for event stuff it runs in auto ISO (200-6400), Av and with a minimum shutterspeed set to suit the event. works like a breeze.

For anything else I am very careful about keep ISO as low as possible.
So I have not gotten sloppy yet:)

--
Thomas

Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool
http://main.duplophotography.com/
 
Duplo said:
Jonas B said:
Excuse me for asking about technicalities but I can't help to notice
the not Pentax like rendering in your Miss Duplo picture (which btw
is great thanks to her facial expression). I checked the EXIF and
found relatively high ISO paired with a short shutter time; when I
had the 5D I sometimes got sloppy/lazy and didn't always care to set
lowest possible ISO value.
Is your experience the same?
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No need to excuse anything Jonas.
Most of the rendering you see in that photo is my processing of it
and the fact that she had put on some rather shiny lotion just before.
Well I was using my two tiny Holgas for the shot a Nikkor 70-200 VR @
200mmm so a shutter of 1/100 is not exactly high and the two holgas
was a fair bit away from her, so I need the ISO 400 to get the look I
was aiming for.
Prefer some of the more natural portraits of her myself:)

my caution with ISO depends highly on what I am shooting, for event
stuff it runs in auto ISO (200-6400), Av and with a minimum
shutterspeed set to suit the event. works like a breeze.

For anything else I am very careful about keep ISO as low as possible.
So I have not gotten sloppy yet:)
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Doh. I misread the EXIF - somehow I got it to 1/1000. That made me wonder about the light, and why you hadn't opted for lower ISO and slower shutter time. 1/100 erases all question marks.

regards,

Jonas
 
Hi

Great thread and some great projects.

Photo wise nothing on going , more of get my butt into gear and do it.

I have been meaning to go through all the cds of the many live music gigs I have shot and pick out the best (maybe 30???) ...then get a gallery show at a SMALL (did i mention small?) art gallery. (actually could have done this 2 years ago but I am kinda slack sometimes). I may be better off with some pics in a combined show.

Thats another project for Pentaxians in larger cities...a few combined gallery shows would be nice to see.

Alos not a project as such but i have a wish list of achievments I would like to see my pics used for.

A few include...

News paper front page......got this
a bands( major international) album cover.....almost got this
(the aforementioned) Gallery show.....except that I am a lazy sod
Major sports magazine pic.....might try for this this year

that sort of thing....quite amazing to me really considering how bad at this photography lark I am.

neil
 
Jonas B said:
Duplo said:
Jonas B said:
Excuse me for asking about technicalities but I can't help to notice
the not Pentax like rendering in your Miss Duplo picture (which btw
is great thanks to her facial expression). I checked the EXIF and
found relatively high ISO paired with a short shutter time; when I
had the 5D I sometimes got sloppy/lazy and didn't always care to set
lowest possible ISO value.
Is your experience the same?
Click to expand...
No need to excuse anything Jonas.
Most of the rendering you see in that photo is my processing of it
and the fact that she had put on some rather shiny lotion just before.
Well I was using my two tiny Holgas for the shot a Nikkor 70-200 VR @
200mmm so a shutter of 1/100 is not exactly high and the two holgas
was a fair bit away from her, so I need the ISO 400 to get the look I
was aiming for.
Prefer some of the more natural portraits of her myself:)

my caution with ISO depends highly on what I am shooting, for event
stuff it runs in auto ISO (200-6400), Av and with a minimum
shutterspeed set to suit the event. works like a breeze.

For anything else I am very careful about keep ISO as low as possible.
So I have not gotten sloppy yet:)
Click to expand...
Doh. I misread the EXIF - somehow I got it to 1/1000. That made me
wonder about the light, and why you hadn't opted for lower ISO and
slower shutter time. 1/100 erases all question marks.
Click to expand...
Well I have been guilty of that before too:)

--
Thomas

Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool
http://main.duplophotography.com/
 
neil holmes said:
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that sort of thing....quite amazing to me really considering how bad
at this photography lark I am.
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As you are that bad I wish you a great deal of Good Luck!!

Thank you for the input Neil. It seems as we are many slacking with older projects at the same time as we have new ideas and working with them.

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Jonas
 
...sharing ideas and thoughts.★★

I thought that maybe some more unusual projects would surface, like somebody illustrating the Bible, or a his/her favorite poems, and such. Still, I have read about a lot of thoughts and projects.

Thank you for contributing.

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Jonas
 
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