Reading mode: Light Dark

Have Fun With Your Minolta

Go to last post
john farrar

john farrar

Veteran Member
Messages
5,039
Solutions
2
Reaction score
83
Location
SW, UK
Reading Clifford's words about 'ordinary' Minolta camera folk perhaps not being able to get a word in edgeways here I'm posting this shot in the hope that it might stimulate people to have a bit of fun and share some unusual pictures. Any Minollta camera can take the pictures and virtually any image editor that allows masking, inverting, and cut & paste, and combining will be able to do it.

Here's a combined shot featuring my dog "Angel" taken from the mountains and from the seashore. Not technically perfect but it was a LOT of fun to do.

http://www.pbase.com/image/15466273

Anyone got similar pictures? Anyone want to give it a try? Anyone got something else that's out of the ordinary and which was fun to do with their Minolta?
John.
 
john farrar said:
Reading Clifford's words about 'ordinary' Minolta camera folk
perhaps not being able to get a word in edgeways here I'm posting
this shot in the hope that it might stimulate people to have a bit
of fun and share some unusual pictures. Any Minolta camera can
take the pictures and virtually any image editor that allows
masking, inverting, and cut & paste, and combining will be able to
do it.
Here's a combined shot featuring my dog "Angel" taken from the
mountains and from the seashore. Not technically perfect but it was
a LOT of fun to do.

http://www.pbase.com/image/15466273

Anyone got similar pictures? Anyone want to give it a try? Anyone
got something else that's out of the ordinary and which was fun to
do with their Minolta?
John.
Click to expand...
------------------------------------------------------------

A beautiful surrealist picture of Angel. Taking an ordinary photo and

creating a fine picture the way you did is beyond me, I'm afraid. My

use of PhotoShop is very, very limited. In fact, I just loaded PS-7 so

maybe I can learn some of these technique's also. Well done.
--
Clifford
http://www.imageevent.com/cdbrown
 
Thanks for your leadership, John, as always.

Loved your pic of Angel, ...and also your pics are full of enthusiasm, Don!!

Here’s something that's out of the ordinary and which was fun to do with my Minolta and with my PhotoShop software.

Actually I was very much down when I shot a nice subject with terrible results. I mean, look at that sky… sigh …looks like the color of the sewage water coming out of the dishwasher, eh?

Here’s the original, so called “out-of-camera” pic:



Looks awful, doesn’t it?

Then I tried something in PS and did the followings:

Filter - Render - Difference Clouds

And here’s the result:



Here’s another one of this series:



Full set available at:

http://www.pbase.com/mogorf/digiart_of_xiiith_cenrtury_church

How did you like it, Guys? &@}

Did I go too far from reality?

Cheers, Feri

http://www.pbase.com/mogorf
http://www.photosig.com
 
Thank you Feri, you certainly added a whole new atmosphere to those shots! Most people will be missing out on at least half the potential of their digital cameras if they don't venture into the digital darkroom from time to time. The only caution I give is to only work on a copies of the originals.

Did you go too far from reality? Heck, no - we can make our own reality and carry it with us - when others like it they sometimes call it 'Art'.
John
----
Ferenc MOGOR said:
Thanks for your leadership, John, as always.

Loved your pic of Angel, ...and also your pics are full of
enthusiasm, Don!!

Here’s something that's out of the ordinary and which was fun to do
with my Minolta and with my PhotoShop software.

Actually I was very much down when I shot a nice subject with
terrible results. I mean, look at that sky… sigh …looks like the
color of the sewage water coming out of the dishwasher, eh?

Here’s the original, so called “out-of-camera” pic:



Looks awful, doesn’t it?

Then I tried something in PS and did the followings:

Filter - Render - Difference Clouds

And here’s the result:



Here’s another one of this series:



Full set available at:

http://www.pbase.com/mogorf/digiart_of_xiiith_cenrtury_church

How did you like it, Guys? &@}

Did I go too far from reality?
Click to expand...
 
Thank you Clifford. It is good that we can still learn things and make our cameras work in different ways from time to time; and maximum respect to you there with all your working history in Photography still being keen to learn new tricks of the trade.

These images were manipulated in Picture Publisher 8, which is like a clone of Photoshop and which does a lot of the macros from wizards. If I had produced that image in Photoshop it would have been much smoother and would possibly be capable of being printed out to large size (something which I intend to do when I get a couple of hours spare).

The dog image (from 80mm equivalent zoom lens) was shrunk to about 60% of the original when masked and inverted in order to make the 28mm equivalent sunset background combine and look more like a telephoto as a whole (sun a lot bigger than normally seen). This is what I mean about it being fun. Really, you can get up to all kinds of dodges - and we don't need the most expensive cameras to be able to do it either.
Regards,
John.
--------
Clifford said:
A beautiful surrealist picture of Angel. Taking an ordinary photo and

creating a fine picture the way you did is beyond me, I'm afraid. My

use of PhotoShop is very, very limited. In fact, I just loaded PS-7 so

maybe I can learn some of these technique's also. Well done.
--
Clifford
http://www.imageevent.com/cdbrown
Click to expand...
 
Thanks John!

I'm really glad you like this idea of post-manipulation of waste photos.

Regarding your caution, thanks, you are right. I do the following way:

1. Get home.
2. CF card out of camera.
3. CF card into card reader.
4. Transfer to HDD.
5. Name the file, start with date and give it a title: 20030414Chainbridge.

This way I will have all my sessions in my photo directory in chronological order. (These are all out-of-cam pics!)

6. When above sessions reaches 700 MBytes (or a bit below), I burn them to CD (actually 2 CDs for double security and risk of aging of CDs).

7. Then I have another directory called "PhotoShop Processings" where I copy the image file I want to work with.

But, John, sorry for interrupting your original thread. This should be another topic, eh?

Cheers, Feri

http://www.pbase.com/mogorf
http://www.photosig.com
 
Link starts here => http://www.photoaccess.com/share/guest.jsp?ID=AC2C392680D&cb=PA

Thanks, jean Ricket
john farrar said:
Reading Clifford's words about 'ordinary' Minolta camera folk
perhaps not being able to get a word in edgeways here I'm posting
this shot in the hope that it might stimulate people to have a bit
of fun and share some unusual pictures. Any Minollta camera can
take the pictures and virtually any image editor that allows
masking, inverting, and cut & paste, and combining will be able to
do it.
Here's a combined shot featuring my dog "Angel" taken from the
mountains and from the seashore. Not technically perfect but it was
a LOT of fun to do.

http://www.pbase.com/image/15466273

Anyone got similar pictures? Anyone want to give it a try? Anyone
got something else that's out of the ordinary and which was fun to
do with their Minolta?
John.
Click to expand...
 
Hi,
I like the second one of the bird because you are dealing with a single subject.
Not so sure about the first in the sports hall.

Why not have a go with rearranging some of your fish... remember you can do mirror effects too. And that cat profile - I wonder what a mirror of that facing itself might work like?

Don't worry it's a mad time here right now, my two nephews have asked that i shoot them together at the wrong heights with the date stamp superimposed. One's 12 and 5'1", the other 14 and 5'8". I think they hope to cause confusion somewhen years down the line when people look at the family album.

Earlier today I was shooting a firm of insurance brokers - very properly of course.
John.
 
Hi, Feri,

Vital part of the same topic actually... I don't want to be blamed for people's favourite photos being 'saved' as something else entirely :-)

You have a sensible workflow. I do something similar but make a backup copy on the 2nd hard drive of anything work-related. The best stuff then gets archived to CD at intervals.
John

------
Ferenc MOGOR said:
Thanks John!

I'm really glad you like this idea of post-manipulation of waste
photos.

Regarding your caution, thanks, you are right. I do the following way:

1. Get home.
2. CF card out of camera.
3. CF card into card reader.
4. Transfer to HDD.
5. Name the file, start with date and give it a title:
20030414Chainbridge.
This way I will have all my sessions in my photo directory in
chronological order. (These are all out-of-cam pics!)
6. When above sessions reaches 700 MBytes (or a bit below), I burn
them to CD (actually 2 CDs for double security and risk of aging of
CDs).
7. Then I have another directory called "PhotoShop Processings"
where I copy the image file I want to work with.

But, John, sorry for interrupting your original thread. This should
be another topic, eh?

Cheers, Feri

http://www.pbase.com/mogorf
http://www.photosig.com
Click to expand...
 
Organization helps me down the line. - Jean Ricket
john farrar said:
------
Ferenc MOGOR said:
Thanks John!

I'm really glad you like this idea of post-manipulation of waste
photos.

Regarding your caution, thanks, you are right. I do the following way:

1. Get home.
2. CF card out of camera.
3. CF card into card reader.
4. Transfer to HDD.
5. Name the file, start with date and give it a title:
20030414Chainbridge.
This way I will have all my sessions in my photo directory in
chronological order. (These are all out-of-cam pics!)
6. When above sessions reaches 700 MBytes (or a bit below), I burn
them to CD (actually 2 CDs for double security and risk of aging of
CDs).
7. Then I have another directory called "PhotoShop Processings"
where I copy the image file I want to work with.

But, John, sorry for interrupting your original thread. This should
be another topic, eh?

Cheers, Feri

http://www.pbase.com/mogorf
http://www.photosig.com
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
john farrar said:
Hi,
I like the second one of the bird because you are dealing with a
single subject.
Click to expand...
john farrar said:
Not so sure about the first in the sports hall.
Click to expand...
Hi John, That pic is 800iso UNUASbly OOF and grainy and dark. Best I could do without using a glowing edge effect. Quickly, I mean. Plus it was my son's last game I shot. He is off to college next year.
john farrar said:
Why not have a go with rearranging some of your fish... remember
you can do mirror effects too.
Click to expand...
I am bad at ps, I only know how to do what I know how to do, my brain has hard time learning new tricks thesedays. ;-)
john farrar said:
And that cat profile - I wonder what
a mirror of that facing itself might work like?
Click to expand...
I can do all sorts of miirrors, I played with them for a month on fish. 1mp camera.
john farrar said:
Don't worry it's a mad time here right now, my two nephews have
asked that i shoot them together at the wrong heights with the date
stamp superimposed. One's 12 and 5'1", the other 14 and 5'8". I
think they hope to cause confusion somewhen years down the line
when people look at the family album.
Click to expand...
Good one. I like it.

Don
 
john farrar said:
Reading Clifford's words about 'ordinary' Minolta camera folk
perhaps not being able to get a word in edgeways here I'm posting
this shot in the hope that it might stimulate people to have a bit
of fun and share some unusual pictures. Any Minollta camera can
take the pictures and virtually any image editor that allows
masking, inverting, and cut & paste, and combining will be able to
do it.
Here's a combined shot featuring my dog "Angel" taken from the
mountains and from the seashore. Not technically perfect but it was
a LOT of fun to do.

http://www.pbase.com/image/15466273

Anyone got similar pictures? Anyone want to give it a try? Anyone
got something else that's out of the ordinary and which was fun to
do with their Minolta?
Click to expand...
Nice one. As to the technical issue, it fits in with the layers and alpha masks lesson I'm working on; I'll try to address it there as it's a bit complicated. :-)

Petteri
--
Portfolio: http://www.seittipaja.fi/index/
Photo lessons: http://www.seittipaja.fi/lessons/
Lessons mirror: http://www.ivydesign.com/petteri/
 
Thank you, Petteri.

I shall look forward to reading your layers and alpha masks article with considerable interest.

Animals with hairy coats are not the easiest subjects, although Angel's coat is a factor of ten easier to work on than my previous dog, 'Mona Lisa' who was a Borzoi and had a beautiful black, tan and white coat with far too much feathering.
John.

========
Petteri Sulonen said:
Nice one. As to the technical issue, it fits in with the layers and
alpha masks lesson I'm working on; I'll try to address it there as
it's a bit complicated. :-)

Petteri
--
Portfolio: http://www.seittipaja.fi/index/
Photo lessons: http://www.seittipaja.fi/lessons/
Lessons mirror: http://www.ivydesign.com/petteri/
Click to expand...
 
Dang john, i want to participate, i just don't have my paint shop poor down yet.... one of the things i had hoped Petteri would go over (masks layers and the such)
Ferenc MOGOR said:
Did I go too far from reality?
Click to expand...
you're ALWAYS a little far from reality, thats why i like the last two so much......
cheers to you also my hungarian friend

--
If Some Is Good, More Is Better, And Too Much Is Just Right.
I live in my own little world. But it's OK ... they know me here

Pbase supporter http://www.pbase.com/shayfah (been waiting a LONG time to write THAT)
 
Iam3D said:
Ferenc MOGOR said:
Did I go too far from reality?
Click to expand...
you're ALWAYS a little far from reality, thats why i like the last
two so much......
cheers to you also my hungarian friend

--
If Some Is Good, More Is Better, And Too Much Is Just Right.
I live in my own little world. But it's OK ... they know me here
Pbase supporter http://www.pbase.com/shayfah (been waiting a LONG
time to write THAT)
Click to expand...
--
Cheers, Feri

http://www.pbase.com/mogorf
http://www.photosig.com
 
Hi, Feri,

Just for you... This is one of my last pictures of Mona Lisa, the beautiful Borzoi. She left us in the Summer of 2000 aged only 8.

http://www.pbase.com/image/15475849

Shot on an Olympus 2020Z. The D7i was not around back then so I guess I can't be accused of being a 'heretic' ;-) The only image manipulation done is a simple crop to remove the sky above the water.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Keyboard shortcuts

f
Forum
m
My threads
Mobile site
About
Editorial content
Cameras & Lenses
Community
All content, design, and layout are Copyright © 1998–2025 Digital Photography Review All Rights Reserved.
Reproduction in whole or part in any form or medium without specific written permission is prohibited.
When you use DPReview links to buy products, the site may earn a commission.
©GPS Media - Guides, Products, Services.
Back
Top