agott123
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My partner had the bottom fall out of her job, so we both hatched a project which raised over £2000 for a local charity.
We did 'doorstep' photos and interviews on how Covid had effected the people in our local village, and published it.
Here's a li k to some of the images:
We did 'doorstep' photos and interviews on how Covid had effected the people in our local village, and published it.
Here's a li k to some of the images:
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dave rogers
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Is your curfew now over following the court case?I haven't really changed my photography. I like to shoot urban, street and travel shots. Travel of course has been limited but still made one trip and did my thing.
I might even have gone out more a bit for shoots to shoot the special circumstances like abandoned streets, people with masks, etc...
Where I live... I have kept on shooting. Even now that we have a curfew. During a snow blizzard I went out as soon as the curfew ended at 4:30AM to get some shots in. In the evening I can shoot up till the curfew is about the start.
It might impact me more for my night shots as the days grow longer... but I am hoping the curfew will have ended by then
Was still possible to do this
kaphinga
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I am photographing much less. Travel and people are my two favorite subjects, both of which are are not happening during Covid.
The upside is that my post processing skills have improved. I have spent a lot of time revisiting the archives and reprocessing old images.
I have managed one fun photography outing -- to Old Car City, a huge junkyard north of Atlanta.
Old Car City -- 34 acres of rotting cars
I have also been playing around a little with still life stuff in my living room.
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Marie
flektogon
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In Canada this Covid pandemic is taken far more seriously. By people, not by the government, which now causes severe vaccination shortcoming. But it doesn't mean that the photographers (at least enthusiasts) stopped with their hobbies. And with a little bit of humor we hope that we will survive even this mess. Here are two pictures depicting how it looks at the streets in Ottawa:
Distancing is essential:
And wearing masks is absolutely mandatory:
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Peter
Distancing is essential:
And wearing masks is absolutely mandatory:
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Peter
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kaphinga
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These are just wonderful!!!!!!!!
agott123
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Thank you Marie !!
Marko_Finland
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Thanks! I agree on the positive effect of hiking with or without a camera. Could not do without it anymore these days.
Yep, I think the population density is among the lowest in Europe as there are only 5M of us here. That certainly helps, but the capitol area is just about as densely populated as many other larger cities is Europe and has been a bit problematic throughout out the pandemic.
We also tend to keep some distance even in normal circumstances. No continental cheek kissing here!
Haha yeah, kalsarikännit definitely is a thing and I'm sure a lot of that has been taking place last year! I lived long enough abroad to unlearn the worst Finnish drinking habits though, so no kalsarikännit for me anymoreI have a Swedish and Finnish co-worker (they both worked together before), and learned recently that Kalsarikännit was a thing
I wonder how much Kalsarikännit has happened due to the pandemic.
I like this shot! Nice colours an composition.photography much less, any plans simply get cancelled, same this year the cancellations for summer are already happening, luckily after waiting for 16 months we got our pug puppy last September so i take shots as we walk him, not the same but at least it's something
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I like shooting outdoors and now that it's winter and I want to limit my travel I haven't been going outside as much which means ~0 time spent on usual photography outings.
I have mostly been experimenting with Pano stitching in LR to increase the Fov of semi still subjects using my OM 50mm 1.4. Not the normal Pano either (moving in horizontal only) more like trying to maintain a wider ~4:3 aspect ratio, although it's mostly just ended up being 1:1.
Because of the 2x crop sometimes it is a little narrow (now that I shoot indoors more). LR does a pretty good job of stitching.
I have mostly been experimenting with Pano stitching in LR to increase the Fov of semi still subjects using my OM 50mm 1.4. Not the normal Pano either (moving in horizontal only) more like trying to maintain a wider ~4:3 aspect ratio, although it's mostly just ended up being 1:1.
Because of the 2x crop sometimes it is a little narrow (now that I shoot indoors more). LR does a pretty good job of stitching.
Well, the thread is already bordering on off-topic with the political remarks that Ricardo used to introduce the thread, so it might get eventually locked if it derails too much. But if we keep it photography related, it might survive.
Jan Chelminski
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I decided it was a good time to determine a simple, basic kit and sell off everything else.
I'm already (pre-covid) planning a major move, so nowadays, Stuff = Bad, mostly.
My photography is no longer a personal, artistic pursuit (ambition), as my last and final, formal art piece was partially completed about 4 or 5 years ago, and it still sits in pieces, it's finishing an unnecessary formality.
So, an extremely strange and pivotal time, personally, yes.
But, that still leaves some photos, like portraits for friends, etc, and misc items I still like photography for, like documenting various environmental phenomena and for various other purposes such as imaging support for technical design and mfg. projects, so I will keep the one camera and a couple lenses. Video is going to become the greater focus and will supplant stills.
Anyway, with Covid in effect, I've been re-establishing the edges of the box (not a pun about my tiny apt) with the new (old) f/0.9 glass. The 'Ice Pillars' that have manifested over town lately, have been a perfect subject for such stills/4K video tests. Lots of 'windowgraphy' lately, I'm feeling esp. lucky to even to have a view, at a time like this!
I'm already (pre-covid) planning a major move, so nowadays, Stuff = Bad, mostly.
My photography is no longer a personal, artistic pursuit (ambition), as my last and final, formal art piece was partially completed about 4 or 5 years ago, and it still sits in pieces, it's finishing an unnecessary formality.
So, an extremely strange and pivotal time, personally, yes.
But, that still leaves some photos, like portraits for friends, etc, and misc items I still like photography for, like documenting various environmental phenomena and for various other purposes such as imaging support for technical design and mfg. projects, so I will keep the one camera and a couple lenses. Video is going to become the greater focus and will supplant stills.
Anyway, with Covid in effect, I've been re-establishing the edges of the box (not a pun about my tiny apt) with the new (old) f/0.9 glass. The 'Ice Pillars' that have manifested over town lately, have been a perfect subject for such stills/4K video tests. Lots of 'windowgraphy' lately, I'm feeling esp. lucky to even to have a view, at a time like this!
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Over the 2/28-3/1 weekend I traveled to Selma, AL. C19 had barely made inroads on the coasts, so I decided to risk travel from DC. Somehow, I ended up as MLK III's photographer (don't ask how). This event was totally unmasked and wouldn't have been had it occurred one week later.
Liz, Amy, Jesse and too tight of a lens
Some dude running for US President
And with that warning, we voted!
Somehow, C19 didn't magically disappear, as we were told it would. I'm on immunosuppressants so I steered as clear as I could from people and concentrated on flora and macro and landscape etc.
Then August rolled around. Liking what I'd done in Selma, MLK III's manager invited me to DC on Aug. 28th for the March on Washington. This was, surprisingly amid C19, a huge event. For the most part, people kept their distance and wore masks but I was intimidated and didn't get as many good shots as I would have without C19:
MLK III
The next day at the MLK memorial was less congested but still plenty of people...
All in all, despite these events, my photography has become less about people, and I miss that.
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Barry Twycross
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The main difference is we're not going anywhere. Most of my photography has been travel, and we've been more than 10mins away from home about twice since March.
So I'm doing more at home, and on my daily walk around the neighborhood. I'm surprised how many photos I can get out of 1 unremarkable square mile if I try.
I also invested in a larger format camera in May, I use that when bulk is not an issue, like around the house, or within driving distance. So the m4/3 gear is now the long distance travel stuff, and I haven't used it that much.
So I'm doing more at home, and on my daily walk around the neighborhood. I'm surprised how many photos I can get out of 1 unremarkable square mile if I try.
I also invested in a larger format camera in May, I use that when bulk is not an issue, like around the house, or within driving distance. So the m4/3 gear is now the long distance travel stuff, and I haven't used it that much.
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gardenersassistant
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My wife and I are both on the clinically extremely vulnerable list and so we have been shielding at home for almost a year. Neither of us has yet had Covid.
As in previous years, most of my images during 2020 were close-ups.
Prior to 2020 I photographed insects, spiders, snails and other invertebrates in our garden and at local nature reserves. I didn't go to any of the nature reserves in 2020 and so it was mainly in our garden, but at the end of the year I started to photograph invertebrates in a small wooded area beside the church opposite our house that I had never been into before.
My other main subject matter is flowers, buds, berries, seed pods etc, almost all in our garden, so Covid hasn't made much difference to that.
In the second half of the year I experimented a lot with camera/lens setups. This started out as an attempt to get better images of small invertebrate subjects like this springtail (around 2mm long).
By the end of the year I had switched from the close-up lens on bridge, MFT and APS-C telezoom setups that I had been using for over a decade to a strange full frame setup, and not just for small invertebrate subjects but for the larger ones too. It involved using a much larger and heavier setup, using manual focus rather than autofocus, and rather than using effective apertures of around f/45, using effective apertures in the f/200 to f/400 range. What didn't change was working hand-held and using flash.
The new setup let me get a lot more depth of field for whole body shots of the type I capture so many of like this one.
It also let me get some closer-in shots of medium sized subjects of a type hadn't previously been able to do, like this one.
The new setup also let me get some images of droplets different from what I had previously been able to do, like this one.
I had to make some adjustments to my post processing to handle the very soft images that resulted from the use of extremely small apertures.
For flowers etc, nothing much changed - much the same subjects, and much the same techniques using natural light, hand-held and mainly using MFT. A lot of them were focused stacked from video, like the first of these, and the rest were single captures selected from aperture bracket sets like the second one below.
During 2020 I cleared a huge backlog that had built up over a number of years (over a terabyte of raw files), including some common birds in flight at a little local boating lake, which I didn't visit in 2020.
For comparison purposes I also reworked some older images using my current post processing workflow, such as this one from 2015.
So, in terms of photography, my Covid era time has so far been quite productive.
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Summary of photo activity and output since 2007 https://fliesandflowers.blogspot.com/2019/01/when-i-retired-in-2006-i-had-it-in-mind.html
Flickr image collections http://www.flickr.com/photos/gardenersassistant/collections/
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Nick
Summary of photo activity and output since 2007 https://fliesandflowers.blogspot.com/2019/01/when-i-retired-in-2006-i-had-it-in-mind.html
Flickr image collections http://www.flickr.com/photos/gardenersassistant/collections/
As in previous years, most of my images during 2020 were close-ups.
Prior to 2020 I photographed insects, spiders, snails and other invertebrates in our garden and at local nature reserves. I didn't go to any of the nature reserves in 2020 and so it was mainly in our garden, but at the end of the year I started to photograph invertebrates in a small wooded area beside the church opposite our house that I had never been into before.
My other main subject matter is flowers, buds, berries, seed pods etc, almost all in our garden, so Covid hasn't made much difference to that.
In the second half of the year I experimented a lot with camera/lens setups. This started out as an attempt to get better images of small invertebrate subjects like this springtail (around 2mm long).
By the end of the year I had switched from the close-up lens on bridge, MFT and APS-C telezoom setups that I had been using for over a decade to a strange full frame setup, and not just for small invertebrate subjects but for the larger ones too. It involved using a much larger and heavier setup, using manual focus rather than autofocus, and rather than using effective apertures of around f/45, using effective apertures in the f/200 to f/400 range. What didn't change was working hand-held and using flash.
The new setup let me get a lot more depth of field for whole body shots of the type I capture so many of like this one.
It also let me get some closer-in shots of medium sized subjects of a type hadn't previously been able to do, like this one.
The new setup also let me get some images of droplets different from what I had previously been able to do, like this one.
I had to make some adjustments to my post processing to handle the very soft images that resulted from the use of extremely small apertures.
For flowers etc, nothing much changed - much the same subjects, and much the same techniques using natural light, hand-held and mainly using MFT. A lot of them were focused stacked from video, like the first of these, and the rest were single captures selected from aperture bracket sets like the second one below.
During 2020 I cleared a huge backlog that had built up over a number of years (over a terabyte of raw files), including some common birds in flight at a little local boating lake, which I didn't visit in 2020.
For comparison purposes I also reworked some older images using my current post processing workflow, such as this one from 2015.
So, in terms of photography, my Covid era time has so far been quite productive.
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Nick
Summary of photo activity and output since 2007 https://fliesandflowers.blogspot.com/2019/01/when-i-retired-in-2006-i-had-it-in-mind.html
Flickr image collections http://www.flickr.com/photos/gardenersassistant/collections/
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Nick
Summary of photo activity and output since 2007 https://fliesandflowers.blogspot.com/2019/01/when-i-retired-in-2006-i-had-it-in-mind.html
Flickr image collections http://www.flickr.com/photos/gardenersassistant/collections/
Very little photography here since Covid. All of my photography is for personal pleasure so there's no need to go out to make money etc. I'm just trying to stay away from people in general as many don't know how to follow simple health measures or want to prove a political point by endangering the lives of others. I'm in the US of course. Things should have been so much better here, but an epic failure of leadership has us where we are at.
I do have an outing in the Mountains planned for this summer. It will be nice to point my camera at something different for a change. I plan on doing lots of traveling whenever things get back to 'normal' (whatever that may be going forward). I'll certainly try to make up for the lack of photo activity in 2020/21.
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Jonathan
I do have an outing in the Mountains planned for this summer. It will be nice to point my camera at something different for a change. I plan on doing lots of traveling whenever things get back to 'normal' (whatever that may be going forward). I'll certainly try to make up for the lack of photo activity in 2020/21.
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Jonathan
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InkedMarie
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He’s adorable!when he was cuteLike the light in this shot. would love to see a shot of your pug puppy also!
- Ricardo
and now.....
Marie
Guy Parsons
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I do have intentions to do something like that but at the end of the day I am simply exhausted so sink into a stupor wandering the forums and watching TV at the same time.
Current job is excavating under my house to create more storage and work space plus keep it dryer. Sloping land, mixed hard & soft layered sandstone plus clay and loose dirt, digging through about 2 metres of it to get to real true sandstone bedrock. Probably only about another 200 to 300 tons of stuff to remove.
Using a heavy Hitachi demolition hammer to get through the rock and I give up for the day when I can't lift it any more. It's something I should have started when I was 30, not when I was 70+. :-(
So the only "macro" might be an attempt to go back through some of the medium format and 35mm films to re-digitise some of the earlier efforts.
Bought a really neat LED portable worklight yesterday that may prove useful for some macro attempts on real subjects, must test it to see if the colour temperature works out OK. It was bought to aid my welding efforts as the auto darken helmet makes seeing anything but the actual welding arc difficult, needs more light on the area. The welding is making new steel floor supports to replace original clunky brick pillars.
From my hardware store's page....
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Provides up to 3 hours of 1,000 lumens brightness before needing re-charge via USB power source. "Tripod" as shown or hand held, also wide gapped clamp on bottom, head swivels and tilts.
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