Holland Vacation Sept. 2019

My Mother was born in the Netherlands. Mom was 10 years young the day after Rotterdam was bombed, May 1940. Mom was VERY lucky to escape with only her Father, Mother, and sister.

Every couple of years, my immediate family visits Holland (Mom. Dad, me and my 3 siblings), which is great and way better than being able to go off alone just to get 'Golden Hour Pics'.

More Pics to follow.

..all throughout Holland Restaurant, their incredible draft beers cost significantly less than water (really).

TuVuVu wrote:

My Mother was born in the Netherlands. Mom was 10 years young the day after Rotterdam was bombed, May 1940. Mom was VERY lucky to escape with only her Father, Mother, and sister.

Every couple of years, my immediate family visits Holland (Mom. Dad, me and my 3 siblings), which is great and way better than being able to go off alone just to get 'Golden Hour Pics'.

More Pics to follow.

..all throughout Holland Restaurant, their incredible draft beers cost significantly less than water (really).

Top Picture: Fixed and Reposted 
Embarrassing, ouch

Lovely photos and great colours. Seems you used a variety of different lenses - which ones?

By the way my NX collection is nearly complete. The 20mm arrived today so all I need now is the elusive and very expensive 50-150mm...

Wonderful series of images and I'm glad you were all able to get together before this current situation made trips like that almost impossible. Hopefully the next trip will be at a safer time.

The quality of your images shows once again that the NX-1 remains a jewel in the world of photography. I will have to use mine more often, as when I do, it seems like an old friend, tried and true. Thanks for the inspiration.

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markyboy81 wrote:

Lovely photos and great colours. Seems you used a variety of different lenses - which ones?

By the way my NX collection is nearly complete. The 20mm arrived today so all I need now is the elusive and very expensive 50-150mm...

| VisionLight wrote:
| Wonderful series of images and I'm glad you were all able to get together
| before this current situation made trips like that almost impossible.
| Hopefully the next trip will be at a safer t
| The quality of your images shows once again that the NX-1 remains a jewel
| in the world of photography. I will have to use mine more often,
| as when I do, it seems like an old friend tried and true. Thanks for the inspiration.
| E

Very nice TuVuVu! You have a great lens collection. The images have very good colors, sharpness  and dynamic range. I haven't been to Holland for a long time - miss that place.

flip 21 wrote:

My Mother was born in the Netherlands. Mom was 10 years young the day after Rotterdam was bombed, May 1940. Mom was VERY lucky to escape with only her Father, Mother, and sister.

Every couple of years, my immediate family visits Holland (Mom. Dad, me and my 3 siblings), which is great and way better than being able to go off alone just to get 'Golden Hour Pics'.

More Pics to follow.

..all throughout Holland Restaurant, their incredible draft beers cost significantly less than water (really).

UAU!! The right camera, on the right photographer... Love your photos

Oh God! I miss travelling... I love outdoors... I miss the the sun, the fresh air...

Thank you Flip

More phtotos to be posted coming

Kisaha wrote:

Excellent pics! I love the Netherlands. A few years ago I wanted to go there and stay forever!

I see some pictures have a higher f number. I usually do not go at double digits, maybe around 11 at most, diffraction kicks easily at crop-ed sensors!

Very good constructive critique and I thank you :-D. Being a self-professed 'Enthusiast', I research this and now know everything about the "hyperfocal distance" and will use it 100% going forward.

Another trick with the fish eye that I do, at the center it doesn't distort much, you can have a subject at dead center and looks like normal while the left and right twirls! Good for selfies also!

ANOTHER very good constructive critique and I thank you

The system is so versatile and so many great lenses! What camera bags do you use?! I never carry the 16-50S for tourism. The 10,30,12-24,45 usually, or the NX3000+16-50PZ for even smaller set up.

Moutinsmith Borealis: https://mountainsmith.com/2018-borealis.html (specs with excellent video). Camera backpack to purposely carry my heaviest NX system: NX1, 16-50S, 50-150S, and tripod designed for NX1/50-50 weight plus. Very comfortable for a typical 10 hour day.

I wish I had the 50-150.

I have the Canon EF 70-200 f4, but I cant change aperture.

I also have the 12-200mm Olympus which is excellent for a m43 body.

Thank you Kasha, very much appreciated

StenM wrote:

TuVuVu wrote:

efix says picture taken (with a Sony?) on Sep 13, 2020 - 9/13/2020 -- April's Fool Day?

Hello StenM,

Ouch   ! DPR's EFIX is wrong (ugg), but not your fault
Markyboy wanted to know the exact lenses so I reposted all plus more picture in the following thread above this thread: https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/63806846

These files look nice and the compositions are spot on.  Often-times a person may post some otherwise nice look images, however, they were lacking in compositional skills.  Colors look nice and am glad to see you posting more photos taken with Samsung cameras here (to keep this forum going).  That's a nice story also about Holland.

My Dad was briefly in Holland during WW II with a Panzer division before being transferred to the newly formed Afrika Korps under Field Marshall Erwin Rommel.  He loved Holland from what he saw - the people, the beauty, and the culture.  He hated the war, but what could you do but serve under the Nazi regime (as if you had a choice).

In fact, here's a photo of my Father in his black Panzer uniform around 1940 or so as a young enlisted man - an NCO.  According to him, it was shortly after this photo was taken that he was reassigned to the Deutsche Afrika Korps under Rommel.  In this photo are his Mother and Sister.

Ben Herrmann wrote:

These files look nice and the compositions are spot on.

Ben, inspiring, knowing I'm the Rookie, and you're one of the many Pros on our forum.

Often-times a person may post some otherwise nice look images, however, they were lacking in compositional skills. Colors look nice

Nice Colors, not my doing; can't take credit
Credit Samsung's NX1's 28.2MP BSI APS-C CMOS sensor
Credit I will accept: after 6 intensive (enjoyable) months of researching/trying different gear, I picked the Samsung NX1
[instead of the established incumbent MICL at the time of my purchase (my opinion), Panasonic's GH4.]

Literally 6 months of intensive fun research: purchasing Canon, Nikon, Sony, Gear (from big box stores), using each for 1 month (knowing I could return free of cost.) while throughout closely monitoring Samsung's NX1; many firmware updates, Samsung's public prototype Pro 300mm S f/2.8, NX500 body release.

Ordered the above, received, assembled, used intensively, never returned it. Loved all aspects of its many ergonomics, simple cell phone touch screen interface, all its paper specifications were real, perfect for my uses-cases, and very aware no one gear is the best in every aspect of Photography / Videography, but the NX1 above was perfect for me.

and am glad to see you posting more photos taken with Samsung cameras here (to keep this forum going). That's a nice story also about Holland.My Dad was briefly in Holland during WW II with a Panzer division before being transferred to the newly formed Afrika Korps under Field Marshall Erwin Rommel. He loved Holland from what he saw - the people, the beauty, and the culture. He hated the war, but what could you do but serve under the Nazi regime (as if you had a choice).

In fact, here's a photo of my Father in his black Panzer uniform around 1940 or so as a young enlisted man - an NCO. According to him, it was shortly after this photo was taken that he was reassigned to the Deutsche Afrika Korps under Rommel. In this photo are his Mother and Sister.

"What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so." -Mark Twain

Kisaha wrote:

Ben Herrmann wrote:

These files look nice and the compositions are spot on. Often-times a person may post some otherwise nice look images, however, they were lacking in compositional skills. Colors look nice and am glad to see you posting more photos taken with Samsung cameras here (to keep this forum going). That's a nice story also about Holland.

My Dad was briefly in Holland during WW II with a Panzer division before being transferred to the newly formed Afrika Korps under Field Marshall Erwin Rommel. He loved Holland from what he saw - the people, the beauty, and the culture. He hated the war, but what could you do but serve under the Nazi regime (as if you had a choice).

Totally agree your Dad had zero choice under the Nazi regime. Sadly also that in the early 1930's, when your Dad was so young, he was also unfortunately enveloped within the carefully orchestrated Nazi propaganda machine, as were your grandparents. We both know they didn't buy into it, and we both know how difficult it was our two families to hide from the Nazis, regardless of one's country of origin.

In fact, here's a photo of my Father in his black Panzer uniform around 1940 or so as a young enlisted man - an NCO. According to him, it was shortly after this photo was taken that he was reassigned to the Deutsche Afrika Korps under Rommel. In this photo are his Mother and Sister.

Very interesting to hear from the "other" side of the war. There are no winners

Thankyou Kasha for your comment, for they are the truth per my comments above.

The Netherlands is probably the best place to live in Europe, there is some rising of far right nationalism there too, but in general is a great society with very harsh humor! The scenery is amazing and I buy most of my specialized equipment from there as they are excellent traders and responsible professionals. Even 1 NX1 and my 16-50S was bought from shops there.

I was ready to go there for a Masters degree before I met my wife and started a family here in the south of Europe, or else I would be a Dutch citizen right now!

Thanks for sharing.

All taken with NX1 and 50-150mm S

Windy

Calm

TuVuVu wrote:

All taken with NX1 and 50-150mm S

Windy

Calm

Wow, love that first shot showing motion in the blades. Very nice!

markyboy81 wrote:

TuVuVu wrote:

All taken with NX1 and 50-150mm S

Windy

Calm

Wow, love that first shot showing motion in the blades. Very nice!

markyboy81 wrote:

TuVuVu wrote:

All taken with NX1 and 50-150mm S

Windy

Calm

Wow, love that first shot showing motion in the blades. Very nice!

Thank you Markyboy
I so thoroughly enjoyed working this one-shot, spending ~40 minutes, taking many shots to get it 'just right for my liking', ahh, so much fun
1) Shot on Tripod was very key because it greatly helped me with 'constants' and 'variables' as discussed below.
2) Manual Everything: shutter speed purposely set constant 1/4 to control 2 variables, 1st being wind guts speed changes, 2nd being cloudy exposure lighting changes, Focus set to Manual however this is not related to variables.
2) Blades position with respect to the house: blades don't cover the house and are symmetrical with respect to the house.
3) Drive setting os 'Single'. Why? Blades not spinning fast (based on shutter setting) and the challenge knowing it would improve my skill-set. If unable to get the shot, I would have changed Drive to 8fps. Yes, I could have used bracketing, but wanted the challenge.

Picture 'Calm', was shot next, in the same location, same Camera setting technique as 'Windy'

I'm always so careful to keep the sensor clean but I totally blew it here as can be seen in the below SOOC.

Windy SOOC ugg, dirty sensor

Calm SOOC ugg, dirty sensor

I use DXO Phtotolab 3 for my Raw Post Workflow. I'm 65, married 33 years, made 3 kids (now all adults 26, 28, 31) with acquired wisdom, "Pain is a wonderful teacher". My dirty sensor....Post Processing OUCH!

FWIW I changed my signature below as a positive reminder that 'human nature' is a 'constant'.