**This week with your MF camera, Jun 15-21, 2024**

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This weekly topic serves as a place for forum members to share recent work with our medium format cameras. It's OK for medium format owners to dazzle us with images made with other cameras, but the idea is to allow owners with similar cameras to compare notes, chops, and sensibilities.

Using Threaded View helps to keep each person's contribution and responses linked in a tree-like structure so replies/discussions are easier to follow.

To begin:
  1. Add your contribution for the week by responding to this, the first message in this topic.
  2. Change the Subject of your message, then embed your image into the reply with whatever you’d like to say about it. (Embedding makes it easier to participate, easier than a link to an image located outside the forum - but links aren’t a great offense).
  3. In order to make things easier for our cellphone users, please limit the number of images in one post to fewer than 10, and don't quote images in your replies that are extraneous to the points you're making.
If you especially want C&C (criticism/critique) or technique feedback, say so. It’s assumed one does want such feedback, but direct requests may garner a more studied analysis/response. If you don't want such feedback, say so, and others will respect your wishes. If you don't want anybody to suggest changes by posting edits of your image, say that, too.

If you feel you've been ignored, select your post, reply to it with a brief note to the effect of "Can I get some feedback?". Not getting feedback on a post isn't uncommon, so don't feel offended - no one is charged to ensure all posts get attention (we're not organized enough for that). If you want particular feedback (composition, exposure choice, etc.), saying so can be helpful for the potential respondents as to what your needs may be.

It is courteous and advisable that, should you post images for feedback, you also make comment on at least one other contribution. Respectful acknowledgment of everyone is the goal, and it’s requested that all participants assume some responsibility to that end.

Enjoy!

Jim
 
I've been too busy testing the Hasselblad 55V this week to do much photography. Here are some images I made with the lens wide open for banners for a publication I'm working on. They serve to illustrate the lens' bokeh.



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With permission from Jim I am posting this image along the" Wild Atlantic Way"....which 2 days ago provided a beautiful 17x22 metallic print on my Epson P800.

The castle in the distance is private so we weren't able to visit. It seems the entire coastline of Ireland is a photo op. Wish I had my GFX gear but I can live with the nice files the Q3 provided. Didn't mind the overcast, windy and cool weather. Nice contrast to what I am experiencing today.

The colors are not enhanced. This is the way it looked!

The colors are not enhanced. This is the way it looked!

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Bob aka BobsYourUncle
DPR Co-MOD - Fuji X Forum
 
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Gorgeous and very printable!
 
Finally had a chance to do a bit of exploring with my new toy and ended up at this small lake which straddles the border between Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland.

Cracked out the 10 stop ND and got a long exposure shot. As someone coming from the X-mount, the level of detail in the background is just out of this world.

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Warm Regards,
Roger
 
I've been too busy testing the Hasselblad 55V this week to do much photography. Here are some images I made with the lens wide open for banners for a publication I'm working on. They serve to illustrate the lens' bokeh.

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In case anyone is wondering about the odd composition, there will be an overlaid text block on the right.

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Top two, Fuji GW690III/Portra 400, scanned on the Flextight








Rest are from the 50S II











 
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Am in Korea at the moment and me and two colleagues took a leisurely 6km stroll uphill to Jiksopo Waterfalls. Koreans like to have lots of steps on hill and mountain walks, and we were hoping for a nice view of the falls. No reward for our efforts though as the falls were waterless...

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Jiksopo Temple and Trees





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Steps to the Falls





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The 'Falls' in the distance





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Thank you Rich. Made possible by Fuji weather 'resistance'. Those two are part of some work I exhibited recently, of these otherwise very banal scenes hopefully made interesting by objects in the frame that have incidental sculptural qualities (or are just somewhat out-of-kilter).
 
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Thank you Rich. Made possible by Fuji weather 'resistance'. Those two are part of some work I exhibited recently, of these otherwise very banal scenes hopefully made interesting by objects in the frame that have incidental sculptural qualities (or are just somewhat out-of-kilter).
You've done something very important in images such as these two and the others - you've been careful to keep the camera level and straight, squaring up the rectilinear elements and minimizing key-stoning distortion (both vertical and horizontal).

It's very obvious where straight lines and 90 degree corners exist. But in the image with the tire standing isolated in the parking lot, it's vital that it appear to stand straight up. As you have shown it.

Good stuff.

This technical attention gives such "banal" images a dignity that elevates them from uninteresting to arresting.

I like the way you have kept the saturation low. If I had come upon these scenes, I would have gone for much higher saturation, making the colors "pop." I like your version better.

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Rich
"That's like, just your opinion, man." ;-)
 
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Finally had a chance to do a bit of exploring with my new toy and ended up at this small lake which straddles the border between Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland.

Cracked out the 10 stop ND and got a long exposure shot. As someone coming from the X-mount, the level of detail in the background is just out of this world.

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Really nice one indeed! How does it compare with the Fuji X and your Tamron?

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Apollon
 
Surf was up today at Sandy Beach, Oahu, Hawaii, a body-surfing spot especially during the summer (in winter, the big waves appear along the north shores of the islands). Body-surfers who were willing to take the pounding had a fun morning.



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