Technique, creativity, and internalization

[jhunna]

There are a couple of good ways to handle the steering wheel. I prefer the Bob Bondurant approach, because that is what he taught me.

Starting to think you were the model for Forest Gump.... Obviously not the mental aspect but "damn how did he get there" aspect .. next thing you are going to tell us is that jammed with Jimmy...

When I took the Bondurant course in the late 70s, it wasn't an exclusive club. Anybody who showed up at Sears Point with his checkbook could do it.

OTOH, when you see these images that I made in the 60s, you're going to think that I spent all my time hanging out with great race drivers, when in reality I was just a weekend motorsports photographer for Competition Press and Autoweek.












Bruce to Denny: The loud pedal is the one on the right.

wow... these look like they came out of the car magazines I used to read in the 80s. (obviously they were history pieces by the time I came around). But man, you have lead a life well lived...

 

[SeeingSomeThingsMissingMany]

Foveon sensors perform quite differently from modern CMOS Bayer ones. Anyone coming from one to the other and expecting their former methods will allow them to get the most out of their new camera will be disappointed if they're paying attention to the results.

2008 I got into photography with Ricoh R3 1/2.5" sensor compact point n shoot.

https://www.dpreview.com/products/ricoh/compacts/ricoh_caplior3

2010 just in 2 years I was photographing with Foveon Sigma SD9 dslr released 2002 and m42 lenses as well as Sigma's own lens.

https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/sigmasd9

I found Foveon SD9 a piece of cake.


My Sigma SD9 Foveon 2002, photo 2010. No exif for some reason was either m42 lens 29/2.8 Pentacon or Sigma 18-50.


My Sigma SD9 Foveon 2002, photo 2010 with m42 lens Meyer Gorlitz 135/2.8

Digital photogrpahy on the whole is a piece of cake to me. I've purchased 101 digital cameras. At the time of my Sigma SD9 my favourite dslr I was also photographing with 1D D2H E1 Kodak SLRC dslrs.

Modern CMOS sensors, processors makes it even more a piece of .

Film though, several here on this MF forum their technique in film era to be creative I didn't have. I recall looking at film photography books in the library as a teen enraptured by the creative styles.

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Photography after all is interplay of light alongside perspective.

 

[DavidMillier]

Foveon sensors perform quite differently from modern CMOS Bayer ones. Anyone coming from one to the other and expecting their former methods will allow them to get the most out of their new camera will be disappointed if they're paying attention to the results.

2008 I got into photography with Ricoh R3 1/2.5" sensor compact point n shoot.

https://www.dpreview.com/products/ricoh/compacts/ricoh_caplior3

2010 just in 2 years I was photographing with Foveon Sigma SD9 dslr released 2002 and m42 lenses as well as Sigma's own lens.

https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/sigmasd9

I found Foveon SD9 a piece of cake.


My Sigma SD9 Foveon 2002, photo 2010. No exif for some reason was either m42 lens 29/2.8 Pentacon or Sigma 18-50.


My Sigma SD9 Foveon 2002, photo 2010 with m42 lens Meyer Gorlitz 135/2.8

Digital photogrpahy on the whole is a piece of cake to me. I've purchased 101 digital cameras. At the time of my Sigma SD9 my favourite dslr I was also photographing with 1D D2H E1 Kodak SLRC dslrs.

Modern CMOS sensors, processors makes it even more a piece of .

Film though, several here on this MF forum their technique in film era to be creative I didn't have. I recall looking at film photography books in the library as a teen enraptured by the creative styles.

The SD9 is a noisy beast with weird colours and a tendency to a strong overall yellow cast when there is any kind of warm light around (like your cows picture above) or a strong blue cast in other light. It sometimes has this strange 'crystalline' tonality. Some people seem to love it, it has a mini-cult following among Foveon fans. I hated the thing. Mine is firmly in my attic camera retirement home, as is my SD14, which is glitchy and suffers from a green cast.

Actually, the only early Foveon which seems 'normal' to me is the SD15. The colour on that model is tractable and rather Bayer-like. It doesn't seem to freak out with certain colour combinations or lighting like many other Foveon models tend to. The camera also performs predictably. It could almost be a Canon of that era.....

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[dbateman]

Foveon sensors perform quite differently from modern CMOS Bayer ones. Anyone coming from one to the other and expecting their former methods will allow them to get the most out of their new camera will be disappointed if they're paying attention to the results.

2008 I got into photography with Ricoh R3 1/2.5" sensor compact point n shoot.

https://www.dpreview.com/products/ricoh/compacts/ricoh_caplior3

2010 just in 2 years I was photographing with Foveon Sigma SD9 dslr released 2002 and m42 lenses as well as Sigma's own lens.

https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/sigmasd9

I found Foveon SD9 a piece of cake.


My Sigma SD9 Foveon 2002, photo 2010. No exif for some reason was either m42 lens 29/2.8 Pentacon or Sigma 18-50.


My Sigma SD9 Foveon 2002, photo 2010 with m42 lens Meyer Gorlitz 135/2.8

Digital photogrpahy on the whole is a piece of cake to me. I've purchased 101 digital cameras. At the time of my Sigma SD9 my favourite dslr I was also photographing with 1D D2H E1 Kodak SLRC dslrs.

Modern CMOS sensors, processors makes it even more a piece of .

Film though, several here on this MF forum their technique in film era to be creative I didn't have. I recall looking at film photography books in the library as a teen enraptured by the creative styles.

The SD9 is a noisy beast with weird colours and a tendency to a strong overall yellow cast when there is any kind of warm light around (like your cows picture above) or a strong blue cast in other light. It sometimes has this strange 'crystalline' tonality. Some people seem to love it, it has a mini-cult following among Foveon fans. I hated the thing. Mine is firmly in my attic camera retirement home, as is my SD14, which is glitchy and suffers from a green cast.

Actually, the only early Foveon which seems 'normal' to me is the SD15. The colour on that model is tractable and rather Bayer-like. It doesn't seem to freak out with certain colour combinations or lighting like many other Foveon models tend to. The camera also performs predictably. It could almost be a Canon of that era.....

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2024: Awarded Royal Photographic Society LRPS Distinction
Photo of the day: https://www.whisperingcat.co.uk/wp/photo-of-the-day-2025/
Website: https://www.whisperingcat.co.uk/wp/
DPReview gallery: https://www.dpreview.com/galleries/0286305481
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmillier/ (very old!)

Best cure for the SD14 is breaking the clip-in IR/UV blocking filter and replacing it with the SD15 one. They were significantly different. Too bad you can't buy them now from Sigma, as the cutoff ahead of UV and IR are ideal, not only for the Sigma SD14/ SD15 but other applications.

I love the SD14, but I use it with the SD15 clip-in filter. Most software could handle the SD14 files.

 

[JimKasson]

jhunna wrote

wow... these look like they came out of the car magazines I used to read in the 80s. (obviously they were history pieces by the time I came around). But man, you have lead a life well lived...

BTW, this is what the corkscrew used to look like before they dumbed it down:





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