Family, Photography and other misc news
I like my prints; to truly appreciate a photography it needs to be printed and sometimes quite big. I have a Epson large wide carriage, the 3880.
Most consumer printers have small ink cartridges and the cost of ink is high. The bigger printers have larger ink cartridges and work out a lot cheaper.
Still today I was doing some test prints and my printer ran out of five ink cartridges all at once. Its been an expensive day.
Last week was Remembrance Day.
On the Sunday before we had a church service in the village; unfortunately I was working. The grave yard was decorated with poppies as has become a tradition.
On the 11th of November we all stop for a two minute silence. We remember the dead from all sides for all the conflicts.
The poppy was blooming in the fields of death that marked the first world war. Many died for their countries. England still had an empire at that point and many nations; from the home countries of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland all died for freedom, but also from further a field, thousands of Muslims from India came to Europe to die for their king, the old colonies sent men from Canada and Australia.
It was the First World War, the war to end all wars they said. Unfortunately not true, but on the 11th of November we fall silent and think of those who died for us in all the wars.
“f/8 and be there” is an expression popularly used by photographers to indicate the importance of taking the opportunity for a picture rather than being too concerned about using the best technique. Often attributed to the noir-style New York City photographer Weegee, it has come to represent a philosophy in which, on occasion, action is more important than reflection.” – Quote Wikipedia
The photos in the post are not good, just snaps while walking the dog early one morning in a nearby village.
Zone focusing is something that is a bit of hit and miss for me. So I set myself a challenge this Sunday morning. I set the camera to f/11 with the depth of field scale keeping everything in focus from about 5 meters to infinity.
So instead of focusing I just snapped away.
A circuit of the village capturing the light.
Definitely something I need to practice, a bit hit and miss, but worth having a few more attempts.
Nikon Zf
Nikkor Z 35mm f/1.8 S
35mm, 1/30 Sec at f/3.2, ISO400
Post Processed in Adobe Lightroom Classic V14.5.1
Seems all the Nikon Z series cameras with the new Exspeed 7 get an update at least once a year, and this week it was the turn of the ZF. Not only did we get the newly released silver model but new firmware too.
Great to see Nikon continue to rollout new features.
Street photography is often still shot in black and white. For black and white enthusiasts the thought of a dedicated black and white sensor is genuinely exciting. For most of photographers this has to now been unaffordable. There’s been a medium format digital back from PhaseOne available and Leica have a range of cameras.
Ricoh have now announced development of a dedicated black and white Ricoh GR compact. This will please a lot of street shooters, and I may just have to have a look at the Ricoh GR again.
Leica M. The last of the rangefinders. Able to compose and see things coming into the frame, capturing that decisive moment. M stands for Messsucher, which is German for rangefinder. This has always been what has defined the Leica M cameras until today.
There are advantages to modern EVF’s, focusing modern fast glass is hard to focus, parallax issues are gone, you can see your exposure in the viewfinder, preview focus and depth of field, plus your not limited to the supported frame lines so can use wider and longer lens.
Is it an M, well it’s not a rangefinder, but is rangefinder styled and for users of M glass maybe a good option.
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So the UK on line safety act has only been active a few months. Meant to close the door on unsuitable material but already one of the companies doing the age verification has been hacked.
As was warned now adults have had there details stollen and are now at risk of identify theft.
We are seeing vital health knowledge now blocked to minors who need it.
Its not looking good, but its looks like UK government are looking to expand and increase censorship online for the UK.
Nikon Z7
Nikkor Z 35mm f/1.8 S
35mm, 1/100 Sec at f/1.8, ISO450
Post Processed in Adobe Lightroom Classic V14.5.1
The whole idea with flash, especially flash in the studio it to fully control the light in the space.
That’s why most of my shots in the studio are taken at f/8 and 1/200 of a second at ISO64. This gets rid of any ambient light, just allowing the flash to light the scene.
But just occasionally you want to introduce another light source, here we have candle light and flash carefully balanced. Wide open, lowest ISO and I kept dropping the shutter speed till the candle looked right then lit the rest of the scene with flash. Tricky but easier when you tether to the computer.