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Post by nikonbob on Jul 26, 2007 21:17:54 GMT -5
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Post by Randy on Jul 26, 2007 22:17:23 GMT -5
WOW!!! Those are GREAT!!! I really like the third shot.
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Post by mickeyobe on Jul 27, 2007 0:58:23 GMT -5
They are all beautiful shots. Number 1 is special. The foreground really captures the illusion of height. It almost creates a sense of vertigo.
Mickey
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Post by GeneW on Jul 27, 2007 5:13:46 GMT -5
Great shots, Bob. It reminds me again what a great planet this is. I'm very taken with the tree in #2.
Gene
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Post by nikonbob on Jul 27, 2007 8:50:50 GMT -5
Thanks for the remarks guys but feel free to point out negatives too. Mickey. that is no illusion as the falls are the highest in Minnesota. Not huge like Niagara but still very adequate. Gene, you are right. It is a great planet and you don't have to travel far afield to see that. Northern Minnesota and NW Ontario are places overlooked by tourists in North America, both foreign and domestic, looking for the nature experience. Then again maybe that is a blessing in disguise.
Bob
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Post by John Parry on Jul 27, 2007 10:31:31 GMT -5
Mmmmm...
Couldn't see too many negatives Bob!
I agree with all the other comments.
Regards - John
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Post by doubs43 on Jul 27, 2007 10:33:34 GMT -5
Bob, I like number three best. Oddly enough it reminds me of the old Hamm's Beer commercial with it's theme "From the land of sky-blue waters". IMO it's the rock in the lower right corner that makes the shot because otherwise it would be too symmetrical. The gray clouds also help with contrast.
I also like number one but I'd like to see something in the picture to give it scale. I really can't envision how high those falls are. That's a really minor point because other than having a person on the top of the falls I don't know how else you could provide scale.
Those four images were worth the trek but I'll bet so was the stroll through the beautiful woods with or without a camera.
Walker
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Post by nikonbob on Jul 27, 2007 12:19:39 GMT -5
John, thank you very much.
Walker
Believe it or not it is possible to stand on the center rock if the watter is low. I have done it from the Canadian side. I think it is high enough, at least for me. Yeah with or without a camera the stroll would be nice. Unfortunately for two older overweight people who both have smoked a pack a day for forty years it takes on the dimensions of a death march. Well not that bad but close.
Bob
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Post by PeterW on Jul 27, 2007 17:07:33 GMT -5
Very nice pictures, Bob.
Jupiter lenses really are great, aren't they? First class value for money. All mine are Jupiter 8, two 8Ms on Kievs and three 8s, one on a Zorki 4K and two Zorki 4s. The Jupiter 8 in a black mount was standard on Zorki 4s in the UK. I think an Industar 50 lens was standard in some other markets.
Nothing much wrong with the Super Store own brand film. The colours remind of Konica film I used to buy some time ago under the own brand of my local Klik one-hour process shop, now closed. I often bought film there because it was cheap but I didn't take it back there for processing - not after I saw students operating the process machines during the summer vacation. They were quite rough with the film, and handled it without wearing cotton gloves. One girl even had a half-eaten Mars Bar on the ledge of the machine. No thanks.
I agree with Mickey that the bushes in the foreground of the first shot really give a feeling of depth. So does the rock in the right foreground of the third picture. It stops it from being just a long-distance shot of a waterfall.
I like your eye for a picture in the texture of the tree trunk in picture 2. Looks like a silver birch ?? But next to picture 1 my favourite is number 4 with the small cluster of leaves caught by the sun at the base of the old tree trunk. Nicely seen.
Negatives? I can't really see any.
PeterW.
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Post by nikonbob on Jul 27, 2007 18:07:22 GMT -5
PeterW
I can't agree more about the Jupiter lenses, I just keep reaching for that Kiev and Jupiters. I tried out my IIf and Summitar today with the same film and the results were very similar to my eye. Now if the Kiev was as smooth as the IIf then there would be no contest. I hope that will change when I get my CLA'd Contax II back, but I will still be using the Jupiters on it too.
I know what you mean about processing. I am fortunate to have found a near by 1hr lab in a Shoppers Drug Mart that does good work and not a Mars bar in sight. Fairly cheap to at $3.41 tax in for develope and CD.
Thanks for the comments on the photos and that is the only way to learn. Yea, I believe that was a silver birch. Farther down the road the deciduous tress are more plentiful and the area is well know for it's fall colours. I hope to catch some of that colour this year and yes I will be using the Kiev and Jupiters.
Bob
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Post by nikonbob on Jul 27, 2007 18:13:14 GMT -5
I thought I would add this one just for scale. Bob
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Post by galenk on Aug 12, 2007 13:14:28 GMT -5
The waterfalls are great but I like the tree with fungus shot the best, I guess being from Kansas where there are very few trees I just Have a thing for forest shots.
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