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GAF Photography Q3 2015

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Does anybody know anything about a Promaster Spectrum 7 lens?

A good friend is selling his 28-70mm f3.9 Promaster for $10 bucks and I'm definitely going to pick it up due to the price but I'm curious if anybody actually knows anything about it.

What he's told me is that it's Nikon AIS compatible so it works for my D3200 and that some Promasters are supposedly made by Sigma or Tamron. The entire lens is clean so that's not a concern either... I just wanna know what to expect when I get the lens next week lol.
 
Not sure if this goes in here or in the camera equipment thread, but I just ordered a Contax G1 and some lenses and was looking for any suggestions on what film to buy. I know about Portra and Velvia and all that but was wondering if anyone has any other suggestions. I've been shooting digitally on a 5D for a while and am particularly looking for something more "filmic", and less about replicating color tones as exactly as possible, since I have my digital camera for that.
 

DSC09924 by Tyler Jacobs, on Flickr

I've had an itch to buy more camera gear, but also am in money saving mode so I bought an old Super Takumar f4 200 M42 mount lens as I had one of those adapters laying around. It weighs like 4 times as much as the NEX 5 body, but that's okay. Lots of chromatic aberration as well, but it was cheap, and its fun.
 
Illithid Dude said:
Not sure if this goes in here or in the camera equipment thread, but I just ordered a Contax G1 and some lenses and was looking for any suggestions on what film to buy. I know about Portra and Velvia and all that but was wondering if anyone has any other suggestions. I've been shooting digitally on a 5D for a while and am particularly looking for something more "filmic", and less about replicating color tones as exactly as possible, since I have my digital camera for that.
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Kodak Ektar is great if you have nice strong light and can give some fantastic blue skies, Portra 400 I find is nice in very directional light and loves autumn tones. Otherwise look at some of the rollei colour reversal films, a very traditional vibrant almost kodachrome feel to them.

Dont forget to delve into the world of black and white as well, rollei 400s and superpan 200 are stunning traditional grain films and you cant go wrong with the ilford films but my preference is the Delta series.

Best advice I can give is to just experiment, and eventually process your own negatives. Black and white is very easy to do and colour is fairly simple with the right gear, doing it yourself gives you so much more control over the final results.

This folder is most of my film stuff on flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nunsofanarchy/albums/72157636504780995 it should say what film is what and how I processed each of them in the description

Edit: Oh nearly forgot, if you are in the UK get to your nearest poundland shop. can pick up a 24 frame roll of Agfa vista 200 for £1 and its a surprisingly good film
 
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Great pics!

Norway

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Here are a couple from a photoshoot i did for a magazine, in exchange for add space.

I think it turned out alright

Paula by Nobel Gomez, en Flickr

Paula by Nobel Gomez, en Flickr

Paula by Nobel Gomez, en Flickr

Paula by Nobel Gomez, en Flickr

Paula by Nobel Gomez, en Flickr

All taken with a D810+70-200 2.8

I'm finally setting up a studio this month, bought an Elinchrom D Lite RX4 kit plus a deep octal and a litemotiv modifier, which were mor expensive than the actual lights :(

I'm really excited to learn to use artificial lights and do studio portraits, most of my work is done with natural light but i think i'm ready to experiment with artificial light now, so excited.
 
alterno69 said:
Here are a couple from a photoshoot i did for a magazine, in exchange for add space.

I think it turned out alright

All taken with a D810+70-200 2.8

I'm finally setting up a studio this month, bought an Elinchrom D Lite RX4 kit plus a deep octal and a litemotiv modifier, which were mor expensive than the actual lights :(

I'm really excited to learn to use artificial lights and do studio portraits, most of my work is done with natural light but i think i'm ready to experiment with artificial light now, so excited.
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Beautiful work. I agree, learning to work with strobes is a lot of fun.
 
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I love Norway and I've never been there.
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The thing I've noticed with star photography is that it needs some foreground to really be attractive. I've done it myself, and it always seems to missing something. I really wanna go out again to a dark place and find a cool foreground and make the photo a lot more interesting.
 
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I'm really not a fan of the process itself (as in I don't enjoy it) and I try not to presume others have done it if I can avoid it.
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As in you dont enjoy the actual act of doing it? Or the results?

Because my photos look like crap until I run them through Lightroom. I dont get heavily into PhotoShop too much but I don't think Id ever show a photo that I pulled right off the camera.
 
For the moment i can throw in my instagram https://instagram.com/arend_r/ . I want to get a bit more serious and get a better camera while at it (have the nikon d5100) .
Somehow I've found my stress cure in photography so I'll try to shoot more in the future, and maybe get some flicr account to post in here :p
 
H3XAntiStyle said:
As in you dont enjoy the actual act of doing it? Or the results?

Because my photos look like crap until I run them through Lightroom. I dont get heavily into PhotoShop too much but I don't think Id ever show a photo that I pulled right off the camera.
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Yeah, the process itself. I love being out with a camera, but struggle to motivate myself to process the images to any great extent. I have a basic import preset that tweaks some of the sliders that gets applied to all.
 
some nice photos posted recently guys. Jealous of the northern lights, wish something like that was visible down here.


Random thought, its time for a new Q4 thread, was wondering what you guys thought of just doing a yearly thread instead of quarterly. We don't come anywhere near filling up even 10-15 pages a quarter, let alone the 200 page limit.
 
Loving all these new photos.

I've been so busy at school whenever I'm outside it's pitch black, so I haven't taken photos in a while. Any ideas on how I can keep it going?
 
captive said:
some nice photos posted recently guys. Jealous of the northern lights, wish something like that was visible down here.


Random thought, its time for a new Q4 thread, was wondering what you guys thought of just doing a yearly thread instead of quarterly. We don't come anywhere near filling up even 10-15 pages a quarter, let alone the 200 page limit.
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A yearly thread sounds fine.
 
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