Boring photos!

Boring probably , but also done to death by me . I've got so many pictures of this boat.
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Mine is this tree:

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It's three minutes' walk from my front door, it always has a good contrast range, fine detail in the corners, and I can focus on the bulge where the main branch leaves the tree trunk and see where the focus point lands. As a result, I get a good idea of how a lens renders and whether the body/lens combo works okay. (This was with an Industar 22 on a Zorki, if anyone's curious.)

This is the difference between a Canon 35/1.8 at f/2.8 and a Summaron 35/3.5 at f/3.5, for instance:
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Taken one after the other, and to my eye, the Summaron is the better lens in every way.

But yes... I have so many photos of this tree!
 
DownUnder said:
I'm curious... Were you on your way to (or from) Vanbar Photographics when you photographed this??
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Wandering. Finishing the roll. One, maybe two shots. Two as I remember, this being the last. (And well picked). Then back up the street for a chat and drop off the roll.
 
Dogman said:
Probably boring to many here since I post her photos so often, but my dog Christie is great for testing new lenses or cameras. Being a Soft-Coated Wheaten Terrier she has great hair that can test resolution effectively. Photos of her in the living room with the light coming from the glass door and windows shows how the highlights and shadows are handled--I always have to under expose in high contrast light to protect the whites and then bring up the shadows in processing. I delete many of my testing shots of her but some are just too good to toss out. I'm like a doting parent in that regard, I suppose.

Here's a recent test of my newly purchased Nikon Z5 using a Carl Zeiss 35/2 ZM Biogon lens.

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I like the camera. But there are a few things I really dislike about it. One being it doesn't transfer the lens focal length information to the EXIF even though I've entered it manually into the camera's menu. Another being it's not possible to lock the AF sensor to the center position which kinda drives me nuts since I'm a focus and recompose shooter. A few more nits are present but I'm just beginning to get acquainted with it.






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Forget boring, okay? Just keep posting. For the sake of all of us.

Your images, perfect, imperfect, however, whatever you see them as, are among the most inspiring I've seen.

Please accept this as a fact. Not only a compliment.
 
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Wandering. Finishing the roll. One, maybe two shots. Two as I remember, this being the last. (And well picked). Then back up the street for a chat and drop off the roll.
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To me it looks like Gore Street, Fitzroy. A wonderful suburb for photography. Every street holds wonders.
 
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DownUnder said:
To me it looks like Gore Street, Fitzroy to me. A wonderful suburb for photography. Every street holds wonders.
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I think it was Gore St itself, where Van Bar is. The mindset of taking a shot ot two to finish a roll is so destructive. I did it again recently. After this little discussion, itself I only realized later, actually off topic, evidence of me going off the rails. I now swear not to do it. Better to rewind at 34 or whatever suits. The extra shots I now realize are worse than boring, They are poison.
 
Boring enough?

Just a record of each side of a package I’m shipping just incase it’s damaged.
 

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For HCB... ...Ducks!

HCB's Duck Pictures?

Fun Fact: He had a tradition of testing out new camera lenses by taking photos of ducks in urban parks. These were never published, but he called them a ‘baptism’ of the lens and his only ‘superstition.’ from: https://shooterfiles.com/2015/04/mas...rtier-bresson/ I have never heard of this...
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Ok, I have another that’s every bit as boring as the box I posted.

Background, I use my phone for reference. I photograph package labels so when I go to the grocery store I get exactly what my wife is looking for (I grocery shop alone). In this case I want to match the hand rail profile of the existing rail to use in another spot.

A real piece of art isn’t it?
 

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Ok, I have another that’s every bit as boring as the box I posted.

Background, I use my phone for reference. I photograph package labels so when I go to the grocery store I get exactly what my wife is looking for (I grocery shop alone). In this case I want to match the hand rail profile of the existing rail to use in another spot.

A real piece of art isn’t it?
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A masterpiece. I've seen a lot of work like this in some "elite" galleries. Seriously.
 
My next door neighbor has an old garage with wooden siding that looks like its made of wood roofing shingles; it has very fine texture and detail, making it perfect for testing lenses to ensure that they're sharp and that they aren't decentered. I've been using it for that purpose for 35 years! My son's house (I live with him) has been in my family for four generations. When I first began using the neighbor's garage to test lenses when I was a teenager, my grandparents lived here. Its just around the block from my parents' house, so I visited my grandparents often.


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