Bring your Camera to Work photos

Thanks. If I had time, I would have brought out more detail in the monitor cases, etc. I also used a flashlight during the time exposure to bring out the details in the camera bodies. Its usually very dark in the edit suite.

This was also taken with the Sony consumer P-100 P&S digital camera. That little tiny camera looked rather funny on a heavy duty tripod 🙂 But it takes awesome pictures, very versatile, and I use it all the time. Fits in my front pants pocket, and is there 95% of the time I leave the house. I'm really impressed with it, and its got very little shutter lag at all. Its a great camera to carry for grab shots when you really would rather not carry any camera, but would feel naked without something. I've never been disappointed with the results yet. Here are some photos taken with it - Sony P-100 eval images for those that are interested.
 
Last edited by a moderator:
I always take one of my cameras to work (usually one loaded w/ TMax 3200, so I won't need a flash), and shot some of my best portraits there, but unfortunately I can't show those outside work - I work with mentally handicapped people, and this would violate their privacy...

Roman
 
sfaust said:
(snip)...This was also taken with the Sony consumer P-100 P&S digital camera. That little tiny camera looked rather funny on a heavy duty tripod 🙂 But it takes awesome pictures, very versatile, and I use it all the time. Fits in my front pants pocket, and is there 95% of the time I leave the house. I'm really impressed with it, and its got very little shutter lag at all. Its a great camera to carry for grab shots when you really would rather not carry any camera, but would feel naked without something. I've never been disappointed with the results yet. Here are some photos taken with it - Sony P-100 eval images for those that are interested.
Click to expand...

That's a very impressive array of test shots, Steve. Excellent results and a good variety of conditions. When I decided to buy a digital camera this year I originally considered the Contax "whatever it was" ("T" or something -- bad memory and too lazy to Google right now) but the press on it was not that great. Then I considered the Digilux II and that is probably a fine camera, but I decided to try the Sony (DSC-V1) because my main interest is still with older film cameras and the price of admission was not as severe as with the Digilux. I have been very pleased and impressed with the results from the little Sony -- never had a regret since buying it. Same thing with the tripod: the camera feels like it weighs 4 ounces, it's funny to have perched on a HD tripod!

As these things go, after only a year they have already replaced mine with another model (DSC-V3 -- digital R&D must move at such a pace that they blew right past the V2 before they could bring it to market😉 ). However, still no remorse: while the V3 has 7.2MP compared to 5MP of the V1 the physical size of the V3 is much larger and you lose the compactness and "carry anywhere" capability. I just love the little camera -- my wife kids that it has taken me from the "dark ages" (my old iron) and into the '00's!

D2
 
Originally posted by Honu-Hugger That's a very impressive array of test shots, Steve.
Click to expand...

Having it readily available in my pocket at all times, and no cost associated with each image I take makes it very easy to do just whip it out and test with it.

I had forgotten to include some night shots I've taken with it. I updated the gallery with a few. Very impressive quality of the night shots, especially considering the small size of the camera. Usually the smaller the camera, the more noisy the imager, especially as the exposure increases.

I'm sure you must be very happy with the V3 as well. Very good press on it.
 
sfaust said:
(snip)...I'm sure you must be very happy with the V3 as well. Very good press on it.
Click to expand...

Sorry, I should have been more clear. I didn't buy the V3, just noticed that it is out. I'm really happy with the V1 for now. Digital products are still evolving faster than I can keep up -- I've got my hands full just trying to learn PhotoShop (less than a month of experience with it, and not a lot of time to devote to it).:bang:

D2
 
Steve,
Wow, great blend of the two images! If I need PS help, I'm sending it to you buddy.
 
Honu-Hugger, you were quite clear. My reading comprehension was way off 😀

Thanks nwcanonman. Its actually very easy to do. Once you do it, you'll say, 'Thats it???. 😉 Maybe a thread in the darkroom section is in order.

Here are the two images I started with. One exposed for the monitors, and the other exposed for the cameras.
 
And the lighter one. Put them both in one photoshop file as two individual layers. I usually put the darker one on top and the lighter one on the bottom. Select a brush with a soft edge, set the opacity to around 15%, and slowly erase the darkers areas. It will reveal the lighter areas below. You can also vary the layers themselves with the layer opacity controls.

Viola! No magic....

But now its also obvious to everyone that I should have gone a bit lighter overall since I had it available to me in the image. I finished, then realized it was still too dark, and was just lazy to go back and fix it. 😡
 
Last edited by a moderator:
Great shot.
That black Canonet with hood is looking great by the way!!!
 
It will look normal once I get the lens switched around!

The original black one has a bronze colored lens on it that really looks nice. However, it's broken so I took most of the black parts and put it on a standard one. I couldn't switch the lens, so it kind of sticks out. I'm currently looking for a parts camera, then I'll send it in with the original black one and get it fixed, then move the black parts back to the original body. The photo pretty much explains it.

Even the way it is, I am very happy with it. It handles great, and delivers clean sharp images with great exposures.
 
Last edited by a moderator:
stephen, I love your funky coloured keyboard! I presume the coloured keys correspond to control keys for the editing, but I wish they had keyboards for normal use that's equally brightly coloured!
 
Yes, editing is heavily dependent on control keys as the mouse would just slow you way down. The Jog/Shuttle is also a godsend to allow you to move the video tape (whats that???), or control the digital video playback or timeline scrolling.

I'm not as good at it as I probably should be, since I don't edit all the time (I produce, direct and manage the projects). But I do like editing in general. I find it is a lot like photography where you are creating an image. It just happens to move at 29.97 frames per second 🙂 Shooting on the other hand, is very much photography with a whole new dimension added. Pans, zooms, trucks, dollys, fades, etc.... Endless possibilities. But, doing industrial and training films isn't like doing a movie. Its hard to get creative when the subject matter is very dry.

I have seen a company on the internet somewhere that makes custom keyboards at fairly reasonable prices. I think they even had a few stock ones that were generic for most common apps. Unfortunately, I can't remember the company name. I think they were even the company that made the keyboard for the manufacturer of my editing system.

Ok, I did my part. Lets see where everyone else works!!! Bring your camera and snap off a couple shots.
 
Last edited by a moderator:
Here is a work photo of a one my student staff building components in our machine shop for an apparatus to be used on our classroom.

The photo of our hi-tech work place was taken with 50 year old Agfa Super Isolette medium format range finder, using Delta 3200, @ f/5.6 with a 1/50th of second exposure.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom