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[AF] One month in México (auto focus pics)
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 2:14 am    Post subject: [AF] One month in México (auto focus pics) Reply with quote

1 - Fellow photographer travelling in Mexico, gave me some good advise on where to go during the month. Morning time, in the shadow, desaturated in postprocessing


Should have brought my tripod, I took this shot lying down on the floor surrounded by tourists, just waiting for a moment when someone would not walk into the frame. Got stepped on, twice.

2 - Guadalajara, Hospicio Cabanas
José Clemente Orozco, amazing muralista. To think that he painted these with only 1 hand (left arm was blown off in explosion) is quite amazing.
Nikkor 17-35mm f/2.8D @ 17mm f/8 1/30s ISO 900


3 - José Clemente Orozco, muralista
Nikkor 17-35mm f/2.8D @ 17mm f/8 1/30s ISO 720


4 - crazy dog early in the morning
Nikkor 24-70/2.8G @ 42mm f/4 1/1250s ISO 200


5 - friends going out to surf
Nikkor 17-35/2.8D @ 30mm f/8 1/1000s ISO 200


6 - Sayulita surf street, Calle de Marlin
Nikkor 24-70/2.8G @ 29mm f/8 1/1000s ISO 200


7 - I would love to share some more on this story but I think the photo speaks for itself, check out the barb wire for instance.
Nikkor 24-70/2.8G @ 45mm f/8 1/800s ISO 200


8 - Puerto Vallarta
Nikkor 28mm f/1.4D @ 28mm f/ 2.8 6s ISO 200


To be continued...


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PostPosted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 3:21 am    Post subject: Re: [AF] un mes en México Reply with quote

Esox lucius wrote:

crazy dog early in the morning
Nikkor 24-70/2.8G @ 42mm f/4 1/1250s ISO 200


Shocked
Amazing !!

But the whole series is so interesting... thanks for sharing!!
Loved the car picture, and the last one especially.


PostPosted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 1:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you only could have made a star trails picture of the last one, with the girl touching polars... Very Happy


PostPosted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 6:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

fotomachi wrote:
If you only could have made a star trails picture of the last one, with the girl touching polars... Very Happy


Very Happy yes that was my first thought as well but I had to abandon the idea on location - it was a very popular statue and people climbed it to have portraits of themself photographed which meant six seconds was the longest exposure I could achieve without someone entering the photo or shaking the staircase.


8 - Guanajuato, view over the city
Nikkor 17-35/2.8D @ 32mm


9 - Guanajuato, house dug out from 12m below street level and now being restored to original condition.
Nikkor 24-70/2.8G @ 24mm


With the most kind assistance of professor Salvador Santacruz of the University of Guanajuato, I was the first photographer ever to access this newly dug out site. This particular place will be open to the public sometime in 2011 or 2012.

This is a stables from the mid 1600s which was discovered by accident last year and now in the process of being restored to original condition using the same work methods it was originally built with; wood & limestone. It became covered when the riverbed gradually filled up with garbage, erosion and mud thus burying the oldest parts of the city. Then, houses have been built on top of the older houses. I was also invited to access the parts of the cathedral now buried about 10m under street level - the original entrance for instance was 12m below the present street level! Guanajuato has an unknown but estimated to be hundreds of similar sites.

Most house owners are either not aware of what they are sitting on top of, or they don't want to - it is dangerous to extract these sites as it can cause houses to collapse. In addition, the soil is contaminated with mercury and cyanide, a result of hundreds of years of silver mining activity.

I have thousands of photos to archive and postprocess, of course not all are worth publishing but I will add more later to this and the MF topic:

http://forum.mflenses.com/surfistas-de-finlandia-en-mexico-t26335.html


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PostPosted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 7:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Shocked Shocked Wow on the photo overlooking the city...oh the colours are so beautiful.


PostPosted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 8:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Really nice work!

You clearly know what you are doing Smile


PostPosted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 11:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thank you everyone for the kind words!

I'll spam some more photos and then I promise I'm done Laughing

10 - The mandatory red sunset photo, taken in San Francisco aka San Pancho, Nayarit
Nikkor 17-35/2.8D @ 22mm and f/22 1/2.5s ISO 200


11 - Sayulita street at night
Nikkor 28/1.4D @ f/1.4 1/15s ISO 6400 (noise removal off)


12 - Not a bad place for morning workout (Sayulita, Nayarit)
Nikkor 17-35/2.8D @ 17mm f/8


13 - Blue hour in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco
Nikkor 28mm f/1.4D at f/5.6 13s ISO 200


14 - Same blue hour, same place
Nikkor 28mm f/1.4D at f/5.6 3s ISO 200


15 - May I have this dance?
Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco
Nikkor 28mm f/1.4D @ f/5.6 1.6s ISO 200


16 - I don't know the English name for these mini-airplanes...
Nikkor 17-35mm f/2.8D @ 20mm


17 - (crop) Changoléon! He's alive! Very Happy (If you don't know then http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changoleon
Nikkor 24-70/2.8G


18 - Colour, colour and colour
Nikkor 24-70/2.8G


19 - Mexican Surf Mafia or MSM is a surf clothing brand. We had these t-shirts printed, the back had a road sign saying PELIGRO VIKINGOS EN EL TRABAJO Very Happy
Nikkor 60/2.8G Micro


20 - Guadalajara. Forgot to switch back to outdoors ISO, thus the strange exposure
Nikkor 17-35/2.8D @ f/8 1/3200s ISO 1600


21 - Semana Santa in Guadalajara, Jalisco
Nikkor 17-35mm f/2.8D @ 20mm f/8 ISO 200


22 - Guanajuato. These tunnels criss-cross all under the city, they are constructed in the 1750s, something which may be one of the biggest engineering feats I have witnessed.
Nikkor 24-70/2.8G at f/5.6 ISO 6400


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PostPosted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 11:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Shocked Shocked Ok you can spam all you like these are fantastic....those underground tunnels,the sea scenes.....Thanks for sharing I am speechless.


PostPosted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 3:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Great series from Mexico. Thanks for showing. The dog-picture is outstanding!

Thomas


PostPosted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 6:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thank you!

Here are the last ones I promise Laughing - there just are too many and I didn't even pick that carefully as I think there is too much to show from this beautiful country. The amount of doors is explaine by a documentary I did, I photographed about 600 different doors and windows in San Miguel de Allende

Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8G AF-S"

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Nikkor 60mm f/2.8G Micro

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Nikkor 17-35mm f/2.8D AF-S

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Nikkor 50mm f/1.4G AF-S (wide open at 1/50s ISO 1600)

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The manual focus lens images are here:
http://forum.mflenses.com/mf-one-month-in-mexico-manual-focus-pics-t26335.html


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PostPosted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 7:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A photographer paradise plenty of sunshine, beautiful colorful subjects , very,very nice series!


PostPosted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 7:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

+ 1 with Attila.
What a great serie, a real pleasure to look at your pictures Very Happy ....


PostPosted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 7:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Fantastic results Vilhelm, congrats!


PostPosted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 1:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thank you everyone! Yes, indeed a photographer's paradise. Now I hope they will sell well enough Embarassed to cover some unexpected costs involved. No gear damaged or stolen, fortunately.


PostPosted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 3:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Amazing earthy tones and colors. I loved the pictures of the doors and windows in their frames ,and the metal work on them- WOW.


PostPosted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 11:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

My first stitched panorama ever (Nikkor 24-70/2.8G AF-S). Original is 12 000 pixels wide. Also working on a huge cityscape of Guanajuato, consisting of no less than 202 images stitched together

This is a scene from Valle de Banderas, Nayarit (Mexico). This zoomed in out of nowhere, in the middle of a vast flat agricultural landscape. I immediately made a u-turn and speeded back to the location, shooting for half an hour in the warm setting sun.



3000px wide version here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mureena/4520063477/sizes/o/


PostPosted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 1:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It looks really great, Vilhelm.
Perhaps a tad too sharpened? But gorgeous anyway.


PostPosted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 3:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Orio wrote:
Perhaps a tad too sharpened?


You are absolutely right.

Now that the methodology is familiar I will re-do it with zero-sharpening work files, and sharpen only end result. This one has the problem that JPEGs used for stitching were already web sharpened before stitched together with Photomerge. No sharpening needed for web-downsized photos either, bicubic sharpen resize down to screen size furthermore makes it worse.

It's a learning process!