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0xThylacine
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mastodon 4.7.3amateur photographer. inspired by the brilliant Peter Dombrovskis (RIP). i try all sorts of photography: macro, landscape, bw, abstract, astro. ally 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
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header: sunset over water, clear blue/pink sky, fading to burnt orange on the horizon. Lights reflect on the water.
pfp: Tair-3 f/4.5 300mm lens
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Joined November 11, 2022
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Moss, fungi and lichen (and leeches) abound in the Myrtle Forest, Collinsvale.
There's a shelter about 200m from the carpark. We didn't make it that far. Just too much to see in the macro view.
Edit: typo.
#photography #nature #moss #lichen #fungi #vintagelens #Mosstodon
Myrtle Forest, Act 2.
Sunset clouds this evening. Liked the striking colour against the dark, moody cloud in shadow.
📷 Tamron f/2.8 135mm.
Some bright colours and soft focus to ease into the weekend.
Really liking the soft rendering of this lens. What has mastodon done to me lol, I was always the f/8 guy before. Now? Well, anything goes. :)
"Beauty in Imperfections".
Spotted this moth during the week. I am led to believe it is an Euproctis but I can't confirm an exact species, possibly melanosoma (since it is in Tasmania).
"Kookaburra Silhouette".
📷 CZJ Tessar 2.8/50mm
#PhotoArt #monochrome #MonochromeMarch #VintageLens #photography
Old building beside the pipeline track.
#PhotoArt #MonochromeMarch #monochrome #photography #VintageLens
"Pretty in Pink".
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Stopping the aperture down can create even more flare across the frame, outside the centre line to the sun.
#photography #LensFlare
Colours and texture.
Bees on a Butterfly Bush.
#photography #bees #nature #BloomScrolling #VintageLens #teleconverter
"The Canopy".
I've tried many times to get a photo of this tree, that I like enough to share. Finally, one makes the cut.
I thought I took this pic with a CZJ Tessar, but it has a 5 bladed aperture, and the sun's starburst here has 6 points. Must have been the Albinar 28mm, as it is 6 bladed.
#PhotoArt #monochrome #MonochromeMarch #photography #eucalypt #VintageLens
Of course I will use any excuse to take photos of autumn maple tree leaves, the red veins against the fading green to red leaves is a glorious deluge of colour. Testing out a new lens last week, thanks to flatmate for finding it at a local market.
📷 Tamron f/2.8 135mm
Fiery autumn colours.
Edit: Wrong lens info embedded in the images, correct in alt txt.
Multi-layered clouds at sunset.
Liked the shapes, contrasts, variance in cloud types at different layers, the golden light against the stark white and dark grey.
Trialling placing the lens info at lower left in the image (for those people interested in these things, and as a reminder to future self). The aperture info isn't recorded in exif data for manual lenses.
Some bright colours for your day.
There's a tiny insect climbing the right side of the flower in focus, covered in pollen.
"Ripples under a Bridge".
Colours of autumn.
The neighbour's maple tree has been most helpful with my lens tests.
📷️ Hanimex f/6.3 400mm.
"Lineage."
Interesting geology on the foreshore near Mays Beach, Lauderdale.
"Robin Red Breast".
Another bucket list item ticked off. Just need to find some pink ones now.
Honey and Bumble Bees doing the nectar collecting thing.
#photography #nature #bees #flowers #BloomScrolling #VintageLens
- got my company bank account unlocked and managed to control my temper on the phone (locked bc they emailed the wrong address....)
- remote shutter relase cable arrived yesterday, a cheap $11 thing. It was broken on arrival but I fixed it.
- after about 16 months I decided to print something and of course the print heads are clogged. New ink arrived, ink flushed (didn't use a third of a tank/2000 pages worth, despite the warning), all film photos printed and one of the bridge.
"Softly Seeding".
Another angle in the Lost World. It looks like the rock at right is part of the wall - it is purely an illusion.
A rock climber was scaling the cliff face to the right of the tree as I was taking these, with a huge exclamation of delight upon reaching the top. It may be possible to see the rope upon close inspection. (People are not generally included in my photographs unles they ask to be, or are too far away to identify.)
#PhotoArt #monochrome #MonochromeMarch #kunanyi #photography
"The Dish".
No, not that one.
Radio telescope near Richmond.
Would love to go there one day for a tour inside.
#PhotoArt #monochrome #photography #space #science #radio #telescope
Yay. I took a risk with 3 Russian cameras sold as "Parts only, untested", with no views of the lens internals.
I had prepared mentally to take a look and put them in the bin if they were unsalvageable.
Turns out 2 are in pretty good condition optically and mechanically, with the other having some fine scratches on the front lens that I doubt will show in photos. No haze or fungus, little dust. I did have to dismantle the latter as the focus was stuck in dried up grease. Works now.
Becalmed.
First shots with a Tamron 80-210mm (103a) lens. Acquired at the tip shop just up the road from this location.
Countryside in the afternoon light, near Elderslie.
"Towering".
For $7.50* I'll take the big CA and do more in monochrome lol.
* and 10 hours fixing the aperture.
📷 Hanimex f/6.3 400mm.
"Up Ramp".
So after getting my first leech bite, guess which tiny creatures I neglected to capture on the camera sensor? I did get some ok pics of moss, fungi and lichen (pics to come), but the wriggly lil blood suckers will have to wait till next time.
RE: https://photog.social/@0xThylacine/116611654625955539
Super lucky to find this lens at a tip shop. It's become one of my favourite macro lenses since it can do 1:1 magnification, with just a teleconverter, at 0.85m. It's great because insects/small things will often fly/scamble away if I get too close with other macro lenses*. Whereas here I had to zoom out a bit to get more tree in the photos.
Exhibit A: testing a Jupiter-8 yesterday, I had to leave the camera running in interval timer mode to catch a shy spider on a flower. Pics to come.
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@LovesTha@floss.social Pretty much the same here. Likewise I can guess often from the blur, but wouldn't be certain enough to embed into the image. Sometimes, especially with clickless apertures, I'll notch back just a fraction from fully wide to pull the softness down a notch, but it's like a 1/6th of a stop at best, maybe less.
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Thanks to past me for setting the manual lens length to a weird number, 81mm. Means I had a 1.4x teleconverter on a Helios 58mm lens.
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@Heterokromia Did they update the story? Reading it now (no notice issued says it was updated?) it says 50 million panels.
Edits: fixing text, re adding the photo that didn't attach the first time, re adding the photo again cropped properly this time. Ugh.
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@rlonstein@social.stonetools.tech They say it isn't tested at all, likely they don't have a pc old enough, but they're asking $400 anyway as a collectable.
Link: https://ebay.us/m/aiXOS6
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@Ooze@wirejunkie.net Wow, quite so. I thought it was a custom thing for a custom purpose, as opposed to a generic keyboard. Had planned to look it up but a delivery arrived and new shiny thing...