Weekly Assignment #50: 50

[Nikolai]

Hey, we got to an official anniversary, this is our 50th class! :barb

For this class we going to have something rather challenging (or so I hope).

First of all, you are only allowed to use 50mm lens. Zooms are OK, but please make sure they are set to 50mm. I'm not gonna be too picky about one-two mm off, but any more than and you get a yellow card :deal .

Next you're gonna shoot full manual, just like it used to be done in the 50-ies :-)

Next, subject-wise, please try to frame something that would can possibly be considered as a credible 50-ies shot. Classic cars are your primary choices, but anything "period" would do, as well as some "eternal" stuff, like an architecture, landscapes, etc.

And finally, please do the post processing to match 50-ies style duotone pictures, both color and style :deal .
B/W preferred, sepia is fine.

Please use Internet for research (google, wiki, etc).

As usual, fresh pictures only. EXIF is mandatory. Post process according to the plan above.
For the rest of the rules, class index, etc., pleas use this sticky (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=41800).

Let's see those fifties!

[z_28]

One tech question :
real 50mm or 50mm after crop ?

[Nikolai]

One tech question :
real 50mm or 50mm after crop ?
Real 50mm, forget the crop :-)
The simplest way: put on "nifty fifty" and go have fun

[Snakeroot]

Wow, this is a tough one for my first weekly :)

These were the only things I found around the house from the 50's. A 1954 nickle and a grade school yearbook of my dad's that my grandma gave me. I thought the yearbook was interesting because it's tattered and falling apart and it's tied together by strings, which you don't see too often anymore, but when I took a picture of the outside of the yearbook it wasn't as interesting as seeing the pictures inside, especially since the date isn't on the outside, but is on the inside.

These were shot with a Nikon D50 with a 50mm/1.8 and SB-800

Exif Info #1 (http://stalnaker.smugmug.com/photos/newexif.mg?ImageID=188200051)
http://stalnaker.smugmug.com/photos/188188296-S.jpg


Exif Info #2 (http://stalnaker.smugmug.com/photos/newexif.mg?ImageID=188201437)
http://stalnaker.smugmug.com/photos/188188253-S.jpg

[Nikolai]

Wow, this is a tough one for my first weekly :)

These were the only things I found around the house from the 50's. A 1954 nickle and a grade school yearbook of my dad's that my grandma gave me. I thought the yearbook was interesting because it's tattered and falling apart and it's tied together by strings, which you don't see too often anymore, but when I took a picture of the outside of the yearbook it wasn't as interesting as seeing the pictures inside, especially since the date isn't on the outside, but is on the inside.

These were shot with a Nikon D50 with a 50mm/1.8 and SB-800



Thanks! :thumb
Can you please update your post with the EXIF links? :deal
I wish there were more "feel" to the entries rather than just having period subjects, but hey, this will do to boot this show up:-) :wink

[Snakeroot]

Thanks! :thumb
Can you please update your post with the EXIF links? :deal
I wish there were more "feel" to the entries rather than just having period subjects, but hey, this will do to boot this show up:-) :wink

Ya.. well I'm here to make everyone else's entries look that much better :rofl

Sorry about the missing exif links... I'm a newb... had to figure out how to do that :) They're in the original post now!

[Antonio Correia]

I am of those who reads the f manuals at hight speed or don't read it at all.:wink
But will you Nikolai confirm :
What you want is a picture which might be shot in the 50 ies.
Some kind of this for example:
http://antoniocorreia.smugmug.com/photos/168040199-M.jpg http://antoniocorreia.smugmug.com/photos/132581419-M.jpg
You do know the picture on the left already.
May be if the photo was shot and developped in the 50.ies/60.ies it shouldn't be so sharp. No. It could be as sharp as this one.

My grand mother, was photographed in the 60.ies and the photo is as sharp as the towell one. I photographed her with the Rolleicord. I still remember where I made the shot ! :D I loved this woman !:lust

I do have a plan to go and shoot some of this moody pictures !
But that will only be possible tomorrow, in the evenning.
:thumb

[Nikolai]

I am of those who reads the f manuals at hight speed or don't read it at all.:wink
But will you Nikolai confirm :
What you want is a picture which might be shot in the 50 ies.

Yes :-) :thumb And I will even accentuate those fifties look by adding grain, vignetting, 5mm white border and and other film-era related nasties :-)

[Antonio Correia]

This exif thing is always a drag to get.:scratch
I will post it at home, editing this post, because here I can't make a correct screen capture.
( Why the <photo tools> don't have the exif ? I must make a poll for this one of these days ... )
Shot Manual, with flash. The lens was at 62mm. Is that acceptable ?
No. It is not.:wink
Do I have to re-shoot ? Yes I must.:D
A very classical motive, non creative, but working very well for this assignment.
http://antoniocorreia.smugmug.com/photos/188453208-L.jpg

[z_28]

Hmmm... Antonio - nice picture,
but I don't feel 50's around it even a bit :huh
As you said lens is from 60's (62mm exactly :wink)
that's not bad,
but my overall feeling is around mid 80's ?!

Let's do it again (me of course too :rolleyes)

[Antonio Correia]

Hmmm... Antonio - nice picture,
but I don't feel 50's around it even a bit :huh
As you said lens is from 60's (62mm exactly :wink)
that's not bad,
but my overall feeling is around mid 80's ?!

Let's do it again (me of course too :rolleyes)
Excuse me but I have to desagree with you regarding the contents of the picture.
It is true that you and me, we do have a very different life experience.
In the 40.ies until the 25 th April 1974 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnation_Revolution), Portugal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portugal) was a country under the dictatorship of Salazar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_de_Oliveira_Salazar). I am sure you do know about this.
There existed the sensorship to allow only the publication of certain articles which were not against the regime.
Photography was also part of that system and the very naive themes were well accepted even if people were starving in Alentejo. (I am not communist).
So, my picture of the vase with roses is OK, it could have been shot at that time.
I remember one of my father's photo: a boy - some 6/7 years old - eating in a staircase out in the street. Naive theme: Simple.
And so are the roses.
http://antoniocorreia.smugmug.com/photos/135568589-Th.jpg
This is one of my father's pictures shot in the 60.ies. Not a great composition but very simple and straight. The fishermen where inside the wooden boat, which very few exist these days.

What distinguishes this picture of the dictator Salazar from one which could be shot today ? The costume may be ... the pose, very circunstancial and convenient. The smile ... the future, while people were tortured in prison...
May the halo around his head ... like saints use to have.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Salazar1933.jpg/200px-Salazar1933.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_de_Oliveira_Salazar)
Well, I will post more pictures which will look like from the 50.ies/69.ies with the "correct" focal distance.
In fact many pictures were shot not in 35 mm but in 6*6 !
Americo Ribeiro was a photographer from Setubal who shot many aspects of the city. Here (http://fotografoamericoribeiro.tumblr.com/) we can see some af his valuable work. I remember he was using a 6*6 and later, a 35 mm

[D.Rodgers]

This model brownie was around with Malt shops and Pink Cadilacs,so it only seemed fitting to shoot it.
Shot at 1.8 to give the feel of an old camera and processed into B$W with some grain added..
The over exposed look is also what this camera produced most of the time..
i have no idea how to embed exif data ,I can do a print screen that shows it.
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f371/fishnutham/brownie.jpg

[D.Rodgers]

Best I can do for exif Data..
Could someone explain how to add it to an image for me:dunno
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f371/fishnutham/untitled-2.jpg

[Snakeroot]

Best I can do for exif Data..
Could someone explain how to add it to an image for me:dunno


The way I did it was go into my smugmug gallery and choose "Critique" for my style. On the right side there's a link that says "Photo Information". At the top of that page, there's a link to use to display Exif info externally.

I did notice that when I photo shopped my pic, the exif data was gone, so I linked to the exif data of my original photo.

[Antonio Correia]

That tutorial is here (http://dgrin.smugmug.com/gallery/1083138), not in the <photo tools> ! :dunno !

[z_28]

Antonio - it's not about politics, roses or vases !

Just picture look WAY to modern (about 30 years to modern :wink )

[Nikolai]

This exif thing is always a drag to get.:scratch
I will post it at home, editing this post, because here I can't make a correct screen capture.
( Why the <photo tools> don't have the exif ? I must make a poll for this one of these days ... )
Shot Manual, with flash. The lens was at 62mm. Is that acceptable ?
No. It is not.:wink
Do I have to re-shoot ? Yes I must.:D
A very classical motive, non creative, but working very well for this assignment.


Sorry, amigo, focal lens is off, and the overall feeling is way off, too...:dunno

[Nikolai]

This model brownie was around with Malt shops and Pink Cadilacs,so it only seemed fitting to shoot it.
Shot at 1.8 to give the feel of an old camera and processed into B$W with some grain added..
The over exposed look is also what this camera produced most of the time..
i have no idea how to embed exif data ,I can do a print screen that shows it.

Thank you! :thumb
I should say, though, for me this image does not deliver the period feeling. Maybe it's modern-day glasses, maybe something else...:dunno
EXIF: in worst case scenario - simply type stuff in manually, way easier than adding a screenshot.
HTH

[D.Rodgers]

Thank you! :thumb
I should say, though, for me this image does not deliver the period feeling. Maybe it's modern-day glasses, maybe something else...:dunno
EXIF: in worst case scenario - simply type stuff in manually, way easier than adding a screenshot.
HTH
I knew I blew it on the glasses thought I could pull a fast one :cry

Whats the limits on processing ,ie selective blurring ETC..
in case anyones curious I collect and shoot old cameras,theres tons of reference photos available..

[Nikolai]

Whats the limits on processing ,ie selective blurring ETC..

In this case - go have a ball:-) :thumb

[D.Rodgers]

Whoo hoo ...
I love it when the skys the limit..
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f371/fishnutham/hawk.jpg

[Nikolai]

Whoo hoo ...
I love it when the skys the limit..

Way better now!:thumb
I only wish there were no galsses :wink

[D.Rodgers]

Way better now!:thumb
I only wish there were no galsses :wink

You win :rolleyes
Heres another without the glasses:cry
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f371/fishnutham/brownie16.jpg

Focal length 50mm
Flash front curtain
Flash manual
exposure mode manual
metering multi pattern
is0 200
shutter 1/50-f/2.8

[Nikolai]

You win :rolleyes
Heres another without the glasses:cry

Focal length 50mm
Flash front curtain
Flash manual
exposure mode manual
metering multi pattern
is0 200
shutter 1/50-f/2.8

Very cool, man! Thank you! :thumb
The ONLY thing - there used to be WHITE border, not black :wink

[Chrissiebeez_NL]

hi all!

this is my first entry into the weekly assignments so here goes!

http://chris-en-hils.smugmug.com/photos/189394104-L.jpg (http://chris-en-hils.smugmug.com/photos/newexif.mg?ImageID=189394104)

C&C always apreciated :lust


exif:

Date Modified 2007-08-29 21:21:32
Date Taken 2007-08-29 19:24:35
Camera Canon EOS 400D DIGITAL
Exposure Time 0.0005s (1/2000)
Aperture f/1.8
ISO 1600
Focal Length 50mm (guess: 78mm in 35mm)
Photo Dimensions 2712 x 4008
File Name fotoassignment Dgrin 50 copy.jpg
File Size 9.46 MB

Detailed
Flash flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode
Exposure Program manual
Exposure Bias 0 EV
Exposure Mode manual
White Balance auto
Color Space unknown

[Nikolai]

hi all!
this is my first entry into the weekly assignments so here goes!
C&C always apreciated :lust
Chris, I like it alot :thumb , but before I go further, can you please provide the EXIF data? :deal
You can simply edit your original post.

[Chrissiebeez_NL]

hey nikolai,

the exif info is available when you click the photo but i think i can paste it as well.

[Nikolai]

hey nikolai,

the exif info is available when you click the photo but i think i can paste it as well.
Oh, I see, sorry, there was no "hint" :-) :hide

OK, I like it VERY much! :lust
I like the way you used the high ISO to produce some grainy image, duotone treatmeant and the rest of the period entourage also looks impeccable. Overall, great entry! I'm very happy you joined us! :clap

[Chrissiebeez_NL]

wow, thanks for the kind reply! :D

i really like going out on a mission to shoot a certain style or thing, i'm sure i'll participate in other assignments as well :barb

[george-1]

I am still learning this post-processing stuff, and right now I'm travelling, so I can't do a whole lot to this one, of course that makes it fit the assignment better.

Crossings
http://george-1.smugmug.com/photos/189490363-M-1.jpg

Since I am not at home, I haven't been able to put a white border on it.

EXIF http://george-1.smugmug.com/photos/newexif.mg?ImageID=189490363

B/W conversion by Smugmug.

Thanks for all I've learned on these assignments, I don't have all the techniques down yet but I'm working on them.

--
George Pollard

[Nikolai]

I am still learning this post-processing stuff, and right now I'm travelling, so I can't do a whole lot to this one, of course that makes it fit the assignment better.
Crossings
Since I am not at home, I haven't been able to put a white border on it.
EXIF http://george-1.smugmug.com/photos/newexif.mg?ImageID=189490363
B/W conversion by Smugmug.
Thanks for all I've learned on these assignments, I don't have all the techniques down yet but I'm working on them.
--
George Pollard

George, welcome to the Class and thank you for the entry! :thumb

One thing, though: EXIF says it's auto mode, the requirement was full manual :wink :deal

[george-1]

George, welcome to the Class and thank you for the entry! :thumb

One thing, though: EXIF says it's auto mode, the requirement was full manual :wink :deal
Oops! Well, I'll have to try something else. Maybe I'll see something as I travel I can capture.

[Llywellyn]

What an interesting assignment! Here's my attempt:

http://blackcatphoto.smugmug.com/photos/189641969-L.jpg

EXIF (http://blackcatphoto.smugmug.com/photos/newexif.mg?ImageID=189641969)

[Nikolai]

What an interesting assignment! Here's my attempt:

Thank you, very nice entry! :thumb
I looked into your exif and found this:

Light Source:fine weather

Wow, I didn't know you nikonians have weather perceptiopn devices built-in :bow :wink :rofl

[Llywellyn]

I looked into your exif and found this: Light Source:fine weather

Wow, I didn't know you nikonians have weather perceptiopn devices built-in :bow :wink :rofl

OMG, I never noticed that! :rofl Must be the default when setting my WB to "Daylight."

[keepright]

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y275/robertsonphoto/matthewpiers2007-8292919-wehi.jpg

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http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y275/robertsonphoto/matthewpiers2007-8292900-wehi.jpg

[Nikolai]

two building shots
Thank you!
EXIF, please?

[ChatKat]

http://www.pbase.com/chatkat/image/84942310/medium.jpg


Actually, a picture of me would qualify...(lol) as product of the 1950's..but this I hope is a better entry - 1950's era sign in Ventura, California
48mm 1/250 5.0 400 iso. Here is the Color version - I edited the post to show the BW version...





.http://www.pbase.com/chatkat/image/84941745/medium.jpg

[keepright]

Thank you!
EXIF, please?


#1:

Horizontal Resolution: 300 dpi
Vertical Resolution: 300 dpi
Image Created: 2007:09:02 21:25:17
Exposure Time: 1/125 sec
F-Number: f/4.0
Exposure Program: Manual
ISO Speed Rating: 400
Lens Aperture: f/4.0
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Metering Mode: Center Weighted Average
Light Source: Unknown
Flash: No Flash
Focal Length: 50.00 mm
Rendering: Normal
Exposure Mode: Manual
White Balance: Auto
Scene Capture Type: Standard
Gain Control: High Gain Up
Contrast: Soft
Saturation: High
Sharpness: Normal

Other Properties:

Resolution Unit: i
Exif IFD Pointer: 262
Exif Version: 2.21
Image Generated: 2007:08:29 19:57:17
Image Digitized: 2007:08:29 19:57:17
Shutter Speed: 1/125 sec
File Source: Digital Still Camera
Digital Zoom Ratio: Unused

#2

Horizontal Resolution: 300 dpi
Vertical Resolution: 300 dpi
Image Created: 2007:09:02 21:33:11
Exposure Time: 1/125 sec
F-Number: f/2.2
Exposure Program: Manual
ISO Speed Rating: 800
Lens Aperture: f/2.2
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Metering Mode: Center Weighted Average
Light Source: Unknown
Flash: No Flash
Focal Length: 50.00 mm
Rendering: Normal
Exposure Mode: Manual
White Balance: Auto
Scene Capture Type: Standard
Gain Control: High Gain Up
Contrast: Soft
Saturation: High
Sharpness: Normal

Other Properties:

Resolution Unit: i
Exif IFD Pointer: 262
Exif Version: 2.21
Image Generated: 2007:08:29 19:46:52
Image Digitized: 2007:08:29 19:46:52
Shutter Speed: 1/125 sec
File Source: Digital Still Camera
Digital Zoom Ratio: Unused

[Chrissiebeez_NL]

hey keepright!

i like your second photo! :thumb

[Nikolai]

#1:
#2

Thanks! :-)
On a first one, I honestly think there is too much negative space. It could be that it looked great in color, but with out target bw/duotone it surely create just a large gray void.
I like the second one. Few things that could help with the "50ies theme":

more aggressive bw treatment
add grain
slight vignetting
the image features a slight keystoning effect. I would either fixed it or emphasized itHTH

[Nikolai]

star lounge
Thanks, Kathy, very a propos subject:-)
One thing we need to pay attention to when doing something like that is the sky. It was a common thing in b/w film era to use a yellow filter to drastically emphasize the sky, which, if left alone, would always be rather bleak. This is especially true here in SoCal where the clouds are very rare guests.
Nowdays can either use PS photo filter, or simply mask the sky out and treat it separately to make it the way we want.
Another thing that can be good to create a 50-ies shot imitation is to use a super high ISO, thus creating a in-camera noise. While different from X-film grain, it can set a solid base.
HTH

[ChatKat]

Yes, my very first photo class was in 1971, we shot and developed Plus-X and Tri-X. And I do remember those filters. :wink Not only were the filters yellow, but, so were your fingernails from the chemicals.

My next PS class is on using them. :clap I will have to go back and work that image when I get there.

Digital imaging is a whole 'nother world, huh?

Thanks, Kathy, very a propos subject:-)
One thing we need to pay attention to when doing something like that is the sky. It was a common thing in b/w film era to use a yellow filter to drastically emphasize the sky, which, if left alone, would always be rather bleak. This is especially true here in SoCal where the clouds are very rare guests.
Nowdays can either use PS photo filter, or simply mask the sky out and treat it separately to make it the way we want.
Another thing that can be good to create a 50-ies shot imitation is to use a super high ISO, thus creating a in-camera noise. While different from X-film grain, it can set a solid base.
HTH

[keepright]

i like your second photo! :thumb

Thanks very much. It's the building for the Bank of Nova Scotia in Toronto, which was the pinnacle of modern in the 50's.

[Snakeroot]

I was told these bowls were from the 50's, but since I wasn't around, I'm not sure :)

http://stalnaker.smugmug.com/photos/191362876-M.jpg

**EDIT**
Duotone & Exif
http://stalnaker.smugmug.com/photos/192143182-M.jpg


Exif: http://stalnaker.smugmug.com/photos/newexif.mg?ImageID=191362876

[Nikolai]

I was told these bowls were from the 50's, but since I wasn't around, I'm not sure :)

Bowls will do, but where is the duotone and exif? :wink :deal

[ChatKat]

I was told these bowls were from the 50's, but since I wasn't around, I'm not sure :)



These were Pyrex Mixing Bowls - Oven to Table to Refrigerator bowls. My mom had them too.

[Snakeroot]

Bowls will do, but where is the duotone and exif? :wink :deal

Oops! Busted! I didn't read the directions... Sorry! They're there now.

[Snakeroot]

These were Pyrex Mixing Bowls - Oven to Table to Refrigerator bowls. My mom had them too.

Thanks for the confirmation!

[Antonio Correia]

Photo of my grand father's eye from a photo about 60 years old.

http://antoniocorreia.smugmug.com/photos/192820292-M.jpg

[Nikolai]

Photo of my grand father's eye from a photo about 60 years old.

I think it should be in #51, neh? :wink