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25 year old slides?

Postby ATJ on Wed Mar 09, 2005 6:35 pm

Greg's old slides prompted me to do a few of mine:

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Postby sirhc55 on Wed Mar 09, 2005 6:44 pm

That last slide is fabulous - but what in the name of hell is it :?:
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Postby christiand on Wed Mar 09, 2005 7:50 pm

Hi ATJ,

sorry mate, can't see any images.

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Postby thaddeus on Wed Mar 09, 2005 9:17 pm

i can see the images. the last one looks like a cuttlefish to me, and an incredible shot of one, at that! they are hard to photograph well! well done!
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Postby ATJ on Wed Mar 09, 2005 10:45 pm

Sorry folks, my host was down for a few hours. Should be fine now.

The last photograph is a giant cuttlefish. That one as about a metre long and the arms were almost a metre, too.
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Postby sikx5 on Thu Mar 10, 2005 12:22 am

pwooarr that last one is a great shot!

that waterfall is great as well :D
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Postby the foto fanatic on Thu Mar 10, 2005 6:00 am

sikx5 wrote:pwooarr that last one is a great shot!

that waterfall is great as well :D


Yes, nice pix ATJ.
But aren't there some artifacts in the skky of the waterfall shot?
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Postby ATJ on Thu Mar 10, 2005 8:09 am

cricketfan wrote:But aren't there some artifacts in the skky of the waterfall shot?


Yeah. Looks like a bit of mould on the slide. :( I'll have to check all my slides out now.
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Postby Marvin on Fri Mar 11, 2005 11:21 pm

Wow, you learn something every day! I had no idea that cuttlefish looked like that. Great shot!
Love the avatar too - it made me look a couple of times!! :shock:
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Postby sirhc55 on Fri Mar 11, 2005 11:33 pm

I reckon any budgie would drop dead if that cuttlefish was put in their cage :roll:
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Postby marcus on Fri Mar 11, 2005 11:39 pm

Ya gotta stop blinking mate it can’t be good for ya eyes!

I too had no idea what a living cuttlefish looked like. They were just a chalky white shell thing I picked up off the beach and gave to my Grandma for her budgie.

Amazing, great photos too!
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Postby Killakoala on Sat Mar 12, 2005 7:31 am

That shark is quite interesting with the black background. That cuttlefish is incredibly colourful. I've never seen one that colour before.
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Postby ATJ on Sun Mar 13, 2005 8:31 am

The shark came from the first roll of colour film (Kodachrome 64) I ran through my then new Nikonos III. It is dreadfully underexposed, hence the black background, as both the camera and strobe were fully manual and I hadn't yet worked out the required aperture. I did manage to make a good print of that photograph by dodging the light areas.

I have later discovered that sharks in general are hard to expose well when using a strobe because of their coloration. The dorsal surface tends to be dark and the ventral surface very light.

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Cuttlefish are related to squid and are essentially a wider less active version.
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Postby Greg B on Sun Mar 13, 2005 10:24 am

Yeah, I find that it is difficult to expose sharks properly too, given that

a. I am swimming away from it as fast as possible
b. I am screaming uncontrollably, hence unable to request shark to smile
c. I am trying not to think of all the pieces of flake I have eaten in case the shark picks up the thoughts

OK, to be honest, I don't dive, and the closest I have ever been to a shark (excluding abovementioned flake) was watching Jaws I and II

Great shots ATJ, particularly the cuttlefish (which I had always thought were white and hard from experiences with having a budgie when I was a kid)

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