Random Object Photographs

[M E Morrison]

I was the Bomb Director Supervisor for RVAH-12, responsible for the ASB-12 Bombing and Inertial Navigation System / flight deck trouble-shooting and maint/ setting up the inertial nav before launch. I was also Carrier Air Group nite check maint chief when my predecessor had a heart attack part way through the cruise. !4- 20 hour days were common.

OK, thank you. I was a RD, which became OS, finally transitioned to EW. Much smaller ships, mostly old DDs. I wound up at Newport News Shipbuilding, working carrier new construction and overhaul/refueling.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Stopping for lunch in Bluff, Utah

 

[timjake]

Two Lipizzan horses, Spanish Riding School, Vienna, Austria
October 2015

 

[SC_Mike]

Jaw of a hog I shot last year.

 

[dirty & hairy]

Here's one for Memorial Day

And I thought my brass collection was impressive.

 

[RobertJ.]

I took this on a road trip in 2008. It's located in the same city that Fleetwood Mac recorded "Rumours".

 

[codenamedave]

wups

Pic from grand-dad's time on the Alaskan Railroad.

I looked up Marion Shovel, here's one of their tracked vehicles at work:

This pic was taken by an astronaut, I'd say he has a second career lined up as a photographer.

My grandfather and his Brothers. Early 50s, Kiev Ukraine. My grandfather is top right. I'm named after the guy on the buttom right

I can't be the only guy whose first thought upon seeing the guy in the upper left was: "I must break you."

 

[Arik]

I can't be the only guy whose first thought upon seeing the guy in the upper left was: "I must break you."

I never met him. But from what I've heard he was the first to jump into a fight. Later on he became a Soviet military test pilot but eventually lost his rank and was forced to retire due to alcoholism. He died in some village in the middle of nowhere in Russia. He wasn't feeling good and the local residents put him in a pickup truck to take him to the hospital which was an hour and half away down dirt roads. He died on the way to the hospital.

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[codenamedave]

I never met him. But from what I've heard he was the first to jump into a fight. Later on he became a Soviet military test pilot but eventually lost his rank and was forced to retire due to alcoholism. He died in some village in the middle of nowhere in Russia. He wasn't feeling good and the local residents put him in a pickup truck to take him to the hospital which was an hour and half away down dirt roads. He died on the way to the hospital.

A tragic end to a warrior. To this day alcoholism is the scourge of Russia & the former Soviet Union.

 

[Arik]

Yes, it's very ingrained in the culture

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[arjay]

A couple of pop taken in the 30s
He's wearing a black apron in the first pic

 

[Watchdog]

Ice Bear

A cooling presence in my life for thirty-five years.

 

[cmort666]

A fly, clumsily mounted on the end of an insulin syringe.

I switched from my Tokina 100mm macro on electronic tubes because I couldn't get close enough. These flies are incredibly tiny. I still need to get some wearable magnifiers.

The display was VERY dark, making it hard to focus.

Canon T4i
50mm Minolta MD manual lens reverse mounted on manual tubes.
F11
1/50 sec.

 

[Arik]

Mom, dad, me! Sometime around 81/82

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[Watchdog]

A fly, clumsily mounted on the end of an insulin syringe. These flies are incredibly tiny.

How tiny is "incredibly tiny"? Seriously.

The display was VERY dark, making it hard to focus.

I seldom shoot stuff like this, but when I do (on a tabletop setup), I throw tons of light on the subject, achieve the focus I want, then stop the lights back down to a more proper exposure level. Or I'll open the lens as wide as it'll go, get the focus, then stop back down. Sometimes I'll do both.

I'm surprised you didn't get a better depth of field here since you were shooting at f/11. Were you shooting in manual mode, or were you letting the camera make the exposure decisions for you? What was your ISO? Just curious.

 

[Laketime]

A couple of pop taken in the 30s
He's wearing a black apron in the first pic

The guy just to the right of your dad looks like Clarke Gable.

 

[cmort666]

How tiny is "incredibly tiny"? Seriously.

1/8"... on the outside.

I seldom shoot stuff like this, but when I do (on a tabletop setup), I throw tons of light on the subject, achieve the focus I want, then stop the lights back down to a more proper exposure level. Or I'll open the lens as wide as it'll go, get the focus, then stop back down. Sometimes I'll do both.

I've got a minimum of 800w equivalence of CFLs pointed at the subject.

I eventually ended up opening up the aperture to compose.

I'm surprised you didn't get a better depth of field here since you were shooting at f/11. Were you shooting in manual mode, or were you letting the camera make the exposure decisions for you? What was your ISO? Just curious.

Note that it was shot with a 50mm manual lens, reversed onto manual extension tubes. There's not an electrical connection in sight. Everything was pure manual. The camera couldn't do anything except set the ISO, which I manually set too.

Depth of field is going to be narrow under those circumstances no matter what you do. I could have done a focus stack, but since I do focus stacking by using my ASUS tablet to control focus on my Tokina 100mm macro, I would have had to do it using the macro rail, which I had no intention of doing, since it probably would have gotten screwed up anyway.

Some day I hope to get a StackShot automated macro rail so that I can use microscope objectives and a bellows, but that's going to have to wait until I have a job.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Another guy I never met.
Pardon me - what are you doing up there?
'I'm taking a great picture.'
If I put a platform on my SUV, can I take a great picture?
'Probably not, but you can give it a try.'

 

[les.b]

If there are two Rottweilers in that vehicle, I know who that is!!

Best Regards, Les

 

[cmort666]

I seldom shoot stuff like this, but when I do (on a tabletop setup), I throw tons of light on the subject, achieve the focus I want, then stop the lights back down to a more proper exposure level. Or I'll open the lens as wide as it'll go, get the focus, then stop back down. Sometimes I'll do both.

I'm surprised you didn't get a better depth of field here since you were shooting at f/11. Were you shooting in manual mode, or were you letting the camera make the exposure decisions for you? What was your ISO? Just curious.

Here's the same subject with only the 50mm Minolta reversed, and no tubes.