Photos: Mt Wellington, Auckland, 24 Nov 2012 - NI Bucket Series

[Damien_Toman]

Link:

http://flic.kr/s/aHsjCX3eHi

Regards

Damien

[Buckets4Me]

Cool thanks for that

[Damien_Toman]

Great to see riders travelling from Wellington and Hawkes Bay to ride at the NI Championship round in Auckland.

Great also to see Helen back in action:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dty1/82...7632083752431/

Damien

[Damien_Toman]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dty1/82...7632083752431/

[richban]

Sweet pics Damien. Looks like i need to give my leathers some love. Do you have any of the last A race on Saturday.

Cheers Rich

[Str8 Jacket]

Great to see riders travelling from Wellington and Hawkes Bay to ride at the NI Championship round in Auckland.

Great also to see Helen back in action:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dty1/82...7632083752431/

Damien

Aww, cheers mate - great pic! It had been awhile for sure!! I had a blast! Loving riding that hundy!

Sweet pics Damien. Looks like i need to give my leathers some love.

You and me both mate!!

[Damien_Toman]

Sweet pics Damien. Looks like i need to give my leathers some love. Do you have any of the last A race on Saturday.

Cheers Rich

Hi Rich. Yes, I have heaps more like this :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dty1/82...n/photostream/

Regards

Damien

[richban]

Hi Rich. Yes, I have heaps more like this :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dty1/82...n/photostream/

Regards

Damien

FAB. Will send you a message via your site soon. Love your work.

[koba]

FAB. Will send you a message via your site soon. Love your work.

+1

Great work again!

[Damien_Toman]

A B&W shot from last weekend:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dty1/82...7632083752431/

From my film days in early 1980s, Barry Sheene at Mallory Park, England (Ilford HP5, 400 ASA film):

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dty1/29...7594102230485/

I can do better B&W today than with film (though I still do some B&W film, mostly with with Ilford Pan F at 50 ASA, which is not quite fast enough for racing bikes!).

Damien

[richban]

A B&W shot from last weekend:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dty1/82...7632083752431/

From my film days in early 1980s, Barry Sheene at Mallory Park, England (Ilford HP5, 400 ASA film):

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dty1/29...7594102230485/

I can do better B&W today than with film (though I still do some B&W film, mostly with with Ilford Pan F at 50 ASA, which is not quite fast enough for racing bikes!).

Damien

Yeah I like a bit of grain myself. I use Alien skin Exposure for the goodness. Most of the time I switch all the grade stuff of and just use the film grain. I do love the Barry Sheene shot. There is something magical about film still. Hard to use proper and a little random.

[Damien_Toman]

Yeah I like a bit of grain myself. I use Alien skin Exposure for the goodness. Most of the time I switch all the grade stuff of and just use the film grain. I do love the Barry Sheene shot. There is something magical about film still. Hard to use proper and a little random.

I used the Lightroom grain feature. It works well. Yes, film is far too hard for general use but it does have some magic, especially for B&W.

Another HP5 B&W film shot from 1982! Kork Ballington, multi-time World Champion from South Africa. Taken at Brands Hatch (where I used to race).

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dty1/56...7594102230485/

Damien

[richban]

I used the Lightroom grain feature. It works well. Yes, film is far too hard for general use but it does have some magic, especially for B&W.

Another HP5 B&W film shot from 1982! Kork Ballington, multi-time World Champion from South Africa. Taken at Brands Hatch (where I used to race).

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dty1/56...7594102230485/

Damien

Very very nice. I might have to get some hp5 for my little folder 6x6 baby bessa. Not used the light room grain ether will have to give it a bash.

[Damien_Toman]

Very very nice. I might have to get some hp5 for my little folder 6x6 baby bessa. Not used the light room grain ether will have to give it a bash.

6x6cm B&W film in the baby bessa will be sweet . Go Pan F, or Kodak Technical Pan, if you can still get the film, for landscapes anyway, and even portraits. My old Beseler enlarger, which I still have, does 6x6 film (as well as 35mm and other formats) and prints up to 20x16 inch - nice sized prints for framing and wall mounting.

I flew down to ChCh especially to see the Ansel Adams B&W print exhibition quite a few years back (took my son too). I also used to visit the Photographers' Gallery in London at least once every two weeks - that is where I first saw real Ansel Adams prints! I even bought (in 1982), studied, and still have, "The New Zone System Manual" book by White, Zakia and Lorenz - a masterpiece! Yes, you could say I was into B&W. I won't even start talking about developers, dilutions and times! I still have all my written notes from the early eighties.

Still, Lightroom and the 5DMKIII (or equivalent full frame digital) will do the job very well indeed. Lightroom is so good that I don't often need to use Photoshop these days. I used to carry three film bodies - for Pan F, HP5 and colour transparency - sometimes colour negative instead of Pan F. Now I have 2 digital bodies and one film body. I really only need the 5DMKIII! The 7D is a backup and for very long shots. The film body has Pan F loaded. I just can't take all the gear with me so the film camera and many lenses stay at home most of the time. I must go out with just the film camera some days!

In this shot I deliberately used a square format (like 6x6) as I knew you would appreciate that .

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dty1/82...n/photostream/


Damien

[Bert]

Link:

http://flic.kr/s/aHsjCX3eHi

Regards

Damien

Hi Damien

Great photos mate.
Love the sequence ending with me on my knees
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dty1/82...57632083752431

I'd be keen to see some more (not crashing)... #78

Cheers