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[speedgraflex]

Welcome home, John! That is a very respectful number of photographs, and I would be very interested in seeing selects or a montage when you finish editing. You shot with the MKIV, correct? What I liked best and miss about the MKII was the Digic processor. One of my favorite cameras as it was my first digital! I recently found a hand/battery grip for it which made me think I should hunt down a working used one as a backup... ah, nostalgia. A much more practical backup would be a Sony 7S, though. I have tooled my processing with Lightroom and VSCO for Sony and iPhone. If you do have any shots with a phone, the phone processing presets are amazingly good! Apologies! Every time I read about new photographs I am very excited!

Again, my only note on the figure concerns the remarkable job of painting. Honestly, this thread is incredible. If you read this from beginning to end, there is quite a story being told, John. I look forward to your final flourish with antenna and rigging as well as shots of the packed kit itself. Cheers.

[Stikpusher]

Thanks guys! Just back from my overseas trip. Still have to process the photos that I took (over 3,000) so I won't be able to jump into the modeling room for at least a few days. My apologies to Stick for my snarky response about the pilot figure. It was a quick comment before leaving on my trip and upon reading it now, I can see that I should've phrased it more politely. Sorry Carlos. You were not off-base. The same question was asked of me on two other modeling message boards so I had a lot of explaining to do.

Hopefully, I can get the aerial mounted on Black 1 and then I have to prepare it for flight #3 across the Atlantic.

No worries about your response. I just speak from the perspective of a former soldier, collector/fan of US WWII stuff, and someone who looks from those angles at the realism of a diorama. I know my critiques can come across online as sniping, when they are meant in a curious sort of way that writing cannot convey as the tone of voice can when spoken.

[mustang1989]

Looking forward to seeing you back around on this build John.

3000 photos?????? A true photographer right there. Curious to see how many you'll keep.

[speedgraflex]

Looking forward to seeing you back around on this build John.

3000 photos?????? A true photographer right there. Curious to see how many you'll keep.

[jkim]

Thanks for the welcome back! I'm just finishing up the photo work from my trip so I haven't been able to resume modeling just yet. 3,000 photos is a lot to process but I really enjoy this part of photography. I brought a Canon 5D Mark IV with me along with an assortment of lenses (24-105 f/4 IS, 50 f/1.4, 85 f/1.2 and a 70-200 f/2.8 IS). I shoot in RAW and process my photos in Lightroom.

As unofficial photographer for the trip, I try to capture/document the various aspects of our stay in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. As I process batches of photos, I post them on my Facebook page in albums and then eventually create a slideshow of images. When I'm done, I'll have posted maybe 1,000 photos spread across 11-12 albums. I'm not a great photographer by any means but I enjoy doing it. Here's a a small sample of some of the images from the trip...

[speedgraflex]

The Canon 85mm is amazing! I like it better then the Zeiss Planar.

I miss Canon lenses, a little.

One combination I enjoyed was adapting Contax series lenses to Canon. The color rendition was exquisite.

What a wonderful selection of frames, chosen between figures and landscapes. My favorite is the combination of figure within landscape because everything — all the visual details — are natural, and the figure is doing something wonderfully evocative in the natural setting, but the focus is the great sky unfolding mysteriously above. A self portrait?

[jkim]

The Canon 85mm is amazing! I like it better then the Zeiss Planar.

I miss Canon lenses, a little.

One combination I enjoyed was adapting Contax series lenses to Canon. The color rendition was exquisite.

What a wonderful selection of frames, chosen between figures and landscapes. My favorite is the combination of figure within landscape because everything — all the visual details — are natural, and the figure is doing something wonderfully evocative in the natural setting, but the focus is the great sky unfolding mysteriously above. A self portrait?

Thanks Bruce! I do love the 85, especially on a full-frame sensor. It was a little bit "long" on my 7D. The figure is not a self portrait. Just someone admiring Issyk Kul Lake in the morning and I just happened to capture the moment. He may be taking his own photo on his phone.

[KSaarni]

Wonderful pics!

I always enjoy watching good pictures and also professional photographers (like John and Bruce) discussing photography!

- Kari

[speedgraflex]

Wonderful pics!

I always enjoy watching good pictures and also professional photographers (like John and Bruce) discussing photography!

- Kari

Your macro photography is exquisite, Kari, I learn so much from how you and John determine the “step by step” in a series of modeling photos; it is not simply a point and shoot situation when you are handling detail parts... and you gents know how to get your shots!

[mustang1989]

[quote="jkim"]Thanks for the welcome back! . I'm not a great photographer by any means but I enjoy doing it. Here's a a small sample of some of the images from the trip...quote]


Good to have you back John. I can tell you that you aint a bad photographer either. Great pics.