NO pixels

complementary colours

Pawel — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:37:32 +0000

the only illumination here is coming from a camp fire embers and a smartphone. Pretty amazing that such little amount of light is enough to take a picture…

just dreaming

Pawel — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:27:31 +0000

autumn is here!

no photo

Pawel — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 03:27:13 +0000

(snowy) mountains

Pawel — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 09:45:19 +0000

porcupine rocks – one of my favourite walks in snowy mountains. This time in very picturesque weather.

entire gallery available here:
http://nopixels.net/easter-2013

dark places

Pawel — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 22:12:08 +0000

Here is a rough cut from our recent canyoning trip. GH1 had a hard time coping with extreme contrasts and general darkness but at the end did a reasonable job. 95% of shots were done with SLR Magic HyperPrime Cine 12mm T/1.6. As you can see I love its flare :-).

another one from the recent wedding

Pawel — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 07:01:33 +0000

my favorite model

Pawel — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 05:37:13 +0000

tilt-street candids

Pawel — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 08:53:14 +0000

tilt-street

Pawel — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 07:30:44 +0000

a lovely couple

Pawel — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 08:46:46 +0000

not sleeping beauty

Pawel — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 11:41:37 +0000

$20 cctv 35mm/1.7

Pawel — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 04:34:31 +0000

glorious beach living

Pawel — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 21:36:51 +0000

music by Club des Belugas

http://www.chinchin-records.com/index.php?id=22

street

Pawel — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 22:24:07 +0000

streets of Sydney

end of the day

Pawel — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 22:32:06 +0000

night trails

Pawel — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 22:14:52 +0000

little people – classic tilt effect

Pawel — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 22:27:53 +0000

A bunch more photos taken with my DIY tilt lens. This time classic use to get the miniature look.
Previous set of street photography is here.

here is what you need:

a lens for a camera with a bigger sensor then yours. In my case I used medium format bronica 50mm/2.8 ($150 on ebay)

a lens mount for your camera. Cheap Chinese macro extension rings ($8, yep not even ten bucks) work very well. You can use an old broken lens or cheap adapter for m42 etc.

something round, like a top of a coke bottle or a toy ball to make the ball socket.

I tried a buch of different shapes to find the right size for the socket. As the lens comes from a bigger camera with longer flange distance there is a bit of space for the joint but not too much. If you make it too thick then you will loose ability to focus to the infinity. A toy plastic ball fit my lens quite well but it was way too soft to use. I ended up using it as a form to make more sturdy resin+fibreglass joint. If you have something hard in the right shape you can use it instead of making one. As this is a prototype I only taped the socket to the lens (unfortunately didn’t have black tape). To hold everything together I used a piece of rubber glove, taped on both sides to the lens and to the mount. Looks dodgy but works quite well.
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Here are profesional conversion done by Maciek. He uses shower heads to do it. Quite ingenious :-). Link

DIY tilt-shift (bronica 50mm/2.8)

Pawel — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 22:15:44 +0000

some first photos from early tests of my home made tilt-shift lens.

1x

Pawel — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 09:56:13 +0000

finally, after 64 photos rejected one slipped through the very demanding curators of 1x and got published. Spotted last week in Chinatown.

desert princess

Pawel — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 12:51:50 +0000

swing

Pawel — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 10:45:24 +0000

freaky shadows

Pawel — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 09:32:06 +0000

spring!

Pawel — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 10:21:58 +0000

flares and bubbles

Pawel — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 23:31:06 +0000

spring with Bronica 75mm/2.8

Pawel — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 23:47:20 +0000

slideshow

all above were shot with Bronika 75mm/2.8. This medium format lens works beautifully on smaller 5D sensor.
Bronika to Canon adapter consists of: chineese canon to m42 adapter, a piece of PVC pipe, and Bronika rear lens cup. It is not pretty but works and costs nothing :-)