The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: grain

This is a new edit of a picture previously posted here. I've cropped out some of the foreground to accentuate the young cyclist taking a short cut across the park, and getting a bit bogged down for his pains. The mist was doing a good job of shrouding the trees but I've made it even denser by, inter alia, making the photograph more grainy. That also emphasises the presence of the cyclist a bit more. I must prefer it to the original edit, because I am posting it afresh. Editing is a whole sub-genre of photography, I find, and it has taken on more prominence for me since Covid changed my habits so profoundly. I notice that the focal length of the lens gave a full-frame equivalent field of view of 60mm; and cropping it a bit more simply serves to confirm my preference for shooting moderate telephoto. Nikon D40 + Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5 AF DX lens.

Fujifilm FinePix S3 Pro and Tamron SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 lens.

Photographed with a Nikkor-H Auto 85mm f/1.8 lens on a Nikon D2Xs. The lens dates from c1971; the camera from c2006. I aim not to exceed 400 ISO with the D2Xs because its performance is stellar between 100 and 400 ISO; less so beyond. Here it was at 450 ISO. That's accounted for by my need for a fast shutter speed given that the 85mm lens is behaving like a 120mm on this crop sensor camera. And the light being limited, the aperture was close to wide open.

The River Avon at Reybridge sometimes bursts its banks and floods low lying land to the east. This timber causeway keeps walkers' feet dry, and separates them from motorised vehicles as an added benefit. Photographed with a Tamron AF 70-210mm f/2.8 SP LD lens on a Nikon D700. This lens was in production from 1992 to 2003. Aperture priority; 1600 ISO (ridiculously high); f/32; 1/250th; lens at 112mm.

Via an adapter, this picture was made with a Nikon lens on a Canon EOS camera. Sometimes I do seemingly perverse things like this to reinvigorate myself.

Canon EOS 30D + Chinon 55mm f/1.4 lens.

Canon EOS 30D + Helios-44 58mm f/2 lens.