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Victoria

Don Hoey — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 18:55:28 +0000

by: Don Hoey

Description: Another from the archives. 1886 Marshall 14242 agricultural traction engine Victoria Empress of India. The earliest known Marshal traction engine in preservation. Victoria was owned between 1980-2002 by our friends Peter and Shirley Fagg. During 1980/81 they carried out significant restoration work, and it was testament to Peters engineering skills that once restored Victoria was always in the showroom condition that I hope the photo conveys. Apart from helping to clean, I was lucky enough to be invited to steer Victoria on occasion ........ A real honour. This photo dates from the mid 1990's. Victoria's history is recorded here http://www.sewards-of-petersfield.co.uk/pages/the-steam-engines/marshall-14242-victoria-empress-of-india/

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Days End

Don Hoey — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 15:35:33 +0000

by: Don Hoey

Description: Way too cold for me outside so I am playing around copying some old negatives on my diy lighbox. When I came across this oneI thought of Mo as he is an Agricultural engineer. The full neg is shown for Jim to assess if the style of including the film rebate would suit any of his portraits taken with the Yashicamat. After a days work at a steam rally Fowler ploughing engine 13880 is put to bed. These engines were made in pairs, LH & RH. Weighing in at over 20 tons each these were not suitable for directly pulling a plough, so instead they would operate from the headland on opposite sides of a field, hauling a balanced plough across the field with a wire rope. The winding drum holding 800yards of wire rope is mounted below the boiler. These engines were also used for dredging field drains and rivers and also mole draining fields with a heavy clay soil.

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Sightseeing

Don Hoey — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:30:09 +0100

by: Don Hoey

Description: On Sunday we were passing by Ely, so took the opportunity to have a look round the Cathedral. Light was a bit diabolical and I have not done any HDR, so my alternative here was to combine two images. One with exposure as taken, and another at plus 1 stop. So for me its all very experimental processing.

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Busy Bee 2

Don Hoey — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:58:35 +0100

by: Don Hoey

Description: I have put the story behind these in the Macro forum.

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Busy Bee

Don Hoey — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:56:44 +0100

by: Don Hoey

Description: I have put the story behind these in the Macro forum.

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Just Thinking

Don Hoey — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 17:45:06 +0100

by: Don Hoey

Description: Self portrait in my shed as I ponder a solution to Jim's low light autofocus problem.

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Sunday Lunch

Don Hoey — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 13:53:26 +0100

by: Don Hoey

Description: A bit of a deviation from what I was going to do, but then Harry ( Wolfie ) seems to have me going. The story behind this shot is in the Macro forum

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Yellow

Don Hoey — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:23:18 +0100

by: Don Hoey

Description: The story behind this shot is in the Macro forum

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New Brood at Strumpshaw

Don Hoey — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:45:46 +0100

by: Don Hoey

Description: Its a long time since I took a pic and apart from my experimental stuff this is it. Taken just outside the museum building at Strumpshaw Steam Rally on 30th May. I was really lucky to get to see this, let alone capture it given that all I had was a 20mm lens with me. Well traction engines are pretty big things.

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Taken with my new toy

Don Hoey — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 17:22:05 +0100

by: Don Hoey

Description: This is the shot using the 50mm f1.2 on the D2X. Not the lens I would normally use for something like this, and precise focus is certainly trickier than with my 55 micro. But even at a lens to subject distance of 3ft and at an aperture of f5.6 this is one seriously sharp lens. Roll on spring proper and the warmer weather.

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My new toy

Don Hoey — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 17:20:13 +0100

by: Don Hoey

Description: Since I got my lens it has been too cold for my face to get out and about to give it a try. Warm weather photog nowadays. So with my workshop bench clear I decided to take a pic of it and then another one using it. For this shot the camera is sat on my piece of 'Rudra Glass' with a white card behind to reflect back onto the black glass.

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Norwich Cathedral

Don Hoey — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:33:15 +0000

by: Don Hoey

Description: Messing about while I wait for delivery of my metal, so looking through a few of last years pics. Last years big thing for me was infrared on the cheap. While Stevie was in the shops I walked the streets of Norwich with my compact, a D100 and 35mm lens. Luckily I had a hoya IR filter with me so managed to get this shot of Norwich Cathedral from across the playing fields. A bit trickier than one might think, as without a tripod I had to frame then hand clamp the camera to a wastebin before attaching the filter to make the 1/6sec exposure. With the IR filter in place you cannot see anything through the viewfinder.

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Metal Art

Don Hoey — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:27:41 +0000

by: Don Hoey

Description: Well actually it is the lever for one of my winter diy projects, a camera quick release clamp. Quite a few hours have been spent carving this from a 30mm dia steel bar, and I kept it on the bar as long as possible in the hope I could get this image. A bit of a nightmare to photograph though as it is polished to a chrome like finnish. The workshop is a bit of a tip, no possibility of a fancy flash set-up, so it was just placed on a bench and lit by the workshop lights. Black flags and white reflectors were used to try and show its form.

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Duxford Spitfire - 1984

Don Hoey — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:31:24 +0100

by: Don Hoey

Description: This is a from a colour negative ( ILFOCOLOUR HR100 ) photographed with the D2X and converted to positive in CS2. Final processing in Nikon NX2. The story behind this is in the Cheap alternative to a scanner thread.

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Kodachrome

Don Hoey — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:01:29 +0100

by: Don Hoey

Description: Just a bit of fun really, as this is the slide I photographed in answer to Mike's question in the Cheap alternative to a scanner thread. Pic was taken in the mid 1980's at Whipsnade Safari Park.

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Margaret

Don Hoey — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:56:19 +0100

by: Don Hoey

Description: A Fowler ploughing engine at work at the Great Dorset Steam Fair in the mid 1990's. This is a from a negative copied on the D2X and converted to positive in CS2. The story behind that is in the Cheap alternative to a scanner thread.

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Albert

Don Hoey — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:54:10 +0100

by: Don Hoey

Description: Albert, a Fowler agricultural traction engine taken outside the British Engineerium in Hove in the early 1990's having been prepared for a season of rallying. I was lucky enough to have been offered the opportunity to help on this engine for a number of years. This is a from a negative copied on the D2X and converted to positive in CS2. The story behind that is in the Cheap alternative to a scanner thread.

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No. 12

Don Hoey — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:33:22 +0100

by: Don Hoey

Description: Taken while on the trail of some of Jims locations from his City Life series.

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Braun by Braun

Don Hoey — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:35:41 +0100

by: Don Hoey

Description: Before making brolly holders for Jims flash I could not resist taking this to show how massive this unit is by todays standards. The flash dates back to 1976 and would have been targeted at press guys, so I used my F2 with drive attatched to be period correct, and give it scale. Jims got two of these that I have been working on. One is an adjustable output master unit, and one a slave unit running in tandem off the same power pack. The battery pack is bigger than the F2 and weighs a ton. In use that would have been draped over the shoulder and the flash connected by a coiled cord. For Jims benefit, and knowing he is a flash novice, I did nothing fancy here. This was taken with a brolly attatched to the master unit and the light output controlled by the connected VarioControl masking taped to the camera. The VarioControl operates over an eight stop range and senses light reflected from the subject, and quenches the flash when sufficient light is recieved by the cell. Due to its high trigger voltage the main unit was triggered by my SB80-DX and an optical slave out of sight on the floor. A single reflector was used to fill the shadows.

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Castle Ruins

Don Hoey — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:00:12 +0100

by: Don Hoey

Description: A crop from a larger 5 frame pano false colour infrared of the ruins of the castle at Castle Acre. Not much remains of the stone work that date back to the 11th & 12th century. Largely intact though are the impressive earthwork fortifications. I have added a comment as a way of posting a link to get to an illustration of what it looked like in its heyday.

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The Village Pond

Don Hoey — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 14:28:41 +0100

by: Don Hoey

Description: Not the ideal conditions for infrared, but I was out and about yesterday catching what I could when the sun shone for a bit of processing practice. Weather forecast suggests I'll be lucky to get any more before Harry returns from his hols.

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Swaffham Turbine

Don Hoey — Fri, 29 May 2009 17:47:03 +0100

by: Don Hoey

Description: Today play with infrared. Swaffhams first wind turbine, erected in 1999 and situated on the edge of the town. This one actually has a viewing platform which makes it a bit unusual, 305 steps to the top for those feeling fit enough.

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Yellow Rose

Don Hoey — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:48:18 +0100

by: Don Hoey

Description: Strange title it may be, but this is a false colour infrared shot of a yellow rose. All a bit of an experiment, and details are in the ' IR on the CHEAP ' thread.

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Denver Mill

Don Hoey — Thu, 07 May 2009 13:25:07 +0100

by: Don Hoey

Description: Some time ago I had a go at processing this image as a fake IR job. The whole thing is comming to the forefront again with Andy and Peter talking about modifying cameras for proper IR. Not too keen on loosing my D100 to IR only at the moment though. I will dig around to see if I can find how I did this and put it in a thread.

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Not sure about this

Don Hoey — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 19:37:18 +0100

by: Don Hoey

Description: The cub reacts to seeing his reflection in the water.

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Soaking up the rays

Don Hoey — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 19:35:12 +0100

by: Don Hoey

Description: Taken a few weeks ago at Banham Zoo in Norfolk. One of a pair of Siberian tiger cubs born late 2008. I was down to using my old (1982) 200mm manual focus lens for these as Stevie had nobbled my A/F 180mm. I am a bit late posting these as I have been having probs with my pc recently.

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Privet Hawkmoth caterpilar

Don Hoey — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:11:01 +0100

by: Don Hoey

Description: For us this was a major find in the garden. I am sure I have correctly identified it, but if not then I am sure someone will put me right. My first opportunity to try out my latest aquisition a Nikkor 105 f2.8 AIs Micro lens even though the light was a bit grim as shown by the exif.

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Crazy Brits at play

Don Hoey — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:52:13 +0100

by: Don Hoey

Description: The English Civil War Society staging a battle at West Acre in Norfolk. Its quite a rough and tumble hobby. During the heat of battle we saw an ambulance race into the thick of the action. The battle continued around it as if nothing had happened so it is obviously quite normal, and as the smoke finally lifted three paramedic teams could be seen attending casualties. All good clean fun!!!

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Arrival of the Butterflys

Don Hoey — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:36:26 +0100

by: Don Hoey

Description: Only this morning I commented on Christine's pic that we had no butterflys in this neck of the woods. Well this afternoon they arrived. Ignore the lens used in the exif. For m/f kit I have to input that via menu, and in the excitement I forgot. Lens was 180mm with two tubes. Light was not that brilliant and I really should have been using a monopod to get better sharpness at this shutter speed.

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The Angel

Don Hoey — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:47:36 +0100

by: Don Hoey

Description: Another on the Norwich Elephant Trail. The Angel is the work of artist Kate Munro, and is located in a the Royal Arcade, no doubt known to Duncan and Debbi as it is the location of the Colemans Mustard shop. The arcade was quite full of shoppers and is quite narrow so this was not an easy shot to get.

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Norwich Elephant Trail

Don Hoey — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:34:24 +0100

by: Don Hoey

Description: Aimee-Mimosa by artist Gina woods. One of 53 Elephants decorated by various artists, youth groups, and schools, on display throughout Norwich in Norfolk.

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Over the garden fence

Don Hoey — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:03:04 +0100

by: Don Hoey

Description: Todays view into the field over the garden fence as the rape seed was harvested. Sometimes the combine was totally obscured from view by the duststorm it created.

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Summer's here at last

Don Hoey — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:43:02 +0100

by: Don Hoey

Description: A bit blowy in the garden today but at long last it looks like summer has arrived with temperatures finally making it to the mid 20's C. Still a major shortage of bugs though.

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Lighting Up

Don Hoey — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:20:24 +0100

by: Don Hoey

Description: Lighting the large Marshall boiler at Weeting Steam Rally.

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American Bald Eagle

Don Hoey — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:13:29 +0100

by: Don Hoey

Description: Foxy keeps ribbing me to "embrace the modern age", so this is my first real play in Nikon NX2 image processing software. So far I am well impessed with its new features as I have been using NX1.1 until now. I need to play with it a bit more before posting meaninful comments in the NX2 thread.

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Got my eye on that fly !!

Don Hoey — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:46:14 +0100

by: Don Hoey

Description: Another from Banham Zoo. American Bald Eagle being buzzed by a fly.

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Siberian Tiger

Don Hoey — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:06:59 +0100

by: Don Hoey

Description: We took a trip to Banham Zoo in Norfolk yesterday. A classic case of right place, right time, and a bit of anticipation to get this. The whole episode lasted no more than 30 seconds. A quick sip and he was gone.

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A Flash of Inspiration

Don Hoey — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:53:51 +0100

by: Don Hoey

Description: Today I was playing around to determine exposure for a possible pellet shot. 60 Watts a bit much for that. So I thought of this one.

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Anyone for Tennis

Don Hoey — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:37:33 +0100

by: Don Hoey

Description: Todays High Speed shot. I will put up some info in the thread later. A bit of cleaning up to do first.

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Oops !!!

Don Hoey — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:42:31 +0100

by: Don Hoey

Description: A series of High Speed shots stitched together from today. A bit more about taking it in the High Speed Shots thread.

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Splash !!!

Don Hoey — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:21:56 +0100

by: Don Hoey

Description: Todays experiment. A twist on the foil impact trigger. Details are in the High Speed thread.

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Lights out !!

Don Hoey — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:19:26 +0100

by: Don Hoey

Description: Details of this are in the High Speed Flash Thread.

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Garden Youngster

Don Hoey — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:37:18 +0100

by: Don Hoey

Description: I don't often take pics of birds but could not resist this. One of our two young Wrens. They do not hang around for long so I feel I was really lucky to get this.

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Latest Workshop Project

Don Hoey — Mon, 26 May 2008 19:40:19 +0100

by: Don Hoey

Description: This relates to my ' In anticipation of bugs to come ' in the Macro Forum and partly accounts for my recent absence from WPF. Following on from the micro adjustment on the Manfrotto sliding plate I needed to come up with a plot to micro adjust focus to take a series of images for focus stacking. This device is an interpretation of the Follow Focus system employed by movie makers without the significant spend. Apart from the time taken, and off cuts of metal used, the cost was �4:57 for the toothed belt. I will try to take a series of pics tomorrow and post an explanitory of what it actually does.

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Made in the USSR

Don Hoey — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:35:22 +0000

by: Don Hoey

Description: As the ' A Trip Down Memory Lane ' has come to the top of the pile in the Cameras Forum I thought I would take this pic. The Zorki-4K was a Russian copy of the Leica and dates from 1972 - 1978. I bought it at a car boot sale as memories of the period. Base is Rudra glass with white card background. Ignore exposure compensation shown in the exif - finger trouble. Exposure is manual.

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Toolpost Mill

Don Hoey — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:56:32 +0000

by: Don Hoey

Description: Something I made a few years ago to allow me to machine intricate shapes from bar material mounted in my Myford lathe. The motor is high torque, running through a gearbox and is powered by a Minicraft variable speed tranformer. Cutter height ( 1/4" minimills ) is controlled by the large knob giving 10mm of movement either side of centre. Despite being told in the early stages that it would never work, it does, and this allowed me to make parts like the end cover shown, and the headstock on my model Drummond lathe. For this picture Rudra glass was used for the base ( details in the flash thread ), with white card background reflected downwards. Multiblitz flash was used as the main light, with SB80-DX clipping the top of the background card to give a graduation effect.

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Sunset over the chicken farm.

Don Hoey — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:33:23 +0000

by: Don Hoey

Description: According to the weather forecasters its all going back downhill after today so I just had to take an outdoors pic before returning to flash.

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Drummond 2

Don Hoey — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:54:50 +0000

by: Don Hoey

Description: Just could not resist another shot before setting up for Foxy tomorrow. Sassan will need to excuse that its that boring old model again, and not the F2AS. Rudra will have to excuse as I have not yet got White Acrylic as per his suggestion.

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Model Drummond Lathe

Don Hoey — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:46:12 +0000

by: Don Hoey

Description: My first play with Rudras suggested black painted glass for sharper reflections than obtainable from a mirror. The model is made to a scale of 2 inches to the foot, based on my full size machine. It is 6 1/2 inches long and everything works. To seperate the model from the black mirror effect I had to use a grey card to reflect onto the surface. I guess if it will reflect a grey card, then it will also do the same for any other colour. Lighting is by a softbox above and aimed slightly forward, and a bit of kitchen foil as a reflector for the front.

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405 Geared Head

Don Hoey — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 20:39:40 +0000

by: Don Hoey

Description: Taken today while testing my 75 pence DIY snoot. Details in the flash forum.

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