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Challenge: Get Mechanical (Standard Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D Mark III
Lens: Sigma 35mm f/1.4 DG HSM for Canon
Date: Jan 8, 2017
Aperture: 1.4
ISO: 2000
Shutter: 1/160
Date Uploaded: Jan 8, 2017

 Hello everyone!
This is my first 2017 entry!

So excited!

I set a lot of milestones for this year, so I'm better start off good with this challenge.

At first I thought about shooting an opened hard drive, or at least its mechanical parts... but then I thought that there are more electronics and optics there rather than mechanics.

Few days later a friend of mine contacted me on Facebook asking for informations about my graphic tablet and I saw his cover image: it was an opened motorcycle engine!

The idea popped in my head and I asked him if I could take a few pictures at the engine, so I went to his storage unit and shot a few quick ones.

This is my favorite.

The engine I shot belongs to a (working) 1984 Kawasaki Ninja GPZ.

Thank you for stopping by :)

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Sony Alpha a7 III
Tamron SP AF 90mm f/2.8 for Canon
 01/23/2017 11:35:11 AM
Originally posted by vawendy:
Very cool piece of machinery! I'm wondering how it would have looked if you had focused a little further up in the photo -- like on the closer chain? I like the shallow depth of field.

Congrats on the TT!


Thank you Wendy :)

I tried a bit of stacking but this is the solution I believe fits the subject best, by focysing on the cog I have the first (down-left) and the fourth (up-right) cylinders on the same focal plane!

Thanks for stopping by and commenting!
Sony Alpha a1 II
Sony FE 200-600mm f/5.6-6.3 G OSS
 01/17/2017 09:45:34 AM
Very cool piece of machinery! I'm wondering how it would have looked if you had focused a little further up in the photo -- like on the closer chain? I like the shallow depth of field.

Congrats on the TT!
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Canon EOS R6
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 L Macro IS USM
 01/09/2017 01:38:14 PM
Nicely done. Good use of color to enhance the photo instead of hide it. Nice choice in focus.
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