Great to see the forum humming along and excellent photos by everyone.
Laura, good to hear the Z7II is up and running. Keep the photos coming.
All this conversation about Ireland game me the idea of checking out photos from Edinburgh taken last year.
The Sheep Heid Inn/Tavern, reportedly the oldest in Scotland with origins dating to the 1360s. Several famous patrons have visited including Queen Elizabeth II and Mary Queen of Scots. The interior was more modern than I would have expected specially the circular shaped bar. They did serve one mean pint of Guinness.
These are all good, but numbers 2 and 4 are my favorites.
GroWeb wrote:
While yesterday was Canadian Thanksgiving, today is Thanksgiving day-off, and the start of two weeks off for me . So here are a few more infrared images from Olympic Park in June that I found time to process this morning. I used a four-program routine for these that started in PhotoLab for the raw conversion, including white balance, exposure, contrast and noise reduction (PhotoLab excels at the latter), then Affinity Photo for the channel swap and some clarity. From there they went into Nik Silver Efex for conversion to monochrome, followed by PhotoRaw for framing and other minor adjustments. The first two are from the 24 f/2.8 NC and the last two are from the 16 f/3.5 ai fisheye....Show more →
Just outside the town walls lies one of the many graveyards that also got buried under the ash.
This is Necropoli Di P.Nocera on the south easter flank.
Thanks for sharing all your travels, Colin. The 50mm/2 HC is performing flawlessly. Pompei - hell Italy is someplace I always wanted to visit that's never going to happen, but can see it via your generosity.
Found a new trailhead/park 2.5 miles from my house, and explored about 1.7 miles of it.. I was at the Dentist near the end of April, and I noticed this little parking lot next to the dentist, but not connected. A truck pulled in, and a guy pulled his bicycle down - got on, and took off into the trees. What? Turns out it is a part of what will be the largest urban park in America: started by Peter Secchia, the former US ambassador to Italy securing funding. All these river tracks of land have been bought & improved then connected to each other, and this one looks to connect to Johnson Pk, Millennia parks, and goes east to the zoo in Grand Rapids - about 12 miles. I've using 3-4 miles of river trails west of this part, only separated by a golf course. Nikkor-H.C 50mm f2.0 Infrared
James Markus wrote:
Found a new trailhead/park 2.5 miles from my house, and explored about 1.7 miles of it.. I was at the Dentist near the end of April, and I noticed this little parking lot next to the dentist, but not connected. A truck pulled in, and a guy pulled his bicycle down - got on, and took off into the trees. What? Turns out it is a part of what will be the largest urban park in America: started by Peter Secchia, the former US ambassador to Italy securing funding. All these river tracks of land have been bought & improved then connected to each other, and this one looks to connect to Johnson Pk, Millennia parks, and goes east to the zoo in Grand Rapids - about 12 miles. I've using 3-4 miles of river trails west of this part, only separated by a golf course. Nikkor-H.C 50mm f2.0 Infrared
Jim,
Nice!
You have illustrated another great aspect of the 50/2 HC in that it is superb for IR work.
I'd get lost doing such large panos though. My computer would also complain.
Colin
Nearby is a mini Colosseum called Anfiteatro that seated 20,000 spectators.
Cleverly situation in a peripheral area to facilitate the easy movement of people coming in from neighbouring towns.
CGrindahl wrote:
Does everybody remember Nikki... you know the lens Ben loaned to all of us? I know that's a joke. Nikki is legendary and has prompted members to send other lenses around the world. So what does that have to do with anything today? Well, I'll tell you.
A friend of mine has written a book that is now with the publisher. They asked him for a "recent" photo that will appears on the back of the book. He sent copies of two photos I'd taken of him... one of HUNDREDS. (He is director of the Living/Dying Project and I took photos that could be used on flyers and newsletters.) I recalled the photos but not when either was taken. I browsed processed images and eventually found the dates when they were taken. They are hardly recent. One was taken April 1, 2009, a year before I began playing with Nikon gear. The other was taken on March 28, 2013. Those original photos are stored on a 2 TB bare drive, one of six salvaged from a G5 and two old firewire drives. I have no Canon photos on an active drive and no Nikon photos earlier than 2016.
When I opened the Nikon photos in Nikon NX Studio I realized all the photos taken on that day were taken with an 85 f/1.8 H.C. NIKKI! So I processed the portrait but I had to tease him with another photo. Here are both... you'll get a sense of what was happening that evening.
Just outside the town walls lies one of the many graveyards that also got buried under the ash.
This is Necropoli Di P.Nocera on the south easter flank.
36 image stitch? My CPU fan started running just thinking about that
Great shots and great news that more trails and parks are being developed/maintained!
James Markus wrote:
Found a new trailhead/park 2.5 miles from my house, and explored about 1.7 miles of it.. I was at the Dentist near the end of April, and I noticed this little parking lot next to the dentist, but not connected. A truck pulled in, and a guy pulled his bicycle down - got on, and took off into the trees. What? Turns out it is a part of what will be the largest urban park in America: started by Peter Secchia, the former US ambassador to Italy securing funding. All these river tracks of land have been bought & improved then connected to each other, and this one looks to connect to Johnson Pk, Millennia parks, and goes east to the zoo in Grand Rapids - about 12 miles. I've using 3-4 miles of river trails west of this part, only separated by a golf course. Nikkor-H.C 50mm f2.0 Infrared
DeltaSigma wrote:
Jim,
Nice!
You have illustrated another great aspect of the 50/2 HC in that it is superb for IR work.
I'd get lost doing such large panos though. My computer would also complain.
Colin
GeorgeBo wrote:
36 image stitch? My CPU fan started running just thinking about that
Great shots and great news that more trails and parks are being developed/maintained!
Colin, and George - thanks,
Surprisingly, the little 8Gb M2 mac mini chugs (just a few minutes) right through merges, filters, aligns, blends, etc. Once I found it's Achilles's heal, and worked around it - it hasn't given me any trouble again.
The bird is waiting too... But the pole isn't bending so I guess you'll both have to wait. Love to see the 25-50 f/4 AI-s on the board. It is a lovely lens.
CGrindahl wrote:
The bird is waiting too... But the pole isn't bending so I guess you'll both have to wait. Love to see the 25-50 f/4 AI-s on the board. It is a lovely lens.
It is a great lens and I love the output. I just wish that it wasn't so heavy. Even so, it has become my most used MF lens.
I've attempted to shoot at Fort Baker and finally had the opportunity to do so yesterday. The Fort is on the north end of the Golden Gate Bridge and I've shot from there many times... occasionally shooting the bridge in its many guises, occasionally shooting the skyline in San Francisco. I knew yesterday morning that it would be cloudy. That often means the clouds hang very low, often covering the towers, as was the case yesterday. I did a bit of shooting closer to the bridge and will share a few photos later, but I was intrigued by the possibility of creating a panorama from five photos I took later in the day from a hill above the harbor adjacent to the bridge. I'm working in Affinity Photo and learning as I go. I did an earlier panorama that is on my desktop at the moment but I'd forgotten how... it turned out to be simple once I read the instructions... something I'm beginning to understand as an octogenarian is a smart way to do things I don't fully understand...
This was shot with the 135 f/3.5 Q AI, a brother to the lens I shipped to Ken in Portland. I converted the image to black and white simply because that was what the day felt like at that moment. I'm posting a large image simply to keep up with the folks here who are taking up so much real estate. Flickr doesn't seem to mind so who am I to complain...
. So here are a few more infrared images from Olympic Park in June that I found time to process this morning. I used a four-program routine for these that started in PhotoLab for the raw conversion, including white balance, exposure, contrast and noise reduction (PhotoLab excels at the latter), then Affinity Photo for the channel swap and some clarity. From there they went into Nik Silver Efex for conversion to monochrome, followed by PhotoRaw for framing and other minor adjustments. The
But the pole isn't bending so I guess you'll both have to wait. Love to see the 25-50 f/4 AI-s on the board. It is a lovely lens.
