James, excellent photographs of the Moon, awesome!
Colin, great photograph and Big Ben does look great.
One more of Casino Royale.
Stara Louka area and the Ohre River. The glass enclosure at the end houses Karlovy Vary's largest hot spring (161 degrees F) with water bursts of 40ft. At right, Church of Mary Magdalene, 1737.
It gets crowded when the day trippers begin to arrive.
leighton w wrote:
Thanks for all the comments and likes everyone.
I've just been in a photography slump, and I hope to get out of it soon.
There are a LOT of great images posted in the thread since my last visit, that's for sure.
Leighton,
I have been through a few slumps this year so know where you are coming from!
Nevada beckons for me next week so I am in the middle of a camera(s) & lenses packing dilemma.
Ultra wide angle AF-Z will take priority but it is a safe 'bet' that the compact 50/2 and 100/2.8 will be coming along for the ride and the 'odds' are favourable that they will get used at some point.
AdaptedLenses wrote:
A couple from the 400mm f/5.6 to move things along. No boaters were harmed in the taking of these photos.
Leighton, always good to see your work here.
Really like the boat shot and the pelican flyby Matt.
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James Markus wrote:
D7200 with the 600mm f5.6 ais + TC-16A for 1440mm effective focal length through Canadian smoke - 11 image focus stack. Some 100% crops after the uncropped first image.
Stacking for something that is for most practical purposes at infinity? Tell me more.
Love the shot and processing Andy. The patterns, and the light tones on the first arch makes it for me.
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leighton w wrote:
Thanks for all the comments and likes everyone.
I've just been in a photography slump, and I hope to get out of it soon.
There are a LOT of great images posted in the thread since my last visit, that's for sure.
Just glad to hear that it's a photography slump rather than a health issue, Leighton.
DeltaSigma wrote:
Leighton,
I have been through a few slumps this year so know where you are coming from!
Nevada beckons for me next week so I am in the middle of a camera(s) & lenses packing dilemma.
Ultra wide angle AF-Z will take priority but it is a safe 'bet' that the compact 50/2 and 100/2.8 will be coming along for the ride and the 'odds' are favourable that they will get used at some point.
Colin
Yea, these slumps are hard to get out of often times.
I wish I were closer to Nevada, would be great to meet up. Looking forward to seeing your images.
Thanks Ray. Another great set from you. You have been on fire lately judging by my scrolling through the pages. I also see a lot of 50-135mm work from you. I think it's time to name that lens the "Ray Lens"!
This was the first visit and something I have been looking forward to for a long time. It is a beautiful, fun and energetic city with no shortages of bars and restaurants.. A secondary attraction, tasty beers cost about the same as bottled water. The locals for the most part speak excellent English and were very helpful.
Taken from Charles Bridge (1420) .The green dome is St. Francis of Assisi Church, 1688.
serge07 wrote:
Ray, nice colors in the sunset captures.
Jasper, great black & white scenery.
The City of 100 Spires, Prague.
This was the first visit and something I have been looking forward to for a long time. It is a beautiful, fun and energetic city with no shortages of bars and restaurants.. A secondary attraction, tasty beers cost about the same as bottled water. The locals for the most part speak excellent English and were very helpful.
pbraymond wrote:
Stacking for something that is for most practical purposes at infinity? Tell me more.
Ray, First, this is Scott's (mp356) fault, and that Nikkor 55mm f3.5 ai'd lens being so stinking sharp. Since the 1970s I have run into the same problem over and over again. If the near face of the moon is in focus - the perimeter is slightly off. If the edges are good the center is soft. Bout drove me crazy. It reminds me of my daughter arguing with me from the back seat of the car at about age five. I said; "Drop it - it's over" - and from the back seat I heard - "It's not over for me".
If you look up the definition of DOF in Wikipedia you get this.
"The depth of field (DOF) is the distance between the nearest and the farthest objects that are in acceptably sharp focus in an image captured with a camera."
So point one is: There is sharp, and there is acceptably sharp. Acceptable to who? (It's not over for me)
Point two is: the masks seem to verify focus shifting from face to edge to in-between (see illustration). Then I have two kinds of atmospheric issues to deal with. Temperature lensing and pollution which are a combo of changing focus, and suspended particulates (smoke) literally obscuring the moon.
The end result is what matters to me, and focus stacking seems to help with all the above giving me better results. YMMV
leighton w wrote:
Yea, these slumps are hard to get out of often times.
I wish I were closer to Nevada, would be great to meet up. Looking forward to seeing your images.
A meet up would be amazing. The Washington area is on our list of places to visit.
Forecast for next week is 100+deg F and only 5% humidity at mid-day.
To me that is IR heaven - if one is foolish enough to venture outside for any length of time.
Last time we visited the Vegas area was in April 2014 (before I got hooked on MFNG). For that trip I carried a D610 and 18-35 G ED combo for visible spectrum work. That D610 morphed into my current IR camera. I still have the lens too since it works extremely well in IR.
Recently I went back thru some under-exposed out-of-camera images from that 2014 trip and processed them in Lightroom. I was pleasantly surprised. I know this is off topic but I have a mini album here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/deltasigma/albums/72177720326702436
My aim is to take similar shots to see if a Z6ii camera system and 11 years of, erm, experience will make any difference.
On topic - I can already envisage multiple 50/2 HC shots of the Strip and the desert.
James Markus wrote:
Ray, First, this is Scott's (mp356) fault, and that Nikkor 55mm f3.5 ai'd lens being so stinking sharp. Since the 1970s I have run into the same problem over and over again. If the near face of the moon is in focus - the perimeter is slightly off. If the edges are good the center is soft. Bout drove me crazy. It reminds me of my daughter arguing with me from the back seat of the car at about age five. I said; "Drop it - it's over" - and from the back seat I heard - "It's not over for me".
If you look up the definition of DOF in Wikipedia you get this.
"The depth of field (DOF) is the distance between the nearest and the farthest objects that are in acceptably sharp focus in an image captured with a camera."
So point one is: There is sharp, and there is acceptably sharp. Acceptable to who? (It's not over for me)
Point two is: the masks seem to verify focus shifting from face to edge to in-between (see illustration). Then I have two kinds of atmospheric issues to deal with. Temperature lensing and pollution which are a combo of changing focus, and suspended particulates (smoke) literally obscuring the moon.
The end result is what matters to me, and focus stacking seems to help with all the above giving me better results. YMMV
The PS stacking layers are definitely saying something. I may have to try something like this out next time, though I'm not sure my 200mm MF lenses have enough fine tuning (maybe it's my fingers) or magnification to matter enough? Thanks for taking the time to explain Jim!
DeltaSigma wrote:
A meet up would be amazing. The Washington area is on our list of places to visit.
Forecast for next week is 100+deg F and only 5% humidity at mid-day.
To me that is IR heaven - if one is foolish enough to venture outside for any length of time.
Last time we visited the Vegas area was in April 2014 (before I got hooked on MFNG). For that trip I carried a D610 and 18-35 G ED combo for visible spectrum work. That D610 morphed into my current IR camera. I still have the lens too since it works extremely well in IR.
Recently I went back thru some under-exposed out-of-camera images from that 2014 trip and processed them in Lightroom. I was pleasantly surprised. I know this is off topic but I have a mini album here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/deltasigma/albums/72177720326702436
My aim is to take similar shots to see if a Z6ii camera system and 11 years of, erm, experience will make any difference.
On topic - I can already envisage multiple 50/2 HC shots of the Strip and the desert.
