^^ Finally you can see some sky. It always so hazy over there, just like the parts of China that I used to visit for work. We are going through the hazy, smoky skies in California with these wild fires for more than a month now.
bobby350z wrote:
^^ Finally you can see some sky. It always so hazy over there, just like the parts of China that I used to visit for work. We are going through the hazy, smoky skies in California with these wild fires for more than a month now.
Really feel for you. It is truly awful what's going on in the US right now- the fire, protests and coronavirus etc.. Hope everything will back to normal soon and the best we can do now is keep calm and carry on. Also a glass of wine will always help.
Cheers!
Out on a hike trying to escape the absolute political stupidity in this country. Unfortunately I have to drive past every 4th or fifth double wide trailer with heaps of Trump paraphernalia all over it on the way to these hikes...
I finally got out to spend some time shooting with the GFX 50S when the forest fire smoke started to clear earlier this week. The images were nothing special, but it was nice to get out of the house again.
That is star trails stack of 60x2min ISO100 exposures @ f/5. GF 50mm paired to 50R is nasty sharp here as it causes aliasing in the very corners where there are trails. If someone wonders how GF lenses work for astro... Well, they draw one pixel sized stars if focused correctly wide open in the best part of the imaging area.
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Fall colors at some local hideout. 50R & GF50/3.5 with CPL-filter.
7 image focus stack with Helicon Focus. It handles moving subjects fine and has good selection of tools to correct most movement artifacts which might remain after the stack is ready.
I need to try that helicon focus. I am new to focus stacking. Tried a few shots where I took two shots with focus at front, and focus point in the back and tried to manually stack it. With the wind moving the leaves, it made it harder.
Have to ditch the GFX setup for star trails. Outcome is brutally sharp with huge aliasing effects. Old 24MP FF cameras with AA-filters are quite good for those. Running moire filter as a gradient over the images did not help and neither did dialing in huge luminance NR before TIFF export and stacking. Dunno how GFX100 would work.
Have to ditch the GFX setup for star trails. Outcome is brutally sharp with huge aliasing effects. Old 24MP FF cameras with AA-filters are quite good for those. Running moire filter as a gradient over the images did not help and neither did dialing in huge luminance NR before TIFF export and stacking. Dunno how GFX100 would work.
Gonna try misfocusing the stars next.
Not sure how it would work on the full image, but I put your posted image into Camera RAW and did -100 Clarity and -80 Texture, and it seemed to clean it up – would have to mask out the building of course.
Kachori's. Man wish someone would make them here in US. Everywhere you go same old samosas. If I opened an Indian restaurant, it would be more authentic Amritsari food that you don't get anywhere else, like bigga kulcha, kachori, battor da pakora, pure desi ghee's puri, katlama, luchi, satpura (though flaky pasteries lot of countries have them), firni, white rasgullas which one can squeeze and if you let them go, they came back to the same shape and fried laddoo with shredded carrots and radish (some places will do aaloo tiki but that's it, do the damn laddoos). People think Italians are serious about food, they should come visit Amritsar.
Oct 03, 2020 at 09:30 PM