We are having severe weather. The average monthly rainfall for April in Durban is 100mm, got more than 200mm yesterday and there is no let up. Washed out bridges and flooding everywhere. Fortunately for us we are near the top of a hill. I took this one before I went to work yesterday. Rain was just a steady drizzle then. Little did I know it would be a mission trying to get back later. Office closed today.
Z5/Z50 have been doing super sub work lately with MFNG. Finding DSLR not as comfortable and lack of moving LCD limits low level shooting. All that's missing is good image metadata.
In this case, the appeal was the weight and image stabilisation. A sharp enough 105mm short at 1/40s.
Z5 + NIKKOR-P Auto 105mm f/2.5 | F5.6 ISO 400 -0.33EV
SiMuMe wrote:
We are having severe weather. The average monthly rainfall for April in Durban is 100mm, got more than 200mm yesterday and there is no let up. Washed out bridges and flooding everywhere. Fortunately for us we are near the top of a hill. I took this one before I went to work yesterday. Rain was just a steady drizzle then. Little did I know it would be a mission trying to get back later. Office closed today.
Z5/Z50 have been doing super sub work lately with MNFG. Finding DSLR not as comfortable and lack of moving LCD limits low level shooting. All that's missing is good image metadata.
In this case, the appeal was the weight and image stabilisation. A sharp enough 105mm short at 1/40s.
Going to bed last night I noticed the moon was out, and decided to try out an idea about focus stacking multiple images of the moon to correct for wispy clouds and DOF (crown of moon vs edge). Shot about 25 frames of each 320 and 160 iso. Got three keepers out of each - imaged as 16bit tifs - exported to dng - then imaged in lightroom's acr module and out to photoshop to crop & finish. I noticed something strange about every frame...the bottom of the moon looks like someone dragged it across a cheese grater with parallel lines. The more edits done the worse the lines got. I thought it was artifacts, but even the original raw files have muted versions of it? Long story shorter - even with some wispy hazy clouds the images look good to me. (the iso 320 looked the best)
James Markus wrote:
Going to bed last night I noticed the moon was out, and decided to try out an idea about focus stacking multiple images of the moon to correct for wispy clouds and DOF (crown of moon vs edge). Shot about 25 frames of each 320 and 160 iso. Got three keepers out of each - imaged as 16bit tifs - exported to dng - then imaged in lightroom's acr module and out to photoshop to crop & finish. I noticed something strange about every frame...the bottom of the moon looks like someone dragged it across a cheese grater with parallel lines. The more edits done the worse the lines got. I thought it was artifacts, but even the original raw files have muted versions of it? Long story shorter - even with some wispy hazy clouds the images look good to me. (the iso 320 looked the best)
George,
I like every part of this fly tying photo. It looks like the "magnifying glass light" is under the fly - so is it under the lure, yet reflecting? I like your anodized fishing fly tying stands look so swish in comparison the 1960s era jewelry stands I have. Any issues with the 55mm on the Hassy?
Jim
GeorgeBo wrote:
Wishing I was fishing.
Under the lights... Micro-Nikkor 55mm/3.5 Ai @f/3.5
The Spirograph pattern is from the ring light I had on the lens reflecting in the magnifying glass light over the lure.
Thanks Jim. When using the 55mm on the Hassy, there are no issues at all from mid range focusing to minimum focus distance. No vignette at all and the corners are good. You do get some vignette towards and at infinity focus. Not a hard black edge and it can be corrected in post or by doing a slight crop to 4x5 and it is out of frame.
Re: the shot. The magnifying light is above the lure and tying vise. I have the camera below the lure shooting up into the magnifying ring light. I also have a ring light mounted on the 55mm lens too. That is what is reflecting in the glass above the fly.
George
James Markus wrote:
George,
I like every part of this fly tying photo. It looks like the "magnifying glass light" is under the fly - so is it under the lure, yet reflecting? I like your anodized fishing fly tying stands look so swish in comparison the 1960s era jewelry stands I have. Any issues with the 55mm on the Hassy?
Jim
James Markus wrote:
Going to bed last night I noticed the moon was out, and decided to try out an idea about focus stacking multiple images of the moon to correct for wispy clouds and DOF (crown of moon vs edge). Shot about 25 frames of each 320 and 160 iso. Got three keepers out of each - imaged as 16bit tifs - exported to dng - then imaged in lightroom's acr module and out to photoshop to crop & finish. I noticed something strange about every frame...the bottom of the moon looks like someone dragged it across a cheese grater with parallel lines. The more edits done the worse the lines got. I thought it was artifacts, but even the original raw files have muted versions of it? Long story shorter - even with some wispy hazy clouds the images look good to me. (the iso 320 looked the best)
Under the lights... Micro-Nikkor 55mm/3.5 Ai @f/3.5
The Spirograph pattern is from the ring light I had on the lens reflecting in the magnifying glass light over the lure.
George
Beautiful fly you tied and beautiful image. Every time you post an image of your fishing gear, it gives me the bug (pun intended). I might have to go down to our creek and get a line wet.
Wouldn't it be great for a fishing/photography meet up? Maybe one day!
leighton w wrote:
Beautiful fly you tied and beautiful image. Every time you post an image of your fishing gear, it gives me the bug (pun intended). I might have to go down to our creek and get a line wet.
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graytrekker wrote:
Nice Wulff Royal Coachman, George! I can feel the tug on my line already.
You have reminded me that I have to start replenishing my fly box on top of all my other Spring time chores!!
James Markus wrote:
Going to bed last night I noticed the moon was out, and decided to try out an idea about focus stacking multiple images of the moon to correct for wispy clouds and DOF (crown of moon vs edge). Shot about 25 frames of each 320 and 160 iso. Got three keepers out of each - imaged as 16bit tifs - exported to dng - then imaged in lightroom's acr module and out to photoshop to crop & finish. I noticed something strange about every frame...the bottom of the moon looks like someone dragged it across a cheese grater with parallel lines. The more edits done the worse the lines got. I thought it was artifacts, but even the original raw files have muted versions of it? Long story shorter - even with some wispy hazy clouds the images look good to me. (the iso 320 looked the best)
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