Jumping in just to say hi to everyone. A quick browse thru the thread still shows the great cast of characters and contributions that make this a great corner of the internet.
Thanks to George for the welfare check-in. Still kicking but have not opened up Lightroom since early December, with no shutter clicks at all I don’t believe, or at least nothing that made me want to pull the card out and look at it in the desktop. I hope to be back with meaningful participation in a little while. ~ Ray
Another waterfall. The moving leaves during the longer exposure are distracting, might have to go back and try and fix that. A consequence of allowing LR to create the HDR shot rather than doing it the old manual way with layers and masks in PS.
cadman342001 wrote:
Another waterfall. The moving leaves during the longer exposure are distracting, might have to go back and try and fix that. A consequence of allowing LR to create the HDR shot rather than doing it the old manual way with layers and masks in PS.
By all means do, Andy. However, to my simple mind it's a picture where the waterfall is in a starring role, rock formations doing a supporting act, leaves as extras. Extras are just meant to mill around. I like the honesty of it, a picture of living things. The colour is great, as usual.
SiMuMe wrote:
By all means do, Andy. However, to my simple mind it's a picture where the waterfall is in a starring role, rock formations doing a supporting act, leaves as extras. Extras are just meant to mill around. I like the honesty of it, a picture of living things. The colour is great, as usual.
Now that I see it on a big screen the fern movement (to me) is distracting.
If Andy had not commented then it might have by-passed me. Great image whichever one's viewpoint is on the movement.
pbraymond wrote:
Jumping in just to say hi to everyone. A quick browse thru the thread still shows the great cast of characters and contributions that make this a great corner of the internet.
Thanks to George for the welfare check-in. Still kicking but have not opened up Lightroom since early December, with no shutter clicks at all I don’t believe, or at least nothing that made me want to pull the card out and look at it in the desktop. I hope to be back with meaningful participation in a little while. ~ Ray
Ray,
I know what you mean. I took an IR camera, with 85/1.8 HC attached, when I went into the office/town a few days ago and returned with zilch.
I had high hopes since it was a crisp blue sky day but in the end I didn't even take the card out of the camera to look at the few crappy images I managed to shoot. Win some, lose some.
I have a birthday coming up soon so have asked my family to club together and buy me an FTZ II.
Ergonomics should be better than the original with tripod mount.
I chickened out at asking for a Z9
DeltaSigma wrote:
I have a birthday coming up soon so have asked my family to club together and buy me an FTZ II.
Ergonomics should be better than the original with tripod mount.
I chickened out at asking for a Z9
Colin
Haha. Good man. Hope you do score the FTZ II. It is so much better than the I. The I did not offend me much since it provided all that I needed for F mount glass but since I got a II on sale, I don't know what Nikon was thinking with the I.
I won't even dare ask anyone for a Z9 The FTZII is definitely lighter and loses the extra bulk/bump for the tripod attachment. Is there anything else different? I am using mine exclusively once I got the II.
Good to hear from you around these parts Ray! Hope you find that inspiration to take and post pics too, soon. Glad all is good.
pbraymond wrote:
Jumping in just to say hi to everyone. A quick browse thru the thread still shows the great cast of characters and contributions that make this a great corner of the internet.
Thanks to George for the welfare check-in. Still kicking but have not opened up Lightroom since early December, with no shutter clicks at all I don’t believe, or at least nothing that made me want to pull the card out and look at it in the desktop. I hope to be back with meaningful participation in a little while. ~ Ray
For all those that have some vision challenges I offer two fixes to help with Photoshop and Lightroom to make their GUI more easily legible in Windows. I first did this years ago after adding a 4K monitor (3840 pixels X some high number?) as my primary display. I moved my palettes to the second HD (1920 X 1080) display until I found out how to make a manifest file from this guy, Dan Antonielli.
How to fix Windows font scaling high rez displays in Photoshop and Lightroom
You buy one for me, and I will buy one for you. Would that past the spouse test for not buying one for ourselves?
saph wrote:
I won't even dare ask anyone for a Z9 The FTZII is definitely lighter and loses the extra bulk/bump for the tripod attachment. Is there anything else different? I am using mine exclusively once I got the II.
First off… these were taken with the K mount AI’d 55/3.5 Micro so they qualify. Second, I’d love them to go to a good home and can think of no place better to find that home. So can anyone use any of these cases or hoods? The biggest fits the 300/4.5 H which can be included (or if you just want the case that’s fine). Wouldn’t mind shipping help on that one but if it’ll get use, right now it’s just tucked away in the back of my cabinet. Smaller brown looks 200/4.5 size. Felt inside all is fine. Shoot me a PM if interested.
Weeds are taking over the world.
The 8.5cm closes down to f/32, not sure what for, but this is what it looks like, me standing, weeds on floor, from 6 to 50 feet away.
The FTZII is definitely lighter and loses the extra bulk/bump for the tripod attachment. Is there anything else different? I am using mine exclusively once I got the II.
