George, I didn't get a chance earlier to comment on your Clemson tree. Agree that second shot up close captured its scale. One of the Live Oaks from Southport with the Series E 50. I always struggle capturing these as well but there are also great ones all over town, especially Franklin Square Park.
mjgphotoz wrote:
Yesssss Glen, now that is the kind of water fall I love to see! What a view!
Mary
Thank you for your kind words, Mary!
Here is another small group of images from the same location, all from the 5.8 f/1.4 S this time.
By the way, Leighton, if it is of interest to you, I use Lightroom Classic via subscription, usually together with Color Efex Pro or Silver Efex Pro. For infrared, I may also use Capture One Express (for Fujifilm) to set white balance and/or Photoshop to work on colour swapping and various enhancements. I upload my photos directly to FM from my hard drive.
leighton w wrote:
Also, am I the only one on here that uses Luminar Neo? What are you all using?
LR6 & PS CS6 for images from the Df and the rarely used D700. Since LR6 doesn't support RAW files from the Z6, I use Capture One for RAW conversion of those files and PS CS6.
85mm f1.8H. The deer was munching by the side of the towpath, barely took a side glance at us. The brush and slight elevation downhill location of the deer from the towpath probably gave us a false sense of security as I'm sure it could have covered that distance and elevation in a single leap. Not that deer would normally be aggressive towards humans, especially when they see us bipeds multiple times everyday.
pbraymond wrote:
85mm f1.8H. The deer was munching by the side of the towpath, barely took a side glance at us. The brush and slight elevation downhill location of the deer from the towpath probably gave us a false sense of security as I'm sure it could have covered that distance and elevation in a single leap. Not that deer would normally be aggressive towards humans, especially when they see us bipeds multiple times everyday.
"Thank you for sharing the images. At FM, we want to assure you that we do not compress or alter any images uploaded to our platform."
So we can rule compression out from any blurring of images.
This leads me to another point. A few weeks ago I posted an image of a bunch of carrots from the market. I thought at the time that it wasn't so bad. I looked at the image on my new system and I was horrified at how out of focus they were! Maybe a lot of what I'm seeing is for a couple of reasons. The first being that I'm now working on a 27" screen, as opposed to my 16" and second, my eyesight isn't what it used to be. In fact, I do have cataracts starting that my eye doctor told me about on my last visit a month ago. So, it's probably a combination of all of these.
Anyway, good to know that they don't compress images on here!
leighton w wrote:
I just got a response back from Fred:
"Thank you for sharing the images. At FM, we want to assure you that we do not compress or alter any images uploaded to our platform."
So we can rule compression out from any blurring of images.
This leads me to another point. A few weeks ago I posted an image of a bunch of carrots from the market. I thought at the time that it wasn't so bad. I looked at the image on my new system and I was horrified at how out of focus they were! Maybe a lot of what I'm seeing is for a couple of reasons. The first being that I'm now working on a 27" screen, as opposed to my 16" and second, my eyesight isn't what it used to be. In fact, I do have cataracts starting that my eye doctor told me about on my last visit a month ago. So, it's probably a combination of all of these.
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Leighton, I feel your pain. I am sure I mentioned this before, but when I had cataract surgery, I was horrified to see the screen with the first eye done and the other eye waiting for it's turn. The color correction on a calibrated screen was beautiful with the corrected eye and the other was yellowish, and yes, the sharpness will be quite different afterwards.
Colin - Always wanted a wildflower "lawn", so colourful ! And yes, mow at the right time and it self seeds for next year (I saw that somewhere the other day, maybe on Ep1 of the Wild Isles Sir David series)
George - love that 2nd shot of the Bur Oak
Hope everyone is well (had a couple of shocking sudden departures in my life recently, 1 the manager of the tyre depot we use for work and another a childhood friend, both sudden massive heart attacks).
My GFX is still going, takes a while to warm up, shutter button works, takes more pics than I want, then refuses to take any, then works ok. My P.C. 28mm f3.5 is also wobbling around, letting light in if I don't hold it together !
mp356 wrote:
OS2U-3 Kingfisher at the Hazy. Taken with the 20mm f4 Ai and 85mm f2 Ai. Thank for looking.
Scott
Scott, a predecesor of your Kingfisher at the Naval Aviation Museum, Pensacola, with the 58mm 2.0 at 2.0. It is sharp and soft at the same time. With great depth at 2.0.
In fact, I do have cataracts starting that my eye doctor told me about on my last visit a month ago. So, it's probably a combination of all of these.
