Sorry about the number of photos - believe me, there are lots more from yesterday's walk at Paw Paw Park. Good news is that the 105mm f2.5 Nikkor is amazing. I didn't miss focus in even 1 out of 165 frames. Other good news is the county officials apparently took my phone call seriously, and all the poison hemlock is dead. Not sure how they did it, but apparently they found a plant specific herbicide. D800 with the 105mm f2.5 using the green dot
Not having a wide angle attached forced this 31 frame overview of the situation
This grass was literally hypnotizing to watch blowing in the wind
Eupatorium cannabinum was blooming on the path verges
Another stitch for wide angle effect - 6 frames this time
Massive clumps of Rudbeckia laciniata aka Prairie Cone Flowers were also in bloom
This is the remains of a Tragopogon pratensis aka Meadow Salsify with Bind Weed flower
Lastly, is my favorite find (because of all it's alias names) Some of Clematis Virginiana's akas are devil's darning needles, devil's hair, love vine, virgin's bower, wild hops, and woodbine.
I subscribe to the Adobe monthly photoplan. I see it a low overhead/cost to participate in this hobby.
In the UK the Adobe photoplan is cheaper than my Spotify subscription.
The recent PS & LR tool updates are really nice. Denoise in LR amazing.
I write this while waiting a couple of minutes for my computer to run denoise on an old ISO 3200 image.....
If I had an M2 based computer then this time would drop dramatically. Perhaps an Xmas present to self.
Colin
James Markus wrote:
I used it as well for the D850 raw files which were not supported by my Ps & Lr versions + the Win/mac thing. $10 a month is a bargain - compared to the thousands I spent since 1989 on almost every version of Ps released. I read that I can install this new one on 2-3 machines, but only use one at a time. For the second install I'm thinking Windows (my decades long preference), but the M2 TSMC/Apple designed CPU/GPU SOC has got me rethinking that.
James Markus wrote:
Sorry about the number of photos - believe me, there are lots more from yesterday's walk at Paw Paw Park. Good news is that the 105mm f2.5 Nikkor is amazing. I didn't miss focus in even 1 out of 165 frames. Other good news is the county officials apparently took my phone call seriously, and all the poison hemlock is dead. Not sure how they did it, but apparently they found a plant specific herbicide. D800 with the 105mm f2.5 using the green dot
Colin,
I'm not sure if you are waiting on Lr or Ps to denoise that image, but on my win10 machine i7 3770 16gb ram I use Topaz products. DeNoise was always pretty fast, but Topaz Sharpen was very slow on my 5DS-R (50 megapixel images). I wrote Topaz support and asked what it took to speed things up (video ram, interface or bandwidth, cuda cores etc) - they never answered. So I bought a used 8gb nvidia GTX 1080 (+ new beefier power supply) to replace my 2gb 750 ti sc. I optimized the video driver, and set it's performance to max. Sharpens went from 4-7 minutes each photo to 12-17 seconds each. The M2 has been in the 5-10 second range so far. Denoise is much faster as well. So the M2 mini is using much less power, generating no heat or noise, and destroying 10 year old pc hardware in speed. I still throw a ton of files at it and go do something else while it works on it, but I have always done that in any operating system I use.
Jim
DeltaSigma wrote:
I subscribe to the Adobe monthly photoplan. I see it a low overhead/cost to participate in this hobby.
In the UK the Adobe photoplan is cheaper than my Spotify subscription.
The recent PS & LR tool updates are really nice. Denoise in LR amazing.
I write this while waiting a couple of minutes for my computer to run denoise on an old ISO 3200 image.....
If I had an M2 based computer then this time would drop dramatically. Perhaps an Xmas present to self.
James Markus wrote:
Sorry about the number of photos - believe me, there are lots more from yesterday's walk at Paw Paw Park. Good news is that the 105mm f2.5 Nikkor is amazing. I didn't miss focus in even 1 out of 165 frames. Other good news is the county officials apparently took my phone call seriously, and all the poison hemlock is dead. Not sure how they did it, but apparently they found a plant specific herbicide. D800 with the 105mm f2.5 using the green dot
leighton w wrote:
Wow, 2Gbs up and down. 1gbs is the highest my provider offers.
Yeah, I really don't need that much speed, but I told my wife that after years of having extremely slow internet I was getting the fasted thing offered. None of our streaming services ever buffer, internet is always blazingly fast even while streaming, and now I have security cameras, etc. on my LAN. Prior to getting fiber I couldn't even reliably use a Ring doorbell because it used too much bandwidth. Now, if you come within 100' of my house you better smile because you're on camera!
James Markus wrote:
Sorry about the number of photos - believe me, there are lots more from yesterday's walk at Paw Paw Park. Good news is that the 105mm f2.5 Nikkor is amazing. I didn't miss focus in even 1 out of 165 frames. Other good news is the county officials apparently took my phone call seriously, and all the poison hemlock is dead. Not sure how they did it, but apparently they found a plant specific herbicide. D800 with the 105mm f2.5 using the green dot
I've used DNG converter. I still use it occasionally, but it adds an extra, time-consuming step. If there is some feature in LR that I really need to use, then I'll go that route. Otherwise, CaptureOne is a much more versatile program than LR. CaptureOne is less intuitive, and harder to master.
I certainly don't consider myself a master of anything really. Just trying to have a little fun, and occasionally I'll get an image that I like.
If you figure out away to pay with an HSA card let me know!
pbraymond wrote:
I had a funny thought hit me on the way into work, an F3HP with a nice selection of Nikon MF would make a great fidget toy don't you think? I wonder if that could pass as a healthcare expense for mental health?
Great series Jim! 31 frames, wow! You have more patience than I do
James Markus wrote:
Sorry about the number of photos - believe me, there are lots more from yesterday's walk at Paw Paw Park. Good news is that the 105mm f2.5 Nikkor is amazing. I didn't miss focus in even 1 out of 165 frames. Other good news is the county officials apparently took my phone call seriously, and all the poison hemlock is dead. Not sure how they did it, but apparently they found a plant specific herbicide. D800 with the 105mm f2.5 using the green dot
James, the sound of dial-up internet is unforgettable!
This was surprisingly not a good thing to listen to. Just bad flashbacks. US Robotics 56k modem + Kermit were the tools. I started working in 1996 and for the first 4 years being on call meant this sound was associated with problems I had to fix. By the year 2000, I was semi-broken. It took me three and a bit years to recover.
Ballard wrote:
I've used DNG converter. I still use it occasionally, but it adds an extra, time-consuming step. If there is some feature in LR that I really need to use, then I'll go that route. Otherwise, CaptureOne is a much more versatile program than LR. CaptureOne is less intuitive, and harder to master.
I certainly don't consider myself a master of anything really. Just trying to have a little fun, and occasionally I'll get an image that I like.
I left Lightroom because of them going to the subscription model. I found and used Capture One and loved it, even more than LR. I purchased it for a huge discount. But when I bought my Fuji, it wouldn't work with my version unless I upgraded and the upgrade was so steep that I went on a search for an alternative. This is when I found Luminar Neo. It was good when I bought it (a stand alone app) and it keeps getting better. I'm not sure how the folks at Skylum (the company that produces LN) keep coming out with more and more ways to make it better, because they are based in Kyiv Ukraine, but I admire their spirit.
I said all of that because I too, in order to keep using Capture One with my Fuji, had to run every image through the Adobe DNG converter and it was too much of a process for me to continue.
I did the DNG converter thing for awhile with the newer cameras to use with the old LR5. Got old after awhile, and the windows updates (I believe) started making even LR5 more unstable. Finally broke down and went subscription.
I did take a look at the total pricing for the LR and PS purchases and subsequent upgrade/updates that I had done over the past decade prior to subscription, and as long as they keep the price where it is, it was not a brutal upcharge to go subscription. Fingers crossed.
Siphiwe,
I guess it depends on what was happening, or what you were doing when you heard the tones. There is a famous rom/com movie that came out in 1998 - "You've Got Mail" that kind of mirrored my life at the time. I'm sorry it brings back bad memories for you.
Jim
SiMuMe wrote:
This was surprisingly not a good thing to listen to. Just bad flashbacks. US Robotics 56k modem + Kermit were the tools. I started working in 1996 and for the first 4 years being on call meant this sound was associated with problems I had to fix. By the year 2000, I was semi-broken. It took me three and a bit years to recover.
Have you tried the manual defringing sliders (purple/green) in the lens correction tool in LR?
Colin
Colin, thanks for the suggestion. It definitely was a fast way to get a long ways from the initial LoCA problems. I know the green correction was fighting the purple correction in a couple of the images, but at your suggestion I tried it again, and it seems to work good now!
Pre-Colin suggestion of manual defringing sliders
Post-Colin suggestion of manual defringing sliders
