Amazing capture of a wonderful sky.
Did you use a grad filter the pull back the glorious sky or was the scene balanced enough via the reflection in the water?
Thank you. I used a linear filter on Lightroom to accentuate what was underexposed for sky. I boosted the shadows to pull out details on the foreground.
DeltaSigma wrote:
Ram,
Amazing capture of a wonderful sky.
Did you use a grad filter the pull back the glorious sky or was the scene balanced enough via the reflection in the water?
OK, don't get me wrong, I want to support the FM board, but.....
I like to occasionally post an image on a thread, and since the demise of Photobucket, I am finding that the free image hosting sites post images here that are really big. Somehow PB used to manage that well, but the ones I am using now just don't seem to.
So, I thought I would join buy sell here as some of you have suggested. Reading all the benefits, I figure, why not? It would be nice to just pull an image off my hard drive after PP and throw it up here. So, I joined today, and go to post an image, and I get a pop up that says my image can be no bigger than 1.4mb.
Huh?
Nowhere was that mentioned in the features and benefits, and having to resize everything kind of defeats the purpose of why I joined. Am I missing something?
Happy Sunday, gang! Here are a few 180/2.8 ED shots from a collegiate surf contest my son, and a number of his buddies, took part in last month.
The day was cold (at least by Southern California standards) very windy and in each heat the strong current pushed the competitors about a half-mile in the direction of the Huntington Beach pier.
Foggy14 wrote:
Happy Sunday, gang! Here are a few 180/2.8 ED shots from a collegiate surf contest my son, and a number of his buddies, took part in last month.
The day was cold (at least by Southern California standards) very windy and in each heat the strong current pushed the competitors about a half-mile in the direction of the Huntington Beach pier.
Cheers,
Jeff
Jeff, the last two in your set are my favorites. The telephoto does a nice job of capturing the misty air. Well seen.
Scott
Foggy14 wrote:
Happy Sunday, gang! Here are a few 180/2.8 ED shots from a collegiate surf contest my son, and a number of his buddies, took part in last month.
The day was cold (at least by Southern California standards) very windy and in each heat the strong current pushed the competitors about a half-mile in the direction of the Huntington Beach pier.
I use Upload & Sell only for the Sell part. I am also not a fan of site trying to reduce or downsize my images. That’s why I use Flickr for it and I can be exactly sure which size I post here.
Some like Flickr, some use Google. It depends on what suits your taste.
Max Power wrote:
OK, don't get me wrong, I want to support the FM board, but.....
I like to occasionally post an image on a thread, and since the demise of Photobucket, I am finding that the free image hosting sites post images here that are really big. Somehow PB used to manage that well, but the ones I am using now just don't seem to.
So, I thought I would join buy sell here as some of you have suggested. Reading all the benefits, I figure, why not? It would be nice to just pull an image off my hard drive after PP and throw it up here. So, I joined today, and go to post an image, and I get a pop up that says my image can be no bigger than 1.4mb.
Huh?
Nowhere was that mentioned in the features and benefits, and having to resize everything kind of defeats the purpose of why I joined. Am I missing something? ...Show more →
Max Power wrote:
OK, don't get me wrong, I want to support the FM board, but.....
I like to occasionally post an image on a thread, and since the demise of Photobucket, I am finding that the free image hosting sites post images here that are really big. Somehow PB used to manage that well, but the ones I am using now just don't seem to.
So, I thought I would join buy sell here as some of you have suggested. Reading all the benefits, I figure, why not? It would be nice to just pull an image off my hard drive after PP and throw it up here. So, I joined today, and go to post an image, and I get a pop up that says my image can be no bigger than 1.4mb.
Huh?
Nowhere was that mentioned in the features and benefits, and having to resize everything kind of defeats the purpose of why I joined. Am I missing something? ...Show more →
I got involved with FM a long time ago - 8-9 years or so - and while there are some things that I don't like , i think it's cheap at the price. I don't use flickr but I find this MF NIkkor community worth every cent and frankly, it's too much trouble to look for an alternative.
In other fora there is so much pleasure that I have many alternatives. I love FM and the variety as well as the opportunities it offers me to express myself. It's also for the most part, pretty civilised .....
mp356 wrote:
Ken, you mention two of my favorite MF lenses. Both are in my kit and see extensive use. Very nice images from Death Valley.
Scott
Thanks, Scott. My current travel kit is usually the 25-50/4 AI-s and the 75-150/3.5 E. Death Valley demands an ultra-wide, so I added the 18/3.5 AI-s and the 16/3.5 fisheye. Flying with only 2 carry-on items, viz. a daypack and a messenger bag to contain all photo gear + clothes, I had to pack sparingly. The 25-50mm accounted for about 80% of all shots, followed by the 18mm, the 16mm, and the 75-150mm in that order. In a pinch I really could have done without the 16 and the 75-150, but the 18 was indispensable.
BTW, what a shock to go from the desert southwest to snow at home.
Oosty wrote:
I got involved with FM a long time ago - 8-9 years or so - and while there are some things that I don't like , i think it's cheap at the price. I don't use flickr but I find this MF NIkkor community worth every cent and frankly, it's too much trouble to look for an alternative.
In other fora there is so much pleasure that I have many alternatives. I love FM and the variety as well as the opportunities it offers me to express myself. It's also for the most part, pretty civilised .....
I don’t disagree with any of this. I just wish that in all the benefits of joining buy sell to post photos, they would have seen fit to mention the extremely low file size requirement. Since I have benefited from this forum in other ways, I am going to consider this a $35 donation and look at other ways to manage image posting.
Last week I posed a mystery about a very rare Nikkor lens (the lens itself is not rare at all, and neither is the camera for which it was produced, but the combination is very rare). George did come close in solving the riddle, but not quite.
Throughout the 1950s, about 800+ Nippon Kogaku 13.5cm f3.5 QC lenses were produced for the Exakta mount. For some reason, Nikon only made Exakta-mount lenses in the 13.5cm focal length, and in very limited quantities. What is interesting is that this is the Nikkor RF 13.5cm lens, while the Exaktas were very much SLRs. The lens itself was shortened to fit the Exakta with its flapping mirror, so this version of the 13.5cm is shorter than the S-mount, Contax mount and the Leica thread mount 13.5 Nikkors.
Here's the combo, the very rare Exakta Nikkor mounted happily on an Exakta Varex. The system is getting some rest after some heavy duty use for "street" work earlier today. I just love the waist-level finder on the Exaktas. When the subject is in focus, it really stands out in the frame. Of course how well the film roll actually works we shall find out, in a week or so. Exaktas were pretty common once upon a time, so there's still plenty of these quirky cameras around, only challenge is to find one that mostly works.
