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Working on my focus stacking .. Still a lot of room for improvement but happier with this than prior attempts
designed by Hojyo Takashi
folded by me
I still haven't figured out how to fold the neck so it's very thick, but apart from that,everything else went pretty well. going to another one soon:)
Second attempt at the eye macro effect.
First attempt: www.flickr.com/photos/animcolate/8472833908/
I see a small improvement. I no longer have to hold a flashlight to get the pupils details. Instead I change an effect on my camera but not taking off the program feature.
Pied kingfishers hover far more than any other kingfisher species. They hold their trunk nearly vertical and beat their wings rapidly with their head and bill angled sharply down.When it spots it's prey, it dives into the water to pick it up. This dive seems more like a free fall. The whole process of hovering, spotting and diving is spectacular. This shot was taken just after it missed it's prey. It was preparing for a another attempt. The water droplets can be seen on it's belly.Wanna learn fishing, learn it from a pied kingfisher and forget the fishing rods :-).
View inside Pavillon 35 through the glass door, reflections of a street lantern, street, trees, bushes, night sky. Psychiatric Department Otto Wagner Spital am Steinhof. Part of "MirrorGround Steinhof".
DMC-G2 - P1240191 31.12.2011
My first attempt at levitation trick photography. kindof simple, but practice makes perfect :]
Bernauer Straße, Berlin, Germany.
[EN] The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Construction of the Wall was commenced by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) on 13 August 1961. The Wall cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany, including East Berlin. The barrier included guard towers placed along large concrete walls, accompanied by a wide area (later known as the "death strip") that contained anti-vehicle trenches, "fakir beds", and other defenses. The Eastern Bloc portrayed the Wall as protecting its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany.
GDR authorities officially referred to the Berlin Wall as the Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart (German: Antifaschistischer Schutzwall). The West Berlin city government sometimes referred to it as the "Wall of Shame", a term coined by mayor Willy Brandt in reference to the Wall's restriction on freedom of movement. Along with the separate and much longer Inner German border (IGB), which demarcated the border between East and West Germany, it came to symbolize physically the "Iron Curtain" that separated Western Europe and the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War.
Before the Wall's erection, 3.5 million East Germans circumvented Eastern Bloc emigration restrictions and defected from the GDR, many by crossing over the border from East Berlin into West Berlin; from there they could then travel to West Germany and to other Western European countries. Between 1961 and 1989, the Wall prevented almost all such emigration. During this period, over 100,000 people attempted to escape, and over 5,000 people succeeded in escaping over the Wall, with an estimated death toll ranging from 136 to more than 200 in and around Berlin.
In 1989, a series of revolutions in nearby Eastern Bloc countries—in Poland and Hungary in particular—caused a chain reaction in East Germany that ultimately resulted in the demise of the Wall. After several weeks of civil unrest, the East German government announced on 9 November 1989 that all GDR citizens could visit West Germany and West Berlin. Crowds of East Germans crossed and climbed onto the Wall, joined by West Germans on the other side in a celebratory atmosphere. Over the next few weeks, euphoric people and souvenir hunters chipped away parts of the Wall. The Brandenburg Gate in the Berlin Wall was opened on 22 December 1989. The demolition of the Wall officially began on 13 June 1990 and was completed in November 1991. The "fall of the Berlin Wall" paved the way for German reunification, which formally took place on 3 October 1990.
[DE] Die Berliner Mauer war während der Teilung Deutschlands ein Grenzbefestigungssystem der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik (DDR), das mehr als 28 Jahre, vom 13. August 1961 bis zum 9. November 1989, bestand, und die DDR von West-Berlin hermetisch abriegeln sollte. Sie trennte nicht nur die Verbindungen im Gebiet Groß-Berlins zwischen dem Ostteil („Hauptstadt der DDR“) und dem Westteil der Stadt, sondern umschloss völlig alle drei Sektoren des Westteils und unterbrach damit auch seine Verbindungen zum Berliner Umland, das im DDR-Bezirk Potsdam lag.
Von der Berliner Mauer ist die ehemalige innerdeutsche Grenze zwischen West- (alte Bundesrepublik) und Ostdeutschland (DDR) zu unterscheiden.
Die Berliner Mauer als letzte Aktion der Teilung der durch die Nachkriegsordnung der Alliierten entstandenen Viersektorenstadt Berlin war Bestandteil und zugleich markantes Symbol des Konflikts im Kalten Krieg zwischen den von den Vereinigten Staaten dominierten Westmächten und dem sogenannten Ostblock unter Führung der Sowjetunion. Sie wurde aufgrund eines Beschlusses der politischen Führung der Sowjetunion Anfang August 1961 und einer wenige Tage später ergehenden Weisung der DDR-Regierung errichtet. Die Berliner Mauer ergänzte die 1378 Kilometer lange innerdeutsche Grenze zwischen der DDR und der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, die bereits mehr als neun Jahre vorher „befestigt“ worden war, um den Flüchtlingsstrom zu stoppen.
Für die DDR-Grenzsoldaten galt seit 1960 in Fällen des „ungesetzlichen Grenzübertritts“ der Schießbefehl, der erst 1982 formell in ein Gesetz gefasst wurde. Bei den Versuchen, die 167,8 Kilometer langen und schwer bewachten Grenzanlagen in Richtung West-Berlin zu überwinden, wurden nach derzeitigem Forschungsstand (2009) zwischen 136 und 245 Menschen getötet. Die genaue Zahl der Todesopfer an der Berliner Mauer ist nicht bekannt.
Die Berliner Mauer wurde am Abend des 9. November 1989 im Zuge der politischen Wende geöffnet. Dies geschah unter dem wachsenden Druck der mehr Freiheit fordernden DDR-Bevölkerung. Der Mauerfall ebnete den Weg, der innerhalb eines Jahres zum Zusammenbruch der SED-Diktatur, zur Auflösung der DDR und gleichzeitig zur staatlichen Einheit Deutschlands führte. (Wikipedia)
Same Fly taken from a different angle , cleaned up slightly in gimp and lightroom.
a 43 image stack using the MP-E65 at approx 3x.
Stacked in Zerene stacker using Pmax
Tomorrow morning my wife will kill me because of the mess, but tonight I have a little relaxation with the last strawberry and some water.
Nikon D5000
Tamron 90mm
F5.6 @ 1/125 sec
External Flash Nikon SB-24 + Cheap Slave Flash (Neewer or something like that)
I don't think the culprits really understood how heavy an antique refrigerator really is, even though they had a pretty decent strategy.
John J. Boland attempting to back into Waukegan Harbor but she aborted due to high winds. She went back out into the lake to anchor.
Time for a rant.
This is a Leica Standard, also known as Model E or ALVOO, whatever you prefer. It was made in 1936. Now it shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone that in 81 years of lifetime a camera will pick up a bit of patina. Paint will get worn thin, brass will start shining through. It shouldn't bother anyone, or if it does, that person should just buy some plastic shmastic fantastic digicam and leave a true classic alone.
But no. Some bloke who owned this baby before I rescued her did have to try fixing the paint job on the viewfinder, didn't he.
Cor.
This.
Is.
Painful.
Camera: Leica Standard (Model E, Leica code ALVOO), made in 1936
Lens: Leitz Hektor f=2.8cm, 1:6,3 (HOOPY), made in 1939
Shot with a Canon EOS600D
Leica R lens extension tube 14256
Leica Macro-Elmarit-R 60
Still aggressive where it needs to be and a little more friendly at the same time. This compromise could work.
Also temporarily placed nose at about where it need to be on the ship. Lots of room for pilots and troops behind/below.
Time to go out and enjoy the day...
So after my first attempt I decided I needed a bigger starting base as I wasn't getting enough levels from the hydrangeas, and I can understand why as they are relatively small compared to the overall pattern, I managed to get four levels from this size of paper which is nice :)
The paper was red/green Kraft, 75cm wide. The finished model is about 40cm across and is a lovely plum colour when backlit! I used a fork for perspective ;) I would have preferred blue/green or blue/red Kraft to make turquoise or purple but I was short of both! Perhaps I will make some more... :)
Overall time: 3 days
Unfortunately Clarissa's attempt to take a pic from her left sole got blurred, but her warts are clearly visible. She didn't enjoy wearing high-heeled shoes for long as after some month a further wart developed at the ball. It is very deeply ingrown and when Clarissa tried to wear her high-heeled sandals she suffered from severe pain. This picture was taken after pulling off her flat sandals. Her soles are very sweaty and her warts hurt a lot.
I made my first attempts at photographing the Milky Way. This includes a wispy cloud next to Altair which gives it a blue halo.
I may not have gotten the focus quite right, but I think it was close. I set the exposure time based on what I found on a web site because it seemed like a good starting point, but it may have been too long.
It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done
or how many people have tried it before;
it's important to realize that whatever you're doing,
it's your first attempt at it.
-Wally Amos
Never let the odds keep you from doing
what you know in your heart you were meant to do.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I had to redo this in a vertical orientation...for an actual job! This is one of 7 images that will be going in a medical office building, this particular one will be 20x30, the others will be 24x36. I'm stoked!
In my previous post of this I manually masked out layers for dynamic range, this one I thought I would give photomatix another try as I hadn't used it for some time. I must say I'm really happy with the results; what do you all think?
I've been busy lately building a new computer from scratch which is running pretty solid now. For those geeks that care it's an i7 2.8ghz (will be oc'n it to around 4ghz when I have the time, although it's smokin fast the way it is) 8gb ram, 60g ssd for os and apps, 2 1tb drives in a raid 1 array. I went with a 24" HP ZR24w which I'm loving; I actually like it better than the Dreamcolor, the full gamut of the DC was too much considering hardly any monitors out there can display the colors it can and no printers either, I was constantly fighting it to get what I want. This monitor covers the full sRGB spectrum which I think is all you need
Well! After being a bit dissatisfied with the somewhat chubby dark brown camo forms yesterday, I decided to go and to really, finally do really well on forest camo (or this urban variation, at least).
I think I succeeded, and that this is a bit of a milestone for me! I was nervous about doing a 4-color camo, but I think I did it right his time and it actually required to have a 4th color to make it look finished.
Oh, and please ignore:
The blurry bits
Whatever messiness is on the boots; please focus on the urban camo!
And in the future, this will be on dark red.
Thanks, very much!! ; j
Glancing beyond that taped sheet of paper and through the locked doors gives us this sorta-view into the salesfloor. It’s not particularly great, given all the reflections (including my own!) and the additional set of doors forming the vestibule, but the little bit that we can see shows – as expected – nothing but emptiness.
Sears (at Wolfchase Galleria; now closed) // 2800 N Germantown Pkwy, Memphis, TN 38133
(c) 2019 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
HST 43176 with 43186 on the rear heads through Malvern Wells on 19-11-13.
The working is the 1W02 London
Paddington to Hereford First Great Western service.
The undergrowth has not taken over which gives a much better view compared to today.
One of my rare 'modern traction' photos from this period taken with a fairly basic digital camera.
Ref: Malvern 2013 11-13 Digital