The characteristic ice-cool pale wisps of noctilucent clouds in the distance (at 80km, their altitude far exceeds any other normal cloud up to 12km). As I watched a low-lying cloud of mist formed over Strathearn and made its way west over Crieff.

Z8 + FW 3.0 (beta)

Z 105mm MC (Micro)

Westcott Solix + Apollo (Octabox)

Pixel Shift with Nikon NX Studio

Focus stacking with Zerene Stacker

Pixel Shift is an option where the camera moves the sensor during a series of captures. This series is then merged in the Nikon NX Studio software. In this case, the pixel shift option was set to the maximum capture option of 32 images. The camera exposed an image then moved the sensor… about half the width of a single pixel… and exposed the next one. For 32 images. Those 32 NEF (RAW) files were merged into one massive NEFX raw file that now has a resolution of about 180,000,000 pixels.

Focus Shift Shooting is an option where the camera makes an exposure then shifts focus to a different plane and makes another exposure. The cool part is that the camera is automatically setting the shift movement so that a series of images can be stacked on post in such a way to increase the depth of the PLANE of focus. This results in a subject the can have a nearly unlimited amount of the subject focus. Not just more depth of field, but depth of actual in focus.

The Z8 FW 3.0 is the first time anyone has offered both at the same time on a full frame professional camera.

I have a habit of strolling along this road around once a week, so know the views around Strathearn pretty well - by daylight. This time, I went out with the night sky in mind. Unfortunately it was completely clouded-over at the moment I wanted, but that itself was interesting with the warm sunset cloud illuminatiion succumbing to cooler blue dusk tones, contrasting against the yellow of the oil-seed rape crop.

As seen from Fortress Ridge Trail, Blue Mountains.

This shot is with the HD DA 20-40, set initially at 24mm and cropped in slightly to avoid vignette (but not to match the F28 FoV). At a guess this might be around 26mm or something. Not bad for a lens not supposed to be used on FF, this one came out as 33mp after the crop.

Tarrant County Courthouse, Fort Worth, TX, USA

National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire.

Hasselblad 501CM

Carl Zeiss Planar 3.5/100 T* CFi

f11

1/500th second

Hand-held

Kodak T-Max 400 (at EI 800)

Hasselblad Orange filter

N+1 development in DD-X 1:4 at 20 °C for 10 mins.

Digitised using 16-shot pixel-shift capture

Toned

Note: my images are processed to appear correct on a calibrated, professional grade colour-accurate monitor set to Adobe RGB output / 6500 K temperature / gamma 2.2. Many consumer grade screens (particularly mobile phone screens) at default settings will display these images with too much saturation and contrast, so please bear this in mind when viewing on such devices.

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This is a whopping 86mp stitched pixel shifted shot.

6 pixel shifted shots were stitched together in ICE, and prior to that edited in RT to correct motion.

Then off to LR and Topaz Clarity for some adjustments pop.

Full res is seen here; farm5.staticflickr.com/4383/36678295873_f92d42d881_o.jpg

Linhof Technikardan S45

Nikkor-M 9/300

13.5mm front fall

10mm rear right shift

2° front left swing

f32

1 second

Fuji Velvia 50

Gitzo GT3532LS

Arca-Swiss Z1

Lab development

Digitised using 16-shot pixel-shift capture

Note: my images are processed to appear correct on a calibrated, professional grade colour-accurate monitor set to Adobe RGB output / 6500 K temperature / gamma 2.2. Many consumer grade screens (particularly mobile phone screens) at default settings will display these images with too much saturation and contrast, so please bear this in mind when viewing on such devices.

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One of my favourite trees - I like the angle at which it reclines into the wind and the pure emptiness into the distance.

Unusual tricks: custom home-made sensor ICC profile; the ground is shot at 1/30s but the sky merged from a second exposure of over a minute with Nisi CP2 and ND-1000 filters. Fast and slow in one image.

Shot on Fomapan Classic 100 4x5 sheet film with Shen Hao 4x5 large format film camera and Nikon Nikkor-W 135mm f5.6 lens in December 2019.

Digitized with Sony A7R3 camera and Sigma 70mm F2.8 DG Macro lens using Pixel Shift mode.

Acronicta funeralis

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Hasselblad 501CM

Carl Zeiss Sonnar 4/180 T* CF

f11

1/4th second

Gitzo GT3532LS

Arca-Swiss Z1

Agfa Copex Rapid / SPUR DSX (Rated EI 25)

Self developed in SPUR Dokuspeed SL-N, 24:12:564mL A:B:deionised water at 20 C for 10.5 mins.

Digitised using 16-shot pixel-shift capture

Toned

Note: my images are processed to appear correct on a calibrated, professional grade colour-accurate monitor set to Adobe RGB output / 6500 K temperature / gamma 2.2. Many consumer grade screens (particularly mobile phone screens) at default settings will display these images with too much saturation and contrast, so please bear this in mind when viewing on such devices.

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13th century Norman castle showing the motte, gatehouse and keep. The walls would have been rendered and painted white.

The entrance would have had a drawbridge, portcullis and two doors before entering the keep.

This is a neolithic burial chamber called a portal dolmen. Its located between St Cleer and Darite in Cornwall.

The small hole in the capstone which may be for some sort astronomical observation. The rear stone has collapsed inside the chamber and explains the large tilt of the capstone.

This image was taken using Pentax's Pixel Shift

Linhof Technikardan S45

Rodenstock Grandagon-N 4.5/90

18mm front rise

5° right swing of both standards

f29

1/15th

Kodak T-Max 100 (EI 80)

Gitzo GT3532LS

Arca-Swiss Z1

Self developed in Pyrocat-HD 1:1:100 at 22 °C for 14 mins (minimal agitation) using a modified Paterson Orbital

Digitised using 16-shot pixel-shift capture

Toned

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Pentax K-1, pixelshift, Natural light, Old glass, Silver Efex Pro 2

Pentax 6x7 MLU

SMC Pentax 4/55

f13

1 second

Rollei IR400 (effective EI 25)

Hoya R72

Gitzo GT3532LS

Arca-Swiss Z1

Self developed in DD-X 1:4 at 19 °C for 8.75 minutes

Digitised using 16-shot pixel-shift capture

Toned

Note: my images are processed to appear correct on a calibrated, professional grade colour-accurate monitor set to Adobe RGB output / 6500 K temperature / gamma 2.2. Many consumer grade screens (particularly mobile phone screens) at default settings will display these images with too much saturation and contrast, so please bear this in mind when viewing on such devices.

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