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E' incredibile ma vero. Avevo acquistato lo Schmidt-Cassegrain Celestron C8 (203mm f/10) nel 2000 e non lo avevo mai provato per la fotografia Deep-Sky. Neanche dopo aver acquistato il suo riduttore-correttore 0.63x, perchè non solo il suo campo corretto è più piccolo del formato APS-C ma ero anche convinto che la mia HEQ5-pro non fosse in grado di gestirne adeguatamente il peso e la guida. La ASI533MC-P, con il suo sensore da 1" (11.31x11.31mm) mi ha spinto a provare.
Ho iniziato con un target luminoso e quale migliore occasione che ripuntare la nebulosa M16?
Il controllo con la HEQ5 è al limite e alcune volte le oscillazioni per le folate di vento creano problemi. L'autoguida fa quello che può e la turbolenza spesso non mi ha aiutato.Forse un'ottica adattiva potrebbe fare miracoli, ma sono comunque rimasto piacevolmente sorpreso da questo primo rsultato ottenuto. Comunque c'è da dire che è stato un grande vantaggio per me avere sul tetto di casa "l'ossservatorio", che mi ha semplificato molto il processo di acquisizione, composto da 4 sessioni fotografiche.
I Pilastri della Creazione, la Guglia stellare, le nebulose oscure che si stagliano nel vasto tappeto di emissione Ha e i contorni delle nubi di idrogeno: questo spettacolo visto con una focale di 1260mm è stato veramente appagante.
Per i dettagli sulla Nebulosa Aquila vi rimando all'immagine flic.kr/p/2reF7PA
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It's incredible but true. I purchased the Celestron C8 Schmidt-Cassegrain (203mm f/10) in 2000 and had never tried it for deep-sky photography. Not even after purchasing its 0.63x reducer-corrector, because not only is its corrected field smaller than that of an APS-C format, but I was also convinced that my HEQ5-pro wouldn't be able to adequately handle its weight and guiding. The ASI533MC-P, with its 1" sensor (11.31x11.31mm), encouraged me to try.
I started with a bright target, and what better opportunity than to refocus on the M16 nebula?
Control with the HEQ5 is at its limits, and sometimes the oscillations caused by gusts of wind create problems. The autoguider does what it can, and the turbulence often didn't help. Perhaps adaptive optics could work miracles, but I was still pleasantly surprised by this first result. However, it must be said that it was a great advantage for me to have "the observatory" on the roof of my house, which greatly simplified the acquisition process, which consisted of 4 photographic sessions.
The Pillars of Creation, the Stellar Spire, the dark nebulae that stand out in the vast carpet of Ha emission and the outlines of hydrogen clouds: this spectacle seen with a focal length of 1260mm was truly rewarding.
For details on the Eagle Nebula, I refer you to the image flic.kr/p/2reF7PA
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Optic: Celestron SC C8 203mm f/10+ Celestron riducer-corrector 0.63X
Camera: ZWO ASI533MC-Pro
Mount: Sky Watcher HEQ5-Pro
Seeing: 4 (scala Antoniadi)
Filter: Narrowband Optolong L-eNhance 2" + SVbony UV-IR cut
-153x180s 250gain/ 25 dark /23 flat / 23 darkflat /80 bias
t° sensor: -5°C
Date: 12-13-14-15/07/2025
Integration: 7h 39m
Temperature: 25°C (media)
location for : Biancavilla -Catania-(Italy) 515m slm (Bortle 5-6)
Acquisition: NINA, PHDGuiding
Processing: DSS, SIRIL, PS, GraXpert
{شَهْرُ رَمَضَانَ الَّذِيَ أُنزِلَ فِيهِ الْقُرْآنُ هُدًى لِّلنَّاسِ وَبَيِّنَاتٍ مِّنَ الْهُدَى وَالْفُرْقَانِ فَمَن شَهِدَ مِنكُمُ الشَّهْرَ فَلْيَصُمْهُ }
Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar. Every day during this month, Muslims around the world spend the daylight hours in a complete fast.
During the blessed month of Ramadan, Muslims all over the world abstain from food, drink, and other physical needs during As a time to purify the soul, refocus attention on God, and practice self-sacrifice, Ramadan is much more than just not eating and drinking.
Muslims are called upon to use this month to re-evaluate their lives in light of Islamic guidance. We are to make peace with those who have wronged us, strengthen ties with family and friends, do away with bad habits -- essentially to clean up our lives, our thoughts, and our feelings. The Arabic word for "fasting" (sawm) literally means "to refrain" - and it means not only refraining from food and drink, but from evil actions, thoughts, and words.
During Ramadan, every part of the body must be restrained. The tongue must be restrained from backbiting and gossip. The eyes must restrain themselves from looking at unlawful things. The hand must not touch or take anything that does not belong to it. The ears must refrain from listening to idle talk or obscene words. The feet must refrain from going to sinful places. In such a way, every part of the body observes the fast.
Therefore, fasting is not merely physical, but is rather the total commitment of the person's body and soul to the spirit of the fast. Ramadan is a time to practice self-restraint; a time to cleanse the body and soul from impurities and re-focus one's self on the worship of God.
To muslims all over the world I wish you a happy Ramadan :D
Radiation treatment is a daily chore. 5 days a week. Or for me it was. I needed something to look forward to, to distract me. So I decided to spend time capturing images on the way to and from radiation treatment with a film camera.
I learned a lot.
Old film cameras can have loose seals (light leaks), can have shutters which don't fire properly (not worth repairing), check to make sure when you advance the lever the rewind mechanism moves accordingly (else you develop a blank roll of film, maybe more than once), set the ISO once before you take photos (not halfway through the roll). A shutter speed of 2000 max forces you to shoot with more DOF, unless you have a filter (I didn't and didn't buy one as I wanted to keep it simple and maybe challenge myself), your metering is very different, you meter for the shadows (unlike digital where you meter to retain the lightest areas of your picture. When you forget to meter for darkest areas you cannot effectively recover shadows, you can tell them how to process your BW film to offset an error but you get much more grain.)
The gift?
You slow down because you only have x amount of frames, yes you can load another roll but you have to remember to check your film in this old camera is truly rewound...and if the new film is another ISO you must remember to change it :) Then there is cost and turnaround time (I paid for high resolution scans and declined prints as I have a home printer). But for me I had to slow down much more to get a higher percentage of keepers. I took time to frame and reframe and oh, remember to refocus and oh yeah remember to meter the shadows after your image, hmmmm what was that frame? Stuff like that. But on the positive side my camera's meter works and the batteries are not dead (Pentax K1000 highly recommend, simple and I swear I fell in love with this camera every time I picked it up). Some cameras have an indicator for the battery (which may or may not work). If they don't you can test by doing a sort of 180, swing from wide open to completely stopped down, your indicator in the viewfinder ( a needle for mine) should swing accordingly. In some cameras (Minolta some models) there is a delay before it will do this. Allow for this too.
It sounds like it's tedious right?
Not.
It was in a lot of ways much more rewarding to walk around with the K1000 than even my favorite digital cameras.
I guess because it was not instant. You had to remember all the aspects for proper exposure related to how you wanted DOF or if it was an action shot or a windy day, if a cloud passed over, if you moved from sunlight to shade, to refocus and meter again as you changed your framing, it can matter a lot - (I mostly didn't),.
You take the time to look and relook at the subject to see what was a picture, and for BW film you have to convert color to value in your head and thrown in something unique if it's more grayscale (texture etc). As you moved that camera around to find that image, you saw more around you and took it in. You became immersed in the world around you as you felt the world drop away and you felt so peaceful there. You felt like you were creating phtotos of buildings, nature etc. that seemed insignificant now, but a few months later I've found things I'd forgotten already, some already changed.
With film they are more deliberate memories, people, places you went to, why you went to them and the feeling of nature, light within the season...
You also had to fill that roll (if you are a child like I am) before you could see how they looked.
When I first saw my photos developed I was hypercritical (not a surprise for me. My Oncologist told me many times I am too hard on myself.) But last night I returned to them and pulled a ton out and saved them for future upload. Take them or leave them as you will. I stand by them with all their errors ... They are memories.
I got too tired to keep shooting film. I find a longing to return to it. I will again. I am not an only film or only digital person. Like anything, each has it's advantages and own unique beauty. But I do encourage you to go retro and spend time with a film camera. It's incredibly frustrating in the beginning if it's new, work through it and fall in love with the things film does. They are different and beautiful. Let's not let film be killed by digital (remember that song Video killed the radio star?) Let's keep the good: new and old and celebrate all the beautiful artists in our community.
Let's stop the pixel peeping (reviewers I'm pointing at you, manufacturers, marketers) and look at the image, it's structure, it's emotional impact, what it's saying... not perfect sharpness etc. (Think of the infamous photo all grainy and not focused perfectly of the landing on Omaha Beach in Normandy France)...link below to a copy:
www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/224700/robert-capa-o...
So I will be uploading some "terrible" photos. Blurry etc. if in my heart there is "something" there :)
Gary Winograd had many interesting perspectives, which I only truly began to understand by shooting film, because I had to envision, go through a process to capture that vision, then wait to see if it matched my expectations.
Gary Winogrand inspiring quotes
www.photoquotes.com/showquotes.aspx?id=22
I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed. - Garry Winogrand
I have a burning desire to see what things look like photographed by me. - Garry Winogrand - said when he was asked why he photographs.
When asked how he felt about missing photographs while he reloaded his camera with film, he replied "There are no photographs while I'm reloading" - Garry Winogrand
[If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would] do something to shake it up. - Garry Winogrand
I am a tourist. - Garry Winogrand , Documentary Photography - LIFE Library of Photography , Page: 190
No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something. - Garry Winogrand , Documentary Photography - LIFE Library of Photography , Page: 190
I'm also very inspired by what Vivian Maier did for photography while earning a living as a nanny. Amazing !
Another shot of this chipmunk while testing the animal detection focus system in the G9. It did a pretty good job. I didn't have to refocus much at all once it locked on.
"Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn."
~Quoted by Lewis Grizzard in Kathy Sue Loudermilk, I Love You
I'm going to take a little Flickr break. I'm sure I'll pop on at night and check streams, but I will not be posting any new images. Nothing serious, just need to refocus & unpulg.
Texture from Ishkamina
Great day for the Grebe to be diving in the lake. When I got too close for its comfort, it went under the water and stayed long enough for me to have to search for it and refocus. Cute but usually so far away from the bank that serious cropping is necessary. Morgan County, Alabama - 2019
Rolleiflex 3.5e
Schneider Kreuznach Xenotar 75mm f3.5
Fomapan100
9 minutes 30 in Rodinal 50:1 at 20 degrees
Time to hold still, to refocus, to be grateful for what I have and how I live. Time to clear out my home from things that distract me, that I never use nor need. Time to clear out myself on mindsets that keep me down. To clear out thoughts that harm my peace; routines that hinder my happiness. Welcome new morning and new evening routine. Welcome thankfulness and trust. Thx @anasophierose for your energy and for sharing my path with me. Thx @iamjulikakyelle for your wonderful singing, dancing and those infectious smiles yesterday. | www.instagram.com/p/B959xDFqWdi/ | www.zielecki.com
Needed to slow down even further with some frustration on lack of inspiration. Using Intrepid 8x10, was able to refocus a bit toward a in the moment mindset. The pressures of today sometimes are best met with time to compose, create, and moving on. Thankfully colleagues in the photography world can relate.
Snowy Plover so close you can taste it....
Well maybe not taste it but I was so excited that it was this close and was looking like it was going to stop. And then it did, but i think what really happened was my panning of the camera didnt for 1 extra second, which was long enough that my camera jumped focus to the waves, and when this little dude was stopped and sitting right atop that crest of the beach there, staring right at me, i could feel it chuckling at me as I was cursing loudly in my mind at why my camera was being dumb and didnt want to refocus. When things this small are so close, approaching minimum focal distance, the lens can take a second to get back on track when it moves out to focus several feet away. And while it felt like an eternity trying to refocus on it so close, it was really maybe only a second or two before it ducked down and started running down the beach again.
Sometimes getting out and riding around gives me the space to breathe, clear my head, and enjoy a bit of solitude to regroup and refocus for the day. Captured here is a quiet morning in Lawrence, Massachusetts, just after another fresh snowfall.
Sometimes anger at thwarted plans for my life, and frustration at constant, persistent declining abilities can feel like they are taking over hope in life. Must harness that frustration and anger and refocus toward abilities that still remain, and blessings that life still contains.
Digital art on ProCreate application beginning with Silk” project, then continued using ProCreate application. Finished 06Feb2021
Taken at Coquina Beach Florida. I had crouched down low to get a shot across the sand at the waves. This bird walk right in front of me less than 10 feet away. A quick refocus and there it is, some sort of shore bird.
P.S. I found it on the interwebs, it's a Willet.
I am not exactly sure what I fluffed up here, but probably I simply forgot to refocus after making some portraits. Previously I would never have dreamed about sharing an out of focus image. Film photography helped me get over that obsession with sharpness and these days it is the impact of a photo that counts much more to me than technical perfection.
Film: Ilford Delta 100
Camera: Rolleicord va
Development: Ars-Imago FD
Digitised with a digital camera and contrast adjusted in LR.
Here is another one of those “no longer rare” self portraits. The main aim of this shot (other than capturing my beautiful face) is to test my camera.
“Why ?” I hear you ask…. Well its because this week I installed some “hacked” firmware to my 400D. Because this camera is looooong discontinued, Canon no longer issue firmware updates, so I found someone who does. I now have access to, spot metering, ISO range up to 3000, manual set long exposures (10s to 1hr) and best of all an intervalometer which can be set to refocus after every shot. This means that I can take a leisurely stroll to my position then the camera will focus, then I can alter position or pose and know that when it fires the next shot off it will refocus first. :-)
A tough conversation with someone I admire last week. This week, is a new week, refocusing and finding inspiration in my own little world and rediscovering everything I love about photography.
I'm continuing the cityscape theme with another classic view of the city using a friend's 500mm lens! Again, if you're going to shoot a familiar theme, make it good. This took planning. See below. No HDR.
Free wallpaper for over 100 of my images in 6 different screen sizes is now available!
See the super big 1800x1800 pixel version!!
(Even at 1/3 the original size, you can see every rivet on the bridge!)
www.flickr.com/photos/patrick-smith-photography/517227528...
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Canon 5D Mark II - 2 portrait photos stitched with Autopano version 2
(I just did a 14 frame stitch of the city. Wait till you see that! A 90-frame stitch is to follow.)
Canon 500L F4 (with live preview magnified to 10x to get it perfectly sharp)
Be careful, as a lens cools down after being in a hot car, you have to refocus every minute or so!
5-second exposures @F8 (for the finest sharpness)
No grad filters
No polarizer.
ISO 200 (to speed it up a bit for the big pano to follow)
RAW files processed with Capture One by Phase One
TIFF files processed with Photoshop
Tripod - 1 home depot bucket with a circular 1-inch thick plywood board rotated on top to create panoramas. Flickr user Amigo! below in the comments was a witness!
(this is a vertorama but it is part of a panorama)
(this setup far more stable than the most sturdy tripod and only US $15!) I'm not kidding!!!
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I've been commissioned to do some extremely large gigapixel-sized panoramas with a Canon 800mm lens. So last week I decided to practise with my friends 500mm since I usually do wide angle photography and have nothing longer than my 24-105. So this is just two photos of a bigger panorama so I can see what I'm getting myself into. I waited for the light to be just right and then made a few exposures and calculated some settings for the big pano.
Problems:
Since each photo is a 5-10 second exposure and the eventual gigapixel photo will be 3 portrait shots high by 30 shots wide, and you only get 5 minutes of good light like above, I had to come up with a way to do each photo quickly. However, moving a big lens on a tripod requires quite a while to settle down to stability for each shot. So, I went to the local Home Depot (hardware store) and bought a large plastic bucket, some door shims (small angled wood slices to go under the camera to adjust the lens up or down), and a round piece of 1 inch thick sanded plywood to rotate on top of the bucket. It worked perfecty for a super sharp 30,000 pixel pano I did last night. Even in the wind, the lens does not move at all even when viewed in live preview at 10x.
The road up here on the Marin Headlands was just rebuilt and just reopened. You used to be able to drive right to this spot (amazingly) and shoot this photo right out of your car door! (Though a 500mm lens would shake too much.) It is an amazing cooincidence considering that this spot is over 1 mile to the Golden Gate Bridge and 7 miles to the Transamerica Pyramid Building seen through the opening in the tower. However, there is no place to stop now because of a guardrail and some earth moving work so you have to park below and hike up to this location. I'll include the exact spot on the map.
Once I was there, I set up my bucket and wiggled it around in the dirt to get it flat and stable. Then I placed the round plywood board on top and moved it around to make sure it was perfectly flat.
Then I put the camera with the huge lens on the wood and used wood shims to get the lens pointed up to the top row and shot a small panorama of a few shots on each row to practise my speed and accuracy. Just add shims under the camera to move to a lower row. I'll explain the rest of the procedure when I show the a portion of the bigger panorama. It would not fit into the Flickr scheme of things but the detail is incredible. I really could hardly believe it!
The map shows the exact location.
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My pictures are featured on the front page of the newly redesigned
The state Gov. of California website. Have a look! It is Flash with my pics cut into layers for a 3-d slideshow. If you are into building apps, the State has opened up lots of data to the public, so check it out!
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Google Earth
Simply the best way to scout out locations that there is. You can see sun angles and pre-visualize light under lots of different conditions. Sometimes you can actually pre-compose your shots! This has saved me many thousands of vertical feet of climbing by avoiding spots with blocked views etc.
Satellite imagery (choose 'National' for a local US region or use your fave website)
www.wrh.noaa.gov/satellite/?wfo=mtr
Tide charting and preditions: (chose your area in US, other countries have similar websites)
tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/tide_predictions.shtml?gid=235
Wave Heights (I choose 'North Pacific from Global')
polar.ncep.noaa.gov/waves/main_int.html
Or Here:
www.opc.ncep.noaa.gov/shtml/RP1bw.gif
Photos of every inch of the California coastline from a small plane. Excellent for close in detailed views.
Another the cityscape series, this time with a 500mm lens plus a 2x extender for 1000mm total reach! I'm still working on the big panorama. It is difficult to get identically perfect conditions on 3 different evenings. No HDR.
Free wallpaper for over 100 of my images in 6 different screen sizes is now available!
See the super big 1800 pixel version to see every bolt on the cables!!
www.flickr.com/photos/patrick-smith-photography/521152361...
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Canon 5D Mark II - 1 single image, no cropping
Canon 500L F4 + 2x extender
(with live preview magnified to 10x to get it perfectly sharp with the background soft.)
Be careful, as a lens cools down after being in a hot car, you have to refocus every minute or so!
0.3-second exposures @F29, very little diffraction compared to F8. Needed big DOF to get it all in focus!
No grad filters
No polarizer.
ISO 100
RAW files processed with Capture One by Phase One
TIFF files processed with Photoshop
Tripod - 1 home depot bucket with a circular 1-inch thick plywood board rotated on top to create panoramas. (this setup far more stable than the most sturdy tripod and only US $15!) I'm not kidding!!! Make sure it is perfectly level so that the entire panorama is level.
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This is just a single image that I saw while setting up for an evening panorama. It ended up being too hazy for the panorama but this single shot came out well! I was not intending on getting this image but the light was too good to ignore. Don't get married to preconceived ideas about what you want or you may miss a great moment.
The big pano is really difficult to capture so I'm still working on it. The first week,the visibility was 100 miles but the heat made big waves which blurred out the longer exposures. Then a few days later, the air because stable for really sharp photos but it was hazy so the distant objects were not perfectly visible. Then for the last few days, everything was perfect but I had to go to LA to visit relatives so I still have yet to be here under the right conditions for the panorama I want.
If you wish to get a really outstanding image when 5,000 images are uploaded to Flickr each minute, it seems as though you really have to be dedicated! Don't give up.
The map shows the exact location.
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Other stuff
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My pictures are featured on the front page of the newly redesigned
The state Gov. of California website. Have a look! It is Flash with my pics cut into layers for a 3-d slideshow. If you are into building apps, the State has opened up lots of data to the public, so check it out!
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Resources:
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Google Earth
Simply the best way to scout out locations that there is. You can see sun angles and pre-visualize light under lots of different conditions. Sometimes you can actually pre-compose your shots! This has saved me many thousands of vertical feet of climbing by avoiding spots with blocked views etc.
Satellite imagery (choose 'National' for a local US region or use your fave website)
www.wrh.noaa.gov/satellite/?wfo=mtr
Tide charting and preditions: (chose your area in US, other countries have similar websites)
tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/tide_predictions.shtml?gid=235
Wave Heights (I choose 'North Pacific from Global')
polar.ncep.noaa.gov/waves/main_int.html
Or Here:
www.opc.ncep.noaa.gov/shtml/RP1bw.gif
Photos of every inch of the California coastline from a small plane. Excellent for close in detailed views.
Physiograms keep for quite a long time if bottled and stored properly. I estimate this one will stay fresh until the year 3025.
One single long exposure here. Two tripods, lens cap and refocus between transitions. Fairly pleased with this one :) Square crop so there wasn't so much blackness in the wings of the frame.
Needed to slow down even further with some frustration on lack of inspiration. Using Intrepid 8x10, was able to refocus a bit toward a in the moment mindset. The pressures of today sometimes are best met with time to compose, create, and moving on. Thankfully colleagues in the photography world can relate.
Captain Hax was livid.
"You said this was a whale!"
The small, soft alien twitched its antennae dismissively.
-My people do not distinguish between these two things-
"Bullcrap! You sent me a picture of a whale!"
-My assistant must have been confused-
"Double bullcrap! You just told me we were on a whale!"
-Let me refocus our conversation: I already have your bartered goods, and you have already came here with your equipment and personnel. Does it really matter?-
"Yes, it matters!"
-Why?-
"Why? Why? Well... why... well... I mean... who would want to hear about my years living on a giant catfish?"
-Indeed. I have been unkind. Please, let us drink together and I will teach you to cook the parasites that burrow on its fin.-
"Ugh."
-Yes-
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Made as a high-value asset for Intercept Orbit, the space battle game where you build your fleet with LEGO!
Okay, stick with me on this one here: this photo pushes a ton of limits and sends us down the rabbit hole. Instead of a mad hatter you have a mad scientist! This is a cross-view stereoscopic 3D image.
I’ve had people ask me for images like this – glowing 3D shots. I’ve also had people ask me for spider images recently, so here we go. First, how do you see this image? A “crossview” 3D image is designed to be seen by crossing your eyes; not so much that you see four, but just enough so that you see three where the left and right will overlap in the middle. Focus on this middle frame! A lengthier description can be found here: www.kula3d.com/how-to-use-the-cross-eyed-method . And if you have a VR headset or stereoscope or some fashion, you can find a “parallel” version which would view properly in these devices here: donkom.ca/stereo/PDKP2080.jpg
This image was taken with an unusual, uncommon lens. A, F10x14 stereoscopic 3D macro lens made by deWijs in the Netherlands ( www.dewijs-3d.com/en/ ). They have produced a number of 3D macro lenses over the years as various magnifications, but this is the highest magnification they ever made… and it comes with challenges. These “lenses” are actually two lenses in the same barrel, one for each eye, and they have a divider as far down the barrel as possible called a “septum” to ensure that each lens doesn’t cross into the other. One half of the sensor then becomes dedicated to each eye, and free software called Stereo Photo Maker ( stereo.jpn.org/eng/stphmkr/ ) can help perfectly align the images if there was any rotational shift and set a decent stereo window.
For 3D imagery, depth is critical, and focus stacking is almost impossible. You need a greater depth for your eyes to rummage around the scene and still find detail everywhere, is if our own eyes were exploring the subject on a larger scale – when we look somewhere with our own vision, our eyes refocus to make it sharp. To accomplish this, we have a trade-off: to get this depth in a single frame, you need a TINY aperture. I believe these lenses clock in at F/80. This makes the light requirements extreme, but it also means diffraction is going to blur any fine details, especially on a high resolution sensor.
This was shot on a Lumix S1R, so you’ve got the high-resolution component that is incompatible with the lens. This is a 47MP camera, and I had previously noticed serious softness with a 1DX mark II at only 20MP. 3D work has a way of creating a greater sense of detail from the depth associated with two “layers” of information overlapping, so this can still work. Because the aperture is so small and the amount of light is so little, it needed to be shot at ISO 12,800. I think it held up admirably, given all the challenges!
My personal challenge? Getting a jumping spider into a kiwi flower. The flowers are in our backyard, and the spider was found in our bathroom. Instead of just killing it, my wife yelled to me in my studio asking if I wanted a spider. Why yes, I do! Saving it from oblivion, you’d think it would be cooperative. No. I ended up using the metal portion of a blunt-tipped needle to coax it back into the flower a few times; the needle is a tool I had around for placing water droplets, but the spider had a hard time gripping it so it couldn’t climb on and walk (jump) a different path. Maybe a half hour was needed to get the right pose, but the passage of time is hard to recall when working with these experiments.
Jumping spiders are all different. I’ve had some jump onto my lens when trying to photograph them up close, others are very docile, especially when they have prey. It’s almost as if each one has a personality. I suppose the same could be said for many insects including mantids, weevils and even bees.
I was a little disappointed that this spider’s eyes didn’t fluoresce brightly like many other insects, including Daring Jumping Spiders that I had photographed previously ( www.flickr.com/photos/donkom/35040556705/ ). Even still, the legs and pose worked well enough to draw me in. In 2D, the photo is marginable, but in 3D it has a certain synergy – the two halves equal a greater value than their separate sums.
Okay, enough rambling. You want more “down the rabbit hole” macro photography? There will be plenty of it in my upcoming book Macro Photography: The Universe at Our Feet, currently on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/donkom/macro-photography/ - I would sincerely appreciate your support!
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I'm posting but am not around..to comment....sorry.....Thanks to those of you who FM their concern for me...:-)....Just taking some much needed time to refocus.
Been a rough couple of weeks for my Humpty Dumpty neck and shoulder. Definitely missing my old routine where all the King's horses & men would put me back together again. Time for a brief moment of calm to refocus.
and take time out for yourself.
"Me" time is something you should not feel guilty about. It's taking some time to put aside your everyday business and treating yourself to an activity or hobby that you enjoy.
It gives you an opportunity to relax, refocus and recharge. And when you do that, you can come back to your everyday responsibilities with greater focus, commitment and enjoyment....
.....Peace Out