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Ben Stack and the River Laxford, Sutherland at dawn.
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Well this is going to be one of my little projects this Winter, focus stacking Collembola, with this I decided to try using my 1.4x teleconverter and my MP-E at x5, so in all this was a x7 magnification handheld focus stack of just 6 images at F/6.3. I'm hoping to get deeper with the stacks as the Winter goes on.
It really is a very hit and miss affair with these guys, sometimes they will stay perfectly still and then sometimes they are always moving, especially those antennae, but I was reasonably fortunate that this female stayed put for just long enough, anyway an ongoing project and with the numbers increasing I think it quite achievable, the main thing is refining the technique :o)
I hope everyone in the Southwest has a safe day, apparently going to get very wet again and then I hear that next week temps are going to drop to -15C, well at least it will slow down the Globular Springtails a bit LOL :o)
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An eastbound BNSF stack train crosses the Java Bridge over the Middle Fork of the Flathead River at West Java, Montana, on the morning of June 4, 2002.
Found this cool little spot where tradition was too stack rocks i'm assuming.
Canon AE-1 Program. Hawaii.
Iain and I took dad to the Kelvingrove Museum and Art Galleries during the holidays. I love this place and could spend hours just walking around it. We are incredibly lucky to have a wonderful place on our doorstep.
Walk through Borrego Badlands to Seventeen Palm Grove
Near Arroyo Solado
Anza Borrego Desert Park
California, USA
South Stack is famous as the location of one of Wales' most spectacular lighthouses, South Stack Lighthouse. It has a height of 41 metres (135 feet). It has a maximum area of 7 acres.
Until 1828 when an iron suspension bridge was built, the only means of crossing the deep water channel on to the island was in a basket which was suspended on a hemp cable. The suspension bridge was replaced in 1964, but by 1983 the bridge had to be closed to the public, due to safety reasons. A new aluminium bridge was built and the lighthouse was reopened for public visits in 1997. Thousands of people flock to the lighthouse every year, thanks to the continued public transport service from Holyhead's town centre.
There are over 400 stone steps down to the footbridge (and not, as local legend suggests, 365), and the descent and ascent provide an opportunity to see some of the 4,000 nesting birds that line the cliffs during the breeding season. The cliffs are part of the RSPB South Stack Cliffs bird reserve, based at Elin's Tower.
The Anglesey Coastal Path passes South Stack, as does the Cybi Circular Walk. The latter has long and short variants; the short walk is 4 miles long and takes around two hours to complete. Travelling from the Breakwater Country Park, other sites along the way are the North Stack Fog Signal station, Caer y Tŵr, Holyhead Mountain and Tŷ Mawr Hut Circles.
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Stacked chairs in a second hand store.
Minolta XD-7
Minolta MD 50mm 1:1.7
Ilford XP2 Super
scanned with a Minolta Dimage Dual II and Vuescan
Last week was Royal Ascot and, as per usual, stacks of coaches turned up throughout the week. The annual 5-day horse racing festival is local to me so I visited on the Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday when 75, 195, and 190 coaches turned up respectively.
Highlights for me included:
UK26HWT, a new Mercedes-Benz Tourismo for Hollywood Travel;
YJ68CCE, a Van Hool Astromega for Ferris Holidays;
YK26LCV, a new Yutong TC9 for Dagenham-based Tigers Transport;
RML2679 & RM385, the inevitable pair of Routemasters;
SM24MAR, a Yutong GT12 expertly driven from Marshalls; and
VX54CME, a Mercedes-Benz Vario O814D / Mellor C33F from Vale Cars of Henstridge.
Plenty of chatty drivers across my 3 visits - notable mentions go to those from Aston Manor, Burrows, Cheney Travel, Don's, Euro Coaches, Jeakins, Motts, Options, Poynter's, RS Sauchen, Tigers Tpt, Wheelers, and particularly the driver of C5DUR. Thanks all for making a good day a great day!
While walking along Sunset Beach in Vancouver, I found a lot of rocks stacked up in a weird way. Some people said they're miniature inukshuk's, but they're kind of missing the arms and legs... But they were still very interesting none the less.
Anyway, I'm slightly disappointed that I didn't get more of the sky and that warm light though.
20189 tnt 20142 on 5Z31 10.12 Kings Norton Ot Plant Department to Tyseley LMD approaching Small Heath on 30th March 2024
It is with many thanks to gen providers that I was in place for this. I had not factored it in whilst out that day but felt it was worth a go. There was concern however, with cloud building, that I would get the 'miracle' of a well lit shot. There was some issue in the Bournville area where trains both ways were stacked up at red lights causing some delay. I had already moved from the station bridge to here due to concerns over cloud encroaching. By the time this appeared on the bridge above the cab of 20189 there was little doubt that I would get this in sunshine.
NB: Today it was back to normal with three trains due at Stoke Pound (should have been 4) all passing in full dull despite much good weather around !
The Bethlehem Steel Corporation was an American steel and shipbuilding company that for much of the 20th century was one of the world's largest steel producer and shipbuilding companies. The company's roots trace to 1857 with the establishment of the Bethlehem Iron Company. Bethlehem Steel was formed in 1904 through the merger of the earlier companies, and existed through the decline of American steel manufacturing during the 1970s until its final bankruptcy in 2001.
The Steel Stacks were preserved as an Icon of the Steel Industry and are now part Arts and Entertainment center
Sunset at South Stack, North West coast of Anglesey.
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An eastbound intermodal passes beneath the venerable and fading PRR signal bridge at Newport. Someday, it'll all be gone and this image will preserve what once was the Middle Division.
Update: It's gone.
Sea Stacks, Bandon Beach, Oregon.
This image was shot during the early morning hours. At this time, these sea stacks were perfectly lit up with an orange glow. The early morning sun was casting long shadows over the beach and the sky started to brighten up with a typical blue hue. I used a HDR image for the foreground that provided the realistic sharp image I was looking for. For the sky, I used a frame that was under exposed two stops. I composited these two images in normal blend mode in CS6. For a change, I did not overwork this image and I left it as real as I could. A lonely photographer (DW) gave a much needed scale to this image!
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I have been promoting noise reduction by stacking for years, but while I was able to recommend "Starry Landscape Stacker" for MAC users, there was no easy to use Software for Windows.
This has changed lately, with the release of SEQUATOR, a very easy to use program for stacking untracked nightscapes (for noise reduction) and the best of all: It is freeware!
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So far, I have been using fitswork, a dedicated software for stacking tracked star images. While I learned to use it for untracked images as well, this process is painfully slow. It would therefore be immensely helpful if SEQUATOR was able to perform as beautifully as fitswork, without all the slow manual interventions needed…
Today, I was able to do my first test of SEQUATOR. To see how it performs, I did a side by side comparison with an image I already processed with fitswork.
First I had to find an untracked image sequence. I have been doing mainly tracked shots lately, but I found my Bisti Eggs image which I shot from a fixed tripod:
To get a meaningful comparison, I decided run SEQUATOR with the same preprocessed TIFFs I have used for stacking in fitswork and publish some 100% crops taken from the resulting TIFFs right out of SEQUATOR and fitswork and without further processing. SEQUATOR has several options for stacking, but I found that “Freeze Ground”, “Auto Brightness OFF” and “High Dynamic Range ON” worked best for me.
As you can see, SEQUATOR does an extremely nice job. There are no star trails and no stacking errors and I really like how the foreground and the horizon are razor sharp. Very impressive indeed!
On closer scrutiny, the SEQUATOR result has a tad more saturated colors than my fitswork resut, but selecting “High Dynamic Range ON” avoided burning the stars. The increased saturation leads to slightly increased color fringes around the brighter stars, but this would have happened with the fitswork image as well during post processing and there are techniques to reduce this effect during processing.
SEQUATOR is really easy to use and it took me less than 5 minutes to produce the result, while my normal workflow in fitswork takes about 3 hours to arrive at the same stage.
Conclusion:
I can highly recommend SEQUATOR! If I ever have to process an untracked image sequence again, I use SEQUATOR instead of my fitswork workflow.
On Windows, it is by far the easiest to use and fastest stacking software for nightscapes and produces very good results. Even beginners can immediately produce excellent results. There are no excuses anymore for noisy single shot nightsapes… ;-)
PS:
1. Of course I still highly recommend using a tracking mount to achieve “deeper” sky exposures, by using lower ISO and higher exposure times. This means that you have to shoot the foreground separately with your tracker off and merge the two exposures during post processing. For this techique SEQUATOR might not be the best software out there, but to stay fair, that is not what it was built for…
2. Here is a very nice quick tutorial for SEQUATOR. The only point where I disagree with Mike, is that for better sharpness and no burned highlights, I recommend to use HDR instead of Auto Brightness.
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Smoke stacks
1942
1 transparency : color.
Notes:
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945
Smokestacks
Industrial facilities
Format: Transparencies--Color
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 12002-28 (DLC) 93845501
General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a35072
Call Number: LC-USW36-376
Ben Stack, Sutherland on a winter's late afternoon.
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Some of the sea stacks near Face Rock Scenic Viewpoint at Bandon in Oregon. "Howling Dog" is in the middle, and "Face Rock" is in the distance on the right.
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his photo was taken at thursley common on the 18th July 2017.
This is stacked from 3 images using my Olympus omd 1 mark 2 and the Panasonic 100-400 lens