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The first snow of the season has fallen at the highest elevations of the San Francisco peaks above Flagstaff in early October as Q LPCLAC6 passes through Maine on the western slope of the Arizona divide.
What's better than waking up to a stack of pancakes ? ...a stack of pandas of course !
Happy Mothers Day !
Three wooden spools of thread stacked with a straight pin and buttons.
Developed with Darktable 3.6.0. Background texture added in Photoshop.
For a landbound tourist, a visit to South Stack Lighthouse is a jaunt down a well made path and over a bridge, and a small grumble over the £5 charge for the privelige of setting foot on the small island.
From a sailors point of view, the lighthouse marks one of the most terrifying of Anglesey's headlands. A big tide ripping one way, with a brisk wind blowing in the other can conspire to generate enormous standing waves resulting in memorably frightening passages.
Nikon FM2n + red filter; Rollei Retro 400s / Fomadon R09 1:50 22mins
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This is my first go at stacking multiple images in Photoshop, using the 'mean' method, (7 images).
Given the conditions on the day, I'm really happy with the result I've achieved and I'm fairly close to the image I had pre-visualised.
There is plenty of room for improvement, but as a first step, I'm very happy with it.
Your comment and critique is most welcome!
Evening Sea Stacks. © Copyright 2021 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Sea stacks and surf on an overcast evening, Crescent City, California.
The circumstances of this photograph were just a bit unusual, and it is not quite the photograph that I thought I’d be making when I recently visited the coastline at Crescent City. Because the days are so long right now, we decided to go out for an early dinner, planning to head back out into the field to photograph an hour or so before sunset. The plans was not totally solid, but I had this spot in mind as one of the possibilities, as it more or less in Crescent City. We finished dinner and it was still too early for the photography I had in mind, so we did a bit of exploring before we ended up back at this post.
I had photographed these very rocks a couple of years ago, and this time I was imagining something with sunset light, the colorful ocean and sky, and perhaps some dramatic shadows. The conditions had something else in mind. To the north a line of clouds was arriving, likely the result of a weak incoming cold front. When it became apparent that the brilliantly colorful sunset I imagined was not to be (though something else interest did eventually happen) I rethought the mood I wanted to suggest and began to see the appeal in this framing of the scene, focusing on the foreground island with the more distant sea stacks closer to the top of the frame.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.
Focus stacked image of a Danish 2 Kroner coin. This image was created from 100 shots at ISO 64, 90mm, f/5.3 and 1/8th second exposure using a Nikon D850 and Tamron 90mm macro lens. The images were stacked using Zerene Stacker with the Depth Map option, and then some finishing touches in Adobe Lightroom.
saw a hole left by a rock falling out of the creek bank and thought it deserved a stack of stones
tom hopkins ravine
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South Stack, Anglesey, Wales
South Stack is an island situated just off #HolyIsland on the northwest coast of #Anglesey. It is famous as the location of one of Wales' most spectacular #SouthStackLighthouse. The cliffs are 130m high on average. Standing here you can see sea traffic in the Irish sea between Belfast and Liverpool and Cardiff. The jagged rocks and monoliths at the base offer a spectacular view with shallow, emerald waters - and are as deadly should you trip and fall.
These #Precambrian cliffs are one of my favourite in the whole of UK, and are home to some of the most important sea bird colonies in #Wales. During June and July the sea cliffs here are packed with sea birds - mainly auks including puffin, razorbill and guillemot.
From the cliff tops here you can look down and watch the birds swimming, as they fly underwater in search of fish and sand eels.
During the breeding season up to 3,000 Guillemots and 700 Razorbills will nest here, precariously balancing their eggs on the narrow ledges.
You'll also find a small Puffin colony here and predatory Great Blacked-backed Gulls swooping down to grab chicks from any unattended nests.
Aside from the bird life, #SouthStack is also famed for its plant life and one plant in particular, can only be found here in the whole of Britain.
The plant in question is known as the Spathulate Fleawort and is a rather plain yellow flower, not dissimilar to a tall daisy with yellow petals. You'll find it growing along the edges of the sea cliffs, so tread carefully.
Another one of my staple abstracts I took a few weeks ago...
This time I set up stacks on my laptop and that is what the checkered design is underneath the staples themselves haha.
Most Sundays, I like to sneak quietly down to the workshop, pop up the roller-door a few feet without turning on the lights and just make sure all is well!
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A 1/18th scale model diorama workshop, featuring die-cast models of a Shelby Cobra, a 1930 Alfa Romeo roadster and an E-Type Jag roadster.
A 12 image focus stack taken with a Canon RP, RF 35mm macro lens and processed in Canon DPP4.
This was taken on 1st September 2013 when I had the opportunity to pop over to Anglesey, North Wales to a location called “South Stack”. It is a 7x HDR image that was processed using photomatix and lightroom.
For more information about South Stack see the Wiki site:
Palmer, Alfred T.,, photographer.
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.1a35070
Call Number: LC-USW36-374
Resolution lens test with the Olympus OM Zuiko Auto Macro 38mm f/2.8 @f/4
Ratio 6:1
Stacked from 324 images, step length 0.005mm.
Sony A7R III, 42 MP
For me an excellent lens, it is sharp up to the corners.
Not bad for a lens from 1980.
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Another shot from Easter Monday....
this was taken from the cliff at Downpatricks Head, Ballycastle, Co. Mayo. My brother-in-law, Stephen, goes caving and knows all these wonderful and amazing places. So our family all packed 2 cars and headed off on an adventure tour along the west coast of Ireland :)
This huge rock with all it's different layers "stacked" (that looks a little like a dinosaur foot) was just off the coast, it was rather windy, so I thought it safer to lie on my stomach on the cliff edge rather than stand ;-)
Thanks for all the views, comments and faves :)
Sorry for a late upload today. Ran into some technical issues today and took me all day!
Happy Friday!
Stack of Windmills in harbour area renewable energy looks funny when they mills are aligned in one single line
Well it is still bloomin' windy and there is still no chance for leaves so what to do instead? Head to the beach and build a delicate rock balance and dare it to defy the wind?
The forecast was set to deteriorate by lunchtime so I headed to the coast. The wind was very strong there and my optimism dwindled. I had in mind something like the stack I built at Robin Hood's Bay. That one withstood the wind perhaps this one will?
The tide was due in by lunch so I set to work collecting flat stones and pebbles. I set the camera up first in the vain hope that I might get a picture and started on the construction.
The first effort had a horrendous wobble three-quarter built, the lower few layers were rolling on their pebbles and it soon fell. I tried again and dismantled the next two tries in order to concentrate on stopping it wobbling so much although it was impossible to eliminate entirely.
Always expecting it to topple I added each new layer one at a time until I finally got it done. I thought it might need another layer (I still do looking back at the pictures) but sometimes you can't push it any further. The proverbial last straw.
Now, a bit panicky, as it swayed quite a lot to and fro, I waited for the sun to come out. It needed to be front lit or else the contrast was too strong. As it seems to be with recent luck it there was blue sky either side of where the sun was with a strip of grey cloud right through the middle. It didn't look like there would be any decent light anytime soon.
But despite the nerve jangling wobbling it stayed upright and within half an hour I got all the pictures I wanted. Quite perplexed how it was still standing I thought I would try and capture a time lapse of the incoming tide. I set everything up and sat back and waited.
I looked at my watch - it was 11.30 and the tide would be fully in in 3/4 of an hour. The wind was really cold but I thought I could handle the shivering until the tide arrived. I am not so sure about the sculpture.
What seemed like an age had passed and the tide was still not in. I looked at my watch again and it said 11.30! What? I must have read it as 11.30 when it was 10.30!
Glutton for punishment that I am I couldn't stop the time lapse capture as the sculpture still stood. Sat in my 9 coats and 4 hats I practiced my powers of telekinesis. "Fall over! Fall over! Fall over! That way I can go and get warm!"
It wasn't working.
Still the tide marched in and still the stones wobbled and rocked. Didn't seem like anything could topple it.
As the hypothermia took hold I whispered to myself "just hold on, don't fall asleep, someone will rescue me soon." I took my emergency chocolate bar from my pocket and split it into quarters. "I will have to ration it" I thought "it might be a long time before anyone finds me."
"I am so very cold mummy."
And then it happened. A series of quite violent wobbles lead to its final demise. It sacrificed itself so that I might live.
PS. the lit up look of this photo was done with a reflector not in photoshop.
The 12 Apostles along the Great Ocean Road are one of the "must-see" things in Australia. There are lots of tourists but it's still a worth while place to visit - especially if you're into your geology.
Middle Falls at 'Old Man's Cave' worked with 3 photos in a focus stack
215b 4 - _TAC6324~26 - stack focus - ps-WM
Running hot ahead of the Northstar Commuter train, these stacks hustle through the Anoka Northstar Station with a clear shot to St. Cloud.
This is a 40 image focus stack of my grandmother's pocket watch. I just wasn't happy with the focus on the single shots. And I wanted to try doing one of these. I think it turned out pretty good, and I like the detail you can see in it now.
Shot with a Canon EF 85mm f1.8 each shot @f4.5 and a 25mm macro extension tube was used to get closer and bigger.
Macro Mondays Theme, Anachronism.
HMM!
First attempt at focus stacking!
I've been interested in macro photography of lately and I'm luckily in Italy at my parents' for the holidays. My father has got a couple of macro lenses lying around (this vintage Nikkor 60mm Micro AF-D f/2.8 and a Nikkor Micro DX 85mm f/3.5) and my teenage bedroom is packed with photogenic small items.
As a first attempt I then took 6 shots at this Porsche model and imported them into Photoshop. The only spot I'm not particularly happy with it's that part of bonnet at the base of the windscreen, plus the protruding ends of the back of the car. I really couldn't get them in focus well enough to make it work: especially those parts on the back, Photoshop took a shot focused on those as a shot of the background, which really messed the stack up. Had to get rid of it and make do with the remaining photos, so that's out of focus.
I'm really eager to learn more, especially given how we still pretty much live indoors, nowadays, and these are good subjects when there's no option to go in the field.
This was shot with the car on top of my Kobo e-reader and the camera on top of a couple of books, with the lens cap to prop the lens and tilt it up just enough to help the framing. Inventive, but I look forward to do this with my tripod 😂
I didn't really touch the file at all, so exposure, colour and everything else comes just out of saving the stacked RAWs into the final JPEG.
Sorry for the missing camera/lens/exposure info, I need to find a way to recover it (or re-write it) after Photoshop does its magic and spits out a file that obviously doesn't retain any of the original data.
Maybe one of the two lenses can come to the Netherlands with me for some more practice LOL
Loch Glencoul and the Stack of Glencoul from above Newton, Sutherland.
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Raspberry -Foodscape
Another "foodscape" (my take on food photography) This is a focus stacked macro of a raspberry focus bracketed on my Olympus OM-D E-M5Mk2 with 26mm of "macro tube" attached and stacked in PS6 (this increases the depth of field, so more is in focus)
So I've always been frustrated with how if you have cheesy things on their sides, they are 5 fifth-studs high, but if you put bricks right side up next to them on the plate base, it'll be 4 or 6 (multiples of 2) and they're NOT EVEN, and you have to do complicated things by mixing up the base of tiles and having the mosaic on studs instead of tiles or vice versa. (If that's clear as mud, sorry!)
So that was a problem if you wanted a circle in the middle of a cheesy mosaic. Of course, back when I started they didn't have circle tiles, so having flat circles weren't really possible. But now we have circle tiles, and look how nicely they fit in the middle of this mosaic? But how to make it flat? Without having to change the nice tile-y base?
It's so obvious and I never thought of it before and so I'm irritated. You just put the first layer of plate upside down, and then stack the tile on top of that, and voila! Practically even! Not off by a fifth-stud. You can see in the little example at the top of the mosaic... an upside down plate, topped with a tile, and it's even with a cheese slope on its side. And so, yes, nothing is connected, but it's not like anything is connected anyway.
Gah. Maybe life will be easier now. I'm sure those kindergartners are all going to learn their ABC's faster now that I know the secret of upside-down plates! ;-)
An absolutely stunning evening over at South Stack this evening. As I walked up, there were many other photographers who had set up all over the headland. I have had this shot in mind for a while and so thought I’d check it out. To my surprise there was no one up there (except for Don Cardy who was close on my heels, following me up the path!) - it was great to meet Don and had a great chat whilst enjoying the incredible light that appeared post sunset.