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A Class 220/221 Voyager stands at Bristol Temple Meads's platform 12 with 1V45, the 0744½ Stoke-on-Trent to Newquay service on Saturday 26th August 2017. The train should have started from Manchester Piccadilly but on that day there was an unspecified issue with the train crew that led to the curtailment.
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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This group is also some of my first two attempts with 'focus stacking. A couple are random photos that I had two similar images of that I then stacked in the software (Helicon Focus). The rest are from a IACC (local photo club) workshop with light boxes and rock quartz slices that I did repeat images of (tripod used) with changes to the F-stop to change (or expand) the focus via DOF. I then processed the groups to see what additional focus depth might appear. The software also has a 3-D tool that I like but have not managed to duplicate for viewing so far. The double images are a snapshot of one small portion of the 3-D workflow. Does anyone have experience or suggestions with 'focus stacking' or 3-D modelling that might be helpful to me and others out there? The ‘focus stacking’ is especially helpful for those of us that are trying macro and close up photography. Thank you.
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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
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.
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
A westbound BNSF stack train barrels down the center track of the Chicago raceway through Hinsdale, Illinois, on a pleasant summer afternoon.
Camera: Canon F-1
Lens: Canon FD 50 mm f/1.4 SSC
Film: Ilford PanF Plus 50
Exposure: 1/250 sec and f/2.8, hand-held
Film developed and scanned by MeinFilmLab
Edited under Adobe Lightroom
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!
sites.google.com/site/sequatorglobal/home
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.
The stacker arrives, but he was slowing, and then he also stopped a short distance later This is on the UP LA Subdivision in Riverside.
Workers offices at the re-construnction of Södertälje C.
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Nikon F4
Nikon AF NIKKOR 50mm f/1.4 D
Fujifilm Superia X-tra 400, expired 2005-07
Tetenal C-41
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Ben Stack, Sutherland on a winter's late afternoon.
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Stack of an interesting looking fly.... maybe an antlion?
51 image stack with reversed el nikkor on full extension of bellows. 3 ikea jansjo's used.
Charging away from Port Augusta, NR112 and another NR class unit (out of view), cart 2PM5 towards Adelaide where the top row of containers will come off and continue onto Melbourne as 'single stackers'.
Adelaide to Perth (or Parkes/SCT Only) is the only rail corridor in Australia where double stacked containers are allowed.
Wednesday 9th January 2013
One of the cheapest sources of protein worldwide. No exception in Bangladesh...
Meradia Bazar, Dhaka
Some more from Pyrmont shooting towards International Towers, Barangaroo and Cockle Bay Wharf.
This is a single frame image with about 20 images stacked again as per the previous images. These are 30 second exposures which give a smoother water but slightly more harsh highlights. Still looks alright to me.
This image was taken from about 2 dozen stacked images of a fire sky sunrise: www.flickr.com/photos/79387036@N07/38659797831/in/photost... and darkened in Photoshop.
I like producing these quasi-abstracts because it requires a balance between the right number of stacked images and the speed of the clouds between each frame. I never know what the end product will look like and am always surprised.
Lightening stacked clouds often result in a more look of a star field when warp drive is engaged: www.flickr.com/photos/79387036@N07/37893063574/in/datepos...
Darkenng stacked clouds show more variability and can be more interesting as colors explode across the spectrum.
In any event, fire sky clouds are the best for using this technique.
Try it out. It's a fun way to create with the colors nature provides us.
Inspired to experiment by an article on Petapixel today about the photographer Frank Machalowski got me out at lunch time testing his ideas out.
I kind of like this shot but it is a little too busy. I needed more background separation but I only had a 56mm lens so had to be far away. Next time I'd be a bit more scientific and measured, use a wide angle lens and find a subject with better background separation. I walked an arc about 120 degrees around this tree at a constant distance shooting every 1.5 m or so for a total of 30 images.
This is a blended colour / B+W image. The B+W blending reduces saturation and adds contrast.
In summary you need to look at this guys amazing website:
Fifty minutes of the Earth's rotation captured on a moonlit night at the spectacular Stacks of Duncansby
bring this back around for the Digging in the Archives Tuesday group :)........the URL is here, if you'd like to add a picture or 2 :)
www.flickr.com/groups/2730574@N22/
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ANSH scavenger20 Stacked
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The South Stack Lighthouse is built on the summit of a small island off the north-west coast of Holy Island, Anglesey, Wales. It was built in 1809 to warn ships of the dangerous rocks below. The 91-foot tall lighthouse was designed by Daniel Alexander.
South Stack Anglesey,Wales
My new photo in my portfolio. This photo is stacked from 687 photos in zerene. I have stacked 8 parts individually and after I had 8 stacks from zerene I have stacked them manually in PS. All together with postproduction it was more than 12 hours work.
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