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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.
One of series of reflections on ferrofluid. My aim is to use ferrofluid to reflect light in ways never seen before.
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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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.
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Railroad ties are stacked in a corner of a parking lot for the New London (Ohio) town reservoir as an eastbound CSX coal train passes in the background. I'm not sure why these ties were stacked here.
Stack of 5 sea urchins on a bed of sand.
I like the way the white dots on the different size urchins line up with each other.
The old Steamer Nicolet is being towed to Rail to Water in this view at 95th St. in October 1973. The stack gases were blowing right at us!
Too cold and dark to go outside and shoot. So I stacked up the plates neatly and fired away. 2011YIP
ODC: Neat
11.6.2011
Ben Stack, Sutherland on a winter's late afternoon.
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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.
A 2 image hand held stack of this jumper , captured against the dark creosote covering my parents shed.
Stacked using Zerene stacker in Pmax
Best Viewed on Black , but better viewed in link below
www.flickr.com/photos/jon1972/8755722964/sizes/k/in/photo...
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 :)
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ANSH scavenger20 Stacked
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Some work is going to begin on the powerlines it appears, these logs must be for a temporary roadway...or just a good background for a portrait photographer
Abstract: limbs, leaves and angles. San Francisco offices in the Financial District. 444 Market Street
San Francisco 38 floors, completed 1979. See exact location on "MAP" in the right column below.
- Shaklee Terraces is also known as 444 Market and One Front Street, a San Francisco oddity.
- The facade is a finely scaled flush aluminum skin.
- Connected to the Lewis Hobart's 1908 Postal Telegraph Building, 22 Battery Street.
- Shaklee Corporation corporate headquarters from 1980-2000 until the new world headquarters opened in suburban Pleasanton, California
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
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.
"7 Days of Shooting" "Week #52 - Members Choice" "Macro Monday"
Beach theme ... most Australian beaches are fine sand but the two beaches between Skennar's Head and Lennox Head are made up of rocks varying in size from too big to move to fine gravel. Strangely enough they are known as Boulder's Beach. I started there today and walked along the cliff top to Skennar's Head and back. An amazing winter's day!
Our Daily Challenge ... feel.
The rocks are a bit difficult to walk on and I know from experience that they feel very hard if you take a tumble. Despite this, I love these beaches because they are usually quiet and peaceful and I feel very relaxed and happy when I spend time there. The crashing of the waves on the rocks produces a soothing and restful white noise which completely hides the sound of traffic nearby.
The Stacks of Duncansby, Duncansby Head at sunset as a hail shower moves across.
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Another moon shot just because. I was outside with the kids looking for the International Space Station as I heard on the radio it would be visible. I snapped off 40 odd moon shots on my current longest lens, a Minolta MC Rokkor 300mm F5.6 that I bought at Vinnies for $40.
Suprisingly using this cheap lens at F5.6, shooting at ISO1250 and stacking bursts using some astro processing skills I've been working on, I came up with something that looks quite nice thank you very much. Although the sheer number of pixels isn't that high so it would probably print poorly.
At least I still have something long'ish that's acceptable. I sold my 100-400mm and miss it regularly...
Among the natural rock formations, there is stonework that was carried out by convicts who cut and stacked the stone blocks to build the pathways.
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.