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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.
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.1a35072
Call Number: LC-USW36-376
Ben Stack, Sutherland on a winter's late afternoon.
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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
. . . movable, too. Turn the wheel and move hundreds of pounds of books at your whim. Just look around carefully before beginning to turn the wheel, as you might squeeze another visitor in the shrinking space! That would not be fun!
Star Trails at dawn over the Halema'uma'u Crater of the Kilauea Caldera at Volcanoes National Park.
Orange glow is light from the lava illuminating the vented gases. The crater is 2/3 mile away in this photo.
16Feb2015
Canon 5DMkIII DSLR
Canon EF 16-35 f/2.8L II USM lens
35mm, f/2.8, 2500ISO
43 exp x 11.9 seconds ea
Stacked w/ Starstax
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
06_20180617_0003
On the big side of long-horns is Melissodes comptoides...as you move south and to the prairies...you get tricked up with M. communis and all its color variations. Fortunately, there are ways to tell them apart. Often common and found in many open habitats...particularly if you plant some composites for them...which of course ... you are. Photo by Brooke Goggins.
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Canon Mark II 5D, Zerene Stacker, Stackshot Sled, 65mm Canon MP-E 1-5X macro lens, Twin Macro Flash in Styrofoam Cooler, F5.0, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 200
We Are Made One with What We Touch and See
We are resolved into the supreme air,
We are made one with what we touch and see,
With our heart's blood each crimson sun is fair,
With our young lives each spring impassioned tree
Flames into green, the wildest beasts that range
The moor our kinsmen are, all life is one, and all is change.
- Oscar Wilde
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Want some Useful Links to the Techniques We Use? Well now here you go Citizen:
Best over all technical resource for photo stacking:
Free Field Guide to Bee Genera of Maryland:
bio2.elmira.edu/fieldbio/beesofmarylandbookversion1.pdf
Basic USGSBIML set up:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-_yvIsucOY
USGSBIML Photoshopping Technique: Note that we now have added using the burn tool at 50% opacity set to shadows to clean up the halos that bleed into the black background from "hot" color sections of the picture.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdmx_8zqvN4
Bees of Maryland Organized by Taxa with information on each Genus
www.flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml/collections
PDF of Basic USGSBIML Photography Set Up:
ftp://ftpext.usgs.gov/pub/er/md/laurel/Droege/How%20to%20Take%20MacroPhotographs%20of%20Insects%20BIML%20Lab2.pdf
Google Hangout Demonstration of Techniques:
plus.google.com/events/c5569losvskrv2nu606ltof8odo
or
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c15neFttoU
Excellent Technical Form on Stacking:
Contact information:
Sam Droege
sdroege@usgs.gov
301 497 5840
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
1171/10/30
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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LVRM 130 enters River Yard in Bethlehem, PA with their intermodal set-out for NS in tow as the forlorn stacks of Bethlehem Steel stand in the background. September 15, 2018.
The stone piles popular in many traditions of Buddhism, it is said that first stupas were simply stacked stones. There are some legends of "saints" hiding teachings and sutra translations in mountain altars to be discovered hundreds of years later, which were just stones stacked up beside paths. For some these also accompany the offerings to the to the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas implying that the strength of the offering is in the intention, not the ornateness of the altar on which we place it.
Due to the work and personal commitments it has been a long time that I logged into Flickr and I think this will continue on for a while and I will stay away for some more time. This is my offering to all my Flickr friends. Please accept my apologies for not visiting your stream or not responding to your comments. Unfortunately my absence will continue for some more time, please bear with me for a while. Have a great time and a wonderful time.
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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
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