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Exposure: f5.6 @ 240 seconds
Location: Black Point
Date: December 2, 2006
Temperature: hovering in the mid 20's - low 30's
Night Shoot Duration: A hair under 5 hours (8:20pm - 1:15am)
Notes: Nikon F100, Sigma 15mm f2.8 on Fuji 160C
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We ventured out this evening to Black Point in Narragansett RI. The group this time out was threshold, Skazama, Rizzolo, Rltm401 and Adrian. We returned to the place that was so beautiful over the summer to see it's beauty in the cold of the coming winter season. I want to get back here in the dead of winter, ice!
The Nikon F100 had to be happy to be back since the last visit here resulted in some damage. Always learn from your mistakes, that's the only way to be sure of yourself.
Most of these shots were taken at f5.6 for 480 seconds on Fuji 160C. My typical two minute exposures at this aperture was thrown into a little mathematic rethinking at minus two days until the full moon.
This was the first time that my MB-15 battery was exhausted, I suppose 5 hours is what it'll give me on a coolish night. Luckily I had my backup AA tray with me.
You can see a group pool here of all our shots on Flickr from the night or a slick slideshow here. It may take a week or so for all the shots to be posted.
Fluff is a humble pattern, content to stay in the background and help other, more flashy patterns look good. I think it is very useful to draw around and behind thin curving lines, such as Quib (as shown) or Mak-Rah-Me or Mooka. (I used it behind Mooka in this tile: www.flickr.com/photos/101210107@N03/11834566833/ ). When done, it somewhat resembles Stiritup or Amaze but it is easier to draw IMO and because it grows one small section at a time it is easy to control. It also creates a nice edge.
I called it "Fluff" not just because it Looks fluffy but it is also like "fluff" in journalism - a light, easy filler. I normally try to find names for my patterns that aren't too evocative of what they they look like but I couldn't resist this little word play!
This pattern is so simple, I also think there is a good chance it's already out there somewhere - so if I have come too close to someone else's idea, let me know.
I've been seeing hawks lately. They must be moving north already. I
spotted this Cooper's hawk through the kitchen window in a paloverde tree.
It remained there for quite a while. For some reason it fluffed out its
feathers at one point and I got the slightly comical shot.
A lovely little greylag goose gosling, albeit looking a bit grumpy, I think you can still see the egg tooth on the end of the beak. Last time I saw them they'd lost four of them, fingers crossed for the other two.
My pet lab pup got infected with Parvovirus recently and I'm wishing for his speedy recovery soon. My family lost a few pet dogs through the years and I hope this time around this little fellow will survive.
Sony Alpha a7Rlll ı Canon EF70-200mm f/2.8L USM II ı Metabones IV ı 125mm ı f/.8 ı 1/125s ı ISO 100
Cute creature at Greendale farm shop. Probably a llama.
Taken with an old 1970s Soviet Jupiter-8 lens.
Fairly heavily edited in onOne's Perfect Effects. I started by adding the sepia effect and a bit of a curves adjustment in Aperture, but everything was left looking a bit flat, and Aperture's Detail slider wasn't doing enough to help. I pushed the image into Perfect Effects, and added a tone adjustment, to make the fluff look all fluffy. The only problem was that with the local contrast and detail pushed up nice and high, the fluff was fluffy, but the background bokeh was looking quite rough and busy. So, I used the mask brush to mask out the effect layer, using the perfect brush setting to get the edges around the fluffy llama wool.
Seems to have worked quite well - lots of detail in the fur, while the background remains nice and soft.