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Foto realizzata in Interni a 41 megapixel per testare la fotocamera del Nokia Lumia 1020.
ARTICOLO DEL TEST A QUESTO LINK: marcocrupifoto.blogspot.it/2013/11/nokia-lumia-1020-e-i-4...
Nikon D3X Dr. Elliot McGucken Fine Art Photography for Los Angeles Gallery Show!
Yet more photos and more final edits! I was up at 4:30 AM the past four days shooting sunrises! Awesome sunrises over Point Dume thie time of year in Malibu.
Then I spent all day today moving over 75 large photos into the gallery! Most of these are framed and matted with 13"x19" metallic prints and an 18"x24" mat and a 3" wood-grain black frame! They look awesome! Stop on by Bel Air Camera's Gallery downstairs if you are close to UCLA or in Westwood. Give me a head's up, and I will meet you there if I'm free.
I thought I was done a couple days ago for December's LA Gallery show, but art is never done until it's done, and even then. . . Will be busy printing and framing in nice large, matted formats and frames and museum glass! Five of these photos will be printed on 40" x 60" floating wall mounted metal sheets! I think I know which--will share photos of the photos hanging on the walls!
And I am mounting some on plexiglass/acryllic--front mounting them! Some I am printing on lossy fuji-crystal archival paper too, and then front mounting 40"x60" versions to plexiglass--will send photos!
The secret to HDR photography is that you want people to say, "Woe dude--that's unreal!" And not, "Dude--that's not real!" "Unreal" is the word they use when they're trying to figure out the photo--what makes it cool--is it a photo? Is it painted? How'd it come to be--how'd you bend the light that way? "That's not real," is what they say if you have the saturation/HDR/ etc. turned up too high. :)
Some (almost) final edits for December's Los Angeles Gallery Show! Printing them on metallic paper at 13" x 19" and mounting and framing them on a 4mm 18x24 white mat and 2" dark wood frame. Also printing some 40" x 70" whihc is over three feet by five feet! Wish you all could come (and hang out with the goddesses)!
Let me know your favs.!
Nikon D800E / D800 HDR Malibu Landscapes / Seascapes for Gallery Show!
Yay! I booked a major photography show at a major LA gallery in December! Will also be giving some lectures on the story--the Hero's Journey Mythology--behind the photography!
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Preparing for some gallery shows this fall to celebrate 100,000,000 views! Printing a few dozen photographs in ~ 30"x40" formats and mounting/framing. Here are some close-to-final edits. HDR photography 7 exposures shot at 1EV and combined in photomatix: 36 megapixel Nikon D800E with the awesome Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens. 45SURF Hero's Journey Mythology Photography!
Epic Scenic HDR Landscapes / Seascapes of the Malibu Canyons & Beaches Shot with Nikon D800: Hero's Journey Mythology Photography!
Shot with the Nikon Nikkor wide-angle 14-24 mm 2.8 lens!
Seven exposures @ 1EV finished in photomatix.
Enjoy the Hero's Journey Mythology Photography, and all the best on a hero's journey of your own making!
These were shot with Nikon's best D800 with the 14-24mm wide-angle Nikkor lens. 7 exposures were taken at 1 EV intervals, and combined in photomatix to bring out the shadows and highlights.
Rather large HDR (high dynamic range) photo--you can see great detail both near and far! View the detail at full size!
The Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens rocks!
High Dynamic Range (HDR) photos rock in capturing the full dynamic range of the scene!
Stop on by the Bel Air Camera Gallery and Enjoy Dr. Elliot McGucken's epic fine art photography in person!
Well, I went back through over 100 photos tonight and re-edited them! I thought I was done a couple days ago for December's LA Gallery show, but art is never done until it's done, and even then. . . Will be busy printing and framing in nice large, matted formats and frames and museum glass! Five of these photos will be printed on 40" x 60" floating wall mounted metal sheets! I think I know which--will share photos of the photos hanging on the walls!
The secret to HDR photography is that you want people to say, "Woe dude--that's unreal!" And not, "Dude--that's not real!" "Unreal" is the word they use when they're trying to figure out the photo--what makes it cool--is it a photo? Is it painted? How'd it come to be--how'd you bend the light that way? "That's not real," is what they say if you have the saturation/HDR/ etc. turned up too high. :)
Some (almost) final edits for December's Los Angeles Gallery Show! Printing them on metallic paper at 13" x 19" and mounting and framing them on a 4mm 18x24 white mat and 2" dark wood frame. Also printing some 40" x 70" whihc is over three feet by five feet! Wish you all could come (and hang out with the goddesses)!
Let me know your favs.!
Nikon D800E / D800 HDR Malibu Landscapes / Seascapes for Gallery Show!
Yay! I booked a major photography show at a major LA gallery in December! Will also be giving some lectures on the story--the Hero's Journey Mythology--behind the photography!
Join/like my facebook!
www.facebook.com/45surfHerosJourneyMythology
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Preparing for some gallery shows this fall to celebrate 100,000,000 views! Printing a few dozen photographs in ~ 30"x40" formats and mounting/framing. Here are some close-to-final edits. HDR photography 7 exposures shot at 1EV and combined in photomatix: 36 megapixel Nikon D800E with the awesome Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens. 45SURF Hero's Journey Mythology Photography!
Epic Scenic HDR Landscapes / Seascapes of the Malibu Canyons & Beaches Shot with Nikon D800: Hero's Journey Mythology Photography!
Shot with the Nikon Nikkor wide-angle 14-24 mm 2.8 lens!
Seven exposures @ 1EV finished in photomatix.
Enjoy the Hero's Journey Mythology Photography, and all the best on a hero's journey of your own making!
These were shot with Nikon's best D800 with the 14-24mm wide-angle Nikkor lens. 7 exposures were taken at 1 EV intervals, and combined in photomatix to bring out the shadows and highlights.
Rather large HDR (high dynamic range) photo--you can see great detail both near and far! View the detail at full size!
The Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens rocks!
High Dynamic Range (HDR) photos rock in capturing the full dynamic range of the scene!
Vanice Beach sunset through the V! Well, I went back through over 100 photos tonight and re-edited them! I thought I was done a couple days ago for December's LA Gallery show, but art is never done until it's done, and even then. . . Will be busy printing and framing in nice large, matted formats and frames and museum glass! Five of these photos will be printed on 40" x 60" floating wall mounted metal sheets! I think I know which--will share photos of the photos hanging on the walls!
The secret to HDR photography is that you want people to say, "Woe dude--that's unreal!" And not, "Dude--that's not real!" "Unreal" is the word they use when they're trying to figure out the photo--what makes it cool--is it a photo? Is it painted? How'd it come to be--how'd you bend the light that way? "That's not real," is what they say if you have the saturation/HDR/ etc. turned up too high. :)
Some (almost) final edits for December's Los Angeles Gallery Show! Printing them on metallic paper at 13" x 19" and mounting and framing them on a 4mm 18x24 white mat and 2" dark wood frame. Also printing some 40" x 70" whihc is over three feet by five feet! Wish you all could come (and hang out with the goddesses)!
Let me know your favs.!
Nikon D800E / D800 HDR Malibu Landscapes / Seascapes for Gallery Show!
Yay! I booked a major photography show at a major LA gallery in December! Will also be giving some lectures on the story--the Hero's Journey Mythology--behind the photography!
Join/like my facebook!
www.facebook.com/45surfHerosJourneyMythology
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Preparing for some gallery shows this fall to celebrate 100,000,000 views! Printing a few dozen photographs in ~ 30"x40" formats and mounting/framing. Here are some close-to-final edits. HDR photography 7 exposures shot at 1EV and combined in photomatix: 36 megapixel Nikon D800E with the awesome Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens. 45SURF Hero's Journey Mythology Photography!
Epic Scenic HDR Landscapes / Seascapes of the Malibu Canyons & Beaches Shot with Nikon D800: Hero's Journey Mythology Photography!
Shot with the Nikon Nikkor wide-angle 14-24 mm 2.8 lens!
Seven exposures @ 1EV finished in photomatix.
Enjoy the Hero's Journey Mythology Photography, and all the best on a hero's journey of your own making!
These were shot with Nikon's best D800 with the 14-24mm wide-angle Nikkor lens. 7 exposures were taken at 1 EV intervals, and combined in photomatix to bring out the shadows and highlights.
Rather large HDR (high dynamic range) photo--you can see great detail both near and far! View the detail at full size!
The Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens rocks!
High Dynamic Range (HDR) photos rock in capturing the full dynamic range of the scene!
Spring Time in the Malibu Canyons! Nikon D800E Dr. Elliot McGucken Fine Art Photography for Los Angeles Gallery Show!
Yet more photos and more final edits! I was up at 4:30 AM the past four days shooting sunrises! Awesome sunrises over Point Dume thie time of year in Malibu.
Then I spent all day today moving over 75 large photos into the gallery! Most of these are framed and matted with 13"x19" metallic prints and an 18"x24" mat and a 3" wood-grain black frame! They look awesome! Stop on by Bel Air Camera's Gallery downstairs if you are close to UCLA or in Westwood. Give me a head's up, and I will meet you there if I'm free.
I thought I was done a couple days ago for December's LA Gallery show, but art is never done until it's done, and even then. . . Will be busy printing and framing in nice large, matted formats and frames and museum glass! Five of these photos will be printed on 40" x 60" floating wall mounted metal sheets! I think I know which--will share photos of the photos hanging on the walls!
And I am mounting some on plexiglass/acryllic--front mounting them! Some I am printing on lossy fuji-crystal archival paper too, and then front mounting 40"x60" versions to plexiglass--will send photos!
The secret to HDR photography is that you want people to say, "Woe dude--that's unreal!" And not, "Dude--that's not real!" "Unreal" is the word they use when they're trying to figure out the photo--what makes it cool--is it a photo? Is it painted? How'd it come to be--how'd you bend the light that way? "That's not real," is what they say if you have the saturation/HDR/ etc. turned up too high. :)
Some (almost) final edits for December's Los Angeles Gallery Show! Printing them on metallic paper at 13" x 19" and mounting and framing them on a 4mm 18x24 white mat and 2" dark wood frame. Also printing some 40" x 70" whihc is over three feet by five feet! Wish you all could come (and hang out with the goddesses)!
Let me know your favs.!
Nikon D800E / D800 HDR Malibu Landscapes / Seascapes for Gallery Show!
Yay! I booked a major photography show at a major LA gallery in December! Will also be giving some lectures on the story--the Hero's Journey Mythology--behind the photography!
Join/like my facebook!
www.facebook.com/45surfHerosJourneyMythology
Follow me on facebook!
www.facebook.com/elliot.mcgucken
Preparing for some gallery shows this fall to celebrate 100,000,000 views! Printing a few dozen photographs in ~ 30"x40" formats and mounting/framing. Here are some close-to-final edits. HDR photography 7 exposures shot at 1EV and combined in photomatix: 36 megapixel Nikon D800E with the awesome Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens. 45SURF Hero's Journey Mythology Photography!
Epic Scenic HDR Landscapes / Seascapes of the Malibu Canyons & Beaches Shot with Nikon D800: Hero's Journey Mythology Photography!
Shot with the Nikon Nikkor wide-angle 14-24 mm 2.8 lens!
Seven exposures @ 1EV finished in photomatix.
Enjoy the Hero's Journey Mythology Photography, and all the best on a hero's journey of your own making!
These were shot with Nikon's best D800 with the 14-24mm wide-angle Nikkor lens. 7 exposures were taken at 1 EV intervals, and combined in photomatix to bring out the shadows and highlights.
Rather large HDR (high dynamic range) photo--you can see great detail both near and far! View the detail at full size!
The Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens rocks!
High Dynamic Range (HDR) photos rock in capturing the full dynamic range of the scene!
Stop on by the Bel Air Camera Gallery and Enjoy Dr. Elliot McGucken's epic fine art photography in person!
Nikon D800E Dr. Elliot McGucken Fine Art Photography for Los Angeles Gallery Show!
Yet more photos and more final edits! I was up at 4:30 AM the past four days shooting sunrises! Awesome sunrises over Point Dume thie time of year in Malibu.
Then I spent all day today moving over 75 large photos into the gallery! Most of these are framed and matted with 13"x19" metallic prints and an 18"x24" mat and a 3" wood-grain black frame! They look awesome! Stop on by Bel Air Camera's Gallery downstairs if you are close to UCLA or in Westwood. Give me a head's up, and I will meet you there if I'm free.
I thought I was done a couple days ago for December's LA Gallery show, but art is never done until it's done, and even then. . . Will be busy printing and framing in nice large, matted formats and frames and museum glass! Five of these photos will be printed on 40" x 60" floating wall mounted metal sheets! I think I know which--will share photos of the photos hanging on the walls!
And I am mounting some on plexiglass/acryllic--front mounting them! Some I am printing on lossy fuji-crystal archival paper too, and then front mounting 40"x60" versions to plexiglass--will send photos!
The secret to HDR photography is that you want people to say, "Woe dude--that's unreal!" And not, "Dude--that's not real!" "Unreal" is the word they use when they're trying to figure out the photo--what makes it cool--is it a photo? Is it painted? How'd it come to be--how'd you bend the light that way? "That's not real," is what they say if you have the saturation/HDR/ etc. turned up too high. :)
Some (almost) final edits for December's Los Angeles Gallery Show! Printing them on metallic paper at 13" x 19" and mounting and framing them on a 4mm 18x24 white mat and 2" dark wood frame. Also printing some 40" x 70" whihc is over three feet by five feet! Wish you all could come (and hang out with the goddesses)!
Let me know your favs.!
Nikon D800E / D800 HDR Malibu Landscapes / Seascapes for Gallery Show!
Yay! I booked a major photography show at a major LA gallery in December! Will also be giving some lectures on the story--the Hero's Journey Mythology--behind the photography!
Join/like my facebook!
www.facebook.com/45surfHerosJourneyMythology
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Preparing for some gallery shows this fall to celebrate 100,000,000 views! Printing a few dozen photographs in ~ 30"x40" formats and mounting/framing. Here are some close-to-final edits. HDR photography 7 exposures shot at 1EV and combined in photomatix: 36 megapixel Nikon D800E with the awesome Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens. 45SURF Hero's Journey Mythology Photography!
Epic Scenic HDR Landscapes / Seascapes of the Malibu Canyons & Beaches Shot with Nikon D800: Hero's Journey Mythology Photography!
Shot with the Nikon Nikkor wide-angle 14-24 mm 2.8 lens!
Seven exposures @ 1EV finished in photomatix.
Enjoy the Hero's Journey Mythology Photography, and all the best on a hero's journey of your own making!
These were shot with Nikon's best D800 with the 14-24mm wide-angle Nikkor lens. 7 exposures were taken at 1 EV intervals, and combined in photomatix to bring out the shadows and highlights.
Rather large HDR (high dynamic range) photo--you can see great detail both near and far! View the detail at full size!
The Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens rocks!
High Dynamic Range (HDR) photos rock in capturing the full dynamic range of the scene!
Stop on by the Bel Air Camera Gallery and Enjoy Dr. Elliot McGucken's epic fine art photography in person!
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With an ample battery, processor and 20.7 megapixel camera, as found on the Xperia Z1, it’s hard not to be impressed by #Z1Compact.
blog.pre-pay-as-you-go.co.uk/2014/01/31/sony-xperia-z1-co...
The Highest Resolution Image of our Planet
It's been taken by Russia's latest weather satellite, the Electro-L. Elektro-L is now orbiting Earth on a geostationary orbit 36,000 kilometers above the equator. The satellite took the photos at a massive 121 megapixels. Electro-L’s images were made combining three visible light wavelengths and one infrared, according to Gizmodo. I just love to have this opportunity to showcase this picture in my blog.
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Preparing for some gallery shows this fall to celebrate 100,000,000 views! Printing a few dozen photographs in ~ 30"x40" formats and mounting/framing. Here are some close-to-final edits. HDR photography 7 exposures shot at 1EV and combined in photomatix: 36 megapixel Nikon D800E with the awesome Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens. 45SURF Hero's Journey Mythology Photography!
Nikon D800 & D800E HDR Socal/Malibu Landscape / Seascape Photography 14-24mm f/2.8 G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens
Epic Scenic HDR Landscapes / Seascapes of the Malibu Canyons & Beaches Shot with Nikon D800: Hero's Journey Mythology Photography!
Shot with the Nikon Nikkor wide-angle 14-24 mm 2.8 lens!
Seven exposures @ 1EV finished in photomatix.
Enjoy the Hero's Journey Mythology Photography, and all the best on a hero's journey of your own making!
These were shot with Nikon's best D800 with the 14-24mm wide-angle Nikkor lens. 7 exposures were taken at 1 EV intervals, and combined in photomatix to bring out the shadows and highlights.
rather large HDR (high dynamic range) photo--you can see great detail both near and far! View the detail at full size!
The Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens rocks!
An epic red, orange, and yellow sunset and clouds over El Matador Beach!
High Dynamic Range (HDR) photos rock in capturing the full dynamic range of the scene!
ABCs and 123s on June 10, 2021 -- Many Railroad Crossing warning signs are shaped like an X
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A couple of miles north of me today, the archaic practice of field burning goes on. There are pros and cons to field burning, and I don't want to get into a debate about it. I just wanted to record the power of the smoke. Also, I wanted a bit different take for the Power Lines Group.
If you are tempted to criticize the size, resolution or general quality of this image, please don't. I took it with a Sony Mavica Digital (sub-megapixel) camera, which was State of the Art in 1999 when I got the camera. Digital Cameras have come a long way since then, but I still had a great deal of enjoyment with mine.
I don't live out in the country any longer, along side of Highway 99, but I did when I took this picture.
This picture is the first in a set here:
www.flickr.com/photos/119759627@N06/sets/72157642579675275/
...that is a pictorial reply to a question by flikr user miloniro about how I digitzed this photo:
www.flickr.com/photos/119759627@N06/13218284835/
It shows how I got a very clean hi-res result by digitizing my slides at home using an old enlarger machine lens on my camera.
This technique was inspired by this excellent article by Gianluca Bevacqua:
petapixel.com/2012/12/23/why-you-should-digitize-your-fil...
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In this photo, you can see the basic requirements:
1. A very sharp color reversal slide. To try and get a sharp slide, I was careful to use:
a) Medium format - I'm using 6x9 format
b) Fine-grained film - I'm using Velvia
c) Sharp lens - I'm using a Fuji GSW690III
d) Sharp apeture - f/16 is good on this lens
e) Solid tripod - Manfrotto 290 series
f) Cable release
G) Top-notch processing lab - Vision Image Lab, Redfern, Sydney.
2. Tripod with removable stem that can turn upside-down as pictured. Props to these guys for enlightening me to the rather obvious:
forum.xitek.com/thread-620804-1-1-1.html
3. 4-way macro focusing rail - vertical is for focusing, horizontal is to move side-to-side to get the next frame. That way I can push the lightbox forward and backwards (up/down in slide orientation) only when I have the edge of the frame in view, so I don't get lost.
4. Fuji X-E1 camera - I chose it specifically for this because the X-Trans sensor doesn't have an anti-aliasing filter, so it's sharper than most. I guess a D800e or A7r would do nicely as well :)
5. Some macro extender rings
6. Schneider Componon 50mm enlarger lens
7. A piece of heavy cardboard with a hole 2mm longer and wider than my slide, to hold it flat and to mask the rest of the lightbox to prevent lens flare
8. Lightbox - Kaiser LED Slimline
9. A heavy screwdriver set to act as a moving platform for the lightbox... the lightbox is really light and easy to knock out of position but the screwdriver set is heavy and slides smoothly on the carpet, making it easy to make small vertical moves when I get to the edge of the slide after each pass.
10. USB cable release (I also set the camera to 10 second self timer - it takes quite a while for vibration to subside after moving the camera side to side - I would love to have a rig where I could wind the lightbox around instead... I reckon this guy is on the right track: www.photomacrography.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15921)
11. LARGE "ROCKET" DUST BLOWER - the most critical piece of equipment - seriously!!
12. Ruler I can photograph to see what field of view my enlarger rings are giving me (I have a set of three: 7mm, 14mm, and 28mm, and can combine them in different combinations)
13. 2-way spirit level to check that I have the camera straight
14. a couple of thin pieces of black card to mask any bright out-of-shot parts of the slide that are causing lens flare
15. An extra quick-release plate and mount (hidden under camera in this photo)
16. Fuji X-mount to Leica M39 adapter ring (enlarger lens has M39 thread)
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TECHNIQUE:
A) Unlatch and splay tripod legs, pop end cap of tripod stem, remove stem, invert, replace stem, replace cap.
B) Join some enlarger rings together (for 29mm FOV I found 14mm + 28mm worked), fit the M39 adapter to them, and screw enlarger lens into M39 adapter. I use the blower to remove any dust off top of lens and out from inside of ring/lens assembly.
C) I attach the rings/lens unit to my X-E1 camera. I then set the lens apeture to 5.6, which I have found to be the sharpest for this particular lens(?)
D) I fit the tripod mounting plate to underside of focusing rails. I fix a spare quick release bracket to the top of focusing rails (this is a right pain in the neck, which is why I use a quick release plate instead of fitting the camera directly). I then fit the spare quick release plate to camera.
E) I adjust the tripod head into the position shown, so that I will have pitch and yaw control - there is another way it will go, which doesn't work... Fit focusing rail assembly to tripod head. Fit camera to focusing rails. Adjust vertical rail so it's in the middle of it's range, and the horizontal rail so it's at the end of it's range.
F) I put a kleenex on the camera LCD to protect it, then put the spirit level flat on the LCD screen and adjust the tripod head until it shows the camera is level. With all the torque on the tripod head at this point, some swearing is usually involved...
G) I attach the USB release cable. I set the camera to manual focus and turn it on. I put the lightbox under the camera and turn it on too, and take a "custom white balance" setting from it so the colors will turn out ok. I set the camera to 10 second self timer, disable auto power off, disable the EVF eye sensor, set quality to Fine+Raw 3:2, set film emulation to standard, enable "shoot without lens", and set shutter speed to auto. I have started playing around with the noise reduction setting too lately - I am still trying to work out what the best setting for that is. I haven't played with sharpness, shadow etc. yet.
H) Now it's time to get out the slides: I first move the lightbox platform into place, then blast it with the dust blower, wipe it with a lens cloth, then blow it again (yes, really - at 130 megapixels, dust is a nightmare). Then I carefully remove a set of slides from it's sleeve and carefully blow the dust from both sides (yes, it's there...).
Then I place slides centrally on the lightbox, I place the slide right way up (matte side down to fight newton rings), and aligned with the camera so I don't need to rotate images later.
Then I pick up the cardboard mask and blow dust off both sides of it, then carefully place it to mask around the slide I want to digitize.
I) Focus time: This enlarger lens has this cool lever on the side that pops the apeture wide open when you turn it one way, and closes it back to your pre-set apeture when you turn it back. The idea is to pop the apeture wide open when focusing so that the shallow depth of field will highlight your mistakes, then to close it back before shooting so that it hides your mistakes. So I pop the apeture wide open, then I turn the lightbox back on, and move it so that a detailed part of the slide is under the lens. Then I adjust the tripod stem up and down very slowly (without driving the lens lever through my slide) until I see the live-view image on the LCD come into focus, and lock off the tripod stem in that position.
J) Focus part deux: Then I press the dial on the back of the camera to get focus assist (the image is enlarged), and unlock the vertical focus rail (while holding it with my other hand so it doesn't drop the camera through the lightbox), and use the dial to move the camera up and down by fractions of a mm until the focus peaking is looking pretty good. Then I lock the rail again, and make even smaller adjustments against the resistance of the lock (by using lots of force) until I am happy with it. Then I cancel focus assist.
K) Exposure: I pick a mid range part of the slide and move it under the lens, and see what shutter speed the camera thinks it needs. I then manually lock shutter speed to the closest approximation the shutter speed dial provides, so that exposure won't vary across the different frames I take.
L) Scanning: I move the lightbox platform until one corner of the slide is neatly and squarely lined up in the corner of the LCD image. I turn down the room lights to prevent reflections, use the black card strips to mask any out-of-view areas of the slide that are causing lens flare, and (while holding down card strips) gently blow of all the dust that has settled on the slide while I was focusing (yes, it's there...) Then I use the cable release to take the first frame (finally!!)
M) Scanning II: I check that the horizontal focus rail is unlocked. Then I pick a feature that is in the middle of the LCD view, and move the dial on the focus rail until that feature is shown touching the edge of the LCD frame. Then I blow dust off again, then take another shot. Usually the vibration from twisting the focus rail dial is so bad that I have to let it calm down before taking my shot, even with the 10 second timer. I use the time for dusting :)
N) Scanning III: I repeat the step above till I hit the far edge. Once I have taken the last shot of that row, I carefully move the slide vertically to get ready for the next row - again I pick a feature in the middle of the LCD image and move the lightbox until that feature hits the top.
Every time I have tried to cheat by using less than a full 50% overlap between frames, I have gotten horrible tearing in the final stitched image and had to throw out the whole project and start over - but YMMV...
I always include some of the masked border in the frame so that I have a point of reference when moving the lightbox - it helps me keep everything square. Once the lightbox is in position for the next row, I take the frame and then go back to moving sideways with the focus rail till I hit the far edge - and so on and so on and so on and... it takes about 20 minutes to get around 30 frames, what with waiting for the image in the LCD to stop shaking and with dusting and so on.
O) I found if I forget to dust each frame I will regret it.... Likewise if I overdo it and blow the cardboard and slide onto the dusty carpet :-/
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STITCHING THE FINAL IMAGE
I combine all the individual frames into a single image using a panorama stitching program. I use an open source (i.e. high-quality, zero cost) software package called "Hugin", which you can get for Windows, Mac, or Linux here:
hugin.sourceforge.net/download/
I also had to do some things to make sure my graphics card drivers were working (I use linux - it's worth it...) but that is another story altogether - suffice to say that Hugin crashing is probably graphics card driver problems - but that is not Hugin's fault.
Panorama programs expect that all your pictures were taken at the same spot, but the camera has pivoted (pitch, yaw and roll) between frames. In my case, it's exactly the opposite - I have no pitch or yaw, but I move x and y location with every shot. I also have a bit of roll, but I don't have any z location (depth) movement which is another parameter that panorama programs try and force on you.
So basically, whether I am using Hugin or some other stitcher, I now need to tell the program that x, y, and roll adjustments are ok, and that pitch, yaw, and z adjustments are not. And I need to tell it that I had a "rectilinear" lens that was very very long (so it doesn't correct for barrel distortion), and that I want my final image produced by a "rectilinear projection". I also want it to calculate "control points" automatically - I have been getting over 2,000 of them for most projects, I don't want to do that by hand!!
In case it helps anyone, the workflow I use for Hugin is as follows:
1. Switch UI mode to "expert"
2. Click the "Fast panorama preview" button to open a preview window. I put this on my other monitor (I find having a 2nd monitor is indispensable, and they are so cheap these days!!). I don't worry about what I see in this window until right at the end, it goes a bit nuts as I change some of the settings below.
3. Click "load images", and select all the JPG files I put into a single folder (one day soon I am going to get around to exporting the RAW files to 16bit TIFF first and using those instead, I swear...)
4. Tell Hugin that I used a ridiculously (actually, effectively infinitely) flat lens; I set the focal length to 1000 and the multiplier to 1.
5. Tell Hugin that every picture was taken with a different camera, so it doesn't try any stupid interpolation tricks and stuff everything up; this means right-clicking every line in the image listing (except the first one) and then selecting lens->new lens
6. At the bottom of the screen are two drop-down lists for "optimize". I click the "Geometric" one and choose "custom parameters" so that I can specify no yaw, pitch, or z. This displays a new "Optimizer" tab at the top of the page.
7. I go to the Optimizer tab. This tab shows yaw, pitch, roll, x, y and z for each image. All values are initially zero - but the bold ones with lines under them are ones that are "active" - Hugin is free to change them.
The fields can be toggled from active to inactive by holding down the Control key and left-clicking the field. The top row (first image) I set all fields to inactive. For all other images (rows) I de-activate yaw and pitch, and activate x and y, and leave z as inactive. This involves hundreds of clicks and is a real pain.
8. I go back to the "Photos" tab, and I click the "create control points" button. After a while it comes back and tells me I have hundreds or thousands of them. It also updates the list of images to show how many control points each image has - if any are zero, I am in trouble. That only happened to me once fortunately, because I don't know how to fix it!
9. Next to the "Optimise - Geometric" drop-down list, there is a "Calculate" button. I click this next, and eventually Hugin comes back with some numbers and asks if I accept them. I click yes, and at this point the preview window on my other monitor shows a lot of text that tells me the panorama has a "Very Good Fit".
10. I go to the "Stitcher" tab, and change the "Projection" drop-down list to "Rectilinear".
11. I double-check that "Projection" is now showing as "Rectilinear". If it's anything else, then the stitching results will be spectacular. Confusing, ugly, and undesirable yes, but quite spectacularly so!!
12. I click "calculate field of view". After some time, the numbers change to single digits and I can actually see a panorama in the preview window instead of just a dot or tiny thumbnail.
13. I click "Calculate optimal size". After some time, the numbers change to somewhere between 1 and 3 times the values I was expecting, and the preview contains extra black space accordingly.
14. I click "Fit crop to images". After a VERY long time, a white crop border is drawn in the preview window right where it should be to produce a nice panorama.
15. I make sure only the first "Panorama outputs" checkbox is checked (Exposure corrected, low dynamic range), and that TIFF and LZW are set for format and compression respectively.
16. I click the "Stitch!" button. Hugin opens two new windows, one for the background job monitor (the stitching runs as a separate background job) and another that shows console-like output of all the individual stitching commands that are being run. Stitching commences.
17. I realize I have 20 other programs open and will probably run out of memory, and franticly close all the un-needed ones, including my internet browser because all those tabs are a real memory hog! Then I go make a cup of tea.
18. After 10-20min (depending - my machine is an Intel i7 3rd gen quad core with 16mb ram and a solid-state drive... and I make sure that all files are on the SSD not the HDD, it makes a huge difference...) the rendering should complete. Then I open the resulting TIFF file in my photo-editing program (again I am using open source - Gimp, it's a solid photoshop alternative if you aren't doing CMYK) so that I can correct any tiny bit of rotation (usually 0.2 degrees or so) and crop off the black borders, plus do any color corrections.
19. Then I export it as a JPG at max quality and 4/4/4 chroma, and in the rare case that I think it could stand public scrutiny, I upload to Flikr, and I am done!
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Preparing for some gallery shows this fall to celebrate 100,000,000 views! Printing a few dozen photographs in ~ 30"x40" formats and mounting/framing. Here are some close-to-final edits. HDR photography 7 exposures shot at 1EV and combined in photomatix: 36 megapixel Nikon D800E with the awesome Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens. 45SURF Hero's Journey Mythology Photography!
Nikon D800 & D800E HDR Socal/Malibu Landscape / Seascape Photography 14-24mm f/2.8 G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens
Epic Scenic HDR Landscapes / Seascapes of the Malibu Canyons & Beaches Shot with Nikon D800: Hero's Journey Mythology Photography!
Shot with the Nikon Nikkor wide-angle 14-24 mm 2.8 lens!
Seven exposures @ 1EV finished in photomatix.
Enjoy the Hero's Journey Mythology Photography, and all the best on a hero's journey of your own making!
These were shot with Nikon's best D800 with the 14-24mm wide-angle Nikkor lens. 7 exposures were taken at 1 EV intervals, and combined in photomatix to bring out the shadows and highlights.
rather large HDR (high dynamic range) photo--you can see great detail both near and far! View the detail at full size!
The Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens rocks!
An epic red, orange, and yellow sunset and clouds over El Matador Beach!
High Dynamic Range (HDR) photos rock in capturing the full dynamic range of the scene!
Yay! I booked a major photography show at a major LA gallery in December! Will also be giving some lectures on the story--the Hero's Journey Mythology--behind the photography!
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Preparing for some gallery shows this fall to celebrate 100,000,000 views! Printing a few dozen photographs in ~ 30"x40" formats and mounting/framing. Here are some close-to-final edits. HDR photography 7 exposures shot at 1EV and combined in photomatix: 36 megapixel Nikon D800E with the awesome Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens. 45SURF Hero's Journey Mythology Photography!
Epic Scenic HDR Landscapes / Seascapes of the Malibu Canyons & Beaches Shot with Nikon D800: Hero's Journey Mythology Photography!
Shot with the Nikon Nikkor wide-angle 14-24 mm 2.8 lens!
Seven exposures @ 1EV finished in photomatix.
Enjoy the Hero's Journey Mythology Photography, and all the best on a hero's journey of your own making!
These were shot with Nikon's best D800 with the 14-24mm wide-angle Nikkor lens. 7 exposures were taken at 1 EV intervals, and combined in photomatix to bring out the shadows and highlights.
Rather large HDR (high dynamic range) photo--you can see great detail both near and far! View the detail at full size!
The Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens rocks!
High Dynamic Range (HDR) photos rock in capturing the full dynamic range of the scene!
A selection of some of my Minolta Vectis gear .
Minolta APS film Minolta cameras , the RD-3000 digital V-mount camera , the A-V adapter (MC-V1 )
, rare as hens teeth ! and a Vectis 22-80mm lens mounted on a Sony NEX 7 E-mount camera via the "MONSTER Adapter .
Minolta released a total of 8 lenses for their Vectis SLR series in 1996 .
They are:
•Prime lenses •17mm F/3.5 (compares to 21mm in 35 mm format)
•50 F/3.5 Macro (compares to 63mm in 35 mm format)
•400mm F/8 Reflex (compares to 500mm in 35 mm format)
•Zooms •22-80mm F/4-5.6 (compares to 28-100mm in 35 mm format)
•25-150mm F/4.5-6.3 (compares to 31-188mm in 35 mm format)
•28-56mm F/4-5.6 (compares to 35-70mm in 35 mm format)
•56-170mm F/4.5-5.6 (compares to 70-213mm in 35 mm format)
•80-240mm F/4.5-5.6 APO (compares to 100-300mm in 35 mm format)
( 35 mm/ full frame equivalent focal lengths are from the APS-H film they were intended for , not todays APS-C sensors .)
The 17 mm is quite different from all the rest. Originally it came in a set with the RD3000 digital SLR which was built around the same Vectis mount. The 17 mm is an all metal rock solid lens. Quite different from all the other plastic Vectis lenses.
Another peculiar lens is the 400mm F/8. It's a so called mirror lens, which means the aperture is fixed to F/8. Because there where never real fast APS films, the 400 mm could only be used on a tripod with a remote releasebutton. There's no other way to get a sharp picture. Therefore practical usability was very limited.
Nice and compact lenses are the 17mm, the 50mm macro and the zooms 22-80mm and 80-240mm. Packed with an S1 one could have a compact and very portable SLR set .
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Minolta also made the MC-V1 adapter to mount Minolta/Sony A-mount lenses on the Vectis S1 & S100 , plus the later DiMage RD-3000 digital camera .
Now that the " MONSTER Adapter" has arrived these lenses have received a new lease of life on the Sony E-Mount cameras .
They are performing well on 20 and 24 megapixel APS bodies and next year I will be getting the Sony a7ii , so they will be on a full frame 24 megapixel image stabilised sensor .
With the exception of the 400mm Reflex , they all seem to cope very well .
The baffle on the Reflex looks like it will have to be modified , but I am hopeful that full frame coverage will be achieved .
I received my Rhinocam some minutes ago. Made a quick sample shot a my open window. 6x 35,3 Megapixels, stitched together with Photoshop CS6.
Mirror Prerelease, Manual Exposure, ISO-100, OPEN APERTURE!!
Welcome to your epic hero's journey! The beautiful landscapes kissed by magical light hath called ye to adventure, beckoning ye to read deeply Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, whence ye shall learn of yer own exalted artistic path guided by Hero's Journey Mythology. I wouldn't be saying it if it hadn't happened to me.
Nikon D800E Dr. Elliot McGucken Fine Art Photography for Los Angeles Gallery Show! Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens!
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Yet more photos and more final edits! I was up at 4:30 AM the past four days shooting sunrises! Awesome sunrises over Point Dume thie time of year in Malibu.
Then I spent all day today moving over 75 large photos into the gallery! Most of these are framed and matted with 13"x19" metallic prints and an 18"x24" mat and a 3" wood-grain black frame! They look awesome! Stop on by Bel Air Camera's Gallery downstairs if you are close to UCLA or in Westwood. Give me a head's up, and I will meet you there if I'm free.
I thought I was done a couple months ago, but art is never done until it's done, and even then. . . Will be busy printing and framing in nice large, matted formats and frames and museum glass! Five of these photos will be printed on 40" x 60" floating wall mounted metal sheets! I think I know which--will share photos of the photos hanging on the walls!
And I am mounting some on plexiglass/acryllic--front mounting them! Some I am printing on lossy fuji-crystal archival paper too, and then front mounting 40"x60" versions to plexiglass--will send photos!
The secret to HDR photography is that you want people to say, "Woe dude--that's unreal!" And not, "Dude--that's not real!" "Unreal" is the word they use when they're trying to figure out the photo--what makes it cool--is it a photo? Is it painted? How'd it come to be--how'd you bend the light that way? "That's not real," is what they say if you have the saturation/HDR/ etc. turned up too high. :)
Some (almost) final edits for the Los Angeles Gallery Show! Printing them on metallic paper at 13" x 19" and mounting and framing them on a 4mm 18x24 white mat and 2" dark wood frame. Also printing some 40" x 70" whihc is over three feet by five feet! Wish you all could come (and hang out with the goddesses)!
Let me know your favs.!
Nikon D800E / D800 HDR Malibu Landscapes / Seascapes for Gallery Show!
Yay! I booked a major photography show at a major LA gallery in December! Will also be giving some lectures on the story--the Hero's Journey Mythology--behind the photography!
Preparing for some gallery shows this fall to celebrate 250,000,000 views! Printing a few dozen photographs in ~ 30"x40" formats and mounting/framing. Here are some close-to-final edits. HDR photography 7 exposures shot at 1EV and combined in photomatix: 36 megapixel Nikon D800E with the awesome Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens. 45SURF Hero's Journey Mythology Photography!
Epic Scenic HDR Landscapes / Seascapes of the Malibu Canyons & Beaches Shot with Nikon D800: Hero's Journey Mythology Photography!
Shot with the Nikon Nikkor wide-angle 14-24 mm 2.8 lens!
Seven exposures @ 1EV finished in photomatix.
Enjoy the Hero's Journey Mythology Photography, and all the best on a hero's journey of your own making!
These were shot with Nikon's best D800 with the 14-24mm wide-angle Nikkor lens. 7 exposures were taken at 1 EV intervals, and combined in photomatix to bring out the shadows and highlights.
Rather large HDR (high dynamic range) photo--you can see great detail both near and far! View the detail at full size!
High Dynamic Range (HDR) photos rock in capturing the full dynamic range of the scene!
All the best of your EPIC HERO'S JOURNEY! :)
A 68 Megapixel Waxing Gibbous Moon
Equipment: Edge HD 11" Alt Az - ZWO 290MC for details and Canon 6D for color
Captured 40 individual panels with 4000 frames each and stacked the best 90% in Autosakkert and stitched it in Image Composite editor and further enhanced it in photoshop and Lightroom then blended the color of the 6D output on to the ZWO 290MC file and enhanced the saturation and color correction.
Total no. of frames stacked: 144,000 frames, missed few panels during the imaging session, so blended the 6D output on the missing panels to complete the image.
Location: Mleiha, UAE
Date: 03.02.2020
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Steht für Heilung und weibliche Schönheit.
Auch Benediktinerrose, Rose ohne Dornen, oder Gichtrose ( hilft gegen viele entzündliche Prozesse ) genannt.
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pivoine, Pfingstrose, peonía, пион, peon, পিয়োন, אַדְמוֹנִית
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Buy film not megapixels, something you'll hear a lot of film buffs say. Can't say I'm fully on that boat though cause as much as I like shooting my film cameras and what not, digital has its place and its not going away. Also even though for most of us 10mp would be more than pretty much everything we do good old marketing makes us believe we really need a 36mp camera. Hell if there was an a900 that was 12mp I would have gotten that cause 24mp is frankly quite a lot. But I digress, today I hung out in Toronto with Tyler (check out his Flickr here, I've said it before but he is a very talented portrait photographer) and we basically hung out talked cameras and did some street photography. Though not a lot cause frankly it was quite cold and windy today, plus the complete overcast sky doesn't really do it for me, I like shooting on sunny days for street photography.
While we were out and about we were looking for a decent place for me to shoot todays portrait. Tyler shot in this really cool hallway before and asked him where it was. We checked the place out while it was still light out, it looked pretty cool but I wanted to see how it looked when it's darker. So we just hung around a Starbucks for a good hour or so before heading back there, and it looked much nicer in there. Originally I tried shooting with my 135mm but after the first couple of test shots I wanted to see more of the background and switched over to my 35mm lens. Shooting close and wide definitely looked better here since we were able to see much more of the background. Fun part about this place is the colours keep changing and plenty of people walk by here. So it was quite the waiting game, took several shots each with a different colour background, even with it white and frankly the red and orange seemed to work the best here. Also this was the first shot with the 35mm, right after people came in and we moved out of the way. Sadly I wish I was more centred with this shot, the others after this were but this was the best shot. Didn't want to do the whole copy, paste, flip and layer mask thing for this either so I just left it as is.
Todays title comes from one of my new favourite songs "Under the Cover of Darkness" by The Strokes.
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All my photography celebrates the physics of light! The McGucken Principle of the fourth expanding dimension: The fourth dimension is expanding at the rate of c relative to the three spatial dimensions: dx4/dt=ic .
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"Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life." --John Muir
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“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” --John Muir
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All art is but imitation of nature.-- Seneca (Letters from a Stoic - Letter LXV: On the First Cause)
The universe itself is God and the universal outpouring of its soul. --Chrysippus (Quoted by Cicero in De Natura Deorum)
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells. --To Autumn. by John Keats
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Preparing for some gallery shows this fall to celebrate 100,000,000 views! Printing a few dozen photographs in ~ 30"x40" formats and mounting/framing. Here are some close-to-final edits. HDR photography 7 exposures shot at 1EV and combined in photomatix: 36 megapixel Nikon D800E with the awesome Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens. 45SURF Hero's Journey Mythology Photography!
Nikon D800 & D800E HDR Socal/Malibu Landscape / Seascape Photography 14-24mm f/2.8 G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens
Epic Scenic HDR Landscapes / Seascapes of the Malibu Canyons & Beaches Shot with Nikon D800: Hero's Journey Mythology Photography!
Shot with the Nikon Nikkor wide-angle 14-24 mm 2.8 lens!
Seven exposures @ 1EV finished in photomatix.
Enjoy the Hero's Journey Mythology Photography, and all the best on a hero's journey of your own making!
These were shot with Nikon's best D800 with the 14-24mm wide-angle Nikkor lens. 7 exposures were taken at 1 EV intervals, and combined in photomatix to bring out the shadows and highlights.
rather large HDR (high dynamic range) photo--you can see great detail both near and far! View the detail at full size!
The Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens rocks!
An epic red, orange, and yellow sunset and clouds over El Matador Beach!
High Dynamic Range (HDR) photos rock in capturing the full dynamic range of the scene!
64 Megapixel Medium Format
3 frames per second
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Welcome to your epic hero's journey! The beautiful landscapes kissed by magical light hath called ye to adventure, beckoning ye to read deeply Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, whence ye shall learn of yer own exalted artistic path guided by Hero's Journey Mythology. I wouldn't be saying it if it hadn't happened to me.
Nikon D800E Dr. Elliot McGucken Fine Art Photography for Los Angeles Gallery Show! Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens!
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Nikon D800E Dr. Elliot McGucken Fine Art Photography for Los Angeles Gallery Show!
Yet more photos and more final edits! I was up at 4:30 AM the past four days shooting sunrises! Awesome sunrises over Point Dume thie time of year in Malibu.
Then I spent all day today moving over 75 large photos into the gallery! Most of these are framed and matted with 13"x19" metallic prints and an 18"x24" mat and a 3" wood-grain black frame! They look awesome! Stop on by Bel Air Camera's Gallery downstairs if you are close to UCLA or in Westwood. Give me a head's up, and I will meet you there if I'm free.
I thought I was done a couple months ago, but art is never done until it's done, and even then. . . Will be busy printing and framing in nice large, matted formats and frames and museum glass! Five of these photos will be printed on 40" x 60" floating wall mounted metal sheets! I think I know which--will share photos of the photos hanging on the walls!
And I am mounting some on plexiglass/acryllic--front mounting them! Some I am printing on lossy fuji-crystal archival paper too, and then front mounting 40"x60" versions to plexiglass--will send photos!
The secret to HDR photography is that you want people to say, "Woe dude--that's unreal!" And not, "Dude--that's not real!" "Unreal" is the word they use when they're trying to figure out the photo--what makes it cool--is it a photo? Is it painted? How'd it come to be--how'd you bend the light that way? "That's not real," is what they say if you have the saturation/HDR/ etc. turned up too high. :)
Some (almost) final edits for the Los Angeles Gallery Show! Printing them on metallic paper at 13" x 19" and mounting and framing them on a 4mm 18x24 white mat and 2" dark wood frame. Also printing some 40" x 70" whihc is over three feet by five feet! Wish you all could come (and hang out with the goddesses)!
Let me know your favs.!
Nikon D800E / D800 HDR Malibu Landscapes / Seascapes for Gallery Show!
Yay! I booked a major photography show at a major LA gallery in December! Will also be giving some lectures on the story--the Hero's Journey Mythology--behind the photography!
Preparing for some gallery shows this fall to celebrate 250,000,000 views! Printing a few dozen photographs in ~ 30"x40" formats and mounting/framing. Here are some close-to-final edits. HDR photography 7 exposures shot at 1EV and combined in photomatix: 36 megapixel Nikon D800E with the awesome Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens. 45SURF Hero's Journey Mythology Photography!
Epic Scenic HDR Landscapes / Seascapes of the Malibu Canyons & Beaches Shot with Nikon D800: Hero's Journey Mythology Photography!
Shot with the Nikon Nikkor wide-angle 14-24 mm 2.8 lens!
Seven exposures @ 1EV finished in photomatix.
Enjoy the Hero's Journey Mythology Photography, and all the best on a hero's journey of your own making!
These were shot with Nikon's best D800 with the 14-24mm wide-angle Nikkor lens. 7 exposures were taken at 1 EV intervals, and combined in photomatix to bring out the shadows and highlights.
Rather large HDR (high dynamic range) photo--you can see great detail both near and far! View the detail at full size!
High Dynamic Range (HDR) photos rock in capturing the full dynamic range of the scene!
All the best of your EPIC HERO'S JOURNEY! :)
Sammy Davis Jr. and Peter Lawford.
Camera: $10 Shift 3 mini digital camera (Vivitar Mini Digital clone)
Resolution: .1 megapixels
Lens focal length: f=3.9mm
Exposure setting: Automatic
Aperture: f/2.8
Shutter speeds: 1/60 to 1/1500 sec.
Date: August 27th, 2011
Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A.
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Technically this is a 144 megapixel panoramic consisting of 8 shots: 4 shots make up the top half of the image while 4 shots make up the bottom half of the image. First time ever creating a panoramic in this way. All images were shot at 200mm.
Taken from Gas Works Park / Seattle, WA
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Nikon D800E Dr. Elliot McGucken Fine Art Photography for Los Angeles Gallery Show!
Yet more photos and more final edits! I was up at 4:30 AM the past four days shooting sunrises! Awesome sunrises over Point Dume thie time of year in Malibu.
Then I spent all day today moving over 75 large photos into the gallery! Most of these are framed and matted with 13"x19" metallic prints and an 18"x24" mat and a 3" wood-grain black frame! They look awesome! Stop on by Bel Air Camera's Gallery downstairs if you are close to UCLA or in Westwood. Give me a head's up, and I will meet you there if I'm free.
I thought I was done a couple days ago for December's LA Gallery show, but art is never done until it's done, and even then. . . Will be busy printing and framing in nice large, matted formats and frames and museum glass! Five of these photos will be printed on 40" x 60" floating wall mounted metal sheets! I think I know which--will share photos of the photos hanging on the walls!
And I am mounting some on plexiglass/acryllic--front mounting them! Some I am printing on lossy fuji-crystal archival paper too, and then front mounting 40"x60" versions to plexiglass--will send photos!
The secret to HDR photography is that you want people to say, "Woe dude--that's unreal!" And not, "Dude--that's not real!" "Unreal" is the word they use when they're trying to figure out the photo--what makes it cool--is it a photo? Is it painted? How'd it come to be--how'd you bend the light that way? "That's not real," is what they say if you have the saturation/HDR/ etc. turned up too high. :)
Some (almost) final edits for December's Los Angeles Gallery Show! Printing them on metallic paper at 13" x 19" and mounting and framing them on a 4mm 18x24 white mat and 2" dark wood frame. Also printing some 40" x 70" whihc is over three feet by five feet! Wish you all could come (and hang out with the goddesses)!
Let me know your favs.!
Nikon D800E / D800 HDR Malibu Landscapes / Seascapes for Gallery Show!
Yay! I booked a major photography show at a major LA gallery in December! Will also be giving some lectures on the story--the Hero's Journey Mythology--behind the photography!
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Preparing for some gallery shows this fall to celebrate 100,000,000 views! Printing a few dozen photographs in ~ 30"x40" formats and mounting/framing. Here are some close-to-final edits. HDR photography 7 exposures shot at 1EV and combined in photomatix: 36 megapixel Nikon D800E with the awesome Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens. 45SURF Hero's Journey Mythology Photography!
Epic Scenic HDR Landscapes / Seascapes of the Malibu Canyons & Beaches Shot with Nikon D800: Hero's Journey Mythology Photography!
Shot with the Nikon Nikkor wide-angle 14-24 mm 2.8 lens!
Seven exposures @ 1EV finished in photomatix.
Enjoy the Hero's Journey Mythology Photography, and all the best on a hero's journey of your own making!
These were shot with Nikon's best D800 with the 14-24mm wide-angle Nikkor lens. 7 exposures were taken at 1 EV intervals, and combined in photomatix to bring out the shadows and highlights.
Rather large HDR (high dynamic range) photo--you can see great detail both near and far! View the detail at full size!
The Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens rocks!
High Dynamic Range (HDR) photos rock in capturing the full dynamic range of the scene!
Stop on by the Bel Air Camera Gallery and Enjoy Dr. Elliot McGucken's epic fine art photography in person!
Epic 103 MEGAPIXEL Fine Art Landscape PANORAMA! 4 Nikon D800E Photos combined (stitched in Lightroom and Photoshop) for 100+ Megapixels Panoramic Photograph of Breaking Arizona Desert Storm! Dr. Elliot McGucken Fine Art Photography for Los Angeles Fine Art Gallery Show!
At 100+ Megapixels, there is more detail in this photo than from a measly 80 mp Phase 1 camera system with an 80 megapixel IQ280 Digital Back! Still, if you gave me a $50,000+ Phase 1 Camera, I'd say "Thanks!" :) And then I'd trade it in for a couple Jeeps or a Corvette. :)
Will be presenting this in three panels!
Many more Panoramas to come!
Combined three 36 mp photos from the Nikon D800E in Lightroom 5.3 and Photoshop CC, and then cropped it down some!
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Nikon D800E / D800 HDR Anelope Valley Ghosts in Slot Canyonfor Gallery Show!
Yay! I booked a major photography show at a major LA gallery in December! Will also be giving some lectures on the story--the Hero's Journey Mythology--behind the photography!
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Preparing for some gallery shows this fall to celebrate 300,000,000 views! Printing a few dozen photographs in ~ 30"x40" formats and mounting/framing. Here are some close-to-final edits. HDR photography 7 exposures shot at 1EV and combined in photomatix: 36 megapixel Nikon D800E with the awesome Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens. 45SURF Hero's Journey Mythology Photography!
Epic Scenic HDR Landscaps Shot with Nikon D800E: Hero's Journey Mythology Photography!