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This was the first shot I took with my new lens and the last shot that I took with my ND4 soft grad as it shattered of the rocks. Reasonably pleased with the results, note to one self dont track backwards on slippy rocks!
A pleasant day spent in the company of Dave McDigital was rounded off with this final shot of 1Z30 skirting Tanyard Bay below the cliffs of Bransty.
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Kingsand is in the far south-east of Cornwall on the Rame Peninsula. The former fishing village overlooks Plymouth Sound, with Plymouth in the far distance. The village is susceptible to damage by winter storms, and repairs have only just been completed as a result of a particularly violent storm nearly two years ago. Until the middle of the 19th century the border between Devon and Cornwall lay between Kingsand and its neighbouring village of Cawsand, with Kingsand being in Devon. But now the border between the two counties is the River Tamar. This is a relatively quiet part of Cornwall, being somewhat off the beaten track. It is also one of my favourite places.
Thinking of ordering PhenQ – wait till you have read this!
Trying to lose weight huh? Tell me about it. I have struggled with it for a really long time. After the birth of Evan, my second child – my body weight was all over the place.
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Low tide affords some great opportunities to explore under the Memorial Bridge. I decided to shoot this scene using a long exposure to capture some of the movement in the clearing storm clouds overhead. As a result the boat and dock appear quite blurred as the waves moved them around over the course of the exposure.
This image from near Wapanocca NWR in eastern Arkansas shows the flock of snow geese after they came up out of the field. I regret my lens could only get a small portion of them. Hundreds can be seen here but thousands were flying. The noise of all the honking was very audibly impressive; a real attention getter.
Boy, did this photo take some effort! It's the final result from my advanced astro photography training course in Death Valley, USA.
After flying from Australia, I arrived the morning after Death Valley had a years worth of rain in one night. The place was flooded out and the road officially closed but I managed to get through. The only place accessible was Bad Water Basin.
Captured with my Benro Polaris, this 2 row 20 shot tracked panorama was combined in photoshop using techniques I learnt during the course. Given I rarely used photoshop in the past it was a very steep learning curve.
Overall I probably spent 40 hrs on processing but only because I had to read my notes, watch a few videos, research photoshop help, try it on my image and after I finally completed each little step, write my own notes on what I did for future use. Now that I have the knowledge, hopefully it will only take 20hrs next time.
However, I have to say, I'm ecstatic with the result. The final image is 8.16GB and could easily look awesome on a Billboard. Not sure I'll go that far though 😁. Maybe just a local competition. Thanks to Dan Zafra Photography for the tuition and great week.
📷 Sony Alpha 7Rm5
👀 Sony FE20mm F1.8G
⏱️ Sky 10 images at 90 sec
⏱️ Ground 10 images at 20 sec
🔘 Fstop - 2.2/1.8
️ ISO 800/6400
Denoised in DXO, Blended and processed in Photoshop, final adjustments in Lightroom Classic
Lightning strikes Glenwick Ln, Irving TX at Oakdale Rd when early dusk storms inveloped neighborhood.
A little wordy here, sorry:
First: The Scherer article and my experiments of 2023 are WRONG. There is no fixed shim or extension that will match a Contax lens to a Nikon or vice versa. It was an interesting idea but it didn’t pan out.
Second: in my tests, the Contax and Nikon are exactly matched at infinity. The error only occurs as you focus closer.
The Nikon lens rotates farther than the Zeiss lens to reach a given focus distance. To go from infinity to its minimum focus of 5 feet, the Sonnar focus ring rotates 154.4 degrees; to get to the same point the Nikkor rotates 169.4 degrees, a difference of 15 degrees. This is not enough to be obvious just looking at the lenses, but it’s beyond the depth of field limit at f/32 with the 135mm telephoto - a very significant error.
On the other hand, since the lenses match at infinity, the error is very small at longer distances. Beyond 10-12 feet, the difference is within the wide open depth of field at f/3.5, and from 15 feet it’s less than I’m able to measure repeatably. The situation deteriorates rapidly as you go closer: at 8 feet you’ll need to be at f/8; f/16 at 7 feet, f/22 at 6 feet, and the smallest aperture of f/32 won’t be enough at five feet. The quick, easy, and frankly the only answer is to consider the 135 as having a minimum focus limit of 10-12 feet.
The actual distance error is very small, only about 4 inches at the five foot limit - but the depth of field is so small at that distance that it can’t cover anywhere near that amount.
Enough of the 135. What about wide angles?
The news here is actually very good. The 35mm wide angle will have the same 15 degree error at five feet on the focusing scale - but on the 35, the depth of field is enough to cover 21 degrees, even wide open at f/2.8. I wasn’t able to measure closer than five feet since that’s the minimum limit of the lenses I have to test, but this is a very promising situation. Shooting between 3 and 5 feet, stopping down to f/4, certainly f/5.6 ought to be plenty to keep you within the depth of field.
So, okay for wide and tele. What about the normal lens?
As close as I’m able to measure, the extension of the camera body focus helical is exactly the same between the Contax and the Nikon bodies - 3.55mm to three feet. The difference is just that the Nikon mount turns farther than the Contax to get there. This suggests that there is no difference between the actual 50mm normal lenses from Zeiss and Nikon. Since the focus mount for the normal lens is part of the body and not the lens, it’s correctly matched to the rangefinder regardless of which lens you have plugged into it. So for the 50, there should be no problem at all using a Sonnar on your Nikon or a Nikkor on your Contax.
All this tends to confirm the old conventional wisdom that the problem only affects tele lenses, something I was skeptical of until I went through this exercise. It does NOT confirm the idea that the Nikon normal lens was a different focal length from the Sonnar, leading to all this kerfuffle … the difference appears to be entirely due to a very slightly different thread pitch in the focus helical in the camera body. As for WHY Nikon would have done that, I have no idea. Maybe it was just a mistake that wasn’t discovered before they already had committed to their version of the mount.
So there it is. Have I verified all this on film? No, this is all based on measurements, and on the assumption that the engraved distance markings on the Zeiss and Nikon lens barrels are accurate. Frankly I doubt that my photography is precise enough to prove much at the very small distance differences involved here… I have more faith in the measurements than I would have in my negatives. But I will be doing some shooting, to see if the results correlate to these measurements.
El parque de la Viesca es el paisaje resultante de la actividad extractiva de uno de los yacimientos de zinc más importantes de Europa, durante casi 150 años. Se extiende entre los municipios de Cartes, Reocín y Torrelavega, delimitado por el río Besaya entre el puente de Cartes y el barrio de Torres. Hoy día la Viesca es el principal espacio verde de la ciudad de Torrelavega.
Day 250. I spent a lot of time trying to get this right today. Did you know water drops have a mind of their own? They do not go where you want them to. In the end I just sprayed down the whole flower until I got a few decent drops to gather where I wanted them on the stem. I'm very pleased with the end result as this was my first time trying water drop refraction on a stem.
I used both of my trusty speedlights again today for this shot.
because my writing is disgusting at best...
"you must discern the result in the cause, and discern the cause in the result."
another use of ink and quill on cardstock.
"paint canvas texture" by irisb477
Recently got a cheap Opteka 500mm mirror lens. This is not what I expected it's first nice image to be, but it seems like it is quite good for that.
Resultado de sedimentos maritimos,lacustres y fluviales.
a pesar de que se encuentre situado a 2192 m.s.n.m.-
After noting the hummer "attacks" I moved up above the waterfall and arrived to witness this rather gruesome (but unique for me) scene. I also witnessed the heron capture a second hummer by the tail - luckily it managed to escape before being swallowed !! A pretty amazing sight !!
I made an onion and pepper relish and pico de gallo. Family already went thru one jar of pico! These jars are to be refrigerated for upcoming recipes.
As I was laying in the sand photographing one of the adult Piping Plovers a couple weeks ago, I couldn't help but notice a stunning glow to my left - the sun reflecting off the New York City skyline. I glanced back at the Plover, who seemed quite content hanging out in this particular spot on the beach, so I decided I would try to shift about 90 degrees and 30 feet, without startling it, and get a photo of it with the skyline as the backdrop. Surprisingly enough, it stayed in place and continued watching me. At first I tried a very narrow aperture at f/18 to get a deeper depth of field and a more defined city, however I didn't really like the results. Taking another shot wide open, I got this beautiful bokeh. The highest glowing orb just above the Plovers head is actually the new One World Trade Center (Freedom Tower). I've never actually seen the NYC skyline before in person (somehow), at least not that I remember...this was a great first look!
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Big Ben would have been given the "most enthusiastic" award if their was one. He truly was excited to be on the Arnold Classic stage in great condition.
Shortly after this photograph was taken, the brewing storm break with high winds, snow and hail. The result wis a bit more than an April shower.
The contest is over and it's time to see who the winners are :)))))
Big thanks to everyone who participated!
This evening's "train of the night" was a pair of Kansas City Southern's on NS 130-05, due through Dayton just after sunset. This was one of those trains I really needed my flashes to perform.
Batteries were charged, but, predictably, one of my receivers failed on me during testing. Luckily, my #2 flash setup worked just fine, so i proceeded with a half lit setup, and the results weren't too bad. Maybe next time will be better.
About 30 percent of my photos can be re-rippled to the point where I finally like their abstract-worthiness (even the photos I absolutely hate, originally!). :D
Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada.
The initial plunge strikes a ledge which directs the flow outward from the cliff resulting in a spectacularly messy waterfall (Note 1). Because of its separation from the cliff, cross winds have a big impact. I also did video, which shows that the heavy wind-driven mist (Note 2) is actually moving upward. Total height of falls is 384 meters (1260 feet).
So the results are finally in! I want to say each and every person who had entered the contest did an AMAZING job and I was happy to host this contest, I've seen sooooo much improvement! Anyways I had to boil it down to the top three and boy was it hard. Everyone who was in the contest has been tagged! So here they are!
1st. Nate-M8: His Rey and Bossk were really good and he had some really good improvements! the sculpting a d painting overall were awesome!
2nd. BlueInfrno: Same as Nate Blue had so much awesome improvement! His customs turned out really well!
3rd. TheInnerWhaleCustoms: He had some awesome improvement and it came out really well!
Now on to honorable mentions (there's quite a few) in no specific order!
Jacob Carlson, JSparkysteel, Pyrofanitiy, TheCampervanTom, Alex (SMP), Kyle Brown, and Jerdfigs.
There are all the placings and honorable mentions!
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If I could've I would've chosen all of you guys as you all did AMAZING. Hope you all had fun and enjoyed :D
Winners just send me a FM or tag me in a private photo. Hope you all have a great day!