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Much sharper than any photos I've taken with the SX30 at this same location and distance, which you can tell by the fact that I consider this one post-worthy but have never posted one of them (I just checked in case I could compare here). ;-)
Hirundo rustic
Belle Haven Marina, Alexandria, VA
Can this picture get much better than this ? Maybe a bit sharper but that's about it and sharpness isn't what a picture is all about anyway.
Composition,Depth Of Field ( DOF ),Colors and Lighting are the most important things that make a picture appealing to the eye not how sharp the picture is.
A great old movie that shows this is " Gone With The Wind " where not much was in focus except the actors faces but the scenery was as spectacular as the acting was. Some of the the BEST Pictures ever made and all of these old classic's were shot with the Nikkor 300mm f:2.8 AIS,MF,ED,Lenses on 35mm or 70mm Kodak Kodachrome 64 movie films !
During the process of raw editing, I reduced the highlights and emphasized the shadows, as well as adjusted the overall exposure of the image to increase more details and make the image sharper (due to camera noise at high ISO). In the global adjustment process, I reduced the overall exposure to highlight the gloomy road and environment. At the same time, I selected the car and bus and increased their saturation and brightness to create contrast and further highlight the darkness of the environment in the image.
This is a test, or an idea, to bring motion to trees, I think it is not too bad, but might be better with a sharper focus
Le truc fascinant, ce sont les immenses lustres en fer, pendus à la coupole principale, qu'on trouve dans toutes les mosquées, éclairant les lieux de leurs tout petits lumignons...
Hasselblad 500C/M 80mm
Expired Kodak Vericolor III 160 iso
Nikon D7200 300mm F4
f/4 1/500s ISO1400
Very happy with the recent upgrade from Nikon D7000 (over 130k shots fired) to D7200: accurate and predictable AF, sharper image, improved dynamic and high ISO performance, and even slightly better metering.
Uploaded sharper (but still a bit slightly fuzzy) version 2/20/19.
Previous descriptions I wrote for this photo over the years remarked on why a photo taken with an 8x10 film camera managed to not be sharp when put onto Flickr. I still have that problem to a certain extent. Some pictures show up tack sharp, some are a bit fuzzy. There doesn't seem to be rhyme of reason to which ones turn out sharp. This one, after the third attempt to rescan and re-upload the picture, is still a bit fuzzy. On my computer, it is razor sharp. Go figure.
Camera: Deardorff 8x10.
Lens: 19" Goerz APO Artar.
Film: Iflord HP5+ Developed in Kodak Xtol.
Contact printed on Kodak Polymax Fine Art FB developed in Formulary BW 65 1:1:5.
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Took the photo twice: once without flash (good colors and reflections but rather flat), once with flash (sharper but too much reflection from the flash, excessive gradient in the background). I then averaged the two images and corrected brightness and contrast.
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Per un'intera settimana (24-29 settembre 2018) Pavia si è trasformata in un laboratorio di scienza aperto a tutti grazie al progetto nazionale SHARPER.
A Pavia SHARPER è stato coordinato dalla sezione pavese INFN e realizzato in collaborazione con il Comune di Pavia e l’Università di Pavia e numerosi partner del territorio che hanno deciso di aderire con entusiasmo al progetto.
Il 28 settembre 2018 il centro città di Pavia ha ospitato laboratori, spettacoli, talk e attività pensate e realizzate dai ricercatori dei numerosi partner del progetto.
SHARPER è il nome di uno dei 9 progetti italiani sostenuti dalla Commissione Europea per la realizzazione della Notte Europea dei Ricercatori nel 2018 e nel 2019.
SHARPER significa SHAring Researchers’ Passions for Evidences and Resilience e ha l’obiettivo di coinvolgere tutti i cittadini nella scoperta del mestiere di ricercatore e del ruolo che i ricercatori svolgono nel costruire il futuro della società attraverso l’indagine del mondo basata sui fatti, le osservazioni e l’abilità nell’adattarsi e interpretare contesti sociali e culturali sempre più complessi e in continua evoluzione.
SHARPER si svolgerà il 28 settembre 2018 nelle città di Ancona, Cagliari, Caserta, Catania, L’Aquila, Macerata, Napoli, Nuoro, Palermo, Pavia, Perugia, Trieste per raccontare la passione, le scoperte e le sfide dei ricercatori di tutta Europa attraverso mostre, spettacoli, concerti, giochi, conferenze e centinaia di altre iniziative rivolte al grande pubblico.
SHARPER è coordinato dalla società di comunicazione scientifica Psiquadro in collaborazione con un consorzio di partner che comprende l’Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), l’Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), l’Università di Palermo, l’Università degli Studi di Perugia, l’Università Politecnica delle Marche, il museo Immaginario Scientifico di Trieste e il centro di ricerca Observa Science in Society.
Il progetto coinvolge oltre 100 partner nazionali e internazionali, tra cui enti culturali, comuni, istituti di ricerca, università , imprese e associazioni culturali che in ogni città costruiranno un ricco programma di appuntamenti trasformando strade, piazze, musei, teatri in laboratori nei quali ognuno potrà fare esperienza di cosa significhi essere ricercatore.
My first Merc was a W203 C240 Saloon, similar to this one. I still think the shape is elegant and timeless; later cars have much sharper edges.
This is a series of photographs exploring the problem of mirror slap image smear with a Sony Alpha 350 with a 500mm reflex lens. The clock tower of the Balmoral Hotel is photographed from the back garden of Inverleith House in the Botanic Garden of Edinburgh. The distance is about 2km.
The camera is mounted on a Benbo tripod with column extended. The column had to be extended to get to head height to clear the obscuring shrubbery. That makes it a heavy tripod, but one prone to vibrate when struck, i.e. not as rigid or as well damped as a non-extended carbon fibre tripod. The lens is Sony's 500mm reflex, a very short light 500mm lens which therefore has no tripod mounting bolt of its own. The lighter weight and shorter length also give it less inertia, and much less angular inertia, with which to counter any camera motion resulting from mirror slap.
Focusing was by autofocus because previous testing has established that autofocus with this very critical lens gives me much more accurate and consistent focusing than I can ever achieve manually by eye, no matter what method or how much care I take over focusing. (That wasn't true at first with this lens -- there was consistent backfocusing in the camera's AF which I had to trim out. Follow this link to see before and after focus trimming shots of this same clock.)
To avoid camera vibration from touching, the shutter was fired by radio remote trigger after a long pause after last touching the camera.
The lens has a fixed aperture of f8, so the shutter speed was changed by changing ISO. The RAW output file was translated to a large high quality JPEG file by Sony's IDC RAW converter. Noise reduction was avoided in the IDC and applied afterwards to the JPEG by Neat Image. The RAW file and Neat Image processing were optimised only for maximum detail from the image. So because it was a dim misty day producing very low contrast images the contrast has been boosted a lot, which increased the noise.
Because the free demo version of Neat Image used here clears the JPEG EXIF data, the camera settings etc. are appended to these descriptions.
The first image shows the entire uncropped image at native unreduced size. The subsequent images crop out the cental clock face and magnify it 8 times by simple pixel duplication, so the pixels are in effect simply enlarged. That makes it easy to judge the detail resolution captured, and to measure any mirror slap smearing in terms of pixels.
These images show clearly that there is no mirror slap smearing at 1/320th sec, some nearly vertical smearing at 1/160th (about five pixels), and a lot more at 1/80th (about ten pixels). I haven't tested slower shutter speeds.
This 1/80th sec image has the worst mirror slap smearing, a smear of about 10 pixels in length at about an angle of 10:30 on the clock face.
The full size ISO 400 image at 1/320th sec with no mirror slap smearing can be seen here. The magnified central crop from that, which is directly comparable with this magnified central crop, can be seen here.
There is no mirror lock up on the Sony A350, so this raises the interesting question of whether more rigid mounting of the camera and lens can prevent this. Initial experiments suggest that it won't be difficult to cut it down by about 1/2, possibly even to 1/4, but that it will be difficult to eliminate. A clock face like this is a very good target for this kind of test, but is not really suitable because over this kind of distance over a city there is rarely little enough thermal turbulence in the air to get shots as sharp as this. Dim misty days with no wind like this one are the best, but while the cloud cover and mist reduce the sun's heat, they also reduce its light, and so it's not possible to use the much sharper ISO 100 for this kind of testing.
So further testing will await my development of an interior target with bright and controllable lighting.
Original DSC06605RW_ntE8X
[Sony A350, SAL 500mm reflex, ISO 100, f8, 1/80th sec.]
It took me a few to remember what this was... the challenge of getting too far behind on posting!
Macro mystery!
Uploaded a sharper version 6/18/20.
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It's not my normal subject matter, but this oddly named road on an idilic summer morning may provide some warmth on the chilly days coming up as the fall approaches. Lusted Road (yes, that's its name) winds down into the Powell Valley just east of Portland. I took this picture as a practice for doing front and back tilts on my Sinar.
Camera: Sinar Alpina 4x5.
Lens: 150mm Fujinon with a yellow filter.
Film: Efke PL 25 developed in Kodak HC110
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LR-11214 - Normally I do strobist work at night, but for the purpose of explaining how I do it this was taken in the daytime with all other available lighting left on (normally it's done in pitch black). I would also have one of the units mounted with a reflective umbrella at 11 o'clock to the obect to remove upper shadowing
The shot was intended to demonstrate the difference in lighting a daylight shot with some additional lighting. However due to my friends requiring me to consume large amounts of sugar mixed with water and some other stuff barley I think was included, my head is not working so well! But hopefully you'll get the idea and note the shadows on the natural light shot have mainly gone, however the flash units have introduced some harder shadows.
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Alchemists (4,200 square feet)
Mr. Fix (650 square feet)
9200 Stony Point Parkway, Suites 158B & C, Stony Point Fashion Park, Richmond, VA
Alchemists opened in fall 2009; it was originally a Sharper Image, which opened in September 2003 and closed in spring 2008.
Mr. Fix opened in fall 2015; it was previously Possessions Gifts Jewelry Décor, which opened in the late 2000s.
so i picked up my new glasses today.
i've never had glasses before, other than sunglasses, so the effect on my brain was startling.
firstly, i felt shorter. a lot shorter. i felt like i was walking on my knees at first. this threw me off quite a bit, especially since it is slippery out.
secondly, things at a distance are much sharper now. i'm not sure i like this, at least not entirely. i like that i can read bus numbers from a few blocks away again, but i don't like how everything seems closer. and uglier. i'm rather surprised at how ugly the world looks when you can see it clearly. a little soft-focus can do wonders.
at any rate, i think they'll take some getting used to.
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A friendly crow in St. James's Park this lunchtime was happy to pose for photographs. I love the amount of detail in this shot - the crow allowed me to get really close to it.
The negative is actually sharper than this scan of it would suggest, nevertheless, best seen larger on black here...
Wikipedia has a useful discussion of the history of Warsaw's 'old town,' as well as a great image (if wide angle lens distortion is your thing) of a similar row of buildings on another side of this market place...
Dec 2015, revised the sepia to a sharper black and white. I never did like the original processing on this shot so rather than delete it I made the adjustment.
I think the zuikos are sharper, and the 14-54mm being slighly cleaner looking overall than the 25mm pancake.
This was a fairly unscientific experiment. I shot my curtains handheld about 1.5feet away and cropped around the center. These are crops of the JPEG files at 1280x960 straight from the camera.
Taken on Olympus E-3. Contax 50mm f1.7 was mounted via fotodiox adapter. Focused manually at 10X liveview.
Uploaded sharper version 2/4/19. I wrote the description below 10 years ago. Interesting to look back on me looking back.
In this, the summer of my 45th year, I have returned briefly to my youth for this image. With my first decent camera, which I still own: a Minolta XG-1, in hand, I trapsed across Europe in the age of Ronald Reagan, and the "Evil Empire." I was a soldier back then. In the precious little time I had to travel, I took one excursion to England. I visited Canterbury and London. This image is supposedly (I say "supposedly" because I never verified it), next door to the Legendary 221B Baker Street, the fictional home of Sherlock Holmes. I had left my tripod in Germany, so I was forced to hand hold the camera for this picture using 400 speed film with a shutter speed of 1/8 of a second.
I was 20 years old when this was taken. I made $500.00 a month, and had an incredible thirst for German Beer, which robbed me of my runner's physique by my mid twenties. I've struggled ever since to stay thin.
On the 25th anniversary of this photo, I would be hard pressed to recognize the me I was back then. My back didn't hurt so much. I had all the time in the world. I still spoke of what I was going to become, or do with my life. I looked a bit girlish. Most of all, I wouldn't recognize my lack of direction. However, what I did have were the beginnings of the passions that would drive me to succeed. I was a budding writer then, an erstwhile poet, and a somewhat inept photographer. My "success" has not derived from pursuit of these passions, but from the drive to do well that I learned from them. This success, however, has enabled me to afford to pursue them on the side. I honed my photography and writing skills slowly over the years, and they would help me find my place in this world--no easy feat for the young man I was then.
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