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The Bethlehem Steel Corporation was an American steel and shipbuilding company that for much of the 20th century was one of the world's largest steel producer and shipbuilding companies. The company's roots trace to 1857 with the establishment of the Bethlehem Iron Company. Bethlehem Steel was formed in 1904 through the merger of the earlier companies, and existed through the decline of American steel manufacturing during the 1970s until its final bankruptcy in 2001.
The Steel Stacks were preserved as an Icon of the Steel Industry and are now part Arts and Entertainment center
Camera: Canon F-1
Lens: Canon FD 50 mm f/1.4 SSC
Film: Ilford PanF Plus 50
Exposure: 1/250 sec and f/2.8, hand-held
Film developed and scanned by MeinFilmLab
Edited under Adobe Lightroom
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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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
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.
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
Ben Stack and the River Laxford, Sutherland at dawn.
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Ben Stack, Sutherland on a winter's late afternoon.
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Stack of an interesting looking fly.... maybe an antlion?
51 image stack with reversed el nikkor on full extension of bellows. 3 ikea jansjo's used.
The morning of July 20, 2019 finds eastbound double-stack train 294 (Chicago, IL - Elizabeth, NJ) charging through Annandale, New Jersey on the former Lehigh Valley mainline.
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Meradia Bazar, Dhaka
Inspired to experiment by an article on Petapixel today about the photographer Frank Machalowski got me out at lunch time testing his ideas out.
I kind of like this shot but it is a little too busy. I needed more background separation but I only had a 56mm lens so had to be far away. Next time I'd be a bit more scientific and measured, use a wide angle lens and find a subject with better background separation. I walked an arc about 120 degrees around this tree at a constant distance shooting every 1.5 m or so for a total of 30 images.
This is a blended colour / B+W image. The B+W blending reduces saturation and adds contrast.
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Fifty minutes of the Earth's rotation captured on a moonlit night at the spectacular Stacks of Duncansby
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ANSH scavenger20 Stacked
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It has been a while since I stacked some images This 44x5 second image was lightened in PhotoShop 6.0. Unlike my previous examples: www.flickr.com/photos/79387036@N07/albums/72157689221737561, these clouds moved uniformly in the same direction. Lapsed time was 3.7 minutes.
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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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.
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