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As I've said before, I can find little enthusiam for the modern bus, and by modern I'm stuck with a view that anything built after the mid to late '80s fits that category!
That said, and with the benefits of 'cheap' digital photography, its quite pleasant to just go out and record the present day scene by building something of only moderate interest into the picture. One of my other hobbies is local history. With that in mind, the Wright bodied First Potteries Scania is only part of the 'picture'. Attwood Street Kidsgrove on its 1:8 gradient, was where my father and his father were born (just beyond the car on the left) when both sides of the road were flanked by terraced housing. The latter were pulled down circa 1968 when a great modernisation took place and we commenced stacking people up in flats.
Anyway, the old housing has gone, and even the 'modern' Scania is no more, the route is the preserve of some buses known as Streetlites whose often sedate progress up the hill from the town centre wouldn't disgrace a battery powered milk float.
A sea stack silhouette in Lake Superior during sunrise. Tettegouche State Park, Minnesota.
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Another shot from my recent holiday, this is a view of the amazing lighthouse at South Stack on the north coast of Anglesey (Wales). There was a howling wind and it was extremely cold but it was an amazing site to see!!
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Having a bit of creative fun, I stacked 130x2 second images and lightened in PhotoShop 6.0. Unlike my previous examples: www.flickr.com/photos/79387036@N07/albums/72157689221737561, these clouds seemed to be moving in many directions over this 4.3 minute interval.
Anyway, I thought the pattern was an interesting abstract and worth uploading. :-)
Fresh out of the Alliance Yard, BNSF 7767 leads a westbound stack train through Hicks Field Road on it’s way out of Saginaw
Not much time for photos today as some relatives from Australia are over visiting, quick grabshot of a stack at Noss Head.
Among the most impressive sights along the Jurassic Coast are the sea stacks at Ladram Bay. The sandstones contain numerous vertical fractures and joints that were formed deep in the Earths crust during past mountain building periods. The sea picked out these planes of weakness to form caves and natural arches that have since collapsed to produce sea stacks. The “Otter Sandstone” that forms the cliffs and sea stacks were deposited in a hot dry climates in the Triassic Period about 220 Million years ago. The stacks are composed of the same rock, which is relatively soft, but they have a harder band of sandstone at their base which prevents their rapid erosion by the sea. The striking red colour of the rock is caused by iron oxide, which tells us that the layers were formed in a desert. The presence of ripple marks and channels in the sandstones, together with the remains of the long-extinct plants, insects, fish, amphibians and reptiles, show that the desert was crossed by fertile river valleys.
The “Otter Sandstone” is the richest source of Triassic reptile remains in Britain and one of the most important in the world. At the south-west end of the bay, the most common fossils in the sandstone are networks of vertical, tube-like carbonate petrifactions (rhizocretions): these represent the roots of plants that were able to survive in the harsh dry climate of the Triassic Period.[2]
The bay is sited on the same band of Sandstone that forms the oil reservoir at the Wytch Farm oilfield on the Isle of Purbeck.
This is a stack of 120 images (interval 5 sec; lapse time ~10 minutes), layers darkened and lightened then blended 50%-50% with Photoshop. Since the clouds remained nearly stationary, except for a drifting contrail at top, the image almost looks like a single frame image.
The phantom jeep was unavoidable.
Modern stone stacks on the hill above Cuween Chambered Cairn, Mainland Orkney
Sigma 14mm f2.8 manual focus
4 Stacks from 115 images and differend light figuration combined
This was taken with f16, Panasonic 45-175mm and Raynox DCR-150. The interresting thing about some telezoom lenses is, that their sharpest possible aperture in combination with raynox dcr lenses is f16, and the picture quality is much above the native quality of the teelezoom lens. In stacking f16 brings often much better results than f4, because of the smaler seams around overlapping objects.
first ever attempt at a stacked image, not really suitable but simply used it to see how it all worked.
Our Daily Challenge 18-24 May : Pots & Pans
3" / 8 cm pots in my greenhouse, the size I use the most when growing on seedlings
Panasonic FZ70 f6.3 1/100sec 112mm
stacked from 3 images and sharpened by wavelet filter in RegiStax V6.
A toy model of a 2CV, given to the father of a friend when buying his second real 2CV, somewhere in the 60's.
This photo was a focus stack of 6 pictures.
The Stacks of Duncansby, Duncansby Head at sunset.
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Time stacking sunset
27 shoots for the sky, 1 shoot for the background
Iso 50, f/2,8 , 1/500
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I like the stumbling, falling-yet-failed stacked-image effect, oddly enough. A mixed assortment from my garden.
You might want to take a close-up photo of something, but if you focus the camera on the closest part of the subject, you’ll find that the background is out of focus. If you focus on the background, the foreground becomes blurred. You could stop down on the lens, which increases the depth of field, but even so the image might not be entirely sharp.
The solution to this problem is called focus stacking. It works by taking a series of images, each focused on a different part of the scene, and combining them using software that creates a final image using the in-focus parts of each image in the stack. To make the stack, one typically puts the camera on a tripod and focuses on the closest part and presses the shutter. Then one carefully focuses back a bit and takes another shot, continuing until the final shot has the farthest parts of the scene in focus.
This is tedious work, and one risks moving the camera a bit while focusing.
Some cameras are starting to have built-in focus stacking capability. You just set the camera on the tripod and focus on the front, then press the button and the camera takes as many images as necessary while shifting the focus back.
The Nikon Z7 has focus stacking capability, what Nikon calls “focus shift shooting”. You set a few parameters and start the process. After a few seconds you have a stack of images that you can process with third party software to make what hopefully will be a final image that is sharp everywhere. I tried it out using a vase of roses set on the counter. The camera made 26 images, which I imported into Photoshop layers and used auto-blending to compose the final image, which you see here. It’s mostly pretty good. If you blow it up, it looks like everything is sharp. But, on closer inspection, you can see that the area between the vase and flowers on the right, where a couple of stems and leaves are, is blurred.
So I tried a popular third-party app, Helicon Focus. But it also failed to render this part of the image sharply. Then I looked through the stack and found that there was indeed an image where the area was in focus. This area was the backsplash on the bar, which consists of random streaks in the granite with soft edges, like what you can see on the bar in the foreground. I guess that the software failed to find convincing edges in this area (and didn’t have much area to work with), so it didn’t fill in that part of the final image and used some other image for that part.
I tried filling it in by hand using the sharp image in the stack. Even an area this small takes a steady hand and several minutes, and even then I was not completely successful. I gained a lot of respect for the software while doing this.