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A beach event was coming up and a stack of plastic chairs was sitting in the sun, waiting to be deployed...
The party rental place calls them “White Café Style Chairs, made for year round outdoor exposure. Plastic stacking chairs are great furniture at cafés, bistros, poolside dining and outdoor restaurants. Commercial grade plastic resin furniture is made to last with constant public use...”
Stacked chairs in a second hand store.
Minolta XD-7
Minolta MD 50mm 1:1.7
Ilford XP2 Super
scanned with a Minolta Dimage Dual II and Vuescan
Well this is going to be one of my little projects this Winter, focus stacking Collembola, with this I decided to try using my 1.4x teleconverter and my MP-E at x5, so in all this was a x7 magnification handheld focus stack of just 6 images at F/6.3. I'm hoping to get deeper with the stacks as the Winter goes on.
It really is a very hit and miss affair with these guys, sometimes they will stay perfectly still and then sometimes they are always moving, especially those antennae, but I was reasonably fortunate that this female stayed put for just long enough, anyway an ongoing project and with the numbers increasing I think it quite achievable, the main thing is refining the technique :o)
I hope everyone in the Southwest has a safe day, apparently going to get very wet again and then I hear that next week temps are going to drop to -15C, well at least it will slow down the Globular Springtails a bit LOL :o)
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Found this cool little spot where tradition was too stack rocks i'm assuming.
Canon AE-1 Program. Hawaii.
My dog Mabel and her friend Sam love to cuddle up together so they're usually 'stacked' in many creative configurations. Head on head, body on body... Here they're leg-stacked....
Some more from Pyrmont shooting towards International Towers, Barangaroo and Cockle Bay Wharf.
This is a single frame image with about 20 images stacked again as per the previous images. These are 30 second exposures which give a smoother water but slightly more harsh highlights. Still looks alright to me.
An eastbound BNSF stack train crosses the Java Bridge over the Middle Fork of the Flathead River at West Java, Montana, on the morning of June 4, 2002.
NYS&W northbound stack train #553 has GP18 #1804, E9's #2400 #2402 and SD45 #3612 at Chenango Bridge, NY on February 20th 1997. Kodak Kodachrome, © Joe Geronimo
A stack of 4 images to reduce noise, how to on our blog:
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Ben Stack and the River Laxford, Sutherland at dawn.
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The swell ended up being more mild than I thought. Still was happy to snag this pano on the way to a clients office.
I need to get down to the gong when it is really pumping. This was a 4.6m swell but coming from the south so the headliand blocked it.
A stack of multiple frames shot on the XF35mm F1.4.
The rocky tip of the Isle of Islay that curves to look out to Northern Ireland. Taken with an M42 Takumar 17mm. The EXIF says 18mm because the K3 doesn't have 17mm.
The Stacks of Duncansby, Duncansby Head at dawn.
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One of the cheapest sources of protein worldwide. No exception in Bangladesh...
Meradia Bazar, Dhaka
Railroad ties are stacked in a corner of a parking lot for the New London (Ohio) town reservoir as an eastbound CSX coal train passes in the background. I'm not sure why these ties were stacked here.
South Stack is famous as the location of one of Wales' most spectacular lighthouses, South Stack Lighthouse. It has a height of 41 metres (135 feet). It has a maximum area of 7 acres.
Until 1828 when an iron suspension bridge was built, the only means of crossing the deep water channel on to the island was in a basket which was suspended on a hemp cable. The suspension bridge was replaced in 1964, but by 1983 the bridge had to be closed to the public, due to safety reasons. A new aluminium bridge was built and the lighthouse was reopened for public visits in 1997. Thousands of people flock to the lighthouse every year, thanks to the continued public transport service from Holyhead's town centre.
There are over 400 stone steps down to the footbridge (and not, as local legend suggests, 365), and the descent and ascent provide an opportunity to see some of the 4,000 nesting birds that line the cliffs during the breeding season. The cliffs are part of the RSPB South Stack Cliffs bird reserve, based at Elin's Tower.
The Anglesey Coastal Path passes South Stack, as does the Cybi Circular Walk. The latter has long and short variants; the short walk is 4 miles long and takes around two hours to complete. Travelling from the Breakwater Country Park, other sites along the way are the North Stack Fog Signal station, Caer y Tŵr, Holyhead Mountain and Tŷ Mawr Hut Circles.
Too cold and dark to go outside and shoot. So I stacked up the plates neatly and fired away. 2011YIP
ODC: Neat
11.6.2011
Stack of 5 sea urchins on a bed of sand.
I like the way the white dots on the different size urchins line up with each other.
Ben Stack, Sutherland on a winter's late afternoon.
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. . . movable, too. Turn the wheel and move hundreds of pounds of books at your whim. Just look around carefully before beginning to turn the wheel, as you might squeeze another visitor in the shrinking space! That would not be fun!
stacked.📚⛰️📷
on my most recent trip to Colorado, i had fun experimenting with stacking my Lee Filters Little Stopper and my Lee Filters Big Stopper for some super long exposure landscape photography captured during the day. this photo represents my longest exposure time taken during the day..
— 1341.0 seconds or 22 minute and 35 seconds.
this photo was captured from the patio of our condo in Pagosa Springs Colorado and is overlooking village lake with Pagosa Peak in the background.
📷EXIF
1341.0 seconds (22 minutes and 35 seconds)
f/11
ISO 31
14mm
⚙️Gear
Nikon D810
Nikkor 14-24mm (f/2.8)
LEE Filters Little Stopper and Big Stopper (stacked)
ProMaster XC525
RFN-4s wireless remote
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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.
A Union Pacific stack train follows the Mojave River, as it rolls through the colorful confines of Afton Canyon.
An experimental image: The stars (in the direction of Vega) taken at various focal lengths in a stacked manner.
Hamilton, Ontario has a large industrial sector and, as a result, shipping is an essential element in keeping that sector operating. To that end, standardized shipping containers are used and, when they are awaiting either loading onto ships for transport to their ultimate destination or awaiting further distribution following off-loading from ships, the containers area stacked neatly, as seen here. The resulting pattern of multi-coloured ‘boxes’ is captured here in an industrial area. - JW
Date Taken: 2024-04-22
Date PP: 2024-04-24
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Tech Details:
Taken using a hand-held Nikon D800 fitted with an Tamron 100-400mm 1:4.5-6.3 DI VC USD lense set to 290mm, ISO220 (Auto ISO), Daylight WB, Matrix metering, Shutter Priority Mode, f/6.0 (wide open), 1/800 sec. PP in free Open Source GIMP from Nikon RAW/NEF file: scale image to 9000 px wide, apply distortion correction to remove pincushion distortion, level the image, apply Tone Mapping as well as Dynamic Range Compression at default levels to bring out textures and tame the extreme brightness range, darken overall by setting Exposure Compensation to EV-0.52, boost Contrast as well as Chromaticity in L-A-B mode, adjust colour temperature by setting it to 5500K (slightly warmer), sharpen (edges only), save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: use the Contrast/Brightness tool to both increase contrast and also brighten somewhat, use the Hue-Saturation-Brightness tool to boost overall saturation, sharpen, save, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on bottom, save, scale image to 3000 px wide for posting online, sharpen, save.