Tripods & Ballheads
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The Northern Lights, taken in Iceland on 24/11/2017.
Conditions on this evening were, temp -25c, wind 40mph, photo taken on a tripod being held to the ground by myself. kneeling and my partner acting as our windbreak.
30 Second exposure on ISO 800
A quick note to all who wish to photograph the Northern Lights, it is very rare that they can be seen like this with the naked eye.
My old, lightweight Manfrotto tripod is over 30 years old and has always served me well. It was there in Africa, accompanied me to Scandinavia and the south of Europe. It was almost like a good buddy. But for the new cameras it is simply too small and not stable enough. So a new one was needed. 😀 - The first photos with it turned out only little different than with the old one 😆. But handling it is more fun!
Camera: Graflex Speedgraphic 4x5
Filmback: Shen Hao 6x17
Film: Kodak Portra 400, 120
Scanner: Epson V850 Pro
ScannerSoftware: SilverFast
Conjunto palaciego de La Alhambra.
Dos horas esperando en el Mirador de San Nicolás, en el Albaycín, siempre a tope, y, para lo que quería hacer, necesitaba un hueco para colocar el trípode; al final, una pareja de alemanes que tenían también un trípode instalado me hicieron sitio entrelazando un poco las patas de estos monstruitos de tres pies… Y a esperar: El anochecer, el encendido de las luces (con un ooooh! Generalizado entre los asistentes), que se alcanzara el máximo rendimiento lumínico y a darle al botoncico.
Ocho fotos forman esta panorámica. Falta el Generalife, que queda a desmano. Entre medio sólo hay bosque y al programa que permite unir las fotos se hubiera vuelto un poco loco buscando elementos comunes para unirlas bien, pero que conste que también lo cacé.
Como aporte musical, creo que va bien este tema que Luis Delgado compuso para una serie de TVE sobre el mundo árabe (Alquibla).
View from near the mount Posadzki Wierch (1253 m a.s.l.) to the west direction at Smerek (1223 m a.s.l.).
Processed in Photomatix Essential 4.0, 3 shots (-1, 0, 1 EV), EF-S 10-18 IS STM with tripod.
Hard to image that using a tripod to take a photo of this fountain would be a problem, but yes it was... I was told I could not use it by a security gaurd because it was on private property. Oh well... I just walked out into the street (no traffic whatsoever) and took the photo from there!
I was wandering looking for comps and this old stump just stood out to me. I loved the shapes mixed with the different shades of green. Took a few shots but liked this F4 version shot from further back best. Kris. Vlog below… youtu.be/WpuvS99O3s0
Haven't managed to get out with my camera for a couple of months for various reasons, this morning I went out with the intention of using my newly acquired Olympus OM2n film camera but I took the wrong tripod mount with me, so ended up using the EM10 instead.
Again we enjoyed dinner on the beach before sunset and photos. This time I set up by the pier in Davis Bay and used a bird on one of the stanchions as my focal point. The colors over the distant mountains layered in yellow and orange, adding a nice effect. I took quite a few shots hoping for some little gesture, with fingers crossed that he would stay in place. After preening his feathers and craning about, he stopped to call out. This was the best one and his actions helped produce a better shot.
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So I am standing there is Spokane's great park, the tripod is ready, the light is getting better and better, but the image still needed something. I could not put my finger on what. Should I get lower? Add a filter? Somethings not quite right. Then, as if they heard my mental ramblings, these ducks come swimming into the frame. Oh, yes, thats just what I needed, thank you Donald and your merry band of photo props.
At last the sun is shining as a beacon in Sweden, i took this photo an early morning, it had a strange red light it was wonderful to experience.....One With Nature
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Bottrop, Germany, 2021.
When I set up my tripod for this shot, my idea was to take an abstract image about the concept of social distancing. I wanted each person to be in their own individual "compartment", nicely separated by the totems (which are part of an open-air art installation, by the way). Little did I know of how much waiting I was getting myself into. In the end, I got the shot, but it took almost 30 minutes of waiting – and I still had to move one person digitally in Photoshop. It was then that I decided to add a question mark to the title of the image. These people were everything but socially distanced.
Here in Germany (and probably every other country), people are quick to blame politicians for all things going wrong in the fight against the pandemic. However, many of them fail to see that it is just as much their own fault to quite a degree. Far too many people simply don't care about keeping their distance, willing to take the chance of other people dying because of their actions.
The fight against the pandemic is not won by the decisions made in a politician's office. It is won by how well these decisions are executed by the people in their everyday lives.
There's more on www.chm-photography.com.
Heed the rules, enjoy life.
The Dinorwic Slate Quarry is a large former slate quarry, now home to the Welsh National Slate Museum, located between the villages of Llanberis and Dinorwig in North Wales.
Asomarse a la barandilla de la pista suele regalar escenas como esta...
Trípode, disparador remoto, filtros polarizador circular y degradado neutro suave de 4 pasos.
A Devonshire bluebell wood looking pretty spectacular as the setting sun casts long contrasting shadows across the lilac, blue and green carpet.
#bluebells #woodland #devon #landscapephotography #24-70mm
Keswick is a market town in northwest England’s Lake District National Park, surrounded by mountains like Skiddaw. In town, The Cumberland Pencil Museum documents the history of pencils, and the Keswick Museum & Art Gallery displays local artefacts. On a hilltop east of town, Castlerigg Stone Circle dates back to the Neolithic era. Vast Derwent Water lake is south of town, with boat tours and the Theatre by the Lake.
Betws-y-Coed is one of the honeypot locations in Snowdonia. It lies in the Snowdonia National Park, in a valley near the point where the River Conwy is joined by the River Llugwy and the River Lledr, and was founded around a monastery in the late sixth century.
Mit dem Auto und der Kamera am Stativ mit fixiertem Fernauslöser durch die Stadt Krems an der Donau.
Shooting: camera on a tripod with fisheye lens and fixed remote control for continous shooting.
Day 199/365:
Macro Monday - Wavy lines
This is a section of a plug in air freshener casing. I found it in the cupboard recently and after thinking I wasn't going to find anything for the MM theme, I remembered this had wavy lines. It's quite grainy as hand held with very high ISO. Couldn't be faffing with a tripod in this heat. I also added a texture (my own) which added to the grainy look and enhanced the aqua colour. HMM
Small and beautiful stream through the forest. Standing on a few wooden plank with the tripod and shot taken with ND16 filter.
The GCam on my Xiaomi Mi Note 10 in astrophotography mode took 2 minutes to capture light to produce this 27MP (from 108MP by pinning four pixel to one) stacked RAW/DNG that was later processed in Lightroom
Shame on the built in JPEG engines in most camera apps that can not get everything out of the hardware of devices and produce such artificially looking images
I make this image public for getting an impression of the AVIF format (can be opened in the latest IrfanView, Chrome and Firefox): Link to AVIF in Google Drive
The AVIF image compression (in the HEIF container) is a very promising format as it provides good image quality in a very small package and is (in comparison to HEIC) free of any licenses. I hope Flickr as well as Google and Microsoft products will soon have full support for this innovation.
Besides the high compression efficiency the big advantage over JPEG is that a color depth per channel of 10 and even 12 bit is supported.
This sample is generated using the avifenc.exe command line encoder for windows.
I used this parameters:
avifenc.exe --cicp 2/2/1 -r limited -y 420 -j 6 --min 30 --max 40 --minalpha 30 --maxalpha 40 in.png out.avif
The result is:
- 6 threads used (for my 6 CPU cores)
- to colorspace YUV420 (422 and 444 is not supported by the Windows AV1 extension)
- 12 bit per channel
I choose this picture as the best in my gallery of 2016.
It was very difficult to take it, considering that I was all alone with a little tripod and a smartphone.
After a lot of attempts, I'm very happy with te result.
National Library of Brazil (current headquarters inaugurated on October 29, 1910), the institutional official name is the National Library Foundation, is the repository of bibliographic and documentary heritage of Brazil (since the coming of the Portuguese royal family to Brazil, in the 1810 period, with a collection of about 60.000 pieces, composed of books and documents).
Currently, the National Library, considered by UNESCO as the seventh largest national library in the world and, also, is the largest library in Latin America, holds in its collection more than 8 million pieces.
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