Thanks!

Not very good at it yet, but here's an example I was playing with for the "Adamski" effect. This is a statue in front of Our Lady of Guadalupe church in Santa Fe, NM.

WITHDRAWN - I’ve decided to keep my Sirui N-2204X Carbon Fiber Travel Tripod with the K-20X ball head AND a Neewer Leveling Base.

A compact, light weight, sturdy carbon Fiber tripod that won't break the bank


K-20X Ball Head has dual bubble levels. 56lb load capacity.


A Tripod and Monopod in one.


This Sirui has served me well, even with my Sigma 150-600 lens and a gimbal head.


Included is a Neewer LP64 leveling base. This is great for doing Panos.

I finally pulled the trigger on the PMG TR344LBL, which comes with the leveling head. Just ordered tonight so should be here no later than Feb 5th. (Hopefully earlier)

I've heard it said many times over the years that people will spend lots of money on a good camera and great lenses, but then will go cheap when buying a tripod. My Sirui travel tripod has not been bad for most situations. However, there have been times when I really wanted something a little beefier and a bit more stable and less susceptible to vibrations. As a result, I have been thinking that, if I'm hanging several thousand dollars worth of gear on a tripod, maybe it was time to get a serious tripod that will handle any situation and be more stable in adverse conditions.

So tonight, after a couple months of research and much soul searching, I pulled the trigger, on the ProMediaGear TR344LBL. For the amount of money I forked out, I'm hoping this will be the last tripod I ever need to buy. I also bought the SunWayFoto Geared head. (I still have a very compact Heipi Carbon Fiber travel trips for long hikes.)

https://promediagear.com/collections/carbon-fiber-tripods-34-series/products/tr344lbl-pro-stix-carbon-fiber-tripod-with-leveling-head

Read your post. Interesting points. My problem is, I'm a gear nerd. I love all things tech. Always have. Started my life after High School as a repairman on the NORAD SAGE computer system. Far from powerful by today's standards, but infinitely more complex to repair. The "manual" was huge. You could not just pull a card to fix a problem - you had to figure out exactly which leg of which AND OR NOR or NAND gate was bad, or which multi-vibrator circuit (out of millions) was not flipping from 0 to 1, etc. In High School I was into CB radio and my room was filled with so much radio gear it looked like mission control. With camera gear, I got into "serious" photography rather late in life. I do read through the manuals, but often find I don't remember everything I've read, so sometimes have to go back for a refresh. I'm not ashamed to ask the odd question if I run into a problem or don't understand something.

Just playing around with the effect a bit more. Wife at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, AZ. Applied the effect to everything except her and the luminescent sidewalk she was on.

Both

Just for fun. Played around with it a bit more this morning. Our grand niece.

You can get similar effects with panning, but the Adamaski effect gives you a lot more artistic license an allows you to create effects that you would not have from just panning.

Here is one I did a while back of a surfer off the coast at Sunset Cliffs Park near San Diego.

If done well it can result in some lovely images.

My goals are rather simple. I want to expand and improve my night sky photography to include more Milkyway panorama shots and lots of star trails with a variety of interesting foregrounds in each case. Want to greatly improve my post processing all around.

MERRY CHRISTMAS. HOPE SANTA BROUGHT YOU A FEW FUN TOYS!

A little AI-Generative Fill from a Supermoon over Sandia Crest I took back in August (only the Santa is AI haha!)

I've never used a geared head but from some of the videos I've seen it does look like they would be very useful for landscapes and panos. I've done panos and night sky panos with a ball head and it's a real pain to make sure things stay level as you pan. Constant adjustment.