Fireflys
Jul 1, 2020 10:06:56 #
fetzler
Loc: North West PA
This is my first attempt with Olympus LIVECOMP mode. Camera was PenF with 40-150mm kit lens. Lens was set to 100mm. Flashes were collected over a 25 minute period. Download is best.
Jul 1, 2020 10:19:20 #
I would clone out the house and background lights to make this a truly magical, engaging photo!
The difference in colors/brightness between thumbnail and download is color space. For UHH always use sRGB.
The difference in colors/brightness between thumbnail and download is color space. For UHH always use sRGB.
Jul 1, 2020 10:27:40 #
fetzler wrote:
This is my first attempt with Olympus LIVECOMP mode. Camera was PenF with 40-150mm kit lens. Lens was set to 100mm. Flashes were collected over a 25 minute period. Download is best.
Jul 1, 2020 10:52:08 #
Jul 1, 2020 10:55:43 #
Like Linda said if you crop out the house (or car) lights you've got a winner.
Jul 1, 2020 12:11:54 #
fetzler
Loc: North West PA
Linda From Maine wrote:
I would clone out the house and background lights to make this a truly magical, engaging photo!
The difference in colors/brightness between thumbnail and download is color space. For UHH always use sRGB.
The difference in colors/brightness between thumbnail and download is color space. For UHH always use sRGB.
All the images are in sRGB color space.
Jul 1, 2020 12:59:02 #
fetzler wrote:
Good golly, it is. This is the first time I've seen that much of a difference in download when it was sRGB. The world has gone insane!All the images are in sRGB color space.
Jul 1, 2020 13:00:42 #
Ava'sPapa wrote:
Not crop, clone Like Linda said if you crop out the house (or car) lights you've got a winner.
Jul 1, 2020 14:03:18 #
Jul 1, 2020 14:47:28 #
fetzler wrote:
This is my first attempt with Olympus LIVECOMP mode. Camera was PenF with 40-150mm kit lens. Lens was set to 100mm. Flashes were collected over a 25 minute period. Download is best.
What Linda said. Very well captured.
Jul 2, 2020 08:02:17 #
Jul 2, 2020 08:26:41 #
Linda From Maine wrote:
Not crop, clone
Hi Linda I "cropped" the photo and it looks fine. But I'm unfamiliar with "cloning". Could you educate me? Thanks.
Jul 2, 2020 10:41:26 #
Jul 2, 2020 11:52:11 #
What a great shot! This species of firefly has an interesting courtship/recognition pattern. The females climb up a tall stalk and wait for a male to show up. The males go to tall stalks randomly and start a few inches away with a long flash that sweeps from bottom up along the chosen stalk, the 'J's you have captured. If a female is present and she recognizes the male flash as her own species, she will tilt her abdomen toward the male and 'flash' him. He then lands and courts and mates, then flies away. I don't remember the species at this time - I'll try to let you know if I find it. There are quite a few kinds of firefly, each with their own recognition pattern - some make a specific pulsing pattern as the fly overhead, others a long, high glowing line. There is even a predatory firefly that mimics a female flash, and eats the males that respond! It's a beetle-eat-beetle world out there. I remember a stop with my family in Ohio one year where a next-door field became alive with flashes at dusk of another species. We were enchanted by the spectacle.
Jul 2, 2020 14:43:59 #
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