Posts for: Traveller_Jeff
Oct 9, 2022 07:49:15 #
Nice image. Is this straight out of the camera or after some post?
Oct 9, 2022 00:13:49 #
98% full moon. Camera: Nikon D5. Lens: Tamron 150-600mm G2 Zoom taken handheld at 600mm. Aperture: f/11; shutter speed 1/2500th; ISO: 800. What little noise there was was eliminated with Topaz denoise. Contrast and shadow details enhanced in Lightroom. Image cropped and magnified in photoshop.
Oct 8, 2022 22:25:02 #
Shot with Nikon D5. Lens: Tamron 150-600mm G2 Zoom at 600mm. 1/2500th at F/11 ISO 800. Denoised with Topaz. Tried various f stops and ISO ranges. This was the best of the shots. I used both lightroom and photoshop to create the best balance of brightness and contrast.
I'm thinking of acquiring a nikkor 200-500mm sometime soon. I've heard that what is lost in magnification is more than made up in clarity. Other hoggers' thoughts?
I'm thinking of acquiring a nikkor 200-500mm sometime soon. I've heard that what is lost in magnification is more than made up in clarity. Other hoggers' thoughts?
Aug 1, 2022 00:24:05 #
Longshadow wrote:
As wide an aperture as you can get to let as much light in as possible. I use a 50mm ƒ1.4. Wide/tele depending on how much of the sky you want to capture vs. the aperture available for that focal length.
Tripod with remote shutter release.
After about 15+ seconds you'll start getting star trails.
Tripod with remote shutter release.
After about 15+ seconds you'll start getting star trails.
Instead of the remote shutter release, set your timer to open the lens 10 seconds after you've pressed the shutter. I use a 35mm lens on a Nikon D5 to get the larger constellations. What is it you're looking for? If it's star trails, then keep the shutter open for a couple of minutes; if it's constellations, then make the exposure a lot shorter and brighten it up in post. Keep the ISO low enough to minimize noise; i use no higher than 400. Topaz denoise on the NEF file can also reduce whatever noise does remain.
Jul 31, 2022 22:44:04 #
ronpier wrote:
I try to cull my images at least once every year. Usually takes a lot longer as the library expands. Some shots would never be deleted, especially those of our children and our grandchild. Others get deleted very quickly but each review is treated as a learning experience for future shots.
And what about the 4-8 photos that you took at 1/10 of a second apart from each other to try to get the best fleeting expression on the subject's face or just the right moment that the bird's wing wasn't obscuring its beak. Do you cull all around the shot that you consider the "keeper"? EHD space is cheap enough, to be sure, but certainly you don't keep every single shot you took? Or do you?
Jul 19, 2022 08:44:55 #
ClarkJohnson wrote:
I’ve done « approaching storm » shots, but nothing as grand or ominous as this. Congratulations! This was recent? You could probably play with the exposure on the buildings (ala Ansel Adam’s ‘Moonrise’).
It was that very day. It's a merging of 9 overlapping images.
Jul 19, 2022 02:15:29 #
From my window, these clouds spelled deep trouble. The storm shut down parts of the local highway approaches to New York City, as well as the NYC subway system and trains coming and going to Grand Central Station.
Jul 15, 2022 10:24:36 #
The point is that there WAS low light and I didn't want to brighten it in post. It's as you see it. That was the charm. To brighten it is to detroy the effect I was going for.
Jul 15, 2022 10:22:55 #
That building is called the El Dorado Towers located at 300 Central Park West on the Upper West Side in Manhattan
Jul 14, 2022 22:37:58 #
You've got it. I meant to grant access to the original jpg.
Jul 14, 2022 22:00:03 #
Stunned by the dusky view from my 27th floor overlook of the Upper East Side of Manhattan from my Upper West Side living room window, I tried to capture the magic here. Best viewed in a darkened room.
Jun 18, 2022 21:49:07 #
What is the resolution of the output images? How high can it get? How long does it take to scan 12 slides at a time to create pixellation-free 8x10 images?
Jun 4, 2022 11:16:47 #
Longshadow wrote:
Trying to remember when I last did a billboard...
Billboards are only one of a host of reasons one would want to blow a photo up to larger than a jpg would allow. You might want to create a framed photo of an ancestor and all you have is a small 2x2 or 3x5 from which to copy. Gigapixel is a response to that need.
Jun 4, 2022 11:03:45 #
Longshadow wrote:
Handy if one is doing billboards. 
Exactly! That's one of the reasons Gigapixel was created.
Jun 4, 2022 10:38:03 #
ELNikkor wrote:
Don't know what TIFF is, or why some of my files were saved as TIFF in Gigapixel, but the files were huge; probably good for printing murals.
That's why Gigapixel exists - It converts a jpg with its blow-up limitations and creates a version of the photograph that doesn't pixillate until the image is about 6x the size of the original jpg.