Photography Thread
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Daffodils are out around here, can’t recall ever seeing them so early before.
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Even the magnolias are starting to blossom here, but it's still 'kin miserable!
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We've had one out in the front garden for a few weeks now. Just the solitary one though.
February tends to be the month to start with plenty out for St. Davids.
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Yup, miserable all round. Tomorrow looks a bit more promising.🌞
Didn't see much colour around, or maybe it was just too soggy to get down low.
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I love new beech leaves... must make an effort to photograph some when they emerge.
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Nice idea, a fresh looking green.
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Nice walk this morning (it being another crap cycling day), some beech leaves a-glowing for @masjer , and a couple of flowing water... seems the trick on my camera, as well as setting the ISO to the lowest value, is then to go for aperture priority, set that as low as possible (only nominally f8 on the Sony), then adjust the compensation to a value that gives a shutter speed of 1/4s or more. The one with Tripp the dog is rather pleasing, as Tripp stood still enough to get him sharp and the river moving on (I think) 1/3s exposure, and the whites aren't bleached out.
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^ Impressive how long you can handhold a long exposure with modern tech.
For once, I had the best of both worlds, a misty morning for photography, then sunny, glorious cycling weather in the afternoon.
I think I’ve all but exhausted the small local wood for compositions (without a change of season). It’s a convenient location, but somewhat lacking.
Ideally, I'd have liked to have found a small tree clinging to some of its autumn leaves. There were plenty around, but unfortunately never in a good location.
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I find well done woodland photography to be stunning. I also find it the hardest to do.
Check out Mads Peter Iversen on YT if not already familiar.
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Agree.
Yes, I've seen some of his YT vids. If I remember correctly, he did one in Denmark with cobwebs catching the early morning light and in a deer park using a long lens. Watchable and talented.
Next step for me is to upgrade my wood. I usually don't feel inclined to travel far to better ones, especially if conditions aren't going to be good (never a guarantee with that).
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Just to add, any woodland that's left here is mostly situated on steep valley sides, making it a challenge. Also, the understory is usually thick and possibly not the most photogenic. Good excuses, those.😆
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You want to upgrade your wood? Fnar, fnar. 😉
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A few from my walk up and around the Blorenge on Saturday, all from the phone which seems to have done a decent job in tricky conditions. As usual I couldn't pick a favourite!
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Some surprisingly large waves considering the neap tide and no wind. Rather than rollers breaking, I tried for something different. Some movement there, but I would’ve preferred a more abstract result on some.
And just enough wave energy left to cover the pebble.
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Not a wave in sight here, but a sunset that'll do. Unexpected.
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Nice. It's a carbon copy of the one I experienced here, but I had already left the coast and ran out of energy to return.
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Hadn't really been taking note, but I have the advantage of that view from my top floor, so can manage the energy for that if I see an unexpected glow.
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Just a quick snap out of the top deck but difficult to get bored of that view.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition4 -
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I polished my two silver trumpets these week, so got a bit creative with the two shiny bell ends.
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I've only just realised that I will be two-thirds the age of my lovely 1934 Olds Super trumpet this year. The engraving on the bell was done by hand, and he stopped in 1939. I sometimes wonder who he was and what happened to him. I've got three instruments with his work on. It was made the year that this was released:
BTW, I wasn't upside-down when I took the photo.
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Wave-centric stuff again.
Spot the windsurfer.
Long exposure. Ideally would've liked a bit more movement in the foreground, but the wavelength seemed to make it impossible to catch a breaking wave together with a wave washing up on shore.
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I'll be heading down to Budleigh later, and with a stiff off-shore northerly, it'll be interesting to see if there's any good sunny wave action.
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That sounds like a plan.👍
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Is it possible to merge two shots together for the breaking waves? One long exposure foreground with one fast exposure freezing the background wave. Just a thought as I'm sure I've seen someone (Mads?) do that for a waterfall.
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Really like the bottom one.
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Thanks Pross.
I’m sure it would be possible (and easy on Photoshop?). My Chromebook scuppers using PS, but I think it’s still feasible on Photopea, which is compatible with Chromebook. I don’t enjoy editing much, so will always try to capture in a single shot, but no doubt a multiple image stack would yield better results.
Focus stacking is something I might try one day.
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I just tried focus stacking for the first time last week. Was easy and worked well so will be doing more in future. Tripod required obviously. Not tried photo merging but assumed it would be relatively similarly straightforward.
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I've done some merging, finding good videos on YouTube is the key - some manage to make it really complicated (and also assume you know PS inside out). I've only used it on the nightscape stuff to blend sky and foreground whith pretty clean lines (something I'll hopefully be doing more of soon as I'm planning on buying a star tracker), I suspect it will be much harder with the messy lines created by waves but I'm really not very good on that sort of thing.
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