Photography Thread
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Looking the other way - much less cloud (not sure the Portaloo makes a good foreground but wouldn't mind living in that cottage). MW is clearer in that direction even though the core is the other way due to less coud and light pollution.
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For some reason an angled shot (rather than straight up) gives better colour to the sky.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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Wanted to use this tree as a foreground for a while and finally gave it a go tonight with the aim of getting the moon poking through the trees behind. I would have liked a sharper moon but not really viable whilst exposing the foreground. I'd have liked a few more stars too but the moonlight and light pollution from Newport a couple of miles behind washed the sky out too much. Quite happy with the otcome though.
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On a different note, it's raining here, and as I'm having a lazy afternoon, was just intrigued as to how sharp rain can be captured at 1/1600s. Reasonably, is the answer. But not heavy enough to be 'raining strings', which I'd like to try too, purely on the technical level.
I could probably do a bit of maffs, if I got an average speed for raindrops falling, to work out how far away the closest (blurred) ones are caught by the camera.
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I’m sure you have the theory correct but in these digital days everyone just shoots a load at different shutter speeds as the variables are too much to figure out.
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In the same vein...
I wasn't too greedy with zoom and trying to fill the frame... cropped from a photo about four times as big.
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I don't think this experimental one works, though the intention was to focus on the droplet.
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On the equipment question, I do occasionally ponder what camera I'd replace my Sony HX-60 with, as it will give up the ghost sooner or later (generally it seems to be somewhere in the electronics that stops functioning eventually). I paid about £220 for the last one, but I can't see any sort of equivalent now for way north of £500, which really annoys me... it seems that well-known marques have more or less stopped catering for the space in between cheapo compacts and fancier bigger cameras. Grrr.
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In your shoes I'd probably go for a used Fuji or Panasonic but it's a long time since I looked at compacts.
Canon used to do good compacts and there's also this Sony as an example. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/375595820146?_nkw=RX100&itmmeta=01J5MX4B3VQNK6EQWWE7J1HEGY&hash=item5773416472:g:kPYAAOSwllRmv7PM&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAA4HoV3kP08IDx%2BKZ9MfhVJKnu8qv2qCa6IYy0nsSrPuPMgmy8IRp4evw%2FcIVyoSoPjv4ZUlxl7dCDHASRp9slC2tc3jULHTks%2BKZLBx1QwZ9ZKVZloCrus6bFGTOpU9Ue31N2jGjmU%2BQMTnyafCy95OORgZu1ybrxzHsk0HvyvBUV8QSELR9ls2UuAPf9pqPRp%2Bg6Ph%2B6zemrEOw3m93NFm0GD33fhhQowlDyIBF8U67qwrFbqMvqPZ%2B8m5s8nI0rI%2BjHEHdjOK%2BIinq2cDE2%2BCfDQfi4ppUYhHQxtFImunnz%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR4CykZ2tZA
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Thanks, yes, had idly been seeing what was out there as used (a keen photographer friend used to have a really cracking compact Olympus), but it just seems it's now a gap in the market for new cameras.
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Put it down to cost of living crisis/inflation. Photography gear has gone up in line with cycling gear, ie crazy for new stuff.
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I guess so, but that doesn't explain the hole in the market for cameras like my Sony (ditto the comparable Panasonic Lumix, which I can no longer find). My suspicion would be that they've ditched this kind of kit in the hope that people will go to fancier stuff at more than double the price.
This looks quite nice at almost 4x the price:
Second-hand Panasonic:
Hmm, a possibility:
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Anyway, in the meantime, home tat using HDR to bring out the luminence of today's light.
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To be honest for the photos you take your kit seems to do a better job than my DSLR. The macros in particular seem very good. MPB is always worth a look for second-hand kit.
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TBH, I'm far too lazy to want anything more complicated, and so all I want is a good lens, a good image chip, and passable on-board auto functions. (A professional photographer friend told me the Sony's lens and chip were very good, and I've had no reason to disagree.) I found the Lumix a bit fiddly (and don't want or like the touch screen function). I also want something that's not so precious that I won't put it in a jersey pocket or do on-the-bike riding photos with one hand. £300-400 really ought to get me something decent, I'd have hoped, but it seems like the options are limited. Ho hum, will just keep fingers crossed that the Sony carries on for a while yet, and doesn't take too much offence if I spill more Côte-du-Rhône over it. Or drop it. Again.
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This is what MPB currently has for Sony compacts. It's a trade-in site so it constantly changes though.
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Thanks Pross - have bookmarked that for when I have the need (and/or the inclination).
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Another avenue is Sony refurbished but they don't appear to have much. My current avenue is Nikon refurbished or MPB.
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Balcony road tat, at the Gorges du Nan. I've only been here twice before, as it's quite a lumpy distance from my house, and both previous times the weather has not been ideal.
Actually, it's quite difficult to get just how nuts this road is... it's probably the second most crackers one around here, but the most crackers one is now shut.
Anyway, three samples of trying to 'capture' its craziness. The older bit of the wall is about 2ft high. Health and Safety gone mad.
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Seeing as we've had a run of insects on flowers.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition3 -
Catching my boy and his girlfriend up in Norfolk last week
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More sunsettery
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Missed the superduper amazing blue moon (or whatever the media are calling it now) on Mondy due to 100% cloud cover but got out last night. Planned it all in Photopills and the composition worked out exactly as planned other than I somehow changed my focal length after taking some foreground shots ready to do a composite image. I took a series of about 30 shots at 20" intervals as the moon rose behind the Second Severn Crossing and the image below is roughly every fifth one I think. It's amazing how much the brightness changes over such a short time, I tried to balance them out a bit but lost the detail in the higher ones when blending them. I need to learn more about Photoshop but just for a bit of fun.
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These are composites with a faster exposure, sharper moon blended onto the longer exposure foreground. Really pleased with these as it was the first time I've tried the technique.
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Single shot with the moon over-exposed to get the foreground
This was the shot I really wanted but couldn't get a blended one to work. This is a single shot where I've lifted the shadows as much as I could without losing the clarity of the moon but the foreground is still a bit under-exposed. The red light reflecting on the moon is a bit annoying too.
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Still mooning: it was such a bright moon shortly after 6am that it was still casting sharp shadows in the house despite it getting light already.
Anyway, this is what it looked like out of the window as I did the washing-up before I went off for my ride.
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Extra points if you can guess the connection to Kevin Costner.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition2 -
Used in Robin Hood Prince Of Thieves?
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