Photography Thread
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Yup, never managed a shot I've been pleased with, despite having Wistman's Wood and Black-a-Tor Copse to play with.
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Yup, not easy and I’d like to improve. I wouldn’t say mist is a must, but it sure helps! I don’t enjoy editing or think I’m much good at it, but what I’ve found is that editing woodland is the inverse of almost everything else, with subtle changes needed. High contrast, high clarity, sharpening, wrong whites/blacks can soon turn a potential image into a delete.
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#frenchspam
A cracking day to walk up for a lunch picnic at a viewpoint above Die, and looking back to my village in the foothills beyond. I'm sure I've mentioned it before, but the big snowy mountains behind are 20 million years younger than the little green mountains in front.
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Another murky day here but I decided to rise above it to where the skies were blue. Went to take photos of my club’s mountain race but in making sure I packed all the clothing I needed for after my parkrun I forgot the minor item of my camera so only had my phone. Very atmospheric with the fog in the valley and the mist rolling down the hillside behind the pond
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Yeah, there seem to have been some amazing temperature inversions lately - a friend went up to Dartmoor a couple of days ago, and that seemed to be one of the few places in Devon that was above the murk, and he had a spectacular view across the top of the murk, walking in T-shirt and shorts.
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Talking of murk.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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And a very rare postbox.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition1 -
My daughter has been doing a job at some castle outside Barry for the last couple of nights so I’ve had to kill time between dropping her off and picking her up. I took my camera yesterday but it very cloudy and misty. Tonight was due to be the same so I didn’t take the camera and brought the dog to walk instead. Typically the clouds cleared and the stars came out but I had to make do with my phone handheld. Will be back once the Milky Way vote returns in a few months.
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One of those times I was pleased I had the proper camera with a decent zoom... I know that a big expensive camera with a proper big lens wouldn't have the approximations of this (see around the head in particular), but the glint in the eye is still passable for a £200 camera.
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Actually, I quite like my two failures... buzzards have a habit of watching you as you slow down and get the camera out, but just before you press the shutter, off they fly. Well, this one as hopping from telegraph pole to telegraph pole, and I had a little bit of cover, but... twice! At least I got it, albeit a second too late each time!
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Shot of the day for me is the striking frosty trees against the dark background, but it's good to have some wildlife too. The first bird of prey a merlin? Or perhaps a continental one.
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Yeah, me too re the frosty one... the locals must think I'm mad at the moment, as with all the contre jour shots, I'm trying to find somewhere to shoot from in shadow, even if it's only a lamp post.
Not sure about the birdy... I'm hoping one of my knowledgeable FB friends will enlighten me... always nice if it's something ever so slightly unusual and that they're ever so slightly jealous.
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Google Lens says 'kestrel', which was my first uneducated guess.
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Yeah, kestrel looks more likely with its long tail feathers.
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From Friday night at Nash Point lighthouse when I had my proper camera and tripod but the skies were resolutely cloudy. Very difficult to manage the contrast, the top image is a series of 15 x 2" shots at ISO 6400 blended in Photoshop trying to capture multiple flashes from the beacon. The lower one is ISO 800 and 60", both shot at f2.8.
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Well done under the circumstances. If it's of any consolation then it should be easier with more light in the sky.
From what I've read you are better maximising the time at 20 seconds otherwise you get blur in the stars from the Earth's rotation which is why the keen guys use fast primes although I see you already have f2.8.
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No stars on that night so I was able to increase the exposure time and drop the ISO on the bottom one. I’ve got an 11-16mm f2.8 zoom which is my main lens for night shooting and also a 50mm f1.8 but that’s not generally wide enough (I tend to use it for panoramas). I’ve also got a star tracker now and looking at the forecast I’m hoping to use it for the first time on Thursday night. Should be able to go to at least 2 minutes with that but will have to blend foreground and sky in PS.
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Nice job. Would it be possible to do an exposure purely for the widows and keep some detail in the light there?
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What a nice sentiment, though I think we should think of widowers too at this time of joy.
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Ha, that's me all over, always thinking of others.😀
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We also should think about the negative aspect of having over-exposed widowers.
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Sounds like you are well equipped with the 11-16 and star tracker, the tracker in particular.
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Yeah, it’s just a little MSM Nomad but they have very good reviews (just not suitable for long lenses used in deep space stuff). I bought it back at the end of the summer but haven’t had a chance to use it yet.
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Ideally I would do some kind of blending or mask the windows and drop the highlights in that area but my PS / LR skills are still very limited. I did do a bit of brushing with a light pollution reduction preset but it didn’t do a huge amount. Finds no YouTube tutorials where they don’t assume you already know loads is a challenge.
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I see one on pretty much every dog walk and it takes off from its perch just as we approach. The other day I could see it doing its take off preparation but it then did its equivalent of lighting the afterburners which narrowly missed us as it landed on the lane! We then had a Green Woodpecker fly right across our path walking up the main road into our estate which was a surprise.
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I’ve tried a few supposedly simple things on Photopea (an online PS lite). It’s never gone well. Either my Chromebook overheats and grinds to a halt or I do (usually both).
I would be better off with a widows PC, but would still lack the skill.
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Too blimmin cold still to go riding in the morning here (-4C this morning at 10am), so I made do with doing things with the turkey leftovers and then going for a quick stroll up the ravin again. Rewarded. You can see the 'steam' coming off the stream that's 'growing' the frost each night.
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A passable way to see off 2024. The first one was because I had to take my rubbish to the communal collection point before the walk.
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