By Perfect Blue Go To PostIncredible shots.Yeah, they really are fantastic.
Thanks!
These are some of the scaly breasted lorikeet ones I mentioned - was very pleased with these, they're not exactly sedate birds and using a long MF lens on them means you need to, how to put it, maintain optimism at all times.
scaly-breasted lorikeet by PIG, on Flickr
scaly-breasted lorikeet by PIG, on Flickr
scaly breasted lorikeet on bottlebrush by PIG, on Flickr
scaly breasted lorikeet on bottlebrush by PIG, on Flickr
These are some of the scaly breasted lorikeet ones I mentioned - was very pleased with these, they're not exactly sedate birds and using a long MF lens on them means you need to, how to put it, maintain optimism at all times.
scaly-breasted lorikeet by PIG, on Flickr
scaly-breasted lorikeet by PIG, on Flickr
scaly breasted lorikeet on bottlebrush by PIG, on Flickr
scaly breasted lorikeet on bottlebrush by PIG, on Flickr
I love your command of color in these photos. Your subject manner almost demands for some vibrant contrasting colors.
By reilo Go To PostI love your command of color in these photos. Your subject manner almost demands for some vibrant contrasting colors.
The best couple tips I got on that (lightroom):
1) most of the time you really want to change a colour's luminance instead of saturation
ed - 1a) again to do with brightness of colour vs strength - one other trick you can do in Tone Curve is drop Whites, boost Highlights, then increase exposure in Basic. You can also change the ranges at which those controls take effect by dragging the markers at the bottom of the tone mapping panel
1b) you can hold the ALT key while you drag the brightness controls in Basic and the image will switch to black and white and display clipping as white (also a handy thing for using the sharpening panel).
2) the very last set of controls in lightroom - where you set the hue/saturation as processed from the sensor and the overall colour profile - actually do useful things. If you're see-sawwing a photo of a real subject that doesn't cleanly break down into separate colours, and modifying yellow/green by themselves causes things to look weird, change the primary saturation for the channels instead.
I bought a new lens but haven't had time to properly use it but I took this shot today and idk, I really like it.
By Vlatko Go To PostJust from an iPhone but these were my favorite pictures I took on my Japan trip.First one is dope
Semi-related, but I thought you guys might appreciate these
The game has some pretty crazy attention to detail, especially when it comes to optics!
The game has some pretty crazy attention to detail, especially when it comes to optics!
I never used the camera long enough to notice all of that. Pretty crazy that they programmed so many details into how the camera operates. That's actually making me want to go back to it, just to take pics.
By EldritchTrapStar Go To PostI never used the camera long enough to notice all of that. Pretty crazy that they programmed so many details into how the camera operates. That's actually making me want to go back to it, just to take pics.
Yeah, treating the game as a virtual P&S photography game works pretty well, I must say!
By s y Go To Post3rd one is the best. Very eerie. The first two, not so much.Appreciate the feedback! Sadly, those were the best of the bunch.
e: I had a kinda better version of the first one but it was also worse in other ways. Not terribly happy with it.
By Kibner Go To PostI stepped outside to walk my dog and realized that it was just the right moment for some neat looking photos.do you list in Stephen King's The Mist?
By DY_nasty Go To Postdo you list in Stephen King's The Mist?Can't say I don't.
I never think to do an extended exposure like in your first shot. It looks neat!
I wonder how that third picture would look if the tree was off-center and not blocking the city skyline but was still in focus. But then you may be missing the streetlight, the hill, and/or a large portion of the skyline. Hmmm...
I wonder how that third picture would look if the tree was off-center and not blocking the city skyline but was still in focus. But then you may be missing the streetlight, the hill, and/or a large portion of the skyline. Hmmm...
By Kibner Go To PostI never think to do an extended exposure like in your first shot. It looks neat!Do you own a tripod? I highly recommend getting one if you don’t. It’ll improve anyone’s photography by a lot.
A good tripod for night shooting is a must. I'd even say use the remote to trigger it so you don't shake the camera while pressing the button.
By Perfect Blue Go To PostDo you own a tripod? I highly recommend getting one if you don’t. It’ll improve anyone’s photography by a lot.I do! I just... also never think to use it. lol
By reilo Go To PostA good tripod for night shooting is a must. I'd even say use the remote to trigger it so you don't shake the camera while pressing the button.I use the two second delay setting on my camera, works well.
Some recent ones from some trips to the Mt Coot-tha botanic gardens:
mating damselflies in flight - natural light focus stack by PIG, on Flickr
mating pair of damselflies landing by PIG, on Flickr
mating pair of damselflies in flight - natural light focus stack by PIG, on Flickr
dragonfly in flight by PIG, on Flickr
mating pair of damselflies in flight - natural light focus stack by PIG, on Flickr
dragonfly in flight by PIG, on Flickr
last one got the coveted rolf nagel comment (dude has been doing insects in flight since the 1970s), pretty pleased. It's not an easy genre of photography and it helps if you have a reaaalllly big SDcard and a spare battery or two. Damsels and dragonflies move at somewhere around 500km/h in human scaled speeds and they don't rest on the wing for all that long, and even 1/8000 shots here still give you some wing blur when they're really moving.
The really impressive one here is the shot of the two mating damsels from above - the vertical separation is such that it took 14 shots assembled to get them together, each looking like this -
Also had the worst luck with backgrounds on this lot - either muddy grey or black or burned out weird looking reflections, actually had to dump a really nice looking set, of the mating pair from the front, because the background was so bad and not easily removed - it was really unnatural lines of water reflections formed right around both sets of both damsels wings and made the real background look like a sloppy photoshop. Too long to fix.
Also think I've talked myself into buying the G9, after pooing on it before. It just looks too nice and having pre-burst/pro-capture style 60fps full sensor readouts with 0.4sec history - without needing Olympus lenses - too tempting. It is everything I wanted from the M1-ii except a bit stupidly large and the EVF doesn't tilt. It does have full size HDMI out so I keep wondering if I could do an eyepiece display with hdmi over wifi from it.
mating damselflies in flight - natural light focus stack by PIG, on Flickr
mating pair of damselflies landing by PIG, on Flickr
mating pair of damselflies in flight - natural light focus stack by PIG, on Flickr
dragonfly in flight by PIG, on Flickr
mating pair of damselflies in flight - natural light focus stack by PIG, on Flickr
dragonfly in flight by PIG, on Flickr
last one got the coveted rolf nagel comment (dude has been doing insects in flight since the 1970s), pretty pleased. It's not an easy genre of photography and it helps if you have a reaaalllly big SDcard and a spare battery or two. Damsels and dragonflies move at somewhere around 500km/h in human scaled speeds and they don't rest on the wing for all that long, and even 1/8000 shots here still give you some wing blur when they're really moving.
The really impressive one here is the shot of the two mating damsels from above - the vertical separation is such that it took 14 shots assembled to get them together, each looking like this -
Also had the worst luck with backgrounds on this lot - either muddy grey or black or burned out weird looking reflections, actually had to dump a really nice looking set, of the mating pair from the front, because the background was so bad and not easily removed - it was really unnatural lines of water reflections formed right around both sets of both damsels wings and made the real background look like a sloppy photoshop. Too long to fix.
Also think I've talked myself into buying the G9, after pooing on it before. It just looks too nice and having pre-burst/pro-capture style 60fps full sensor readouts with 0.4sec history - without needing Olympus lenses - too tempting. It is everything I wanted from the M1-ii except a bit stupidly large and the EVF doesn't tilt. It does have full size HDMI out so I keep wondering if I could do an eyepiece display with hdmi over wifi from it.
That dragon fly in flight one is stunning. It's amazing it isn't the "impressive" one here because that last shot you took in mid flight looks super challenging.
By shun Go To PostThe Sagrada Familia in BarcelonaAdded to the list of buildings I want to see when I eventually travel to Europe.
Oof, I had the Panasonic G9 preordered and cancelled it yesterday. Their own rep really talked them out of a deal here -
https://www.mu-43.com/threads/panasonic-g9-high-resolution-with-strobes.96017/
Basically: Panasonic's implementation of sensor shift high res doesn't allow for flash at all, their focus bracketing setup doesn't allow for a delay to allow flash to recharge between shots, and their version of focus stacking works from a video file, not stills. So also no flash. "Just use a LED panel" their rep says. It's hard not to see this as a corporate culture thing where they've been so video-centric for so long that they simply don't have enough stills people with authority to tell them they're doing something dumb. Nobody is tossing their strobes setup to work with LEDs at a collection of non-banding shutter speeds, even if they're doing something where that would work at all. Not worth losing that for a better EVF and 4k/60 for me.
So anyway, I switched over to an E-M1ii and walked out with it immediately (at a lot more reasonable $ than the $2900 or whatever it launched at here). 60fps: very nice. Stabiliser: took my 180mm macro out and got good shots at down to 1/30, and that was after walking around all day and a few coffees so hoping I can get even lower than that. Cine 4k: looks ... actually really decent? Have to get set up to mess with it but just pilfering it out of camera on my 4k set looked surprisingly good and the stabilisation is unbelievable. Pro capture: only works on my 60mm macro and kit zooms so not sure how much use this will be, this was actually the feature that really turned me off buying the camera to begin with (lock-in on lenses for pro-capture when it's basically a rolling memory buffer trick only). I have this horrible feeling it will work and I will end up with the 40-150 or 300mm sometime.
https://www.mu-43.com/threads/panasonic-g9-high-resolution-with-strobes.96017/
Basically: Panasonic's implementation of sensor shift high res doesn't allow for flash at all, their focus bracketing setup doesn't allow for a delay to allow flash to recharge between shots, and their version of focus stacking works from a video file, not stills. So also no flash. "Just use a LED panel" their rep says. It's hard not to see this as a corporate culture thing where they've been so video-centric for so long that they simply don't have enough stills people with authority to tell them they're doing something dumb. Nobody is tossing their strobes setup to work with LEDs at a collection of non-banding shutter speeds, even if they're doing something where that would work at all. Not worth losing that for a better EVF and 4k/60 for me.
So anyway, I switched over to an E-M1ii and walked out with it immediately (at a lot more reasonable $ than the $2900 or whatever it launched at here). 60fps: very nice. Stabiliser: took my 180mm macro out and got good shots at down to 1/30, and that was after walking around all day and a few coffees so hoping I can get even lower than that. Cine 4k: looks ... actually really decent? Have to get set up to mess with it but just pilfering it out of camera on my 4k set looked surprisingly good and the stabilisation is unbelievable. Pro capture: only works on my 60mm macro and kit zooms so not sure how much use this will be, this was actually the feature that really turned me off buying the camera to begin with (lock-in on lenses for pro-capture when it's basically a rolling memory buffer trick only). I have this horrible feeling it will work and I will end up with the 40-150 or 300mm sometime.
Let's do it: https://www.flickr.com/photos/51696585@N06/
I uploaded an album from 2012, don't have much: https://www.flickr.com/gp/51696585@N06/o3U56G
Although, having messed with Flickr for the last 20 minutes.. this experience is horrific. Wtf happened? There's several sections that you click on and it takes you to like a mid-2000s user experience randomly.
I uploaded an album from 2012, don't have much: https://www.flickr.com/gp/51696585@N06/o3U56G
Although, having messed with Flickr for the last 20 minutes.. this experience is horrific. Wtf happened? There's several sections that you click on and it takes you to like a mid-2000s user experience randomly.
I think I am going to try out 500px as well because Flickr's UX is so bad: https://500px.com/todesignanconquer
Any sites that depict portrait photography under different lighting(ambient, 1 source etc)?. I thought something like that would be a lot easier to find. I'm trying to find stuff to study for painting.
By s y Go To PostAny sites that depict portrait photography under different lighting(ambient, 1 source etc)?. I thought something like that would be a lot easier to find. I'm trying to find stuff to study for painting.
Just follow photographers on Instagram. Stuff like this dudes:
https://www.instagram.com/ryanmayo
Went to SF and did tourist stuff yesterday
Jellyfish by Jerry Parker, on Flickr
More Jellyfish by Jerry Parker, on Flickr
Jellyfish by Jerry Parker, on Flickr
More Jellyfish by Jerry Parker, on Flickr
^ water creatures are so wonderfully weird
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I went to the SoCal meetup in Los Angeles to hang out with some SLAENTers and also take pictures of a place I've never been to before.
Here is an un-curated album of all the photos I took: http://img.gg/RNkoGs5
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I went to the SoCal meetup in Los Angeles to hang out with some SLAENTers and also take pictures of a place I've never been to before.
Here is an un-curated album of all the photos I took: http://img.gg/RNkoGs5
Apollo, those colors look so good man.
Kibner is growing before our very eyes. Your composition has gotten better m8.
Kibner is growing before our very eyes. Your composition has gotten better m8.
By EldritchTrapStar Go To PostApollo, those colors look so good man.Thanks! I still need to get some more lenses because I would have loved to have a wide angle shot from Griffith Observatory.
Kibner is growing before our very eyes. Your composition has gotten better m8.
Yea Kib, you're trucking along. Just wait until you start learning the rule of thirds and figuring out how to manipulate color to get the mood you were feeling at the time.
Canon t4i and iphone 8 shots
Aidan and the Sardines (1 of 1) by Jerry Parker, on Flickr
Japantown by Jerry Parker, on Flickr
Sunrises on Dirty Mirrors by Jerry Parker, on Flickr
Nearshore Waters (1 of 1) by Jerry Parker, on Flickr
Lonely Jellyfish (1 of 1) by Jerry Parker, on Flickr
Jellys (1 of 1) by Jerry Parker, on Flickr
Flow Jelly (1 of 1) by Jerry Parker, on Flickr
Fish People (1 of 1) by Jerry Parker, on Flickr
Another Jellyfish Story (1 of 1) by Jerry Parker, on Flickr
Random street in SF by Jerry Parker, on Flickr
Aidan and the Sardines (1 of 1) by Jerry Parker, on Flickr
Japantown by Jerry Parker, on Flickr
Sunrises on Dirty Mirrors by Jerry Parker, on Flickr
Nearshore Waters (1 of 1) by Jerry Parker, on Flickr
Lonely Jellyfish (1 of 1) by Jerry Parker, on Flickr
Jellys (1 of 1) by Jerry Parker, on Flickr
Flow Jelly (1 of 1) by Jerry Parker, on Flickr
Fish People (1 of 1) by Jerry Parker, on Flickr
Another Jellyfish Story (1 of 1) by Jerry Parker, on Flickr
Random street in SF by Jerry Parker, on Flickr
Neon Fresno by Jerry Parker, on Flickr
Lonely Fresno Nights by Jerry Parker, on Flickr
Kodak Portra 800 film
Lonely Fresno Nights by Jerry Parker, on Flickr
Kodak Portra 800 film
Some old stuff to see how I improved from before. I don't see why they couldn't build a place for the Warriors or the A's by here.
By shun Go To PostI want to get a drone.
Me too