[WPRESTO]

When I worked at this picture I immediately remembered the song "Raindrops keep falling on my head ..." you remember this?

I searched youtube and was very touched by the song and the underlying pictures of "Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid". Pictures and Music can recall strong feelings.



Do I feel blue or am I just "In A Sentimental Mood" (Wonderful music by John Coltrane)?

Interesting and original treatment, good match of tint and mood. And although I don't know the Coltrane song, I certainly remember "Botch Casually and the Some-Dunce Kid."

[Scorpio71GR]

FA 20-35

[kengoh]

Fireworks with Singapore Skyline today, shot with Venus Laowa 12mm F2.8 Zero-D

[fs999]

Superb shots all !

K-1 • FF Mode • 100 ISO • Porst Tele 1:1.8/135mm MC AUTO E

[fs999]

K-1 • FF Mode • 400 ISO • HD Pentax DA 560mm F5.6 ED AW
Green Woodpecker

[fs999]

K-1 • FF Mode • 100 ISO • Pentax FA 35mm F2 AL

[WPRESTO]

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Look here: Post your Sculptures and Statues! for a pair of images I just posted, the original of a statue, and a modified version that turned out just as I wanted by using "select" then applying a PS filter to the background.

[acoufap]

Look here: Post your Sculptures and Statues! for a pair of images I just posted, the original of a statue, and a modified version that turned out just as I wanted by using "select" then applying a PS filter to the background.

yep, fits well - thanks!

[WPRESTO]

Hi WPRESTO, I like these canyon images very much! I imagine they’d appear even stronger if you‘d crop so that the sky disappears. Just a thought ...

Here's a series of images from the Gooseneck Bends area, with and without sky, including the completely uncropped version of one I posted. Won't tell you what I think, you tell me what you think, but I may not get back on line until tomorrow (Sunday) OOPS Got one out of sequence. Sorry, that it makes it more difficult to compare.

[acoufap]

K-1 • FF Mode • 100 ISO • Pentax FA 35mm F2 AL

Very nice - reminds me of a very old small town in France called Balazuc at the Ardèche!

[Scorpio71GR]

FA 20-35, 32mm, F4

[Scorpio71GR]

FA 20-35, 20mm, F6.3

[Kerrowdown]

[BruceBanner]

Thank’s for your kind reply! I’m sure you show what you intended to.

Pictures shown in these forums are wonderful. But sometimes I think people could get a bit more out of them - of course to my perception. That’s pretty much subjective and may not mean anything to the photographer or/and other beholders. It's nice if we can have a little conversation about different ideas. Thanks for your infos about how you consider going this or that way in such an image!

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Here are some versions of one image respectively a stack of a scenery taken with K-1 and DFA100WR.

Since yesterday evening it’s been raining. While rain had a break I thought I could do a stack of a flower with a lot of nice rain drops on the blossom. So I used tripod and macro rail to do the job. Here’s one image of the stack …

Hm, working in C1P I selected some pictures of the stack and called Helicon Focus. Rendering Method B was pre set. I was pretty surprised since the result wasn’t what I expected …


Although not very realistic I like it very much. I had not only selected the images I wanted to use but also the ones I had taken at f/8 and f/11. They ought to be something like "control" images. Interesting effect. A second try without the "control" images showed that the main problem was using method B for this scenario. So by this fault I learned how I can get a nice artistic effect. This could be helpful in the future.

Ok. Now the result using Rendering Method A …


This shows what I expected but in my book looks a bit boring compared to the second image. So to tell the truth, my favorite is the „artistical“ version.

P.s. My last try was using Rendering Method C. Result was similar that of Rendering Method A that I preferred in the end.

Interesting, love a bit of a walkthrough with a shot. I haven't really done any proper focus stacking, the only shot I think I have ever taken where I think there was an element of focus stacking was this shot of this orb weaver;



Two shots taken for this image, with the focus placed at different points (one on the tip of it's abdomen, one near the intersection of the legs). It was handheld and I was already at f16 with 1/25th of a shutter speed for the DFA 100, I'd be needing to bump the ISO up an aperture that might cover what I took with these two shots.

I'm always curious about the focus stacking thing tho, like the rails and the like. I have to say I don't quite understand how you can physically move the camera's distance from the subject (and of course your choice of focus) and then stack the images together at the end and not get a warped or weirded out subject due to the varying distances shot. With my stack here above the camera was roughly in the same spot, all I did was change the DoF plane on the spider via the focus ring and take a second snap. So I thought focus stacking would make more sense to have a fixed distance between the camera and object and instead just change the focal plane with each shot (covering near to far).
I must look into it further because I must be missing something as macro focusing rails are a thing, clearly moving the camera assists with the principle and end result

[Kerrowdown]

But weathered in beautifully.