[LeRolls]

Is that the two door or four door Wrangler ?

Four door. At the time of the shoot she had been driving it for 2 days. We were supposed to shoot with her husband's restored Trans Am but it was in the shop so we used her new Jeep instead. Still came out pretty good I think.

[Hattifnatt]

Nice photograph. My wife's grandfather was a Canadian Bush pilot...later a commercial passenger plane pilot and among the many planes he flew was a Junkers Ju 52/1m, which looks similar to the plane in your picture. In Canada this plane was called the flying boxcar and used by the company he flew for back then, for flying in mining equipment, supplies, and equipment and supplies to isolated Canadian communities.

Thank you. I don't recall what kind of plane was the one in my picture, there were a lot of planes exposed at the museum.

Two more pictures from Berlin.





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Who invited the clouds? Partial milky way with the Rokinon 24 mm

I actually like the clouds... great shot!

[Mallee Boy]

I have attached a blank blue sky pic to illustrate the vignetting on the DA40XS on K-1 in FF mode, this was taken awhile ago (was too cloudy today). I recall doing the shot for someone else on a K-1 fb forum awhile back, still had the image.







This helps heaps, thanks for the detailed info.
My take has been to keep NR off for that very reason, doubling the take time is painful, would mean a 16min shot for just the rocks alone! I'd prefer to deal with noise in post. Now if 'hot pixels' is that thing where a few pixels just seem to be a very bright orange or red im amongst the black/dark, I find that pretty easy to fix in LR in post (I think I've had that occur when doing Pixelshift images that have black backgrounds for longish exposures). I didn't know the NR feature would help eliminate them, but tbh I'd rather do in post than wait the same exposure time all over again in the chilly dark (or whatever lol... boredom in the dark heh).

DO you feel the ISO 100 for the rocks was necessary? I can understand the f6.7, but could you have shortened the exposure time down to 4mins rather than 8 with ISO 200? Not much difference in IQ between 100 and 200 but you gain a massive 4 mins quicker shot (you can see I am super lazy and lack patience hehe).

I'll try and learn from your 'mistakes' (if you can all them that, I think the shot is fabby as is!), I might try ISO 800 or 1600 for the sky. If using a FA 50mm, 1.4, is it advisable to use f1.4-1.6 for the stars, or is that considered just too wide, and something like f2 recommended minimum I wonder...?

As for Remask, it sounds like it's just a masking tool rather than a special effect/filter, in which case I should be fine as I use PS for my masking jobs.

Once again, cheers for the breakdown, helps heaps as Astro is something I haven't really seriously done before and now I have a general jist of what to try.

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Here's a couple of shots of a street performer at Vivid this year, I'm calling her the "Golden Globe Girl'

Really really like these. Beautifully captured.

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Four door. At the time of the shoot she had been driving it for 2 days. We were supposed to shoot with her husband's restored Trans Am but it was in the shop so we used her new Jeep instead. Still came out pretty good I think.

Sigh ! (actually a very big sigh !!!) it sure did !
Seriously good work.

[LensBeginner]

I have attached a blank blue sky pic to illustrate the vignetting on the DA40XS on K-1 in FF mode, this was taken awhile ago (was too cloudy today). I recall doing the shot for someone else on a K-1 fb forum awhile back, still had the image.

Where? I can't seem to find it, neither here nor in the previous post...

[BruceBanner]

Where? I can't seem to find it, neither here nor in the previous post...

My bad, forgot to attach lol, here it is;

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Really really like these. Beautifully captured.

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Sigh ! (actually a very big sigh !!!) it sure did !
Seriously good work.

Thanks Mallee!

[LensBeginner]

My bad, forgot to attach lol, here it is;

Well that looks tolerable and fixable in PP. Thanks again!

[felixkh]

Nice!

[BruceBanner]

Well that looks tolerable and fixable in PP. Thanks again!

Yeah I'd say so. It depends what you shoot at, like I say certain scenes I just leave it as is, especially if I have cropped for composition and perspective reasons anyway. I guess it damages the image if it is a shot where there isn't much going on (like this sky shot) and you can't crop etc, tricky to correct in post perhaps. I wonder if anyone has a LR profile for it already, someone who has managed to correct any distortion and vigenette effects to a better degree (for full frame that is)...

[LensBeginner]

Yeah I'd say so. It depends what you shoot at, like I say certain scenes I just leave it as is, especially if I have cropped for composition and perspective reasons anyway. I guess it damages the image if it is a shot where there isn't much going on (like this sky shot) and you can't crop etc, tricky to correct in post perhaps. I wonder if anyone has a LR profile for it already, someone who has managed to correct any distortion and vigenette effects to a better degree (for full frame that is)...

It also depends on the amount of cropping you do... if I crop off-center, then I think the best course of action is to remove distortion and vignetting as much as possible, and then dial in some post-crop vignette (it's there for just cases like this).

There's a way to create lens profiles, but it's time consuming, and requires a precise set-up. I'd have done with something simpler, even if a little less accurate.

For my smartphone RAW I just shot a white sheet of A4 paper under uniform light (near a window), then tried varying the settings (amount and midpoint) and checking the corners and the center with the eyedropper, until I had RGB values within ±5 of each other.



That sky picture of yours... I don't know... it looks like it's brighter in the lower portion, but it could be many things.

[teiki arii]

Hello,

Marie, PSHR, K-1 (MKII), Sigma Art 35/1.4 @ f:2.0

[Erictator]

Proving my dad right once again, there is someone out there for everyone...

smc PENTAX-DA* 300mm F4 ED [IF] SDM ƒ/7.1 300.0 mm 1/1250 iso250


smc PENTAX-DA* 300mm F4 ED [IF] SDM ƒ/7.1 300.0 mm 1/1250 iso320


smc PENTAX-DA* 300mm F4 ED [IF] SDM ƒ/5.6 300.0 mm 1/800 iso500

[lesmore49]

Thank you. I don't recall what kind of plane was the one in my picture, there were a lot of planes exposed at the museum.

Two more pictures from Berlin.





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I actually like the clouds... great shot!

Very good photos from Berlin. Our son is traveling to Munich in the summer, will be the first time he has been to Germany.

[stubyles]

K1+K24/2.8

That's fantastic, love it.

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K1+Laowa 12/2.8 (haida 3 stop ND; black card technique)

That's really very nice.

[fs999]

Super shots Mr BruceBanner and DimC !

K-1 • FF Mode • 100 ISO • Tamron SP AF Di 90mm F2.8 Macro


K-1 • FF Mode • 400 ISO • Tamron SP AF Di 90mm F2.8 Macro


K-1 • FF Mode • 200 ISO • Pentax FA 35mm F2 AL


K-1 • FF Mode • 100 ISO • Soligor C/D Wide-Auto 20mm f:2.8

[teiki arii]

Mayi, K-1 (MKII), Sigma Art 35/1.4 @ f:2.0