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Forum: General Talk 01-06-2024, 12:59 PM  
The Joke Thread
Posted By DAZ
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I take K2 with my D3 daily. I don’t find it too high; it’s only about 12 to 18 inches.
Forum: Monthly Photo Contests 12-02-2023, 04:40 PM  
Can you see your futures?
Posted By DAZ
Replies: 17
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It is all in the frame you choose.
Composite:
ISO 100 & 80
f/9 & f/8
1/125 & 1/320

Frame noun
1 a: the physical makeup of an animal and especially a human body: PHYSIQUE, FIGURE
b: something composed of parts fitted together and united
2 a: the underlying constructional system or structure that gives shape or strength (as to a building)
b: a frame dwelling
3 a: an open case or structure made for admitting, enclosing, or supporting something a window frame
b: (1) frames plural: that part of a pair of glasses other than the lenses
(2) : a part of a pair of glasses that holds one of the lenses
c : a structural unit in an automobile chassis supported on the axles and supporting the rest of the chassis and the body
d: a machine built upon or within a framework, a spinning frame
4 a: an enclosing border
b: the matter or area enclosed in such a border: such as
(1): an individual drawing in a comic strip usually enclosed by a bordering line
(2): one picture of the series on a length of film
(3): one of the squares in which scores for each round are recorded (as in bowling) also: a round in bowling
(4): a complete image for display (as on a television set)
c: an inning in baseball
d: (1): FRAMEWORK sense 1 a: a basic conceptional structure (as of ideas)
(2): CONTEXT, FRAME OF REFERENCE
e: an event that forms the background for the action of a novel, play or story
Forum: General Talk 09-26-2023, 08:19 AM  
The Joke Thread
Posted By DAZ
Replies: 5,865
Views: 490,342
Based on what I often hear from the posts, I thought the favorite snack would've been gripes.
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 07-22-2023, 02:55 PM  
Thematic A Flair for Flare
Posted By DAZ
Replies: 1,448
Views: 110,239
Forum: General Talk 07-15-2023, 08:15 AM  
The Joke Thread
Posted By DAZ
Replies: 5,865
Views: 490,342
Not a joke but funny, or is it?

DAZ51021 by Dean Zierman, on Flickr
Forum: General Talk 04-01-2023, 01:41 PM  
The Joke Thread
Posted By DAZ
Replies: 5,865
Views: 490,342
From Horse Power to Horsepower By Eric Morris

Long short, the internal combustion engine saved the cites by being not only less polluting but safer! Getting rid of the horses saved lives.

DAZ
Forum: General Talk 04-01-2023, 10:41 AM  
The Joke Thread
Posted By DAZ
Replies: 5,865
Views: 490,342
Electrifying the mules seems cruel to me.

DAZ
Forum: Monthly Photo Contests 08-04-2022, 07:07 PM  
Going Home
Posted By DAZ
Replies: 3
Views: 54
Escaping the Malibu fire.
Forum: Post Your Photos! 05-27-2022, 09:43 AM  
21mm Photo Contest Monolith
Posted By DAZ
Replies: 1
Views: 193
Photographing Trinity Monolith.
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 02-25-2022, 06:24 PM  
Thematic A Flair for Flare
Posted By DAZ
Replies: 1,448
Views: 110,239
3DAZ0678 -1 by Dean Zierman, on Flickr

Sunrise over Mt. Rainier.
Forum: General Talk 12-17-2021, 02:04 PM  
The Joke Thread
Posted By DAZ
Replies: 5,865
Views: 490,342
It is still better to be the chicken at breakfast, than the pig. The chickens is involved, but the pig is committed.
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 08-16-2021, 03:56 PM  
Thematic A Flair for Flare
Posted By DAZ
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Views: 110,239
Heart light.

Attachment 546540
Forum: Pentax K-3 III 06-12-2021, 06:50 PM  
External power
Posted By DAZ
Replies: 19
Views: 2,677
If you connect the K-AC166 it may actually power the camera as you noted. Somebody else will have to test that as I have no plans to get a K-AC166. I was only interested in the external battery pack question.
Forum: Pentax K-3 III 06-12-2021, 03:52 PM  
External power
Posted By DAZ
Replies: 19
Views: 2,677
That is a good question. As I have access to both the camera and a portable battery power supply I decided to investigate.


BLUF answer is no. The camera will only charge when the camera is off. It will only run from its internal battery and will not draw power from the USB went on.

Anker PowerCore Speed 20000, 20000mAh Qualcomm Quick Charge3.0 & PowerIQ Portable Charger. The Powercore has blue lights that give the state of the charge of its battery and that it is providing power to an external device. These blue lights will only be on continuously when it is providing power to another device.
Normal output on both ports 5V 2A.
On both Quick Charge ports 5-8V 3A, 8-10V 2.4A, 10-12V 2A. One port is Qualcomm Quick Charge3.0 & the other port is PowerIQ.


All of the following is the same for both ports.


As I had just updated the camera to firmware 1.02 and it had a new fully charged battery in the camera. With the camera off and plugged into the portable charger the red light on the back of the camera and the blue lights will illuminate for a few moments. The lights will then turn off. This indicates that the battery pack in the camera is fully charged.

I turned on the camera, unplugged from the battery pack,and have it run continuously for about 45 minutes with the back screen as the viewfinder on to drain the camera battery some. Even after 45 minutes the battery indicator on the camera did not even show one bar of depletion. I then plugged in the USB on the camera into the battery pack. The camera had the blinking stuttering red light on and the battery pack had continuous blue lights on.

I verified that it was continuing to charge for about 15minutes. At which point I turned the camera on and the blue indicator lights on the battery pack would then go off. This indicates that the camera will only run off of its internal battery and not draw any power from the USB to run the camera.

I continued charging the camera from the battery pack for a total time of approximately one hour. At which point the camera battery was fully charged and all the indicator lights went off. The camera battery was not even half depleted and it probably would’ve been faster to remove the battery from the camera and put it on its dedicated charger.
Forum: Monthly Photo Contests 06-08-2021, 06:40 PM  
Wall Walker
Posted By DAZ
Replies: 1
Views: 113
Up is sideways?
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 06-07-2021, 06:06 PM  
Contest Something special about that lens - round 5 - NIFTY 50
Posted By DAZ
Replies: 35
Views: 2,586
I wanted to take a relatively long exposer night photo of the Seattle skyline. For this I would need both high resolution and very low internal lens reflections. My Pentax M 50MM 1.7 lens seemed perfect for this. The resulting photo is a stitch of 2 separate exposures on a Pentax K20 ISO 100, 15 seconds and I believe f8. I liked this photo so much I had it printed on 2 three-foot wide aluminum panels that take up over 6 feet of wall space.


https://live.staticflickr.com/4042/5183474388_3e02e6d35b_o_d.jpg
Forum: General Talk 09-13-2020, 10:15 AM  
The Joke Thread
Posted By DAZ
Replies: 5,865
Views: 490,342
Wouldn't that be "never dare an idiot until you have your camera ready"?
Forum: General Talk 10-19-2019, 01:24 PM  
The Joke Thread
Posted By DAZ
Replies: 5,865
Views: 490,342
“A pun is the lowest form of humor—when you don't think of it first.” ― Oscar Levant

DAZ
Forum: General Talk 09-01-2019, 07:49 PM  
The Joke Thread
Posted By DAZ
Replies: 5,865
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It is a good thing he didn't bring his friend nine, but that would have been odd.

DAZ
Forum: General Talk 07-14-2019, 06:28 PM  
The Joke Thread
Posted By DAZ
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Your joking, right?

DAZ
Forum: General Talk 05-30-2019, 03:49 PM  
The Joke Thread
Posted By DAZ
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We all need to be less resistant and mho conductive like Siemens.


DAZ
Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands 05-12-2019, 10:47 AM  
drone for photography
Posted By DAZ
Replies: 13
Views: 1,246
The FAA is more like a Pitbull than a Bloodhound. What I mean by this is that the FAA is not very good at sniffing out the offenders but once they have found the offenders they can latch on without letting go and do a tremendous amount of damage. Once they have spotted an offender, depending on how egregious they believe the drone actions are, they can charge multi-thousand dollar fines per drone photo incident. One photo could have thousands of dollars infines with multiple incidents being into the tens of thousands of dollars. They could also seize all of the drone/camera equipment if they believe the incident is egregious enough. This risk and the potential cost is the primary reason that people hire somebody with a FAR part 107 license instead of doing it themselves under FAR part 48. It’ll cost a couple of hundred dollars under part 107 just to take the license test, not counting how much time required to study and learn the test. Even under part 48, there are many more restrictions than most people are aware. If you don’t follow the part 48 rules, you still risk fines and the possible seizure of the equipment. I would highly recommend that if someone’s going to take drone photos that in anyway that will be used commercially that they get their part 107 license as the FAA can come back at you even years later. I would also recommend studying up under the part 48 rules to keep yourself out of trouble even if you don’t intend to sell or use a single photo commercially. It’s the people who aren’t studying up and learning/following these rules that you hear about closing down airports.

I don’t entirely agree with the philosophy that you need to buy very expensive equipment to take good photos. It is the same whether you’re taking them with your handheld camera on the ground or with a camera drone in the air. It was somewhat true for the early generation of drones, but the cost of the drones has gone down considerably along with the quality of the photos that can be produced have gone up significantly. This is precisely the same argument that some make between amateur photo equipment and professional photo equipment. There are some aspects of the more expensive equipment that gives you more flexibility and possibly some increase intechnical quality, but it depends on what kind of photos you wish to take and how much effort it will be to take them. I’ve been using a DJI spark drone for about six months now and have managed to take some decent photos/videos. I’m doing this only as an amateur, so I do not have to meet some specific requirement of a client. As I am the client, this gives me the flexibility to take the photos that I want where and when I can within the limitations of the equipment. Here’s an album of some of my photos/videos that I’ve taken so far with my DJI spark. Https://www.flickr.com/photos/dazt/albums/72157688722912063


DAZ
Forum: Photographic Technique 03-17-2019, 11:55 AM  
Using monochrome to better note contrasts/tones/etc.
Posted By DAZ
Replies: 13
Views: 1,929
I too am very much in agreement with Wheatfield’s opinion on B&W. I have not shot anywhere near as much B&W as he has, but I did also start mostly shooting B&W. Color is mostly eye candy to the eye. It can very easily distract from some of the more important photographic compositional elements in the photo. This is part of the reason why it is somewhat difficult for photographers who start in color to transition to B&W. It can also make it more difficult for these photographers to progress beyond these limitations. There is some logic to saying that photographers should start with B&W and then progress to color, but that’s is not going to happen anymore.

Probably everybody here has heard the phrase; the photographer needs to see with the camera sees. In this case, the photographer needs to learn to see in B&W. Part of the problem is that even if we are born colorblind, we can’t help but see in color. The other part of the problem is even though B&W is by definition no color; color is extremely important in B&W. What I mean by this last part is color is not in the final photo, but different colors in the real world have different contrast levels. A red and blue color may look sharply different to our eye but could have an identical gray level in the final product. If these two colors are side-by-side, you could end up with just one gray blob.

If you’ve ever seen photos of a director or art director from the old silent film days, you may have noticed some things hanging around their neck. One of these items you might recognize was something called the Director’s viewfinder. The Director’s viewfinder was a lens to help the directors frame his possible shots. But the other device you may have mistaken for a monocle. Monocles were a popular quasi-fashion item at the time. But more likely it was a device like this.


Tiffen #1 Black and White Viewing Filter BWVF B&H Photo Video


What you would do is hold this filter up to your eye and close your other eye. You would look at the scene for several seconds; this would allow your brain to adapt and somewhat mute out some of the colors. You would then quickly remove the device from your eye and look at the scene again. This would help you determine if there were items in the scene that would not have enough black and white contrast. For example, you would not want the actress sitting on the couch in her dress and the dress on the couch blend together. So the director could order up changes before the scene was shot and not need to waste miles of film. It could also be used to check out the makeup on the actors to ensure they did not look too ghostly.



http://hair-and-makeup-artist.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Elaine-Shepard-BW.jpg


The makeup artists at the time would apply makeup with highly contrasting colors without regard to how the actors might look if seen in color.

This helps explain why B&W photographers used to use different colored filters to help bring out the contrast between different colored portions of a photo. We don’t need to do that now nor is it advised as we have much more control over the process by shooting in RAW and manipulating the colored filters in postprocessing. Wheatfield was probably very good at choosing his colored filters, but it most likely took him more than a few years to develop his eye for this.

Although the colored filter I mentioned above is one tool to help one see contrasting colors in B&W another way was what was mentioned in the opening post to shoot a JPEG in B&W. I don’t recommend either of these methods. The use of the filter was mainly a last-minute check that there wasn’t a contrast problem before shooting and wasting miles of film. It doesn’t help you learn to see in B&W. Shooting a JPEG in B&W can very easily turn into a crutch, and one will never learn to truly see the scene correctly. One needs to follow the process from beginning to end concentrating on each step of the process.

I start by carefully looking at the scene. I then either imagine myself or move around until I found the perspective point I wish to photograph. I deconstruct each of the photographic elements to choose my framing. At this point, I start contemplating color and B&W. If I think that this is going to make a good B&W photo, I then contemplate what the scene might look like if I exaggerate the colors. I do this because that is most likely what I’ll end up doing in postprocessing. So in postprocessing, my 1st step is to process the photo as if I was trying to make a good color photo. My next step is then usually to start boosting the color contrasts all out of whack and then comparing this to what it would look like when I turn it into B&W. I might go back and forth a few times until I have a somewhat good contrasty B&W photo. I’m still not finished with this photo though. I now convert the photo to B&W, but I apply various color filters as I used to when I was shooting with B&W film. The advantage of doing all of this in the computer postprocessing is I can very easily go back and forth learning how one part affects another part. Other than the order is reversed from the way we used to do it in B&W it is very much the same process. I do have some photos that I can point to if anybody’s interested in seeing some of the intermediate steps.


DAZ
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 02-12-2019, 11:28 AM  
Thematic A Flair for Flare
Posted By DAZ
Replies: 1,448
Views: 110,239
It looks a whole lot better then what is out my door right now.

DAZ
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 01-06-2019, 07:20 PM  
Thematic A Flair for Flare
Posted By DAZ
Replies: 1,448
Views: 110,239
DAZ51095 -1 by Dean Zierman, on Flickr

From my drive home visiting the relatives.

DAZ
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