Forum: Post Your Photos!
03-18-2023, 10:46 AM
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Nice and moody. Well done
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
03-14-2023, 07:36 AM
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Lindisfarne, also known as Holy Island, is an iconic landscape feature off the Northumberland coast in north-east England, and is linked to the mainland by a tidal causeway. There are myriad of photo opportunities on the island, especially around the C16th castle which can be seen in the background of my photograph. There are also remains of a monastery on the island.
From the middle Ages, Holy Island was an important fishing harbour; initially supplying fish for the monastery and later for commercial sale. In the mid-C19th there were 27 herring fishing boats on the island, but the industry declined in the early-C20th, due in part to competition from steam boats. During World War I, access to the Baltic market for herring was closed, and by the end of the war the Island’s herring industry had ceased. But this wasn't the end of the story. Many of the old herring fishing boats were repurposed as sheds on the shore. These old boats were upturned, covered in pitch tar for waterproofing and cut off at one end for the installation of doors. Many of these boats still remain, although sadly a lot of the previously tarred roofs are now covered with black plastic sheeting.
The boats provide an eye catching subject for the photographer with lots of opportunities for different compositions. It was very windy on the day that I visited Holy Island and the clouds raced above the boats. I opted to use a long exposure (240 seconds - 4 minutes) to capture the clouds streaking above the boats. In my mind the conversion of the photo to B&W makes the scene look especially moody and the streaked clouds appear to resemble a ghostly celestial sea which echoes the moribund herring fishery.
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
03-13-2023, 05:45 AM
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An great alternative interpretation of the storm theme
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
03-13-2023, 05:41 AM
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
03-13-2023, 05:36 AM
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Thanks for your comments. Yes, I can remove spots and sync in Lightroom. But this doesn't usually work well with timelapse. This is especially true for skies where cloud positions can change from photo to photo in the sequence. In this case syncing spot removal can give strange artefacts as the cloud pass through the spot removal on the time lapse. Sun flares are also a problem as they move between frames and again have to be done on a frame by frame basis. The only spot removals that be synced are in parts of the scene which don't have much temporal dynamism.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
02-19-2023, 08:01 AM
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Thanks for all the kind comments, much appreciated. Living in Donegal, which is one of the wettest and windiest parts of Europe, it can be hard to capture timelapses. Capturing sunrises and sunsets can be frustrating as often nothing happens in sky and you have to go back another day.
Wind often wobbles the tripod and ruins the sequence or blurs the frames (sometimes these can be saved using the warp function in Premiere Pro). Moving water (rivers and the sea) can knock the tripod (in the opening sequence I and the tripod were waist deep in the river). Rain and condensation can affect the lens (an umbrella helps sometimes and lens heater at night). People and animals can stray into frame or unwanted reflections and sensor spots show (removed on a frame by frame basis in Lightroom and/or photoshop which takes time when each individual sequence has on average 350 photographs). Flickering can also be a problem because the lens aperture blades don't always close by the same amount on each capture (usually shot with the lens fully open or in many cases I use older Pentax manual lens and set the aperture on the lens then decouple the lens from the camera body).
Martin
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
02-09-2023, 02:27 PM
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A new film comprising 10,500 individual photographs, mostly shot with a Pentax K1, was taken over 5 years in all seasons to capture and showcase the stunning beauty and varied landscapes of a part of the island of Ireland which is often dubbed 'the forgotten county'. Youtu.be |
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Forum: Photo Critique
04-05-2019, 01:59 AM
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Thanks for all the kind comments. This photo was taken on the first day of a photo tour that I was leading in the Faroes. We had visited the spot last summer and failed to get a decent photo due to low cloud over the witches finger.
This time the weather was very changeable with high winds but it gave opportunities for some dramatic photos. I think that the Faroes in spring are better for photos than in the summer
Martin
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Forum: Photo Critique
04-04-2019, 11:37 AM
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Early morning light falls on a small turf roofed cottage with the otherworldly Trøllkonufingur (Troll woman's finger) in the background on the island of Vagar in the Faroe Islands
I've desaturated the image slightly and added a post processing vignette
Martin
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
12-10-2018, 02:53 PM
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
12-08-2018, 10:51 AM
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Forum: Pentax K-01
05-08-2012, 03:45 PM
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Also forgot to mention the audio hiss in videos with low background sounds. I get this even with a good external microphone. My panasonic LX3 has cleaner audio in comparison.
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Forum: Pentax K-01
05-08-2012, 03:40 PM
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I got an error once when recording video with the focus peak enabled. It appears to have recorded the video with the focus peak edge enhancement. A still frame from the video is shown below:
Also I can't get the focus light on an external flash (AF360FGZ) to work - maybe because of the new focusing method on the K-01?
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