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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-06-2019, 03:03 PM
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This photo was taken during our backcountry skiing expedition in really cold temperatures (-30degrees °C during the day, -40°C at night). My pentax camera worked without any problem at -30°C, but at night it started to refuse taking shots sometimes ;) which is totally normal I think at -40°C. The low sunlight during the whole day in north Finland is so magical!
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-06-2019, 09:19 AM
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A very foggy day in winter.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
11-30-2019, 12:56 PM
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11-20-2019, 03:40 PM
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Beautiful! It instantly make me miss the pacific northwest.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
11-20-2019, 05:34 PM
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Nice contrast while picking up the similar tones from the sky.
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Forum: Ricoh Theta 360° Cameras
07-16-2018, 05:49 PM
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I experimented this weekend with stacking Theta V milky way photos.
The first is five pictures, 25 seconds at ISO 1600, WB incandescent light 1, stacked in Sequator
The second was two pictures, same settings, stacked in Sequator
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
07-09-2017, 01:11 AM
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Great photos. The first one is my favorite. Excellent depth of field, so clear! I really enjoy the composition of the monument as well. Thanks for sharing!
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
07-09-2017, 10:09 AM
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Aye that first image is a bit special. :cool:
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
07-08-2017, 11:35 PM
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The Playa As Catedrais, in Galicia close to Asturias' border, reveals itself only for a while at low tide. To see it and enjoy its amazing beauty, you have to be there at the right time and conquer it by slowly wading into the receding tide: once you get this natural cathedral, the show in front of you makes it all worth it though. Old photo with the Pentax 645z and the 28-45mm. Thanks for viewing, best regards
Vieri
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
05-20-2017, 11:52 PM
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I love Badwater in Death Valley: it's an extraordinary location, its landscapes are ever changing and with a sunset storm the light there becomes really magic. Leica S (Typ 007), Leica Vario-Elmar-S 30-90mm. Thanks for viewing, best regards
Vieri
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Forum: Ricoh Theta 360° Cameras
05-30-2016, 09:59 AM
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My first excursion with the Theta S was to Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden. This is the old mulberry tree.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
03-31-2016, 03:38 PM
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Since Pentax k-x I've been photographing nature, from landscapes to wildlife (animals, in their own environment) and my idea has always been not to photograph from hide or use baits or anything for wild animals. It's tough way to go but somehow it's fascinating as well since there's something which you can't just get when you want it, you have to work for it (for being able to photograph wildlife without baits). This has been my hobby five years and now I'm thinking could I maybe get some money with these photos? I mean for getting money so that I'm able to fund for example the new K-1 body with some lenses.. feedback much appreciated!
These are just a few samples of my work.
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Forum: Ricoh Theta 360° Cameras
04-18-2016, 03:36 PM
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Thanks!
A few more from the Theta S
Long exposure in a car ride... could be much better - I'll be revisiting this staging.
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And here's one in the snake pit! :-D This is a composite of two images, one with just the rat, and one with just the snake. I didn't want the snake to strike at the rat and bust up my Theta. The snake is Cocoa, one of my ball pythons, and the rat is a frozen/thawed sacrifice that I buy in bulk from MiceDirect.com. Feeding live animals is mostly cruel and definitely dangerous, so I'm glad all my snakes eat frodents (micicles).
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03-30-2016, 08:25 AM
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BKT 5 shot 1.7EV, Baltic Sea Sunset.
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03-23-2016, 10:54 AM
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Looks kinda HDR, I know, but single exposure- used some Topaz plugins (Clarity & Adjust, I think )
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Forum: Ricoh Theta 360° Cameras
03-12-2016, 06:14 PM
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Great shots, @uday029 !
Those people appear to be looking at the Theta pretty hard. Looks like they're waiting for it to do something. Shoot out lasers or whatever. :lol:
I haven't taken the Theta S out much lately, but today I had the opportunity to take it to the Mecum Auto Auction in Kansas City, MO. It was perfect!
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Under the hood!
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Creepy dummies!
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Here's a perfectly good Corvette that was ruined by bad airbrush art. -_-
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Great for interior shots!
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EDIT: One more, that didn't get uploaded the first time around, for some reason?
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Forum: Ricoh Theta 360° Cameras
02-06-2016, 11:09 AM
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
01-19-2016, 04:43 PM
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This monday morning was my first photo-morning in new year. It was very cold, but I've decided anyway to go and take some pictures of this beautiful view. Hope you enjoy it!
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Forum: Ricoh Theta 360° Cameras
01-20-2016, 06:17 AM
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
09-28-2015, 09:42 AM
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We were lucky in my part of NY state with only slight cloud cover that moved in and out. Set up the gear, started a camp fire, had a beer, and witnessed quite a cool event.
Hardest part was manual focusing as the moon shrank. Despite a heavy tripod the camera bounced around a lot with that heavy lens. Composited images using PSE 9.
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
09-10-2015, 09:41 AM
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In 15 years the camera will be a button clipped to your shirt pocket, controlled by mind waves. Capable of 10-2,000mm focal range and delivering 200MP images directly to your galactic storage system. So what's the issue with DA lenses again?
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
09-01-2015, 03:01 AM
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
08-23-2015, 09:13 PM
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Found it on top of the garden shed.
Comments are always welcome and appreciated
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Forum: Photographic Technique
07-31-2015, 12:40 PM
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Resources:
Astronomy Calendar of Celestial Events 2015 - Sea and Sky
The astro calender gives dates of astronomical events. Eclipses, full/new moon, meteor showers, etc. It also notes whether the Moon will be a problem with viewing meteor showers.
Heavens-Above
This shows passes of the ISS and other satellites such as Iridium flares.
Meteor Shower Calendar | American Meteor Society
The American Meteor Society website
Stellarium
Stellarium is a planetarium that is available as a cell phone app. Indispenable.
Take lots of batteries! Get comfortable. Take warm clothes. It can get cold on the Black Rock. Take a chair that reclines. Craning your neck to watch the sky gets tiresome quickly. If you're on the playa, there are no toilets.
Tie the tripod down. Take a jug of water and place it under the tripod and tie the tripod to the jug with heavy string. It will keep the camera steady if the breezes come up plus you have extra water. A flashlight with a red lens is helpful. Get one of the hands-free type. It's dusty up there. If you change lenses, get in the car with the windows rolled up. Turn off the car's overhead lights before it gets dark so that you don't shine on anyone else in the group when you open the door. Dim the camera monitor. It's very dark up there and the bright monitor will wreck your night vision.
The Perseids run from mid-July to late August with the peak on the night 12-13, so if the weather doesn't cooperate, you have several days on either side of the 12-13 especially since the Moon is approaching new. The radiant is in the constellation Perseus, where the meteors will appear from. Perseus will rise above the horizon at about 2200 Black Rock time but the best viewing will be after midnight. Perseus can be found to the northeast in the band of the Milky Way. Wider is better. Meteors will appear anywhere in the sky, so the wider the field of view, the more likely that you'll catch a meteor
High ISO. Your K3 will will easily handle 1600 ISO. Meteors usually flare for less than a second so the higher ISO may show meteors that were too dim for your eye to detect.
Turn off SR and NR. Since the camera is on a tripod, the shake reduction isn't need. Noise reduction (both long exposure and high ISO) will double the time between images. If you are doing 10 second exposures, the camera won't take another image for 20 seconds. (10 second exposure + 10 seconds NR). 30 second exposures would mean 1 minute between images. (30 second exposure + 30 second NR) That's half your time spent on noise reduction and maximum open shutter time increases the odds that a meteor will pass through the frame while the shutter is open. After it gets dark set the exposure to the longest you can get without star trailing. Try 1600 ISO and the aperture a stop or two down from wide open. Check the image and adjust as needed. When you're happy with the image, use the intervalometer to run the camera hands free. Set the exposure time and number of exposures and once you trip the shutter release, it's all hands free. You can do noise reduction in post processing. When you have the camera set to your satisfaction, put the lens cap on the lens and take a shot at that setting with the lens covered. You'll use that dark frame in post processing. You'll need a dark frame for each setting but that dark frame will work for all the images at that setting. Whenever you change the ISO or the exposure time, take another dark frame. You won't need a dark frame for aperture or focal length just for ISO and exposure length. Just do a web search for "Dark frame subtraction" to get instructions.
Aiming. The radiant is the point where the meteors appear to come from. In theory, that's where you'll see the most meteors but because they are coming directly towards you the trails will be short. About 30 degrees on either side of the radiant is supposed to be where the trails will be longest. You could also aim south to the galactic center and hope for some meteors to appear in the Milky Way. Since meteors are random and can appear anywhere in the sky at any time getting good images is a matter of luck.
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Forum: Pentax Price Watch
07-20-2015, 06:04 PM
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