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Forum: Lens Clubs
03-22-2022, 09:42 AM
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I would rather look at noise and grain than at the denoise smearing
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Forum: Lens Clubs
09-25-2020, 06:18 AM
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Pentax K-1 with DA* 300/4 + HD DA 1.4X TC in APS-C mode
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Forum: Lens Clubs
09-07-2020, 01:51 AM
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Eurasian Nuthatch, after calibrating the lens on the K-1.
Lens is DA* 300/4 + HD DA 1.4X TC in APS-C mode
I can tell, after this shooting birds got a lot less frustrating.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
07-12-2018, 12:52 PM
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About one HD 1.4x TC? Just guessing here :)
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Forum: Lens Clubs
05-23-2018, 11:42 AM
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I can't believe I missed this one so here I go.
I bet he was just insecure that his wife was so interested in your BIG LONG lens
You should feel proud :D
These kind of people are a constant source of laughs and entertainment.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
05-21-2018, 04:32 AM
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I would say otherwise, nicely caught light, especially with the warbler
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Forum: Lens Clubs
05-17-2018, 02:23 AM
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Thank you! I know of the Stargazers Lounge but I don't have enough time to get deeper into astrophotography, not with doing University as well. Right now a 6 weeks of exams period is coming up, starting next week with Astronomy and Planetology, having a bit of fun before the hardcore exams :)
When I have more time (and maybe better equipment) I'll be around more frequently, including the astrophotography club
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Forum: Lens Clubs
05-16-2018, 06:44 AM
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Forum: Lens Clubs
05-06-2018, 06:08 AM
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Some random findings in the backyard. K-3, DA* 300
Greenfinch, with HD TC, well cropped in
Common lizard chilling on the wall, without TC, pseudo macro
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Forum: Lens Clubs
04-01-2018, 04:23 PM
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Thank you! I heard about Topaz but never tried their software. I mostly use Lightroom and Photoshop with NIK but I never found a good sharpening method that didn't bring out the noise as well.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
04-01-2018, 05:10 AM
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Zzeitg, what is your processing method, more precisely your sharpening method?
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Forum: Lens Clubs
03-10-2018, 11:20 AM
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Ah, the new logo for Fro Knows Photo .com?
Birds can have some crazy hairdo
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Forum: Lens Clubs
02-20-2018, 12:46 PM
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5000 ISO is not a problem on the K-3 either, if you don't crop in much
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Forum: Lens Clubs
02-16-2018, 02:55 AM
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Backlog from the summer, a pair of black storks circling to gain height to begin their migration at the end of August, strong backlight.
Gear used: Tamron 70-200/2.8 and HD DA 1.4xTC on the Pentax K-3. Cropped in so I guess pseudo 300mm?
 Black storks farewell flight |
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Forum: Lens Clubs
01-30-2018, 05:14 PM
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You forgot "there's a freshly washed car under this tree" and "new customers at table 4"
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Forum: Lens Clubs
12-30-2017, 05:17 AM
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In my own experience no matter what technique I tried I shaked the camera when I pressed the shutter button. Not even the correctly set shake reduction helped. I still get overexcited when I face a quick scene like a roe jumping in front of me or a predatory bird is chasing prey around me, but the more I get into such situations and the more I use the camera (sadly I had very little time for photography this year) I get more confident and most importantly calm during shooting and pressing the shutter button rarely affects my images now. That I cannot say about correct exposure or focusing, but that is a different story :)
My advice would be (who was this originally aimed to, micromacro, Racer X 69?) to not worry about the shakes, just continue shooting and enjoy the time outside.
Practice makes perfect and the experience comes much quickly than from couchsurfing the interweb.
On that note it is almost 2018, maybe it would be time to start processing my shots from summer... or just delay them after the exams...
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Forum: Lens Clubs
12-28-2017, 04:52 PM
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Hmm... this is what I am talking about, this is a crop from the default 100% zoom of the flickr image:
Attachment 381896
If this is compression, something seriously went wrong somewhere. Usually flickr degrades my images but not this badly.
The other explanation would be that the image was enlarged from a smaller pixel export. I don't know why flickr would do such a thing.
Don't get me wrong, your image is without doubt spectacular, I'm just discussing the artifacting "clouding" such a nice photo :)
Edit:
Oh, and Seasonal Greetings to you too, may the gravy be with you :)
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Forum: Lens Clubs
12-28-2017, 10:28 AM
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A quick suggestion, please avoid oversharpening the image. I gives a horrible waterpaint/orangeskin effect on the image and completely destroys it. I would leave the basic sharpening in Lightroom as default and correct white balance and exposure and maybe a tad bit of clarity and/or dehaze. Maybe a bit of color correction too if needed, but I doubt it is necessary (as usually it is not needed in nature shots). Downscale and export in 1500 or 1200px per long side. I only go over 2000px if I export for prints.
Digital photography gives a lot of opportunity for post processing but it is easy to overcook the image in many ways.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
11-20-2017, 08:21 AM
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So it is possible to do food photography with a 300mm lens.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
11-02-2017, 01:58 PM
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 Originally posted by Ducatigaz  Common Buzzard from the car. K-3ii/FA*600mmF4ED[IF}/Eckla window mount. I'm just wondering, how does one get access to your car? Seems to me it knows the best places for birding :D
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Forum: Lens Clubs
10-12-2017, 11:03 AM
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Just noticed there is a used D-FA 150-450 at SRS Microsystems, if anyone is interested.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
10-10-2017, 03:44 AM
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I would add a tad bit exposure, around 0.2-0.3, raising the shutter speed would also help eliminate camera shake blurring.
Otherwise nice capture.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
10-05-2017, 02:38 AM
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On modern cameras there is no real difference between ISO 100 and 400. This makes for better images because you don't need to carry a tripod and a heavy lens, instead a lighter and darker design that you can shoot handheld and get closer, more stealthy.
Which you did, and got a great shot. ISO 100 doesn't matter here.
When I had the Bigma I shot at ISO 800 and above, just to get the shutter speed up. 1/1600s and above is what I used and only went down to 1/1000 when the light was really bad. Wasn't thinking in ISO but more in shutter speed.
There is a video on this on Youtube, "Paradigm shift in bird photography" or something like that. They explain this a lot better, this is where I got the idea.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
09-30-2017, 03:23 AM
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Specs? Of the plane of course
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Forum: Lens Clubs
09-09-2017, 04:01 AM
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You don't need the lowest ISO in bird photography, ISO 800 - 3200 is perfectly fine as it helps keeping your shutterspeed above 1/1000.
In your "high ISO test shot" with the great blue heron I can clearly see the feather details, as well with the others, bad lighting or not. Newer sensor technology gives us ISO invariance which helps the most keeping noise in control, even a little graininess is not a problem.
Keep up the good work, keep your shutter speed up and don't be afraid of higher ISO.
About that 150-450, it only adds weather sealing, sharpness and image quality is marginal improvement at best. Plus the Sigma HSM is more reliable than Pentax SDM and DC drive.
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