Bellevue, WA
I picked up a remote shutter release this week and I think I'm gonna try this shot over again to see if I can't get it any sharper.
What aperture did you use and what lens?
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Photo of the day: December 2011
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What aperture did you use and what lens?
Thanks was going to give this a go today but it keeps asking me for a user name & password...its not clear if its asking me to sign into your account or I need to sign up as a user to see them?
Moved offices and no wifi so cant get my mac online, having to use PC and FF at the moment...is there a plugin for that anywhere that you know of?
His EXIF shows Canon EF 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 USM IV at f/6.3. LumbermanSVO, did you focus manually? If you used auto-focus, that could be the problem. (Though that lens at 80mm is probably not the sharpest knife in the drawer.)
Really cute. Nice eye-level perspective and lots of detail. Well done.
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I love this shot!
Yeah, that's the lens, and I did focus manually using 10x Live View to get it as accurate as I could.
I'm starting to question the sharpness of this lens and my EF 75-300 f4-5.6 USM II, especially racked all the way out. I think they were designed when such high resolution was just a dream.
The past couple of weeks have been really busy with school ending before Christmas and all the events surrounding it. While I've been taking many pictures, they're mostly family oriented stuff. I'm trying not to bore you with pictures of my kids, so I haven't had much to share lately.
I finally found some time to process another Henry Ford Museum picture last night.
I finally found some time to process another Henry Ford Museum picture last night.
I've been away from here for far too long, mainly due to studying for a degree.
However, I am now back.
So here's one from me of my girlfriend that I took a couple of days ago and edited today.
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Caz by Say_Cheese1981, on Flickr
However, I am now back.
So here's one from me of my girlfriend that I took a couple of days ago and edited today.
Caz by Say_Cheese1981, on Flickr
HDR? Not HDR? I don't mind: it just works for me. I like the way that every square inch of the pic is taken up with machinery.
For younger forum posters... this is what laptops looked like in the good old days, when they were driven by steam. Booting up took about 45 minutes... and a few shovels-full of coal...
Ah... I wish it was summer and I was sitting outside this pub with a pint of Loweswater Gold and some good conversation, instead of sitting in a leaky shack with the rain hammering down...
The past couple of weeks have been really busy with school ending before Christmas and all the events surrounding it. While I've been taking many pictures, they're mostly family oriented stuff. I'm trying not to bore you with pictures of my kids, so I haven't had much to share lately.
I finally found some time to process another Henry Ford Museum picture last night.
Yep cool photo, thanks for sharing
The files I made should be available to anyone without a sign-in required. Google may have changed something, so I went in to change the Share setting for these. It asked me for my password, so I don't know what they have done.
Try these and let me know what happens by PM or post here.
Link One version 2
[URL="https://docs.google.com/?tab=wo&authuser=0#starred"]Link Two version 2[/URL]
Note: The first one gives me an error message, the second displays the files in the Starred folder as intended.
Restoring Thumbnails (AutoTIMG) direct link
The link to the individual file works for all. It's the Google Docs folder link that seems blocked to others.
Link to a New Folder
^^^ No.
Another try
^^^Yes.
Dale
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The lens isn't the best, that I agree with, but there are other factors with long exposures to look at first. I know that area and there was probably a lot of traffic vibration from the bridge. That would be enough to blur a long exposure with the best of lenses.
Dale
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HDR? Not HDR? I don't mind: it just works for me. I like the way that every square inch of the pic is taken up with machinery.
For younger forum posters... this is what laptops looked like in the good old days, when they were driven by steam. Booting up took about 45 minutes... and a few shovels-full of coal...
It is HDR, but it might not have needed to be. I took the bracketed shots and combined them with Photomatix, but I didn't try taking just the middle exposure and working it alone. Most of the work bringing out the details was done with Topaz Adjust and then Photoshop sharpening. I may try working just the middle exposure sometime later and see how it turns out.
I also wish now I'd done this for more of the items in the museum. I have a lot of "whole object" shots that I just don't like because the details are all too small and lost in the whole object view. I'll have to remember that for my next museum visit and go in close. Wide "whole object" worked well for the DC-3 I posted a while back, but it doesn't for all of these things.
I forgot to post the text from the sign by the engine. It was made in 1906.
"This engine saved money by using its steam twice, first in one cylinder, then in a second. Such machines were known as "compound" engines. Between 1890 and 1925 hundreds of similar engines were built to power factories all over the country. This engine ran a flour mill in Monroe, Michigan."
Thanks! I just picked up a 300mm f/4 lens. I love it so far, very sharp even at f/4.
Here's another shot of the same kind of bird, a tufted titmouse.
Fixed My Links
Hi. I have changed the folder for the PDF tutorials created for this forum and fixed the problem I had with sharing. The link in my sig will now go to the tutorials regarding posting to forums and the AutoTIMG plug-ins created by TheReef and Mackmugg.
Dale
Hi. I have changed the folder for the PDF tutorials created for this forum and fixed the problem I had with sharing. The link in my sig will now go to the tutorials regarding posting to forums and the AutoTIMG plug-ins created by TheReef and Mackmugg.
Dale
I was at the park on Lake Washington Blvd just south of where the busses turn around, not on the bridge. I stopped by there tonight and got distracted with another shot and when I was done and ready to re-try this shot some heavy rain had moved in over Bellevue and I wasn't able to do it. Maybe next week!
I'm trying to eliminate myself as the cause before blaming the lens, it's cheaper to find that it is a problem with me
For today, eastern WA got hit with freezing fog over the last weekend, this is the result:
Frozen Fog
Nice shot
And thanks to Dale got the FF plugin working for auto timg!!! Thanks a lot
and thanks to TheReef and Mackmugg for making the plugin!
