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Photo Of The Day - February 2021

Sunsetting behind The Sleeping Giant. From 2004, Olympus 3.2MP P&S camera.
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someoldguy said:
Basically , stuff like flare and CA irritate the hell out of me . Might be from learning to make offset plates when I was in college . Especially learning to do halftones . I actually have a 'test track' at a local historic site where I take new glass to find out what optical surprises lie within . I set the camera on a tripod , use a release , and make sure I'm there within an hour or so of noon . This sets up the sun to be just outside the upper left corner of the image , which makes any CA pop right up in some overhead wires just inside the frame . Every now and then surprises pop up , more so when I went from film to digital than now . The lens in question had been checked out when I got it and sailed through , so the flaws in the image were especially disconcerting .
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Normally flares don't bother me nearly as much as tilted horizon lines or massive blocked out white areas. That said I do try and shade my lenses to avoid them.

The horizon line aspect dates back decades to when I put bread on the table with my drafting skills. The white has to do with the backlit nature of viewing images on a computer screen, I just find it distracting.
 
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someoldguy said:
Basically , stuff like flare and CA irritate the hell out of me . Might be from learning to make offset plates when I was in college . Especially learning to do halftones . I actually have a 'test track' at a local historic site where I take new glass to find out what optical surprises lie within . I set the camera on a tripod , use a release , and make sure I'm there within an hour or so of noon . This sets up the sun to be just outside the upper left corner of the image , which makes any CA pop right up in some overhead wires just inside the frame . Every now and then surprises pop up , more so when I went from film to digital than now . The lens in question had been checked out when I got it and sailed through , so the flaws in the image were especially disconcerting .
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Get hold of a Nikon 14-24 f2.8 if you want a flare challenge! Understand what you are saying though. Sometimes they can add to an image. Sometimes they ruin it.
 
OldMacs4Me said:
Normally flares don't bother me nearly as much as tilted horizon lines or massive blocked out white areas. That said I do try and shade my lenses to avoid them.

The horizon line aspect dates back decades to when I put bread on the table with my drafting skills. The white has to do with the backlit nature of viewing images on a computer screen, I just find it distracting.
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YES! 100% agree. Nothing distracts me more than a beautiful image with the horizon tilting one way or the other. So easily fixed as well.
 
StrollerEd said:
Viewing one Iron Age fort on Arthur’s Seat from another on West Craiglockhart. No doubt there was also something on Castle Rock (on far left) and Berwick Law (in far distance on right).
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A heavily post-processed version of yesterday's photo of the view from one Iron Age fort, on Wester Craiglockhart, to another on Arthur's Seat, with Castle Rock on far left and Berwick Law in far distance on right.
I've not generally done as much post-processing, so this is experiment.
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prog99 said:
Looking the other direction isn’t there one on Caerketton Hill too?
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Apparently, "Caerketton translates from Brittonic as Fort of the Refuge and its 478m top grants one of the finest views in all of the Pentland Hills Regional Park – the summit also holds the remains of a Bronze Age cairn." I will add that to my list of places to re-visit after Lockdown. Thanks.
 
[Picture taken with camera on Motorola Moto g7]

The latest in the exploits of Sherlock, IT Manager!

In post 477 you saw him taking a nap while waiting for windows to update. Then in post 496 you saw him managing his support personnel. Well, after a tough day like that, an IT Manager has to know how to relax and unwind:
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I am glad people are liking the pictures of Sherlock the IT Manager. He was a very photogenic cat. I have a couple of more computer-related pictures of him, I will try to remember to post them one per day over the coming days.
 
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