Photo Of The Day - December 2017

[kenoh]

Don't make me come up there and slap you!

Anymore of that talk and I'll PM Mrs Kenoh and tell her you've been lusting after those M10's again!

On the subject of lust have any of you had a load of unwanted contact on Flickr today?

Feeling left out now. No no extra attention...

Lol... I have seen your garden.... no danger of you getting up here any time soon... and anyway if you did make it you would be too busy getting the coffees in for a photo roadtrip!

 

[MacRy]

Hey at least I had the good grace to open the patio door whilst I was shooting from the conservatory

 

[Apple fanboy]

Feeling left out now. No no extra attention...

Lol... I have seen your garden.... no danger of you getting up here any time soon... and anyway if you did make it you would be too busy getting the coffees in for a photo roadtrip!

Typical Scots man. Trying to make someone else buy the coffees!

 

[mollyc]

Brrr. I can really feel the cold in that picture. Not easy to capture.

It actually wasn't that cold! Just snowy. I don't like snow or cold, but I was rather enchanted by cutting down a Christmas tree in the snow.



The details of December.

 

[kenoh]

Mate we need to be careful here. People with M9's shouldn’t throw stones when it comes to white balance issues

Only an issue if you shoot JPG dude....
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It actually wasn't that cold! Just snowy. I don't like snow or cold, but I was rather enchanted by cutting down a Christmas tree in the snow.



The details of December.
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Love the image but the light source on the right draws the eye to the cut off shade on the lamp.

Beautiful colour and lighting.

 

[Apple fanboy]

Only an issue if you shoot JPG dude....

Who does that? Maybe this guy?

 

[mollyc]

Love the image but the light source on the right draws the eye to the cut off shade on the lamp.

Beautiful colour and lighting.

Yes, well I’m not tall enough to actually take that from the right angle, so I just held my camera above my head and shot blindly. I might have used live view but this was pretty good, all things considered.

 

[kenoh]

Yes, well I’m not tall enough to actually take that from the right angle, so I just held my camera above my head and shot blindly. I might have used live view but this was pretty good, all things considered.

Lol... It is good... I said that...

 

[mollyc]

Lol... It is good... I said that...

I really took this photo for a scrapbook page so it’s been adorned anyway.

 

[someoldguy]

Well ..... there go the hydrangeas .....

 

[Mark0]

Tree & Stars
December 2017

The Milky Way above a lone tree on a cold winter's night near Port Logan, Rhinns of Galloway, SW Scotland.

I'm glad to finally have the photographic equipment that allows me to take these shots unimpeded now.
I first attempted night sky photography back in 2004/5 with film and digital - and it didn't go too well due to a lack of knowledge and less than ideal equipment. My Minolta X-300 chewed up what was an expensive, fast ISO film (probably due to poor loading) rendering it useless. Then when I tried using my first digital SLR, it was too noisy above ISO 400 due to the technology limits and small sensor. Added to that, I lacked a quality fast, optically corrected wide lens that would allow me to get ideal exposures. Digital files did not feature the dynamic range that they do now, so when I got my X-T2 last year and then recently acquired a fast, wide lens in the Samyang 12mm f2 - it was time to give it another go. I am glad I did.

This image was the result of good planning and good fortune with such a calm, cold and clear night. I am going for many more, as I have a lot of old ideas to finally visit.

Fuji X-T2 with Samyang 12mm f2 NCS lens.

16s / f2 / ISO 1600

 

[Apple fanboy]

Tree & Stars
December 2017

The Milky Way above a lone tree on a cold winter's night near Port Logan, Rhinns of Galloway, SW Scotland.

I'm glad to finally have the photographic equipment that allows me to take these shots unimpeded now.
I first attempted night sky photography back in 2004/5 with film and digital - and it didn't go too well due to a lack of knowledge and less than ideal equipment. My Minolta X-300 chewed up what was an expensive, fast ISO film (probably due to poor loading) rendering it useless. Then when I tried using my first digital SLR, it was too noisy above ISO 400 due to the technology limits and small sensor. Added to that, I lacked a quality fast, optically corrected wide lens that would allow me to get ideal exposures. Digital files did not feature the dynamic range that they do now, so when I got my X-T2 last year and then recently acquired a fast, wide lens in the Samyang 12mm f2 - it was time to give it another go. I am glad I did.

This image was the result of good planning and good fortune with such a calm, cold and clear night. I am going for many more, as I have a lot of old ideas to finally visit.

Fuji X-T2 with Samyang 12mm f2 NCS lens.

16s / f2 / ISO 1600

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Nice. I'm so glad I didn't shoot film. I'd have wasted a lot of money!

 

[Alexander.Of.Oz]

Playing with the 16 stop ND filter yesterday down at the Hallet Cove Beach, well a bit further on from there, but well worth the extra hike down and then up the hundreds of steep steps to the beach! I stupidly left my remote/intervalometer at home, but luckily my friend has a 6DII, so I could use hers! We discovered she has a bulb mode time entry feature on her body, so she doesn't actually need to use one, and I was able to get some LE's in... Not a cloud in the sky though...

Canon 6D, Canon 24-105mm f/4 L, Formatt-Hitech Firecrest 16 stop ND
ISO 100, 47mm, f/9, 4.5 minutes

 

[mollyc]

Tree & Stars
December 2017

The Milky Way above a lone tree on a cold winter's night near Port Logan, Rhinns of Galloway, SW Scotland.

I'm glad to finally have the photographic equipment that allows me to take these shots unimpeded now.
I first attempted night sky photography back in 2004/5 with film and digital - and it didn't go too well due to a lack of knowledge and less than ideal equipment. My Minolta X-300 chewed up what was an expensive, fast ISO film (probably due to poor loading) rendering it useless. Then when I tried using my first digital SLR, it was too noisy above ISO 400 due to the technology limits and small sensor. Added to that, I lacked a quality fast, optically corrected wide lens that would allow me to get ideal exposures. Digital files did not feature the dynamic range that they do now, so when I got my X-T2 last year and then recently acquired a fast, wide lens in the Samyang 12mm f2 - it was time to give it another go. I am glad I did.

This image was the result of good planning and good fortune with such a calm, cold and clear night. I am going for many more, as I have a lot of old ideas to finally visit.

Fuji X-T2 with Samyang 12mm f2 NCS lens.

16s / f2 / ISO 1600

View attachment 741540

We need a love button, in addition to a like button.

Nice. I'm so glad I didn't shoot film. I'd have wasted a lot of money!

I tried to learn on a film camera, but I was too cheap to pay for film, so I just let my camera languish! I wish I still had it now that I know better what I am doing.

 

[Apple fanboy]

Playing with the 16 stop ND filter yesterday down at the Hallet Cove Beach, well a bit further on from there, but well worth the extra hike down and then up the hundreds of steep steps to the beach! I stupidly left my remote/intervalometer at home, but luckily my friend has a 6DII, so I could use hers! We discovered she has a bulb mode time entry feature on her body, so she doesn't actually need to use one, and I was able to get some LE's in... Not a cloud in the sky though...

Canon 6D, Canon 24-105mm f/4 L, Formatt-Hitech Firecrest 16 stop ND
ISO 100, 47mm, f/9, 4.5 minutes

I have a time entry bulb mode too. I found it the other day.
4.5 minutes. That's a long exposure!

 

[Alexander.Of.Oz]

Ah! (en)Visionography??? I am reading their book. Packed with info but man! heavy going

Some great hints and directions in that tome of a thing! Joel has improved his workflows since then, check out his instructional videos, they are well worth the money.

 

[Apple fanboy]

We need a love button, in addition to a like button.



I tried to learn on a film camera, but I was too cheap to pay for film, so I just let my camera languish! I wish I still had it now that I know better what I am doing.

I used to take snaps on film cameras when I was younger. All on crap cameras with crap technique. Sadly a lot of my daughter's early photos are these.

 

[Alexander.Of.Oz]

I have a time entry bulb mode too. I found it the other day.
4.5 minutes. That's a long exposure!

It's definitely something I wish I had on my camera. Used in conjunction with mirror up and a two second delay, you don't need a remote, and I'm all for carrying less gear when possible.

I've found that the Canon full-frame sensors cope well between 4.5 and 5 minutes with LE's. Over that and the obvious noise creeps on in.

 

[Apple fanboy]

It's definitely something I wish I had on my camera. Used in conjunction with mirror up and a two second delay, you don't need a remote, and I'm all for carrying less gear when possible.

I've found that the Canon full-frame sensors cope well between 4.5 and 5 minutes with LE's. Over that and the obvious noise creeps on in.

My remote is so small and light, I often lose it when I'm out!

 

[mollyc]

I used to take snaps on film cameras when I was younger. All on crap cameras with crap technique. Sadly a lot of my daughter's early photos are these.

Well to be fair I have a lot of crummy photos of my own daughter’s first two years from a hybrid camera. I got smart and got a dslr with my son and learned how to use it.

 

[Alexander.Of.Oz]

My remote is so small and light, I often lose it when I'm out!

I was tempted to get a tiny infrared remote, but ended up with a huge wired one with a data screen that also has delay, timer, and intervalometer features on it. I'm still yet to play with the intervalometer for time-lapses, but have some cool ideas of spots for that very thing!

 

[Apple fanboy]

Well to be fair I have a lot of crummy photos of my own daughter’s first two years from a hybrid camera. I got smart and got a dslr with my son and learned how to use it.

I wish I had. Mind you I wish I had more photos of my daughter, but thats another story.
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I was tempted to get a tiny infrared remote, but ended up with a huge wired one with a data screen that also has delay, timer, and intervalometer features on it. I'm still yet to play with the intervalometer for time-lapses, but have some cool ideas of spots for that very thing!

I went with the tiny one. It was fairly cheap.

 

[oblomow]

 

[Mark0]

Playing with the 16 stop ND filter yesterday down at the Hallet Cove Beach, well a bit further on from there, but well worth the extra hike down and then up the hundreds of steep steps to the beach! I stupidly left my remote/intervalometer at home, but luckily my friend has a 6DII, so I could use hers! We discovered she has a bulb mode time entry feature on her body, so she doesn't actually need to use one, and I was able to get some LE's in... Not a cloud in the sky though...

Canon 6D, Canon 24-105mm f/4 L, Formatt-Hitech Firecrest 16 stop ND
ISO 100, 47mm, f/9, 4.5 minutes

That's ace, right up my street!

 

[Alexander.Of.Oz]

That's ace, right up my street!

Thank you kindly, Mark! Coming from your refined eye, that's a compliment indeed!