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Photo Of The Day July 2020
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A butterfly on wild flowers on Horse Mountain, WA. The shot wasn't closer up for two reasons, one we did not want to scare it away (both the wife and I were taking pictures) and I was using my stock 18-55mm lens.
Resized in Luminar 4.
Resized in Luminar 4.
Whenever I shoot something like this, I get my shot in and then just slowly move closer and closer until it leaves. Sometimes you can get a lot closer, other times it's one shot if you are lucky! Of course that's with just me shooting!
This was taken with the 75-300 from maybe 3 or 4 feet away. I had a mild crop here in order to rotate the butterfly to vertical. I do crop a little on these, but it’s mostly just hanging around the minimum focus distance of the lens in hand, so no tubes used. I don’t actually own any.
The image would not nearly be as good with tubes. They have such a narrow depth of field. 1 or 2 mm often.
Yeah, and with a m43 sensor, at 300mm, I don’t have much to work with either. I use the digital focus (3x) zoom to make sure I get the head in focus. It would be the FF equivalent of 1800mm in my viewfinder at that point. The fantastic IBIS on M43 is really working it’s magic at this point.
It is very rare for me to get a shot of butterfly in nature, normally they fly away the moment I go for the camera, so I consider myself thankful he/she hung out for a couple of pictures. Also, we were knee high in wild flowers/grass on uneven ground at the time, so I felt it was best to stay were I was at.
Missed the focus by several million miles on this one! I am still getting used to using the Sony a7III with it's quirks as to how it works with my pan and tilt unit. I suspect that the pan and tilt unit I used with the Sony 55mm f/1.8 lens here procured focus on the foreground when I was curious as to what the red aperture looking button did just before commencing this thirty five frame capture! As you do! And, as the weather was about as cool as a UK summer, I wanted to be brisk and return to my comfy home by this stage, plus the Boof was getting a little preoccupied with chasing bunny-fluffers. 
It's a scene I'll be back for as there is a bit of wiggle room in where the Milky Way can appear in the scene. The current months Milky Way time ends tonight and then the Moon is rising too early and reflecting too much light again for another few weeks.
Oh, the foreground was lit courtesy of reflected light particles being dispatched from the Moon!
Sony a7III, Sony 55mm f/1.8, Syrp Genie Mini Pan and Tilt device, Daylight WB
55mm, ISO 3200, f/1.8, 10 seconds
It's a scene I'll be back for as there is a bit of wiggle room in where the Milky Way can appear in the scene. The current months Milky Way time ends tonight and then the Moon is rising too early and reflecting too much light again for another few weeks.
Oh, the foreground was lit courtesy of reflected light particles being dispatched from the Moon!
Sony a7III, Sony 55mm f/1.8, Syrp Genie Mini Pan and Tilt device, Daylight WB
55mm, ISO 3200, f/1.8, 10 seconds
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Where light capturing and light years meet!Missed the focus by several million miles on this one! I am still getting used to using the Sony a7III with it's quirks as to how it works with my pan and tilt unit. I suspect that the pan and tilt unit I used with the Sony 55mm f/1.8 lens here procured focus on the foreground when I was curious as to what the red aperture looking button did just before commencing this thirty five frame capture! As you do! And, as the weather was about as cool as a UK summer, I wanted to be brisk and return to my comfy home by this stage, plus the Boof was getting a little preoccupied with chasing bunny-fluffers.
It's a scene I'll be back for as there is a bit of wiggle room in where the Milky Way can appear in the scene. The current months Milky Way time ends tonight and then the Moon is rising too early and reflecting too much light again for another few weeks.
Oh, the foreground was lit courtesy of reflected light particles being dispatched from the Moon!
View attachment 937831
Sony a7III, Sony 55mm f/1.8, Syrp Genie Mini Pan and Tilt device, Daylight WB
55mm, ISO 3200, f/1.8, 10 seconds
ROTFL!!!!! Well, there's goodies on the deck if he can find his way...... Kind of a long hike from there to here, though!
Throwback looking through archives. Poor me, dropped wife and her sister off at port for 3 day cruise to the Bahamas. I had nothing to do and "forced" to explore the Everglades down to the Keys. I think I got the better end of the deal!
From yesterday afternoon's shooting session with Alfred: he had just stuck his head into the water hoping to grab a fish but apparently missed his prize, so I caught him with the camera as he was back on the fountain base, feathers all wet and ruffled, pulling his head back out of the lake.....
Awesome - technical and image perfectionMissed the focus by several million miles on this one! I am still getting used to using the Sony a7III with it's quirks as to how it works with my pan and tilt unit. I suspect that the pan and tilt unit I used with the Sony 55mm f/1.8 lens here procured focus on the foreground when I was curious as to what the red aperture looking button did just before commencing this thirty five frame capture! As you do! And, as the weather was about as cool as a UK summer, I wanted to be brisk and return to my comfy home by this stage, plus the Boof was getting a little preoccupied with chasing bunny-fluffers.
It's a scene I'll be back for as there is a bit of wiggle room in where the Milky Way can appear in the scene. The current months Milky Way time ends tonight and then the Moon is rising too early and reflecting too much light again for another few weeks.
Oh, the foreground was lit courtesy of reflected light particles being dispatched from the Moon!
View attachment 937831
Sony a7III, Sony 55mm f/1.8, Syrp Genie Mini Pan and Tilt device, Daylight WB
55mm, ISO 3200, f/1.8, 10 seconds
Trying out a film simulation recipe on my new Fuji XT3. This one is supposed to emulate Kodachrome 64
XT3 with XC50-230 @F6.7 230mm, ISO2000
XT3 with XC50-230 @F6.7 230mm, ISO2000
Where's the pot of gold? @ Kaipara, North Auckland, New Zealand
Fujifilm X20: ISO 100, f5.0 @ 1/250 sec
Fujifilm X20: ISO 100, f5.0 @ 1/250 sec