*** August 2024 Image and Video Thread ***

[PJD]

Earlier today I snapped a few photos for SW Trails, the local non-profit neighborhood organization which builds the urban trail network throughout SW Portland, Oregon, including the HI-LO Trail and Red Electric Trail. These smiling folks are some of the local politicians and hopeful City Council candidates who support these projects. This is a compressed version of a 96MP hi-res photo.

Note the black woman in the front row wearing the blue-grey shirt, and the color aliasing artifacts visible on the fabric (zoom in). My S5iiX camera doesn't feature an anti-aliasing filter on its sensor, so aliasing can happen with certain textures & patterns in the world. I don't know if it can be removed "easily" using the Affinity Photo 2 & Pixlemator Pro software I own. Is this something an Adobe software product can do with a few clicks? Cheers.

More of the S5iiX photos I snapped yesterday at the local political candidates event are now in my Dropbox. Some of the images are frames grabbed from the 6K h265 video I shot.

No login or account is required to view my photos (ignore the Google prompt).

 

[Travis Butler]

Yesterday hiking to the "Danube's curve" or "Schlögener Schlinge" in Austria. I tried the 14-28mm Lumix with the S1R and what focal lenght do you prefer? 14, 16, 18 or 20mm?

Definitely 16; it gives the river bend the best balance against the cloudy sky.

 

[TOPSHELFJR.]

Once we get the okay, time to fire up the CNC cutter, big bandsaw, MIG welder, & go to work. Big boys Meccano. Very cool. This was a couple of projects back, I do the design, fabrication and fitting, the mechanics plumb up the hydraulics and control system -this one is remote controlled, & is just getting load testing & calibration.
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Another view over current & previous projects.

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NICE !!!

 

[xaviergut]

Hmmm.... hard to piclk! I think I like 14mm the best, but 16mm is good too.

Thank you, Pete!

 

[xaviergut]

Definitely 16; it gives the river bend the best balance against the cloudy sky.

Thanks. Travis!

 

[AlanC]

what focal lenght do you prefer?

16mm: to my eyes it gives the best view of the river while keeping the dramatic wide angle view of the sky.

 

[xaviergut]

16mm: to my eyes it gives the best view of the river while keeping the dramatic wide angle view of the sky.

Thank you, Alan. I agree. The thing is that I need some negative space to write some text, so I am hesitating between 16 and 14mm... I will try both cases out. Thank you again!

 

[Travis Butler]

Here's a few for @Pete_W ... (Sigma fp, Hexanon 40/1.8)


20240810-SDIM2172 by Travis Butler, on Flickr


20240810-SDIM2177 by Travis Butler, on Flickr


20240810-SDIM2187 by Travis Butler, on Flickr


20240810-SDIM2185 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

Also, have you ever heard this song before?



There's 3 or 4 train vids on YouTube set to it... would like to do one myself, but don't have the travel money to go chasing down clips. <sheepish look>

 

[Pete_W]

Hey thanks @Travis! I like those cabooses (or is the plural caboosi ?)! Do you know if they are still in use?

I certainly have heard that song before, but never see it on Youtube with train videos! That's very cool.

 

[Pete_W]

SOOC jpeg from the S9

Panasonic S9 + Sigma 90mm F2.8 DG DN Contemporary ƒ/9.0 1/320s ISO100

P1000185 by Peter Watters, on Flickr

 

[Pete_W]

City Beach at Wollongong

Lots of things you can't do!

• Panasonic - DC-S9
• 45mm F2.8 DG DN | Contemporary 019
• 45.0 mm
• ƒ/9
• 1/200 sec
• Pattern
• Auto exposure
• ISO 100

 

[Pete_W]

Flagstaff Point Lighthouse overlooking City Beach at Wollongong, on a sunny but cool winter's day.

• Panasonic - DC-S9
• 90mm F2.8 DG DN | Contemporary 021
• 90.0 mm
• ƒ/9
• 1/200 sec
• Pattern
• Auto exposure
• ISO 100

 

[inspiredtimothy]

Earlier today I snapped a few photos for SW Trails, the local non-profit neighborhood organization which builds the urban trail network throughout SW Portland, Oregon, including the HI-LO Trail and Red Electric Trail. These smiling folks are some of the local politicians and hopeful City Council candidates who support these projects. This is a compressed version of a 96MP hi-res photo.

Note the black woman in the front row wearing the blue-grey shirt, and the color aliasing artifacts visible on the fabric (zoom in). My S5iiX camera doesn't feature an anti-aliasing filter on its sensor, so aliasing can happen with certain textures & patterns in the world. I don't know if it can be removed "easily" using the Affinity Photo 2 & Pixlemator Pro software I own. Is this something an Adobe software product can do with a few clicks? Cheers.
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I'm not sure about Adobe products, but I'm surprised to see moire appear in a 96mp high res image. What lens was this shot with?

I would think there should be a relatively simple way to get rid of at least the color artifacts in affinity, although I don't use that software much.

 

[inspiredtimothy]

Yesterday hiking to the "Danube's curve" or "Schlögener Schlinge" in Austria. I tried the 14-28mm Lumix with the S1R and what focal lenght do you prefer? 14, 16, 18 or 20mm?

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Definitely the 20mm for me! Looks like a great place for a hike, thanks for sharing

Now that I look at it more, I like the 20mm for capturing the Danube, and the 14mm for capturing your vantage point with the trees, etc.

 

[Markuswelder]

Wife & I went out with her friends doing a bit of Karaoke. Spot the irony

• Panasonic - DC-S5
• 39.0 mm
• ƒ/2.8
• 1/15 sec
• Pattern
• Auto exposure
• -1
• ISO 200

I thought we'd accidentally wandered into a space ship for a second

• Panasonic - DC-S5
• 14.0 mm
• ƒ/4
• 1/4 sec
• Pattern
• Auto exposure
• -0.7
• ISO 400

 

[xaviergut]

Definitely the 20mm for me! Looks like a great place for a hike, thanks for sharing

Now that I look at it more, I like the 20mm for capturing the Danube, and the 14mm for capturing your vantage point with the trees, etc.

Thank you very much, Tim!!

 

[PJD]

I'm not sure about Adobe products, but I'm surprised to see moire appear in a 96mp high res image. What lens was this shot with?

I would think there should be a relatively simple way to get rid of at least the color artifacts in affinity, although I don't use that software much.

I've seen colored moire artifacts in a few of my 24MP & 96MP photos, taken with the Lumix S 20-60mm & S 50mm f1.8 lenses. Since the S5iiX doesn't have a OLPF filter on the sensor, moire aliasing artifacts can happen.

If Affinity Photo 2.x has the ability to "easily" remove moire from an image, I haven't found it. But I'm new to the program, so I could be mistaken.

In one photo I was able to select an area of the photo that had bad color moire and reduce its saturation to zero, and that worked in that specific photo because the area was a metal grate that looked fine as a gray object in a color photo.

In the group photo above, I might try selecting the woman's blue-gray shirt and do the same thing (remove the shirt's saturation), and then add a color/tint to the selection as a separate layer (e.g.: make the now gray shirt blue, etc.).

 

[Travis Butler]

Hey thanks @Travis! I like those cabooses (or is the plural caboosi ?)! Do you know if they are still in use?

I’m pretty sure the red one was out of service. Rear window was cracked, and one of the side windows was boarded up. Can’t be 100% sure, though. This is an industrial area, and there are feeder spurs from many of the buildings to the main line the locomotive is on; most of them were overgrown and obviously out of service, but this one was still maintained.

The green one has been sitting on that track (parallel to the main line) for at least two weeks now, but pretty sure it’s still active; the locomotive was running its engine when I stopped to take these shots, so it may have been getting ready to move. (Though it didn’t in the half-hour I was there…)

I certainly have heard that song before, but never see it on Youtube with train videos! That's very cool.

I think my almost-favorite is the monochrome one with old steam locomotives; it loses points by stopping before the end of the song, though.

 

[Jonathan-Mac]

All with the Sigma 50mm f/2 DG DN


Flamingoes by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr


Coloured glasses by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr


The wheels of industry by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr

 

[PJD]

I've seen colored moire artifacts in a few of my 24MP & 96MP photos, taken with the Lumix S 20-60mm & S 50mm f1.8 lenses. Since the S5iiX doesn't have a OLPF filter on the sensor, moire aliasing artifacts can happen.

If Affinity Photo 2.x has the ability to "easily" remove moire from an image, I haven't found it. But I'm new to the program, so I could be mistaken.

In one photo I was able to select an area of the photo that had bad color moire and reduce its saturation to zero, and that worked in that specific photo because the area was a metal grate that looked fine as a gray object in a color photo.

In the group photo above, I might try selecting the woman's blue-gray shirt and do the same thing (remove the shirt's saturation), and then add a color/tint to the selection as a separate layer (e.g.: make the now gray shirt blue, etc.).

Here's the before & after showing the moire-removal repair I was able to achieve using Pixelmator Pro. As I mentioned above, I selected the woman's shirt, reduced its saturation to zero, and then colored it with transparent blue-gray fill paint. It's not perfect, and I'm sure other software could be used to obtain as good or better results. (I also slightly adjusted the photo's white balance). I learned a few things, so worth the practice.