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*** July 2024 Image and Video Thread ***

Today I stay over at a hotel near my work in Amersfoort. An option I get as consultant if I so desire. First watched my country win from Romania at work and after checking in took the 16-35 for a spin.

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  • Panasonic - DC-S5M2
  • LUMIX S 16-35/F4
  • 16.0 mm
  • ƒ/5.6
  • 1/60 sec
  • Pattern
  • Auto exposure
  • ISO 160

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  • Panasonic - DC-S5M2
  • LUMIX S 16-35/F4
  • 30.0 mm
  • ƒ/5.6
  • 1/60 sec
  • Pattern
  • Auto exposure
  • ISO 125

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  • Panasonic - DC-S5M2
  • LUMIX S 16-35/F4
  • 16.0 mm
  • ƒ/5.6
  • 1/40 sec
  • Pattern
  • Auto exposure
  • ISO 125


I don’t know what it is, but I really like the pop and the rendering
 
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  • Panasonic - DC-S5M2
  • LUMIX S 16-35/F4
  • 35.0 mm
  • ƒ/8
  • 1/10 sec
  • Pattern
  • Auto exposure
  • ISO 125

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  • Panasonic - DC-S5M2
  • LUMIX S 16-35/F4
  • 35.0 mm
  • ƒ/5.6
  • 1/30 sec
  • Pattern
  • Auto exposure
  • ISO 125

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  • Panasonic - DC-S5M2
  • LUMIX S 16-35/F4
  • 16.0 mm
  • ƒ/4
  • 1/100 sec
  • Pattern
  • Auto exposure
  • ISO 125
 
Just one of the things I loved about The Netherlands... The cycle lane infrastructure Daumenhoch SmilieOut on the bicycle today and mostly just rode on the footpath even if illegal, you get killed on the roads.

The other one being the coffee shops even though I don't like coffee :p
 
From a distance, the Library of Congress looks like a reasonably-proportioned building...

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20240620-SDIM1455 by Travis Butler, on Flickr (Hexanon 40/1.8)

...but it looks a bit larger up close.

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20240620-SDIM1306 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

Inside is beautiful - the kind of building they don't make nearly enough of. :( (Vivitar 28/2.5 [Kiron] unless otherwise noted)

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20240620-SDIM1134 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

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20240620-SDIM1122 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

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20240620-SDIM1125 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

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20240620-SDIM1136 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

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20240620-SDIM1140 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

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20240620-SDIM1147 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

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20240620-SDIM1154 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

The famous Reading Room. Note the thousands of books visible through the arches - this is a working building!

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20240620-SDIM1156 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

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20240620-SDIM1160 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

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20240620-SDIM1163 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

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20240620-SDIM1178 by Travis Butler, on Flickr (Hexanon 40/1.8)

Gotta love the slogans!

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20240620-SDIM1194 by Travis Butler, on Flickr (Hexanon 40/1.8)

Several exhibits hosted here, but this post is getting too long already...

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20240620-SDIM1232 by Travis Butler, on Flickr (Hexanon 40/1.8)

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20240620-SDIM1257 by Travis Butler, on Flickr (Hexanon 40/1.8)
 
Oíche said:
Just one of the things I loved about The Netherlands... The cycle lane infrastructure Daumenhoch SmilieOut on the bicycle today and mostly just rode on the footpath even if illegal, you get killed on the roads.

The other one being the coffee shops even though I don't like coffee :p
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Luckily for you they sell also other stuff in the coffe houses… like tea ;-)
The tall red building in the middle of the picture with the bicycle lane is where I am staying tonight.

Bit closer:
 
RuleOfThirds said:
Is this composition better? Like them both
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This one's also good, even with the wide-angle effect on the pole. :)

I think the weirdest sample I've seen of that is at the Cosmosphere:

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  • NO-LENS
  • 1/1000 sec
  • Pattern
  • ISO 100


Somehow, when it's a rocket, that makes it all the stranger. Like you're expecting it to launch at an angle and come booming down.
 
Travis Butler said:
This one's also good, even with the wide-angle effect on the pole. :)
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The fun part is, that pole, the first in a row of poles, is placed at that angle. It is not wide-angle effect. But that is the reason is choose to post the first picture first :cool:

If you look at the brick/what ever it is called/ below the pole, you can see I only slightly tilted the camera to get the top right corner of the building in the frame.
 
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pdk42 not around so I started the July thread late.

First time ever today I seen 2x blackbird fledglings being fed and taught where to look for food underneath leaves and around pots. I seen the parent rolling a slug back and forth along the pavers with it's beak before feeding the fledglings.

Surprisingly they have a lower volume communication than the blue tits and smaller birds, maybe to remain stealthy? Anyway I was delighted to see this.

It was quite dark and forgot I left the polariser on so really high ISO and I applied NR, corrected exposure with vignette and grad. The animal detection still locked onto the eye in the dark condition with a cpl dialled in fully!1000013530.jpg
  • Panasonic - DC-S5M2
  • LUMIX S 70-300/F4.5-5.6
  • 300.0 mm
  • ƒ/5.6
  • 1/125 sec
  • Other
  • ISO 12800
 
Oíche said:
Nature is outstanding, the ultimate engineer and the ultimate artist... God :cool:
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I am constantly surprised how many different patterns of plants and birds there are. I have been walking more in the morning and there are lots of plants that I am seeing for the first time, which means I wasn’t paying enough attention before:).
 
osogris said:
I am constantly surprised how many different patterns of plants and birds there are. I have been walking more in the morning and there are lots of plants that I am seeing for the first time, which means I wasn’t paying enough attention before:).
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The beauty of the only Lumix lenses I own (24-105 f4 & 70-300 f4.5-5.6) and near enough exclusively only use is both have 0.5x macro and can't help thinking how 0.5x would benefit you, unfortunately you only get 0.25x with the 70-200 f4.

Yeah macro opens your eyes to nature which you never notice, for example, I photographed tiny Rosemary lilac blue flowers to discover they looked remarkably like Orchid flowers :)

The spiderlings photo I got is no way visible to the eye without macro, if I crop 2x on either 0.5x macro I get equivalent full 1x, you need the same crop on 70-200 f4 to get native 0.5x

The 300mm end with 0.5x is rather excellent and my favourite for keeping distance from bees and everything else, it allows much easier working distance.

Video using APS-C mode and high stability mode on S5ii gets you beyond 1x macro using up to c4k!

The O.I.S is brilliant all these Lumix zooms have.
 
RuleOfThirds said:
Luckily for you they sell also other stuff in the coffe houses… like tea ;-)
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Yip that's what I meant, I remember one of them in a portacabin in the middle of a main road as the usual building was being refurbished... Very quirky

I remember staying in a place that used to be a youth prison, it had a library and very arty farty, very Amsterdam. I'm not into the tourist area though and mainly stayed in the outskirts.

Loved cycling there and talking to the locals in the river boats and in the pubs in the suburbs where they were bemused that I didn't go into the centre at night or do touristy stuff.

Yip the architecture over there is great, both the old and new. 2012 last time I was there :(
 
(Do folks still want me to keep posting the DC pics? Still have several posts' worth.)

(All pics with the Sigma fp, Minolta MD 35-70/3.5 Macro)

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20240622-SDIM1577 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

I probably should have looked through the existing Vietnam Memorial pics for tips on bringing out the full impact of it; I wanted to do it justice, but I couldn't find a good view.

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20240622-SDIM1616 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

I did a shot like this on my last visit 20 years ago, but this one didn't capture the magic of the original.

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20240622-SDIM1572 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

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20240622-SDIM1579 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

These, at least, I was pretty satisfied with; the sculptor did a good job of capturing the emotion in the figures, and hopefully that comes through in the pics.

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20240622-SDIM1630 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

It felt like the Korean War Memorial borrowed somewhat from the Vietnam Memorial's black walls, but I thought the shadowy figures in the granite were effective.

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20240622-SDIM1632 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

Even more than the Vietnam Memorial, there was something here that kept drawing people to touch the ghosts in the wall.

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20240622-SDIM1635 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

Then to contrast the ghosts of the wall -

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- we have larger-than-life solid bronze figures marching across the broken ground.

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20240622-SDIM1639 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

And then, a ways further down the National Mall...

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20240622-SDIM1642 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

...we have the District of Columbia War Memorial, dedicated to all DC residents who fought in the wars. Sadly wasn't getting much attention from anyone.
 
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