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

It is bizarre that a lot of Belfast (main city) people have never been here and constantly complain of depravity or some crap and other nonsense whilst their car never moves from the front door, this is about 12 miles away from there SooC with a B/W filter. _1011092.jpg
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In the past when posting in FB (not any longer for years) some mentioned it couldn't be and that I was foreign or something.

It's not exactly over crowded!
 
Travis Butler said:
A walk in the local park...

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I liked the basic situation, but I'm not sure which pics I like the best; I've flip-flopped several times in the week+ since I took them. Thoughts? Preferences? Recommendations? Brickbats? ^^;;
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I like the third one, because of the tree framing the fountain and the lake.
 
PJD said:
Someday soon (this Friday I hope), when it's not 104F here, I plan to shoot photos & video of picturesque landscapes, etc. ...
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Hooray! The attached photo was yesterday's high temperature IN THE SHADE outside or house: 105F (45C). It was our 5th and final consecutive day of temps >100F. Today will be 10F cooler, and the forecast for this coming Friday is around 90F. So, my friend Sam & I will take our S5iiX cameras & misc lenses to the Columbia River Gorge (where it's been >105F for the past 5 days), about a 45 mile drive East of here and see if we can get some nice photos & video. Fingers crossed!
 

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PJD said:
Hooray! The attached photo was yesterday's high temperature IN THE SHADE outside or house: 105F (45C). It was our 5th and final consecutive day of temps >100F. Today will be 10F cooler, and the forecast for this coming Friday is around 90F. So, my friend Sam & I will take our S5iiX cameras & misc lenses to the Columbia River Gorge (where it's been >105F for the past 5 days), about a 45 mile drive East of here and see if we can get some nice photos & video. Fingers crossed!
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Correction: Sorry, my brain is more fried than usual. :) ... 105F is about 40C.
 
PJD said:
Hooray! The attached photo was yesterday's high temperature IN THE SHADE outside or house: 105F (45C). It was our 5th and final consecutive day of temps >100F. Today will be 10F cooler, and the forecast for this coming Friday is around 90F. So, my friend Sam & I will take our S5iiX cameras & misc lenses to the Columbia River Gorge (where it's been >105F for the past 5 days), about a 45 mile drive East of here and see if we can get some nice photos & video. Fingers crossed!
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Ooh, Columbia River Gorge! Would love to see some pictures from there.
 
xaviergut said:
I like the third one, because of the tree framing the fountain and the lake.
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<nod> Yeah, that's what I wanted to capture with that framing... but then I love the simplicity and clarity in the first pic, and the tall clouds in the second pic, and the barn and the closer framing in the last pic, and... <sheepish look>
 
Travis Butler said:
A walk in the local park...

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20240626-SDIM1987 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

I liked the basic situation, but I'm not sure which pics I like the best; I've flip-flopped several times in the week+ since I took them. Thoughts? Preferences? Recommendations? Brickbats? ^^;;
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This is my favourite because of the sun on the houses in the background.

I would like to see a bit more lightness at the ground level but I am sure if I'd exposed for that, I would have completely blown the sky right out due to ineptness! You've done really well exposing the sky in your shots.
 
Pete_W said:
This is my favourite because of the sun on the houses in the background.

I would like to see a bit more lightness at the ground level but I am sure if I'd exposed for that, I would have completely blown the sky right out due to ineptness! You've done really well exposing the sky in your shots.
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The lighting was pretty odd at that point, in a way I actually liked because of the atmosphere it gave. There was enough cloud cover to put the pond and surroundings into deep shadow, while leaving the sky bright - with a few peeps through the clouds, as with the house in the background. I think I've said before, but I really like pics that juxtapose deep shadows with brightly-lit contrasts.

About 5 minutes later, when I was through with my walk and loading up the car... then the sun came out. ^^;;

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Travis Butler said:
A walk in the local park...

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I liked the basic situation, but I'm not sure which pics I like the best; I've flip-flopped several times in the week+ since I took them. Thoughts? Preferences? Recommendations? Brickbats? ^^;;
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I might have taken #1 as a vertical shot and zoomed in or cropped on the small cloud and reflection. But that is more to my landscape tastes, less wide shots
 
Last weekend (sat - tue) I was in the Eifel, Germany... I will post some pics of the trip. These are from Trier, with Port Nigra an ancient Roman building. The hall is a from the Dom, and the main square in the centre.

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RuleOfThirds said:
These are from Trier, with Port Nigra an ancient Roman building.
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I've been there twice, nice place. I presume not the nicest weather (I presume Western Europe is the only part in the world where it's not sunny), but I presume you made good use of your time anyway.

I see that you found good use of your new 16-35 :p
 
On our way to the Eifel (with my brother), we visited Fortress Eben-Emael (wiki) on the Dutch/Belgian border. It is very very large, but my pictures does not reflect that, it is build into the hills. The walk around the roof of the fortress, where the gliders landed was 3km.

Main entrance
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The part where the door was blasted with a then new type of hollow bomb
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One of the gun domes. below this roof there is an elevator, housing a big gun. These are all over the roof the fortress, to be able to defend the Maas river. The Germans conquered it in just 32 hrs (read the wiki) the first airborne attack with gliders, and one of the reasons the Germans where able to conquer Belgium so quickly.
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Nevyn72 said:
I've been there twice, nice place. I presume not the nicest weather (I presume Western Europe is the only part in the world where it's not sunny), but I presume you made good use of your time anyway.

I see that you found good use of your new 16-35 :p
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Yes, that is why I bought it so quickly, but I'm so glad I did!! Marvellous lens. Used the 24-105 in the rain, and did cope very well. Did a 6km hike in the "Teufelsschlucht" (canyon) with several 300m elevation changes and the s5ii + 24-105 was not too heavy at all. Those pictures are upcoming as well :)
 
@Vale46 try lifting the shadows 1 - 1.5 stops or selecting Auto compensation in LR or otherwise will do this.

Our eyes and brain do this automatic post processing and a camera sensor does not. Almost all high dynamic range landscape images need PP. In mine above I used two separate masks where I manipulated exposure but purposely left the background landscape near black plus used colour temperature manipulation.

As the great Ansel Adams stated in his books... the negative was only 1/2 the job and the other 1/2 was making the photograph. Use your fantastic FF sensor for this purpose, it's so easy compared to doing this in film like he had to and I've done it myself...

Your Sigma lens looks great :D
 
RuleOfThirds said:
The part where the door was blasted with a then new type of hollow bomb
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Those fortresses etc now would be useless, I'm sure you've seen the footage from Ukraine where they fly a £400 drone with a bomb attached through the smallest windows or horrifically chasing individual soldiers to their death.

The genie is out of the bottle with these things now for the worst reasons. Whilst used for amazing photo and videography and other non harmful endeavours I kind of wish they didn't exist as it's only a matter of time before a POTUS or similar gets killed this way leading to God knows what. :mad:
 
Oíche said:
@Vale46 try lifting the shadows 1 - 1.5 stops or selecting Auto compensation in LR or otherwise will do this.

Our eyes and brain do this automatic post processing and a camera sensor does not. Almost all high dynamic range landscape images need PP. In mine above I used two separate masks where I manipulated exposure but purposely left the background landscape near black plus used colour temperature manipulation.

As the great Ansel Adams stated in his books... the negative was only 1/2 the job and the other 1/2 was making the photograph. Use your fantastic FF sensor for this purpose, it's so easy compared to doing this in film like he had to and I've done it myself...

Your Sigma lens looks great :D
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Thank you, I was testing the retrostyle LUT in-camera and wanted to see how the picture looks ooc. But you're right, for such high contrast scenes it doesn't seem to be the best one.
 
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