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March 2025 Image and Video Thread

xaviergut said:
Hahahaha I woke up because I needed to go to the toilet and suddenly saw the sun rising... and I said to myself that maybe the hybrid zoom could work in such situation... Hahaha :D:D
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Heh! Well, at least that’s not a bad reason… ^^;;
 
I am at the time of year when the sun comes up while I'm getting ready for work and getting my daughters ready for school, so I quite often get a good sunrise but everything's been cloudy and grey recently so not much opportunity for photos. And not as nice a skyline as that one in Vienna either.
 
I have to book a hotel at least an 1,5 hour away to get such a view at sunrise :cool:
 
"The claw chooses who will go and who will stay!"
(Toy Story)

P1001038_DxO.jpg
  • Panasonic - DC-S9
  • 24mm F3.5 DG DN | Contemporary 021
  • 24.0 mm
  • ƒ/3.5
  • 1/100 sec
  • Pattern
  • Auto exposure
  • ISO 160
 
I'm going on a local "photo safari" later today. I've been tasked by the still-under-construction HI-LO Trail project (I've been volunteering for months) to try to find a so-called "nurse tree" stump with a SMALL tree sapling growing on top of it.

Previously I'd snapped this photo of a young tree growing on top of an ancient stump ...
th8_pjd_tryon-park_flora-nurse-tree-22-p1000778_h.jpg
  • Panasonic - DC-S5M2X
  • 28.0 mm
  • ƒ/9
  • 1/160 sec
  • Center-Weighted Average
  • Manual exposure
  • -1
  • ISO 640


... but for the HI-LO Trail website we want to tell a step-by-step story about how a mature tree either dies of old age, disease, blown-down by a storm, or logging ... and then a small sapling may sprout from the decaying stump, its new roots burrowing into the rotting wood and also stretching down to the forest floor, in turn becoming a mature tree itself, while the old stump rots away and disappears, sometimes leaving the new tree "standing on its tip-toes" suspended in the air ... like this ...
th9_pjd_tryon-park_tree-roots-2-p3086150-hdr_h.jpg
  • OLYMPUS CORPORATION - E-M10 Mark III
  • LUMIX G VARIO PZ 45-175/F4.0-5.6
  • 45.0 mm
  • ƒ/5.6
  • 1/100 sec
  • Center-Weighted Average
  • Manual exposure
  • ISO 200


Nurse trees and their offspring are not too common in the nearby Tyron Creek Natural Area park, but there are a few. I previously posted this photo of me standing next to a large example of a mature nurse tree offspring, its nurse tree long since gone ...
th9_sl_tryon-park_tree-elephant-1-p1000774_square_h.jpg
  • Panasonic - DC-S5M2X
  • 22.0 mm
  • ƒ/6.30000019074
  • 1/10 sec
  • Center-Weighted Average
  • Manual exposure
  • ISO 400


... if I'm lucky I'll find the desired combination of stump with a tiny (approx. 1-2 foot tall) sapling growing on top, and take a decent photo of it. Wish me luck.
 
PJD said:
I'm going on a local "photo safari" later today. I've been tasked by the still-under-construction HI-LO Trail project (I've been volunteering for months) to try to find a so-called "nurse tree" stump with a SMALL tree sapling growing on top of it.

Previously I'd snapped this photo of a young tree growing on top of an ancient stump ...
View attachment 8811

... but for the HI-LO Trail website we want to tell a step-by-step story about how a mature tree either dies of old age, disease, blown-down by a storm, or logging ... and then a small sapling may sprout from the decaying stump, its new roots burrowing into the rotting wood and also stretching down to the forest floor, in turn becoming a mature tree itself, while the old stump rots away and disappears, sometimes leaving the new tree "standing on its tip-toes" suspended in the air ... like this ...
View attachment 8812

Nurse trees and their offspring are not too common in the nearby Tyron Creek Natural Area park, but there are a few. I previously posted this photo of me standing next to a large example of a mature nurse tree offspring, its nurse tree long since gone ...
View attachment 8813

... if I'm lucky I'll find the desired combination of stump with a tiny (approx. 1-2 foot tall) sapling growing on top, and take a decent photo of it. Wish me luck.
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I like specially the first one. What lens did you use?
 
This 48 -second video duration of the sun's exit in Vienna was made using the hybrid zoom. The only edition that I have made has been to raise the shadows and stabilize the image with Davinci Resolve Studio because I did it without tripod ... and I did not use any LUT, simply the "natural" profile of the S5II. The best is the audio, the dove that does not shut up at dawn hahahaha :D:D

 
xaviergut said:
This 48 -second video duration of the sun's exit in Vienna was made using the hybrid zoom. The only edition that I have made has been to raise the shadows and stabilize the image with Davinci Resolve Studio because I did it without tripod ... and I did not use any LUT, simply the "natural" profile of the S5II. The best is the audio, the dove that does not shut up at dawn hahahaha :D:D

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There are worse things than that bird! :)
 
Checking out the swell...

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  • Panasonic - DC-S9
  • 90mm F2.8 DG DN | Contemporary 021
  • 90.0 mm
  • ƒ/4.5
  • 1/500 sec
  • Pattern
  • Auto exposure
  • ISO 100
 
Previously... (to the photo above)

I was going to make this one a 65:24 crop but it was a bit too tight.

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  • Panasonic - DC-S9
  • 45mm F2.8 DG DN | Contemporary 019
  • 45.0 mm
  • ƒ/8
  • 1/200 sec
  • Pattern
  • Auto exposure
  • ISO 100
 
xaviergut said:
I like specially the first one. What lens did you use?
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The Lumix S 20-60mm f3.5-56, at 28mm. Here's another view of that stump, taken the same day:
th8_pjd_tryon-park_flora-lichen-and-moss-tree-stump-20b-p1000769_h.jpg
  • Panasonic - DC-S5M2X
  • 20.0 mm
  • ƒ/6.30000019074
  • 1/320 sec
  • Center-Weighted Average
  • Manual exposure
  • -1
  • ISO 640
 
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During my hike today I didn't find what I was looking for -- a small sapling growing out of the top of an old rotting tree stump -- but I enjoyed walking in the woods.
th8_pjd_tryon-park-flora-red-flower-16-p1001788_h.jpg
  • Panasonic - DC-S5M2X
  • LUMIX S 20-60/F3.5-5.6
  • 60.0 mm
  • ƒ/8
  • 1/250 sec
  • Center-Weighted Average
  • Manual exposure
  • ISO 100

th8_pjd_tryon-park-nettle-creek-14-p1001785_h.jpg
  • Panasonic - DC-S5M2X
  • LUMIX S 20-60/F3.5-5.6
  • 60.0 mm
  • ƒ/7.1
  • 1/125 sec
  • Center-Weighted Average
  • Manual exposure
  • ISO 100

th8_pjd_tryon-park-flora-moss-10-p1001649_h.jpg
  • Panasonic - DC-S5M2X
  • LUMIX S 20-60/F3.5-5.6
  • 20.0 mm
  • ƒ/8
  • 1/125 sec
  • Center-Weighted Average
  • Manual exposure
  • ISO 100



th8_pjd_tryon-park-creek-scene-10-p1001718_h.jpg
  • Panasonic - DC-S5M2X
  • LUMIX S 20-60/F3.5-5.6
  • 30.0 mm
  • ƒ/5.6
  • 1/50 sec
  • Center-Weighted Average
  • Manual exposure
  • ISO 100

th8_pjd_tryon-park-creek-scene-12-p1001724_h.jpg
  • Panasonic - DC-S5M2X
  • LUMIX S 20-60/F3.5-5.6
  • 20.0 mm
  • ƒ/8
  • 1/400 sec
  • Center-Weighted Average
  • Manual exposure
  • ISO 100
 
Nettle Creek, and a Douglas Fir tree, inside Tryon Creek Natural Area, just north of Lake Oswego, Oregon.
th8_pjd_tryon-park-nettle-creek-16-p1001645_h.jpg
  • Panasonic - DC-S5M2X
  • LUMIX S 20-60/F3.5-5.6
  • 20.0 mm
  • ƒ/3.5
  • 1/50 sec
  • Center-Weighted Average
  • Manual exposure
  • ISO 100

th8_pjd_tryon-park-flora-douglas-fir-30-p1001741_h.jpg
 
I mentioned in one of the recent threads how much I liked the good low-light capability of the Sigma fp...

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20250308-SDIM3229 by Travis Butler, on Flickr
Sigma fp, Konica Hexanon 28/3.8

Pretty clean ISO 4000... and after running ISO 4000 through On1's denoise:

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20250308-SDIM3226 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

I'm happy. :)
 
PJD said:
I'm going on a local "photo safari" later today. I've been tasked by the still-under-construction HI-LO Trail project (I've been volunteering for months) to try to find a so-called "nurse tree" stump with a SMALL tree sapling growing on top of it.

Previously I'd snapped this photo of a young tree growing on top of an ancient stump ...
View attachment 8811

... but for the HI-LO Trail website we want to tell a step-by-step story about how a mature tree either dies of old age, disease, blown-down by a storm, or logging ... and then a small sapling may sprout from the decaying stump, its new roots burrowing into the rotting wood and also stretching down to the forest floor, in turn becoming a mature tree itself, while the old stump rots away and disappears, sometimes leaving the new tree "standing on its tip-toes" suspended in the air ... like this ...
View attachment 8812

Nurse trees and their offspring are not too common in the nearby Tyron Creek Natural Area park, but there are a few. I previously posted this photo of me standing next to a large example of a mature nurse tree offspring, its nurse tree long since gone ...
View attachment 8813

... if I'm lucky I'll find the desired combination of stump with a tiny (approx. 1-2 foot tall) sapling growing on top, and take a decent photo of it. Wish me luck.
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Looks really great!
Oregon and Portland are still on my list of places to visit. Your pictures look as if I should give that destination a higher priority.
 
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Today's sunrise with crossing cranes at the nearby lake, only some minutes by foot away from my home.
2025-03-09_070436_p1052693-1.jpg
  • Panasonic - DC-S5M2
  • LUMIX S 28-200/F4-7.1
  • 192.0 mm
  • ƒ/11
  • 1/250 sec
  • ISO 160
 
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