March 2025 Image and Video Thread

[RuleOfThirds]

Storks are back, so I had to take a look with my 70-300..

• Panasonic - DC-S5M2
• LUMIX S 70-300/F4.5-5.6
• 300.0 mm
• ƒ/5.6
• 1/1000 sec
• Pattern
• Auto exposure
• ISO 1600

• Panasonic - DC-S5M2
• LUMIX S 70-300/F4.5-5.6
• 228.0 mm
• ƒ/5.5
• 1/800 sec
• Pattern
• Auto exposure
• -0.3
• ISO 400

• Panasonic - DC-S5M2
• LUMIX S 70-300/F4.5-5.6
• 300.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/640 sec
• Pattern
• Auto exposure
• -0.3
• ISO 1600

 

[RuleOfThirds]

Such nice light, I did a quick tour around my village this morning.

• Panasonic - DC-S5M2
• 28 - 70mm F2.8 DG DN | Contemporary 021
• 38.0 mm
• ƒ/5.6
• 1/100 sec
• Pattern
• Auto exposure
• ISO 100

• Panasonic - DC-S5M2
• 28 - 70mm F2.8 DG DN | Contemporary 021
• 70.0 mm
• ƒ/7.1
• 1/80 sec
• Pattern
• Auto exposure
• ISO 125

• Panasonic - DC-S5M2
• 28 - 70mm F2.8 DG DN | Contemporary 021
• 32.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/60 sec
• Pattern
• Auto exposure
• ISO 125

 

[RuleOfThirds]

• Panasonic - DC-S5M2
• 28 - 70mm F2.8 DG DN | Contemporary 021
• 29.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/160 sec
• Pattern
• Auto exposure
• ISO 100

• Panasonic - DC-S5M2
• 28 - 70mm F2.8 DG DN | Contemporary 021
• 28.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/125 sec
• Pattern
• Auto exposure
• ISO 100

• Panasonic - DC-S5M2
• 28 - 70mm F2.8 DG DN | Contemporary 021
• 29.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/125 sec
• Pattern
• Auto exposure
• ISO 100

 

[Nevyn72]

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Love this pictures Peter, they have something 'magical'.

I see the 24-105 F4 becoming already obsolete

 

[RuleOfThirds]

Love this pictures Peter, they have something 'magical'.

I see the 24-105 F4 becoming already obsolete

I actually wished that I had the 24-105 this morning on the camera . Just quickly grabbed the camera and this one was on it. No slouch either But at one location the 70 was too short, 105 would have been perfect. And the 24 would have been welcome as well. But that is what it is and the beauty of going by with just what you have with you.

This was causing the magic. 10 minutes later I got a call that my daughter had to stay home, and my wife had to go to work as well, so decided that I work from home today. On my way back the sky cleared up rapidly with the rising sun, so grabbed the camera and took off for a small tour around town for a few minutes.

 

[RuleOfThirds]

For the non Dutchies, this is how my world looked like from November till half February, but then also with cold and rain. Really ugly winter.

 

[sergun80]

S9 - 24/3.5
floodplain-37 by Сергей Пашнин, on Flickr

 

[The Rigger]

It's currently 1:21am, and instead of being curled up in a nice warm bed I'm out in the 30-degree (Frankenstein) chill with the S5, shooting the total lunar eclipse. It's aledgedly the last one visible from these parts until at least 2029. Gonna give the Sigma 100-400 telezoom a workout.

 

[PJD]

It's currently 1:21am, and instead of being curled up in a nice warm bed I'm out in the 30-degree (Frankenstein) chill with the S5, shooting the total lunar eclipse. It's aledgedly the last one visible from these parts until at least 2029. Gonna give the Sigma 100-400 telezoom a workout.

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I hope you get some great images! I went outside a few minutes ago to see if there were any breaks in the clouds. No luck. Maybe next time.

 

[The Rigger]

I went outside a few minutes ago to see if there were any breaks in the clouds. No luck.

Surprisingly, we had fairly clear (by Great Lakes standards) skies tonight. Some wispy high cirrus and cirrostratus clouds I had to shoot through, but nothing like our usual gray skies - you can easily tell a Michigander visiting Seattle or Portland; he'll be the one walking around commenting on how sunny it is.

It's now 3:23-or-so in the morning, and I'm about half-frozen. Got several dozen shots from First Contact through Max Totality before I packed it in. I think they came out alright, once I managed to dial in focus, which was a chore - I tried to tether to my laptop and use LUMIX-Tether app to let me use the MacBook Pro screen to remote focus, but of course the battery in the MacBook gave out in the cold conditions, so I had to use the LCD screen on the S5, which was an order of magnitude better than the eyepiece but still far from optimal, with my bad eyes (all four of 'em). Did a lot of experimenting with combinations of ISO/Aperature/Shutter Speed, about half of which were immediately deleted because not even I should've seen the results. But before I start churning through the Post-Processing mill I need a bit of shut-eye.

To quote Samuel Pepys, "And so to bed."

 

[Travis Butler]

It's currently 1:21am, and instead of being curled up in a nice warm bed I'm out in the 30-degree (Frankenstein) chill with the S5, shooting the total lunar eclipse. It's aledgedly the last one visible from these parts until at least 2029. Gonna give the Sigma 100-400 telezoom a workout.

Look forward to seeing what you get!

This is the best I could manage with the S5 and my Tamron SP 500mm mirror lens, at least on a first pass through:


20250314-P1022651 by Travis Butler, on Flickr


20250314-P1022651v1v1.rw2 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

And now I go collapse into bed. ^^;;

 

[Pete_W]

I am spending a few days away from home in the city of Canberra with family. This handheld shot was taken from the balcony of our apartment at 7:50pm.

• Panasonic - DC-S5M2
• LUMIX S 24-105/F4
• 24.0 mm
• ƒ/4
• 1/5 sec
• Pattern
• Auto exposure
• ISO 800