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*** September 2024 Image and Video Thread ***
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Pete_W
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These are the former lighthouse keeper's cottages at Cape Byron on the NSW north coast.
The head lighthouse keeper's cottage (closest to the camera) is now used as a visitor information centre. The assistant lighthouse keeper's cottage (furthest from the camera) can be rented out for holiday stays. Much too windy upt there for me!!
The head lighthouse keeper's cottage (closest to the camera) is now used as a visitor information centre. The assistant lighthouse keeper's cottage (furthest from the camera) can be rented out for holiday stays. Much too windy upt there for me!!
- Panasonic - DC-S5M2
- LUMIX S 14-28/F4-5.6
- 28.0 mm
- ƒ/10
- 1/200 sec
- Pattern
- Auto exposure
- ISO 100
That is one nice lighthouse, I've a thing for them, my mother paints them
Pete_W
LMF-Patron
That's really cool! Does she paint in oil or watercolour?
I have been wanting to visit the lighthouse at Cape Byron since I saw it on a TV series last year about great Australian walks. The track is a loop and only 4.7km but it's up and down some very steep sections of headland so it was a good workout.
GeorgeHudetz
Well-Known Member
Did some camping over the recent 3-day weekend here in the U.S. at Pearl Lake State Park in Colorado. I knew that it would be a good time & location for some Milky Way photography, and had a spot in mind with the lake in the foreground, but Friday night I was feeling tired and didn't want to leave the campsite. So, I pushed my lounge chair back and looked up, and unexpectedly I was staring straight into the MW! It arced right over our campsite. So I grabbed the camera and took a 4-second exposure, in a reclined position, looking up, with the camera resting against my forehead - no tripod. And got this:
The color on the treetops was from our campfire.
Energized, I got the tripod out and took a few near the campsite that actually had the core visible:
All shots were single - no stacking or tracking. S5 with Sigma 20mm F1.4 DG DN wide-open. First shot 4 seconds, second & third shots 10 seconds. Processed from raw in Capture One.
- Panasonic - DC-S5
- 20mm F1.4 DG DN | Art 022
- 20.0 mm
- 4 sec
- Pattern
- Auto exposure
- 3
- ISO 6400
The color on the treetops was from our campfire.
Energized, I got the tripod out and took a few near the campsite that actually had the core visible:
- Panasonic - DC-S5
- 20mm F1.4 DG DN | Art 022
- 20.0 mm
- 10 sec
- Pattern
- Manual exposure
- ISO 1600
- Panasonic - DC-S5
- 20mm F1.4 DG DN | Art 022
- 20.0 mm
- 10 sec
- Pattern
- Manual exposure
- ISO 1600
All shots were single - no stacking or tracking. S5 with Sigma 20mm F1.4 DG DN wide-open. First shot 4 seconds, second & third shots 10 seconds. Processed from raw in Capture One.
Nevyn72
LMF-Patron Gold
Very beautiful shots, you where at the right time, at the right place
GeorgeHudetz
Well-Known Member
Indeed! Thx.
pdk42
Moderator
I don't normally take shots of artwork (I'd prefer to make my own, he says with conceit !), but I saw this at a student exhibition in The Hague and liked it. I'll need to find out the artist's name!
Subtle Messages in Art by Paul Kaye, on Flickr
- Panasonic - DC-S5M2
- 35mm F2 DG DN | Contemporary 020
- 35.0 mm
- ƒ/2
- 1/60 sec
- Pattern
- Auto exposure
- ISO 2000
Subtle Messages in Art by Paul Kaye, on Flickr
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Pete_W
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Time for a train photo! 
This is a ex-NSW Government Railways diesel railmotor. Eighteen two-car sets were built, one car motored and the other car a trailer but both cars having driving controls. They mainly operated on regional branch lines from 1949 until withdrawn in the 1990s.
Two interesting things about this particular set:
This is a ex-NSW Government Railways diesel railmotor. Eighteen two-car sets were built, one car motored and the other car a trailer but both cars having driving controls. They mainly operated on regional branch lines from 1949 until withdrawn in the 1990s.
Two interesting things about this particular set:
- a resort owner in Byron Bay on the NSW north coast operates the railmotor on a short 3km section of a closed branch line between the township and his resort hotel
- the railmotor was converted to run on solar power, a world first for a train
- Panasonic - DC-S5M2
- LUMIX S 70-300/F4.5-5.6
- 70.0 mm
- ƒ/11
- 1/80 sec
- Pattern
- Auto exposure
- ISO 100
CharlesH
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The heart shape with pigs is interesting. You may know the scientific field of xenotransplantation, where animal tissue can be transplanted into humans. Typically the animal has been genetically modified in a way the tissue is not rejected by humans. It is early days in this field, but there has been work in both kidneys and hearts, based on pigs. The goal is to eventually greatly increase the quantity of available transplantable organs, because there are not nearly enough transplants available to treat all who need them. I expect this piece of art is based on xenotransplantation. It is quite good.
pdk42
Moderator
I think the artist is actually a science student, so it's quite possible. Nice to see a science type producing art too !
pdk42
Moderator
Pete_W
LMF-Patron
Among the many modern and shiny apartment and hotel towers on the Gold Coast (on the NSW / Queensland state border where I am staying for a few days), I found this little art-deco style hotel. Built in the 1940s, it looks like not much has been done in the intervening 80 years. The online reviews indicate the interior probably hasn't changed either!
The hotel currently goes by the name Whitehall Lodge although it was originally named Kelvin Court. I found an image online of the building from the 1940s (see below).
This photo was taken with the S9 using the Leica Monochrome preset. I had to bring the highlights down a bit due to the harsh afternoon sun.
The car out the front looks like a Holden FX (48-215), first produced in November 1948 so this dates the photo to late 1940s or early 1950s.
Source: https://ehive.com/collections/5051/objects/538922/photograph
The hotel currently goes by the name Whitehall Lodge although it was originally named Kelvin Court. I found an image online of the building from the 1940s (see below).
This photo was taken with the S9 using the Leica Monochrome preset. I had to bring the highlights down a bit due to the harsh afternoon sun.
- Panasonic - DC-S9
- 24mm F3.5 DG DN | Contemporary 021
- 24.0 mm
- ƒ/8
- 1/30 sec
- Pattern
- Auto exposure
- ISO 100
The car out the front looks like a Holden FX (48-215), first produced in November 1948 so this dates the photo to late 1940s or early 1950s.
Source: https://ehive.com/collections/5051/objects/538922/photograph
pdk42
Moderator
Nice bit of history reportage. The building didn’t look much better in its early days !
Pete_W
LMF-Patron
No, it certainly didn't. The TripAdvisor reviews I found for recent years were not encouraging!
Pete_W
LMF-Patron
Away from the back streets of Tweed Heads and Coolangatta, this is what these twin towns look like. Seaside holiday vibes, street markets, warm weather.
- Panasonic - DC-S9
- 24mm F3.5 DG DN | Contemporary 021
- 24.0 mm
- ƒ/9
- 1/160 sec
- Pattern
- Auto exposure
- ISO 100
- Panasonic - DC-S9
- 45mm F2.8 DG DN | Contemporary 019
- 45.0 mm
- ƒ/8
- 1/320 sec
- Pattern
- Auto exposure
- ISO 100
CharlesH
LMF-Patron Gold
I always envisioned Gold Coast as a little upscale, and not with a run down hotel. Granted I've only been there at the airport a couple of times passing through.
Travis Butler
Well-Known Member
Awww. That's too bad; I rather like it.
It actually looks like it has changed a fair bit from the 1940s pic; it looks a lot more Art Deco in yours.
Maybe it's the roof; it makes the building look too conventional in the 1940s pic. Did it still have that roof when you shot it?
The Rigger
LMF-Patron Gold
Beautiful work! I'd wanted to shoot the Milky Way over Lake Michigan at the semi-local dark sky park (Bortle 2-3 skies) up near Mackinaw City, Michigan, but while the days were clear, the skies clouded over just after sundown and it turned rainy 'round midnight. Better luck next time, I hope.