date:20141026



As the above Subject indicates, am posting a B&W of North Slope Tree. Would 
appreciate your advice re preference.

Comments, of course. Thanks!

Jack

http://photolightimages.com/aspupload/detail.asp?ID=836

or

http://photolightimages.com/aspupload/detail.asp?ID=835

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Re: Chicago PDML Meet Up

2014-10-26 Thread Steve Cottrell

On 25/10/14, Christine Aguila, discombobulated, unleashed:

>Well, Bob Sullivan, Mark Roberts, and I met up today and had a great
>chatty morning and lunch.  We went to the Art Institute and had a pub
>lunch.  Not too many pictures were taken, though there's a photo of Mark
>enjoying a Picasso and a shot of his ghostly beer :-).  
>
>Great to see everyone!
>
>http://www.caguila.com/chicagopdmlmeetup/index.html

Thanks for posting Christine, glad you guys got to meet up.

Will be over to the windy city next year so if you could tidy the place
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Re: Free software: DXO Optics Pro 8

2014-10-26 Thread Brian Walters


Quoting Darren Addy :


http://petapixel.com/2014/10/26/can-grab-copy-dxo-optics-pro-8-completely-free-limited-time/#more-149369

No idea what this software does or if it is any good, but I'll
download first and evaluate later.
:)

WIN & OSX versions available. Requires and email address. (I long ago
created a free "spam" Gmail address for purposes such as this (which I
never look at except for download links).
:)

Again, some hefty system requirements.
Cameras supported:
http://www.dxo.com/sites/dump.dxo.com/files/dxoimages/photo/contest/2014-10-23-Digital-Photographer-OP8/Cameras-supported-by-DxO-Optics-Pro-8.pdf
Does not include the K-3, but perhaps they just forgot to update the list???




It's the previous version of the software so it probably doesn't  
support the K-3 directly (although DNG would be a workaround for that,  
with or maybe even without Adobe's DNG Converter).



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Re: Sunspot Group 2192 with K-3/Bigma

2014-10-26 Thread Jostein Øksne


What you want when you focus is more precise _info_, right? :-D

If you're luckier than me you may get to see the sun again before the spot 
goes over the limb. :-)


Jostein

-Opprinnelig melding- 
From: Darren Addy

Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2014 8:20 PM
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List
Subject: Re: PESO: Sunspot Group 2192 with K-3/Bigma

Thanks for the comments Jack & Jostein.

I tried Live View but couldn't remember how to zoom-in while in Live
View for finer focusing. Need to look it up and then do it more to get
it hammered into my "little grey cells".
:\

On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Jostein Øksne  wrote:
Darren, have you considered using LiveView and manual focus to do the fine 
adjustment?


Interesting to see that Registax does a decent job of deconvoluting 
slightly misfocused shots. If you used the 12 sec. self timer,  the SR is 
automatically turned off, I think. It does turn off with the two second 
timer so I believe it would work that way with the longer timer too.


Jostein

Den 26. oktober 2014 18:44:48 CET, skrev Darren Addy 
:

Decided I couldn't let Sunspot Group 2192 (the largest in 24 years)
get away without trying to capture it. I slipped my home made solar
filter over the Bigma's hood and tried some captures with the K-3. I
have yet to apply the AF adjustment to this lens (but sunspots would
be an excellent way to dial it in, I think!) so I attempted it with
manual focus using an Olympus Vari-Magni attached to the viewfinder. I
still don't think I got a single frame perfectly sharp. I think I
forgot to turn off Image Stabilization. Images taken at high shutter
speed and f/9 or so. 12 second self-time was used in an attempt to
reduce vibration.

So I evaluated all the images and picked the 3 that appeared closest
to sharp and converted the DNG to TIF. Then I cropped them to 2000 x
2000 pixel squares and aligned and stacked those 3 images using the
free Registax6.

Here is a screenshot image that shows the improvement made by this
Registax6 processing.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/15609849676/
Pixel-peeping has its place in astrophotography post-processing.
:)

This was simply to get the best image to perform post-processing on.
I'm still learning to post-process solar images and so I followed the
recipe given by this guy:
http://www.perseus.gr/Astro-Tips-Solar-Process.htm

Thanks to his reducing the image twice, this results in a smaller
image than I would have liked (only 845 x 845) but I saved copies at
each step and may go back and try to adjust his process to save a
larger version.

Here is the Flickr page of the final result:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/15634739362/

Comments and criticism welcome in equal measure.

Darren Addy
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To really see this I needed to enlarge it quite a bit and pan from left
to right myself then I could see the details.
It's beautifully done, but I prefer just looking at everything to the
left of th "lacklustre" sky, the colors, reflections in the water and
the silhouette of the famous structure with the "sails" that I can't
remember the name of I could look at a long time. Cruise ships are
instruments of the devil. :-)

ann

On 10/25/2014 20:19, Mark C wrote:

Fabulous! That really has it all - excellent exposure and composition
of a landmark location. For all that is in that image, I find the lights
reflecting in the water to be totally captivating.

Mark

On 10/25/2014 7:59 PM, Rob Studdert wrote:

Hi Team,

I've been shooting events back to back over the past few months and
have had very little time spare to engage in any other photography and
I'm really missing shooting landscapes. So this morning (after
shooting an event last night) got up at an ungodly hour to see if I
could capture a nice little morning pano. This is one of 10, I haven't
stitched any others as yet but I'm pretty happy with the way this one
came out given the fairly lackluster sky.

Tech: 15 images, 185MP stitched. K3 ISO100 1/10s MUP, Sigma Art
18-35/1.8 at 18mm f2.2, Panosarus Head on Manfrotto 044/308RC and
wireless shutter release.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9304908/temp/%5BGroup%200%5D-IMGL80483_IMGL80497-15%20images.jpg

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Re: Pentax Blues

As the tired saying goes; if it weren't for bad luck, you wouldn't have any 
luck at all."
Incredible!

Jack

- Original Message -
From: "Zos Xavius" 
To: "PDML" 
Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2014 12:26:31 PM
Subject: Pentax Blues

Does anyone have a contact with Ricoh America? Since they've changed
their domain name I don't have any contacts with Ricoh.

I bought a K-5 IIs before the summer to replace my K-5 that was, at
the time, both lost and also had serious issues that CRIS never really
fixed. Pentax said that they would help me out with repairing it a
second time, but then the camera went missing and the only option was
to replace it. I bought a refurbished K-5 IIs from KEH right before
new prices dropped to what I had paid a month before. If I were to do
it all over again, I would have spent the extra $100 and got a new K-5
IIs as well as the 3 year warranty. I bought a refurbished DA17-70 to
pair with it and it seemed like an ok combo for the most part. Any
softness I was seeing I generally placed the blame on the zoom. I
generally shoot at smaller apertures so I often don't see the worst of
things and I think the 17-70 is a beautiful, but somewhat flawed lens
anyways so its pretty easy to blame.

I decided that with a K-5 IIs and a K-3, I could cover a lot of what I
need with those two bodies and a DA 20-40 and 55-300, so I took the
plunge. $2700 later a K-3/grip/flash combo, 20-40, and WR 55-300 were
on their way. Well, turns out that the 20-40 was on backorder so I got
the K-3 and 55-300 first. Initial tests indicated that there was
something wrong with the alignment of sensor and mount on the k-3. The
DA17-70 and 55-300 looked pretty bad. I was visiting NYC so I went to
Adorama and found out that they didn't have any more K-3s. They didn't
want to take the camera and I didn't want to leave without a working
K-3 so I took the display model figuring that lightning wouldn't
strike twice. The next day I went to upgrade the firmware and it
locked and never finished. I waited almost a half an hour and
reluctantly pulled the battery. Its a total brick now. It seemed like
it was working ok otherwise beforehand.

So then the 20-40 came and now of course I'm going to test the hell
out of a $900 top tier lens. On my K-5 IIs I'm getting poor left/right
sharpness. Same goes for the 55-300 and 17-70. I had always assumed
that the 17-70 just had a slightly weaker side and I probably would
have sent it in for servicing if I had something else that I could
have used in the meantime. Now I'm not so sure about this camera even.
A 50mm at f1.7 doesn't look all that awful on a flat surface, but the
newer zooms do. What I couldn't help but notice is that the upper left
corner of my images all look kind of soft on the K-5 IIs, so I'm not
so sure it is optically good itself! This is especially maddening
because part of the problem with my original K-5 was a poorly aligned
mount that I asked CRIS to straighten out. They told me I needed to
send in a lens to test with.

So now I have a k-5 that is at the end of KEH's warranty and a non
working k-3. If I service the k-3 the turnaround is going to be 3-4
weeks probably. If I service the K-5 IIs under warranty I won't have a
camera. I have a K-7, but after testing with it, I would say that the
mount is nowhere near good on that camera, which is to be expected as
it has seen a few falls. Adorama told a friend of mine that his K-3 is
about 5 weeks away from coming back into stock, so right now the round
trip to service looks like the faster option.

I'm trying to talk to pentax to help me out since I still have 12-24 I
need fixed and I don't think I should be having all these issues with
new gear, refurbished or factory fresh. I've probably spent almost
$4000 on Pentax in the past 6 months and to spend more to have someone
test my gear and realign it is a little upsetting. I'm probably
looking at $400 to send the K-5 IIs and 17-70 into Precision if I go
that route and if I want the job done right its probably the only way
to go. I don't really trust KEH to make the combo any better. I don't
think they are an authorized service center for pentax anyways.

According to some member of PF I'm just being too picky. Because
uniform left/right sharpness is too much to ask from a manufacture I
guess. I expect better and haven't had these issues in the past with
previous pentax cameras. My K-7 was a very good camera that only
developed issues with a great deal of abuse. The K-5 IIs I own has
been very much babied in contrast. Part of its my fault. I should have
tested the K-5 IIs more from the get go and not assumed that it was a
good camera from the start. On the downside that means that the last
two pentax bodies I've bought have problems. This 20-40 could indeed
be an ok lens, but I'll never know until I have a body I can trust to
test it with, This 55-300 might not be all that bad, but I have a
feeling I'm just going to send it back and see if another copy is any
better. It

Re: PESO - At the Gates of Dawn

2014-10-26 Thread Ann Sanfedele


Gorgeous!  Good decision to make that "u-ey"

ann

On 10/25/2014 19:17, Mark C wrote:

http://www.markcassino.com/b2evolution/index.php/at-the-gates-of-dawn

More trees!

Pentax 6x7, SMC-67 55mm f4, Portra 160.

Comments welcome.

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Free software: DXO Optics Pro 8

2014-10-26 Thread Darren Addy

http://petapixel.com/2014/10/26/can-grab-copy-dxo-optics-pro-8-completely-free-limited-time/#more-149369

No idea what this software does or if it is any good, but I'll
download first and evaluate later.
:)

WIN & OSX versions available. Requires and email address. (I long ago
created a free "spam" Gmail address for purposes such as this (which I
never look at except for download links).
:)

Again, some hefty system requirements.
Cameras supported:
http://www.dxo.com/sites/dump.dxo.com/files/dxoimages/photo/contest/2014-10-23-Digital-Photographer-OP8/Cameras-supported-by-DxO-Optics-Pro-8.pdf
Does not include the K-3, but perhaps they just forgot to update the list???

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Re: PESO ... Geranium Buds

2014-10-26 Thread Ann Sanfedele


boy , I'm glad I suggested it!  That's lovely!

(aside to the rest of you - what I suggested was simply that it
would be nice to see the buds turn to blossoms - and it definitely is)

ann

On 10/26/2014 13:05, Bulent Celasun wrote:

Dear PDML'ers,

Thank you all for visiting and commenting.

Today, I did what Ann suggested and spent about an hour
re-photographing my therapeutic geraniums!
Here : http://celasun.wordpress.com/2014/10/26/geranium-flowering/

They are not entirely indoors nor outdoors (anymore)!
They stay at the entrance, which is an enclosed space like a greenhouse.

I love them
and
they bear with me
in return :)

Bulent

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2014-10-26 18:55 GMT+02:00 Attila Boros :

I like the curved shapes and the simplicity of the shot.

On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Bulent Celasun
 wrote:

Trying to find a way/view to break the looming cycle of depression :

http://celasun.wordpress.com/2014/10/25/geranium-buds/

Ricoh GXR A12 Module (50mm f/2.5 Macro)

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Re: PESO B&W Challenge Day 1

2014-10-26 Thread Ann Sanfedele

Bulent - I don't think you have to actually be on facebook to view some 
of those photos in the challenge there - depends on individual facebook 
settings _I think_


Many have been posted in the past here as Peso's

ann

On 10/26/2014 16:14, Bulent Celasun wrote:

Beautiful model, lovely rendering.
The sense of softness fits perfectly.

Pity, I am not on FB.

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2014-10-26 4:10 GMT+02:00 Rob Studdert :

For those not FB savvy there's a thing going on there called the "five
day black and white photo challenge" it's a bit like the idiotic
neknominate thing but without the alcohol. In any case two PDLMers who
lurk on that other site nominated me for the challenge, Frank and
Boros Attila, I succumbed and this is my day 1 submission.

It's hard to go wrong when you are presented with a stunning subject
as I was last weekend, waiting for more makeup.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9304908/temp/IMGL77418.jpg

Tech: K3 ISO1250 1/125s, DA*50-135/2.8 at 135mm f4, hand held,
available light, no retouching

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Beautiful model, lovely rendering.
The sense of softness fits perfectly.

Pity, I am not on FB.

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2014-10-26 4:10 GMT+02:00 Rob Studdert :
> For those not FB savvy there's a thing going on there called the "five
> day black and white photo challenge" it's a bit like the idiotic
> neknominate thing but without the alcohol. In any case two PDLMers who
> lurk on that other site nominated me for the challenge, Frank and
> Boros Attila, I succumbed and this is my day 1 submission.
>
> It's hard to go wrong when you are presented with a stunning subject
> as I was last weekend, waiting for more makeup.
>
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9304908/temp/IMGL77418.jpg
>
> Tech: K3 ISO1250 1/125s, DA*50-135/2.8 at 135mm f4, hand held,
> available light, no retouching
>
> Cheers,
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Pentax Blues

2014-10-26 Thread Zos Xavius

Does anyone have a contact with Ricoh America? Since they've changed
their domain name I don't have any contacts with Ricoh.

I bought a K-5 IIs before the summer to replace my K-5 that was, at
the time, both lost and also had serious issues that CRIS never really
fixed. Pentax said that they would help me out with repairing it a
second time, but then the camera went missing and the only option was
to replace it. I bought a refurbished K-5 IIs from KEH right before
new prices dropped to what I had paid a month before. If I were to do
it all over again, I would have spent the extra $100 and got a new K-5
IIs as well as the 3 year warranty. I bought a refurbished DA17-70 to
pair with it and it seemed like an ok combo for the most part. Any
softness I was seeing I generally placed the blame on the zoom. I
generally shoot at smaller apertures so I often don't see the worst of
things and I think the 17-70 is a beautiful, but somewhat flawed lens
anyways so its pretty easy to blame.

I decided that with a K-5 IIs and a K-3, I could cover a lot of what I
need with those two bodies and a DA 20-40 and 55-300, so I took the
plunge. $2700 later a K-3/grip/flash combo, 20-40, and WR 55-300 were
on their way. Well, turns out that the 20-40 was on backorder so I got
the K-3 and 55-300 first. Initial tests indicated that there was
something wrong with the alignment of sensor and mount on the k-3. The
DA17-70 and 55-300 looked pretty bad. I was visiting NYC so I went to
Adorama and found out that they didn't have any more K-3s. They didn't
want to take the camera and I didn't want to leave without a working
K-3 so I took the display model figuring that lightning wouldn't
strike twice. The next day I went to upgrade the firmware and it
locked and never finished. I waited almost a half an hour and
reluctantly pulled the battery. Its a total brick now. It seemed like
it was working ok otherwise beforehand.

So then the 20-40 came and now of course I'm going to test the hell
out of a $900 top tier lens. On my K-5 IIs I'm getting poor left/right
sharpness. Same goes for the 55-300 and 17-70. I had always assumed
that the 17-70 just had a slightly weaker side and I probably would
have sent it in for servicing if I had something else that I could
have used in the meantime. Now I'm not so sure about this camera even.
A 50mm at f1.7 doesn't look all that awful on a flat surface, but the
newer zooms do. What I couldn't help but notice is that the upper left
corner of my images all look kind of soft on the K-5 IIs, so I'm not
so sure it is optically good itself! This is especially maddening
because part of the problem with my original K-5 was a poorly aligned
mount that I asked CRIS to straighten out. They told me I needed to
send in a lens to test with.

So now I have a k-5 that is at the end of KEH's warranty and a non
working k-3. If I service the k-3 the turnaround is going to be 3-4
weeks probably. If I service the K-5 IIs under warranty I won't have a
camera. I have a K-7, but after testing with it, I would say that the
mount is nowhere near good on that camera, which is to be expected as
it has seen a few falls. Adorama told a friend of mine that his K-3 is
about 5 weeks away from coming back into stock, so right now the round
trip to service looks like the faster option.

I'm trying to talk to pentax to help me out since I still have 12-24 I
need fixed and I don't think I should be having all these issues with
new gear, refurbished or factory fresh. I've probably spent almost
$4000 on Pentax in the past 6 months and to spend more to have someone
test my gear and realign it is a little upsetting. I'm probably
looking at $400 to send the K-5 IIs and 17-70 into Precision if I go
that route and if I want the job done right its probably the only way
to go. I don't really trust KEH to make the combo any better. I don't
think they are an authorized service center for pentax anyways.

According to some member of PF I'm just being too picky. Because
uniform left/right sharpness is too much to ask from a manufacture I
guess. I expect better and haven't had these issues in the past with
previous pentax cameras. My K-7 was a very good camera that only
developed issues with a great deal of abuse. The K-5 IIs I own has
been very much babied in contrast. Part of its my fault. I should have
tested the K-5 IIs more from the get go and not assumed that it was a
good camera from the start. On the downside that means that the last
two pentax bodies I've bought have problems. This 20-40 could indeed
be an ok lens, but I'll never know until I have a body I can trust to
test it with, This 55-300 might not be all that bad, but I have a
feeling I'm just going to send it back and see if another copy is any
better. It does have really lovely rendering. Same goes for the 20-40.
If I could get a good combo between the two and the two bodies I
wouldn't want much more to jam into my bag.

I guess I just keep hammering at pentax america to see if they will

Re: PESO: Sunspot Group 2192 with K-3/Bigma

2014-10-26 Thread Darren Addy

Thanks for the comments Jack & Jostein.

I tried Live View but couldn't remember how to zoom-in while in Live
View for finer focusing. Need to look it up and then do it more to get
it hammered into my "little grey cells".
:\

On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Jostein Øksne  wrote:
> Darren, have you considered using LiveView and manual focus to do the fine 
> adjustment?
>
> Interesting to see that Registax does a decent job of deconvoluting slightly 
> misfocused shots. If you used the 12 sec. self timer,  the SR is 
> automatically turned off, I think. It does turn off with the two second timer 
> so I believe it would work that way with the longer timer too.
>
> Jostein
>
> Den 26. oktober 2014 18:44:48 CET, skrev Darren Addy :
>>Decided I couldn't let Sunspot Group 2192 (the largest in 24 years)
>>get away without trying to capture it. I slipped my home made solar
>>filter over the Bigma's hood and tried some captures with the K-3. I
>>have yet to apply the AF adjustment to this lens (but sunspots would
>>be an excellent way to dial it in, I think!) so I attempted it with
>>manual focus using an Olympus Vari-Magni attached to the viewfinder. I
>>still don't think I got a single frame perfectly sharp. I think I
>>forgot to turn off Image Stabilization. Images taken at high shutter
>>speed and f/9 or so. 12 second self-time was used in an attempt to
>>reduce vibration.
>>
>>So I evaluated all the images and picked the 3 that appeared closest
>>to sharp and converted the DNG to TIF. Then I cropped them to 2000 x
>>2000 pixel squares and aligned and stacked those 3 images using the
>>free Registax6.
>>
>>Here is a screenshot image that shows the improvement made by this
>>Registax6 processing.
>>https://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/15609849676/
>>Pixel-peeping has its place in astrophotography post-processing.
>>:)
>>
>>This was simply to get the best image to perform post-processing on.
>>I'm still learning to post-process solar images and so I followed the
>>recipe given by this guy:
>>http://www.perseus.gr/Astro-Tips-Solar-Process.htm
>>
>>Thanks to his reducing the image twice, this results in a smaller
>>image than I would have liked (only 845 x 845) but I saved copies at
>>each step and may go back and try to adjust his process to save a
>>larger version.
>>
>>Here is the Flickr page of the final result:
>>https://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/15634739362/
>>
>>Comments and criticism welcome in equal measure.
>>
>>Darren Addy
>>Kearney, Nebraska
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Re: PESO: Sunspot Group 2192 with K-3/Bigma

2014-10-26 Thread Jostein Øksne

Darren, have you considered using LiveView and manual focus to do the fine 
adjustment? 

Interesting to see that Registax does a decent job of deconvoluting slightly 
misfocused shots. If you used the 12 sec. self timer,  the SR is automatically 
turned off, I think. It does turn off with the two second timer so I believe it 
would work that way with the longer timer too.

Jostein 

Den 26. oktober 2014 18:44:48 CET, skrev Darren Addy :
>Decided I couldn't let Sunspot Group 2192 (the largest in 24 years)
>get away without trying to capture it. I slipped my home made solar
>filter over the Bigma's hood and tried some captures with the K-3. I
>have yet to apply the AF adjustment to this lens (but sunspots would
>be an excellent way to dial it in, I think!) so I attempted it with
>manual focus using an Olympus Vari-Magni attached to the viewfinder. I
>still don't think I got a single frame perfectly sharp. I think I
>forgot to turn off Image Stabilization. Images taken at high shutter
>speed and f/9 or so. 12 second self-time was used in an attempt to
>reduce vibration.
>
>So I evaluated all the images and picked the 3 that appeared closest
>to sharp and converted the DNG to TIF. Then I cropped them to 2000 x
>2000 pixel squares and aligned and stacked those 3 images using the
>free Registax6.
>
>Here is a screenshot image that shows the improvement made by this
>Registax6 processing.
>https://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/15609849676/
>Pixel-peeping has its place in astrophotography post-processing.
>:)
>
>This was simply to get the best image to perform post-processing on.
>I'm still learning to post-process solar images and so I followed the
>recipe given by this guy:
>http://www.perseus.gr/Astro-Tips-Solar-Process.htm
>
>Thanks to his reducing the image twice, this results in a smaller
>image than I would have liked (only 845 x 845) but I saved copies at
>each step and may go back and try to adjust his process to save a
>larger version.
>
>Here is the Flickr page of the final result:
>https://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/15634739362/
>
>Comments and criticism welcome in equal measure.
>
>Darren Addy
>Kearney, Nebraska

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Re: GESO 2014 - Hasselnuts - GDG

That is, for all practical purposes, a digital back for the Hassy!

I was sure that I will never buy those smart phone thingies.

Now, I am not :(

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2014-10-26 18:07 GMT+02:00 Godfrey DiGiorgi :
> An amuzing photographic toy for those who might be interested… A back for my 
> Hasselblad 500CM which allows an iPhone to capture the image formed by the 
> Hasselblad and its lenses. Pictures of the setup and a couple of quick test 
> snaps:
>
> https://flic.kr/s/aHsk5F8oKz
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Re: PESO My fav pano spot

"Faboulous", "fantastic" and "wow" are my favourite quotes (!) from
earlier comments :)

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2014-10-26 2:59 GMT+03:00 Rob Studdert :
> Hi Team,
>
> I've been shooting events back to back over the past few months and
> have had very little time spare to engage in any other photography and
> I'm really missing shooting landscapes. So this morning (after
> shooting an event last night) got up at an ungodly hour to see if I
> could capture a nice little morning pano. This is one of 10, I haven't
> stitched any others as yet but I'm pretty happy with the way this one
> came out given the fairly lackluster sky.
>
> Tech: 15 images, 185MP stitched. K3 ISO100 1/10s MUP, Sigma Art
> 18-35/1.8 at 18mm f2.2, Panosarus Head on Manfrotto 044/308RC and
> wireless shutter release.
>
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9304908/temp/%5BGroup%200%5D-IMGL80483_IMGL80497-15%20images.jpg
>
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Re: PESO ... Geranium Buds

Thank you Jack.

I have tried it after your remark and yes, you may be right.
After the crop, the lowermust bud (now the leftmost) should better be
cropped, though.

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2014-10-26 19:54 GMT+02:00 Jack Davis :
> Well shot, Bulent!
> I don't know but that I "might" like it as well or better, if the frame were 
> turned 90 degree to the left.
>
> Jack
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Bulent Celasun" 
> To: "PDML" 
> Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2014 10:05:22 AM
> Subject: Re: PESO ... Geranium Buds
>
> Dear PDML'ers,
>
> Thank you all for visiting and commenting.
>
> Today, I did what Ann suggested and spent about an hour
> re-photographing my therapeutic geraniums!
> Here : http://celasun.wordpress.com/2014/10/26/geranium-flowering/
>
> They are not entirely indoors nor outdoors (anymore)!
> They stay at the entrance, which is an enclosed space like a greenhouse.
>
> I love them
> and
> they bear with me
> in return :)
>
> Bulent
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> 2014-10-26 18:55 GMT+02:00 Attila Boros :
>> I like the curved shapes and the simplicity of the shot.
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Bulent Celasun
>>  wrote:
>>> Trying to find a way/view to break the looming cycle of depression :
>>>
>>> http://celasun.wordpress.com/2014/10/25/geranium-buds/
>>>
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>>>
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Re: PESO: Sunspot Group 2192 with K-3/Bigma

I give that a serious "WOW", Darren!

Jack

- Original Message -
From: "Darren Addy" 
To: "PDML" 
Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2014 10:44:48 AM
Subject: PESO: Sunspot Group 2192 with K-3/Bigma

Decided I couldn't let Sunspot Group 2192 (the largest in 24 years)
get away without trying to capture it. I slipped my home made solar
filter over the Bigma's hood and tried some captures with the K-3. I
have yet to apply the AF adjustment to this lens (but sunspots would
be an excellent way to dial it in, I think!) so I attempted it with
manual focus using an Olympus Vari-Magni attached to the viewfinder. I
still don't think I got a single frame perfectly sharp. I think I
forgot to turn off Image Stabilization. Images taken at high shutter
speed and f/9 or so. 12 second self-time was used in an attempt to
reduce vibration.

So I evaluated all the images and picked the 3 that appeared closest
to sharp and converted the DNG to TIF. Then I cropped them to 2000 x
2000 pixel squares and aligned and stacked those 3 images using the
free Registax6.

Here is a screenshot image that shows the improvement made by this
Registax6 processing.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/15609849676/
Pixel-peeping has its place in astrophotography post-processing.
:)

This was simply to get the best image to perform post-processing on.
I'm still learning to post-process solar images and so I followed the
recipe given by this guy:
http://www.perseus.gr/Astro-Tips-Solar-Process.htm

Thanks to his reducing the image twice, this results in a smaller
image than I would have liked (only 845 x 845) but I saved copies at
each step and may go back and try to adjust his process to save a
larger version.

Here is the Flickr page of the final result:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/15634739362/

Comments and criticism welcome in equal measure.

Darren Addy
Kearney, Nebraska

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Re: PESO ... Geranium Buds

Well shot, Bulent!
I don't know but that I "might" like it as well or better, if the frame were 
turned 90 degree to the left.

Jack

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From: "Bulent Celasun" 
To: "PDML" 
Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2014 10:05:22 AM
Subject: Re: PESO ... Geranium Buds

Dear PDML'ers,

Thank you all for visiting and commenting.

Today, I did what Ann suggested and spent about an hour
re-photographing my therapeutic geraniums!
Here : http://celasun.wordpress.com/2014/10/26/geranium-flowering/

They are not entirely indoors nor outdoors (anymore)!
They stay at the entrance, which is an enclosed space like a greenhouse.

I love them
and
they bear with me
in return :)

Bulent

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2014-10-26 18:55 GMT+02:00 Attila Boros :
> I like the curved shapes and the simplicity of the shot.
>
> On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Bulent Celasun
>  wrote:
>> Trying to find a way/view to break the looming cycle of depression :
>>
>> http://celasun.wordpress.com/2014/10/25/geranium-buds/
>>
>> Ricoh GXR A12 Module (50mm f/2.5 Macro)
>>
>> Bulent
>>
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PESO: Sunspot Group 2192 with K-3/Bigma

2014-10-26 Thread Darren Addy

Decided I couldn't let Sunspot Group 2192 (the largest in 24 years)
get away without trying to capture it. I slipped my home made solar
filter over the Bigma's hood and tried some captures with the K-3. I
have yet to apply the AF adjustment to this lens (but sunspots would
be an excellent way to dial it in, I think!) so I attempted it with
manual focus using an Olympus Vari-Magni attached to the viewfinder. I
still don't think I got a single frame perfectly sharp. I think I
forgot to turn off Image Stabilization. Images taken at high shutter
speed and f/9 or so. 12 second self-time was used in an attempt to
reduce vibration.

So I evaluated all the images and picked the 3 that appeared closest
to sharp and converted the DNG to TIF. Then I cropped them to 2000 x
2000 pixel squares and aligned and stacked those 3 images using the
free Registax6.

Here is a screenshot image that shows the improvement made by this
Registax6 processing.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/15609849676/
Pixel-peeping has its place in astrophotography post-processing.
:)

This was simply to get the best image to perform post-processing on.
I'm still learning to post-process solar images and so I followed the
recipe given by this guy:
http://www.perseus.gr/Astro-Tips-Solar-Process.htm

Thanks to his reducing the image twice, this results in a smaller
image than I would have liked (only 845 x 845) but I saved copies at
each step and may go back and try to adjust his process to save a
larger version.

Here is the Flickr page of the final result:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/15634739362/

Comments and criticism welcome in equal measure.

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Re: PESO ... Geranium Buds

Dear PDML'ers,

Thank you all for visiting and commenting.

Today, I did what Ann suggested and spent about an hour
re-photographing my therapeutic geraniums!
Here : http://celasun.wordpress.com/2014/10/26/geranium-flowering/

They are not entirely indoors nor outdoors (anymore)!
They stay at the entrance, which is an enclosed space like a greenhouse.

I love them
and
they bear with me
in return :)

Bulent

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2014-10-26 18:55 GMT+02:00 Attila Boros :
> I like the curved shapes and the simplicity of the shot.
>
> On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Bulent Celasun
>  wrote:
>> Trying to find a way/view to break the looming cycle of depression :
>>
>> http://celasun.wordpress.com/2014/10/25/geranium-buds/
>>
>> Ricoh GXR A12 Module (50mm f/2.5 Macro)
>>
>> Bulent
>>
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Re: PESO ... Geranium Buds

I like the curved shapes and the simplicity of the shot.

On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Bulent Celasun
 wrote:
> Trying to find a way/view to break the looming cycle of depression :
>
> http://celasun.wordpress.com/2014/10/25/geranium-buds/
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Re: PESO - At the Gates of Dawn

Beautiful colours and light! So much detail, I could count the leaves.

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> http://www.markcassino.com/b2evolution/index.php/at-the-gates-of-dawn
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> More trees!
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GESO 2014 - Hasselnuts - GDG

2014-10-26 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi

An amuzing photographic toy for those who might be interested… A back for my 
Hasselblad 500CM which allows an iPhone to capture the image formed by the 
Hasselblad and its lenses. Pictures of the setup and a couple of quick test 
snaps:

https://flic.kr/s/aHsk5F8oKz

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Re: PESO My fav pano spot

I like the contrast in size between the two ships.

On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 2:59 AM, Rob Studdert  wrote:
> Hi Team,
>
> I've been shooting events back to back over the past few months and
> have had very little time spare to engage in any other photography and
> I'm really missing shooting landscapes. So this morning (after
> shooting an event last night) got up at an ungodly hour to see if I
> could capture a nice little morning pano. This is one of 10, I haven't
> stitched any others as yet but I'm pretty happy with the way this one
> came out given the fairly lackluster sky.
>
> Tech: 15 images, 185MP stitched. K3 ISO100 1/10s MUP, Sigma Art
> 18-35/1.8 at 18mm f2.2, Panosarus Head on Manfrotto 044/308RC and
> wireless shutter release.
>
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9304908/temp/%5BGroup%200%5D-IMGL80483_IMGL80497-15%20images.jpg
>
> Cheers,
>
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Re: PESO B&W Challenge Day 1

Very nice rendering with delicate highlight detail in the fabric. I'd
risk to say she doesn't need more makeup, but the ladies know better.

On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 4:10 AM, Rob Studdert  wrote:
> For those not FB savvy there's a thing going on there called the "five
> day black and white photo challenge" it's a bit like the idiotic
> neknominate thing but without the alcohol. In any case two PDLMers who
> lurk on that other site nominated me for the challenge, Frank and
> Boros Attila, I succumbed and this is my day 1 submission.
>
> It's hard to go wrong when you are presented with a stunning subject
> as I was last weekend, waiting for more makeup.
>
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9304908/temp/IMGL77418.jpg
>
> Tech: K3 ISO1250 1/125s, DA*50-135/2.8 at 135mm f4, hand held,
> available light, no retouching
>
> Cheers,
>
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Re: Peso-North Slope Tree

This is to obsolve you of any obligation to hang this image on any wall. :)
Following is a puff of honesty; as a result of a prevailing north wind, the 
tree had a fairly severe lean to the uphill (right).
Also, having it's affect on the distant trees. So, I straightened it, thereby 
adding an uncomfortable slope angle.
There, I feel cleansed. 
Forgive me, but I must admit it's been fun. 

Shame on me!

Jack

- Original Message -
From: "Igor PDML-StR" 
To: "PDML" 
Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2014 10:26:56 PM
Subject: Re: Peso-North Slope Tree

Jack,

My first reaction was exactly as in first Ann's e-mail. But I was too 
late. :-)

It's an interesting image exactly because of the "illusion of the tilt"
(even though there is no tilt of the photo). I creates a visual puzzle.
It's somewhat unresting for that reason, - so, I wouldn't hang it on the 
wall in my bedroom. (sorry ;-) )

Mark,

Disregard 'em 'll! ;-)
Go with the intelligent intellect! ;-)

Why? I hope these examples tell it better than any words:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Leaning_Tower_of_Pisa.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Smog_Montr%C3%A9al.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Capital_Gate.jpg

Cheers!

Igor

  Jack Davis Sat, 25 Oct 2014 20:12:07 -0700 wrote:

Thanks, Mark. Good luck in dealing with it. ;-))

Jack

- Original Message -
From: "Mark C" 
To: "PDML" 
Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2014 7:04:38 PM
Subject: Re: Peso-North Slope Tree

I agree completely and you are not missing anything  - the trees on the
horizon confirm that the camera was held level. (I was trying to say
that in my first post.)

But - my eyeballs see it as tilted.

I once posted a photo of a lighthouse on a critique site and got
hammered because the the lighthouse was not straight up and down. I
pointed out to the community that this lighthouse was built to tilt a
few degrees to allow water to run off it and  further pointed out that
the horizon was completely level. I got pretty roundly refudiated by a
general consensus that no matter, the photo did not look right. I
learned from that - make it look right and forget about what was really
there. Or in other words - make the photo appeal to visual intelligence,
not intellectual intelligence.

I still have a hard time with that.

Mark

On 10/25/2014 9:08 PM, Jack Davis wrote:
> I see the trunks of the far line of trees as confirming the slope of the 
hill.
> I may be overlooking something.
> Appreciated comments, Mark.
>
> Jack
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Mark C" 
> To: "PDML" 
> Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2014 5:45:48 PM
> Subject: Re: Peso-North Slope Tree
>
> That is a  fine tree in an interesting setting - the rocks are great -
> but as Ann said there is the perception that the horizon is crooked that
> distracts... I am not sure how you can address that - intellectually I
> can see that the tree and those in the background are all straight up
> and down so you had the camera level, but visually it looks tilted! What
> is the scene from the other side of the tree?
>
> Mark
>
>
> On 10/25/2014 8:48 AM, Jack Davis wrote:
>> Seems the going theme is trees at this point, so here's my pitiful
>> contribution.
>> Posted a shot of this tree about three years ago. It has opened up some
>> since and
>> I prefer my memory of the earlier put together, buttoned up look.
>>
>> All comments appreciated.
>>
>> Jack
>>
>> http://photolightimages.com/aspupload/detail.asp?ID=835
>>
>

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Re: PESO: Old Door