Re: PESO: White Spring Dogwood

[ann sanfedele]

The softness is pleasing in this one... though I like the pink one you 
showed earlier better.


ann


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Re: PESO - By the Fence

[ann sanfedele]

keeper :-)

ann

On 4/26/2016 9:05 PM, Rick Womer wrote:

On my way home from work last week:

http://photo.net/photos/RickW

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Re: PESO - The Gardener

[Marco Alpert]

No, I don’t think so.

(Thanks.)

m

On Apr 26, 2016, at 7:15 PM, ann sanfedele  wrote:

> The -look- makes it of course.. Don't think he was too happy about you taking 
> his photo.
> 
> ann
> 
> On 4/26/2016 9:23 PM, Rick Womer wrote:
>> Really pleasing composition and rendering, Marco, and I really like "the 
>> look" the guy is giving you.
>> 
>> Rick
>> 
>> On Apr 26, 2016, at 12:44 PM, Marco Alpert wrote:
>> 
>>> http://www.alpert.com/marco/photo16/peso3.html
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Re: PESO - The Gardener

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Thanks, Rick.

m

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> Really pleasing composition and rendering, Marco, and I really like "the 
> look" the guy is giving you.
> 
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>> http://www.alpert.com/marco/photo16/peso3.html
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Re: PESO - The Gardener

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Thanks, John. We’re ready to welcome you to the mono side.

m

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> Another great B&W shot from Marco.  Looking also at Christine's latest, and 
> Mark's work, I'm
> inclining more and more to going back to mono - on film and digital!
> 
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Re: PESO - The Gardener

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Thanks, Dan.

m

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> I love his face, and the way you caught it.
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Re: OT: Monitor Specs

[Larry Colen]

Igor PDML-StR wrote:



Mark,

It mihgt be obvious, but just in case: make sure you have chosen which
connection would be common for your video card and the monitor.
Dealing with adapters is possible but could be an extra headache.


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PESO: White Spring Dogwood

[Daniel J. Matyola]

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18224306&size=lg
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Re: PESO - By the Fence

[Daniel J. Matyola]

Really interesting geometry.

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Re: PESO - The Gardener

[ann sanfedele]

The -look- makes it of course.. Don't think he was too happy about you 
taking his photo.


ann

On 4/26/2016 9:23 PM, Rick Womer wrote:

Really pleasing composition and rendering, Marco, and I really like "the look" 
the guy is giving you.

Rick

On Apr 26, 2016, at 12:44 PM, Marco Alpert wrote:


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Re: OT: Monitor Specs

[Igor PDML-StR]

Mark,

It mihgt be obvious, but just in case: make sure you have chosen which 
connection would be common for your video card and the monitor.

Dealing with adapters is possible but could be an extra headache.

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Re: PESO - A few grains of pepper

[ann sanfedele]

Interesting ... I agree with you about that sharp transition -though I'm 
not sure howmuch of my agreement is because you pointed it out or not...


Certainly the foreground pepper is sharp as is appropriate for the 
subject :-)  like the overall look - might like to see what it looks 
like with


narrow focus and no stacking

ann



On 4/26/2016 1:44 PM, Jostein wrote:

http://www.alunfoto.no/sider/peso/

Comments most appreciated.
This photo is an experiment in stacking. It's made from about 40 
exposures, which may be overkill but is at least without glitches in 
the focus area.
Personally I don't like the sharp transition between in-focus and OOF 
areas in the picture, and wonder if anyone has suggestions for how 
this can be rendered in a more natural looking way.


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Re: PESO - A few grains of pepper

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On 4/26/2016 11:44 AM, Jostein wrote:

http://www.alunfoto.no/sider/peso/

Comments most appreciated.


I quite like it.  The sudden transition makes it look like the 
background is a reflection. It's a very cool effect.

This photo is an experiment in stacking. It's made from about 40
exposures, which may be overkill but is at least without glitches in the
focus area.
Personally I don't like the sharp transition between in-focus and OOF
areas in the picture, and wonder if anyone has suggestions for how this
can be rendered in a more natural looking way.


I think the best way to diminish it is to stack your shots deeper into 
the scene.
I've done a few focus stacks, but I tend to have blobs of pillowy 
softness in them.


bill




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Re: PESO - The Gardener

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Really pleasing composition and rendering, Marco, and I really like "the look" 
the guy is giving you.

Rick

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PESO - By the Fence

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On my way home from work last week:

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RE: PESO - The Gardener

[John Coyle]

Another great B&W shot from Marco.  Looking also at Christine's latest, and 
Mark's work, I'm
inclining more and more to going back to mono - on film and digital!


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Re: OT: Monitor Specs

[steve harley]

On 2016-04-26 3:27 , Larry Colen wrote:

I mentioned that used mac pro I got
a great deal on, it turns out that my thunderbolt display does not work with
it. I suspect that backward compatibility is against the macintologist
religion or something.


Thunderbolt at the video source is directly backward compatible with 
DisplayPort, and via trivial adapters with HDMI and DVI


the Thunderbolt Display, as the receiver of the video signal, only works 
with Thunderbolt Macs, and was primarily intended as a "dock" for 
Thunderbolt laptops, since it also has two-way audio & video, USB, FireWire 
and Ethernet and power …


Apple has moved on to 5K Retina displays on the iMacs, but there's so far no 
corresponding 5K external display, probably because there are lots of 
gotchas about transmitting the signal; the only way Macs can drive a 5K 
display at present is if they have Thunderbolt 2 and use a pair of 
Thunderbolt or DisplayPort cables; the exception would be Mac Pros with a 
third party video card supporting HDMI 2.0


this is a pretty thorough guide to what Macs can use what displays, though 
it does not get into the color space issue at all:




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Re: OT: Monitor Specs

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Nicole Jacque wrote:

In this case, the older Intel chipsets simply don’t support Thunderbolt.  :-(


And Thunderbolt does not support the pin compatible display adapter.




On Apr 26, 2016, at 2:27 AM, Larry Colen  wrote:



Mark C wrote:

Thanks, Igor. I think you summarize the situation very well. My leaning
right now is to go with a wide gamut monitor first and then maximize the
resolution within the limits of what I have decided to spend. I might
need to up the size I am considering to 27 inch diagonal - more options
at the large size - but there seem to be some workable solutions. I'm
not too worried about some applications not recognizing the wide-gamut
color space. I also confirmed the the i1Display calibration tool will
work with a wide gamut monitor, so no issue there...

I can order form B&H for a few days anyhow, so that gives me some time
to research.


A couple of thoughts:

You don't necessarily need both displays to be super high quality. You could 
just do everything where color was critical on the expensive display.

Do let us know what you end up getting. I mentioned that used mac pro I got a 
great deal on, it turns out that my thunderbolt display does not work with it. 
I suspect that backward compatibility is against the macintologist religion or 
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Re: PESO - A few grains of pepper

[Larry Colen]

Jostein wrote:

http://www.alunfoto.no/sider/peso/

Comments most appreciated.
This photo is an experiment in stacking. It's made from about 40
exposures, which may be overkill but is at least without glitches in the
focus area.
Personally I don't like the sharp transition between in-focus and OOF
areas in the picture, and wonder if anyone has suggestions for how this
can be rendered in a more natural looking way.


While I really like the photo, I do see your point regarding the sharp 
transition.  Without reshooting it, I wonder if you could apply some 
sort of blur effect to just the background. Perhaps mask out the in 
focus pepper corn and apply the blur function in a gradient mask to the 
background.


I suspect that in the process of shooting, you could, as has been said, 
once you get past the subject, take a few more shots at higher f-stops, 
so with each shot, as you get further away, the depth of field gradually 
transitions.





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Re: PESO - The Gardener

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I love his face, and the way you caught it.

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Re: Miserere's A 50/1.2

[Jack Davis]

Was primarily referring to the focused center.

J

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> Yep. Didn’t want to get into debating it, but you’re right. Depth of field is 
> negligible, and that’s the fun of it. Did a brick wall test, and it performed 
> well at f1.2, although even here one probably runs out of DOF at the corners 
> Fun stuff.
> 
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>> On Apr 26, 2016, at 4:35 PM, John Francis  wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Doesn't look that soft to me - just an extremely narrow depth of field.
>> I'm not sure that the plane of focus is on the leaf Paul suggests; it
>> looks to me as though the sharpest focus is on the stem or closest edge
>> of the rear one of the two leaves projecting into the central void.
>> 
>>> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 09:31:39PM +, Jack Davis wrote:
>>> Somewhat soft, but a bit better than might be expected at F1.2.
>>> 
>>> J
>>> 
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>>> It???s a beauty. Like new to my eyes, and in the original box with the 
>>> packing stuff. 
>>> 
>>> The lens, which is much more compact than i expected:
>>> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18223762&size=lg
>>> 
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>>> foreground leaf at right:
>>> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18223763&size=lg
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Re: PESO - A few grains of pepper

[Larry Colen]

Jostein wrote:

http://www.alunfoto.no/sider/peso/

Comments most appreciated.


Can't you just be content making me feel bad about my lack of skill with 
landscape photography?



This photo is an experiment in stacking. It's made from about 40
exposures, which may be overkill but is at least without glitches in the
focus area.
Personally I don't like the sharp transition between in-focus and OOF
areas in the picture, and wonder if anyone has suggestions for how this
can be rendered in a more natural looking way.

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Re: Miserere's A 50/1.2

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Yep. Didn’t want to get into debating it, but you’re right. Depth of field is 
negligible, and that’s the fun of it. Did a brick wall test, and it performed 
well at f1.2, although even here one probably runs out of DOF at the corners 
Fun stuff.

Paul
> On Apr 26, 2016, at 4:35 PM, John Francis  wrote:
> 
> 
> Doesn't look that soft to me - just an extremely narrow depth of field.
> I'm not sure that the plane of focus is on the leaf Paul suggests; it
> looks to me as though the sharpest focus is on the stem or closest edge
> of the rear one of the two leaves projecting into the central void.
> 
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 09:31:39PM +, Jack Davis wrote:
>> Somewhat soft, but a bit better than might be expected at F1.2.
>> 
>> J
>> 
>> - Original Message -
>> From: "Paul Stenquist" 
>> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" 
>> Sent: Monday, April 25, 2016 12:55:58 PM
>> Subject: Miserere's A 50/1.2
>> 
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>> packing stuff. 
>> 
>> The lens, which is much more compact than i expected:
>> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18223762&size=lg
>> 
>> And a lilac bush branch in my yard, shot wide open, focusing on the 
>> foreground leaf at right:
>> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18223763&size=lg
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Re: Miserere's A 50/1.2

[John Francis]

Doesn't look that soft to me - just an extremely narrow depth of field.
I'm not sure that the plane of focus is on the leaf Paul suggests; it
looks to me as though the sharpest focus is on the stem or closest edge
of the rear one of the two leaves projecting into the central void.

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 09:31:39PM +, Jack Davis wrote:
> Somewhat soft, but a bit better than might be expected at F1.2.
> 
> J
> 
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> 
> It???s a beauty. Like new to my eyes, and in the original box with the 
> packing stuff. 
> 
> The lens, which is much more compact than i expected:
> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18223762&size=lg
> 
> And a lilac bush branch in my yard, shot wide open, focusing on the 
> foreground leaf at right:
> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18223763&size=lg

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Re: PESO - A few grains of pepper

[Daniel J. Matyola]

It is an interesting and effective shot, Jostein.

While the abrupt transition between in and out of focus areas is
startling, I think it works well here.  I'm not sure it would in other
types of images, but in this one it fits.

Is there any meaning, function or significance  to the little bit of
string to the LR of the in-focus grain, or was it just there?

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> http://www.alunfoto.no/sider/peso/
>
> Comments most appreciated.
> This photo is an experiment in stacking. It's made from about 40 exposures,
> which may be overkill but is at least without glitches in the focus area.
> Personally I don't like the sharp transition between in-focus and OOF areas
> in the picture, and wonder if anyone has suggestions for how this can be
> rendered in a more natural looking way.
>
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Re: PESO - A few grains of pepper

[Mark C]

Very nice! Excellent subject and composition. I have not dealt with the 
transition question that you raise but you could try stopping down once 
you are past the primary subject (the pepper gain in front) to get a 
more natural DOF transition. Then either layer it in manually if the 
stacking software doesn't handle it the way you want.


Mark

On 4/26/2016 1:44 PM, Jostein wrote:

http://www.alunfoto.no/sider/peso/

Comments most appreciated.
This photo is an experiment in stacking. It's made from about 40 
exposures, which may be overkill but is at least without glitches in 
the focus area.
Personally I don't like the sharp transition between in-focus and OOF 
areas in the picture, and wonder if anyone has suggestions for how 
this can be rendered in a more natural looking way.


Jostein




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Re: PESO - A few grains of pepper

[Jack Davis]

Agree, Jostein!

J

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Subject: PESO - A few grains of pepper

http://www.alunfoto.no/sider/peso/

Comments most appreciated.
This photo is an experiment in stacking. It's made from about 40 
exposures, which may be overkill but is at least without glitches in the 
focus area.
Personally I don't like the sharp transition between in-focus and OOF 
areas in the picture, and wonder if anyone has suggestions for how this 
can be rendered in a more natural looking way.

Jostein

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Re: PESO living room B/W

[Chris Mitchell]

Nice shot. I'm sure there was a space to the left of the chair when we
were there 6 years ago!

Chris

On 23 April 2016 at 04:32, Christine Aguila  wrote:
> Just a little photo-fun earlier this evening.  Darrel & I are going to do 
> some serious house cleaning this coming spring and summer.  Just taking some 
> photos before we give the place a face-lift. :-)
>
> http://caguilaphotography.com/livingroom/content/_IMG7317_large.html
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Re: PESO - A few grains of pepper

[Paul Stenquist]

I think its surreal quality is a plus. If it were more natural in appearance, 
it would just be a shot of pepper. I like it.

Paul
> On Apr 26, 2016, at 1:44 PM, Jostein  wrote:
> 
> http://www.alunfoto.no/sider/peso/
> 
> Comments most appreciated.
> This photo is an experiment in stacking. It's made from about 40 exposures, 
> which may be overkill but is at least without glitches in the focus area.
> Personally I don't like the sharp transition between in-focus and OOF areas 
> in the picture, and wonder if anyone has suggestions for how this can be 
> rendered in a more natural looking way.
> 
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Re: PESO - A few grains of pepper

[Jack Davis]

Take a number of shots of the background grains and then place the single near 
grain in front and shoot.
I've always been a simple person.

J


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> On Apr 26, 2016, at 11:04 AM, Steve Cottrell  wrote:
> 
> On 26/4/16, Jostein, discombobulated, unleashed:
> 
>> http://www.alunfoto.no/sider/peso/
>> 
>> Comments most appreciated.
>> This photo is an experiment in stacking. It's made from about 40 
>> exposures, which may be overkill but is at least without glitches in the 
>> focus area.
>> Personally I don't like the sharp transition between in-focus and OOF 
>> areas in the picture, and wonder if anyone has suggestions for how this 
>> can be rendered in a more natural looking way.
> 
> Can you not make a couple of layers, one with the foreground and one
> with the oof background, and either gradient each, or manually erase
> each in a suitable overlap area?
> 
> Unless you were going to clone either soft or sharp areas to overlap,
> you'd need a version that had much more depth of field to use for the
> 'overlap' zone
> 
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Re: GESO - Chalk work

[Marco Alpert]

I’m late to the party on this, but clever concept, well executed. And 
congratulations on the publication.

m

On Apr 24, 2016, at 11:22 AM, Bruce Walker  wrote:

> A boutique art magazine called Emboss is featuring the colourful
> project that started my almost year-long series involving a humongous
> chalkboard that I created in the studio.
> 
> http://www.embossmag.com/#!SPOTLIGHT-BRUCE-WALKER/cozyt/571cc4d60cf269c350ee2297
> 
> BTW: NSFW. YMMV. OMG!
> 
> All shots taken with the 645Z, DFA645 55mm/2.8, f:8, 1/125th sec, 100 ISO.
> Key light: 5' umbrella softbox, above-left.
> 
> Comments welcome!
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Re: PESO - The Gardener

[Marco Alpert]

Thanks, Paul.

m

On Apr 26, 2016, at 10:37 AM, Paul Stenquist  wrote:

> Nicely framed and composed.
> Paul
>> On Apr 26, 2016, at 12:44 PM, Marco Alpert  wrote:
>> 
>> http://www.alpert.com/marco/photo16/peso3.html
>> 
>> Comments, as always, welcomed.
>> 
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Re: PESO - A few grains of pepper

[Steve Cottrell]

On 26/4/16, Jostein, discombobulated, unleashed:

>http://www.alunfoto.no/sider/peso/
>
>Comments most appreciated.
>This photo is an experiment in stacking. It's made from about 40 
>exposures, which may be overkill but is at least without glitches in the 
>focus area.
>Personally I don't like the sharp transition between in-focus and OOF 
>areas in the picture, and wonder if anyone has suggestions for how this 
>can be rendered in a more natural looking way.

Can you not make a couple of layers, one with the foreground and one
with the oof background, and either gradient each, or manually erase
each in a suitable overlap area?

Unless you were going to clone either soft or sharp areas to overlap,
you'd need a version that had much more depth of field to use for the
'overlap' zone

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Re: PESO - A few grains of pepper

[Bulent Celasun]

Quite a feat!
I was about to comment on the sudden start of OOF and I noticed your note:

>Personally I don't like the sharp transition between in-focus and OOF areas in 
>the picture

I suspect it might have something to do with the stacking process.
I doubt if I have ever seen such an abrupt transition in single shot macros.
(Is "optically impossible" a legal term?)
It looks as if there was some frosted glass there.

I guess switching to f/8 or f/11 and shooting twice as many shots
may be an "easy" option to try.
I am sure our expert macro shooters will offer better alternatives...

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2016-04-26 20:44 GMT+03:00 Jostein :
> http://www.alunfoto.no/sider/peso/
>
> Comments most appreciated.
> This photo is an experiment in stacking. It's made from about 40 exposures,
> which may be overkill but is at least without glitches in the focus area.
> Personally I don't like the sharp transition between in-focus and OOF areas
> in the picture, and wonder if anyone has suggestions for how this can be
> rendered in a more natural looking way.
>
> Jostein
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Re: OT: Monitor Specs

[Nicole Jacque]

In this case, the older Intel chipsets simply don’t support Thunderbolt.  :-(

> On Apr 26, 2016, at 2:27 AM, Larry Colen  wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Mark C wrote:
>> Thanks, Igor. I think you summarize the situation very well. My leaning
>> right now is to go with a wide gamut monitor first and then maximize the
>> resolution within the limits of what I have decided to spend. I might
>> need to up the size I am considering to 27 inch diagonal - more options
>> at the large size - but there seem to be some workable solutions. I'm
>> not too worried about some applications not recognizing the wide-gamut
>> color space. I also confirmed the the i1Display calibration tool will
>> work with a wide gamut monitor, so no issue there...
>> 
>> I can order form B&H for a few days anyhow, so that gives me some time
>> to research.
>> 
> 
> A couple of thoughts:
> 
> You don't necessarily need both displays to be super high quality. You could 
> just do everything where color was critical on the expensive display.
> 
> Do let us know what you end up getting. I mentioned that used mac pro I got a 
> great deal on, it turns out that my thunderbolt display does not work with 
> it. I suspect that backward compatibility is against the macintologist 
> religion or something.
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PESO - A few grains of pepper

[Jostein]

http://www.alunfoto.no/sider/peso/

Comments most appreciated.
This photo is an experiment in stacking. It's made from about 40 
exposures, which may be overkill but is at least without glitches in the 
focus area.
Personally I don't like the sharp transition between in-focus and OOF 
areas in the picture, and wonder if anyone has suggestions for how this 
can be rendered in a more natural looking way.


Jostein

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Re: PESO - The Gardener

[Paul Stenquist]

Nicely framed and composed.
Paul
> On Apr 26, 2016, at 12:44 PM, Marco Alpert  wrote:
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> http://www.alpert.com/marco/photo16/peso3.html
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PESO - The Gardener

[Marco Alpert]

http://www.alpert.com/marco/photo16/peso3.html

Comments, as always, welcomed.

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Re: OT: Monitor Specs

[Mark C]

Right now I'm leaning strongly towards a Dell UP2516D:

http://tinyurl.com/j57fddl

Looks like it will give me the color specs I want plus a big increase in 
resolution, though it falls short of a 4K.


The current "good" monitor will  go to the secondary role and the really 
old monitor that is the current #2 will go directly onto the scanning 
machine. (An old Windows XP / Ubuntu dual boot that the Nikon LS8000 is 
connected to.) The secondary monitor has been shared via a KVM switch 
between the two PC's till now. The KVM is wearing out and is even more 
of a finicky pain than it was when new, so it'll be good to see it go.


I will be glad to have this wrapped up so I can back to spending money 
on new cameras and lenses.


Mark

On 4/26/2016 5:27 AM, Larry Colen wrote:



Mark C wrote:

Thanks, Igor. I think you summarize the situation very well. My leaning
right now is to go with a wide gamut monitor first and then maximize the
resolution within the limits of what I have decided to spend. I might
need to up the size I am considering to 27 inch diagonal - more options
at the large size - but there seem to be some workable solutions. I'm
not too worried about some applications not recognizing the wide-gamut
color space. I also confirmed the the i1Display calibration tool will
work with a wide gamut monitor, so no issue there...

I can order form B&H for a few days anyhow, so that gives me some time
to research.



A couple of thoughts:

You don't necessarily need both displays to be super high quality. You 
could just do everything where color was critical on the expensive 
display.


Do let us know what you end up getting. I mentioned that used mac pro 
I got a great deal on, it turns out that my thunderbolt display does 
not work with it. I suspect that backward compatibility is against the 
macintologist religion or something.





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OT: Interesting bird's eye views

[Daniel J. Matyola]

http://themetapicture.com/cities-are-so-beautiful-from-above/

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Re: PESO: Spring Dogwood

[Daniel J. Matyola]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 9:38 PM, Christine Aguila  wrote:
> Very pretty! Cheers, Christine

Thanks, Christine!

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ANyone order a K-1 from Amazon?

[Mark Roberts]

Supposedly Amazon has just started shipping them. (Anyone who ordered
from B&H or Adorama will have to wait until next week for shipping to
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Re: OT: Monitor Specs

[Larry Colen]

Mark C wrote:

Thanks, Igor. I think you summarize the situation very well. My leaning
right now is to go with a wide gamut monitor first and then maximize the
resolution within the limits of what I have decided to spend. I might
need to up the size I am considering to 27 inch diagonal - more options
at the large size - but there seem to be some workable solutions. I'm
not too worried about some applications not recognizing the wide-gamut
color space. I also confirmed the the i1Display calibration tool will
work with a wide gamut monitor, so no issue there...

I can order form B&H for a few days anyhow, so that gives me some time
to research.



A couple of thoughts:

You don't necessarily need both displays to be super high quality. You 
could just do everything where color was critical on the expensive display.


Do let us know what you end up getting. I mentioned that used mac pro I 
got a great deal on, it turns out that my thunderbolt display does not 
work with it. I suspect that backward compatibility is against the 
macintologist religion or something.


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