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A couple infrared photos from this afternoon. The sun finally came out. These are with my new TTArtisan 11mm f/2.8 at a nature area down the street from my house.
Lens flare is your friend.
Lens flare is your friend.
Scott Merryfield
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I really like that second shot, @JohnRice .
I do too, but the color one is proving to be far more popular.
BTW, that TTArtisan 11mm f/2.8 fisheye is really outstanding. Excellent (though not perfect) edge sharpness for a fisheye. It also plays well with infrared, up to f/5.6, but at f/4 you have depth of field from 3' to infinity anyway. It's mirrorless only, and completely manual/preset aperture. And it's cheap.
In fact, KEH has it new for $215 in Canon and Leica mounts, but no Nikon. They also have a 5% coupon if anyone's interested.
This is Duke, my new living companion. When my parents moved into assisted living, they had two cats, and we decided to only take one of them over there, and I'd take the second one.
He's been in the house for about 22 hours and has already found some great cat places, such as this one.
It's nice to have a cat again, for the first time in about ten years.
He's been in the house for about 22 hours and has already found some great cat places, such as this one.
It's nice to have a cat again, for the first time in about ten years.
Cat abstract...
Something different...
My folks with the model railroad layout that's in their basement, on 11/28/2015. My father passed away last night on 3/8/2023 at the age of 91.
Scott Merryfield
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I am so sorry to hear that, @JohnRice. My condolences on your loss.
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I'm sorry for your loss, John.
Doug Wallen
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John, sorry for your loss.
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Greg.K
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John, sorry to hear that.
My deepest condolences, John...
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@JohnRice so sorry about your dad. That’s a real nice model railroad setup. I hope it gave him many hours of entertainment.
Went to a Sunday afternoon, all-Beethoven string quartet concert (of the Dover Quartet) in midtown Manhattan (near Bryant Park) yesterday. Awesome concert w/ some of my fave chamber music, including the Beethoven Op 131 in C# minor -- if a fan of Band of Brothers, one would recognize the 6th movement, which was featured in the episode where they first discovered concentration camps.
Since it was such a beautiful day out around here yesterday, I hung around Bryant Park for a little while. Didn't have a "real" camera w/ me, but did take a couple anyway w/ my iPhone...
Nothing special here, but just a wide view I enjoyed in the park...
This one should be a bit more interesting...
... although I originally intended it to be this before deciding to just crop it...
Yeah, if I actually had a "real" camera w/ me, I woulda (re)shot that w/out so much cropping, but my iPhone 13 Pro can really only do either this (in regular wideangle) or 3x zoom, which would be too tight -- yeah, I could certainly go w/ an in-between digital zoom setting, but that likely wouldn't really be any better than just cropping (from the RAW capture), hehheh...
Cheers!
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Since it was such a beautiful day out around here yesterday, I hung around Bryant Park for a little while. Didn't have a "real" camera w/ me, but did take a couple anyway w/ my iPhone...
Nothing special here, but just a wide view I enjoyed in the park...
This one should be a bit more interesting...
... although I originally intended it to be this before deciding to just crop it...
Yeah, if I actually had a "real" camera w/ me, I woulda (re)shot that w/out so much cropping, but my iPhone 13 Pro can really only do either this (in regular wideangle) or 3x zoom, which would be too tight -- yeah, I could certainly go w/ an in-between digital zoom setting, but that likely wouldn't really be any better than just cropping (from the RAW capture), hehheh...
Cheers!
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Beethoven's 6th Symphony is probably my all-time favorite piece of music.
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I just stumbled across this thread. I decided to post this one…inside the hopefully-to-be-restored Regal Theater on Chicago’s South Side. I was so lucky to see it on last year’s Open House Chicago tour.
A couple more photos of my father's HO gauge railroad layout. It's getting closer to when it all has to be torn down, so I'm trying to get it recorded the best I can. For some scale, those cars are about 1" long, front to back.
I took a different approach with these. They were shot using a 16mm, f/90 pinhole lens.
I took a different approach with these. They were shot using a 16mm, f/90 pinhole lens.
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Here's a few more I shot with conventional lenses the other day. I stepped up the approach, because the Nikkor Z 14-30mm lens that's the most useful for this doesn't focus quite as close as I need, even though it can focus incredibly close. So I got a set of close-up filters for it and now I can shoot any way I want.
I want to add that mirrorless cameras are absolutely ideal for this type of subject. First, you have great live view, since that's the way mirrorless cameras work anyway. I mean, there is absolutely no way to look through a viewfinder with this stuff. Plus, electronic shutter essentially eliminates any camera vibration, which I make a point to use with these. Yes, you can lock up the mirror on a DSLR, but you still have a mechanical shutter, which can't be avoided with them. So, I use the lowest ISO, which is 64 on the Z7ii, and have a long exposure. On the pinhole shots, I went ahead and cranked it up to 800 because the exposure would have been over a minute.
These are all focus stacked, BTW. Not the pinhole ones, of course.
I want to add that mirrorless cameras are absolutely ideal for this type of subject. First, you have great live view, since that's the way mirrorless cameras work anyway. I mean, there is absolutely no way to look through a viewfinder with this stuff. Plus, electronic shutter essentially eliminates any camera vibration, which I make a point to use with these. Yes, you can lock up the mirror on a DSLR, but you still have a mechanical shutter, which can't be avoided with them. So, I use the lowest ISO, which is 64 on the Z7ii, and have a long exposure. On the pinhole shots, I went ahead and cranked it up to 800 because the exposure would have been over a minute.
These are all focus stacked, BTW. Not the pinhole ones, of course.
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