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| Posted: Fri Aug 4th, 2017 08:49 |
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Eric
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Incidentally, I may have mentioned this before, but if you ever get down to Surrey with some time to kill, you may like to visit this place... https://www.thesculpturepark.com Several hundred works of art (some questionable!) on display and for sale (some as cheap as £2k ...other £170k!) and spread over several acres of rough terrain. Quite a walk if you follow their colour coded routes. We have been twice and still not had the stamina to get to the third colour. There is great pub opposite the gate ....and after lunch in there we never had any impetuous to go back and finish the routes.  Here's one you might find amusing..... Attachment: _DSC7399.jpg (Downloaded 49 times)
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| Posted: Sun Aug 13th, 2017 14:56 |
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Robert
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Sorry Eric, been somewhat distracted... Am currently welding up and helping restore an old Subaru Impreza and have spent several of the last weeks nights out with the camera. Have made some time-lapse movies of the nearby estuary and other star related photography. Last night we went out to try to capture some meteorites. Finished about 3am then drove home and started processing them. Have discovered the D3 isn't keen on long exposures in time-lapse constant operation. It suffers badly from banding across the frame, Starts with almost indistinguishable narrow bands but gradually become wider and more pronounced. Not too bad for a movie but would be no good for stills. I was making an exposure of 32 seconds at ISO800, every 34 seconds for about two hours, the banding became apparent after about 15minutes. I have tried 32 second exposures every minute with no evident banding after two hours, so it would seem it's the lack of recovery time which is the issue. it was pretty cool late at nigh with a cold strong wind, so it wasn't ambient temperature. Will post some more pic shortly.
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| Posted: Sun Aug 13th, 2017 15:18 |
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Robert
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These were taken at Furness Abbey, near Barrow-in-Furness. 54°8'5" N 3°11'51" W D3 and Nikkor 18-36 f3.5 -4.5. Moon rising: 10 seconds @ f4.5 ISO 1600  Before the Moon was high enough to light the scene nicely, a shooting star above the Abbey. 25 seconds @ f4, ISO 1600  After a coffee and a break of an hour or two, we were treated to quite a nice display, by now the moon was illuminating the amphitheatre of the Vale of Nightshade and the Abbey. Coupled with the amazing light gathering powers of the D3 sensor. 35mm, 15 seconds @ f4.5, ISO 1600  We were treated to a visit from the local constabulary... No doubt wondering what we were up to at 2am in the wilderness of Barrow! LOL While they ruined several frames by swinging their torches at the camera from a distance, they did redeem themselves by illuminating the Abbey beautifully with their headlights as they left. Just as a shooting star shot into view above the Abbey. Probably best pic of the night! 35mm, 15 seconds @ f4.5, ISO 1600  Finally a close up of the buildings with the Abbey behind. 18mm, 30 seconds @ f5, ISO 1600 by Moonlight, at 2:16am Police long gone!  All the images processed in Lightroom. The last image visiting Nik Filters using detail extractor to bring out the texture of the stonework, which it did impressively. Almost forgot this one! 21 shots processed in StarTrax from the D300s with a 20mm f2.8 lens fitted. 
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| Posted: Sun Aug 13th, 2017 16:52 |
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Robert
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Don't know if this will work but here goes... Short time-lapse of the tide coming in around Oakdale, an old Mersey Barge, which is home to Dave and his dog. <iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/229493003" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe> JK: Any ideas? https://player.vimeo.com/video/229493003 OK, clicking on the HTTPS link above runs the video in a new window or tab.
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| Posted: Sun Aug 13th, 2017 17:01 |
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Robert
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Another: This one taken with the D3 is the one with the banding. Just click on the link... https://player.vimeo.com/video/229492891
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| Posted: Thu Oct 5th, 2017 13:46 |
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Robert
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According to the forecast there will be a completely clear night tonight, close to full Moon too. I am planning to photograph a small square disused lighthouse not too far away. I did a reccy a couple of weeks ago, the tide will be full at about 11pm, I may have to wait until 1 or 2am for the tide to ebb enough to get to my preferred position. That should also mean minimum disruption from passing cars, the lighthouse is close to a local road so there will no doubt be passing cars. My intention is to position myself to the South and with Polaris just above the top of the lighthouse so the star trails describe a circle around the top of lighthouse. I have an app on my iPhone which shows where the stars would be visible were it dark. The app suggested to get Polaris where I want it I need to position the camera right next to a large pool, I just hope it's right and in fact I don't have to be IN the pool! Have my wellies ready! Watch this space.
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| Posted: Thu Oct 5th, 2017 20:56 |
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Robert
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OK a couple of pix... First a single photo of the lighthouse which DOES work! D3, 16mm f2.8 fisheye, 13sec at f5.6, ISO 1250  This is on Roe Island, the ferry jetty for the Piel Island ferry and the lifeboat station. D3, 18-35 f4 lens at 28mm. 5.0 sec at f5.6, ISO 800  At almost three in the morning am calling it a day. Will see if I have any material for star trails tomorrow, there was quite a bit of cloud and the later pix of the lighthouse suffered with banding. Need to leave more time between exposures for the sensor to cool.
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| Posted: Mon Oct 30th, 2017 08:03 |
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Robert
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Sitting here somewhat frustrated... I took several batches of photographs last night and a couple of nights ago. It was a really clear night last night, if somewhat cool at 0ºC. I want to off load them onto my Mac Book Pro thence onto the new Lightroom CC. Unfortunately I left my trusty Firewire card reader at home, expecting to be back by now. Am trying to find a USB cable to use that from the D3 directly. I don't want to have to buy yet ANOTHER USB lead! With some luck I will be home tonight so I will be able to share them then. I only have my 16mm fisheye with me, so my subject matter is somewhat limited. Landscape/cityscape and star trails, a new one for me is motorway light trails. I am going to try the star trails software to blend the images. Although I may blend them in Adobe Photoshop layers or even Lightroom HDR? Some of the individual images look as though they may have some merit. Difficult to tell for sure on the camera screen.
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| Posted: Mon Nov 6th, 2017 10:22 |
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Robert
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Back home and catching up. Have processed my Luneside files, Jubilee Bridge. It has long been a target for my imagination, wondering how to capture the somewhat striking design in a meaningful way. I have been somewhat concerned about taking the camera into that area because there are so many bone-head idiots roaming, just looking for 'fun'. Armed with the D3 and 16mm f2.8 fisheye Michael and I ventured forth. With the extreme range of lighting I decided to go with bracketing and HDR from the outset. These are my attempts. I have captioned them ready for uploading to the Portfolio website. It seems the Adobe Portfolio layouts can't handle captions. I used Lightroom (Classic) to create the HDR images, quick and easy. I don't feel they look 'overcooked'? I also used the lens correction feature in Lr to de-fish the extreme distortions introduced with the Nikkor fisheye. I haven't completely straightened the images, rather a compromise. I actually quite like the curved effect, also it looses important bits from the image when the geometry is fully straightened, which was why I selected to use a fisheye in the first place.    Finally taken from a bridge over the M6 Motorway:  30 seconds exposure. In the interests of safety I wore a dayglow yellow jacket because there was passing traffic on the bridge, despite the late hour (this exposure was made at 03:21 Hrs). Unfortunately some wagon drivers on the motorway mistook me for a police radar trap!!! They expressed their feeling by blowing their horns at me...  Looking at these, I think the caption background needs to be brighter?
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| Posted: Mon Nov 6th, 2017 12:24 |
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Eric
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The last ones caption should perhaps make reference to Orion nicely captured in the sky. Nice set of images again Robert. I knew that D3 would stir your juices.
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