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| Posted: Fri Jan 11th, 2019 12:05 |
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Robert
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jk wrote:I agree Eric and Jeff. Sometimes we overwork/overthink the problem or image. For sunset/sunrise it's the only way to avoid blown out and grossly under exposed parts in the same image. It also avoids having to push and pull the extremes of the exposure values. While it can be done, I have heard this argument before, I believe that contributes to the lack of image quality, resulting in disappointment with the final image. With a 24Mp DX camera or the equivalent FX, you have to enlarge the image far beyond normal needs to even see the noise in most cases. I have been bracketing all the images I have taken of my fathers slides, I don't always use all of each set, and sometimes the median exposure is all I need, but it costs nothing, digital film is free, even at 36Mp, once I have the images I want, the originals will be consigned to the digital bin, I will just keep one TIFF from which I can make as many JPEGS as I wish, at whatever size. The slides I am copying are very variable, from almost back to the very faintest image, very over exposed. With one exception I have been able to salvage all of what I believe were my fathers rejects. I am about to move on to his 'keepers' which he used to use to do slide shows. The D800 produces very malleable images which are a joy to work with. Once processed they are producing some lovely pictures. Extracting usable images from wrongly exposed transparencies is a challenge I haven't been able to meet until the D800 and it does it beautifully, my only wish is that he could have seen the advances in photography since the mid 1960's when he made these slides.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 11th, 2019 12:57 |
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Eric
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Robert wrote:jk wrote: For your project HDR must be a godsend. Of course the primitive old fashioned way to deal with sunset/sunrise exposure was graduated filters.  .
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| Posted: Fri Jan 11th, 2019 13:13 |
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Robert
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Eric wrote:For your project HDR must be a godsend. Absolutely, I have tried with each successive (digital) camera since the D1, to copy these slides, finally I got there, partly the HDR, partly the high resolution and partly the very forgiving nature of the D800's exposure latitude, I can only guess at what the 810 and of course the D850, are capable of, but to coin a phrase, these are 'good enough'. When I was working, building and someone said "that's near enough" There would be a resounding chorus from his mates, "But Is it right?". Well, yes they are, exposure wise anyway. In fact a couple of them are outstanding.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 11th, 2019 14:04 |
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Iain
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blackfox wrote:heres the original shot cropped in l/room . nothing else done . Nothing wrong with it Jeff. Had the Teal been still the reflection would be perfect.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 11th, 2019 15:00 |
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blackfox
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Cheers Iain , it was moving quiet fast at the time ,I think you have to be a birder that's used to catching fast motion as it occurs to really appreciate it . As I keep saying what I find incredible is how sharp it is at that shutter speed
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| Posted: Fri Jan 11th, 2019 15:33 |
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Iain
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It's like motor sport if you pan at the right speed the slow shutter suspend doesn't matter.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 11th, 2019 15:54 |
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Robert
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Agreed but the wing and other movements can mess with that. Cars and motorbikes benefit from wheel and background blur but generally with birds it's detrimental.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 11th, 2019 16:25 |
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Eric
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I think Jonathan was eluding to the unusual pattern effect on the water. Lovely shot of the Teal but have to say I find the 'texture' like pattern effect of the water ( I know it's natural) distracting.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 11th, 2019 17:36 |
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Graham Whistler
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This is a U-Tube link to some 4K movie I shot at same time as the other Kingfisher pixs last week follow below: https://youtu.be/of1UXC75fzI It vis with the D850 and same 500mm lens set-up.
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| Posted: Sat Jan 12th, 2019 03:09 |
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jk
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Eric wrote:I think Jonathan was eluding to the unusual pattern effect on the water. Yes I was. The teal is superbly sharp, but find the reflection in the ripples to be less pleasing.
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