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Morris0 said:
Your compositions are great Matt yet your long exposures are robbing sharpness from these images.

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Thank you Morris. I went back and looked a bit more. The two images with the bridge are actually slightly misaligned from each other to start with. Tripod must have shifted ever so slightly.

Here are the two originals of that one, uploaded at a bigger size.

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And an updated/slightly further edited version of the blend. I used the supersharp in Luminar and added a bit of definition (not sharpness) from Apple Photos. Uploaded at a bigger size as well-

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Similar with the other one-

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Slightly sharpened (same as the other) blended image at a bigger upload-

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With the second image, I thought maybe the f/4 aperture could be an issue, but wasn't too sure with such wide angle lens.



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Fujifilm X-T5 (black and silver).
Prime time- 18mm f/1.4, 33mm, Viltrox 75mm.
2.8 club- 16-55, 50-140.
Rest of the story- 70-300, and 100-400mm, 1.4 ext. and MCEX-11. X-T2 (broken paper weight).
 
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Autumn has set in!

XE5 with XF 23/2.8

XE5 with XF 23/2.8
 
This Bison was on the other side of the road in Badlands NP enjoying some vegetation. I pulled off on my side, took the horizontal and realized the crop was rather tight so I rotated to vertical took a few more frames and then drove on.



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Comments and suggestions welcome,

Morris
 
Nice set. Looks like we are voting. In which case I go with numbers 2 and 3.
 
Nice shot Morris. I actually like the landscape orientation better with the negative space setting off the bison's profile.

Question. Did you use subject detection on the bison? My Z8 (and I expect all camera brands) has a dickens of a time locking to a bison's eye. They are small the same color as the hair and no white.
 
Truman Prevatt said:
Nice shot Morris. I actually like the landscape orientation better with the negative space setting off the bison's profile.

Question. Did you use subject detection on the bison? My Z8 (and I expect all camera brands) has a dickens of a time locking to a bison's eye. They are small the same color as the hair and no white.
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Thank you Truman,

Yes I did use subject detection and if found the face easily. Sometimes the eye would be detected and then go away.

Morris
 
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Was out for a walk at the Kelpies today with my family, when we came across a car show at the Helix park, where the Kelpies are located.

Because I wasn’t planning on seeing cars, I was armed with only my little Ttartisan 27mm f/2.8, but it came through for me again…it’s such a versatile little lens….between the car show, portraits of my granddaughter and tonight’s glorious sunset as I was passing Kinghorn, it really earned its keep today….

Cheers, Bob.



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Some absolutely cracking shots in there Ulrik 👍
 
Fantastic series. Colors are great. Really like how you captured the sunset in the boat windows.
 
Morris0 said:
Truman Prevatt said:
Nice shot Morris. I actually like the landscape orientation better with the negative space setting off the bison's profile.

Question. Did you use subject detection on the bison? My Z8 (and I expect all camera brands) has a dickens of a time locking to a bison's eye. They are small the same color as the hair and no white.
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Thank you Truman,

Yes I did use subject detection and if found the face easily. Sometimes the eye would be detected and then go away.

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Yep that is my experience with the Z8 and my wife's with the XH2.
 
Beautiful sunset. My father owned a Buick Skylark. You're making me feel old!
 
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My understanding is that most of the riffraff was placed by man after the dam and power plant were demolished. It's a very attractive park in the middle of the city of the same name.



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Comments and suggestions welcome,

Morris
 
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C&C always welcome!
 
Morris, Yoan, Mark, Truman, Matt and Bob x2.

Thank you very much!

I have not (fully) migrated yet Bob, though occasionally, a paid photography job happens from time to time. You are too kind :)
 
Truman Prevatt said:
President Theodore Roosevelt one of America's regarded and one of the four greatest US Presidents, said of the North Dakota badlands that "without my time in this land I would not have been president." The Dakota badlands is where he went to refresh his soul and become a man.

Roosevelt took his love of the wild land and became the conservation president. Roosevelt vastly expanded the public lands in the US. He created the National Forest System and the
US Forest Service to manage it. He created 5 new national parks. To protect the Grand Canyon for future generations he designated it as a national monument and it went on to become a national park.

He established the United States global reach as a superpower. He was the man with the muck rake busting corrupt companies and political alike. Something we seem to need today.

Roosevelt's Elk Horn Ranch is down stream on the Little Missouri river in this image. Today he has a National Park in the land he loved named in his honor.

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A river runs through it - the Little Missouri to be exact. Roosevelt's Elk Horn Ranch is a unit in the park which lies on the river. In honor of Teddy there is a herd of long horn cattle managed inside the ranch.
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Wonderful. Your description enhances the viewing for me - thanks. I simply need to experience this part of the US some day.

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Very nice and well composed images. I like your night shots from Sofia.
 
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