What did you shoot or post-process? (Oct 13 - Oct 19)

Topi · Oct 18, 2025

1971_M5 said:
That's wonderful. Thanks for these pics. It would be fun to see it right there where you are. ISO 3200 was a good choice. Big Dipper looks great, too!

Thanks for the comment. However, I think upping the ISO to around High 1 (due to using the 24-120/4) on my Df and using a faster shutter speed of around half a second would have produced better results for the northern lights. A faster lens would of course have allowed using a faster shutter speed. The northern lights actually move surprisingly fast so with a slow shutter speed they get a bit smudgy. Too bad I didn't realize this yesterday.

-Topi

1971_M5 · Oct 19, 2025

Topi said:
1971_M5 said:

That's wonderful. Thanks for these pics. It would be fun to see it right there where you are. ISO 3200 was a good choice. Big Dipper looks great, too!

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Thanks for the comment. However, I think upping the ISO to around High 1 (due to using the 24-120/4) on my Df and using a faster shutter speed of around half a second would have produced better results for the northern lights. A faster lens would of course have allowed using a faster shutter speed. The northern lights actually move surprisingly fast so with a slow shutter speed they get a bit smudgy. Too bad I didn't realize this yesterday.

-Topi

Again, very nice pictures. Fun. The classic noise versus sharpness battle! Yes, I like night shots with the tripod, too. Whether it is the northern nights (which we can sometimes see here) or a cityscape. I am essentially a "base ISO" shooter and like to have reasonable DOF for cityscapes (f/8 or f/11) so my night exposures are pretty long (10, 20 30 sec.) and of course there will be star trails. Slight. But they are there. Sometimes I let them be. Sometimes I clone them out. There was a thread a couple of months ago... and it was very informative. Regarding the moon. Better to use higher ISO and a fast shutter speed -- which makes sense in regard to all the tradeoffs... highlights, noise, sharpness. Sensors are very good nowadays. Of course, that's not what I've been doing for the past 20 years! LOL. Keep the noise down! I'm stuck in the vintage digital mentality. And the film mentality. Single point AF. Manual mode.

So, we always learn something.

1971_M5 · Oct 19, 2025

Like Topi, I am coming in at the tail end of the thread. Here are a few from the past 1 or 1.5 weeks. Not a lot of good shooting. But still fun to horse around and then participate in this thread. It is probably similar to people who's hobby is fishing. Sometimes you catch a few. Sometimes you don't. But it is always fun to get out and shoot and then fiddle in post.

Washington Street

View from Colman Dock (5 shot pano)

Thomas Street

Looking Northwest

Kenmore Air

Lake Union

David Lal · Oct 19, 2025

I saw the Northern Lights once many years ago when I was in Scotland. This year there have been quite a few sightings much further south in England. Unfortunately, not as far as the south coast where I live.

Interesting images Topi.

ASR45 · Oct 19, 2025

Topi said:
Walking the dog yesterday evening I again noticed a geomagnetic storm going on in the northern sky, i.e. northern lights. When I got back home I of course went back out with my camera for a few shots.

Nice sky scapes.

Topi said:
Eastwards, showing the sky to to the north fully lit by northern lights.

Norhwards, with the Big Dipper.

-Topi

--
Alan.
Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field.
- Peter Adams
Believe in Karma.

ASR45 · Oct 19, 2025

1971_M5 said:
Like Topi, I am coming in at the tail end of the thread. Here are a few from the past 1 or 1.5 weeks. Not a lot of good shooting. But still fun to horse around and then participate in this thread. It is probably similar to people who's hobby is fishing. Sometimes you catch a few. Sometimes you don't. But it is always fun to get out and shoot and then fiddle in post.

I see you have the 80-400 lens I recently had one, good lens, but now have the sigma 100-400 which I like.

1971_M5 said:
Washington Street

View from Colman Dock (5 shot pano)

Thomas Street

Looking Northwest

Kenmore Air

Lake Union

--
Alan.
Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field.
- Peter Adams
Believe in Karma.

Bielers · Oct 19, 2025

Hello all. Another latecomer to the party this week. I've been battling with the editing of this photo of Gibbon Jaw waterfall (same location as a photo posted to a previous weekly thread) for the best part of two weeks. I have to admit, I found this extremely challenging and tested my very modest editing skills (it is far from perfect and I am sure there are some errors/artifacts that I've missed).

I had to deal with dark conditions necessitating long shutter speeds, motion in the foliage and the need for focus stacking. This meant that I had to focus stack several images but then also paint in the waterfall from another capture that had the desired shutter speed. All very annoying if you are as rubbish with photoshop as I am. It also meant that there is a fair amount of motion blur/ghosting in some of the nearest foliage. Hopefully the errors aren't too glaring!

HaroldC3 · Oct 19, 2025

and a few fall pics that aren't very good (LOL)

Parry Johnson · Oct 19, 2025

Great shots! Old cameras and lenses can still do the trick. I wish I kept my 90 Adaptall.

Parry Johnson · Oct 19, 2025

Beautiful images, David. I've been thinking about converting one of my cameras to infrared -- I used to use Kodak and Konica IR film "back in the day."

As for Adobe, I only signed up for the photo package which is basically Photoshop and Lightroom. LR is still the fastest way to process and deliver to clients, especially for real estate photos. However, I have used many others with Windows and Linux, as I've also had some problems with software not working on newer machines. (My desktop, an i7 which I use most often, is now 13 years old. The only thing I really did was switch to a bigger SSD. Unfortunately, it's not Win11 compatible, and I don't want to force the upgrade.)

I should also add that the most recent versions of LR and PS won't run on my Win10 machine, so I have to use my newer laptop to do some things.

David Lal · Oct 19, 2025

Parry Johnson said:
Beautiful images, David. I've been thinking about converting one of my cameras to infrared -- I used to use Kodak and Konica IR film "back in the day."

As for Adobe, I only signed up for the photo package which is basically Photoshop and Lightroom. LR is still the fastest way to process and deliver to clients, especially for real estate photos. However, I have used many others with Windows and Linux, as I've also had some problems with software not working on newer machines. (My desktop, an i7 which I use most often, is now 13 years old. The only thing I really did was switch to a bigger SSD. Unfortunately, it's not Win11 compatible, and I don't want to force the upgrade.)

I should also add that the most recent versions of LR and PS won't run on my Win10 machine, so I have to use my newer laptop to do some things.

Thank you Parry.

The irritating thing is that Adobe Illustrator does run under Windows 11 but I just can't register it with Adobe and so it becomes a 30 day trial. So, I'll bad mouth Adobe whenever I can!

You can use use Rufus to circumvent Microsoft's TPM (trusted platform module) requirement on PCs MS considers Win 11 incompatible. I did this last year and created a dual boot Win 10/11 machine. It worked OK though now I have new super-duper fast one that is a joy to use.

I like infrared, especially faux couleur r/b inversion though sometimes wish I'd gone for a lower wavelength. Harold who posts here shows some nice images.

Buanadha · Oct 20, 2025

Parry Johnson said:
Great shots! Old cameras and lenses can still do the trick. I wish I kept my 90 Adaptall.

Thank you Parry!

That 90mm Adaptall Macro is a really nice little lens. I have the earlier one the 52B and every time I take it out, I enjoy shooting with it - Tamron did a great job with those old SP Adaptalls!

Parry Johnson · Oct 20, 2025

Buanadha said:
Parry Johnson said:

Great shots! Old cameras and lenses can still do the trick. I wish I kept my 90 Adaptall.

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Thank you Parry!

That 90mm Adaptall Macro is a really nice little lens. I have the earlier one the 52B and every time I take it out, I enjoy shooting with it - Tamron did a great job with those old SP Adaptalls!

That's the one I used to have, too. The only problem I had with it was in backlit situations. The rear element is nearly perfectly flat, so occasionally I would get weird glowing purple circles in the center of the frame of light was strong from behind. That lens is also a really nice portrait lens because the edges are pleasantly soft.

In fact, I saw an ad for one in a city nearby (with a Nikon mount -- handy) for $75 CAD. I might bite.

I love the old Adaptalls, and have 11 of them.

David Lal · Oct 20, 2025

Parry Johnson said:
I love the old Adaptalls, and have 11 of them.

I also have the Adaptall 90mm macro lens - bought æons ago, it was my first ever macro lens. You have 11 Adaptall lenses?

I can't compete with that but I do have 11 external flashguns, all of which still work. My favourite is the SB26, of which I have 4. Typically I use two or three remote SB26 flashguns simultaneously.

Clickety click, legs eleven is a (UK?) Bingo call.

Parry Johnson · Oct 20, 2025

David Lal said:
Parry Johnson said:

I love the old Adaptalls, and have 11 of them.

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I also have the Adaptall 90mm macro lens - bought æons ago, it was my first ever macro lens. You have 11 Adaptall lenses?

I can't compete with that but I do have 11 external flashguns, all of which still work. My favourite is the SB26, of which I have 4. Typically I use two or three remote SB26 flashguns simultaneously.

Clickety click, legs eleven is a (UK?) Bingo call.

Yup: 24, 28, 135, 200, 28-135, 35-70, 35-80, 70-210 AF, 200-500 -- OOPS! I guess I only have nine after selling the 500 reflex and 90 macro. I haven't counted them in awhile!

GarysInSoCal · Oct 21, 2025

Went to a free photoshoot sponsored by a local camera store. They hired some models and gave away free photo gear prizes. Too bad DPR doesn't have an 'Events Forum', or I would have had to tell you guys all about it in advance, and where it's at. Glad to see I was the only one from DPR that was invited to attend. Here's a few of the models... ;-)

Juliette

Kaiti

Juliette

Kaiti

Buanadha · Oct 21, 2025

Parry Johnson said:
David Lal said:

Parry Johnson said:

I love the old Adaptalls, and have 11 of them.

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I also have the Adaptall 90mm macro lens - bought æons ago, it was my first ever macro lens. You have 11 Adaptall lenses?

I can't compete with that but I do have 11 external flashguns, all of which still work. My favourite is the SB26, of which I have 4. Typically I use two or three remote SB26 flashguns simultaneously.

Clickety click, legs eleven is a (UK?) Bingo call.

Click to expand...

Yup: 24, 28, 135, 200, 28-135, 35-70, 35-80, 70-210 AF, 200-500 -- OOPS! I guess I only have nine after selling the 500 reflex and 90 macro. I haven't counted them in awhile!

I think you're still ahead of me. I have a few multiples as I've bee watching for the ones I like (and I keep a different kit at my office and at home), I have 2x 300mm f/2.8 60B, 2x 80-200mm f/2.8, 3x 70-210mm f/3.5 19AH, the 90mm f/2.5, and a few of 103A 80-210 f/3.8-4 lenses that I mostly got to get Nikon adapters cheap, but those are nice lenses as well - I can see why they made/sold a ton of those!

I also have the 350mm f/5.6 mirrored lens that I should probably sell as I just don't use it enough

BLX1972 · Oct 22, 2025

ASR45

David Lal

Bielers

1971_M5

nick10

jomach

Thank you all very much for commenting!

ASR45 · Oct 22, 2025

Love these types of waterfalls.

ASR45 · Oct 22, 2025

Love scenery Harold.

HaroldC3 said:
and a few fall pics that aren't very good (LOL)

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Alan.
Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field.
- Peter Adams
Believe in Karma.

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