* The Weekly Image Thread 21 09 06 #601 *

[19andrew47]

Welcome to the Weekly Image Thread

This thread will appear every Saturday (GMT) and is open for submissions and discussions about images and processing techniques until the next Saturday, or the new thread is started. If the thread is nearing full before the next Saturday, I may start a new thread and carry on until it fills or the next Saturday arrives and it is reasonably full in which case I will start another. Confused, so am I! From time to time the start could be delayed if I am unavailable.

Although this Weekly thread is in the Olympus SLR forum, we openly welcome users of all brands and models.

Please:

1. Reply to this post and change the TITLE!
2. Please reply to at least one other contribution, your replies encourage posters!!!
3. If asked, please share your processing techniques or technical details.
4. Please show the EXIF if possible. Please identify the lens used regardless of which camera was used to take the image. This helps people form opinions of the lens used with the body to possibly influence future acquisitions.
5. If special lighting was used to create your image stating what was done may help others.

Thanks for joining and contributing this week.

Andrew (19andrew47)

Formerly: The Weekly OMD & 4/3 DSLR Images & The Weekly 4/3 DSLR

 

[19andrew47]

All good results Charlotte. Some of Dicky's pigeons have come your way!

Andrew

 

[19andrew47]

Thanks Rich. I almost did not include the last as I lost a lot of it straightening the verticals.

Andrew

 

[softmarmotte]

no idea why craig - maybe more food here ?

Craig from Nevada wrote:

Interesting story about the barn swallows. Any theories of why they started moving on to your street a decade ago?

softmarmotte wrote:

the barn swallows are gathering ready to head south...10 years ago there were none in our street and then they started arriving in spring before passing north and the reverse in autumn

this year i counted 18 most of which stayed the summer







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[Rich Z]

I wonder if you used the perspective correction tool in PSP, Andrew. Or, if you have some new tool to correct. I also wonder if your Laowa UWA would have had less distortion than the 12-100. There are two more lenses that I want. An UWA prime like yours, with auto focus if I can afford that, and the MZ 60mm macro.

I was having trouble with the perspective correction tool in PSP but I have a better handle on it now.

This picture is of a bear discouraging device at the native plants garden at Redwood Acres with the 12-100. The bear was coming in the greenhouse to eat the berries and other fruit and vegetables. Their bear expert said the bear would not like walking on the plastic pallet platform, cross over it hastily and knock over the standing pieces, be hit by them, and scared off. Evidently, it worked but there are lots of bears here. I will ask him if he knows how to discourage a gritz. ;-) Rich

 

[19andrew47]

I could not get the perspective correction in Affinity to cooperate. I used PSP. I don't have LR installed on my machine any more so I can not use it. Long ago I did some testing and found out that some of the software seems to turn out differently as to how much needs to be cropped to get the corrected image. It depended upon the particular image. I don't recall the results but it is sort of irrelevant now since I don't want to install LR again!

I could be wrong Rich, but I don't think there are any UW primes for m4/3 that have autofocus. I set the magnify button to a button near the shutter release and have it set for maximum magnification, 14x. When I use the Laowa I set up the scene, press the button and focus on the critical part of the scene, then press it again and don't touch the focus again. This does not work for things close to the lens as moving about changes the required focus much more than for distant things like landscapes or buildings. Flowers would be an issue.

The only way I know that you could get an autofocus UW prime is to get one for a full frame and then get an adapter that allows autofocus. Boy would that get expensive! The 60 mm macros used to be rather inexpensive and went on sale for about $350 CAD here a few years ago. Not any more! Maybe a good used one at a good price? The Panasonic 7 - 14 mm f/4 zoom is small and light but gives purple flare blobs on Olympus cameras under the wrong circumstances. Anders W. had a modification/fix for that by adding a small gelatin filter to the rear of the lens. You might pick one of those up inexpensively used? There is no supplier of used equipment in Canada that has the variety that you can get in the States.

Interactive Micro Four Thirds Lens List | M43 Lenses

M43 Lenses: Interactive Micro Four Thirds Lens List

www.m43lenses.com

the above for a list of all available m4/3 lenses, supposedly.

Andrew

 

[dt27348]

So sorry to hear of your loss Roy. The photos show that your mother was a wonderful lady.

Dave

 

[dt27348]

Thanks Craig. It turned into a really warm day so I was glad I went out early.

Dave

 

[dt27348]

Thanks Rich. That wooden thingy is a replacement for the previous wooden thingy that was swept away in a storm.

Dave

 

[dt27348]

Thanks Andrew. The hooded crow, known in Scotland as a 'hoodie', is quite common around here.

Dave

 

[Craig from Nevada]

Just to show I try to practice even if I can't get out much.

I like the next to last one. Obvious an opinion is being expressed by the subject. Looks nice at full size.

 

[Jim Vincent]

SOF looks surreal, your fungi unappetizing, and whipbird is cute even giving you it's behind.

 

[Jim Vincent]

Nice sharp shots of that BS - guess you like your 100-400 too.

 

[Jim Vincent]

So sorry for your loss. Keep the positive memories.

 

[softmarmotte]

Nice sharp shots of that BS - guess you like your 100-400 too.

I enjoy it when it's bright. Not sure the tc 1.4 really helps that much though. Still don't think much of CAF, despite some other folk on other fora swearing it's the ONLY way to get sharp pics. What settings are you favouring ? and Charlotte ?

 

[Jim Vincent]

I wasn't happy with the sky images I found on line so today when we had some nice clouds I took a few shots of the sky. I used this one


HHHR shot of the sky

with my Shovel Point and Split Rock Lighthouse photos in Affinity Photo to get these results.





I think they are improved by the cloudy sky - what do you think?

 

[meow]

Just to show I try to practice even if I can't get out much.

I like the next to last one. Obvious an opinion is being expressed by the subject. Looks nice at full size.

Thanks. Yeah, that's what I like about it too. I think he's POed. He was so wet, poor thing.

 

[Jim Vincent]

I've played a little with CAF, Seq L, ProCap, HHHR, higher iso...

I still favor single exposure, SAF, 200 to 400 iso and f/8 or f/9. Obviously I need light. Don't have a TC so can't comment on it, but, if you have good light and can be fairly steady, you can crop a fair amount and still have a very useful image. Right now my favorite bird image was this one I took in Alaska. I was 118m from the eagle, so this crop is 1/6th of the full frame but it's still very sharp (in my opinion).



On the other hand, I tried taking shots of a hummingbird from about 20' in my very shady back yard yesterday at different iso's all the way up to 6400 and in single shot, ProCapH and ProCapL and all I got was mush. The 100-400 definitely needs light.

 

[19andrew47]

I like them both Jim, but especially the lighthouse image.

Andrew

 

[meow]

Mmm... will you row me there?

I like the doves. It's fun how they sort of stand in line.

 

[Jim Vincent]

Thanks Andrew. Affinity's mask selection & refinement is really a breeze to use and makes merging images like this simple. I'm impressed!