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**This week with your medium format camera Jun 17-23, 2023**

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Rodenmg said:
Nice! I like these much better. :)

StephenBrown wrote:

I really like this one, nice job.
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Thank you both! Glad you enjoyed them.
 
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Carpenter Bee and company on a Maypop bloom. 23 panel stack, Tokina 100mm 2.8 at F11, 48mm extension, GFX50S



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There was no photography allowed in this ancient Basilica in Mailan that I shot last week, but I dropped some money in the box and snuck around to the side. I shot this handheld at 2000 ISO and then in LightRoom I ran AI Enhanced noise reduction and got a 500 MB DNG file. Exported this 50 MB 90% quality full size jpeg. On the raw file that music sheet is crystal clear and you can read it. I focused on that and the far church wall is out of the depth of field of that lens wide open. I used the 45 GF prime at F2.8. The Mass is about to begin. The Nave to the left was full of people. This ancient 4th Century Basilica is one of the best in Italy to visit. Incredible.

Milan - Italy - Basilica di Sant'Ambrogio.



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Same Basilica, back on the side isle at the entrance.



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Greg7579 said:
There was no photography allowed in this ancient Basilica in Mailan that I shot last week, but I dropped some money in the box and snuck around to the side. I shot this handheld at 2000 ISO and then in LightRoom I ran AI Enhanced noise reduction and got a 500 MB DNG file. Exported this 50 MB 90% quality full size jpeg. On the raw file that music sheet is crystal clear and you can read it. I focused on that and the far church wall is out of the depth of field of that lens wide open. I used the 45 GF prime at F2.8. The Mass is about to begin. The Nave to the left was full of people. This ancient 4th Century Basilica is one of the best in Italy to visit. Incredible.

Milan - Italy - Basilica di Sant'Ambrogio.

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Great!
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Same Basilica, back on the side isle at the entrance.
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I'd crop off the light area on the right and use content aware fill or generative fill on the lower left corner. You don't want anything taking away from that great sunbeam.

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Beautiful! No more distractions.
 
Yes, thanks Jim. Much better. Good eye! You know me. I'm not that artistic and sometimes I don't see things like that as quickly as a lot of people.

I think my eye had gotten better in terms of finding shots, but I have to work at it.
 
Very interesting.

I have often shot into the corner of a building with GFX at 20mm (16 equivalent) and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

When you straighten in post you often get that exaggerated distortion at the near point and top, depending how much diverging or converging verticals there were.

At that wide angle you get the nearer objects looking much bigger and then if the sensor is not level and you have to straighten the keystoning it exaggerates it even more.

It works here and is pretty striking looking.

You were hampered by the bane of all photographers - the bald, dull, flat sky.
 
Very cool looking. How do you get the subject to hold still long enough to create a stack like that?

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SterlingBjorndahl said:
Very cool looking. How do you get the subject to hold still long enough to create a stack like that?

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Thanks, not sure whats in the flower that carpenter bees like but every bloom on the bush had at least one bee and they were all in no hurry to go anywhere.
 
StephenBrown said:
SterlingBjorndahl said:
Very cool looking. How do you get the subject to hold still long enough to create a stack like that?

Thanks,
Sterling
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Thanks, not sure whats in the flower that carpenter bees like but every bloom on the bush had at least one bee and they were all in no hurry to go anywhere.
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I'm amazed that could be a stack. The petals move. The bee moves.... I thought for sure it was a dead bee and posed flower because it has to be dead still for a good stack.

Great stuff.
 
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StephenBrown said:
SterlingBjorndahl said:
Very cool looking. How do you get the subject to hold still long enough to create a stack like that?

Thanks,
Sterling
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Lens Grit
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Thanks, not sure whats in the flower that carpenter bees like but every bloom on the bush had at least one bee and they were all in no hurry to go anywhere.
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I'm amazed that could be a stack. The petals move. The bee moves.... I thought for sure it was a dead bee and posed flower because it has to be dead still for a good stack.

Great stuff.
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Thanks, it's certainly not perfect. There was more vibration in the capture process than I would have liked. Normally I would use electronic shutter with 2 second release for a still subject, but I didnt know how long he would stay still so I actuated the shutter while manually moving through the focus range in a speedy manner. What I can really speak well of is how good the Tokina is as a macro lens on the GFX, especially for a $200 lens.
 
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Nice and think you also got a fruit fly! Actually two flies, hitchhiker and upper right.

Amazing how gigantic bee is compared to fly.

If a few are interested, let us work on a thread with close up and macro in nature for both stack and non stacks.

Do you know what step was set at for this?
 
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Valued Customer said:
Nice and think you also got a fruit fly! Actually two flies, hitchhiker and upper right.

Amazing how gigantic bee is compared to fly.

If a few are interested, let us work on a thread with close up and macro in nature for both stack and non stacks.

Do you know what step was set at for this?
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The Tokina 100mm is a screw drive autofocus adapted with a dump adapter, so it was a completely manual shot.

I think the macro thread is a great idea.
 
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