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

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Nice. Can you try this with a stack of photos?

With the GF250 and the tube, how far were you from the spider?
 
Rodenmg said:
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Nice. Can you try this with a stack of photos?

With the GF250 and the tube, how far were you from the spider?
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Distance was probably about 2 feet. I wanted to stack but a slight wind made it impossible.
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Wind and micro breezes are a pain. If you works slowly, spiders are generally nice about not moving too quickly for a few frames. Wow 2 feet is a nice "safe" outside of web distance.
 
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Final take on this one for Wainright. I'm satisfied with how this turned out.

And yes, this was the real sky today. Got fleeting moments of sun rays poking through the rain clouds.



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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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Wow! Congrats for capturing this wonderful shot!

The little fly at the back is photoshopped? :-)



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themediocreenthusiast said:
:-)StephenBrown said:
Carpenter Bee and company on a Maypop bloom. 23 panel stack, Tokina 100mm 2.8 at F11, 48mm extension, GFX50S

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Wow! Congrats for capturing this wonderful shot!

The little fly at the back is photoshopped? :-)

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Thanks

No he landed in the last 5-6 frames so showed up just in time to be in focus
 
I went for photography last evening after almost two weeks chasing lights. Both are photographed using the GFX-100s + GF 45-100mmF4 lens



During the peak golden hour
During the peak golden hour



After the peak golden hour, slightly into the blue hour
After the peak golden hour, slightly into the blue hour

Let me know what you think

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Very nice. But if I had to pick a favorite it would be the second, wider one. 👍


I just noticed the moon. Cool. :)
 
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Very nice Twilight
 
Rodenmg said:
Very nice. But if I had to pick a favorite it would be the second, wider one. 👍

I just noticed the moon. Cool. :)
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Thanks, I thought about using the GF 20-35 by getting closer so I can capture the moon and the patterns on the grass much better. But then I will have to trespass on someone else's farmland. I wasn't sure about the massive gap between the structures and the moon, but I am glad you liked it.
 
I processed three more photographs from last evening. Let me know what you think about the processing.

I had to push exposure almost one stop, and then lift lots of shadow to get this one
I had to push exposure almost one stop, and then lift lots of shadow to get this one





This one took two extra stops of exposure in the post-processing to get some details off the foreground
This one took two extra stops of exposure in the post-processing to get some details off the foreground





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I'm not sure I like this in B&W, but I just edited it and it was kind of flat and golden in color, so I thought why not B&W? LR B&W Number 4. It's kind of dramatic looking. I laid the camera on the floor of the central Nave and did a 3 second exposure at base ISO and 20mm, F7. One complaint I have about the GFX 100s (like almost all cameras) is that it won't lay flat because of the EVF eyepiece (which I take off but it still sticks out). So you can see it is slanted one way a little. But that is really wide. That cathedral is huge and this got the whole roof. The roof is 600-year-old brick, and on the raw, you can see every brick in detail. Those pillars are as big around as a car. How did they do this 800 years ago?

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I was walking way up on the Cathedral's roof, which they charge you 25 Euro to do, and I was getting dizzy standing on that slant and pointing the camera up. Nice sun star with the GF lens, but GFX doesn't so sun stars well. I had to clean up a bunch of colored round blobs. I'm proud of myself.... Only a true artist could have seen this! LOL.

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Check this Saint out ... Saint Bartholomew stands completely naked, wearing his own skin thrown over his shoulder, after being flayed alive. The statue is a bit shocking and dramatic, and I got right up under it with the 45 pointed up and shot it at F2.8 and 500 ISO handheld. The legs are OOF (DOF) because the focus point was on that handsome face. But pretty dramatic with the 45 and I actually switched lenses while standing there surrounded by clueless phone snapping tourists waiting for them to move out of the way. One idiot American girl almost got arrested leaning on the famous statue for a selfie.

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This one was shot in one of the most famous art museums in the world and I lined it up perfectly with the 45, backing up over other tourists waving their phones at the famous Last Supper masterpiece.... I shot it at 45 (of course, it is a prime) wide open at F2.8 at 1600 ISO (it was dark in that room) and used 1/25 speed - pretty low for a 45. But it is tach sharp and I think it is better than the high res shot they have posted on the museum's website. They didn't want to let me in with that camera, but I begged and kept saying, no flash and I'm not a pro.... I'm not a pro.... Please let me have my camera.

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Another sun star from the roof hundreds of feet up above the piazza far below that peak, which is the very top of the front facade of the Duomo from the other side from far below.

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State Funeral one of the days we were there. Famous ex Prime Minister and billionaire. They shut Milan down that day.

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God, whose head is hanging in the Duomo Museum. This is actually a copy as the original is on some kind of World Tour. But this proves my amazing portrait skills.



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Very creative and nice shot. This is the kind of thing I can't do.
 
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