* The Weekly Image Thread 21 07 04 #577 *

[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.

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Andrew (19andrew47)

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

 

[19andrew47]

Thanks WN. When you have nothing else to shoot you put more into the process.

Andrew

 

[19andrew47]

Thanks Dicky. A breeze is always welcome on a hot day. I cut grass today in 30 C and humid sun but the breeze was nice.

Andrew

 

[19andrew47]

Thanks Rich. I liked the way the first turned out from a fun standpoint but the one with the bee and the monochrome version of the single rose were likely my pick from the set. I need to shoot something else.

Andrew

 

[Rich Z]

Thanks, Andrew. They're very convenient but as you said, I need to shoot something else, too. Rich

 

[dt27348]

It's nice to sit in our garden with a coffee when the weather is cooperative. It doesn't happen often enough for my liking.

Plenty rocks over here but only one Nessie WN.

Dave

 

[dt27348]

Me too Harvey. It was looking good until it was battered by overnight heavy rain.

Dave

 

[dt27348]

The wild rose was a transplant from my mother's garden many,many years ago Rich. It blooms well every year with a gorgeous aroma.

Dave

 

[dt27348]

It was summer the day most of these were shot Craig. It's been raining on and off since. At least it's warm rain.

Dave

 

[dt27348]

Weather has been pretty good this year Andrew. It seems people are holidaying at home and not travelling abroad. My town is bursting at the seams with visitors every day. We don't go into town unless we have to.

Dave

 

[dt27348]

I have no idea what caused this Roy but I like it.

Dave

 

[softmarmotte]

Beautiful, Rich. Strong colours and great lighting

Roses from The Humboldt Rose Society garden and Dahlias from The Sequoia Park dahlia garden.

All of these are hand held, focus stacked in camera, with ambient light.





















That's all. Rich

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[softmarmotte]

Glad to see you have some proper weather Dave. ours is still distinctly Scottish in nature

Love a paeony or two. They are so flimsy and beautiful

Flowers in our garden have been very late this year but some have bloomed at last.

The Peony went from this



To this in two days.





Our back garden rose.



Cranesbill



Our wild rose wasn't quite in bloom but has now fully opened in the last few days.



It rained heavily last night and it has flattened some of the flowers. Hopefully the will recover.

Dave

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[Rich Z]

Thanks, Rich. The light was almost perfect. Rich

 

[dt27348]

Thanks Rich.Been pretty wet the last two days but sunny this morning. Peony has taken a beating.

Dave

 

[Chris Oly]

Nice atmosphere.

Is that a camera in the foreground?

If you are referring to left corner - it's a human figure sitting at the edge of the water.

Thanks for comment.

 

[EZGritz]

It is a replica of a car of the same name that ran in the 1960s. Not particularly successfully. Very fast in a straight line, scary in the corners because the wheelbase is so short. It's very powerful and very light. A strange design with the driver sitting over the differential.

The driver rounded the corners slowly. When he straightened it out you could see the acceleration. In a straight line, it's a rocket.

This replica is very well made. There is no donor car. It's scratch-built. It has a welded, powder-coated tube frame and a lot of very solid fixtures and fittings, many machined from solid billets. The welding is beautiful, done by a real artist. So much quality fabrication. Somebody might have put thousands of hours into making this car. This is a labor of love. As a replica, it will probably never be worth what it cost to make it.

 

[EZGritz]

I agree, Andrew. It's a weird-looking car with such a short wheelbase and the driver sitting over the differential. The ratio of the width to the length is very big. The car's shadow is nearly square. The build quality is very impressive. So much of it made from scratch. Very strong and well-engineered. The cockpit design is very good. Ergonomics and safety are very well thought out. One thing missing is a battery cutoff switch on the outside for the safety and corner workers. I'm surprised they let it run without one. Probably its recommended but not required by this vintage club it ran with. A vintage race last weekend.

 

[EZGritz]

One of the club members ran off the end of a straight in Spokane a few years ago, flipped, and died instantly. Very experienced driver. These old cars are fragile and not at all safe in accidents. You are lucky to be alive. Good thing, Andrew. DPR wouldn't be the same without you.

 

[meow]

Well, not crows but jackdaws. First try in low light with the big lens. I thought they looked funny when they sat there at the break of dawn after a night's rain, trying to dry up and fix their coifs.

First one is exposed pretty much as a saw it, silhouettes against en even gray sky.



For this I upped exposure to get some details in their feathers.



I kind of like how the middle one on the top rod is giving me the evil eye. Looking close, maybe the right one is too.

I ran them though DeepPrime, not that there was much chroma noise, because there are no colors I guess. For the second one I used hardly any luma NR to preserve the feathers, just the tiniest bit to get it out of the sky. The noise in the birds doesn't disturb me, but maybe it would in a more colorful photo.

I think they look masked or cloned, with the jaggy edges, but I haven't done that. It's just their hairdos.

 

[meow]

Nice looking car. Did you get to drive it?

I've always wondered how a private person can make a replica of a car. There much be so much involved.