Took my GR + GW-3 wide to a high vantage point over a very busy highway (for those who know a bit about the Netherlands: the A7 across the Afsluitdijk). The GW-3 has a 62mm thread but it vignets heavily with filters so I use a 72mm filter on a step-up ring. An ND1000 brought down shutter-speeds...
Long time no see here, primarily due to family and job demands. I didn't stop shooting though and I recently got myself the awesome GW-3. It's good to be back!
Trainstation by Mike Bing, on Flickr
Towering cloudcover by Mike Bing, on Flickr
Impression of Sloterdijk trainstation by Mike...
The first stitch, fairly straightforward and PP done with Digikam (levels & curves and a bit of saturation, finishing up with some sharpening)
Museum of Natural History, London by newmikey, on Flickr
And a slightly more graphical one where I chose a different projection for the pano and then...
To all, thank you VERY much for the lovely comments! On nr.1 KillRamsey said it is intriguing in that "the scale looks off... it looks initially like a shot of a mid-sized room, and then you see the children and realize how BIG all those other things must be."
What I wanted to add is that the...
1. Schoolkids at the Tate Modern
Dwarfed... by newmikey, on Flickr
2. Renovations across the street
What's behind window number two? by newmikey, on Flickr
3. St.Catharine's Docks by night
St Katharine Docks by newmikey, on Flickr
4. 1 More Street
More orange and blue by newmikey, on...
All of these are bracketed exposures tonemapped with LuminanceHDR, edited with digiKam and Gimp, sharpened with NeatImage
London by night by newmikey, on Flickr
London by night by newmikey, on Flickr
London by night by newmikey, on Flickr
London by night by newmikey, on Flickr...
Nice of you to spot that - I hadn't. Only explanation I can think of is that this really is a narrow street with a few highrise apartment buildings on the other side (behind me as I was shooting) and you can still see reflections of the balconies in the right window. Pure chance but kind of...
You presume correctly. Luckily it takes a 49mm filterthread which is the same size as the DA35mm/f2.4 I use on my DSLR so the filter serves both cameras.
Some of these were with a Haida 10-stops ND filter. All were processed with open-source software (mostly MuminanceHDR, Digikam, ImageMagick, UFRaw and GIMP)
Northsea pre-sunset by newmikey, on Flickr
Mad sky color by newmikey, on Flickr
Windmill in twilight by newmikey, on Flickr
Every time I pick this little wonder up, the sharpness and richness of detail surprises me. It is so good that I find the results of my K-5 IIs and GR virtually indistinguishable so I often carry around the Pentax with a 50-135mm and the GR asif it were a second body with a wideangle lens.
As a plugin for GIMP, it is somewhat restricted (purely personal opinion) so I use it from the command-line through a bash script. The commandline for this effect was:
gmic $FILE -gimp_dreamsmooth 5,1,1,0.8,0,0.8,1,24,0 -o $FILE_NO_smooth.jpg
Never felt the need to pimp any of my cameras ever before but when I saw the red ring and leather neckstrap, I was a goner:
CMG03882-Ricoh-GR-red-ISO800-2014-web by newmikey, on Flickr
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