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- North Carolina
- Name
- Rashid
Beautiful work! May I ask, did you use a polarizer?
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- Beaumaris, Melbourne, Australia
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- John ...
Why not in several appropriate threads, Ian?
They are both excellent photos, but the first is spectacular, assuming that the miniature lens effect was achieved naturally, rather than in post processing.
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
- Name
- Ian
Nope, these are uncropped but using achromats (usually Marumi, sometimes Raynox). light is from a couple of LED torches and I used the in-camera focus stacking feature (that I only recently found out about). The camera uses the 4k video function to take a 1 second burst with each frame at a different focus point, then stacks them to produce a single image (you decide if you want all images stacked or just a range within the stack). Down side is it is Jpeg only, the final image is 8Mp, and slowest shutter speed you can use is 1/30 sec and you can also get some very strange artifacts creeping in. I sometimes tweak the final jpeg images using ART or Windows Image Viewer (both these were), but to be honest I still have to force myself to use processing software. (Oh, and they were taken on the kitchen table when my wife wasn't about)
Edit: I should also mention, I've started playing around with CombineZP (opensource software) to try off camera stacking, it's old software but very easy to use, and free.
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- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
- Name
- Ian
Thanks John, these were naturally achieved using the Panasonic in camera stacking feature of the FZ2000, I wish I was clever enough to use post processing fully, but usually after just a few minutes looking at sliders and graphs and lines and all the options it makes my brain melt, so I keep it as simple as possible.
Edit: I should also mention, I've started playing around with CombineZP (opensource software) to try off camera stacking, it's old software but very easy to use, and free.
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- Miguel Tejada-Flores
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- Leura - Blue Mountains Australia
- Name
- Robert Davidson
- Location
- Texas
Shot yesterday.
Early Morning - AMC Movie Theatre - Downtown Fort Worth, Texas
Shot with a Camp Snap digital toy camera. This is pretty much how it came out of the camera. I did not crop it at all and only did minor pp work, like I do on all my photos. You have zero controls on this camera and there is no screen on the back. You simply, point, shoot, and hope for the best.
The camera is extremely prone to blowing out the highlights and lens flare, which makes it all the more appealing as you are never really sure what you are getting. There is a viewfinder, but it is almost useless. There is a shutter lag of about a second or two- when you press the shutter, you can't move the camera for a second or so while it records the image. The colors are funky, which can be a lot of fun. The camera weighs almost nothing, has built-in memory, and is rechargeable. It fits in my shirt pocket. I purchased this new a few months ago for $65.00. If any of you are into toy cameras, I highly recommend this.
Early Morning - AMC Movie Theatre - Downtown Fort Worth, Texas
Shot with a Camp Snap digital toy camera. This is pretty much how it came out of the camera. I did not crop it at all and only did minor pp work, like I do on all my photos. You have zero controls on this camera and there is no screen on the back. You simply, point, shoot, and hope for the best.
The camera is extremely prone to blowing out the highlights and lens flare, which makes it all the more appealing as you are never really sure what you are getting. There is a viewfinder, but it is almost useless. There is a shutter lag of about a second or two- when you press the shutter, you can't move the camera for a second or so while it records the image. The colors are funky, which can be a lot of fun. The camera weighs almost nothing, has built-in memory, and is rechargeable. It fits in my shirt pocket. I purchased this new a few months ago for $65.00. If any of you are into toy cameras, I highly recommend this.
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tilman
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- Location
- Portland, OR
I do enjoy having a truly pocketable camera again...
a few snapshots from yesterday's lunchtime walk... enjoying the sunny weather and fresh air
lunchtime snaps by tilman paulin, on Flickr
lunchtime snaps by tilman paulin, on Flickr
lunchtime snaps by tilman paulin, on Flickr
lunchtime snaps by tilman paulin, on Flickr
a few snapshots from yesterday's lunchtime walk... enjoying the sunny weather and fresh air
- Location
- North Carolina
- Name
- Rashid
Many thanks, Ian. The reason I asked was because all the ladybirds I'd tried to photograph had extremely shiny wings and the light reflections "diluted" the colors, quite unlike your very beautiful photos. I admire your efforts in using focus stacking. I've never even tried that for insects or macros (being lazy, I just close down the aperture, or use a small-sensor compact camera). However, a number of years ago, when I was taking photomicrographs, I did use photo stacking and actually used CombineZP as well as Picolay (also free), since using a small aperture with the microscope severely impacts resolution.
Thanks again for taking the trouble to reply in such detail.
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- Texas
Entryway -Scat Jazz Lounge - Downtown Fort Worth, Texas
It is a live music jazz club located in the basement of an old Woolworth's building. The entrance is in an alley off 3rd Street. You press a button on the outside of the door and take an elevator down to the club. Great place to have a drink and listen to some live jazz.
It is a live music jazz club located in the basement of an old Woolworth's building. The entrance is in an alley off 3rd Street. You press a button on the outside of the door and take an elevator down to the club. Great place to have a drink and listen to some live jazz.
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- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
- Name
- Ian
No problem Rashid, I don't want risk sending this thread off topic but I will say I usually avoid Ladybirds for the same reason. There is not much else about here this time of year and they are a lot slower now preping to hibernate. Perhaps the stacking helped ? I have tried Picolay but found the results quite bad, especially for halos, but that may be me not setting it up correctly. CombineZP seems much easier for the amount I'm likely to use it. Like you I'm lazy and prefer to just close down the aperture on a small sensor, but thought as Panasonic have made the effort to add the feature it would be rude not to try it
. I'm still undecided if I prefer my faithful old Fuji S1 bridge or this FZ2000 with it's slightly bigger sensor and manual focus/zoom rings (and considerable size/weight increase). I'll just keep playing around over the winter.tilman
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- Portland, OR
Love the macro capability of the TG-7... Some snaps from today (the 2nd is at ISO800 and the 3rd at ISO1600 - but cleaned up nicely in Topaz Denoise)
tiny mushrooms by tilman paulin, on Flickr
tiny mushrooms by tilman paulin, on Flickr
tiny mushrooms by tilman paulin, on Flickr
tilman
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- Portland, OR
two more from the last few days
crashing waves by tilman paulin, on Flickr
lunchtime walk by tilman paulin, on Flickr
by tilman paulin, on Flickrtilman
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- Portland, OR
definitely enjoying mushroom season with the TG7 some more snapshots from lunch break walks
more lunchtime macros by tilman paulin, on Flickr
more lunchtime macros by tilman paulin, on Flickr
more lunchtime macros by tilman paulin, on Flickr
more lunchtime macros by tilman paulin, on Flickr
more lunchtime macros by tilman paulin, on Flickr
some more snapshots from lunch break walks- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
- Name
- Ian
A couple more pics of Gaston the Ladybird. Unlike those I posted of him last week (or was it the week before?) that were stacked, these 2 are just single shot images (as he was getting a bit more active when I took them).
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- Location
- Ellicott City, Maryland, USA
- Name
- Christian (Otto) Beyer
What gear are you using?I do enjoy having a truly pocketable camera again...
a few snapshots from yesterday's lunchtime walk... enjoying the sunny weather and fresh air
View attachment 510179lunchtime snaps by tilman paulin, on Flickr
View attachment 510180lunchtime snaps by tilman paulin, on Flickr
View attachment 510181lunchtime snaps by tilman paulin, on Flickr
View attachment 510182lunchtime snaps by tilman paulin, on Flickr
Never mind. TG-7. Amazing photos.
- Location
- Beaumaris, Melbourne, Australia
- Name
- John ...
Otto, open the image on Flickr, then scroll down to see the EXIF data.
tilman
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- Portland, OR
Yes, it’s the TG-7. (I added the LED ring light accessory from JJC. The light is very faint, but in some of the darker photos it adds a hint of warm fill light on things very close to the lens)
And the ring light add-on doesn’t add any bulk)
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- Location
- Ellicott City, Maryland, USA
- Name
- Christian (Otto) Beyer
John, that is just SO much more work 😉
- Name
- Miguel Tejada-Flores
