Got three blinding flashes of the obvious, over the 24 hours that was Sunday.
First flash:
Which turned into this 
This was based on not doing my due dilligence, just running the G9 on apperture priority. I am not a very accomplished starry photographer and have to date made exactly one moonshot that I am somewhat satisfied with. This is not the one, but I liked what I saw outside and hurried to get it on the SD card.
The basic premise is a rather clichee shot of the moon through the branches. I have a idea that mastering the clichés to some level will bring some sort of general understanding to the topic. Clichés have become clichés for a reason, and should probably be investigated based on that.
Second flash:
I like my oldies, to some extent both lenses and cameras, and have worked a bit with the G3/14-42 PZ since I got the G3. One of the lenses I haven't used much at all is the venerable 14-45, the original Lumix Kit lens. But there are enough of fellows that has sung its praises, so hey-ho off to town I go. Holding a slight look on shutter speeds and such when taking the combo into the garden for a small stroll with the beast and loading off the result into LR after a pleasant time. Going through the shots it is fuzziness galore, followed by tugging of hair and beard and what not, pondering what the duck went wrong.
Sloppy technique, based on shooting somewhat unsupported one handed off the screen was one possible solution, and thoughts about how bad the stabilising effect on the 14-45 was, was another... Turns out I have horsed around with the lens earlier, and by some notion turned off the OIS, combine that with the sloppiness of the shooter and there are absoulutely possibilites to muck up the shoot.
Third flash:
On my way to bed last night, I looked out and saw a very nice light foggy scene outside, and did an about face in the stairs, grabbed the G9 which already had the PL50-200 mounted and out on the terrace I went, didnt look on nothing, just got some frames, put the camera away and called it a day. When doing post after waking up, I thought it was rather mushy even after running it through both Topaz Denoice and sharpener. Lo and behold, I hadnt set the cap on the auto ISO after doing a hard reset on the camera, so the camera ramped the ISO up to 12800, and that is rather mushy, and something I know is mushy, because I have experiemented with the ISO earlier on, and normally have it capped at 3200.
The moral of these flashes of the obvious, is that the devil is in the details, and I should probably pay some attention to said details, when the scenes are less than optimal. Fully trusting the great automats that are todays cameras is normally good and great, but they need sustainable inputs into their systems.
I normally have some sort of though-process going on when it comes to the exposure triangle, which regularly have me messing with the exposure compensation, which I also did on the moon shot, but mostly for these instances my brain farted and let loose the automatic stuff, or for flash 2, turned it off...
I take it with good humour and as a learing experience and not more seriously than making this post, hopefully for some sort of discussion and/or disclosure of other fails to enlighten and/or edumacate and possibly entertain other parties amongst the fine fellows aboard this splendid forum.
First flash:
Which turned into this This was based on not doing my due dilligence, just running the G9 on apperture priority. I am not a very accomplished starry photographer and have to date made exactly one moonshot that I am somewhat satisfied with. This is not the one, but I liked what I saw outside and hurried to get it on the SD card.
The basic premise is a rather clichee shot of the moon through the branches. I have a idea that mastering the clichés to some level will bring some sort of general understanding to the topic. Clichés have become clichés for a reason, and should probably be investigated based on that.
Second flash:
I like my oldies, to some extent both lenses and cameras, and have worked a bit with the G3/14-42 PZ since I got the G3. One of the lenses I haven't used much at all is the venerable 14-45, the original Lumix Kit lens. But there are enough of fellows that has sung its praises, so hey-ho off to town I go. Holding a slight look on shutter speeds and such when taking the combo into the garden for a small stroll with the beast and loading off the result into LR after a pleasant time. Going through the shots it is fuzziness galore, followed by tugging of hair and beard and what not, pondering what the duck went wrong.
Sloppy technique, based on shooting somewhat unsupported one handed off the screen was one possible solution, and thoughts about how bad the stabilising effect on the 14-45 was, was another... Turns out I have horsed around with the lens earlier, and by some notion turned off the OIS, combine that with the sloppiness of the shooter and there are absoulutely possibilites to muck up the shoot.
Third flash:
On my way to bed last night, I looked out and saw a very nice light foggy scene outside, and did an about face in the stairs, grabbed the G9 which already had the PL50-200 mounted and out on the terrace I went, didnt look on nothing, just got some frames, put the camera away and called it a day. When doing post after waking up, I thought it was rather mushy even after running it through both Topaz Denoice and sharpener. Lo and behold, I hadnt set the cap on the auto ISO after doing a hard reset on the camera, so the camera ramped the ISO up to 12800, and that is rather mushy, and something I know is mushy, because I have experiemented with the ISO earlier on, and normally have it capped at 3200.
The moral of these flashes of the obvious, is that the devil is in the details, and I should probably pay some attention to said details, when the scenes are less than optimal. Fully trusting the great automats that are todays cameras is normally good and great, but they need sustainable inputs into their systems.
I normally have some sort of though-process going on when it comes to the exposure triangle, which regularly have me messing with the exposure compensation, which I also did on the moon shot, but mostly for these instances my brain farted and let loose the automatic stuff, or for flash 2, turned it off...
I take it with good humour and as a learing experience and not more seriously than making this post, hopefully for some sort of discussion and/or disclosure of other fails to enlighten and/or edumacate and possibly entertain other parties amongst the fine fellows aboard this splendid forum.
