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Fun with Nikon Images
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Hammer :thumbs::thumbs::thumbs:, you nailed it !
HDR ? A few words about the processing ?
Greetings, Jurgen
ckhfrankie
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Could anyone tell me how to add photo from Flicker ...???? Thx.
eleanorbrown
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Re: Fun with D800 Photos
Nice and looks so familiar ! As a child my family spent part of every summer in a cabin at Fall River Lodge at the base of Bighorn Mountain in the lower left part if your pan. Those experiences in this magical place were to shape the rest of my life! I see there is haze from the fires tho as there was in Wyoming and Montana when I was there recently. Eleanor
Nice and looks so familiar ! As a child my family spent part of every summer in a cabin at Fall River Lodge at the base of Bighorn Mountain in the lower left part if your pan. Those experiences in this magical place were to shape the rest of my life! I see there is haze from the fires tho as there was in Wyoming and Montana when I was there recently. Eleanor
Rocky Mountain National Park, CO
Nikon D800E with Nikon 70-100mm f/2.8 VRII
8 pictures stitching ~ 900mp JPEG file.
Landscapelover
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Thanks very much..Joe,Lloyd and Jurgen.
Joe..You will enjoy the Zeiss 18mm. I really like it. I've thought about getting the 15mm.
Jurgen..I bracketed and chose the best one. The D800E has a very good DR so I used only 1 picture. I believe I use 0.6 GND.
I haven't used HDR although some people has great results with it. When I need high DR, I've used layers/masks from several pictures with different shutter speeds and messed around (Manual HDR).
Thanks for asking.
Joe..You will enjoy the Zeiss 18mm. I really like it. I've thought about getting the 15mm.
Jurgen..I bracketed and chose the best one. The D800E has a very good DR so I used only 1 picture. I believe I use 0.6 GND.
I haven't used HDR although some people has great results with it. When I need high DR, I've used layers/masks from several pictures with different shutter speeds and messed around (Manual HDR).
Thanks for asking.
Landscapelover
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Re: Fun with D800 Photos
We are very fortunate to have 4 National Parks in CO plus Arches and Canyonlands National Parks nearby.
I hope you enjoy your time in Wyoming and Montana.
Pramote
Thanks Eleanor! RMNP is a magical place and it's never ceased amazing me.
We are very fortunate to have 4 National Parks in CO plus Arches and Canyonlands National Parks nearby.
I hope you enjoy your time in Wyoming and Montana.
Pramote
Landscapelover
Senior Subscriber Member
Re: Fun with D800 Photos
Pramote
I love this milky way. The tone is amazing.Here's one of my first trys at shooting the night sky...this one shot at the Firehole Ranch, west of West Yellowstone, Montana one very dark night. I started out just guessing on settings and this was shot with my D800e with the 14-24 lens at 14mm at f 2.8, wide open, 30 seconds at iso 1000. Eleanor
ps: there is a solid line just to the left center of the Milky Way..since this didn't come across as a dotted line (i.e.: lights on plane) I'm assuming this might be a shooting star. any other ideas??
Pramote
Guy Mancuso
Administrator, Instructor
Re: Fun with D800 Photos
Just airbrush out that streak. Great image
Just airbrush out that streak. Great image
eleanorbrown
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Re: Fun with D800 Photos
Thanks...all this has been experimenting for me..my first attempts ever with the night sky so a lot was guessing... I had the camera color set for daylight on this one. . Eleanor
Thanks...all this has been experimenting for me..my first attempts ever with the night sky so a lot was guessing... I had the camera color set for daylight on this one. . Eleanor
eleanorbrown
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Re: Fun with D800 Photos
Thanks Guy... Good idea about the streak .....the 800e seems to do well with these long exposures. Eleanor
Thanks Guy... Good idea about the streak .....the 800e seems to do well with these long exposures. Eleanor
Guy Mancuso
Administrator, Instructor
Re: Fun with D800 Photos
Its seems to do very well for these type of shots. Need to get out and try some myself, I'm really in the perfect spot for stars here in the desert.
Steen
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Fun with D800 Photos
John, I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but could it be that what you see has to do with the unusual amount of dynamic range in the D800 files ?
I have never before seen dynamic range like this in files from any other digital cameras that I have tried out.
Maybe keep an eye on the histogram in post and then try to work with Levels and Curves bringing the black and white points closer to the edge of the histogram ?
Or maybe try to add some more contrast ?
I hope the more knowledgeable post processing folks will chime in here if I'm totally wrong assuming that it might have to do with the dynamic range ... ?
John, I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but could it be that what you see has to do with the unusual amount of dynamic range in the D800 files ?
I have never before seen dynamic range like this in files from any other digital cameras that I have tried out.
Maybe keep an eye on the histogram in post and then try to work with Levels and Curves bringing the black and white points closer to the edge of the histogram ?
Or maybe try to add some more contrast ?
I hope the more knowledgeable post processing folks will chime in here if I'm totally wrong assuming that it might have to do with the dynamic range ... ?
Guy Mancuso
Administrator, Instructor
Re: Fun with D800 Photos
With more DR images will have a much wider tonal range and will appear flat. This is a good thing but you can bring up your black point to add the contrast back in. It's really a matter of taste and working with your levels but as default with the High DR range images will be flatter , no question. That's the starting point than one needs to make adjustments as needed. The image I posted above with wedding on beach is far from looking flat and I lower the contrast by default with the D800e by about 4 points in C1 and sometime bump up shadow recovery.
With more DR images will have a much wider tonal range and will appear flat. This is a good thing but you can bring up your black point to add the contrast back in. It's really a matter of taste and working with your levels but as default with the High DR range images will be flatter , no question. That's the starting point than one needs to make adjustments as needed. The image I posted above with wedding on beach is far from looking flat and I lower the contrast by default with the D800e by about 4 points in C1 and sometime bump up shadow recovery.
manouch shirzad
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Re: Fun with D800 Photos
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Hi Guy,
I'm wondering how did you manage to take that picture, it looks camera is
less than a foot from the ground, did you use any type of right angle finder,
and how did you focus manually.
Best,
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Manouch
Hi Guy,
I'm wondering how did you manage to take that picture, it looks camera is
less than a foot from the ground, did you use any type of right angle finder,
and how did you focus manually.
Best,
_______
Manouch
Guy Mancuso
Administrator, Instructor
Re: Fun with D800 Photos
It's the building I was in at the hotel . My room overlooked the roof line of the floors below me to the ocean front. It's from my balcony in my room. Kind of strange setup but I could fully see and enjoy my ocean view. So bird was pretty much just below eye level.
It's the building I was in at the hotel . My room overlooked the roof line of the floors below me to the ocean front. It's from my balcony in my room. Kind of strange setup but I could fully see and enjoy my ocean view. So bird was pretty much just below eye level.
manouch shirzad
Workshop & Subscriber Member
Re: Fun with D800 Photos
Thanks, Guy.
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manouch
Thanks, Guy.
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manouch
Re: Fun with D800 Photos
Human Space Flight (HSF) - Realtime Data
Tom
Lovely image Eleanor. I believe a shooting star would have produced a much longer streak in 30s, after all they last only a moment. You may have caught the International Space Station whose orbit passes over MT . You can check a NASA site:Here's one of my first trys at shooting the night sky...this one shot at the Firehole Ranch, west of West Yellowstone, Montana one very dark night. I started out just guessing on settings and this was shot with my D800e with the 14-24 lens at 14mm at f 2.8, wide open, 30 seconds at iso 1000. Eleanor
ps: there is a solid line just to the left center of the Milky Way..since this didn't come across as a dotted line (i.e.: lights on plane) I'm assuming this might be a shooting star. any other ideas??
Human Space Flight (HSF) - Realtime Data
Tom
Dan Bellyk
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Re: Fun with D800 Photos
Beautiful shot Eleanor
Mine from last night( think I might need to play around with the colours a bit more )
Beautiful shot Eleanor
Mine from last night( think I might need to play around with the colours a bit more )
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