Fun with MF images 2022

[Michiel Schierbeek]

Mers-les-Bains, France I Pentax 645Z Pentax 67 55-100

 

[Ed Hurst]

Mers-les-Bains, France I Pentax 645Z Pentax 67 55-100

Michiel, that's a wonderful shot. I have to ask - what was creating the light pattern on the ground?

 

[Ed Hurst]

On the stretch of coastline where Cook (later to be Captain Cook) first landed in Australia, 'claiming' the land for Britain, there stands a sculpture of a whale and her calf... I felt that the stars suggest the endless ocean that's home to these wonderful animals and the endless history of this land that changed so much following that fateful day in 1770.

Fuji GFX100S with Pentax 645 28-45mm lens @ 31mm
StarTrailsFromFiles_DSF2006-2906_Step7sRGBSMALL by Ed Hurst, on Flickr

 

[Abstraction]

Mers-les-Bains, France I Pentax 645Z Pentax 67 55-100

This is absolutely wonderful! Try it in black and white. I think it would look stupendous!

 

[Bill Caulfeild-Browne]

This is strictly fun! I use focus stacking for intimate landscapes but had never used it for macro work, which I rarely do. I wanted to find out how long Helicon focus took to render 93 full size TIFFS - it was about two minutes with my MacBook Pro Max. The fun part is that the watch was running and thus the blurred red of the sweep second hand. The image is much larger than the watch.

Not art, just fun. XF/IQ150/120 Macro.

 

[dchew]

This is strictly fun! I use focus stacking for intimate landscapes but had never used it for macro work, which I rarely do. I wanted to find out how long Helicon focus took to render 93 full size TIFFS - it was about two minutes with my MacBook Pro Max. The fun part is that the watch was running and thus the blurred red of the sweep second hand. The image is much larger than the watch.

Not art, just fun. XF/IQ150/120 Macro.

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Come on Bill, don't you know that all watch images must be shot precisely at 10:09??

 

[Ed Hurst]

On the stretch of coastline where Cook (later to be Captain Cook) first landed in Australia, 'claiming' the land for Britain, there stands a sculpture of a whale and her calf... I felt that the stars suggest the endless ocean that's home to these wonderful animals and the endless history of this land that changed so much following that fateful day in 1770.

Fuji GFX100S with Pentax 645 28-45mm lens @ 31mm
StarTrailsFromFiles_DSF2006-2906_Step7sRGBSMALL by Ed Hurst, on Flickr

Hey everyone - could I please get your opinion on something in relation to this picture? I have deliberately processed it to be dark in the whale/foreground, so give it a sleek, mysterious feel, almost as if the whale is wet. But one of my friends feels the picture would have more impact if it were slightly lighter. What do you guys think? Obviously we're going to get into different calibrations, viewing conditions, etc.!

 

[GeorgeBo]

Ed - I like it as you posted. Very moody. Like it was lit in the light of a full moon. I have spent many nights at sea when I used to do research work and that lighting is very familiar to me. It just “feels right” with the whale. My $.02 anyway

Hey everyone - could I please get your opinion on something in relation to this picture? I have deliberately processed it to be dark in the whale/foreground, so give it a sleek, mysterious feel, almost as if the whale is wet. But one of my friends feels the picture would have more impact if it were slightly lighter. What do you guys think? Obviously we're going to get into different calibrations, viewing conditions, etc.!

 

[jng]

This is strictly fun! I use focus stacking for intimate landscapes but had never used it for macro work, which I rarely do. I wanted to find out how long Helicon focus took to render 93 full size TIFFS - it was about two minutes with my MacBook Pro Max. The fun part is that the watch was running and thus the blurred red of the sweep second hand. The image is much larger than the watch.

Not art, just fun. XF/IQ150/120 Macro.

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Bill,

Huh. It took my 1st generation 13" M1 MBP just over 20 minutes to stack 100 IQ4 150 tiff files in Helicon Focus. You're not by any chance an agent of Mr. Alighieri, are you?

P.S. Cool image!

John

 

[Bill Caulfeild-Browne]

Come on Bill, don't you know that all watch images must be shot precisely at 10:09??

Yeah, how do you stop a solar powered watch in less than a week!

 

[dave.gt]

Hey everyone - could I please get your opinion on something in relation to this picture? I have deliberately processed it to be dark in the whale/foreground, so give it a sleek, mysterious feel, almost as if the whale is wet. But one of my friends feels the picture would have more impact if it were slightly lighter. What do you guys think? Obviously we're going to get into different calibrations, viewing conditions, etc.!

Ed,

I love this! I would not change a thing, it is as perfect as possible IMHO.

 

[anwarp]

Hi Ed
I like the way it’s processed. The shine on the whales and low light gives the image a moonlit feel. Any lighter, and that mood would be broken.

Anwar

 

[Abstraction]

Hey everyone - could I please get your opinion on something in relation to this picture? I have deliberately processed it to be dark in the whale/foreground, so give it a sleek, mysterious feel, almost as if the whale is wet. But one of my friends feels the picture would have more impact if it were slightly lighter. What do you guys think? Obviously we're going to get into different calibrations, viewing conditions, etc.!

I think it's great the way it is. Any lighter and it would lose its impact.

 

[Michiel Schierbeek]

Michiel, that's a wonderful shot. I have to ask - what was creating the light pattern on the ground?

Thank you, Ed! There was a kind of light show with special lamps on the quay.

 

[Michiel Schierbeek]

Hey everyone - could I please get your opinion on something in relation to this picture? I have deliberately processed it to be dark in the whale/foreground, so give it a sleek, mysterious feel, almost as if the whale is wet. But one of my friends feels the picture would have more impact if it were slightly lighter. What do you guys think? Obviously we're going to get into different calibrations, viewing conditions, etc.!

I like it as it is. It gives the right feeling of being dark, which it was I suppose. Still enough light to see it all though.

 

[stngoldberg]

Oliver Hazard Perry flies Old Glory
stanley

 

[dwood]

pier on granite blocks
Bar Harbor, Maine
X1D / XCD 35-75

 

[P. Chong]

A quick shot around the Louvre earlier this week, after attending a magnificent Vacheron Constantin Gala Dinner in the museum. Fujifilm GFX 50S II with GF 50. Handheld.

 

[Ed Hurst]

Thank you so much everyone for your kind help and opinions in response to my question. I do agree, since that is how I envisaged and processed the image; but it's good to have other perspectives

 

[Bill Caulfeild-Browne]

Bill,

Huh. It took my 1st generation 13" M1 MBP just over 20 minutes to stack 100 IQ4 150 tiff files in Helicon Focus. You're not by any chance an agent of Mr. Alighieri, are you?

P.S. Cool image!

John

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