June 2019

[Frank Fremerey]

Post your "blog" contributions here.

No theme (other than what the passage of time creates), no contest implied, a maximum of one picture per day in the actual month and no more than 4 images per month for NG members, up to 30/31 for Supporters. You can distribute the contributions as once per week if you so prefer.

The posted picture(s) must be taken within the designated time period.

[Frank Fremerey]

one of the Cyanus is not single color but has blue and white petals .. I did a tad of an experimental edit with layers ...

*entanglement*

[PeterN]

Wonderful!

[armando_m]

Playing with the x-t3 focus bracketing
20 images 55mm f/4, stacked in ps using the jpg files

[John Geerts]

Political questions as Zara refuses to revive the shop windows and houses

D850  15/2.4

[Frank Fremerey]

Frank, I like the simple esthetics  of your cup image. That Fuji is back home

yes, the little Fuji is special. It inspires me to shoot differently... Thank you

[Frank Fremerey]

Wonderful!

Thank you, Peter !

[Anthony]

Frank and Armando, two entirely different but equally beautiful flower photos, thanks for posting.

[ColinM]

Playing with the x-t3 focus bracketing

This and your combination with PS stacking seems to work.
Did you ever try Zerene for this, or has PS slowly caught up with the dedicated stack s/w?

[Birna Rørslett]

I finally managed to "retrieve" the D500 a friend had loaned ... after a weekend spent on a remote island, I am full of appreciation for this camera (again). Before leaving, I captured this mixture of Saxifraga granulata and Armeria maritima using the 18-140 Nikkor.

[Frank Fremerey]

I finally managed to "retrieve" the D500 a friend had loaned ... after a weekend spent on a remote island, I am full of appreciation for this camera (again). Before leaving, I captured this mixture of Saxifraga granulata and Armeria maritima using the 18-140 Nikkor.

astonishing and lovely piece of hardware the D500 and my favourite camera currently... very nice color bouquet

[armando_m]

This and your combination with PS stacking seems to work.
Did you ever try Zerene for this, or has PS slowly caught up with the dedicated stack s/w?

Thanks Colin,
I tried zerene a few years ago,  conditions were different, I used 36mp raw files, and a 150mm macro therefore a shallower dof, also focus was adjusted manually using the d800 live view. The processing was slow and had many odd artifacts, I did not continue my efforts

This time, with the x-t3, the experience was much smoother, and ps did a good job with little effort. I noticed that even with jpgs , and only 20 images the file grew to 1.5gb while doing the stack, my machine has only 8gb , I doubt I can tackle much deeper stacks in ps.

[PeterN]

[Frank Fremerey]

The printed newspaper is a dying species, some say.

The price is skyrocketing. We started with 500€/year 10 years ago, now it is 900€/year for same. I feel they used all the money to build expensive internet sites where they give away the content the subscribers pay for. That is why they have to raise the price for my paper. People online feel they can have it all for free.

I subscribed to the Guardian online additionally for only 75€/year, roughly the price of my paper online per quarter ...

I do not understand all of this.

[Fons Baerken]

June 1

Started with temps on the rise,

need a waterpistol to cure the heat.



D850, 28-300/3.5-5.6vr

"Objet trouve"