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John Geerts

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Re: December 2020
« Reply #150 on: December 13, 2020, 20:04:24 »
Foggy Morning
Lovely minimal, with a great atmosphere.

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Re: December 2020
« Reply #151 on: December 13, 2020, 22:02:40 »
Dark street lonely walker. Valencia.

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Nice Paco, l like the atmosphere  :)

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Re: December 2020
« Reply #152 on: December 13, 2020, 22:03:39 »
Lovely minimal, with a great atmosphere.
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Re: December 2020
« Reply #153 on: December 14, 2020, 12:05:17 »
December 14

Santa fallen from the sky

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Santa Claus is not a Dutch tradition its foreign, we have sinterklaas, although christianized, has pagan roots and is about 3 wks earlier in the month. Also the character is quite different, for you astrologers sinterklaas is within the archer, santa falls at wintersolstice and so is waterhorse or goat. (sagittarius vs capricorn)!

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Re: December 2020
« Reply #154 on: December 14, 2020, 14:54:43 »
Sometimes, the graininess induced by high ISO (and inclement weather) is not that bad. In fact, for IR rendered as black-and-white, it can add to the overall image impact.




Taken with the AFS 24mm f/1.4 Nikkor and the B+w 093 IR filter on the PrimaLuce Z5, this scene reminds *me* eerily of the ancient psychothriller film "Pond of the Dead" which to my generation of Norwegians at least is very familiar. Fog hung almost to the ground and everything everywhere was dripping wet.

I would set the range of ISO for which noise is very acceptable to 100-1600, with possible excursions to 3200 ISO or even higher. Thus a camera not as ISO-compliant as the Z6/Z6.2, but more than sufficiently capable for most requirements.

Among Norwegian nature photographers, the ever-present occurrence of power lines along any inland water body is an insider joke. You can probably see the presence here is as expected, too. One tends not to see this issue during the actual shoot, but surely expects to see the "law" in action later on during image processing.


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Re: December 2020
« Reply #155 on: December 14, 2020, 15:41:49 »
Nice one. Your IR shots combine high sharpness in the focus area with that "glowy / fuzzy" look that was the trademark of IR in film times - not enough glow to pass for film IR, but the atmosphere gets nearer.

You should encourage software editors to create a poser-line-removal plugin, I guess. These are easily detected.
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Re: December 2020
« Reply #156 on: December 14, 2020, 16:09:04 »
Yes, we photographers are sure to detect those power lines -- however, later.

As the foreground structure is obviously man-made, I saw no reason to clone out those cables. In fact, they should always be visible if they exist within the frame just to remind us that "unspoilt" or "untouched" Nature is rare as hen's teeth. Even in my country only 11% of the area can be (dubiously) classified as "pristine" and that is a technical definition based upon the distance to the nearest road. Power lines don't count ....

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Re: December 2020
« Reply #157 on: December 14, 2020, 16:52:06 »
As the shopping cars of the supermarket  are now 'cleaned' inside, it's forbidden to park the cars outside...

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Re: December 2020
« Reply #158 on: December 14, 2020, 19:30:13 »
A few days ago passed away one of my most beloved ilustrators: Richard Corben. He gave me many hours of pleasure through his worlds and adventures, many memorable characters and a way of seeing action, sinuous and sensual lines, composition and an intense and bold use of color. Here is a little tribute.
 Rest in peace and thank you!

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Re: December 2020
« Reply #159 on: December 14, 2020, 23:23:49 »
Thank you Bent.

 John, how is tthe manual focusing of the 85mm 1.4D on the Z6? The 80-200 2.8D is pretty hard for me.

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Re: December 2020
« Reply #160 on: December 15, 2020, 07:22:23 »
John, how is the manual focusing of the 85mm 1.4D on the Z6? The 80-200 2.8D is pretty hard for me.
Not easy. It's doable like any other fast lens with the focus zoom in action, but it doesn't operate very quickly.  A pity actually.   My AF-S 80-200 works very fast on the Z6, can imagine that the D version also is hard working.

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Re: December 2020
« Reply #161 on: December 15, 2020, 09:43:30 »
Decorations

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Re: December 2020
« Reply #162 on: December 15, 2020, 16:21:02 »
The Lilypond suite is slowly coming to an end. Df, Helios 81N 50/2 @f/8
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Re: December 2020
« Reply #163 on: December 15, 2020, 20:51:44 »
We decorated our playground; X100V
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Re: December 2020
« Reply #164 on: December 15, 2020, 21:11:13 »
According to our government, this is an essential shop and needs to be open during the 'Lockdown'...

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