Stop what you're doing right now and take a photo

[bwana]

LOL, My Santa took a wrong turn at Albuquerque.

I am only getting it early January. I am counting the days. (They only have stock of the full kit with 24-105mm, ordered body only awaiting stock.)

Who's they? Are you buying locally?

 

[Rouxenator]

Sweet composition Krypty - and I love the square factor too.

 

[Krypty]

Who's they? Are you buying locally?

Yea, I am buying the body locally. With all the import duties etc I only save about R400 if I buy from B&H. I rather pay the few rands extra and get the warranty.

All the other stuff I am getting from B&H. Saving about R15 000.

Sweet composition Krypty - and I love the square factor too.

Thank you very much

Here is another one from the same day.
Tried a different crop on this one.

Canon 450D | 18-55mm | ISO 100 | F3.5 | 1/500s

 

[ToxicBunny]

Was buggering around outside just now and took these two.....

 

[Cube]

Here is another one from the same day.
Tried a different crop on this one.

Canon 450D | 18-55mm | ISO 100 | F3.5 | 1/500s

I like alot

 

[Rouxenator]

Sunset colours​

ISO 80 | f/3.5 | 1/15s ~ 1/3s | 28mm | Kodak Z1015​

 

[Land Locked]

Sunset colours​

ISO 80 | f/3.5 | 1/15s ~ 1/3s | 28mm | Kodak Z1015​

Very Pretty. Me being the pleb I am, is that HDR?

 

[Rouxenator]

Thanks

Yes, it is toned mapped from 3 images shot with bracketing mode set to +/- 1EV. What this resulted in is the camera taking 3 shots, one with a 1/15s exposure (-1EV), the second at 1/7s (0EV) and the last at 1/3s (+1EV). For tone mapping I used PhotomatrixPro 3. The only side effect of this is it seems to "generate" more chromatic aberration (purple fringes) and to begin with the Kodak's Schneider-Kreuznach lens is a fairly cheap one so there is plenty of that already.

 

[Krypty]

Canon 450D | 18-55mm | ISO 100 | F3.5 | 1/125s

 

[Rouxenator]

Deep man ! I love that. So crisp and cutting. I usually do that with my phone setting the contrast up a bit - but is not as detailed as yours - nice shot !

 

[Land Locked]

Thanks

Yes, it is toned mapped from 3 images shot with bracketing mode set to +/- 1EV. What this resulted in is the camera taking 3 shots, one with a 1/15s exposure (-1EV), the second at 1/7s (0EV) and the last at 1/3s (+1EV). For tone mapping I used PhotomatrixPro 3. The only side effect of this is it seems to "generate" more chromatic aberration (purple fringes) and to begin with the Kodak's Schneider-Kreuznach lens is a fairly cheap one so there is plenty of that already.

Thanks for the detailed reply.

 

[bwana]

Clearly not blue . . .

Effective 1600mm.

Even though it is.

 

[ldmelsa]

It looked huge earlier!

 

[Rouxenator]

Makes for an excellent comparison subject. Clearly your 500mm lens is far superior to my 420mm with 3.5x digital zoom

Bwana's Moon​	Rouxenator's Moon​
ISO 400 | f/6.2 | 1/400s | 500mm | Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi​	ISO 80 | f/5.5 | 1/400s | 420mm | 3.5x digital zoom | Kodak Z1015​

 

[Sting]

Makes for an excellent comparison subject. Clearly your 500mm lens is far superior to my 420mm with 3.5x digital zoom

Bwana's Moon​	Rouxenator's Moon​
ISO 400 | f/6.2 | 1/400s | 500mm | Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi​	ISO 80 | f/5.5 | 1/400s | 420mm | 3.5x digital zoom | Kodak Z1015​

Nice one, thanks. Open both and switch between the two quickly....

/less pollution in PE?

 

[Rouxenator]

Nope - just better glass & skills

 

[bwana]

Makes for an excellent comparison subject. Clearly your 500mm lens is far superior to my 420mm with 3.5x digital zoom

What the exif doesnt show is I used a 2x TC (of questionable quality) which bumped it to 1000mm - from there the crop factor helped it even further.

You might get better results cropping on the PC instead of using the digital zoom.

 

[swift412]

Me too me too!

Canon EOS 350D, EF 70-210mm f/3.5-4.5, f/8 @ 1/400sec, ISO 400
grayscale, 100% crop, quite a bit of sharpening in Photoshop

 

[bwana]

Nice one, thanks. Open both and switch between the two quickly....

/less pollution in PE?

There was a fair amount of haze here which seems to have cleared. http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/picture.php?albumid=585&pictureid=4572

 

[Rouxenator]

Thanks for the tip, but I did try cropping a few on the PC - not that great. The end result was shot at 2.2mp (3:2) and just downsized to 600x400. I'm not too upset with it - after all, the new Z980 with 24x zoom is going for R4000 these days so I guess my 15x Z1015 is worth R3000 - not a bad pic considering that.

Swift412 seems to be the winner so far in tonights "full moon shoot out"