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thebravecowboy
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banana-jammin' in tennis shoes
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yep, the focus is all f*#ky. I was in a rush and the animal just did not stop but for this one image, and I missed it. Still love this photo though, the different hues in the rock.
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thebravecowboy
climber
banana-jammin' in tennis shoes
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that monochromatic one grabs me the most, man, but I can see why you did what you did in the first case.
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Jim- I like the first image. It could be a bit brighter so you can see the cliffs, but they still look dark and the peak is a little brighter too. Expose the cliffs the way you want them and then use the highlights to adjust the peak.
The white balance is spot on, and the framing is awesome.
A gradient filter in lightroom would help you accomplish this task very easily.
The mono one is awesome. I would bring down the highlights a bit to combat the glare of the peak.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 7, 2015 - 09:35pm PT
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I was all excited to say I was using Manual mode, then I just double checked the exposure mode and.. wah wah wah
some exif fwiw...
f/5.6
220.0 mm
1/500
200
btw, shooting in raw is a pain in the ass. Everything renders slower. Imports and Exports take forever, even less than 80 pics.
Recommendation on how to prevent the color wash out on the top of the flower?
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this just in
climber
Justin Ross from North Fork
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Awesome shot Munge. Like the foxtails on the right side to keep my eye moving.
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Mungeclimber
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 7, 2015 - 10:45pm PT
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Thx, the foxtail was a bonus plant. lol
Jim, I haven't done any post on it. Will try that.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 7, 2015 - 10:50pm PT
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doesn't make much difference until it starts to darken the image up too much.
Feels like it was right on the edge of the multipoint focus in AF. The Foxtail got part and the bottom edge of the poppy got part, but the petal in back got hosed. lol
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Munge- I love the depth of field you accomplished with the zoom.
 the focus is on the foxtails on the right of the image and the flower is slightly out of focus. Was that your intention?
To achieve optimum sharpness at 220mm and f5.6 you would have to be 3798 feet away from the flower. How far away were you from it?
Remember the smaller the aperture the closer the focus, but smaller apertures are more prone to diffraction which causes noise in digital images. (F4=big f32= small)
The key is finding the balance point, and the easiest way to do that is shoot the same shot at many different apertures.
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/focus.htm
Maybe try a sharpen filter to bring out that back petal a little more.
Yes, raw can be a pain to import. If you're not using the raw functionality in lightroom, it may not be worth it. But you did say you want to up your game? ;) you could shoot raw+jpg and just save the raw images straight to hard drive for later when you are going to use them.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 8, 2015 - 09:02pm PT
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Was that your intention?
How far away were you from it?
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/focus.htm
Yes, raw can be a pain to import. If you're not using the raw functionality in lightroom, it may not be worth it. But you did say you want to up your game? ;) you could shoot raw+jpg and just save the raw images straight to hard drive for later when you are going to use them.
Nope. :) Mostly too lazy to put the other lens on. I started with some shots 30 feet back, then kept moving around depending on where my shadow would sit as the sun was going down.
I think in that shot, maybe 8' or so away.
Will check the link, thx Big Mike!
I just switched to 'raw+jpeg fine' tonight. That's the plan now. At least until I run out of space.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Mostly too lazy to put the other lens on.
what lens was that?
my zoom pretty much sits at home, I don't even bring it... instead I use primes, and especially for flowers.
taken with my FujiFilm S-5Pro DX
55 mm Nikon macro
f8 1/80s ISO 100
shot on a tripod, using a remote trigger and the "mirror up" mode
some mild photoshop to bring up the dark areas and lower the highlights
this is a .jpg made from a .tif developed from the .raw file, apparently the color profile on STForum doesn't match my monitor, etc...
this was gardening blog pornography for Debbie...
I was hoping to get a slightly better image in the drops... here's a 100% crop of the lower drop
I might have had to use a smaller aperture though
I use the on board focus indicator (this is a manual focus lens)
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 9, 2015 - 09:18am PT
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Curious, Ed. I use the 55-300 the most. I could have used the 18-55.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 11, 2015 - 01:10pm PT
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Going thru some older photos I found some Point and Shoots I liked. All AF mode, but composition seemed worthwhile to me.
The grass and brown leaves shot seems pretty good. No saturation that I recall.
The second pic is good, but I had to crop it pretty hard, so it looses something in terms of getting more field of view.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 18, 2015 - 11:22pm PT
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Tonight I used AF, but was playing with where I was putting the focal point of the AF's focus.
While I intentionally got what I want focused on, the composition seems muddled. Partly the subject matter? Maybe I could crop it, but then the light coming through from a horizontal access might be lost?
Where would you crop it?
Different lens?
ƒ/6.3
142.5 mm
1/640
200
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Mar 18, 2015 - 11:47pm PT
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you might think through what you were trying to capture...
here's a flower shot that worked out (almost, the upper right corner has a distraction), late morning light with a dark background
I've been trying to shoot the riot of blossoms on our plum tree for years and haven't gotten the sense of what I'm seeing in a good image yet...
lots of blossoms... a wider lens perhaps, where you have a close in blossom in focus and also capture the other blossoms too
not quite close enough here
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 23, 2015 - 06:53pm PT
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wider lens perhaps, where you have a close in blossom in focus and also capture the other blossoms too
Ed, yeah, in my image, I'm shooting up into the trees for the white blossoms shots.
I wonder if it might be one of those impossible shots.
Impossible shots are real! I.e. a particular subject matter, that just doesn't get the light in the way that you want it. And never will because the sun doesn't rotate the earth (KIDDING!) in the right orbit.
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
extraordinaire
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Mar 23, 2015 - 10:10pm PT
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the upper right corner has a distraction Plenty of room to crop that.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Topic Author's Reply - May 28, 2015 - 10:57am PT
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New thought on photography, it is all about
Places
People
Patterns
Composition
the first three being categories of subject matter, the last being placement of the first three in the frame view.
Call it a philosophy.
In other news, doing some limited course work in photography over the next couple weeks. Shot a really nice overhanging colorful crack system. Hoping to make it more visible soon. Shot some waterfall shots, loaded those to the waterfall thread. Very excited.
Thimble Berry
CR Mungie (
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 5, 2015 - 08:19pm PT
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Used the long exposure noise reduction setting, manual focus to infinity.
Made the mistake of shooting most with aperture priority mode.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 30, 2015 - 02:34pm PT
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Been leveraging manual focus way more, but still not dialing in fstop, etc. So still learning, but creeping along.
Had a tremendously great opportunity to chat with Jerry Dodrill recently and it got me stoked to keep at it. So much to learn, so little time.
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Vitaliy M.
Mountain climber
San Francisco
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Oct 30, 2015 - 08:53pm PT
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