Your Photo of the Week

[Jeffrey]

‘Prancer’. Goleta, CA this week. A1-2, 200-600, 1.4x.

 

[alexpler]

‘Prancer’. Goleta, CA this week. A1-2, 200-600, 1.4x.

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Fabulous shot. You can feel proud of your catch. Probably your shot of the month, not only the week!

 

[Jeffrey]

Fabulous shot. You can feel proud of your catch. Probably your shot of the month, not only the week!

Thanks so much for the kind words Alex. Really appreciate you taking a look and being supportive. This one still makes me smile (whether I took it or not!)

 

[Richard A]

This is just a quick and dirty first try composite from my efforts the other night attempting to capture the Full Lunar Eclipse. I will refine this and do a version with a foreground over the next week or so. The weather reports weren't good, as far as cloud cover went, so I was thinking I may not bother with it. The afternoon ended up being sunny and warmish with only the odd cloud here and there. I got my gear ready just in case. Sunset was just before 6:30 and after that I was checking the sky every half hour. Just around midnight I decided I would give it a go so I made some coffee and some sandwiches and headed off. So anyway, long story short, I had to brave the cold, the wind, a heavy dew, sea spray (the sea was quite rough and the tide was coming in fast) and quite a bit of cloud just after the full eclipse. Anyway, I'm pretty happy with this first attempt.

Just realised that this is my one thousandth post as well!

 

[evacguy]

This is just a quick and dirty first try composite from my efforts the other night attempting to capture the Full Lunar Eclipse. I will refine this and do a version with a foreground over the next week or so. The weather reports weren't good, as far as cloud cover went, so I was thinking I may not bother with it. The afternoon ended up being sunny and warmish with only the odd cloud here and there. I got my gear ready just in case. Sunset was just before 6:30 and after that I was checking the sky every half hour. Just around midnight I decided I would give it a go so I made some coffee and some sandwiches and headed off. So anyway, long story short, I had to brave the cold, the wind, a heavy dew, sea spray (the sea was quite rough and the tide was coming in fast) and quite a bit of cloud just after the full eclipse. Anyway, I'm pretty happy with this first attempt.

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Just realised that this is my one thousandth post as well!

Hi Richard, that is a fatastic sequence. Do you mind explaining how you took the pictures and how did you do the post processing.

 

[Uncle Kevriano]

‘Prancer’. Goleta, CA this week. A1-2, 200-600, 1.4x.

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Great image

 

[FowlersFreeTime]

Volunteered at a cat shelter to take photos of the fur balls to promote adoption, will make a thread soon enough, but this one of my friend and a friendly ginger really spoke to me.

• ILCE-6700
• Viltrox 25mm F1.7 E
• 25.0 mm
• ƒ/1.7
• 1/200 sec
• ISO 2500

 

[Richard A]

Hi Richard, that is a fatastic sequence. Do you mind explaining how you took the pictures and how did you do the post processing.

These were all taken on my A7R5 mounted on a tripod using my Tamron 50-400 @400mm. Aperture for all images was f8. I was in manual mode and all exposures were bracketed + and - 1 stop. The brighter shots were 1/250 f8 ISO 100. The middle one was 1 sec f8 ISO 3200. The four shots after the middle one were effected to various degrees by low cloud unfortunately. I had to manually focus the darker ones, which wasn't easy. I took 118 shots between 12:30 and 5:30. I was taking shots about every 15 minutes most of the time. All the timings I got from the website timeanddate.com were a bit out so take note of this in the future. I had to sort of make it up as I went along for a while there.

Once I got all these on the computer I decided on a row of nine images. I picked out the best images for each end and the middle one and then went through to pick the in-between ones. I loaded the nine images into DxO PhotoLab just for noise reduction, lens distortion and sharpness correction. I did the rest of the processing in Adobe Camera Raw which really only consisted of White Balance, a bit of Exposure adjustment to try to get them all about the same, Texture and Clarity. I opened all the images in Photoshop and then created a black image the same pixel dimensions as my camera files. Photoshop's Guides are only vertical or horizontal so I used the Line tool to draw a diagonal line across the image on a seperate layer that I later turned off. I first of all copied onto there the first, last and middle images and lined them up just by eye. Then I copied the rest on in order. This is when I realised the images were a bit too large so I reduced them each down a bit and just arranged them by eye as best I could. Voilà...