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Re: Some stuff from the weekend
Reply #75 on: October 10, 2011, 15:28:59 PM
And some more...


J499 by russellcram, on Flickr


Wooden Man by russellcram, on Flickr


Stars by russellcram, on Flickr

Not much photographically on the last one but I like it just because of the amount of stars you can see.
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Re: Some stuff from the weekend
Reply #76 on: October 10, 2011, 16:51:50 PM
The wooden man is amazing, quite a cool sculpture.

Is the star shot a single exposure? I remember reading somewhere about astrophotography and using an HDR-like technique and specialist freeware software to get better shots of the sky at night. I think the software compensates for the rotation/movement of the earth on long/multiple exposures, whilst combining the light from multiple shots to highlight the stars. I wat to give it a go when I'm on Brownsea island or somewhere without too much light interference.
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Re: Some stuff from the weekend
Reply #77 on: October 10, 2011, 17:29:09 PM
The sculpture was huge, its probably 2 stories high and a bit different!

Yeah its just a single exposure of 30 seconds, I can't remember how long it is but am sure that 30 seconds is close to the limit before you start to see star trails.  I can remember hearing about some piece of software like that, couldn't tell you what its called though!  Would be handy to find out what it is for future.

And light pollution sucks, I hardly see anything near me which is why I was quite suprised at how much I could see when I was in Jersey.  I need to go up to somewhere like Kielder, which isn't too far from me, and camp out overnight and get some decent photos, maybe next year.
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Re: Some stuff from the weekend
Reply #78 on: October 11, 2011, 09:13:37 AM
Yeah, I think one of the reasons for using the software is that rather than doing 1 long, potentially streaky shot, you take several shorter exposures to minimise/avoid the trails, then it aligns and combines the images for you. I think I read about it on DPS if that helps :D I think the example was 3x 8s shots.
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Re: Some stuff from the weekend
Reply #79 on: October 11, 2011, 13:06:32 PM
Quick google and found this one which is more aimed at combining  lots of exposures to create star trails photos which actually might be fun to try.

http://www.digital-photography-school.com/4-steps-to-creating-star-trails-photos-using-stacking-software

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Re: Some stuff from the weekend
Reply #80 on: October 18, 2011, 13:52:37 PM

Baltic Stairs by russellcram, on Flickr

Something a little different from me, took it back in August but have only just got round to editing it.  Can't say I've done much architecture stuff before but saw this done so thought I'd give it a go and I did a black and white conversion first which is the first in a while.

Must get out and get some more photos though, have hardly picked up my camera since I got back from Jersey at the begining of Sept!
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Re: Some stuff from the weekend
Reply #81 on: October 18, 2011, 14:25:13 PM
Who doesn't love a good stairwell photo? :) That's excellent, well done matey :ptu:
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Re: Some stuff from the weekend
Reply #82 on: October 18, 2011, 15:13:02 PM
Thanks, and aye can't beat a good stairwell photo, might bring my camera to work and take some stairwell photos here, might get a few funny looks though!
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Re: Some stuff from the weekend
Reply #83 on: October 30, 2011, 23:09:02 PM
And another one from me, woke up early this morning with the clocks going back so went down to the coast to try and grab some sunrise photos, got his one.


South Shields Sunrise by russellcram, on Flickr
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Re: Some stuff from the weekend
Reply #84 on: October 31, 2011, 14:20:07 PM
And another macro I did last night with a small cactus I bought over the weekend.


Cactus Macro by russellcram, on Flickr
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Re: Some stuff from the weekend
Reply #85 on: November 08, 2011, 13:51:22 PM

DSC_3298 by russellcram, on Flickr

Taken the same morning as my sunrise 2 posts back, it looks a bit soft out of the camera but I've put a but more sharpenning on it than normal and its come out looking alright.
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Re: Some stuff from the weekend
Reply #86 on: November 08, 2011, 18:45:12 PM
Nice clean shot mate
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Re: Some stuff from the weekend
Reply #87 on: November 15, 2011, 19:09:31 PM
Had a play with some water droplet photography over the last few days, got 1600 ish photos to go through, most of which I'll probably delete as they've got nothing in them but it'll take me a few days to go through.  Here's the first:


Splash by russellcram, on Flickr
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Re: Some stuff from the weekend
Reply #88 on: November 15, 2011, 21:42:43 PM
Wow, the focus is spot on. Are you using strobes/external flashes I presume?
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Re: Some stuff from the weekend
Reply #89 on: November 15, 2011, 21:46:49 PM
Aye the focus is just right, which is a relief as I was using my 18-200 which I've had some focusing issues with on the D7000.  There's one flash on the left hand side I think (kept on moving it around so not 100% sure), its only a cheapo Jessops 360afd which I got for £25 on ebay, but it seems to do the job.  Some of the more expensive flashes can go to 1/32 or 1/64 power which is better where as this one can only do 1/16 power.  Also used a wireless flash trigger which I got last week, makes this sort of thing soo much easier!
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