PF Photography: Tips, Tricks, & Photo Sharing

[Borek]

Foggy night here.

 

[tribdog]

I hate it when they build houses on old burial grounds.

 

[lisab]

For the past couple of years, I layered my desk with papers loaded with cryptic notes with NGC numbers, ESO designations, Arp and A-M catalog designations. The layers would make no sense to anybody but me, because I knew what kinds of galaxy interactions I was cataloging and why I singled some of these out. The first time my wife cleaned my desk, I probably lost 7-8 of my 9 lives. After that, we came to some sort of agreement.

And the agreement probably went something like this, I bet:

turbo: Don't touch my stuff.
Mrs turbo: I agree.

 

[tribdog]

And the agreement probably went something like this, I bet:

turbo: Don't touch my stuff.
Mrs turbo: I agree.

Exact opposite I'd bet.

 

[larkspur]

Foggy night here.

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That certainly is spooky looking Borek. Nice color too.

 

[Borek]

Thank you. Color is more or less accidental (sodium or iodine lamps to the left and to the right), but getting streak of light required some tinkering. Such fog happens here several times a year, there are a large meadows close by (although there are more and more houses built there).

 

[edward]

Foggy night here.

Great picture. I can almost hear the wolves howling in the background...well maybe just an owl hooting.

 

[Borek]

 

[neutrino]

That is one of the domes of the 151 year old building of the University of Madras. The Centenary Building of which this dome is a part was restored last year, as part of the celebrations of the 150th year.

The type of architecture you see here is known as Indo-Saracenic. This incorporates styles from the British/Europe and those native to India, especially that of the Mughals. All the major cities in India which were places of importance during the time of the Raj have buildings in this style.

 

[matthyaouw]

Nice shots Borek. I love the spooky feel of the foggy night one.

 

[neutrino]

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I call this Red October. But it was photographed in September.

 

[matthyaouw]

That's a great shot, Neutrino.


This morning I payed the fair a visit, way way before anything was open.

Messed up some of the highlights, but oh well, live and learn.

 

[Andre]

I returned my 70-300mm lens to the retailer today.

Although I've able to make and post many nice crystal crisp pictures, like the flying buzzard, I had many more blurred failures. Sure enough one blames it on motion blur, unsuitable center area for focussing etc but occasional it showed crisp areas close to the real (auto) focus point.

So I decided to test the problem comprehensively and I made a simple test frame on the computer and made many shots from the monitor at an oblique angle

This was the typical result all the time

The center focus point (green crop) blurred while the area slightly closer to the camera (red crop) was exceptionally crisp. Note that -for comparison- the kit lens focussed exactly right all the time. I think I could not accept that the focal point is not within the depth of field at open aperture and hence I made my problem the problem of the retailer.

 

[Borek]

Good catch, got to remember this one.

 

[turbo]

Very innovative, Andre. I've been so impressed by the quality of my Canon gear that I've never bothered to try to locate my old test-chart. Back when I was burning a lot of film with my Olympus 35 mm gear and Bronica ETRs, I gave all the lenses a real thorough going-over.

 

[TFM]

Hi,

I have to say, I have seen lots of great pictures in this thread.

Here is a shot I took over the summer of the great ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2, soon to be a hotel

TFM

 

[edward]

Hi,

I have to say, I have seen lots of great pictures in this thread.

Here is a shot I took over the summer of the great ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2, soon to be a hotel

TFM

That is a great picture TFM. It is almost as if the dark clouds are signaling the end of the QE2 as a passenger ship.

 

[turbo]

Hi,

I have to say, I have seen lots of great pictures in this thread.

Here is a shot I took over the summer of the great ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2, soon to be a hotel

TFM

I like the dark sky, too. It's a nice contrast to the whiteness of the upper decks.

 

[Andre]

This morning. A typical autumn view here.

 

[Borek]

And it is smiling!

 

[turbo]

Beautiful lighting, Andre.

 

[matthyaouw]

Beautiful shot andre. It does look like it's smiling!

 

[Andre]

Thanks all, should I become contest coordinator, then the first subject is going to be "smile".

 

[edward]

Wow that is one terrific picture Andre.

 

[Evo]

Wow, crack spider! That's crazy Andre. Great shot!

 

[Andre]

Thank all,

I shot this view of the groundfog this morning at sunrise. Would anybody notice that there is something strange and very unusual in this picture?

 

[Andre]

Thank all,

I shot this view of the groundfog this morning at sunrise. Would anybody notice that there is something strange and very unusual in this picture?

Yoohoo, all you scientific observers, there is a significant meteorological contradiction in here. Nobody?

 

[lisab]

Yoohoo, all you scientific observers, there is a significant meteorological contradiction in here. Nobody?

So it's not that the houses look like they're the same color?

Hmmm...realize that you're looking at this picture with (insert large number here) years of pilot experience.

But I'll take a pathetic stab at this...are the conditions that cause ground fog different from the conditions that cause the poofy clouds above the fog?

 

[binzing]

Did Evo just say "crack spider"? LOL

Thats an awesome one...gah, i feel inferior on here.

 

[edward]

It looks like a TIL temperature inversion layer. ? IGTS Its going to snow.