Random Photos

[collinsmark]

Also photos posted on the forum get a bit blurrier (due to forum software resizing perhaps?).

Yeah, It's my experience that PF will automatically resize any photo to have a maximum width of 800 pixels, and a maximum height of 620.

For that reason, when I post photos on PF I will typically resample them myself since my software can probably do a better job of resampling than PF's automatic routine. (I can resample first, and then compress to JPEG second. That alone will reduce artifacts.)

 

[Andy Resnick]

Went for a walk with the 55mm MicroNikkor- this lens is magic!

 

[DennisN]

Went for a walk with the 55mm MicroNikkor- this lens is magic!

Wonderful photos! All taken handheld, or?

 

[Andy Resnick]

Wonderful photos! All taken handheld, or?

Thanks!

Yes, all photos are handheld. Shutter speeds varied, but were generally faster than 1/200s (f/5.6 and auto ISO).

 

[Andy Resnick]

Today's visitor-

800mm f/8, 1/1000s auto ISO. handheld... (!)

 

[DennisN]

Here's the 17th-century observatory Rundetaarn in Copenhagen with stars in the background.

I knew it would be a challenge to shoot this, but it was even more tricky than I had imagined (I tried different approaches and this is the best photo from the session (it's only a single photo, i.e. no stacking)).

The tower is in the center of Copenhagen with a LOT of varied light pollution at the site, and it is also in a tightly packed neighborhood (so to say) which means there are not that many options of places to shoot from if you want to capture the entire tower. And the further you get from the tower, the more light sources (e.g street lamps) will interfere with the shoot.

But this challenge actually inspired me, so I will most likely return with other lenses and other plans.
(I used my basic Sony kit lens here; I had only two lenses in my bag, since I wanted to minimize weight).

 

[Ibix]

Somethin' weird, and it don't look good.

Never mind, the Dark Knight is on the case.

And we can probably undo the ghost anyway.

Flux capacitor is charging...

 

[morrobay]

That 1959 Cadillac is coming for me.

 

[morrobay]

Phone City

 

[DennisN]

A couple of wooden ships in Copenhagen.
I really like wooden ships, I think they're cool and beautiful.

Three smaller wooden ships anchored at Ofelia Beach:

A ship named "Thor Heyerdahl" anchored outside Ameliehaven:
(and the Copenhagen Opera House can also be seen to the left)

"Thor Heyerdahl" from another angle:

A beautiful ship named "Lilla Dan" leaving Ofelia Beach:

 

[epenguin]

DennisN..you said you liked... wooden ships... in Copenhagen...

 

[DennisN]

DennisN..you said you liked... wooden ships... in Copenhagen...

Very nice! Is that from Denmark?
(I would have guessed Norway myself).

I haven't seen a real Viking ship myself yet. It's about time for me, I think. :)

 

[epenguin]

Wherever from, some Viking ships went far. This is in a museum not actually in Copenhagen but 30 km from centre city ar Roskilde. There, I read, to protect Roskilde from an enemy attack from the sea five ships were sunk in the harbour entrance. I cannot at the moment bring back any memory of going out there, but must have done.

 

[DennisN]

This is in a museum not actually in Copenhagen but 30 km from centre city ar Roskilde

I've been to Roskilde many times but didn't know there was a ship there. (I've been to quite a few of their big music festivals (Roskilde festival)).

 

[pinball1970]

I've been to Roskilde many times but didn't know there was a ship there. (I've been to quite a few of their big music festivals (Roskilde festival)).

York used to have a Viking festival, really good fun and celebrated the city History. When it went dark, they sent a Viking boat out to the River Ouse and lit it with arrows from the shore.
Pretty spectacular, beautiful.
All the students dressed up and we all had fun too.
Edit. It is still going. https://jorvikvikingfestival.co.uk/

 

[DennisN]

Two autumn shots:

 

[morrobay]

Macy's Thanksgiving parade along West side of Central Park. Originals from film prints and photed with Xiaomi Redmi 9a

 

[morrobay]

And automn at latitude N 13

 

[BillTre]

This is picture that a friend took of half of a stairway somewhere near Portland, Oregon.

Chainsaw construction.

 

[morrobay]

Nice composition and color but sure shows phone camera limitations on this moonset. Xiaomi Redmi 9A

 

[pinball1970]

There is a cool Evolution Chicken Dinosaur T shirt on here somewhere. I took this.

 

[Ibix]

That's awesome (off to Google, I need new tshirts anyway...)

 

[jtbell]

Holy Schnitzel, Batman! It's that time of year again... bring out the beer steins and the oompah bands!

Historical note: South Carolina had a large number of Swiss and German settlers in the mid 1700s, in the former Saxe-Gotha Township (now Lexington County) just west of Columbia, and the Dutch Fork to the northwest, between the Broad and Saluda Rivers.

The main remnants of German culture in these areas today are German family and road names, and many small Lutheran churches, some of which I pass as I drive through the Dutch Fork on my way to Columbia.

 

[BadgerBadger92]

bird in shadow

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This is very good. Nice contrast and an interesting subject. Gives off a bleak feeling.

 

[BadgerBadger92]

I’m sorry if I posted these before, I don’t remember if I did. What do you think of these shots? Click on the photos to see them better.

 

[Rive]

road

Tanking through...

 

[epenguin]

That second one, Rive, could be further improved by some colour etc. manipulation by someone who knows how.

 

[Rive]

There was plenty of potential in that dirt road... Sadly, we had only a compact at hand, and also: we were running to catch the bus and had only a minute to shoot some random photos

As the raw material is, I think manipulation would only make it manipulated, but not really better

Also - I don't really know the how

 

[DennisN]

Some random photos from August this year...

A bumblebee on an orange flower:

A butterfly (Large white/Pieris brassicae):

A fly sitting on a stone:

And last, a fly out of focus . This could have a become a nice shot if I had been a bit faster.
Regretfully the fly took off before I got a second chance.

 

[morrobay]

Alone Together. By the way that is lavender table under blue light overhead.

 

[Rive]

The Morning Face... A shot so bad it's good

Basking in the sun

 

[DaveC426913]

I am super chuffed to be able to say I have my photos hanging in - not one, but two (2) - installations this month.

One is an adjudicated exhibit in my local Civic Hall, the other is simply the Great Room at my yacht club. (Still counts tho.)

Here's just a couple. These are photographs; not paintings or CGI.

 

[morrobay]

@DaveC426913 are these all applied acrylic or oil paint and how did you get the waves ?

 

[DaveC426913]

@DaveC426913 are these all applied acrylic or oil paint and how did you get the waves ?

These are photographs; not paintings or CGI.

They've been enhanced, cleaned up and cropped, but they're actual photos.

Here are a couple of the raw photos.

 

[morrobay]

Ok but photographs of what ? Then computer generated

 

[DaveC426913]

Ok but photographs of what ? Then computer generated

Oh. The collection is called Waterscapes. (Or maybe Lagoonscapes, haven't decided.)
These are all pics of the reflections of boats at my yacht club.

 

[Andy Resnick]

Oh. The collection is called Waterscapes. (Or maybe Lagoonscapes, haven't decided.)
These are all pics of the reflections of boats at my yacht club.

Heh... should we refer to you as Lil' Yachty? (great photos, btw!)

 

[DaveC426913]

Then computer generated

Noooooo.
Post 784 contains several of the raw photos - taken right off my camera - to show you the final pics are taken right from the originals.

 

[berkeman]

These are all pics of the reflections of boats at my yacht club.

Very nice and creative, Dave.

 

[DaveC426913]

Very nice and creative, Dave.

I'm finding it very interesting how much difficulty I'm having convincing people that they're not manipulated. I've got several hanging in an art show, and I think I may have to provide a (what's the opposite of a caveat? ).

 

[berkeman]

I think I may have to provide a (what's the opposite of a caveat? ).

Do the hanging ones have titles? Unless the viewers know that they involve reflections of colorful boats on the ripples, they could assume that the colors were artificially introduced.

 

[morrobay]

 

[jtbell]

While I was out walking yesterday, I came across the high school's homecoming parade all lined up, ready to start. I stopped and watched as it passed through the college on its way to the high school about a mile away.

The college has its own homecoming next weekend.

 

[morrobay]

From the Northerly side

 

[morrobay]

Some phone photos of film prints: Catalina Island , Similan Islands and Cha-am beach, Thailand

 

[Andy Resnick]

Some recent fall photos from a couple of walks:

(you can just barely see the reflected stars)

 

[BadgerBadger92]

Some recent fall photos from a couple of walks:

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(you can just barely see the reflected stars)

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I like the first one! A great usage of the Fibonacci Spiral

 

[DennisN]

These are photographs; not paintings or CGI.

Gorgeous photos with lovely colors! And very creative!

This reminded me of something similar I did by chance maybe a year ago. I was filming a pond and decided to lower the camera to film the small waves in the pond, and it suddenly made me quite excited. It felt a bit like I looked at an impressionist painting which was in motion instead of static.

I'll see if I can find the clip, and if so I will post it here later.

 

[Swamp Thing]

I like the first one! A great usage of the Fibonacci Spiral

https://www.science.org/content/art...ase, the telltale,large sunflowers—89 and 144.

Over the past 4 years, members of the public have been growing their own sunflowers and submitting photographs and counts of the spiral patterns. After verifying the counts from 657 flowers, a more realistic picture of sunflowers is emerging. A study published today in Royal Society Open Science reports that nearly one in five of the flowers had either non-Fibonacci spiraling patterns or patterns more complicated than has ever been reported, including near-Fibonacci sequences and other mathematical patterns that compete and clash across the flower's face.

 

[DennisN]

Autumn color palette (taken a couple of days ago):

Lens used: Canon nFD 50mm f/1.4 (which can give heart-meltingly warm colors )