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Rive · Aug 8, 2022

Rive said:

Ps.: lesson: never leave your gear at home - otherwise all you will have for a good theme is just your phone

And just did it again :doh:

Night photo of a bright round street lamp on a pole, with a dense swarm of small flying insects lit up around it against a dark sky.

Yesterday was the mating 'season' (~ a single night) for river mayfly.

DennisN · Aug 10, 2022

Some test shots of nature's own weird little lenses, raindrops.

(by the way, notice how tiny the depth of field is here, since just one drop in each photo is in focus. I estimate the depth of field to be less than a cm

.)

Close-up photo of water droplets hanging from a thin brown stem above green grass blades, with one drop in sharp focus showing a reflection and the rest blurred.

Close-up photo of water droplets hanging from a green grass blade, with a white leaf in the foreground and a shallow depth of field blurring the background.

Close-up photo of water droplets clinging to a thin brown stem and green grass blades, with a sharp focus on one droplet that reflects the blurred background.

(taken with Canon nFD 50mm Macro)

Point Conception · Aug 10, 2022

A white egret standing on a dark wooden post at the edge of the sea, beside large orange floating barrier blocks, with a yellow boat and a white boat on the horizon.

Point Conception · Aug 12, 2022

Removing lint from her dress with the masking tape around the hand trick. From my dress blues days US Coast Guard.

A woman in a dark sleeveless top sits on a wooden chair on a blue-tiled balcony, with a white bandage wrapped around one hand and a plate of food on a pink table beside her.

A woman in a dark sleeveless dress sits on a wooden chair at a blue-walled balcony table, with a bandaged hand held up and a plate of partly eaten food with a fork in front of her.

pinball1970 · Aug 12, 2022

DennisN said:

Some test shots of nature's own weird little lenses, raindrops.

(by the way, notice how tiny the depth of field is here, since just one drop in each photo is in focus. I estimate the depth of field to be less than a cm .)

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(taken with Canon nFD 50mm Macro)

Beautiful Dennis, lensing is important, short distance and longer!

Point Conception · Aug 14, 2022

1600 afternoon sun on this nice ornamental balcony

Two stacked balconies with ornate wrought-iron railings in black, decorated with gold-painted scrollwork and floral motifs, against pink and white walls and a window with curtains.

Swamp Thing · Aug 14, 2022

morrobay said:

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Yaowarat Rd. the main street in Bangkok Chinatown. Quite a polarized population here: The wealthy educated Chinese Thais centered in Bangkok: doctors ... And then the upcountry Lao Thais in the farming populations.

Is 1989 CE equal to 2532 in the Thai (Chinese?) calendar?

DennisN · Aug 18, 2022

Spider, spider in the web, tell me what will keep you fed...

Silhouette of a spider in the centre of its web, backlit by a bright light behind it, with the surrounding web strands faintly visible against a dark background.

Spider sitting in the centre of an orb web at night, backlit by a bright light behind the web, with glowing strands and blurred yellow lights in the background.

Andy Resnick · Aug 21, 2022

Just got back from vacation, I took along my 55mm micro nikkor to see what it could do. A lot, as it happens- this lens is something special- this guy gets it. Here's 1:1 reproduction ratio (100% crops)images of sand and a robber fly, and a 200% crop of beach grass (also 1:1 reproduction ratio).

Close-up macro photo of beach sand grains, mostly translucent white and clear quartz with some yellowish-tan, reddish-brown and dark black grains scattered among them.

Extreme close-up of a robber fly's head showing two large brown compound eyes, bristly white hairs on the face, and a dark curved antenna.

Extreme close-up of a textured surface with fine parallel dark streaks running diagonally across golden, sparkly grains, likely sand or grass.

And it's great as a regular ol' normal lens:

A white-tailed deer buck with small antlers stands in tall grass with seed heads, looking toward the camera with its mouth open.

Took some great astrophotography images as well, but those are for a different thread...

DennisN · Aug 22, 2022

Andy Resnick said:

Just got back from vacation, I took along my 55mm micro nikkor to see what it could do.

All cool photos, but the eye of the fly is remarkably cool, I think!

DennisN · Aug 22, 2022

Here are three recent close-ups of a Eurasian jackdaw. There's a man I've met in the park before who has been feeding them for a long time, so they are very used to him. Because of this, they are very calm and I can get quite close to them.

(though I think the photos are not as sharp as they could be; when I got home and examined them, I think I got a little bit too close with my Sony 55-210mm which has a minimum focus distance of ca 1 m. I probably got too excited and forgot about that when I was shooting

. Well, a lesson learned.)

Close-up of a Eurasian jackdaw with grey nape, dark head and pale grey eyes, facing the camera against a soft green blurred background.

And here's a night scene from a nice location in the city.

Night view across a calm river of illuminated modern buildings and a tall tower, with their lights reflected in the water and dark trees and grass along the near bank.

(a stitched panorama of photos taken with a Canon nFD 50mm f/1.4)

Jonathan Scott · Aug 22, 2022

DennisN said:

And here's a night scene from a nice location in the city.

Hovrättstorget. I wish we had scenes like that around here!

DennisN · Aug 22, 2022

Jonathan Scott said:

Hovrättstorget.

Correct!

Point Conception · Aug 23, 2022

Silhouetted figure of a person with long hair standing in a narrow, dimly lit hallway with a patterned mat on the floor, reaching toward a door frame.

Sideshow

Ibix · Aug 26, 2022

Four weeks ago the council laid new tarmac on a path near our house.

Small green seedling with broad leaves growing through a crack in dark asphalt road surface.

Point Conception · Aug 27, 2022

1825, 13 N, 100 E.

Silhouetted boats and a dark shoreline in front of a bright sun setting over water, with orange and grey clouds in the sky.

Point Conception · Aug 27, 2022

The hall effect

Dim interior hallway seen through a doorway, with a patterned red and dark fabric hanging on the left, dark floor mats, a curtain and a black refrigerator on the right, and a bright opening at the far end.

Point Conception · Aug 28, 2022

What a difference half a day made

City skyline of tall high-rise towers and low hotel buildings behind a sandy beach and calm water, under blue sky with white cumulus clouds.

Photo taken through a rain-streaked window of a grey, overcast sky over a hazy sea, with rooftops and a wooden pier in the foreground.

Point Conception · Aug 30, 2022

From about 20 degrees phone rotation

Sunset over a harbour, with the low sun glowing through thin cloud above a silhouetted shoreline, buildings and boats in the foreground.

Sunset over a harbour with the sun low and glowing behind a hazy sky, silhouetting a headland with buildings and a church spire, and moored boats in the foreground.

Point Conception · Aug 30, 2022

And about twenty minutes later

Silhouetted boats and a distant shoreline with buildings and a tower under a vivid orange and red sunset sky, with the sea reflecting the glow.

pinball1970 · Aug 31, 2022

Bridgewater Hall.

A large piece of art in the shape of a pebble outside.

Ishinki Touchstone by Japanese sculpture Kan Yasuda.

Point Conception · Aug 31, 2022

And sunrise from the front.

Sunrise seen through a silhouetted porch with beaded hanging strings in the foreground, a low sun glowing behind a lattice fence and wispy clouds in an orange-grey sky.

DennisN · Aug 31, 2022

A nice place at one of the canals in the city:

Calm, dark-green canal lined with large leafy trees under bright sky, with their reflections rippling across the still water.

(stitched panorama, lens: Canon nFD 50mm f/3.5 Macro)

pinball1970 · Sep 1, 2022

DennisN said:

A nice place at one of the canals in the city:

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(stitched panorama, lens: Canon nFD 50mm f/3.5 Macro)

That's a lot of green! Amazing.

BillTre · Sep 1, 2022

Here is one from National Geographic:

Close-up photo of an Orchis italica orchid with white and purple petals whose shape resembles a small naked human figure with outstretched arms and legs. Caption reads: Naked Man Orchid.

Point Conception · Sep 5, 2022

Close-up of a dense grid of hollow wooden dowel ends or tubes mounted on metal rods, with dark gaps between them and green foliage visible through the openings in the lower centre.

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Point Conception · Sep 5, 2022

Silhouetted city skyline and boats on water at sunset, with a glowing orange sun and golden clouds in the sky.

DennisN · Sep 5, 2022

epenguin said:

And I'll give you some Copenhagen too.

DennisN said:

I'm actually thinking of going back to Copenhagen soon, and bring a bike with me on the train and then bike around in the city to places I haven't been to.

I was in Copenhagen a couple of days ago and had a great photo tour, it was very fun!
I've decided I will soon return to the city since there are many more places there I'd like to visit.

I didn't bring my bike, I used their subway instead. I hadn't been on it before, and it was simply darn excellent (the best I've ever been on)! Quite good prices with their "Citypass", no human drivers, the trains are quite comfortable and they go every five minutes or so. Also, the passengers on the stations are completely closed off from the rails; there are big plastic (?) walls between the platforms and rails, which have small doors which open when the train has arrived and is stationary.

However, I did not go to the Little Mermaid (I had bigger fish to fry

).
Actually the reason was that it was late (almost midnight) and the park pathway to it was darn dark, and I did not feel like going into that dark park with my camera gear.

Here are some photos from my recent tour (including a nice science surprise at the end

):

The very nice 17th-century waterfront Nyhavn:

Canal lined with colourful gabled townhouses under a blue sky, with a white river cruise boat on the left and a wooden sailing ship with masts on the right.

Another shot:

Waterfront row of colourful multi-storey townhouses in yellow, red, blue, and green along a canal, with a sign reading NYHAVN 17 and moored wooden sailing ships.

And I went back to Nyhavn later when it was dark:

Night view of a canal lined with brightly lit 17th-century waterfront buildings and moored wooden boats, their lights reflected in the still water.

And here's a place I hadn't been to before , the "Marble Church", a beautiful rococo church:

The Marble Church (Frederik's Church) in Copenhagen under a blue sky with clouds, its green copper dome topped by a lantern and spire, with the inscription HERRENS ORD BLIVER EVINDELIG above the entrance.

After that I went to the Niels Bohr Institute, which has both a historical and scientific significance:

Exterior of the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen: a cream-coloured building with a red-tiled roof and rows of windows, beside a grassy courtyard, with a sign reading NBI Collider Core on the left.

Wikipedia said:

The institute was founded in 1921, as the Institute for Theoretical Physics of the University of Copenhagen, by the Danish theoretical physicist Niels Bohr, who had been on the staff of the University of Copenhagen since 1914, and who had been lobbying for its creation since his appointment as professor in 1916.

Since this is Physics Forums I suppose most readers in this thread know who this Bohr guy was.

(if not, you can go e.g. here)

And last, here's the nice science surprise...

After I shot the institute I had dinner at a very nice Italian restaurant right across the street.
When I was done eating I went out again and noticed that it had gotten darker, and that there was some kind of light show being projected onto the Niels Bohr Institute.

Just for fun I shot a video clip of it, and later I read this sign at the institute:

Information board for the NBI Colliderscope light artwork at the Niels Bohr Institute, with a night photo of the building facade lit by projected dots and a diagram of the ATLAS detector.

I don't know if the info text is readable on your screens, but the light show installation is called "NBI Colliderscope" and it is directly connected to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The lights that are projected are reproduced from the latest data from particle collisions.
That's a pretty cool and unusual idea, I think.

Here's the short video clip I shot of the NBI Colliderscope:

I will post some more photos from Copenhagen later in this thread.

(for instance, I did a special shoot at the 17th-century observatory Rundetaarn at night with stars in the sky in the background, but I have to process/edit it first

)

Point Conception · Sep 5, 2022

Amazing crystal clear resolution in top photo of Nyhavn

DennisN · Sep 6, 2022

morrobay said:

Amazing crystal clear resolution in top photo of Nyhavn

I used a polarizing filter (CPL) in front of the lens which can help bring out details, particularly on scenes like that one. If I didn't use the filter e.g. the sky (and probably the water, I think) would have less detail.

It's also a stitched photo of 15 individual 24 megapixel photos taken at different angles, and in the stitching process it could be rendered into max ca 72 megapixels (10814 x 6731). But I resized it and uploaded it as ca 14 megapixel. Also photos posted on the forum get a bit blurrier (due to forum software resizing perhaps?). Here's a less blurry version on my flickr.

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