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General Photography thread
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LamieRobertson
Not awoke
Lovely Spring sunshine yesterday and enjoyable walk at Pulborough Brooks
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Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
Beautiful! What equipment are you using?
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
I love the texture of the mountains in the foreground, almost smooth.
Armchair
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- Mar 3, 2009
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A Fuji XT5 and FX16-55 lens on this occasion. Wonderful cameras, I changed from Canon about 8 years ago.
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
Nice! I have a Fuji x-t1 and a Fuji x-t200. Both lovely cameras. I also use a Pentax K5 as I have a load of old Pentax prime lenses.
How do you find the x-t5? It's 40 mega pixels isn't it? I'd like that for cropping!
Armchair
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- Mar 3, 2009
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I’ve recently upgraded from an XT2 which is also a great camera. The quality of the images is amazing and you can easily crop to 40% without losing much. Have to have plenty of storage because of the file size though. My first SLR was a Pentax and I’ve still got a couple of film bodies and some lenses. I bought an adapter to use the Pentax lenses with the Fuji which works well.
Colonel Mustard
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- Jun 18, 2023
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If you have Lightroom, you could try dehaze to brink up the contours and contrasts in the sky. I suspect PhotoShop etc. has something similar. Mind you, if it’s a jpeg the picture may not have captured enough digital data to work with.
Colonel Mustard
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My first SLR was a Pentax K1000. Great camera to learn on. Everything was manual of course.
14,000! That's some going.
I've often wondered what I would have come back with after my year in Australia / New Zealand. I came back with hundreds of prints from my 36 frame reels, but was of course limited by this. So, photos were fewer and a bit more considered. No shooting 200 frames of a Galah to get the best one. Just took two and hoped one came out.
Good luck with the sorting and deleting!
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
I've also used an adapter for the Fujis with my vintage lenses with great success. I bought the Pentax K5 second hand, which is fairly old and lacks some features, but still takes fine pictures. It's nice not to bother with adapters and simply use the lens natively.
My first camera was a Zenith EM which I quickly upgraded to a Pentax ME Super when I was 16.
My first camera was a Zenith E in '78, followed by the afforementioned Pentax K1000 which I had to flog in Stockholm when I ran out of money, after that a Nikon EM which I had to flog in Spain when I again ran out of money. Then Contax RTS 2 (lovely camera) after that all medium format cameras Pentax 6x7, Mamiya RB 67, then the Bronica GS1 and then The Mamiya 7 ii (again beautiful camera) got so much travel work with it.
Finally, now I only have the superb Fujifilm x100v (eh CM) which I carry everywhere and The Sony A7R3a with F2.8 Sigma 24-70 zoom.
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14000 is seven weeks of taking pics all day every day, 1200 of those were in just one night. I had been given a press pass for the Carnival del Pais in Gualeguaychu in Argentina which meant I could stand on the corsodrome track as the 5 hour procession of dancers and floats came by. So much bare flesh, I'd post some on here but I think that they're probably NSFW.
What a job!14000 is seven weeks of taking pics all day every day, 1200 of those were in just one night. I had been given a press pass for the Carnival del Pais in Gualeguaychu in Argentina which meant I could stand on the corsodrome track as the 5 hour procession of dancers and floats came by. So much bare flesh, I'd post some on here but I think that they're probably NSFW.
Going back to what CM said earlier regarding the Lightroom tools for photo enhancement, here's an example, again the pic was taken in Rio looking the other way (some might recognise it from The James Bond film). This is only for the less experienced photogs on this thread, I don't mean to tell the more experienced how to suck eggs.
Anyway, the first example is straight out of the camera and the 2nd is after 3 or 4 mins using Lightroom tools including the dehaze tool. But as CM says, the image file must be a 'raw' file as this file will have all the digital data to work with. Final words, if you're serious, subscribe to Lightroom Classic, its brilliant
As you probably know, sometimes the reality doesn't match up Bodian.
Dave the OAP
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Nice. Did you see any storks?
we go to Knepp Park off the a24 and there are loads of them that nest there but feed in Pulborough brooks
Dave the OAP
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I was amazed how well this came out just from a bog standard iPhone 13 . Orion’s Belt from Capo Verde couple of months ago
For those of you who posted all those photos of far away cities such as Rome, Amsterdam and Marseille - this is what 'real' football is about. Grey skies, brooding fells, gloomy weather, pubs, and a Lowry-like procession 'Going to the Match'. Next time I go to Burnley I'll post some photos of some of the surrounding roads for you.
