BW Landscape

[Steaphany]

Robert,

I hope you don't mind a comment on the subject of eye safety.

If your like me, there are so many warnings on just about every product about proper safety precautions that they are immediately skipped, but your eyes are essential to creating and appreciating photographs.

When composing a shot with the Sun in view, the Lens and Camera's viewfinder optics act as a telescope collecting far more light than you eye can do alone, meaning Sun light from your camera's viewfinder can potentially damage your retina, especially since the lens iris is normally maximally open except when making an exposure.

Luckily, the SD14 has a Depth of Field Preview button which will reduce the iris opening allowing you to see the focused depth of field, but in the case of framing an image with the Sun in view also means less light reaching your eye.

 

[akv]

That's a good idea Steaphany, I never thought of that. Thanks!

And Robert as for my Vivitar, it's just a cheap plastic toy camera. It's set at f8 at 1/125th with a 22mm plastic lens. lol.

I'll include one of the better lens flare shots.

 

[jasonh]

akv you should fit that plastic lens on your sigma camera like I've seen people do with the Holgas

My eyes are pretty sensitive so when I'm outside I always have sunglasses with me. If I'm taking pictures into the direction of the sun, I'll generally keep them on when looking through the viewfinder.

 

[Robert.4507]

Hi Steaphany,

I don't mind at all, it is a good idea to be safety conscious. I had a bad experience once with the sun and a telephoto lens, when shooting eagles and tracking them. I unintentionally tracked across the sun when following the bird, it was an experience I do not ever want to repeat. Since then I have been overly cautious when shooting outside and the sun is out.

It would have been a good idea to bring this up sooner, since someone might see these pictures with the sun in them and then go try to shoot something similar.

I have used the DOF preview function in the past with these shots, however, from my previous unintentional experience from looking at the sun through the lens, I still tend to squint closed and sneak the sun into the composure.

Also, I use strong prescription glasses and the stock dioptic correction is not strong to go it alone. at some point I will upgrade to a stronger diopter. Nonetheless, I need to depend on the cameras auto focus system and prescription sunglasses I find too misleading to do a composure.

careful when shooting into the sun,

Robert

 

[Robert.4507]

AKV,

that is quite an effect for a plastic lens. thank you for sharing.

good luck with your pictures,


Robert

 

[tc95]

Nice shots...I like number...4 the best....I noticed you have two spot in the upper left hand corner...you can use the touch-up tool in PS or NX2 to correct that so it does not show up....

Keep it up..

Tony C.

 

[Robert.4507]

Hi Tony,

Thank you for the CC, I like number four too, that is the park that mother nature created, as opposed to the previous shots label as park 2).

The park 2) was a toxic fill that converted to a state park. Hopefully it will become beautiful as time passes. As it currently sit, it seems stark and barren.

As for the spots, I use Bibblelabs for raw processing. I am going to give it another go round to see if I can remove those. The first attempt did not work.

Robert

 

[Robert.4507]

When I tried to remove the speckles before the original posting, I am not certain why the attempt was unsuccessful. Probably operator error. Previously I remember copying the spot heal points and applying them to all photos in the folder, and running the correction as a batch job. Maybe that is what killed it. Today was success correcting one photo and I posted the results here:

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Today I also adjusted the tone curve and used the Andy plug in by Sean Pucket for Bibblelabs.

good luck with your pictures,

Robert