• Members 1855 posts
    June 6, 2023, 2:24 p.m.

    CarryLight,

    I like that not only were you able to capture the clouds with the dark sky, but I see you caught the sunshine on the water. It's great when we are able to capture these lights and shadows together. Well done!!!

  • Members 1855 posts
    June 6, 2023, 3:22 p.m.

    Subject: How To Share Many Photos

    I thought I would share with you all how to share many photos quickly, such I have done with the rose flowers and air show photos. What I do, is resize them so they don't take up much space and for other reasons. I create a special folder for them on my computer. I rename them in alphanumeric order, so they will appear here like I would want. Then when I push the arrow above, I use Ctrl-A to select all the photos in the folder and all of them will be loaded here all at once. It's super fast. You can embed them here too.

    Since the EXIF data produced by DPRevived is not always consistent, I wrote my own program to show select EXIF data here for my Canon T7i (800D) and Canon M50-2 cameras. For the Canon M50-2 camera, sometimes the EXIF data shows an extra camera temperature over 120 C which does not make sense (and messes up my program). So I wrote some more code to find that anomaly and remove it. I had fun making that yesterday. I wrote the code in MS Word, which I rarely do, so I enjoyed learning this new syntax. But the principles of coding are pretty much the same, so I could figure things out relatively fast. I would share that with anyone, if they were interested. There's many other ways to do it. It was just something I stumbled upon and found it worked to my amazement in MS Word.

    Anyway, writing code may not be your thing, but you can at least load up many pictures quickly at the same time with how I described it. Again, it would be in the order you want by first creating that in your folder on your computer. I thought I would share that with you. I hope I described it correctly. Let us know any of your tricks or tips on how to present photos easily here too. 😀

  • June 6, 2023, 5:08 p.m.

    It is with some diffidence, on account of Digirame's excellent and manifold rose photos, that I show what I found in the Volksgarten the other day.

    Most of the roses were just at their peak, so a few general shots:

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    IMG_5875_copy-b.jpg

    IMG_5880_copy-b.jpg

    As before, the red roses were in the best condition. These were my best detailed shots:

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    David

    IMG_5866_copy-a.jpg

    JPG, 1.7 MB, uploaded by davidwien on June 6, 2023.

    IMG_5862_copy-b.jpg

    JPG, 2.9 MB, uploaded by davidwien on June 6, 2023.

    IMG_5868_copy-b.jpg

    JPG, 1.8 MB, uploaded by davidwien on June 6, 2023.

    IMG_5880_copy-b.jpg

    JPG, 2.6 MB, uploaded by davidwien on June 6, 2023.

    IMG_5875_copy-b.jpg

    JPG, 2.8 MB, uploaded by davidwien on June 6, 2023.

    IMG_5872_copy-b.jpg

    JPG, 3.2 MB, uploaded by davidwien on June 6, 2023.

  • Members 643 posts
    June 6, 2023, 6:27 p.m.

    Another superb shot Dan. Well done.

  • June 6, 2023, 6:48 p.m.

    Cool -- when you look at the large version! Thanks!

    David

  • Members 85 posts
    June 6, 2023, 7:02 p.m.

    That’s very nice of you Dunlin. Thank you kindly.

    Dan

    Thank you kindly Digi. I was fortunate enough for the scene to come together before me and all i had to was press the button. We do not get a lot of sun this far north, but when the sun does decide to show itself it can create quite dramatic scenes.

    Dan

    Thank you Davidwien. Lovely shots of the flowers. I can almost smell the roses from here I am sitting.

    Dan

  • Members 411 posts
    June 6, 2023, 7:04 p.m.

    Hi Dunlin,

    Ahh Yes but will you be in time to see the beautiful Poppy fields. 😁

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    (Aperture f/9 <> (SS): 1/250 <> ISO 100 <> EC: 0 <> PASM Mode: Aperture Priority <> Metering: Evaluative <> Focus Mode: One Shot <> FL: 70mm <> Lens: Tamron SP 70-300mm f/4-5.6 Di VC USD <> Camera ID: Canon EOS 7D Mark II).

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    (Aperture f/9 <> (SS): 1/320 <> ISO 100 <> EC: 0 <> PASM Mode: Aperture Priority <> Metering: Evaluative <> Focus Mode: One Shot <> FL: 18mm <> Lens: Canon EF-S 10-18mm f/4.5-5.6 IS STM <> Camera ID: Canon EOS 7D Mark II).

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    JPG, 329.8 KB, uploaded by mocha123 on June 6, 2023.

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    JPG, 636.3 KB, uploaded by mocha123 on June 6, 2023.

  • Members 411 posts
    June 6, 2023, 7:10 p.m.

    Hi simplejoy, Thank You.

  • Members 85 posts
    June 6, 2023, 7:23 p.m.

    This peak is called "Klotinden" (671m above sea level) and can apparently be traversed by foot, though I have yet to try so.

    Dan

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    Klotinden.jpg

    JPG, 601.9 KB, uploaded by CarryLight on June 6, 2023.

  • Members 411 posts
    June 6, 2023, 7:25 p.m.

    Hi davidwien,

    Love the photos, that garden looks beautiful.

  • Members 411 posts
    June 6, 2023, 7:29 p.m.

    Hi CarryLight,

    Excellent photo.

  • Members 643 posts
    June 6, 2023, 8:14 p.m.

    Wow.
    I'll be sure to tell you.

  • Members 643 posts
    June 6, 2023, 8:14 p.m.

    Impressive.

  • Members 1855 posts
    June 6, 2023, 9:21 p.m.

    David,

    Your rose flowers look great. I like the red color a lot too. Years ago, I don't think the reds turned out as good as they do now; at least that was my experience with some of my older cameras (taking them as out-of-the-camera JPEGS).

  • Members 1855 posts
    June 6, 2023, 9:23 p.m.

    Mocha,

    Yes, the poppy fields are beautiful. We can't wait for Dunlin to find some more.😀

  • Members 1855 posts
    June 6, 2023, 9:25 p.m.

    CarryLight,

    Wow...that's neat...great photo. That would be a good hike to the top. I'm sure you would get a lot more photo ops. 😀

  • Members 1662 posts
    June 6, 2023, 9:41 p.m.

    Great capture - very atmospheric with the fog! At 671 m it doesn't seem too bad, I guess. But it absolutely depends on the condition of the path (or lack thereof) if it's worth it, I'd say! 😉 (Last but not least it also depends on how fast the weather can change in that region.)

  • Members 1662 posts
    June 6, 2023, 10:07 p.m.

    So... I have a question for all of you here, given that a couple of people seem to enjoy shooting some flowers as well:

    Do you really try to get the full flower in focus usually?

    Being a macro shooter for the most part and also using old manual lenses exclusively (many of which, like projection lenses don't have a variable aperture) that thought seems very foreign to me, even though I get the notion and value of showing a full bloom in its own right of course - particularly if the intention is an accurate documentation. I still usually can't bring myself to do that.

    I just find the background way too distracting most of the time, unless everything else is really far away or I got some of those (rare) lenses in hand, which seem to be able to render anything smoothly, no matter how far you stop it down.

    Here's a shot with an Agfa Super-Intergon 105 mm f/5.6 (wide open), which shows the maximum DOF where I usually still feel comfortable:
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    Dig in, little one!
    by simple.joy, on Flickr

    Perhaps I can sometimes deal with going to f/8, if I feel like there's enough interest in showing more and I'm already relatively close... but usually I like somewhere around this best:

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    No one else wanted it... now it's Robert‘s!
    by simple.joy, on Flickr
    (shot at around f/2.8)

    or even softer, like this:

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    Hard to be soft in a good way...
    by simple.joy, on Flickr

    I'm curious to know your thoughts and preferences!