David777
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Sunday sunrise morning 12/1/2024 drove a half mile in 38F temperatures to this subject I'd noticed Friday while urban street walking. But thought the diffuse sky lighting was mediocre so drove back home. Later attended an 11am mass and when I left the church, noticed the noon sky was about optimal with a blanket of high not too dense clouds and only a slight breeze. Sun position was off to the right. So immediately drove home and grabbed my camera gear. Even at 1/3rd dimensions 1/9th pixels, the image is quite sharp.
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The first time I'd gone out since mid August for any photography. The urban street trees with peaking fall leaves provide color for this usually modest landscape. The pavement lower left is part of a parking lot for older school administration buildings while the street in the back routes through our downtown. Cars were moving by most of the time so had to wait till they were absent while the slight breeze was minimal. The curving red curb gave the subject a better geometry. The flowering purple plants were at color bonus.
Regardless, I spent about 2 hours in post processing in Zerene Stacker tediously at 100% pixels, selecting out mis-registration areas from the 7 shots. The above is downsized for web from the 6150 by 4100 pixel full image. Used my Sigma 30mm on the Sony a6700.
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Next I drove down to an urban creek a mile from my residence where I had noted the above downsized for web subject, a 2 vertical column stitch blend of 6400 by 4100 pixels. Behind the leaves is a small creek that large salmon began swimming up to spawn after recent heavy rains. Because depth of field is so narrow at F5.0, the leaf elements and background dark water are greatly out of depth of field focus. Thus had to tediously manually select in the leaves and then the water through several back and forth rounds and then tweak remaining flaws in Photoshop CS6. At the extreme resolution of my a6700 sensor with the 30mm Sigma prime lens, even slight aberrations are quite noticeable at 100% pixels. At frame right are some willow tree leaves.
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For my third subject I climbed up the side of the steep stream bank left of the left frame edge to frame a colorful section of this American Sweetgum tree, liquidambar styraciflua, a native of the southeast US that was planted on many of our streets with a few escaping into streams. Note the creek at frame bottom.
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The first time I'd gone out since mid August for any photography. The urban street trees with peaking fall leaves provide color for this usually modest landscape. The pavement lower left is part of a parking lot for older school administration buildings while the street in the back routes through our downtown. Cars were moving by most of the time so had to wait till they were absent while the slight breeze was minimal. The curving red curb gave the subject a better geometry. The flowering purple plants were at color bonus.
Regardless, I spent about 2 hours in post processing in Zerene Stacker tediously at 100% pixels, selecting out mis-registration areas from the 7 shots. The above is downsized for web from the 6150 by 4100 pixel full image. Used my Sigma 30mm on the Sony a6700.
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Next I drove down to an urban creek a mile from my residence where I had noted the above downsized for web subject, a 2 vertical column stitch blend of 6400 by 4100 pixels. Behind the leaves is a small creek that large salmon began swimming up to spawn after recent heavy rains. Because depth of field is so narrow at F5.0, the leaf elements and background dark water are greatly out of depth of field focus. Thus had to tediously manually select in the leaves and then the water through several back and forth rounds and then tweak remaining flaws in Photoshop CS6. At the extreme resolution of my a6700 sensor with the 30mm Sigma prime lens, even slight aberrations are quite noticeable at 100% pixels. At frame right are some willow tree leaves.
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For my third subject I climbed up the side of the steep stream bank left of the left frame edge to frame a colorful section of this American Sweetgum tree, liquidambar styraciflua, a native of the southeast US that was planted on many of our streets with a few escaping into streams. Note the creek at frame bottom.
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