David777
Well-known Member
- Location
- Silicon Valley
Both skiing and spring landscape photography keep me busy at this time of year. Much gear logistics dispersed camping living on the road out of my old Forester. Nine days ago over-stressed my lower back a wee bit skiing so have wisely kept away and am now rather strong after tromping about several miles yesterday over uneven trail-less landscapes with constant obstacles to deal with. Great way to stay fit and mentally challenged is to hike or backpack off trails. And yes will return in a few days.
Instead, Sunday dawn drove 125 miles to a spring wildflower area where I could have over-nighted for a couple nights but instead after a productive day, drove home that has been useful. Much camera technical stuff to deal with that am much more certain now after processing that I've plugged the holes and am ready for more. Before the trip spent 3 hours just going through all my recorded Menu camera settings that last year I put on a detailed Excel spreadsheet when first setting it up.
Especially confusing like a ball of yarn are all the custom button and control wheel setup options. Good thing too as I moved a few settings at some point to where I don't want. Worked just 7 subjects over about 6 hours in the field and have processed 5 now with one to be tossed due to too much breeze mis-registrations between focus stack file versions.
Instead of posting just a downsized for web versions of one or two, I'll make a but of a game of giving folks something sightly amusing to do on this board. So have posted below 100% pixels crops for each of two spring wildflower landscape images. Ask for a similar crop at some other vague zone of the full picture, and I'll provide 3 crops before showing the full image.
For those folks with better quality monitors, Mouse select the links then to magnify at the true 100% pixels resolution key + that shows how sharp my images are in all areas due to focus stacking and use of my highest optical apertures in each quality APS-C prime lens. Note I use the postimages dot com site because our forum software like at other web communities compresses aesthetics out of uploads, haha.
The first full image is 7450 by 6200 pixels with this crop from frame center to bottom to mid right. Note I am the only person that has seen this pleasant mid day lunch spot with birds everywhere. Those buckbrush, ceanothus cuneatus, blossoms are very fragrant. The California goldfields, lasthenia californica, that tend to colonize swatches, exploded after heavy rains a couple weeks ago making all unusually lush, a predictable species behavior. So the question is, how does that crop reflect my puzzle of what the rest of the mystery landscape look like.
https://i.postimg.cc/sxXc8qsc/UU07945-07979-2x1v-cr1.jpg
The second full image is 7200 by 6200 pixels with this crop from frame lower right center edge 1900 by 1600 pixels. Again, ask for a general zone of another crop I'll do 3 times before a full view. In a colorful natural rock garden, more goldfields with a foreground of blue dicks, dichelostemma capitatum, adding some nice frame color, plus rusty orange hued rock lichen on serpentine geology. I wish I could take you gals out to experience these places I sometimes just sit at quietly during resting periods just absorbing the wonderful aesthetic beauty in my Earth creature being.
https://i.postimg.cc/xCWhSLTh/UU08013-08040-2x1v-cr1.jpg
Instead, Sunday dawn drove 125 miles to a spring wildflower area where I could have over-nighted for a couple nights but instead after a productive day, drove home that has been useful. Much camera technical stuff to deal with that am much more certain now after processing that I've plugged the holes and am ready for more. Before the trip spent 3 hours just going through all my recorded Menu camera settings that last year I put on a detailed Excel spreadsheet when first setting it up.
Especially confusing like a ball of yarn are all the custom button and control wheel setup options. Good thing too as I moved a few settings at some point to where I don't want. Worked just 7 subjects over about 6 hours in the field and have processed 5 now with one to be tossed due to too much breeze mis-registrations between focus stack file versions.
Instead of posting just a downsized for web versions of one or two, I'll make a but of a game of giving folks something sightly amusing to do on this board. So have posted below 100% pixels crops for each of two spring wildflower landscape images. Ask for a similar crop at some other vague zone of the full picture, and I'll provide 3 crops before showing the full image.
For those folks with better quality monitors, Mouse select the links then to magnify at the true 100% pixels resolution key + that shows how sharp my images are in all areas due to focus stacking and use of my highest optical apertures in each quality APS-C prime lens. Note I use the postimages dot com site because our forum software like at other web communities compresses aesthetics out of uploads, haha.
The first full image is 7450 by 6200 pixels with this crop from frame center to bottom to mid right. Note I am the only person that has seen this pleasant mid day lunch spot with birds everywhere. Those buckbrush, ceanothus cuneatus, blossoms are very fragrant. The California goldfields, lasthenia californica, that tend to colonize swatches, exploded after heavy rains a couple weeks ago making all unusually lush, a predictable species behavior. So the question is, how does that crop reflect my puzzle of what the rest of the mystery landscape look like.
https://i.postimg.cc/sxXc8qsc/UU07945-07979-2x1v-cr1.jpg
The second full image is 7200 by 6200 pixels with this crop from frame lower right center edge 1900 by 1600 pixels. Again, ask for a general zone of another crop I'll do 3 times before a full view. In a colorful natural rock garden, more goldfields with a foreground of blue dicks, dichelostemma capitatum, adding some nice frame color, plus rusty orange hued rock lichen on serpentine geology. I wish I could take you gals out to experience these places I sometimes just sit at quietly during resting periods just absorbing the wonderful aesthetic beauty in my Earth creature being.
https://i.postimg.cc/xCWhSLTh/UU08013-08040-2x1v-cr1.jpg
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