Vincent 2014 365 project

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Schadows on railroad square (Day 40), tried to take some pictures from a multilevel parking of the station for a competition on public space photos.
However it seems you do not have the view I was looking for.

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P.S.: seem to have misplaced my ML-L3 going for timer pictures at the moment.
 
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Wine bottle (Day 41), I was just trying out sharpness D7000 + 70-200 handheld + VRII = excellent result

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derekthetree said:
Is it yours? If so, nice car!
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No not mine. The dealer here does good business there are quite some Morgans around. I did not see a trike on the street yet, this one was exposed for the local car event. There was a second one in Gulf colours, that one really blew me away.
 
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Hammock (Day 42), was an idea for the public space competition, this is a playground Hammock:

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This one is not selected.

Don Kuykendall said:
Did you fine tune this lens?
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If you ask I probably did it wrong. I would like to go back to it, since I did take insufficient time. Anyway the shot was close up and handheld in low light, I was just comparing to an other camera in the same situation.
 
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RIP :(
Vincent said:
Hammock (Day 42), was an idea for the public space competition, this is a playground Hammock:

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This one is not selected.



If you ask I probably did it wrong. I would like to go back to it, since I did take insufficient time. Anyway the shot was close up and handheld in low light, I was just comparing to an other camera in the same situation.
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It looked good that was the reason for the question. I have been working on my lenses recently too


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Don Kuykendall said:
It looked good that was the reason for the question. I have been working on my lenses recently too
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I checked it is on correction -3, so it would have given quite a good result on 0.
The fine tuning is difficult I found, you need a good procedure. e.g. I do mirror up through life view, but that did activate a life view AF and messed up the process in the beginning. This probably was sharp from -13 to +7 resulting in a -3 setting, however since it is a zoom and you have from close to infinity focus you need to choose what you optimise. I believe I set it middle zoom and middle focus range.
BTW that picture is sharpened in post processing, but if you do not have the detail to start with that does not help.
 
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RIP :(
Vincent said:
I checked it is on correction -3, so it would have given quite a good result on 0.
The fine tuning is difficult I found, you need a good procedure. e.g. I do mirror up through life view, but that did activate a life view AF and messed up the process in the beginning. This probably was sharp from -13 to +7 resulting in a -3 setting, however since it is a zoom and you have from close to infinity focus you need to choose what you optimise. I believe I set it middle zoom and middle focus range.
BTW that picture is sharpened in post processing, but if you do not have the detail to start with that does not help.
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I found with mine that even a 2 or 3 point correction made a big difference. You have to make sure the aperture is set wide open so you get the narrowest DoF possible. I also did mine at full zoom so again would be the smallest DoF. I then checked them at other zoom and they all looked good.
 
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Water tower (Day 43), I was in a forest for lunch to see if it was interesting for animal spotting and on the way back saw this:

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Day 45: a quick shot from a piece of art that I pass regularly, did not feel like changing lenses so took it at 70mm with both teleconverters handheld:

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Crocus (Day 49), at my parents they were further ahead but I did not find the time to get a shot at the week-end, got one at lunch:

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Day 50: This made me think of Italy, but it is in Luxembourg. I was actually looking for something to shoot without having to go in the rain:

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I got a second hand ML-L3 and since I had to drive a bit, I also got a 18-105 with it. I just needed a versatile lens for less thought through work.
 
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Don Kuykendall said:
I have the 18-105 and it is the one that stays on the camera 75% of the time.
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Strangly I have the 70-200mm + TC-20 on my D7000 as standard and switch a lot to remove the TC, or put the 50 or 11-16. I generally carry the full set.
On holidays or family gatherings it is not practical though and this one was for 100€, first test is positive (the above picture was before I got the new lens).
 
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