David_W's Images (Project 365)

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Dave_W

The Dude
gqtuazon said:
Very nice scene. I miss S.D. already.
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Thanks! Tomorrow should be the day for the sun thru the pier. Here's what it looked like this evening peaking just below that dreaded marine layer

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Dave_W

The Dude
The sun setting at the end of Scripps Pier. Not quite as dramatic as last year's sunset but at least the marine layer broke enough to show the sunset
24-70mm; ISO-100; f/3.5; 7 exposure HDR

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Dave_W

The Dude
Rick M said:
Nice shots Dave! Do you use the 24-70 often for landscapes?
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Thanks Rick, and yes, kind of. It's either this lens or the 14-24mm. The 24-70mm is possibly the best all-purpose lens with amazing IQ. And even though I would have liked to have VR in this lens, it's still more than capable of taking images like this hand-held 7 exposure HDR I took while waiting for the sun to align with the pier.


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Dave_W

The Dude
This is from Saturday's trip to Anza-Borrego to capture some of the Perseid meteor showers. I wasn't able to get a lot of streaks in my exposures I was able to capture a nice Milky Way shot.


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Dave_W

The Dude
This is a 19 exposure panorama I took using my 28mm f/1.8G lens. One of the issues you'll run into when doing night photography is your focus. You have to learn exactly where your infinity focus is before attempting star shots and that's what I tell everyone. However, there is another issue that crops up that is much harder to deal with and that is your lenses ability to change focus ever so slightly and unless you are checking it at every shot, you'll end up with some sharp and some not-so-sharp images. The 28mm lens is especially sensitive and can easily change focus when repositioning the camera. Next time I will tape down my lenses before the sun sets.

So unfortunately some pieces of this panorama is sharp while others are not. But what fun would life be if it weren't a constant learning experience, huh?


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WhiteLight

Senior Member
That's awesome!
How did you manage to get foucs accurately on the 19 shots & align them?
Considering it to be the sky & it all looks alike? :confused:
 
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Dave_W

The Dude
WhiteLight said:
That's awesome!
How did you manage to get foucs accurately on the 19 shots & align them?
Considering it to be the sky & it all looks alike? :confused:
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Unfortunately, I wasn't able to because it was very easy to slightly bump the focus ring when realigning the shots. But it just occurred to me that I could have left the autofocus on and once I put the focus ring to the proper place I could have hit focus lock. Oy Veh!!! It's crazy how such a simple solution completely evades your thought process and then when you're not thinking about it, the answer pops into your head.

As for finding the proper focus. Take your lens out during the day and focus on the very farthest point you can see, such as the moon (when it's up during the day) or a far away mountain range. Then commit to memory the exact spot on the lens and then use this to set your lenses at when taking star photographs. And then once you manually set the lens to that focus, hit focus lock and you'll avoid making the mistake I did on this image.
 
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Bill16

Senior Member
Beautiful! :D
Dave_W said:
This is a 19 exposure panorama I took using my 28mm f/1.8G lens. One of the issues you'll run into when doing night photography is your focus. You have to learn exactly where your infinity focus is before attempting star shots and that's what I tell everyone. However, there is another issue that crops up that is much harder to deal with and that is your lenses ability to change focus ever so slightly and unless you are checking it at every shot, you'll end up with some sharp and some not-so-sharp images. The 28mm lens is especially sensitive and can easily change focus when repositioning the camera. Next time I will tape down my lenses before the sun sets.

So unfortunately some pieces of this panorama is sharp while others are not. But what fun would life be if it weren't a constant learning experience, huh?


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