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[Georg R. Baumann]

 

[Asher Kelman]

Is that your dog, Georg? The basket and the dog's face are in focus it seems, but the rest is soft. how did you take it? I like the use of B&W suspect some tones have been lost.

Asher

 

[Georg R. Baumann]

Did nothing out of the ordinary to get that snap from Tanka, shot with my walk around zoom, 70mm, 1/60 sec @ F/7.1

Yep, Tanka comes along shooting with me most of the time. Good thing is, even when people are around, which is not often the case, but in summer we have a few tourists, I can leave my gear behind and scout around without any worries that someone would touch or take my stuff. I saw someone trying it once....LOL.... he got the fright of his life and would not move an inch. Tanka nailed him on the spot and would not let him leave.

He was very inquisitive on that lobster trap.

 

[Andy brown]

Is he a Belgian Shepherd Georg?

 

[Georg R. Baumann]

Nope. Old breed long coat german shep. 6 years, 43 kg and a beach bum like me.

 

[Andy brown]

beautiful looking dog Georg.
I had a Belgian Shepherd who looked a lot like him. She died from a paralysis tick a few years ago, She was huge, nearly 60 kg and gentle as a lamb.

Nice shots , I didn't mention it in the thread but your blue series are great. I've played with a similar style in the last couple of years - stacked N.D's and a polariser, shots of the ocean, movement during sunlight hours. I can't post any at the moment, trying to revive them from a busted arsed hard drive (fingers crossed).

 

[Georg R. Baumann]

beautiful looking dog Georg.
I had a Belgian Shepherd who looked a lot like him. She died from a paralysis tick a few years ago, She was huge, nearly 60 kg and gentle as a lamb.

He is in good form. Yeah, people who do not know the old german breed, often mistake him as a belgian. I used to have 12 of them belgian shepherds, when.... well guess what.... I lived in Belgium.

Tanka is the only Dog I ever bought with papers, mainly due to financials, but having seen the litter and the parents, after 3 visits it was clear to me that it is him! Son of Rolling Thunder and Kim's babe. Zero HD in the 5th generation.

Nice shots , I didn't mention it in the thread but your blue series are great. I've played with a similar style in the last couple of years - stacked N.D's and a polariser, shots of the ocean, movement during sunlight hours. I can't post any at the moment, trying to revive them from a busted arsed hard drive (fingers crossed).

Och, yep, crossing fingers! Which reminds me to do some upgrade and backup work this week, sigh, 14 HD's.... don't ask!

I am bogged down to the house, crap weather. So I just opened the door....LOL, I know... I really like photography.... and try some first BLULB shooting.

I am wondering what to do with 1/3 F stops and added time to calculate proper time. Basically, I just double ISO and aperture from a given exposure for each step, but lenses like the 135mm F/1.8 have 1/3 stops as well, and I think from F8 to F1, F9 and F10 is a third stop if I am not mistaken.

Good luck with the HD!

 

[Georg R. Baumann]

Testshot.... 172 sec .... I messed up because the pol was in the wrong position and I had to underexpose 1F stop afterwards, but what i was interested in mainly was noise.

No issue whatsoever. There is no need for denoising these long exposures, the dark frame subtraction works really well.

No change made other than little sharpening.

Fascinating possibilities... one has to get a feeling for all kinds of movements and play with the blur to taste.