*** This Week Through Your Eyes 2024.06.15***

Another shot for my stations project.

I like the first two here best. The moor has such lush greens and yellows and are nicely complemented with those white and pink flower colours.
The cotton grass is blowing gently in the wind.

You have a wonderful subject to work with here, and have produced some great results ! Well done!!!!

Interesting looking structure. Taken from a good angle!
Since the sky is so bright here it sort of dominates the image and steals away a little bit of the show from the structure. I think the image could withstand a bit of brightening of the lower part. Here is a quick edit.

You have a nice collection of pretty birds where you live!
Those barn swallows are really small and fast. I tried once myself, very difficult to get a good shot!

A dark and moody shot! Even looks a bit claustrophobic :-)

I always need some time to enjoy your posts. A great set of pictures as usual.

I am interested on your commentary on the Z8 during long exposures, as I am still considering updating one of my Z7 Mk1 bodies, as HDR bracketing might be a bit more user friendly, as I see it has a bracket button like my D850.

Yes, those bl**dy information panels that local authorities and National Trust like bodies love to desecrate the landscape and historic buildings with. I hate them too. But usually they rot and fade quite quickly and after a few years they can be seen collapsed and rotting in the grass.

Seen full screen this is a pretty cool shot, that sums up the rush hour.

The picture you posted in this weeks completion is fantastic.

Yes, the "pro" control layout with the buttons is much quicker than the approach on the Z7. I can switch into autobracketing very quickly with this rather than the additional menu diving I had to do on the Z7 to activate both bracketing and continuous shooting.

What you do need to be aware of is that the bracketing on the Z8 is more limited than the Z7 was. Whereas the Z7 could do positive + negative, positive only and negative only bracketing, the latter being my preferred mode for sunsets, the Z8 can only do positive + negative bracketing, which is surprisingly restrictive for such a powerful camera and something I hope they will fix in a firmware update at some point.

The long exposure artifacts thing is interesting and not something I've seen on other cameras I own, so I can only assume it's a side effect of how the sensor is read out. It definitely looks like a long exposure is being sampled at discrete time intervals rather than performing a continuous accumulation of charge. More experimentation is required here, although for the most part, it's a non issue.

My pick is the 1st one and the rest of the set has very nice details .

Very nice atmospheric capture. I am not surprised to hear that it is a popular road for thrill seekers.
I use too the street view time to time to scout locations 😎

This is my pick, but I would crop top part from the bridge. It is very good capture.

This is my pick, I like the sense of movement, subtle colours and use of out of focus areas.

You definitely brought the heat of the flames to your captures. Good set.

Who does not like birds? Bee-eater shot is colourful, you caught it while munching 😂

I am afraid getting old is not fun! I must say that your light kit is enough to give back/wrist pain !

The artefacts are interesting. But scenery is more interesting...

I read about this place after I read your post. Thanks for bringing it to my attention; otherwise, I would not have known about it.

This is a stitched panorama, using Photoshop Elements, featuring the Black Rock Yacht Club located on the eastern side of Port Philip Bay, Victoria, Australia.

The HMVS Cerberus is located about 100m or so to the right of this scene.

I've also had my share of back problems in the past :-(
When you are feeling that pain you think it will never get better again, but it (usually) does in the end :-)
And then it all works great again.
The right sort of gentle exercise definitely helps. The physiotherapy clinics know all the tricks!

Yep, the exercise out in the countryside is amazingly good for the mind and soul too, it feels so good to get out again after such fitness problems

The detail in this shot really comes out when looking at full res.
very nice!

That's really quite interesting, would be interested if you can find out more about that

Your landscape shots here are good as usual, I think I like the shot from heapey moor best :-)

I read the article, quite interesting!
Many years ago a physics professor showed us, and described the caustic curve you get in a coffee cup.
I didn't realise there is a whole world of different effects called caustics out there :-)
I love these reflections in and under water, almost as if the water is alive. You can see them in many places if you keep your eyes open. I'm quite drawn to them :-)

Indeed it is not. I seem to have suddenly gone from no ailments to completely falling apart in just a handful of years.

Yeah, you're not wrong there either. The Z8 is still a heavy lump, particularly if I want to use it with the nice lenses such as the 24-70 f/2.8S, which of course I do.

But I've just taken delivery of something that will help out on longer hikes or when I just don't feel carrying a heavy camera. Meet my ultra lightweight kit - the X-T50, here alongside the larger members of my fleet.

I took it for a test run last night where it performed rather well. Even the controversial film sim dial turned out to be useful, persuading me to shoot some black and white for a change (everything I shot was raw, so, technically it's all colour, but it was shot in the B&W mode which seemed to make judging how well the image would work in B&W much easier). Here's a full res example...

Note, the EXIF will show X-T5 as I had to hack the raw files with EXIFTool to get my version of Capture One Pro to recognise them. It means I can't use Reala Ace for now, but that's not much of an issue.

I read somewhere that it reads the entire sensor around 280 times per second, so I guess it must still be doing this during a long exposure and summing the results in order to create artifacts like this. It seems odd that it would do that, because the viewfinder is blacked out during a long exposure, so it doesn't need the live feed, but maybe it helps to simplify the sensor design a little? More testing is needed I think.