Looks like imitation of (palm) tree, I wonder how the top would look like? Something like tree crown would be too much, I suppose, buth structurally and architecturally.
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I must admit I have lost count. I want to make a set of Blurb books for myself eventually.
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I like this shot with this heather cover. Too bad that sky is so bland but it's not in our control...
In video in some scenes focus transtion from foreground vegetation to background waterfall would have made it more interesting and dynamic IMO. But of course it's hard to do it while hand-holding camera. -
I don't hate the building. Nice reflected sky against the white.
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These two are the stand outs for me here. Good to see the OM1 hanging in there. even if your trousers aren't..
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Yeah it's a shame. Sometimes the grey skies are full of menace and character, but on this day it was just featureless grey. I did go back and check that I hadn't simply blown the sky out here, but no, it's ETTR'd correctly. Pulling back the highlights reveals a little bit of sky detail, but it's not enough to really add anything significant to the picture.
I agree, but you're right, it's very fiddly while handholding with this sort of camera (and trying not to slide off the rocks into the river), however there is one attempt at a focus pull in the video. It goes from a close up of the heather to the water flowing in the background between 2:09-2:19 (ish). Most of the video is recorded in AF-S mode with the focus set at the start of each shot to stop it hunting, but for that one shot I tried switching to AF-C and moving the focus point using the joystick. This isn't particularly easy to do without moving the camera slightly so if you watch the background during that shot, you can see it warping around as the IBIS and post stabilisation tries to correct for it. To the camera and lenses credit, the actual focus transition is quite smooth, so if done on a tripod and perhaps using tap to focus on the touchscreen instead of the focus joystick, it might give a pleasing result. Something to experiment with in future videos.
Years ago, back in the Super VHS days, I used to film wedding videos with a big shoulder mounted Panasonic MS-1 - a full size Super VHS camcorder. The autofocus was so unreliable, so I focused everything manually as it had mechanically linked manual focus and a sharp CRT based viewfinder so you could easily judge if you were in focus or not. This made focus pulls really easy to do manually (great for weddings). With modern hybrid cameras I find this really difficult to do manually. It may be partly down to the fly by wire manual focus being difficult to judge, but also I don't find modern viewfinders great for nailing focus, even using tools like focus peaking because the final image can be so much more detailed than what the viewfinder (or peaking) can reliably show.
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That's a shame, it's been pretty good this year. A place famous for heather such as Rannerdale must have looked amazing this season. Hopefully I'll be able to get up onto Anglezarke moor one day this week before it fades.
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Thanks, apparently it helps with The Algorithm when people watch a video all the way through, if viewers skip out part way in it tends to reduce the likelihood of the video being recommended to others.
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I am a bit late to the party as I was out of town for a few days and have just returned... missing the thread kick-off. A lot of nice pictures and stories here as is always the case! I will piggy-back on the urban/buildings theme (i.e., posts from Wormsmeat and ChrisOly). Last Thursday morning, I went for a short walk to get a cup of coffee and took this picture (just a couple of blocks away from the hotel where I was staying). Of course... I KNEW the building was there! 😉 Because... I first saw it in 1970 as a youngster (one year after it was completed). I was an 11 year old boy on a family vacation and it made an impression on me then. It is still impressive now 56 years later. It is the former "John Hancock Center" (875 North Michigan Avenue) in Chicago. I have pulled the files from the memory card and this is the first one I've looked at and (quickly) fiddled with. More to process. For the follow-on "This Week 09.12" thread, I may include some other pictures from this trip... if that doesn't bend the rules too much?!?!
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This has a nice, rich tone. The brown and gold contrasting nicely with the blue sky.
I rarely post a picture that I took 'this week'!
