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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

This is how we roll in Oregon :-)

Shawn, thanks.

The best test shot till now.

Pushing the sensor limits with a nice shot...
 
Mr. White said:
Can anyone post JPEGs please? I'm in dial-up. Thank you.
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It's less than 5 MB, no worries
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EDIT -- Shawn, any filter used?
 
Thanks Shawn, lookin' good.
How about a 2k or 4k Tiff or PNG without tomuch done in Red Alert so we can play on our own?
 
Great to see a beautiful landscape image like that, and the bird is like poetry in motion...
 
Beautiful shot, Shawn. Compared to the tiff or H264 images, how dark did the scene look to your eye?

Thanks for the match shot too. It's great to see the possibilities.
 
Nice work, Shawn.


I pushed that tiff a bit.
 
uh.... Shawn... I'm coming to Oregon and you're shooting a short for me! ha ha. this is freakin' beautiful man... the colors, and the latitude is just fantastic!
 
One thing I'm curious about: the picture looks great to my eye, even though I see from the 16-bit TIFF posted that a significant area around the sunset has a clipped red channel (not just a few pixels, see thresholded image below). But I never would have guessed it from looking at the original image posted; this picture still works, so apparently the rule about not allowing a lot of clipped pixels in the histogram is not really a rule, and this shot does have the optimum exposure? After all if there were no clipped pixels, you'd loose a stop or two in the dark areas. So if it's not always just "avoid lots of clipping", then how do you tell what the perfect exposure is?

RED-TypicalOregonSunset-clipped.png
 
Here's a random thought: digital clipping in cameras has similarities to digital clipping in audio recording. For some decades, the rule in digital audio has been "if it's clipped, it's gone forever". But that is not exactly true: there are many programs that have clipping restoration features. I use Cool Edit 2k, (now Adobe Audition) which can do this. These programs look at the good data to either side of the hard clip area and then extrapolate a smooth curve into the clipped region. The result is not perfect, of course, but it's often good enough to save a take with only slight to moderate clipping.

So: why not apply the same idea to photos also?
 
Concrete said:
How comes it is so soft?
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Looks very nice to me. But if you'd rather have it sharper, I bet you could do that by stopping down- given the conditions (he mentioned ISO 1000) I suspect the lens was used wide open.

There is speculation that the Red 18-50 is optically similar to the Sigma 18-50mm F2.8 EX DC MACRO because it has the same focal length, same image size, same F-stop, similar (?) minimum focus: http://www.sigmaphoto.com/lenses/lenses_all_details.asp?id=3320&navigator=6

Like most lenses, it is softer when wide open, especially at 50mm as it was used here: http://www.topicpoint.com/sigma_18-50mm/index.html
 
awesome GIF!

awesome GIF!

actually that's about the prettiest animated GIF I've seen! I haven't seen this footage before, is this a timelapse from the same red shoot?
 
I'm impressed with the lattitude that you got with this camera- it is looking great. I'm very impressed by the images you can get, as well as being able to play with them in post- very, very exciting indeed. :)
 
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