February 2024 Daily Themes.

[kate]

cornflowers by Kate Ferris, on Flickr

flowers stocks by Kate Ferris, on Flickr

garden flowers by Kate Ferris, on Flickr

and lastly, a terrible photocopy (!) of a watercolour I did for my sister many moons ago. She still has it in show.
flowers in vase by Kate Ferris, on Flickr

[Bipolar]

[peterob]

One subject I can't get right is flower borders.  They look so good but getting them in a photograph that shows the border, rather than just a few flowers in it without adding acres of path or lawn seems an intractable problem.  Maybe it is a tripod and tilt/shift kinda problem to have the depth of field and compression - I'll have to try that idea this summer although I've only got a wide angle (24mm) 

Way back 2009 at Erddig. (105 mm)

_MG_0026.jpg by Pete, on Flickr

Powis (2015) (51 mm (135 equivalent)

DSCF3170.jpg by Pete, on Flickr

I didn't reprocess this one (below), portrait rather than landscape.

DSCF3168.jpg by Pete, on Flickr

[petrochemist]

A couple more to make up for missing days earlier in the week

Moss flowers (made visible by the BG3 filter)
Flowering moss IR by Mike Kanssen, on Flickr

and one testing the macro capabilities my 50/1.2 projector lens
50mm/1.2 projector lens test shot wide open by Mike Kanssen, on Flickr

[petrochemist]

I'll slip in these two as well, as they're particular favorites of mine.
Bee in infra red by Mike Kanssen, on Flickr

Stour woods fisheye by Mike Kanssen, on Flickr

[kate]

Baking

ap baking 1 by Kate Ferris, on Flickr

[zx9]

Tourists seeking shade from the baking sun Knossos, Crete.

Knossos by Keith Hudson, on Flickr

We had travelled to Knossos by public transport on what was an unusually hot day even for Crete, returning to the hotel that evening we spotted a temperature gauge outside the bus terminus showing it to be still in the mid 40's C.

[peterob]

Baking heat is what I had in mind too - overcast Paris square in August 2011

IMG_0071.jpg by Pete, on Flickr

[peterob]

Tend to go bought rather then baked but sometimes incinerate as well.

IMG_0045.jpg by Pete, on Flickr

[peterob]

Another baking hot day in Paris (August 2011).  It was so bright that it was almost impossible to see where we were walking.  I don't know why they use such a light coloured gravel on the squares.  This shown before on APForum in April 2021 from the Flickr date uploaded.


IMG_0048.jpg by Pete, on Flickr


Edit: this was a reject, pobably because it had people in it but the sunshades tell the story!

Baking in Paris.  Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel.

IMG_0057.jpg by Pete, on Flickr

[kate]

Can't do what is really expected tomorrow - but you'll get my interpretation. Ha!

[kate]

Tilt and shift

My way... the earth tilts, the sunshine shifts.

sun creep mantelpiece by Kate Ferris, on Flickr

Age and die.
for ap tilt shift point the way by Kate Ferris, on Flickr

[petrochemist]

Probably both tilt & shift, but definitely tilted
freelensing portrait by Mike Kanssen, on Flickr

[peterob]

I'll sort something out later, was looking last night, but I don't have any explicit record of using tilt/shift apart from the first day that I had the lens and went to have a play with it handheld.  That was back in July 2013 so it is all a bit hazy.

This website I came across and has a lot of useful information.   www.northlight-images.co.uk/using-lens-tilt-on-your-digital-slr/

Edit:  Handheld without shift, 24 mm

IMG_0007.jpg by Pete, on Flickr


Handheld with shift, 24 mm 

IMG_0005.jpg by Pete, on Flickr

[zx9]

Feb 18, 2024 18:12:00 GMT kate said:

Can't do what is really expected tomorrow - but you'll get my interpretation. Ha!

These days it is so easy to make minor corrections in software emulating rear tilt or swing, essentially that is what the geometry control does in LR & PS. Front tilt and swing emulation, positioning the plane of sharp focus is responsible for those horrible 'toy town' images if overdone.

As I have never owned a perspective control lens as they were called or a Tilt and Shift lens as currently known nor even played with a Lens Baby, so I am rather lacking too.

Tilt and shift, as with most techniques that go through trendy patches, HDR and spatial sharpening I am looking you two here (!) used correctly they go unnoticed. This shot on a large format camera with 69 RFH would have used swing and tilt of the front and rear standards but you can't tell it just goes unnoticed.

ex. Iris by Keith Hudson, on Flickr