Forum: Photos
03-16-2022, 05:58 PM
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To pajaran: Yes for us it was "sifon"
I re-lived memories from more than 40 years ago.... unexpectedly. I did not know if anyone still uses /misses (?) these...In Romania it is called "sifon" -almost the same...and I have not seen any...
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Forum: Photos
02-22-2022, 07:35 AM
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To jemaflor: it's a phone!
Recent Samsung phones (and not only those but for those I am sure) have these panoramic modes- wide lenses with equivalent field of view to 10 or 12 mm on 35. But with very good distortion control...
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Forum: Photos
02-15-2022, 03:22 PM
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To CMJC: Plastic flowers are sometimes nice
It's a (fine) plastic and textile orchid.. but so intricately made it does not look like plastic at all :) . I received it a long time ago and kept it as it is funny how well it resembles my real...
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Forum: Photos
12-30-2021, 12:05 AM
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Forum: Photos
10-06-2021, 09:13 AM
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To kasianowak: Once upon a time
Hello Kasia!
I have seen and admired your photo..as I said in the comments to it- it might be the last one time the castle looked somewhat majestic. Today I find it in a sorry state- you can see the...
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Forum: Photos
10-02-2021, 04:21 PM
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To lucasgalodoido: warming/polarizer
yes the polarizer helped a lot with hiding the wire- it caught some reflections and I could make it go away with a proper twist of the analyzer on the circular polarizer...I noted its warm golden...
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Forum: Photos
09-20-2021, 07:19 AM
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To ifege: yes, wrong white balance on fully manual
Hello, yes it is true, I made a mess of the white balance- I do not usually fix this in post. It was a terribly sunny day but also I worked with borrowed and not fully functioning equipment0 I had my...
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Forum: Photos
09-02-2021, 11:22 AM
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To jemaflor: Holy..crop!
For this shot to look like that I cheated like a dog : in fact this is NOT a vertical shot.. it is in fact a horizontal "bad shot" that showed some dirty apartment blocks to the left and a badly...
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Forum: Photos
08-30-2021, 11:56 AM
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To jhm: On sharpness ...and lack of AA filter
Hello John and thank you. The sharpness is a result of a particular mode of image capturing of the M50 (and maybe many other cameras) : it has a "fine detail" mode- in which it apparently applies...
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Forum: Photos
08-30-2021, 11:42 AM
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To jemaflor: Merci pour la visite!
..et excusez mon patois sans accents sans rien, cet ordinateur est totallement anglophone (et moi aussi, j'essaie de me souvenir un peu de Francais d'ecole primaire, quand les dinos etaient encore...
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Forum: Photos
08-30-2021, 11:26 AM
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To COSTANTINO: Carol Mk 1, aka. The first
Hello and thank you for stopping by! I was not exceedingly clear - Carol was not the first king of Romania, he was Carol the First (we had two of these guys, as in Carol mark 1 and the definitely...
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Forum: Photos
08-28-2021, 06:47 PM
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To jemaflor: thank you,
I have been a Nikon and formerly Olympus and Sony shooter in times immemorial, long before the current gen of mirrorless beasts hit the market. Always wondered how the Canon shooters did it- the...
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Forum: Photos
09-02-2020, 10:54 AM
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To CMJC: l'origine de l'espece...
une petite explication : le terme God Rays est utilise par similitude avec vieux icones ou la Divinite est representee avec tels rayons sortant d'un nuage lumineux - or avec des halos radiants :D.
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Forum: Photos
08-13-2020, 07:36 AM
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To Keitht: The bottle is the key
Well spotted Keitht...The bottle just happened to be there, is somewhat distracting but is directly linked to the history of this place. Remember how I said it was meant to be an auditorium /open air...
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Forum: Photos
02-04-2020, 07:24 AM
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To jimmyjimmy: Hello Jimmy and thanks
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Thanks for the workshop take on this pic. Surely it looks way more artsy in BW with crop as you saw it. Just wanted to add this picture-like-a-scribble with little to no processing to show how...
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Forum: Photos
12-05-2019, 06:18 PM
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To kasianowak: Finally complete, muhaha!
Thanks, Kasia.
It really came out beautiful- search for Christmas tree, Brasov 2019 and you will hopefully get to see it lit up and all set ,my mom sent me a pic of the completed work from some site...
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Forum: Photos
11-14-2019, 08:30 AM
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To dragonslayero: thanks!
hello. Ditto for the WB, it was more like a "happy accident" with the wrong settings on my ancient d200 and me almost dropping it and mushing the controls while catching it. Gotta be careful with...
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Forum: Photos
11-14-2019, 06:43 AM
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To jimmyjimmy: Thank you
and yes, the whole picture is those clouds. A friend of mine who is into skydiving tells me some clouds like that are denser than fog and have some ice particles floating .So whenever a skydiver...
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Forum: Photos
11-14-2019, 06:37 AM
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To jimmyjimmy: hello Jimmy
and thanks for the comment. Yes the whole point of this image is the state of the sky and the texture of the sea versus the fluff of the clouds.A friend of mine who skydives told me that certain...
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Forum: Photos
07-11-2019, 11:10 AM
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To jemaflor: "architecture" details
Hello and thanks for the comment!:D If you really enjoyed this shot let me share a litterally little dirty secret: see that "feature" that looks like a diffuse little dark square on the side wall of...
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Forum: Photos
06-03-2019, 08:59 AM
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To jemaflor: Thank you
But to be completely honest the colors are a bit of a happy accident. The D200 was heavy in my tired hands, been playing with it all day , and when the crowd gawked in awe to the first balloon taking...
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Forum: Photos
04-24-2019, 10:06 AM
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To jhm: Hello John,
Yes, the 50 is indeed a nice portrait lens but I like to play sometimes.I also do portraits with long focals "just for the hell of it" (there are some interesting effects there) and full-body shots...
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