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    US cars - open thread

    Thanks :)
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    US cars - open thread

    I've shot both these cars before but finally managed to get them together one sunny evening over the summer for a shoot. Just over 50 years between them... DSC_4454-Edit by Niall Porter Photography, on Flickr DSC_4590 by Niall Porter Photography, on Flickr DSC_4610 by Niall Porter...
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    Instagram - share your user name

    https://www.instagram.com/niall.porter/
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    f2.8 24-70mm lens.

    I have the Tamron 24-70mm f/2.8 (not the G2) in Nikon format. It's a great lens but not the sharpest at f/2.8 and suffers a bit of vignette there too. Stop it down to f/3.2 or f/3.5 and things get much better on both fronts there. I've never used any other 24-70mm so can't compare. As for...
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    Lightroom Photos - Culling Your Images

    Personally I do the first cull before importing to Lightroom - get the shots off the card onto the computer then just use Windows image viewer app and scroll through them and just delete anything unusable for whatever reason. I remember reading something a while back that said it was much...
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    Spyder5 Express with Windows 10 issue

    Hi Kevin, so I eventually ditched the official Datacolor software and used a third party tool called DisplayCAL. It works with various calibration tools and gives more features than the Spyder5Express (basically you get the features you'd have to pay extra for the better Spyder versions as the...
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    Whats going on with Flickr?

    Yep, seems fine again, I sent a short URL to someone tonight and it seems to work again, guess it was just a spaniel in the works...
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    Whats going on with Flickr?

    The short URL links they give you when you click the share (arrow) icon on a photo or album seemed to break sometime Monday night/Tuesday morning (UK time). I mailed an album link through to someone on Monday evening and it worked fine, passed it to someone at work on Tuesday morning and it...
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    The Photographer's Ephemeris

    This, certainly the Android app is free as well but you don't get stuff like 3D view etc. For planning that "2 day per year" shot above though it would be useful. I've used it a lot for that sort of thing. Equally useful is mooncalc.org - in fact possibly even more so, as the moon isn't in...
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    Impreza WRX 300S

    Thanks for the input! To respond to your points in order (assuming your point numbers correspond to the images in my post): 1 - I did actually use a CPL for the whole shoot - that said I think it was only the second time I've ever used one so either that was the best I could do for that shot...
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    Beginner Dunnottar Castle

    Thanks Alan :) That was shot looking almost due East, directly out to sea - beyond the castle is about 430 miles of the North Sea and then eventually the Denmark Coast. I'd not expected there to be much light pollution at all given I was looking pretty much away from the light but there's a...
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    Beginner Dunnottar Castle

    Thanks folks - must admit I only see the bits I wish I'd done better but I've got a lot of positive feedback about it and in fact I've even sold my first print! Yeah I know DarkSiteFinder and was aware that there might be quite a bit of light pollution there. I got this one last year a bit...
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    Beginner Dunnottar Castle

    Went out one evening last week to try and get some shots of this old, ruined castle near where I live under the stars. Stellarium showed that the MW is in the night sky to the east and should be visible from around 0030 at the moment. Also practiced doing star stacking with Sequator...
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    Sigma 70-200mm variants

    Thanks for that. I hadn't appreciated that the macro version (certainly the one in question) didn't have OS. Re. Sigma compatibility, I already had my 105mm macro when I got my D610, when I upgraded the firmware on the camera I found the autofocus on the Sigma stopped working so I downgraded...
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    Sigma 70-200mm variants

    I have a possible opportunity to buy a Sigma 70-200mm ex dg hsm II lens which I believe is one of the "macro" versions (whether that's correct or just marketing speak is another matter) for a good price. This lens and other examples of the macro versions do seem to be priced significantly...
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