Out of Focus & Off Topic MkIII...

Night owl gal wrote: »

Hi all

So in the last few months, I have been doing a clear-out at home. During the clear-out, I found a book, which is the photography yearbook from 2009. I put it up on Facebook marketplace/eBay/adverts/done deal, with little interest. Just wondering if anyone here would like it?

I'm offering it for €5 but it is negotiable as I'm conscious not everyone can afford this, in today's hard times. I can post it for €9 (tracked) or meet the buyer if within 5km

Thanks

I'm guessing this is a no? Didn't hear anything from anyone

iLikeWaffles wrote: »

There's an Astrophotography competition being run by Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies that just opened for public voting. I have a few shortlisted images in it myself but there is much better shots in there compared to my own so I have little hope for winning: €500 voucher 1 year sub to a newspaper and a personalised tour of Dunsink Observatory

If you want to have a look at the images and vote for your favourite you can to so here:
https://www.dias.ie/astrophotography-competition-public-vote/

Only 1 vote per person and subject to email verification.

Winner and runners up of that DIAS competition:
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/reach-for-the-stars-the-best-of-irish-astrophotography-1.4575756?fbclid=IwAR1DoBo6BX8GJK2G0zNMDpQv_dfQg62qfUe7pewR-I7eb38CWvMAuP7E2-0#.YLL5aJIOq8Q.facebook

Public choice winner:

fryup wrote: »

what technique did this guy use?

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/2000-volkswagen-lupo-nctd-amp-taxed/28313152

he has foreground/the car so in focus and the background so distant/faded ...i like it

It looks like its just processed by the camera software on the phone. If you look at the space in the headrests in the second image the focus is all over the place.

Looks like a model car :pac:

barryribs wrote: »

Did anyone take any pictures of the eclipse last week? I didn't have any filter so had to rely on clouds to get the white balance right. Any tips for this in future or is it just a case of getting a dark filter onto the lense?

Baader solar filter sheet (mylar) is about ND 5.0, costs roughly €20 depending on size. Place it onto a cardboard cut-out with a good sized hole in the centre (at least half radius of lens or can go full size of lens) stick the filter sheet to the cardboard with some sort of slow setting glue, such as contact adhesive or you can use a strong bounding double sided tape. Place another cut-out with flaps for an elastic band on top with more glue and cut around the sheet. Or you can buy a solar filter that fits over a lens but it is more expensive. The baader sheet should be replaced every few years and if it gets damaged at all toss it.

The baader stuff will show as white, the Sun is white anyway in our visual spectrum, but you can colourise it in photoshop etc. There is also black polymer (thousand oaks) which will colourise to orange. The mylar can be sharper.

Not only good for eclipses but for when there is sunspots on the sun which is fairly regularly. To really get detail you'd want a solar Hydrogen Alpha filter (not to be confused with a normal Ha filter) solar Ha filters are extremely expensive.

looksee wrote: »

Sorry if this is out of place, but have you seen this https://www.worldlandscapephotographer.com/ the winning photograph is from Ireland, there are some amazing images among the rest.

Yes, absolutely amazing!

I tried taking a pic tonight, beautiful moon out there. I will try again using your settings. I'd like to know your setting for white balance, please.

Thanks for the reply. I needed to dial down the exposure compensation to minus 3.5 to get rid of the flashing highlights.

Wow! Winners of the 2021 Epson International Pano Awards

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2021/10/winners-2021-epson-international-pano-awards/620420/