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Comment by amplified posted on Swap my FA 50 for your DA 70? at 23/04/2012 - 01:39
Nobody wants perfect lens for a bargain?
Comment by amplified posted on Swap my FA 50 for your DA 70? at 21/04/2012 - 15:24
congrats, any tips? point and shoot!
Try reversal film.
Try reversal film.
Comment by amplified posted on Just got me a K5... at 21/04/2012 - 02:14
i took probably 100-120 shots and these the only two i like that much i want to show. Maybe the count of success shots is about 5 or 10
Timing is... a bit tricky. Just stare at the water and after... well maybe the first 30 or 40 shots you'll probably get it Maybe it could be done much easier with stop watch and measure the time when the water falls exactly and put the camera in interval shooting, but i was using the built in flash to trigger the external and the battery of the camera was almost dead so the charging was lot more than the interval between the drops.
Timing is... a bit tricky. Just stare at the water and after... well maybe the first 30 or 40 shots you'll probably get it Maybe it could be done much easier with stop watch and measure the time when the water falls exactly and put the camera in interval shooting, but i was using the built in flash to trigger the external and the battery of the camera was almost dead so the charging was lot more than the interval between the drops.
Comment by amplified posted on Droplets macro tests at 20/04/2012 - 17:00
Very big difference... the quality of the output with 100% same settings is VERY POOR.
Even without applying unsharp mask the resized photo looks over sharpened. If you resize 16mp pic to 1000px on the long side and then apply 0.5px 70% unsharp mask in cs6 it looks like you applied 1.5px 150% in CS5. If you know what I mean. The fine detail is lost and looks like crap.
So both times PS CS6 lasted like 2 hours on my machine and went to trash.
Hope they fix it.
Even without applying unsharp mask the resized photo looks over sharpened. If you resize 16mp pic to 1000px on the long side and then apply 0.5px 70% unsharp mask in cs6 it looks like you applied 1.5px 150% in CS5. If you know what I mean. The fine detail is lost and looks like crap.
So both times PS CS6 lasted like 2 hours on my machine and went to trash.
Hope they fix it.
Comment by amplified posted on The New Photoshop CS6 at 20/04/2012 - 15:21
The setup was kinda funny, because i don't have a tripod and i stabilized the camera with improvised stuff.
Basically i put a frying pan in the sink, pink kitchen cloth to cover the background and the sink, external flash( i had to move it around to find nice lighting) and k5 with FA 100/2.8 macro.
Kinda funny setup, but it worked great
Next in the list is to try to capture drop in the drop.
Maybe better cloth would make a better background too. And replace the frying pan with see thru lunch box.
Basically i put a frying pan in the sink, pink kitchen cloth to cover the background and the sink, external flash( i had to move it around to find nice lighting) and k5 with FA 100/2.8 macro.
Kinda funny setup, but it worked great
Next in the list is to try to capture drop in the drop.
Maybe better cloth would make a better background too. And replace the frying pan with see thru lunch box.
Comment by amplified posted on Droplets macro tests at 20/04/2012 - 10:57
Is it issue with me or in general, but i have installed photoshop cs6 beta two times on my macbook pro and both times the images tend to be over sharpened, without me sharping them?
They just look very bad!
The new content aware is pretty impressive, but if the images becomes with so bad quality due to over sharpening...
I hope this is just beta issue or just on my machine.
They just look very bad!
The new content aware is pretty impressive, but if the images becomes with so bad quality due to over sharpening...
I hope this is just beta issue or just on my machine.
Comment by amplified posted on The New Photoshop CS6 at 20/04/2012 - 00:03
first tests
Comment by amplified posted on Droplets macro tests at 19/04/2012 - 22:00
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXyU2zNczSs
Just testing the FA 100/2.8 macro
the flicker is due to youtube trying to compensate camera shake
Just testing the FA 100/2.8 macro
the flicker is due to youtube trying to compensate camera shake
Comment by amplified posted on Snail macro video at 17/04/2012 - 22:54
cheers