Project: One photo a day (but not necessarily every day)

[j44ke]

Red shouldered hawk?

Yes sir!

[rwsaunders]

Lots of hiking lately with it being so cold outside and with the roads being so slick…glad to have a nature reserve that’s only a 12 minute walk away…good for clearing the head.

[rwsaunders]

When a 2 by 4 was 2 by more.

[NorTX-Dave]

Agave Americana

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[j44ke]

Yesterday. Since then about 2" of granular ice pellets to follow the melt/freeze cycle of mid-week. Trees still ice coated. Power off at 3AM yesterday, just came back on at 9AM. Love that generator and our giant propane tank. Hopefully power will stay on - 18mph winds forecast for later. It is beautiful unless you are a lineman up a pole trying to reconnect 4100 customers so they can get their heat back on in their house.

These yellow birches somehow always look like they are doing pirouettes.

[j44ke]

Today.

[robin3mj]

Wow. Great shot.

Saw similar views from my aunt and uncle in Vernon NJ

[Diablo de Acero]

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This is our neck of the woods at this moment.

[htwoopup]

Canadian Snowbirds went south for the winter.

[j44ke]

The freeze meant we could walk across the old beaver pond to the small island at the north end. Always feels kind of magic to cross over an area that otherwise requires hip-waders.

[j44ke]

Today is overcast with snow-showers.

[Tom]

A life of high culture and refinement.

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[rwsaunders]

[j44ke]

Lighter later a couple days ago but today gray and snowing.

[robin3mj]

Still boggles my mind that in a metro of 4mm people, me and the dog could command an arena so devoid of people as this. I can only hope to recreate similar circumstances when I retire.

PS- Chicago is a hell of a city if you can make it work for you.

[Jamie Medeiros]

Atlantic white cedar swamp by Jamie Medeiros, on Flickr

playing around with panoramas and low f-stop. 90 images merged with a 135mm f/1.8 lens

[robin3mj]

Jamie
Amazing shot, as are many on your Flickr account. (Also appreciate your access to the woods, however you define them)
How do you stack the images?
Looks like you’re using a full frame Sony.
I think my Olympus has this capability so I need to look into it.

[j44ke]

Somewhere underneath this luge run is a driveway. Today is 50F. Tonight is 20F. Tomorrow high of 25F low of 8F. Zamboni weather.

[SlowPokePete]

February 12, 2022 by SPP™ SlowPokePete, on Flickr

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[Jamie Medeiros]

Jamie
Amazing shot, as are many on your Flickr account. (Also appreciate your access to the woods, however you define them)
How do you stack the images?
Looks like you’re using a full frame Sony.
I think my Olympus has this capability so I need to look into it.

Hi Matt,
Any camera can do this if you are careful when taking the image batch. I use a Sony A7r2 on top of a cheap indexing panorama head to make sure all the shots line up and so I don't miss any. To do the vertical change I use the rule of thirds lines in the viewfinder to make sure I have between 25% to 30% overlap. To stitch the photos together I either use the "Photo merge to panorama" function in Lightroom or for bigger images like this a panorama program called PTGui. PTGui is faster and allows for tweaking of the alignment. Alignment can be an issue in images without sharp defined edges like the out of focus areas and sky. The photo above was 30,000 pixels across on the long side before cropping and downsizing for saving. Needless to say, I need a bigger hard drive. The reason I am doing this is to play with the depth of field. If my calculations are correct this image would be like using a 32mm f/0.35 lens. An impossible lens to make.