AT Shot of the Day Thread

[AntonioHG]

I took a stab at your image with Topaz DeNoise...is there any improvement in the image below?

when I look at the both as full screen images on my 65" screen, the improvement is noticeable to me

I'm gonna download the software and see for myself finally hahah.

Edit: So I tried the DeNoise software and I like the ease of use and I like how it made some stuff look a lot better w/almost no effort. Some issues with it applying the smoothing effect evenly, but with the little bit of time I used it, hey, not bad. If it was like $20 -- I'd probably buy to put into the toolbox At $60 it's a bit hard for me to justify since I don't really have images that require that sort of clean up too often.

 

[MrSquished]

Just a couple quick snapshots with the pixel 5 at the new park built over the river on the west side of NYC, sunset yesterday. You can see that the park is quite large when you put the massive line of people waiting to get in, into perspective

 

[AntonioHG]

The Sigma 100-400mm came in handy this weekend. Mockingbird in 1 and 2, Catbird in the 3rd.

 

[trenchfoot]

Mynah dropping by to snack on some Manila palm fruit and decided to pose for this shot.

 

[UsandThem]

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/see-the-first-images-nasa-s-juno-took-as-it-sailed-by-ganymede

The spacecraft flew closer to Jupiter’s largest moon than any other in more than two decades, offering dramatic glimpses of the icy orb.

The first two images from NASA Juno’s June 7, 2021, flyby of Jupiter’s giant moon Ganymede have been received on Earth. The photos – one from the Jupiter orbiter’s JunoCam imager and the other from its Stellar Reference Unit star camera – show the surface in remarkable detail, including craters, clearly distinct dark and bright terrain, and long structural features possibly linked to tectonic faults.

 

[IronWing]

Tectonics my ass, someone's been strip mining!


Actually, it's an interesting to see what tectonics looks like when there is no erosion to level and bury things.

 

[trenchfoot]

Looks like somebody was going at it with a ceramic tile trowel and gave up half way through. The stark difference in surface features (topography?) just looks so unnatural.

 

[Crotulus]

Starting to spend more time in the San Bernardino mountains.

Looking out to Lake Arrowhead

 

[CuriousMike]

Panum Crater by Michael Coustier, on Flickr

 

[CuriousMike]

Cold kins by Michael Coustier, on Flickr

 

[CuriousMike]

Yosemite Falls by Michael Coustier, on Flickr

 

[CuriousMike]

Just Missed by Michael Coustier, on Flickr

 

[AntonioHG]

Saw a Blue Jay take on a Red Tailed Hawk on Saturday. it was pretty cool to see even if they were a bit far away:

 

[trenchfoot]

Saw a Blue Jay take on a Red Tailed Hawk on Saturday. it was pretty cool to see even if they were a bit far away:


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Nice catch. I've tried to no avail at capturing birds in flight with a 600L setup where I've got only a few seconds to acquire, focus, meter and shoot. Frustrating as all git out. The only success I've had was if the bird was high up sailing in place or slowly gliding around looking for fish to pounce on, or from using a 100-400L by acquiring the subject at 100, then zooming out to 400 while tracking the zigzagging critters.

 

[trenchfoot]

House finch took a break on my fence while I was taking pics of aircraft so I decided to switch a few control functions on the fly and got a lucky snapshot of it seconds before she decided to head on home.

 

[trenchfoot]

Sun was being blocked by heavy overcast over the Koolau mountain range which produced this soft lighting effect.

 

[trenchfoot]

Never seen this type before. Will have to do a search on this one.

 

[IronWing]

P-8A Poseidon

Boeing P-8 Poseidon - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[AntonioHG]

Nice catch. I've tried to no avail at capturing birds in flight with a 600L setup where I've got only a few seconds to acquire, focus, meter and shoot. Frustrating as all git out. The only success I've had was if the bird was high up sailing in place or slowly gliding around looking for fish to pounce on, or from using a 100-400L by acquiring the subject at 100, then zooming out to 400 while tracking the zigzagging critters.

I have been trying to capture the swallows in flight at a reasonable ISO with a reasonable shutter speed and with a decent amount of detail. Spent about an hour and the light went away too fast (rainy day) and while I did get some good shots, they were super grainy and lacked detail. It's hard! Hahah.

Anyway, my advice to reduce frustration, is to shoot the gentle gliders, then graduate to the large and predictable pigeon and then keep going down in size. It's a lot easier if the birds have a source of food or a wire they like to sit on or an area they frequent as you can try to get comfortable and camp the spot. Don't zoom in too much. Way easier to shoot with the bird maybe taking up 1/6 of the image and crop in. I think a really good shot would be a smaller-to-medium sized bird filling about 1/4th the frame in flight and I've only got a few of those so far.

 

[trenchfoot]

P-8A Poseidon

Boeing P-8 Poseidon - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Damn, and here I tought it was a flying taxi service for flag types on vacays to the islands. Looks can be so deceiving. Thanks for the linky IronWing.

edit - Tail code reads Patrol Squadron VP-47 NAS Whidbey Island, WA.

 

[AntonioHG]

Cabbage White (or Small White) butterfly:

Sigma 100-400mm @ ~ 300mm to get about 6 inches closer vs the full 400mm. Tempted to attach one of the extension tubes for closer focus and stick a flash on top so I can get more depth-of-field too -- man! I'm gonna look like a complete maniac, hahah!

 

[trenchfoot]

Images shot from a recent field trip.........to my back yard. heh (too lazy or too busy or lack of motivation to go out on a real one)

 

[AntonioHG]

The super of the apartment building invited me and my family up to the rooftop for the fireworks. They were not on the Hudson this time, but this display was huge enough to see across Manhattan. The smoke obscured the latter half of the show and by the end, all we could see is the Empire State Building. Got a bit of camera shake since folks were walking about and the kids were jumping up and down:

 

[Crotulus]

Few shots from the family vacation up to Northern California.

Collapsed ceiling of Pluto's Cave (lava tube)


Middle Falls of the McCloud River


Horse Camp up on Mount Shasta

 

[Fenixgoon]

my two favorite shots from the fireworks on sunday