Some long range photography

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Some long range photography

Postby Matt. K on Fri Dec 17, 2004 7:23 pm

Went out to Sydney airport today and exercised the 80-200 with a 2X convertor. Total focal length equal to 600mm.
The first pic shows the destructive effect of heat haze. A common problem when using long lenses on a hot day.
http://www.pbase.com/matt_k/image/37583512
http://www.pbase.com/matt_k/image/37583564
http://www.pbase.com/matt_k/image/37583577
http://www.pbase.com/matt_k/image/37583578
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Postby Dargan on Fri Dec 17, 2004 7:36 pm

QANTAS sshould pay you for the third shot. They are all neat an in the middle. Is that your own 80-200 Matt?
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Postby Matt. K on Fri Dec 17, 2004 7:44 pm

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It is an older F/2.8 push/pull AF lens. It does a nice job. By the way...I beleive in the end...we know everything. It comes to us at the exact moment of death. We just don't get time to pass it on.
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Postby Raydar on Fri Dec 17, 2004 9:58 pm

Third shot is the one mate.

Awesome stuff!!!!!!!! :shock:

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Postby Onyx on Fri Dec 17, 2004 10:08 pm

Those look choice, print em out big and add them to Birddog's collection!
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Postby Killakoala on Fri Dec 17, 2004 10:44 pm

You should send that last one in to the Terror Hotline. That bloke jumping the fence looks dodgy.
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Postby Greg B on Fri Dec 17, 2004 11:32 pm

0103 is my fave....
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Postby Glen on Sat Dec 18, 2004 10:10 am

I am amazed the AFP didn't arrest you, or were they taken from a speeding Volvo?
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Postby gstark on Sat Dec 18, 2004 2:14 pm

Glen wrote: speeding Volvo?


Oxymoron alert!
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Postby ajo43 on Sat Dec 18, 2004 2:28 pm

Matt

A quick question for you? When I upload to pbase some of the exif data seems to disappear (ISO etc) but you seem to have been able to keep it in your shots.

Is there an easy trick to this?

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Postby Matt. K on Sat Dec 18, 2004 4:40 pm

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I'm not sure why this is happening. I download my images to the desktop using Nikon Transfer. I have set this program to capture the full Exif by clicking on the little tool icon at top right and clicking in the box that refers to the Exif. I then process in Photoshop CS and resize for Pbase in CS before saving into a folder. It may be you are not capturing all of the Exif when you initially download from the camera....but that's just a guess.
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Postby ajo43 on Tue Dec 21, 2004 9:55 pm

Thanks Matt. I think because I don't use nikon transfer that is the problem. I just drag the photos accross to my c: drive from the card reader in the laptop using explorer (I hear the good workflow people gasping)
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Postby mudder on Wed Dec 22, 2004 8:02 am

G'day,
I might be a heathen, but all I've ever done is cut and paste from the card reader to my hard drive... I never thought that would make any diff as you're copying the entire file etc...
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