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Assume, (Dangerous), hand held, manual focus? Ed.
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Do you pump up the saturation on your images, Don, or is this straight out of camera? Too saturated for me but makes one think.
Is it a full frame camera and what sort of distances are we talking about. Keep posting.
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Thanks Ed and Dean. Nikon D3100 (DX) camera. Hand held manual focus. I use a lot of tone mapping to pull out the shadows and provide more detail. Not everyone likes it. Some of these photos are only a yard or two and some are 300 yards or more. The harbor photos must be half a mile.
I was just playing around with a lens I bought years ago and rarely use.
Nikon D3100 with Tokina 28-70mm f3.5, (I like to use a Vivitar .43x aux on the 28-70mm Tokina), Nikkor 10.5 mm fisheye, Quanteray 70-300mm f4.5, ProOptic 500 mm f6.3 mirror lens.
http://donschaefferphoto.blogspot.com/
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I had a Minolta 500mm Mirror lens for 35mm camera, and was impressed with it. Always tried to use 1000th sec, even if it meant cooking the film when developing. Paid off. While I am definitely no expert, have no knowledge of Tone Mapping, I have seen very few images that impressed me. Rather like HDR, friend is prolific with it, then prints on a CMYK Printer!!!. Should imagine it is a bit difficult to find a Printer that copes with it. Probably wrong. Cheers. Ed.
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Tone mapping is a feature of Paintshop Pro X5. Like HDR, it brings the extremes of contrast closer together to compensate for the sensor's limited dynamic range. I took these pictures at ISO 800 at 1/500 or /1000.
Nikon D3100 with Tokina 28-70mm f3.5, (I like to use a Vivitar .43x aux on the 28-70mm Tokina), Nikkor 10.5 mm fisheye, Quanteray 70-300mm f4.5, ProOptic 500 mm f6.3 mirror lens.
http://donschaefferphoto.blogspot.com/