2018 Project 52, First Quarter, by Joe Small (Joebranko)

[Geoff F]

That looks better to me, Joe. And the canoe seems to be in a more pleasing position being just to the right of centre now.

[joebranko]

Sail boat circling, waiting for the bridge to raise so it can sail out into Lake Ontario.




As the Hamilton lift bridge goes up it can move under and through



Finally past, it can go through the rest of the canal and into the Lake.

[joebranko]

This is also from Hamilton Harbour; I posted this to see comments about the space in front of this boat being smaller than the space behind. I know the 'rule' is that I should leave more room for the boat to sail(?) into, but I preferred the composition which maintained the boat-wash. I actually wanted to save more of the boat-wash, and delete more room from the front, more like this..




The next shot is of a bridge in the Grist Mill estate in St. Carharines.

[joebranko]

From Balls Falls Ontario.

Hand held.




Shutter speed 1/320


and

I tried to make the water more silky with 1/30" but did not have my tripod so I could not extend the exposure or I could have added a filter and done something better.

[Shadowman]

Really like the colors of the structure in post #82.

[Shadowman]

Post #83, both would work with a bit less water, nice series. The bridge shot is okay but some details should be brought out of the shadows.

[Shadowman]

Post #84, you can try some of these camera holding techniques as described by photographer Joe McNally.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDsx3-FWfwk

[joebranko]

Post #84, you can try some of these camera holding techniques as described by photographer Joe McNally.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDsx3-FWfwk

Thanks John. I normaview with my right, but I think I will try my left also.

[joebranko]

Post #83, both would work with a bit less water, nice series. The bridge shot is okay but some details should be brought out of the shadows.

I will try that.

[Geoff F]

You have obviously been working with some difficult harsh lighting conditions with these shots. The second and third images from #82 work particularly well.

The last one was something of an impossible situation. If you went any slower you would have probably run into subject movement problems regarding the leaves. As it is, I think I would have preferred a much faster shutter speed to freeze the water. But would that have required too wide an aperture resulting in a loss of focus depth?

[joebranko]

The last one was something of an impossible situation

No sure which pic you mean here ?

[Geoff F]

I meant the second image of post#84, Joe, where even if you had used a tripod for a slow shot of the water you would probably have had some motion blur from the leaves moving around.

[joebranko]

I meant the second image of post#84, Joe, where even if you had used a tripod for a slow shot of the water you would probably have had some motion blur from the leaves moving around.

Yes, I agree. While taking the hot I worrid about whether toocus on he forerond or the water falls. I thought focus stacking but there i needed a tripod, and I'd not know if Potoshop spported this function

[Wavelength]

All nice images

[Geoff F]

Photoshop CS and CC versions have a very good focus stacking option, Joe. I use it a lot.

Takes a few minutes of thought to work out how to access everything and get it to operate easily but once you have had a bit of practice it is easy to use.

Sometimes I do take handheld shots for stacking but you do need to allow a bit of extra space around the edges for alignment of layers to accommodate a bit of camera wobble. Doesn't always work but you have nothing to lose by giving it a try.

[joebranko]

Photoshop CS and CC versions have a very good focus stacking option, Joe. I use it a lot.

Takes a few minutes of thought to work out how to access everything and get it to operate easily but once you have had a bit of practice it is easy to use.

Sometimes I do take handheld shots for stacking but you do need to allow a bit of extra space around the edges for alignment of layers to accommodate a bit of camera wobble. Doesn't always work but you have nothing to lose by giving it a try.

Thanks Geoff

[joebranko]

All nice images

Thanks Nandakuma

[joebranko]

Trying my first 'focus blending' attempt. This test is more a learning on how to do it and to learn from the mistakes.

I tried to get some plant material in the foreground, the geese in mid, and the trees on the far bank of the water in background. For all shots I used the tripod, I did not think of the geese moving about, which of course they did.
This is the result of the merge of three shots.

[skitterbug]

Your first effort looks good to me!

[joebranko]

Thanks Sandy: the foreground seems out of focus to me. I was focussing manually so I can t blame the camera 😎