Daily MWHCVT(Matt's) Challenge 366 - 2012 - Now with added 5D3 Goodness

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This is Hockly Heath just off the M40/M42, it's great to finally have some stars :thumbs: it just wish I had known with a little more notice we could have finally got that meet done :bang:
 
Day 205 - Day into Night

Well I've pushed my PPing skills a little today and to be honest I'm not that happy I think that I need to do a lot more work on this style of photo and the taking of the photo's for them before I'll be really happy with the style :(


205/366 (570) by mwhcvt, on Flickr

Matt
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Cheffievrs said:
Nice Matt, but really another windmill.....??
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Thanks Jason, unfortunately yes another windmill, only shot it as a backup on the way to getting a different day time shot but in the end I really wasn't happy with that photo :(

michael23 said:
Looks fairly good Matt, in what way are you not happy with it?
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I think that it would have been better with a transition from day to night being done vertically :( so will be trying that soon :D

Just Dave said:
Like it Matt :thumbs:
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Thanks Dave :D

Matt
 
Day 206 - Pushing the Limit's

In many way's this was done only to give myself a challenge but still I'm rather pleased with the final outcome of capturing star trailing in an urban environment with an illuminated building as the subject, the subject being the fine detail on the old county and crown court buildings in Warwick


206/366 (571) by mwhcvt, on Flickr

This is made up of 286 x 1.6second exposures @ f/4.5 / ISO400 this shows how brightly lit the building was but I've still managed to pick out a lot more stars than could be seen with then naked eye :D

Matt
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freefall said:
oh wow that is excellent!!!! Can't believe just how many images it took though. Tell me you didn't have to convert the raw's?
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Thanks :D Indeed it was a lot of exposures :D but then this is possibly the most extreme of location that you would consider doing a star trail :eek: but that was the point :thumbs: and yeah I did have to process all those RAW my processor really didn't like that :eek:
 
Beav said:
Great work so far bud. Really liking 205
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Thank you :D I've just got in from shooting today's so I've gotta process that now :D glad you like 205 as it was a bit of an experiment :D

Matt
 
Day 207 - Golden Moon

A shot of this evening moon before it set it had a distinct orange glow to it this evening from the setting sun :D


207/366 (572) by mwhcvt, on Flickr

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michael23 said:
Very good star trail Matt, considering the location. I have missed the moon, thanks to clouds! How's the sharpness on your original file, as it looks a little soft here.
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Looks reasonable on the original so I can only thing it may be a flickr resizing issue :D
 
it looks basically sharp but a little over exposed to me - maybe move the mid tones to the right a bit ?
 
big soft moose said:
it looks basically sharp but a little over exposed to me - maybe move the mid tones to the right a bit ?
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I'll have to have a play around with it later see just what I can pull out of this :thumb:

Matt
 
Day 208 - Walk Talk

I don't know why but this little Robin was really prancing round on my table this afternoon so I couldn't resist taking a photo of him :D


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Lovely shot... now why is it they look skinny in summer and fat in winter?
 
JohnN said:
Lovely shot... now why is it they look skinny in summer and fat in winter?
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Thanks John, I think it's just they fatten up a little for the cold and fluff themselves up :thumbs:

Delta Skies said:
Is it Christmas already? :lol:
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Indeed :lol: now where's the snow to cool things down a little :suspect:

Matt
 
MWHCVT said:
Thanks John, I think it's just they fatten up a little for the cold and fluff themselves up :thumbs:
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Also in winter they fluff themselves up for insulation a lot
 
michael23 said:
Lovely Robin shot Matt, only thing bugging me is that over exposed bit to the left hand side, kind of looks like a monkey nut or something?
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Thanks Michael, it's a Cashew nut to be precise and I left it there rather than cloning it out to show why the Robin was there :D it looked like he was straining to look around as if to say "Is this anyone's? if not I'm gonna have it :D"
 
That robin shot is fantastic, Matt.
Great depth and you've captured a bit of his character too!
 
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