affinity photo stuff that past through Affinity Photo recently

[ianrb]

I have some others to come with a bit more detail about the editing ; however comments and questions welcome . All but the tree taken with a Pana Fz300 
Crested pigeon perched over water

fountain bubbles -- one click at a time

shadows from a bus stop shelter

just a few minutes minutes (backyard)

 

 

the difference three hours can make -- nice day until the dust storm  wandered through

[Sharkey]

You live in an interesting part of the world and are recording it well.

[edulofter]

It is indeed beautiful!!!

I think your life is full of poetry and romance.

Image Credit: NicePNG

[ianrb]

On 12/4/2018 at 3:42 AM, edulofter said:

It is indeed beautiful!!!

I think your life is full of poetry and romance.

 

Image Credit: NicePNG

I will take credit for the recording bit ; but romance and poetry are not really me 

[ianrb]

On 12/3/2018 at 10:46 PM, Sharkey said:

You live in an interesting part of the world and are recording it well.

well I will certainly take that as a complement . IMo it's pretty photography boring around here and one needs hunt around for something different shown in a different way. Very flat here; no hills with 300-400 km, no pretty streams with flowing water, or lush forests to hunt fungi  . In fact it's  very dry here, and even drier this year being 200mm under the average which is only 300mm .
However; when one slows downs to look properly, there are countless subjects inside the bigger picture to test the imagination and improve the camera and editing skills. Many of my photos would be considered boring as there are no grand snow capped mountains, deep gorges and flowing water. Sadly, it would seem to be a good photographer today one only need to have photos of the cute, cuddly, and the pretty  like bloody sunsets which are basically one of the easiest photo to take 

It is really amazing the subjects available in my own smallish house yard, and when I think I have done it all something well appear that I have never really noticed before even if I seen a 1000 times .
The best part is I don't need or even want a "BIG camera"  to record my subjects. The little Pana Fz300 is an amazing tool . 

[Sharkey]

On 12/4/2018 at 11:30 PM, ianrb said:

well I will certainly take that as a complement . IMo it's pretty photography boring around here and one needs hunt around for something different shown in a different way. Very flat here; no hills with 300-400 km, no pretty streams with flowing water, or lush forests to hunt fungi  . In fact it's  very dry here, and even drier this year being 200mm under the average which is only 300mm .
However; when one slows downs to look properly, there are countless subjects inside the bigger picture to test the imagination and improve the camera and editing skills. Many of my photos would be considered boring as there are no grand snow capped mountains, deep gorges and flowing water. Sadly, it would seem to be a good photographer today one only need to have photos of the cute, cuddly, and the pretty  like bloody sunsets which are basically one of the easiest photo to take 

It is really amazing the subjects available in my own smallish house yard, and when I think I have done it all something well appear that I have never really noticed before even if I seen a 1000 times .
The best part is I don't need or even want a "BIG camera"  to record my subjects. The little Pana Fz300 is an amazing tool . 

Fz300 looks a really capable camera. I suspect its flexibility is its greatest asset for you if, as you say, your options locally are that poor. Being able to close in on detail both WA & Zoom reliably probably gets your eye in for the details that others may miss. The pair of you certainly 'click'.  Sorry, bad bad pun.

[ianrb]

13 hours ago, Sharkey said:

Fz300 looks a really capable camera.

Like all tools Sharkey; it's only as good as the user knows and understand their tools -- certainly not the camera for the pixel counts or those who make lots of massive enlargements; even though I have a 40"/1mtr canvas from the older Fz200. But then, I have recently seen a 40x30" canvas printed from an tablet file !!!! 
I have been on a somewhat of a "get to know it better" journey over past few months and the lovely Oly Em1 has been sort of forgotten even if it is the best camera I have used in something like 40 years . The fz300 is just more versatile . The biggest change I have made; especially for close ups is use manual focus with peaking more often. And it seem the aperture is best locked at F4, not F4.5 or F5 as I have used mostly (F2.8 to F8 range) . File quality does drop with larger apertures . Generally; fine jpeg files are great off the card but I do prefer the versatility of raw files.
I bought the Fz200 as soon as it was released --- I also sent a wishlist to Panasonic (Aust) and many/most of those wishes were in the Fz300; plus other improvements. A Fz400 cannot be far away -- better manual focusing control is #1 on the wish list  

BTW; it's a warm 42c here today !

[ianrb]

When using a "sub" camera you need to think a bit out of the square as the sub camera cannot match the big boys toys like $10/20,000 lens.
This power line is about 100 mts away !  There's a bit of a story to the edited reason 
That is best viewed from a distance or as a smaller screen image


And this crested pigeon is on my shed roof; however the file has been heavily cropped. 


At the time, I was doing some photos with a canon 250D close up filter on the Pana ---within seconds I was able to switch from close up lizards and leaves to 600 mm bird photography  . Neither photo will cut it with the pixel counters but ........ .
The biggest drama is been able to capture so many --- too bloody many photos!!
BTW: the pigeon photo is one of 3 or 4 clicks as I seldom use or need to use machine gun/burst mode 

[Sharkey]

Has the background been replaced? Maybe selective sharpening has left edging on the birds top line?

Heck of a good grabbed image!

I will start taking photographs again - promise. Just a lot more down for a while now and REAL effort needed to get going :-(

Still get a buzz from chatting though, so Ta for that.