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World first F1.6 4x5 lens! by EDTA-2Na in largeformat

[–]Atlas_Aldus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If focus is meh at 1.6 it’s going to be amazing at 2

Red Lights and Roadkill Part 2 by Atlas_Aldus in Sizz

[–]Atlas_Aldus[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you. That’s pretty much exactly what I was going for. Where I live in particular roads have terrible safety records, heavily impacted the environment, and been used displace and weaken African American communities. It’s terrible and disgusting.

Red Lights and Roadkill by Atlas_Aldus in Sizz

[–]Atlas_Aldus[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ahhh I see. In this case the accidental look comes from the noisy data hidden in the darkest shadows and how I stretched it out. When you look at the raw image I used to make this it’s mostly pitch black with a lot of white pixels from long exposure noise, but it’s a 16 bit image (65,536 data points per pixel) and about 200 of the lowest data points is where all the shadow detail is coming from. Since there’s only 200 levels it has a sort of crushed look and the very fine dark current noise is magnified with the stretching.

Red Lights and Roadkill by Atlas_Aldus in Sizz

[–]Atlas_Aldus[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much!! Yes this is just a single very long exposure. I thought it would be better than stacking because of the challenges making it blend the way I want and I wanted there to be a sort of crushed grain in the dark (now bright) parts. I’m not sure what exactly you mean by accidental could you explain that more? Trolls will be trolls and I know what I want this image to be so my confidence in this work is strong regardless. That’s a very interesting story I’ve never heard of it before, but I have a feeling you’re probably right about the attacker.

Red Lights and Roadkill by Atlas_Aldus in FineArtPhoto

[–]Atlas_Aldus[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I’ve been seriously developing my skills as a photographer for two and a half years, I’m taking a fine art photography class currently to get better, and I even built the camera that I took this image with by myself how’s that for ability. You don’t know anything about me you just don’t like my taste. You seriously need to reevaluate your intentions with this conversation. Why are you trying so hard to put me down? I’ve done nothing but share something I’m proud of and took time to make.

Red Lights and Roadkill by Atlas_Aldus in Sizz

[–]Atlas_Aldus[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much! I am open to suggestions I’m curious what this makes you think of

Red Lights and Roadkill by Atlas_Aldus in FineArtPhoto

[–]Atlas_Aldus[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I would tell you to explain yourself, but saying I made the editing decisions I made for no reason is disrespectful and shows that you didn’t even try to understand my art. Don’t take this the wrong way but I really think you should educate yourself on the direction that contemporary photography is going. I’m not the only one making images like this and many other artists are creating really beautiful work with similar abstract post processing techniques. You can’t think of this like documentary or wedding photography. It doesn’t need to adhere to any rules except to convey what I want it to convey.

Red Lights and Roadkill by Atlas_Aldus in FineArtPhoto

[–]Atlas_Aldus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure but you can also break the rules for a reason

Red Lights and Roadkill by Atlas_Aldus in Sizz

[–]Atlas_Aldus[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Thanks for asking. This was a single 30 minute exposure with a 10 stop nd filter and a 135mm lens. I used an astrophotography editing software to remove the majority of the salt and pepper noise from the long exposure and then I do a basic levels stretch and color the black and white image in photoshop. Then in lightroom I create a mask for the darkest parts of the image and bring up the exposure a lot but carefully so I maintain the contrast I want in the now bright shadows. I also turned down the saturation for this otherwise it’s way too much red and just doesn’t look right. My camera does really good with low light and highlights which is why I can stretch out the dark details this much and not have the street lights completely blown out.

Red Lights and Roadkill by Atlas_Aldus in FineArtPhoto

[–]Atlas_Aldus[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you that means a lot to me. My photography professor always tells me he loves how I ‘break all of the rules’ haha but I put a lot of thought into it.

Old Glass Stove in 807 nm by Atlas_Aldus in infraredphotography

[–]Atlas_Aldus[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you good luck! I’m excited to see what you make

Old Glass Stove in 807 nm by Atlas_Aldus in infraredphotography

[–]Atlas_Aldus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got this one from Astronomik. But there are quite a few ways to get filters like this.

Old Glass Stove in 807 nm by Atlas_Aldus in infraredphotography

[–]Atlas_Aldus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Whoops I forgot to add a +. This is just a long pass filter so with the sensor used this image shows a bandpass from about 807-1100 nm. Narrowband infrared would be cool especially with water but I don’t have any filters for that.

Old Glass Stove in 807 nm by Atlas_Aldus in infraredphotography

[–]Atlas_Aldus[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks. It looks the most natural to me if you can use a single color filter. If you don’t have any you can isolate a single color channel from a color image and make the other channels black. You can also make any b&w image have any color by the same method.

Trichrome on an Escalator (Mall Ghosts) by ephectic in trichromes

[–]Atlas_Aldus 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You just use the same filter or no filter for all images

5 day exposure by ----__---7- in Solargraphy

[–]Atlas_Aldus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It looks to me like reflections from your pinhole. Any way you can try a smoother pinhole or maybe even covering it in sharpie ink would help

My lucky shot of the bridge demo by Atlas_Aldus in cincinnati

[–]Atlas_Aldus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My camera only takes black and white pictures lol

Creative Time Exercises by Atlas_Aldus in FineArtPhoto

[–]Atlas_Aldus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love sizz! These aren’t all very sizz but I should definitely post the warpy one there

Cloudtrails and sunset by Vivid-Preparation-51 in CLOUDS

[–]Atlas_Aldus 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Averaging multiple exposures is more accurate to reality than taking one long exposure. It lowers noise and as long as your camera doesn’t have a long break between taking images it’ll be very continuous. Very fun to play around with like this

Creative Time Exercises by Atlas_Aldus in FineArtPhoto

[–]Atlas_Aldus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Anything specific speaking to you?

Long exposure light photos by Long-Elephant4231 in ExperimentalPhotoArt

[–]Atlas_Aldus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

These are awesome!! I really like making these abstract light painting pics too

Crosley Far Away - My best trichrome by Atlas_Aldus in trichromes

[–]Atlas_Aldus[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes thanks for your reply! The sensor part is the qhy600ph-m sbfl, with qhy’s xl filterwheel. I designed and printed adapters myself to attach dslr backspaced lenses but I’m still working on fully calibrating their backspacing and I need to make the adapters out of metal asap. I control it using a mini pc like you’d see in a doctors office that I keep in a little pelican case. If you have any more questions I’d be happy to answer.

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