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Bavarian Forest / Re: Bavarian Forest Winter 2017

« on: 18/04/2017, 10:07:53 »

Hallo Hayo,

Bedankt voor je vriendelijke woorden.
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Beren in de sneeuw (1) :Helemaal mee eens. Heb ook een plaat waarbij de hoofdbeer minder aan de rand zit, maar daarbij is zijn kop iets minder dreigend. Vandaar mijn keuze.
Lynx II: Ik had de titel erbij moeten zetten: "Jeuk"!
Tja, de magenta zweem. Voor mij blijft dat "seasoning to taste" Aan die witbalans herken je mij net zoals ik vooral jouw architectuurfoto's herken.

Ik hoop dat je spoedig tijd hebt om naar je eigen beelden te kijken en hoop dat Koert ook watt van zijn beelden plaatst.

Tot Ziens,

Rob

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Bavarian Forest / Re: Bavarian Forest Winter 2017

« on: 15/04/2017, 16:28:59 »

Hier volgen de wolf en de otter.
Ik ben ook benieuw naar de foto's van Hayo en Koert.

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Bavarian Forest / Bavarian Forest Winter 2017

« on: 15/04/2017, 15:45:13 »

Deze winter in Beieren lag er gelukkig voldoende sneeuw en waren de temperaturen 's ochtends vroeg even onder nul en in de loop van de dag er wat boven.  De beren waren het meest levendig dankzij 2 speelse jongen (broer en zus) en moeder. De vader had een afgesloten eigen gebiedje gekregen. Gelukkig was er ook voldoende actie bij de otters.  De lynxen is Falkenstein waren gelukkig voldoende in beeld en in beweging, maar de wolven waren wel in beeld, echter relatief saai. 's Ochtends vroeg en rond zonsondergang was het ondanks de sneeuw toch vrij donker waardoor ik vrij hoge ISO's heb gebruikt tot 6400 ISO toe.  De kwaliteit is verbazingwekkend goed zelfs met een (moderne) crop-sensor.

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Liège / Luik / Re: Visit to the the Liège-Guillemins railway station (Rob's photo's)

« on: 05/12/2016, 12:16:28 »

Hello Hayo,


Thanks for your kind words.
I agree; in picture 1 is a bit more magenta. In reality there was much more a greenish cast and that I didn't like.  Looking at the color wheel, the opposite of green is magenta.
Maybe a  half teaspoon too much.

Greetings and see you,


Rob

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Liège / Luik / Re: Visit to the the Liège-Guillemins railway station (Rob's photo's)

« on: 04/12/2016, 16:10:31 »

Hi Hayo,


You are right!! In LR limiting the maximum size to 200kb didn't work, but limiting the longest side to 800Px. does.
So, here are some more photo's.

Rob

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Liège / Luik / Visit to the the Liège-Guillemins railway station (Rob's photo's)

« on: 01/12/2016, 20:18:26 »

Here are some photo's
Alas, many other photo's are too big to compress to 200kb.


Rob

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Liège / Luik / Re: Visit to the the Liège-Guillemins railway station

« on: 30/11/2016, 19:58:09 »

Hello Hayo,


I love that trainstation and I love the architecture of Calatrava. Very nice pictures, especially from the trainplatform. I didn't visit the platforms.
I understand your remark about my photo's.  Your seasoning to taste is much lighter then mine.
The photo's that I did sent you are too big for your site. I will export them again smaller and put them on your forum.

Rob

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Bavarian Forest / Re: Bavarian Forest 2016

« on: 11/03/2016, 12:09:15 »

There are some more:


Rob de Jonge

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Bavarian Forest / Bavarian Forest 2016

« on: 11/03/2016, 12:00:20 »

In February we, Hayo, Maartje and  me,  visited  the Bavarian Forest again. And again, there was not much snow. But the challenge of the "Tier Frei Gelande" and good company was more then enough compensation.
I find it hard to make new and inspiring photos, but there are a couple of small gems: a stampede of the bizons an d a long shoot near the swines.
I also learned a couple  of things about my equipment:
1. 6400 ISO is no problem for the Nikon D810.
2. The Nikkor lens 70-200mm F2.8 VR II + 2x TC (Nikon) shooting wide open gives muddy looking results.You have to open the lens at-least 1 stop.

Rob de Jonge

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Bavarian Forest / Re: Yellowstone Winter 2015

« on: 28/02/2015, 16:41:11 »

Hi Hayo,

Thanks again for the comment.
The last picture "Trees in the cloud" was taken in Mammoth Hotsprings. "The clouds"are steam from the hotsprings. I'm standing on a platform about 10-20m away from the trees.
I will show my last set of photos.  Details/ abstractly. I think not everybodies "piece of cake", but I like it; for me it are living paintings, born out of minerals and bacteria.


Rob

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Bavarian Forest / Re: Yellowstone Winter 2015

« on: 26/02/2015, 19:58:56 »

Although, there is a lot of wildlife, the landscape is also very impressive.
it's hard to create landscape photos that are more original than the well known picture-postcards.
Let's give it a try!


Rob
 

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Bavarian Forest / Re: Yellowstone Winter 2015

« on: 25/02/2015, 16:50:03 »

Thank you, Hayo for your comment.
Funny, your favourite photo is shot with my back-up camera, the Nikon V2 + Nikkor 70-200mm f2.8 VR II. Thanks to the cropfactor 540mm.  It was already very dark, 17:45 and a cloudy day. This photo is taken at 1600 ISO, F 2.8. The guy next to me took this shot at 6400 ISO F 5.6 with the 200-400mm Nikkor. So, the original photo is pretty dark and after pot-processing there is a lot off noise. That's the inconvenience of convenience. It's a nice, very light set and I can move easily through knee deep snow, but you can't compare the quality of this set with my D810 + 300mm F2.8 + TC. The first two days I took all the tele-photo's with this combination because  I had to learn the limitations of this set.  With good light it is a joy to work with this set, but around and after sunset the results are poor. I wonder, would it be better to shoot + 1stop at 3200 ISO (more ETTR) than at 1600 ISO and to crank up the photo in post-processing?
In Bavaria you have much more time for better composition and the distance is limited, but it's wildlife in captivity.

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Bavarian Forest / Yellowstone winter 2015 2e serie

« on: 24/02/2015, 20:44:25 »

Here is a second upload:

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Bavarian Forest / Yellowstone Winter 2015

« on: 24/02/2015, 20:39:16 »

I did visit the Bavarian Forest 4 times; 3 times in the winter and also one time in the autumn
This year I visit Yellowstone for the first times in the winter and it was a great experience.
For the landscape-photographer, Yellowstone in wintertime is like heaven, but also “shooting” wildlife is great. You can compare the Yellowstone wildlife with the Bavarian Forest. There is the bison, the bear (in hibernation off course), the bobcat (Lynx), wolf, elk, otter and the beaver. But there is a big difference in the opportunity, the distance to the animals en the time. When you spent enough time, you will see always the animals you like to photograph.  In Yellowstone you are driving in a snow-coach (caterpillar + skies) and you see only the animals near the road. Luckily there is snow and no leafs on bushes or trees.
I saw lots of bison’s, coyote, but no wolf, elks, 4 evenings on a row the bobcat and that’s very special, red fox and bald eagle. For wildlife in Yellowstone you need a good camera for high ISO’s  and a telelens at least 400mm.
Here are some examples:

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Industrial Heritage / Re: Eric's plaatjes

« on: 29/10/2014, 16:43:39 »

Hi Eric,

Het leuke van fotograferen met een groep vind ik dat dat ieder globaal andere foto's maakt.  Wij \ijn met z'n allen langs dezelfde onderwerpen gelopen en jij hebt een aardig aanta foto's van onderwerpen waarvan ik mij niet bewust ben dat ik ze heb gezien!
Dat bewijst dus dat je er rustig voor een 2e keer naar toe kan gaan.
Mooie platen overigens!


Rob