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Sydney Sunrise City Scapes 11/09/2010

Postby biggerry on Fri Sep 10, 2010 3:33 pm

Continuing with the sunrises for one more W/E, this week it is Sunrise with a difference - over the city.

Where; in the city probably near Circular Quay, looking to get some iconic strutcures at a different hour
Time; latest 5:30am I will be there at 5:15am

It will be a pretty short one for me since I only have a few hours on saturday and I need to be home before 9.

If your keen and around, drop me a PM - I will deal with teh flood of PM's later tonight :up: :up:

Get in now since it will probably be the last for awhile until the clocks change :rotfl2:
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Re: Sydney Sunrise City Scapes 11/09/2010

Postby surenj on Fri Sep 10, 2010 6:41 pm

Dude I don't know whether I'd allowed to have too many excursions so not sure. I will message you if I change my mind.

What does Skippy say?

biggerry wrote:it will probably be the last for awhile until the clocks change

I thought the clocks are going forward one hour? From 3 Oct the sunrise is at 0630. Much more sensible. :wink:
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Re: Sydney Sunrise City Scapes 11/09/2010

Postby surenj on Fri Sep 10, 2010 6:42 pm

S%^&. Skippy says no clouds what so ever.... :evil:
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Re: Sydney Sunrise City Scapes 11/09/2010

Postby biggerry on Fri Sep 10, 2010 10:51 pm

surenj wrote:Dude I don't know whether I'd allowed to have too many excursions so not sure.


fair call, I have morning release and its probably the only time available on the weekend (excluding the possible sunset on sunday) hence I am gonna capitalise and get out there!

Just txt me if you do decide to come.

S%^&. Skippy says no clouds what so ever....


skippies full of ......

0% track record with me at the moment :rotfl2:
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Re: Sydney Sunrise City Scapes 11/09/2010

Postby surenj on Fri Sep 10, 2010 11:24 pm

Yeah skippy is a piece of $&@". I don't think the resolution is good enough.
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Re: Sydney Sunrise City Scapes 11/09/2010

Postby biggerry on Sat Sep 11, 2010 2:18 pm

as to be expected, not a whisker of cloud in the sky :roll:

cheers to the dedicated mob who turned up :up: I was not alone :wink:

Interestign concept taking pictures of the city at that hour, especially on a saturday morning :D

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Re: Sydney Sunrise City Scapes 11/09/2010

Postby surenj on Sat Sep 11, 2010 6:49 pm

Nice one Gerry.

I guess that's +1 for Skippy. (or +2 as it was right 2 weekends ago)

#2 is quite nicely composed with the lines etc and plenty of elements. Easily a postcard that would sell.

I like how you get those blues to contain some yellows... Can you bring your laptop to NC so we can have a bit of post processing fun? :wink:
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Re: Sydney Sunrise City Scapes 11/09/2010

Postby Jenno on Sat Sep 11, 2010 7:47 pm

Here's what I got from the same location

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Re: Sydney Sunrise City Scapes 11/09/2010

Postby biggerry on Sat Sep 11, 2010 9:37 pm

surenj wrote:Nice one Gerry.

I guess that's +1 for Skippy. (or +2 as it was right 2 weekends ago)

#2 is quite nicely composed with the lines etc and plenty of elements. Easily a postcard that would sell.

I like how you get those blues to contain some yellows... Can you bring your laptop to NC so we can have a bit of post processing fun? :wink:


the sky looks crap imo, needs rework - will definitely bring lappie up for some PP shenigans..

Jenno wrote:Here's what I got from the same location


man ray, you have caught me out, I had them all fooled with that ship being cloned out and all!

That ship does fill the space quite nicely there - the image is actually nice and sharp but you neeed to click on it due to the forum resizer.
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Re: Sydney Sunrise City Scapes 11/09/2010

Postby aim54x on Sat Sep 11, 2010 9:56 pm

I was almost up early enough.....interesting light and a very surreal feel in these.
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Re: Sydney Sunrise City Scapes 11/09/2010

Postby Jenno on Sat Sep 11, 2010 10:01 pm

Gerry
It's simply a case of the D700 resolving more detail :wink:
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Re: Sydney Sunrise City Scapes 11/09/2010

Postby biggerry on Sat Sep 11, 2010 10:20 pm

Jenno wrote:Gerry
It's simply a case of the D700 resolving more detail :wink:


grrr..... 8 comes after 7, I really thought it would be a better camera. :rotfl2:
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Re: Sydney Sunrise City Scapes 11/09/2010

Postby aim54x on Sun Sep 12, 2010 1:04 am

Jenno wrote:Gerry
It's simply a case of the D700 resolving more detail :wink:


Actually the D80 with it's 10MP DX CCD has more resolving power than the D700 with its 12MP FX CMOS due to the higher pixel density and smaller pixel pitch.....
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Re: Sydney Sunrise City Scapes 11/09/2010

Postby surenj on Sun Sep 12, 2010 2:20 am

aim54x wrote:Actually the D80 with it's 10MP DX CCD has more resolving power than the D700 with its 12MP FX CMOS due to the higher pixel density and smaller pixel pitch.....

:shock:
Does that mean that the D80 can produce sharper shots when enlarged as compared to the D700?
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Re: Sydney Sunrise City Scapes 11/09/2010

Postby aim54x on Sun Sep 12, 2010 10:26 pm

surenj wrote:
aim54x wrote:Actually the D80 with it's 10MP DX CCD has more resolving power than the D700 with its 12MP FX CMOS due to the higher pixel density and smaller pixel pitch.....

:shock:
Does that mean that the D80 can produce sharper shots when enlarged as compared to the D700?


In the ideal conditions yes. The D700 cropped down to DX is a shade under 6MP so comparatively the D80 has more resolution, and will produce sharper, more detailed shots when enlarged, provided the D700 shot is enlarged from a DX crop.....
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Re: Sydney Sunrise City Scapes 11/09/2010

Postby surenj on Mon Sep 13, 2010 12:22 am

aim54x wrote:provided the D700 shot is enlarged from a DX crop.....

Dude, Whoever said about the D700 being used in a DX mode? I thought we are comparing native to native.... I am sure Ray didn't use DX mode to capture the above image??
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Re: Sydney Sunrise City Scapes 11/09/2010

Postby aim54x on Mon Sep 13, 2010 10:07 pm

surenj wrote:
aim54x wrote:provided the D700 shot is enlarged from a DX crop.....

Dude, Whoever said about the D700 being used in a DX mode? I thought we are comparing native to native.... I am sure Ray didn't use DX mode to capture the above image??


Even in native, the D80 is not far behind the D700 in resolving power, 12mp vs 10mp
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Re: Sydney Sunrise City Scapes 11/09/2010

Postby surenj on Tue Sep 14, 2010 7:00 pm

Thanks Cameron for the clarification.

Gerry, Can you see those halos that I was talking about? Both images but more on #2 on the left upper buildings. Are those jpg monsters or can you see that in the raw?
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Re: Sydney Sunrise City Scapes 11/09/2010

Postby biggerry on Wed Sep 15, 2010 12:23 am

surenj wrote:Gerry, Can you see those halos that I was talking about? Both images but more on #2 on the left upper buildings. Are those jpg monsters or can you see that in the raw?


have had a quick look, I cannot see anything that I would attribute to the GND

here's an example from that morning.

final processed image;

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crop around the GND line;

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you can see a faint halo around the back vertical of the building, however I suspect that is the PP

to be sure, next is a crop of the original raw file;

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Remind me later and I will have a closer look at some other images too.
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Re: Sydney Sunrise City Scapes 11/09/2010

Postby surenj on Wed Sep 15, 2010 9:11 pm

Thanks for posting these!

Well that's the halo I was talking about. I think it's because of the grad which is accentuated by the tonal contrast. It is much less apparent in the RAW but still seem there; Or am I seeing things? :wink:
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