Last Quantum-X photo thread for a while..
 

I'm going to be offline for a month or so. Thought I'd make my exit in style.

http://ninjito.com/dump/2007-06-12/qx-story-final.jpg

Click for the biggun.

Whooooo, that's hot! Do you have it in screensaver size?

What city is that?

Brisbane, Australia.

I've got it up to about 3000x5000, but it gets a bit noisy at that size.. how big were you chasing?

I love that pic.. is it an HDR?

Not HDR'd or photoshopped in any way - direct scan off the chrome :)

18 minutes, F11 @ 35MM on the X-Pan 2

HDRs have their place, but I find the results are much more satisfying if you can do it 'the old way' :)

Yea.. I am just getting to HDR.. and I really love them.. I tryed them like a year ago.. but finally I got the style of them...

1280x1024

Lots of hard work to get that balance where the photo still stands on its own without looking fake.. good work on the practice :D

see.. I like a bit of the fake.. but not too much..


last weekend..

http://static.flickr.com/235/535740521_5c7e29b74b.jpg

that could be a post card. great work as always.

Nice stuff indeed :)

good shit man, see you when you come back

fricking amazin Q, really wish youd setup a poster shop im sure itd do really really well.

=)

Very pretty.

I feel slightly scared that I knew it was Brisbane, without ever going there, or having checked your profile. Good mate of mine is from Narrabundah.

Thanks for the great pic; I only wish I could size it for my crappy 1280x800 LCD without my screen being mostly black! :thumbsup

Fabulous shot there, Quantum.

But one question.

With an 18-min exposure, wouldn't the stars cause streaks? How'd you avoid that?

Double size-

http://ninjito.com/dump/2007-06-12/q...inal-large.jpg

nice work dude :thumbsup

Hey mate :) Good to see you drop by ;)
That night was actually overcast - thought the sky wasn't going to turn out..
The clouds were low enough to mute the stars, but not enough to cast too much of a great hue :)

Lucky timing i guyess :)

You have some great work also quantum.. you on flickr or where can I see some more of it?

I can see some streaking in the larger shot, although to me it doesn't look like 18 mins worth :)

gorgeous photo as usual. why you going offline for a month?

Killer shot. How about 1920x1200?

q-x, do you do any noise reduction on your long exposure night shots? (Either in-camera dark frame, or NR algo in post)

hehe you can see my place from that pic!

I think you're seeing dust and scratches there ;) I was kinda lazy with the scan.

I don't use any noise reduction normally. I mainly shoot on ISO50 for pano shots, or ISO200 on digital, so I've never had any major noise issues...

Moving to France ;)
Thanks for the compliments ;)

If you're brave, you can hit up
http://www.ninjito.com/dump/ - go through the dated folders.
As a word of warning, there's a lot of shit dumped in this directory ;)

Ah, I made the wrong assumption that it was shot on the 1Ds... was curious whether that sensor was any better on long exposure shots. My Mark II shows white speckles everywhere without dark frame subtraction enabled (which is as annoying as hell when you've just had the shutter open for 45 mins...)

Beautiful pic quantum! :thumbsup


I hope the internet survives without you for a month :Oh crap

Awesome shots!

Yeah, the *ds's have a habit of getting hot pixels w/o the noise reduction turned on. I used to always shoot with it on, but likeyou say, got bored waiting for 20 minutes just to see a photo. I did make me patient though ;)

Awesome stuff as always Quantum :thumbsup

And Richard, you're not so bad either :)

Both Of Them Very Nice!

Stunning picture !!

I miss my little 300D, it had nice clean long exposures with no dark frame subtraction needed, so long as you exposed correctly (just like any shot). Even pushed +1 you can barely see any unwanted hot pixels. It was disappointing when I got a much higher end camera (after the 300D was stolen) only to find that night shots would now take twice as long.

http://thsrv.com/p/300D-nospeckles.jpg

I was really expecting you to be saying that some guys in black suits turned up at your door with security video showing you entering some facility and that you got 30 days in the slammer :winkwink:

Glad I was wrong and hope everything works out for you in France :thumbsup

Haha... thanks man ;)

Am I the only one that can't see shit?

It's a bummer - the 300/350/400D have the new image processors - the colours are much nicer, there's less noise too.

Try taking a shot on the 1Ds of vibrant red - the sensor goes nuts, it can't handle it... you get a blown out off orange :(