In Memory Of Snows Past

No meaningful snows this year in Northeast... here are a couple of shots from the past.  2011 Above 1990s below.  Top is digital image. Bottom is 4x5 black and white film scanned on an Epson 3200. 

Spring On The Forest Floor

These flowers, called Spring Beauties, come up toward the end of March and only last for a couple of days.  They are very tiny, only as large as an average thumbnail.

 These photos were taken with a Nikon F4 film camera using Kodachrome 64.  105mm lens, tripod, shot at ISO 80.   Scanned on an Epson 3200.

City View From Waterworks Park

KC skyline and Northtown from Water Works Park.   This image is made up of 15 shots... five each to create three and then the three into one panorama.  Nikon D850, Nikon 70-200mm lens at 70mm. ISO 800, F5.6.  The shots below have similar data.

 Above shot was taken with the 70-200mm lens and the 1.4x tele-extender making it an effective 360mm lens.

Skyline

The KC Skyline from Kansas City, Kansas. Nikon D850, Nikon 70-200mm lens. F8, ISO 64, five shots at 1 stop intervals combined into one image. 

Deja View 2002

               From the massive ice storm in 2002.  Hopefully nothing like we will get today.

Going For Sharp

Decided to head to the river to use every technique I've learned to get sharp images.  Not that I don't normally.  Used focus stacking, polarizer, best aperture, tripod, etc. etc.  All ISO 64.  Boat just happened to come along in the above shot which was 14-24mm lens at F8.

Used focus stacking for the first time ever in this one... five shots with the point of focus moving into the image for each one.  Camera did that work, then the five were imported on layers into Photoshop and aligned and merged.  You can accomplish something similar by using F16 or higher... but you start getting image distortion...

Skyline In Winter

                      Two views of the city in winter...top from Kaw Point, bottom from Northeast.