Mark Keefer

Thanks for picking up the ball. Every once in a while, life gets preoccupied. And Friday or Saturday rolls around and I go oh $*&*!. I forgot to do something. lol.

Nubble Lighthouse. We camped in York Maine for about half a year in the RV at Libby Oceanside camp. Great place to spend the summer. Getting 4 lobsters cooked for $20 at the Hannaford. Cool old houses heading North. It would be a nice place to live. We were there first year of Covid.

Happy Thursday, August 10, 2023, to all Canon Shooters and Photography enthusiasts. Drum roll please. I know this is the event you have been waiting for all week! Once again it is time for this week's Canon Photo Thursday. 😁 I hope everyone is enjoying summer 🌞 and staying cool. 😎 It has been a crazy hot summer. Stay hydrated. 🧋 I am looking forward to seeing what you 🫵, our Canon photographers have this week. Let's inspire each other and possibly inspire future generations. This is your chance to share your epic, fun, cool, and/or interesting photo with everyone here on PN. Show us your vision, your style, your projects, your travels, adventures, photo missions or just something you shot that captured your fancy. You all know the drill, post one, two, three, or more photos shot from your Canon EOS Camera (SLR or DSLR or Mirrorless. Was your camera made by Canon? If so, post your shots). All are welcome to participate. Late postings are welcome. If you miss Thursday, feel free to add to the thread another day. Looking forward to seeing your shots. Pick up the camera and shoot something. Even if you didn't get out this week, you know you have some blast from the past stashed in your archives. We have a lot of regulars here reading. Jump in and post. Show us your shots. I know with the season everyone can get very busy. I would like to thank everyone who has been sharing in Canon Photo Thursday. It means a lot, making starting this thread every week worth wild. Thank you for your support. As always, I truly appreciate the support of our Canon friends and shooters. It's nice not to be left hanging. Thank you, everyone who has been participating. Canon 5D MK IV - Canon 17-40mm f/4 - drove a couple miles South to Pacific Grove. It is amazing how the weather can go from sunny and white puffy cloud to overcast in a couple miles. Still a very cool day for August here with a 64°F.

LINK to Image that does look destroyed like the above

Will repost

Another Landscape Photo>Merge>Panorama shot today at Carmel By the Sea using my old Canon 5D MK IV and this lens, a 150-600mm Sigma at 600mm! 16 x 32-megapixel shots merged into one. I compressed the image down to 4.12 MB so I hope PN allows this upload so you can view it larger. Hope it can be viewed large. Well apparently this one didn't work as well as last weeks. Just can't display a 136 MB image here, even if compressed to 4.1 MB. I will have to figure something else out.

The second photo could have some tilt of the camera and it does have 17mm lens distortion. I probably could do some post editing correction.

I have not found a way. So not too difficult to just edit in External Editor. > Photoshop, I used ti use Paintshop Pro on my other computer as my second External editor and then by using a Picture Frame, put I gave not installed Paintshop Pro on my new computer and have gotten pretty good at using Photoshop to achieve most of the things I did in Paintshop Pro. Maybe that is something I should suggest in next LR survey, but I think that may be considered beyond what Adobe considers Lightroom's scope.

Happy Thursday, August 3, 2023, to all Canon Shooters and Photography enthusiasts. Drum roll please. I know this is the event you have been waiting for all week! Once again it is time for this week's Canon Photo Thursday. 😁 I hope everyone is enjoying summer 🌞 and staying cool. 😎 It has been a crazy hot summer. Stay hydrated. 🧋 I am looking forward to seeing what you 🫵, our Canon photographers have this week. Let's inspire each other and possibly inspire future generations. This is your chance to share your epic, fun, cool, and/or interesting photo with everyone here on PN. Show us your vision, your style, your projects, your travels, adventures, photo missions or just something you shot that captured your fancy. You all know the drill, post one, two, three, or more photos shot from your Canon EOS Camera (SLR or DSLR or Mirrorless. Was your camera made by Canon? If so, post your shots). All are welcome to participate. Late postings are welcome. If you miss Thursday, feel free to add to the thread another day. Looking forward to seeing your shots. Pick up the camera and shoot something. Even if you didn't get out this week, you know you have some blast from the past stashed in your archives. We have a lot of regulars here reading. Jump in and post. Show us your shots. I know with the season everyone can get very busy. I would like to thank everyone who has been sharing in Canon Photo Thursday. It means a lot, making starting this thread every week worth wild. Thank you for your support. As always, I truly appreciate the support of our Canon friends and shooters. It's nice not to be left hanging. Thank you, everyone who has been participating. Canon 5D MK IV - These images are from Sunday along the central California Coast. The first reminds me of the Alfred Hitchcock Movie, The Birds, but this is The Pelicans. I am including two landscape images of the Highway 1 Bixby Bridge both taken with the Canon 17-40mm f/4 L. But one image is a single 17mm shot and one is a composite merge of 14 images taken at 38mm merged into one image. The later image I did post earlier this week in the Landscape forum and went into some detail on how I did it if anyone cares to look learn more. This technique demonstrates you don't need a wide-angle lens to do landscape photography. And the benefit is you don't get the lens distortion of a wide-angle lens. Hope you enjoy and are inspired. Thanks for participating.

How long are you leaving the shutter open? Just curious on your technique.

No worries about breaking in, we encourage that, and you are welcome here, Mike. Nice shot, quite good. I like the tone. I am a guitar player and have shot a lot of musicians. There are no requirements to have to post only award-winning eye candy shots, we enjoy photography, so don't feel you have nothing worthy to post. It's all good. Hope you are a regular.

Any sign of the Coyote? 🙂

No you don't, LR does all heavy lifting. I do prefer PS healing tool if needed and I like edge sharpen but need to be careful I don't over sharpen in LR. I also prefer using the paint brush for watermarking though I have transparent PNGs with my watermark on LR. Oh and adding the blend stroke in PS to put the thin edge border on images is just my preference. But PS is not necessary.

Thanks, John. Skill and mastering my craft in photography and post editing mastered over decades of practice. Well, that helps. Lol. I am using great tools. What I did: I start with a good full frame camera body and sharp lens stopped down to most usable f-stop before defraction sets in. In this case the Canon 5D Mark IV (I know it's not an amazing new body with all the new bells and whistles but it is a good camera) and the Canon 17-40mm f/4 L at f/11 at 38mm focal length, so my initial 14 images are pretty darn sharp. (Never hurts starting out with good shots) Now the post editing magic, I use Lightroom, I only set the sharpness to 62, get all my setting to my preference, select my images, 14 images in this case and use the merge photos cylindrical panorama. I am not at my computer so Lightroom's wording may be slightly different. This is where a good fast computer with lots of memory using a solid state drives helps speed the process, still takes about a minute, I sip on some coffee and watch the progress slider. Once finished I zoom into the photo marveling at all the magic detail, look at the faces of the people in the cars and standing on the other side of the bridge. ( Just kidding, this was at 38mm, I do that with the 600mm) Next I choose edit in External Editor, Photoshop where I did a sharpen edges, I unlock the photo layer and do an add 5 pixel black stroke through blending just to give the image a thin black border. I add my watermark here with a custom paint brush. I save the image, the images goes back to lightroom. I export the image resizing for the website it is going to. I set the Save for screen setting in the export dialog box. And I choose maximum quality. That was my entire process. Thanks for asking.

This is the Bixby Bridge on California Highway 1 shot today. I had to do some climbing for this vantage point. This is a composite of 14 images shot at 38mm making an 84.5-megapixel image over 13,000 pixels wide reduced here to 2000 pixels wide and probably compressed some more here.

I have the A7R3 and no I have not, but possibly a custom button is set up for a quick mode change. I know my A7R3 is a complex menu sometimes seeming nebulous to me as to some function working on only particular mode. Much time spent studying the manual and searching the web. Mine is a great camera but not the most intuitive. I believe the A7R4 improved on the menus. I would be surprised if the camera is just randomly changing modes to bracketing unles you are inadvertantly pressing something to make this happen. Sorry I don't have that model to try and troubleshoot My suggestion is reset the camera and make sure it is updated with the latest firmware. Study that user manual. If you resolve the issue let us know.

Happy Thursday, July 27, 2023, to all Canon Shooters and Photography enthusiasts. Photo.Net is celebrating 🎉30 years on the World Wide Web🌎! 😗Wow! Almost as long as some of us have been photographing and that is a long time. Once again it is time for this week's Canon Photo Thursday. I hope everyone is enjoying summer and staying cool. It has been a crazy hot summer. Stay hydrated and cool. I am looking forward to seeing what the Canon photographers have this week. Let's inspire each other and possibly inspire future generations. This is your chance to share your epic, fun, cool, and/or interesting photo with everyone here on PN. Show us your vision, your style, your projects, your travels, adventures, photo missions or just something you shot that captured your fancy. You all know the drill, post one, two, three, or more photos shot from your Canon EOS Camera (SLR or DSLR or Mirrorless. Was your camera made by Canon? If so, post your shots). All are welcome to participate. Late postings are welcome. If you miss Thursday, feel free to add to the thread another day. Looking forward to seeing your shots. Pick up the camera and shoot something. Even if you didn't get out this week, you know you have some blast from the past stashed in your archives. We have a lot of regulars here reading. Jump in and post. Show us your shots. I know with the season everyone can get very busy. I would like to thank everyone who has been sharing in Canon Photo Thursday. It means a lot, making starting this thread every week worth wild. Thank you for your support. As always, I truly appreciate the support of our Canon friends and shooters. It's nice not to be left hanging. Thank you, everyone who has been participating. Canon 5D MK IV - Some Grand Canyon images.

I did that too, though I have the Metabones Adapter. Only was a bit of a learning curve and weird stuff like some things don't work in some modes, shutter and f-stop front and back are opposite Canon. You will like the bump in resolution. Enjoy.

I personally like higher resolution cameras and cameras that we were shooting with a few years ago were not junk. Getting proper exposure on these older cameras can make a big improvement on the end result. Getting longer exposures on a tripod in low light and advancements in AI post processing like noise reduction and detail or resolution enhancements, can certainly bring images to a new level not easily achievable 8 years ago. I know. It wasn't until the 5D MK IV that the Canon sensor made the big improvement in low light and ability to bring things out of the black without horrible banding. This was something in prior Canon cameras that had me envious of the Nikon shooters. But again, I point to it was so important to get proper exposure. The new post processing can make up for some of the short comings when comparing old sensors to the newest Canon R line in 2023, and those sensors have come a long way. Along with those advancements is a big price tag for the latest high resolution cameras approaching 50 megapixels. There are techniques to achieve higher megapixel images with great detail using lower mega pixel cameras and not extremely wide lenses and compositing and stitching together multiple images to make a larger one, though it is a bit more work. ADOBE Lightroom has made it easier to achieve also. In the end you have to wiegh in all the factors and decide what is important for your photography and your budget. Happy shooting with what ever you decide and I hope you stop back and let us know and what was your deciding factor.

Nice job on video and fixing something built by elves. That delicate work can be intimidating, especially those ribbon connectors and micro screws. You probably saved yourself a $400 repair from Canon fixing their assembly error. Thanks for sharing.

Happy Thursday, July 20, 2023, to all Canon Shooters and Photography enthusiasts. Once again it is time for this week's Canon Photo Thursday. I hope everyone is enjoying summer in the Northern Hemisphere and staying cool. It has been a crazy hot summer. Stay hydrated and cool, especially if you are in those areas above 100° F. I am looking forward to seeing what the Canon photographers have this week. Let's inspire each other and possibly inspire future generations. This is your chance to share your epic, fun, cool, and/or interesting photo with everyone here on PN. Show us your vision, your style, your projects, your travels, adventures, photo missions or just something you shot that captured your fancy. You all know the drill, post one, two, three, or more photos shot from your Canon EOS Camera (SLR or DSLR or Mirrorless. Was your camera made by Canon? If so, post your shots). All are welcome to participate. Late postings are welcome. If you miss Thursday, feel free to add to the thread another day. Looking forward to seeing your shots. Pick up the camera and shoot something. Even if you didn't get out this week, you know you have some blast from the past stashed in your archives. We have a lot of regulars here reading. Jump in and post. Show us your shots. I know with the season everyone can get very busy. I would like to thank everyone who has been sharing in Canon Photo Thursday. It means a lot, making starting this thread every week worth wild. Thank you for your support. As always, I truly appreciate the support of our Canon friends and shooters. It's nice not to be left hanging. Thank you, everyone who has been participating. Canon 5D MK IV

Maybe a micro-adjustment? I have been trying to find the smallest usable f-stop diffraction limit of this lens in specs. Is it F/11 before diffraction sets in? My searches keep getting the MK II results. It's like most references to this old lens are gone and only the MK II specs come up. I have been playing between f 9 to f/14. Long day here, so apologies if my typing and thought process is off. Drove down to Big Sur and Picnicked on a cliff overlooking the ocean with my wife and the dog. I was wanting to say, have you played around with the latest enhancement features of Adobe Lightroom. The resolution and detail enhance and now AI noise removal are pretty cool, and as good as the 5D MK IV is, this takes the images to a new level.

Hey, I have been on that street and that dog looks familiar.😄 The coastline is dynamic and is always changing. I think the tide was out to. I wouldn't doubt you have been there.