Quality… What Quality?

3 years 2 days ago #715032 by Nikon Shooter
After all the resources spent by the users in terms of money, time, and efforts
devoted to learning everything between equipments, photography, softwares
and develop an own artistic intent, there come the ever exhilarating pleasures 
of image hunting — getting out and put everything together to achieve…

We are all dependent on light conditions — and they are infinite — and we are
all dependent on an other important element: air quality. At different times and
places — in a day, a season, in other geographic locations — the quality of the
air will have a more or less dramatic effect on captures what ever the subject.

I had a class of height very early in the morning. At 06:00, gear fine tuning and
pertinent information about the tasks ahead that got us all to that point — bird
photography from BiF to detail portraits, and environmental and habitat shots.

I was very impressed by the crystal clean (and cold) air and light that morning.


Light is free… capturing it is not!
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3 years 1 day ago #715046 by TCav


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3 years 1 day ago #715048 by Ozzie_Traveller
G'day NS

Yes mate - you are on-the-button here .... there are so many variables with light 'quality' that can and will influence the end result.

While our mate TCav mentions 'smog' I can't comment upon that because Aussie cities do not suffer the sort of smog we see from LA or Beijing..... however we -do- experience both heat-shimmer from hot weather, and dust from wind-storms that rage across the arid interior of OZ

Phil from the great land Downunder
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Phil from the great land Downunder
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3 years 1 day ago #715052 by Nikon Shooter
I would not dare set foot — again in my life — in arid, desert like areas…
I have no resistance to heat. I think I was made for the rink, even by -20°!
For that reason, 90% of your "waiting-to- be- discovered" continent coun-
try is forbidden to me during your Summer.

I'm counting on you, Phil, to be my eyes Downunder. :P :P :P

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3 years 1 day ago #715058 by peterock33
In my neck of the woods, there is almost always dew in the mornings.... the humidity is definitely a factor. For me, the combination of the additional moisture and the early morning light make this the nicest time to shoot.
By the way, that swan shot is very nice.


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3 years 1 day ago #715076 by Nikon Shooter
Right, dew can be an impressive element in a picture.

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3 years 17 hours ago #715095 by db3348
Another cracker of a shot ,  NS .

Nikon Shooter wrote :  I have no resistance to heat. I think I was made for the rink, even by -20° .

Looks like  you'll have to restrict your stay to July-August , in Tasmania or the Snowy Mountains .  What would be your maximum bearable temperature ?


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3 years 17 hours ago #715097 by Nikon Shooter
Bearable, David?

I don't know exactly but passed 28~30 °C, 80% humidity,
under physical effort… would be when bells start ringing.

I am still working hard even in Summer but only at home
where I can cool down. I think my body (like yours) runs
on an air cooled motor but should have got a water one.

:P

Light is free… capturing it is not!
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2 years 9 months ago #720966 by Ozzie_Traveller

Nikon Shooter wrote: Bearable, David?

I don't know exactly but passed 28~30 °C, 80% humidity, under physical effort… would be when bells start ringing. ..... :P


G'day NS

Goodness matey ..... we're in mid winter here and our local temps today are +8 to 25deg C
.............. and it's lovely weather, not quite t-shirt warm until after lunch, but beaut in the sunshine and chilly in the shade

Phil

Phil from the great land Downunder
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2 years 9 months ago - 2 years 9 months ago #721031 by Nikon Shooter

Ozzie_Traveller wrote:  we're in mid winter here and our local temps today are +8 to 25deg C


Ooooh… that suggests there are no ice hockey teams in Aussie?
I'm I wrong?

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2 years 9 months ago #721032 by Ozzie_Traveller

Nikon Shooter wrote: ......  Ooooh… that suggests there are no ice hockey teams in Aussie?
Am I wrong?


Hi NS

Indoors you can achieve many things ... outdoors in Oz, nup, no go mate
Phil

Phil from the great land Downunder
www.flickr.com/photos/ozzie_traveller/sets/

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