Author Topic: Show us the View Outside Your Window (Read 886,274 times)

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #350 on:** October 21, 2016, 04:41 PM »

I call this Shadow Mountains. My regular camera wouldn't focus on these mountains(too much sun glare probably), so I used my phone camera. It doesn't have zoom so even though it takes reasonably high-resolution pictures, the resolution of the cropped part is much less. Still a decent picture though, and I didn't have to use a panorama program to get it. The original picture is below.

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #351 on:** November 07, 2016, 03:53 PM »

Screenshot of the panorama of the fog below us yesterday morning. A link to the full-resolution picture on Google Drive is below along with a link to the full-res version of the earlier picture like the one above this one.

Fog in the valley

Layered mountains

tomos · « **Reply #352 on:** November 07, 2016, 05:24 PM »

Quote from: Arizona Hot on November 07, 2016, 03:53 PM

the panorama of the fog below us yesterday morning

lovely image

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #353 on:** November 20, 2016, 11:51 PM »

This isn't a view from home but down the road up to here.

4wd · « **Reply #354 on:** December 15, 2016, 09:48 AM »

Last Super Moon of 2016 taken with my Olympus SH-60, hand held, through the window at max. optical and digital zoom (48x):

I used Program mode with ISO 125, Exposure Comp. -2, and WB set to cloudy.
Crop, Scale 50%, and Auto-levels in XnView.

Nowhere near as good as with a DSLR but considering what the camera is, not too bad.

tomos · « **Reply #355 on:** December 21, 2016, 07:27 PM »

^ that's a really good quality image

I'm trying to sort out photos at the moment and came across this one from the same night (screenshot @100%) quality much poorer:

moon itself not that different even though the other side of the world -- it has rotated a bit.
time below is CET:

4wd · « **Reply #356 on:** December 22, 2016, 01:30 AM »

Quote from: tomos on December 21, 2016, 07:27 PM

^ that's a really good quality image

Thanks

Bit more pixelated than I'd like but for what the camera is (and more importantly what it cost

) not too bad.

This is scaled full image to show the size of the moon in relation to it, with just optical zoom it would have been about half the size (only 2x digital zoom):

tomos · « **Reply #357 on:** December 22, 2016, 07:24 AM »

Quote from: 4wd on December 22, 2016, 01:30 AM

Bit more pixelated than I'd like

I think it's a great result -- you might get better image quality if you didnt use digital zoom, but enlarged with a good image editor afterwards. I guess will depend on the model, but digital zoom, in my experience, isn't great.

Deozaan · « **Reply #358 on:** December 24, 2016, 09:36 PM »

Merry Christmas everyone!

mouser · « **Reply #359 on:** December 24, 2016, 10:30 PM »

Merry xmas to you, Deo!

tomos · « **Reply #360 on:** December 25, 2016, 08:28 PM »

Quote from: mouser on December 24, 2016, 10:30 PM

Merry xmas to you, Deo!

~~a bit late, but~~ a big plus one

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #361 on:** December 26, 2016, 06:13 AM »

White and more white.

12-25-16 White-out https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzXDuoNZfRYkTGpnaDB0MDNaaWM/view?usp=sharing

4wd · « **Reply #362 on:** January 01, 2017, 01:10 AM »

Melbourne (50km distant) NYE fireworks:

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #363 on:** January 02, 2017, 10:43 PM »

Pictures of a band of clouds on Mt. Graham here. The top picture was taken with my phone camera and cropped with Irfanview. The original picture is below. Which picture do you prefer?

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #364 on:** January 15, 2017, 02:51 AM »

Interesting-looking to me mountain panorama. Let me know if you want the 17 MB version.

IainB · « **Reply #365 on:** January 15, 2017, 03:36 AM »

@Arizona Hot: Nice pics! The sight of all those mountains gives me itchy feet. Need to go walk over them. (Not into rock-climbing though.)

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #366 on:** January 18, 2017, 01:38 AM »

This is an update of my previous panorama of the view below us that can be found here . The original of that picture is 17 MB. The original of this one is 73 MB (Inflation or just improvement?) Let me know if you want the original of this one.

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #367 on:** January 22, 2017, 09:13 PM »

Some unusual clouds I saw today. Let me know if you want the original pictures, I have no way of knowing exactly how interested in those pictures people here are.

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #368 on:** January 29, 2017, 12:24 AM »

I have a "like new" new camera now. Some test shots are below.

Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX20V 18.2 MP Exmor R CMOS Digital Camera with 20x Optical Zoom and 3.0-inch LCD (Black) (2012 Model)

I found picture #2 above also in the camera when I went to transfer my first picture to the computer. I don't know when or where it was taken, it has the default date and time.

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #369 on:** January 29, 2017, 12:49 AM »

Some of the reasons I got the new camera:

The button on that camera that doesn't work and allows you to change the clock also allows you to see the pictures you have taken. I wanted a camera with which it was easier to take in-camera panoramas(above full-res) and which was less sensitive to high-contrast situations. This camera produces in-camera panoramas easily and you can also produce excellent multi-picture panoramas(below) using Microsoft ICE with it. If you want more than this, you will have to ask, it is 96 MB in size.

tomos · « **Reply #370 on:** January 29, 2017, 05:05 PM »

Quote from: Arizona Hot on January 29, 2017, 12:24 AM

I have a "like new" new camera now.

good for you -- it looks quite impressive, enjoy!

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #371 on:** January 30, 2017, 03:18 AM »

Actually, this is a night indoor shot without flash using only monitor light.
(Warning: Full-res. May take a while to enlarge.)

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #372 on:** February 03, 2017, 06:11 PM »

Yesterday's sunset.

tomos · « **Reply #373 on:** February 03, 2017, 10:09 PM »

Quote from: Arizona Hot on February 03, 2017, 06:11 PM

Yesterday's sunset.

can see the quality improval from the new camera

have a new camera myself too ;-)
here last week, from the bathroom window:

(35mm equivalent 200mm lens, cropped a lot -- not really close enough for print quality)

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #374 on:** February 13, 2017, 03:44 PM »

This is the picture of the eastern hills I posted a year ago using my previous camera.

This is the same hills taken with my new camera. They look very different, don't they?