[Capture Challenge] Charge your battery and take some photos

Saw some images using an IR filter and thought to myself, “I used to have one of those”. It took me a while to find, but here are some pictures of Loch Faskally and down the river.

Do you know, I stood for ages near that signal, but no trains turned up…

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Crow and red kite

Two seconds later

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@Kurt, now that we’re in the equivalent of a rap battle but with birds, I counter with another of my famous blurry bird pictures of a crow and peregrine falcon:

It’s funny, even though I have never taken bird photography seriously, and I don’t have the appropriate equipment at all, I still keep snapping them wherever I go. I never thought I’d ever be displaying them, but here we are…

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So do I. I photograph everything that’s not on the count of three on the tree.
But flying birds are a challenge, especially when they are small, fast and very manoeuvrable. Birds sitting on a wire can be nice - and remind me to Leonard Cohen :slight_smile:

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Beautiful!

I wish agx emulsion had a more streamlined editor. Currently Darktable->Tiff->uv run agx emulsion → export is very cumbersome.

Anyway very aesthetic shots! Made want to get this Pentax lens :smiley:

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If agx emulation can take a file name as an argument, you could setup the dt lua script for external editors.

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Agreed, although then I remember it was only a proof of concept - and think how lucky I am to get to use it all :wink:

Thanks! The colour palette and grain from the emulation combine really well with the lens rendering I think. It is a sweet lens. Mine came to me with fungus (hence low price) I dismantled partially and cleaned and it’s been great ever since. There are still markings in the coating from the fungus, but if anything a little haze only adds to the charm. I think…

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Now you can see like this all the time…

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That’s incredible, although I’m still waiting for a contact lens that can just correct my vision as well as glasses. It’s 2025 and by now I thought my long-sightedness and astigmatism would not be such a pain to deal with. I’m trying some new lenses in a couple of weeks that might mean I can get monthly disposables in my prescription, but it’s been a long wait to get to this point.

I held off getting reading glasses for so long, which might explain some of my older edits…

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I recently came back from London. I’ve posted a selection in the Showcase category here, but here’s another one.

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Very nice. I would crop the interior out.