Really cool. Thanks.Barred owl in my backyard tree.
Really cool. Thanks.Barred owl in my backyard tree.
Interesting, never heard of the Breakthrough.
I ordered the B+W just the other day. It's suppose to be thinner, to minimize the chances at vignetting.
However, I've heard some claims that it's too thin that you can't put a regular lens cap on it.
Looking up while queuing to visit the Skygarden at the top of the 'Walkie Talkie' (20 Fenchurch Street) in London.
I only recently heard of Breakthrough myself. I had an earlier B+W that had the lens cap issue. There was no front thread either. The current product description says that it has a front thread and will take a snap on lens cap.
I haven't been able to find a website that caters to photographers where I might offer this material up for sale. I have pretty much worn out EBay. Does anyone here know of such a site?
I got my B+W KS polarizer.
Fits my Nikon 20 mm 1.8 fine and I can put the Nikon lens cap on.
In fact, when I bought the lens, B&H threw in Luminesque UV and CPL filters. Never heard of the name. It says Made in China, in contrast to Made in Germany for the B+W.
Actually the Luminesque CPL is thinner than the B+W and it also fit the lens cap.
I did use it already and the pictures look fine, maybe the skies in the photos I took with it aren't as deep blue as the photos I took with the Marumi CPL I had on my other lens.
My main concern was that with a wide lens the skies would turn out uneven but I don't see it.
I used Light Room for editing and include Copyright information in the JPG metadata. If you do this and post an image you could expose your Identity (if that is any concerned) using a meta data viewer, or reverse image lookup if that same image in already on the web. JMT
Why even bother with Copyright? Are your images so good someone will steal them and make fortune off them?
Further the copyright allows the author to prevent anyone else from making money of the photo with the authors permission. (or indeed to use the photo at all in a public way)I never charged for my photo's except for weddings. I often post on FB groups where most photos are copyrighted and are of National Geographic quality. They are often shot by professionals, seeing this I started adding the copyright info myself.
A good day is when I have the most likes that week on large Face book group like NANPA (13,600 active members). NANPA | North American Nature Photography Association – Connecting the Nature Photography Community
I have found some of my photo's, without my copyright, on other websites, used without my permission.
My photo's are on a national calendars for 2015/2016/2017 (got 1/2 million like votes on one) are now hanging in a university gallery. Some are in books, I have won many photo contests, starting from age 12.
All that bragging aside I am still waiting to take one picture that I am 100% happy with. It hasn't happened yet, but I keep trying.
I considered myself an "above average amateur".
The reason for my post was to perhaps protect someone's identity where a bad guy could find your identity via a photo. There are many people here who post photos AND have given a lot of financial details who do not want their identity known (myself included).
FWIW - My advise is be aware and be careful with posting photos if; it's already on the web and traceable to your name / web address/ etc, or you are discoverable from your photo meta data.
Why even bother with Copyright? Are your images so good someone will steal them and make fortune off them?
It's unlikely they'll make much money at all with them. But it does show that they are lazy people of low ethical standards.
I've mentioned this book before - The Copyright Zone. If, and only if, you register your photos with the U.S. Copyright office (for U.S. residents only of course) you have a lot of options, some of which can bring you a large financial windfall.
If you're not interested in reading the book, here's a youtube video done by the authors with the material somewhat condensed. It is long at 1:15 but if you post photos anywhere you should be aware of this material.
Nice shots, Ronstar. I was there recently also, but the water flow was less. I'll post some after processing.
Those are really nice shots Ronstar.
When I show folks my Starved Rock photos, I'll show them these as "what it should look like"
Some waterfall shots at Starved Rock State Park, Illinois