FREE TIME, REPORTAGE

Artborghi’s reportage on La Dolce Vita: a tour in Rome with D800 and 16-35mm f/4 for Easter 2013

What better occasion than a trip to Rome to test the 16-35mm f/4G, or was it the other way round ? Click on each post picture to open a flickr.com artborghi set either on Rome or on Ancient Roman locations or Vatican City. For technical specifications and tricks, just read further below
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The city of Rome perfectly fits in 16 mm: click here for more pictures on the “Dolce Vita” in Rome

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The huge floor mosaics of Ostia Antica need wide angles to be captured: click here for more pictures on Roman ruins

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Saint Peter is the biggest church in the word: a perfect playground for wide zooms. Click here for more pictures shot in the Vatican City of the new Pope Francesco

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AWARDS

Artborghi rank flies higher: a very good opportunity for guest photography posts!

Just a week ago artborghi got a powerful review published on WordPress.com news page … thanks a lot, Michael!

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Today artborghi is elected blog of the day on the mighty portal Paperblog: thanks a lot, Emma!

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If a couple of weeks ago you had the sneaky idea to publish your cool shots on artborghi (read here for more info), this is the magic moment for doing so!

Thanks to all of you, visitors and followers!

LESSONS, WEDDING

How to make short time lapse movies longer and smoother with Photoshop

Let’s say you have only 8 sequential shoots but you need at least 40 otherwise the sequence is too short or not smooth enough. How could you fill the gaps?

– Open the sequential pictures in Photoshop
– File > Scripts > Load files into stack
– Add Open files and tag Attempt to Automatically Align Source Images (if you did not shoot on tripod, you could get quite funny effects from this option)
– Window > Animation
– Top right menu of the newly open animation window: Make Frames from Layer
– Top right menu of the animation window: Reverse Frames and Optimize Animation

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GREEN PLANET, LENS TEST

Nikkor AF-S 16-35 mm 1:4G ED: wide lens for panorama … and for flowers too.

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Where to test the Nikkor 16-35 mm under this grey, equal sky today? Not outside, although I got this lens for border less skies and full size buildings.. . The minimal distance from the lens is 28 cm … none of my other lens can reach it. Let’s test it with flowers and apples! Awesome lens, it substituted my 17-35 mm dream lens but I am not aware of what I lost. For sure, I earned a VR stabilizer, very useful at least for “macro” subjects. Let’s hope in Spring finally coming for outdoor tests …

ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY, LESSONS, NIGHT, SKY

Artborghi’s 11 hints for astrophotography pictures with D800: from tripod to ISO choice

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1. Location: choose a shooting place out of cities / airport areas (whatever camera you own).

2. Tripod: buy a sturdy tripod. It will be heavy, but the D800 is heavy too. You want a tripod stable whatever wind strength / terrain. I bought a Manfrotto 055XPROB (2.9 Kg!)

3. Tripod Head: choose a smooth and precise “move and shoot” head with a quick release usable also by night (i.e. easy to mount/ dismount). I chose the awesome Manfrotto 054 Q2 Head. The head can stand more Kg than the tripod, but I love how easy is to point and shoot with this supersmooth head.

4. Sensor: full frame! You own the D800 or another Full Frame camera, you’ll get as much light as you can even with fast esposure time. Fast times are preferrable to avoid airplane / star trails.

5. Zoom Lenses: as fast as the Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II . Open down to f/2.8 at 200mm this lens is excellent for astrophotography – unless you have > 4,000 euros to spend on other awesome prime long Nikkor lenses.

6. Manual focusing: the 70-200 VRII is sharp and fast (and heavy) and its manual focus is amazingly accurate. AF for comets and similar weak objects by night mostly fails.Read More

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