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Cascades du Sautadet @La Roque-sur-Cèze par Benjamin MOUROT Via Flickr : View in 500px.com/benjamin_mourot

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Первые изображения Canon RF-S 10-18mm f/4.5-6.3 IS STM

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Sigma presenta il nuovo 10-18mm F2.8 DC DN per mirrorless APS-C

Novità in casa Sigma con la presentazione dell’obiettivo zoom ultra grandangolare Sigma 10-18mm F2.8 DC DN che entra nella famiglia Contemporary ed è disponibile per L-Mount, E-Mount e X-Mount. Come si intuisce dalla sigla, parliamo di una lente zom con un’apertura fissa pari a F2.8, nonostante si scenda nel range degli ultragrandancolari con i suoi 10mm di focale minima (15mm equivalenti con il…

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Sigma 10-18mm F/2.8 DC DN Contemporary Lens For Fuji X

Explore the Sigma 10-18mm f/2.8 DC DN Contemporary Lens designed specifically for Fujifilm cameras. This high-performance lens offers exceptional image quality, a versatile wide-angle range, and a fast aperture, making it ideal for landscape and architectural photography. Buy Sigma lens in Canada to take advantage of its superior optics at an affordable price. Check out the Sigma lens price in Canada and elevate your photography with this must-have accessory for your Fujifilm system!

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Sigma Corporation of America: SIGMA Announces 10-18mm F2.8 DC DN | Contemporary, the World's Smallest and Lightest F2.8 Zoom Lens for APS-C Mirrorless Cameras – Press Release

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Cobbled Together

Nikon D50; 1/100; F/8; ISO 200; 18mm

1/10/2008

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southwell workhouse

about southwell workhouse The Southwell Workhouse, is located in Nottinghamshire, and was one of the many workhouses around during the 18th and 19th centuries. These institutions were created as a response to the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, which sought to provide relief to the destitute while discouraging dependence on public assistance. what I like about this place hearing how the people…

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My Photography in 2024 by the numbers

📸 Total photos taken

In 2024, I took 18,277 photos, that's about 50 photos a day!

In 2023, I took 23,721 photos. So I took 5,444 fewer photos this year than last year.

Photos taken this year make up 27% of my photography archive, which is 65,814 photos total.

💽 Raw Photo Storage

Photos taken this year take up 677GB.

That's about $9.30 of storage at current hard drive prices (per diskprices.com, $13.75/TB)

In 2023, photos took up 914GB of storage, so we're down 237GB from last year.

Photos taken this year make up 25% of my archive storage, 2.64TB.

💾 Keepers

In 2024, I exported and posted 1,129 photos, about 4.25 photos a day.

In 2023, I exported and posted 1,600 photos, about 4.4 photos a day. So, while I exported 471 fewer photos (about 30% fewer), I maintained my usual posting rate.

Exported photos from 2024 take up about 11GB on top of the 677GB above. JPEGs are far smaller than raws!

🪩 Klout

Flickr

My photos received about 616,000 views, 18,500 likes, and were featured on Flickr's Explore page 19 times. That's up 130,000 views and 4,800 likes from 2023. My most popular photo was The Sears Tower

Tumblr

All but one of my top 10 posts of the year were photos, with I think we need to put more lines up there topping the list at about 1,800 notes.

My top photography post is still my 8 minute long exposure from Lake Placid from 2022, which topped 115,000 notes this year. None of my posts from this year broke into the top 10 posts of this blog by notes.

Electric Phallus Friday remains a thing every week. No, I do not run the daily blog for it. Tho, I bet I know who does. Thank you.

Google Maps

If you're looking at places around DC, or places I have travelled, on Google Maps you might spot some of my photos. My photos have 10.8 million views on Google Maps, with Kenilworth Park and Pudgie's Pizza in Corning NY both breaking a million views each.

IRL

My photo Alone at the Reflecting Pool was a winner in the 2024 Exposed DC photography contest and will be featured in The DC Public Library's People's Archive soon.

⚙️ Gear

Cameras

In 2024, I used at least 10 cameras*:

Fujifilm X-T2 (248 edited photos)

Fujifilm X-E1 - Full Spectrum Converted (99 edited photos)

Fujifilm X-H1 (56 edited photos)

Fujifilm X-T5 & Full Spectrum Converted X-T5 (1,478 edited photos)

Film Cameras, mostly Nikon F3 (83 photos)

Panasonic LX100II (2 edited photos)

Panasonic S5 II (60 edited photos)

Panasonic GX85 - 590nm Infrared Converted (145 edited photos)

Sigma DP2 Quattro (45 edited photos)

Sony RX100 VII (35 edited photos)

This year I upgraded by trusty Fujifilm X-T2 to an X-T5. I had gotten the Fujifilm X-H1, which has the same sensor as the X-T2 (which I love), but with IBIS. An X-T2 with IBIS would be my ideal camera if it existed, but it doesn't, and the X-H1 handling is so different that I didn't enjoy it. I ended up selling the X-H1 and handing down the X-T2 to @dykedotexe.

This year I rented the Panasonic S5 II and Sony RX100 VII, both of which are fine cameras that I probably wouldn't rent again. I would love a high resolution Panasonic S5 body, maybe at CES?

Lenses

For full data, see the Read More

Top used lenses:

Fujifilm 33mm f/1.4

Fujifilm 16-55mm f/2.8

Fujifilm 56mm f/1.2

Viltrox 27mm f/1.2

Fujifilm 18mm f/1.4

The only surprising entry here is the 16-55mm. It's a standard zoom and the lens I've had for the longest. So, it's certainly my Old Faithful lens. However, I don't think I realized how much I was using it.

My most common lens combos are:

Fujifilm 18 & 33 - I travel with this setup frequently. They're both nearly perfect lenses I feel very comfortable using. Plus, they're fairly small.

Viltrox 27 & Fujifilm 56 - I tend to like longer lenses more than wider, and these two lenses are probably my favorite. So, you'll catch me with this a lot. Tho, it's a heavy setup.

Fujifilm 16-55mm - if I'm gonna be on a tripod or unsure of what to bring, this is the lens. It's big, heavy, and slow compared to all my primes, but I know it'll work. Fujifilm recently released a version 2 of this lens that I might need to pick up based on these numbers!

*in this section, edited photo counts are taken from Lightroom, a difference source than the Keepers section above. The numbers in the two sections are not comparable. Edited photos may not have been exported and posted.

🙄 To Improve in 2025

In 2024, my projects in Lightroom rarely got cleaned up. I still have imports from March that I need to curate and edit. 7,400 photos (40% of what I shot this year) sit in my Lightroom unedited.

This year, I'd like to curate my photos before editing them, separating out the keepers & removing photos I don't want to edit. Of course, they'll all be in the archive still. But, I think this would help wrap up projects rather than letting them sit around forever.

Thanks for all your support in 2024. I'm working on improving all kinds of things in 2025. I'm currently working on my posting system, which should bring some cool things when I wrap up.

Lens usage data

Viltrox 13mm f/1.4 (23 edited photos)

Fujifilm 16-55mm f/2.8 (313 edited photos)

Fujifilm 10-24mm f/4 (41 edited photos)

Fujifilm 18mm f/1.4 (167 edited photos)

@dykedotexe's Fujifilm 23mm f/2 (17 edited photos)

Panasonic G 25mm f/1.7 (145 edited photos)

Viltrox 27mm f/1.2 (179 edited photos)

Sigma DP2 Quattro - 30mm f/2.8 (45 edited photos)

Fujifilm 33mm f/1.4 (556 edited photos)

Sigma 50mm f/2 - L Mount (60 edited photos)

Zeiss Planar T* 50mm f/1.4 - F Mount (83 photos)

Fujifilm 50mm f/2 (35 edited photos)

Fujifilm 56mm f/1.2 (194 edited photos)

Fujifilm 50-140mm f/2.8 (28 edited photos)

Viltrox 75mm f/1.2 (61 edited photos)

Fujifilm 70-300mm f/4-5.6 (157 edited photos)

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EXIF: 18mm, f/9, 162 secs, ISO 100. Time: 19:23 on 10 June 2024. Location: Singapore CBD. This is a new spot to me. Visited the third time and finally captured a satisfactory shot. 😃

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Tânisi!

The largest lizard is the Komodo Dragon, Varanus komodoensis, which can grow to nearly 10 feet and 300 pounds! The smallest lizard is likely Sphaerodactylus ariasae, the Jaragua Dwarf Gecko, adults top out at around 18mm (0.71 inches in freedom units) though some chameleons in the genus Brookesia are just as tiny!

This is me, learning my new lizard facts:

This is me, discovering a festive komodo dragon gif:

And this is me, trying to find a picture of that specific dwarf gecko:

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Утечка: первое изображение и спецификации Sigma 10-18mm f/2.8 DC DN | Contemporary

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Coin of the Day #171 (10/22/2024)

Lightly toned silver for Tuesday…

Roman Empire

AR Denarius - 18mm 3.00g

Diva Faustina I 141 AD

Rome Mint

Obverse DIVA FAVSTINA

Bust of Faustina I right, veiled, draped

Reverse AETERNITAS

Aeternitas standing left, veil blown out in round behind head, holding globe and veil

RIC III 351b

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Upgrading My Camera Gear

A few days before the end of the year, I used AI for perhaps the final time to suggest me some equipment to purchase along with what I already have for my camera set up. To recap:

I have a Canon EOS 2000D body and I have 3 lenses to go with it:

Canon 18-55mm

Canon 40mm

Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS STM Black Lens

Now, I'd asked ChatGPT to generate me a list of things that I could get to go with it and here's where I got confused. 

It's all about lighting

One of the suggestions was to buy an external flash. However, one look at Amazon these days is enough to stress you out with information overload. Amazon once upon a time had a great App design, but now I see so many sponsored products that it's a struggle to know what's genuine. Almost immediately I stumble upon the brand Godox which (Seems to be) is considered the industry best in this respect. 

Then I go browsing for reflectors. Again, the suggestion from a few threads I've read seem to suggest the Neewer 5 in 1 which works well for my needs and Amazon sell a stand that would hold the reflectors which I think is a great idea. 

Further Confusion

A friend of mine then suggests to me about soft boxes. They weren’t on my list (which is another reason why speaking to a person is better than speaking to an AI). If I’ve understood it, then he’s explained it well.

A soft box helps to project the line, e.g, if you use an external flash, then the soft box projects the light in the shape of the box. A reflector then reflects the light based on the colour of the reflector and plus the angle. 

Obvious Conclusion

What I take from all of this is that there will never be a single correct answer here. Instead, it’s about what I want to shoot and what I want to achieve.

Outside Sources

I look to YouTube to try and get the concepts explained to me. The first one I watch highlights how working with a softbox helps to create different light environments.

However, this soft box has the lights built into the device which makes me wonder: why am I buying an external flash?

Then, YouTube recommends this video which is helpful for a myriad of reasons. The main one being that both use refractors, but both handle soft-box lighting in 2 separate ways.

Late night shopping

I have a general rule of thumb. If I don’t understand why I don’t need something, I don’t buy it and that’s the case today. I understand why you would need reflectors but the situation with flash/soft boxes still eludes me. So, with that in mind, I spend a bit of time looking at lenses.

Here is where I think I understand. They have 2 lenses which I like:

Canon EF 50mm

Canon EF-S 10-18mm

One is better for portrait photography, whereas the other is a wide angle lens. 

Am I wasting time and effort here?

It occurs to me that whilst I’m spending a lot of time thinking about the means of getting better quality photos into the camera, I should also give some consideration to the editing process of photos.

I go back to a process map that I created a while ago to review my editing stages during my process.

Signs from the universe

On Thursday morning, I load up YouTube and get 3 videos recommended to me which seem to be what I’m looking for:

Immediately after watching this, I realise I’ve been focusing too much on what I don’t have, rather than what I do have. I then move onto the next video

Almost immediately, the creator talks about using a wide shot. This aligns nicely with my intuition. My gut feeling was telling me that I needed to get a wide lens, but I was umming and arring. I also like this second creator, mind you, I like them both. So, I subscribe. Lastly, I get so inspired watching this 3rd video that I pause half way through as my mind is made up.

While I’m walking, I have a ponder about cinematic story telling. You often hear about the 3 acts and this seems to be a general rule of thumb for these videos structures. When I have an idea for a cinematic video, I'll need to practice on writing and building a 3 act structure to tell the story.

While I’m out shopping, the 2nd hand store near me sells the 50mm but not a wide angle lens. Onwards to another shop.

Plot twist

Eventually, I reach the shop I need, but plot twist, they don’t have any lenses whatsoever in stock. Disappointing but it forces me to recalculate. I could use the 18-55 for establishing shots, the 40 for medium shots and then use the 50mm for a close up. So, I head back to the 2nd hand store to buy the 50mm lens.

A Pleasant Surprise

While I’m in the store, I see the 50mm but then I also see a Canon EF-S 10-22mm! Okay now we’re cooking with gas. I’m able to pick up the 50mm and the 10-22mm. 

But Wait, there’s more

I notice on the shelf that there is an external flash! Is it compatible with my camera? It is! So, after heading to the supermarket and buying food for the family, I head back to pick it up. I have never used an external flash before so this is a first for me. All that remains now is to test the quality and see what I think.

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After dark

200mm, Fstop 8, ISO 200, 1s shutter; Center-weighted metering

50mm, F-stop 1.8, ISO 200, 1/50s shutter; Center-weighted metering

18mm, F-stop 20, ISO 200, 20s shutter, Center-weighted metering

55mm, F-stop 16, ISO 200, 4s shutter; Center-weighted metering

Motion Blur

55mm, Fstop 5.6, ISO 200, 1/2.5s Shutter; Matrix metering

55mm, Fstop 11, ISO 200, 2.5s shutter, Matrix metering

55mm, Fstop 11, ISO 200, 2.5s shutter; Matrix metering

18mm, F-stop 22, 10s shutter; Center-weighted metering