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Battleship North Carolina #6

nobody@flickr.com (Chris Laforêt) — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 16:18:51 -0700

I took these photos from across the Cape Fear from the Wilmington promenades. Each of these was taken with a long lens (150-500 zoom) under interesting afternoon lighting. I was testing the new Sigma BigOS lens.

Ironically, years ago I took another dramatic photo of this venerable ship with another Sigma lens (14mm). See Kingfisher on Fantail for a different view of the same area of the ship facing the camera.

Battleship North Carolina #10

nobody@flickr.com (Chris Laforêt) — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:52:31 -0700

Chris Laforêt posted a photo:

I took these photos from across the Cape Fear from the Wilmington promenades. Each of these was taken with a long lens (150-500 zoom) under interesting afternoon lighting. I was testing the new Sigma BigOS lens

This was shot at full 500mm and somewhat contra-jour. I really like how the strong light is backlighting the flags. I made this one a bit larger than my normal Flickr post so you can get a feel for the compressed distances at this focal length.

Ironically, years ago I took another dramatic photo of this venerable ship with another Sigma lens (14mm). See Kingfisher on Fantail for a different view of the same area of the ship facing the camera.

Kingfisher on Batteship North Carolina Detail

nobody@flickr.com (Chris Laforêt) — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:08:21 -0700

Chris Laforêt posted a photo:

Since I took photos of the Battleship North Carolina Memorial this past weekend, I was inspired to scan some of my images shot in January 2000. These were taken with my Nikon F4 and I scanned them using the HDR process I describe in Using HDR to create better film scans in my blog.

Each image was scanned 3 times at different EVs then the images were passed through Photomatix Pro and fused. It might be my imagination, but I feel this provides more depth to the image.

This is one of the Kingfisher aircraft on the ship shot with my ultrawide 14mm Sigma EX.

Kingfisher on Battleship North Carolina

nobody@flickr.com (Chris Laforêt) — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:08:16 -0700

Chris Laforêt posted a photo:

Secondary Battery and Superstructure of Battleship North Carolina

nobody@flickr.com (Chris Laforêt) — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:08:13 -0700

Chris Laforêt posted a photo:

Since I took photos of the Battleship North Carolina Memorial this past weekend, I was inspired to scan some of my images shot in January 2000. These were taken with my Nikon F4 and I scanned them using the HDR process I describe in Using HDR to create better film scans in my blog.

Each image was scanned 3 times at different EVs then the images were passed through Photomatix Pro and fused. It might be my imagination, but I feel this provides more depth to the image.

Here are some of the 5-inch guns arrayed along the sides of the ship. The superstructure towers over them.

Battleship North Carolina #3

nobody@flickr.com (Chris Laforêt) — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 16:18:45 -0700

Chris Laforêt posted a photo:

I took these photos from across the Cape Fear from the Wilmington promenades. Each of these was taken with a long lens (150-500 zoom) under interesting afternoon lighting. I was testing the new Sigma BigOS lens.

Ironically, years ago I took another dramatic photo of this venerable ship with another Sigma lens (14mm). See Kingfisher on Fantail for a different view of the same area of the ship facing the camera.

Battleship North Carolina #7

nobody@flickr.com (Chris Laforêt) — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 16:18:48 -0700

Chris Laforêt posted a photo:

I took these photos from across the Cape Fear from the Wilmington promenades. Each of these was taken with a long lens (150-500 zoom) under interesting afternoon lighting. I was testing the new Sigma BigOS lens.

Ironically, years ago I took another dramatic photo of this venerable ship with another Sigma lens (14mm). See Kingfisher on Fantail for a different view of the same area of the ship facing the camera.

Battleship North Carolina #0

nobody@flickr.com (Chris Laforêt) — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 16:18:40 -0700

Chris Laforêt posted a photo:

I took these photos from across the Cape Fear from the Wilmington promenades. Each of these was taken with a long lens (150-500 zoom) under interesting afternoon lighting. I was testing the new Sigma BigOS lens.

Ironically, years ago I took another dramatic photo of this venerable ship with another Sigma lens (14mm). See Kingfisher on Fantail for a different view of the same area of the ship facing the camera.