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Maritime Research and History / Re: Ship CANTIKA PRATAMA 03?
« on: March 26, 2024, 09:54:51 AM »
Interesting, anybody with an answer? Probably one of those ships of which the continued existence is in doubt, but was still more or less active, at least active enough for the owner to apply an unnotice name change.

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Maritime Research and History / Re: Karadeniz Holding o Karpowership
« on: March 24, 2024, 07:59:01 AM »
Hi Mafioso,

Thanks for this, this is how this board was intended.

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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: SITE PROBLEM ?
« on: March 24, 2024, 07:54:29 AM »
Hi Victor,

This came about because the site duplicated (erroneously) some photos. It is not that you uploaded the shot twice. The reason for the double posting is being investigated.

Pieter

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Help and Advice / Re: Best shipspotting places in Rotterdam?
« on: March 06, 2024, 08:19:10 AM »
Hi,

The most obvious places are:

Slag Maasmond, where all ships going to all ports in the Rijnmond area will eventually pass. but it requires a long lens to catch smaller outgoing craft. Disadvantage is that you get the same shots of all ships passing. Driving distance is annoying.

In the morning and the beginning of afternoon the Pistoolhaven is an alternative, for it offrs an opportunity for a different angle for all ships with the destinantion Maasvlakte.

Closer to home the Rozenburg Landtong offers a good view on the Caland Canal, best time to go there is before 11.00 am as the sun will gradually get more annoying. The view on the New Waterway from here gets better by the hour.

These three spots are for the option to take a chair with you (and a good book), but of course there are some points from where you can shoot ships in port that have your particluar interest. 

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Hi,

Depending on where you are, and what the distance from the ships will be, I think that a range coverage of say 25-30mm to 250-300mm would be enough. I found two Fuji lenses that could do the job to a certain extent
1. Fuji XC 50-230 (4.5-6.7)
2. Fuji XF 55-200 (3.5-4.8)

The lighting for the second lens is much better, especially at long distance, but the range is smaller.
Try to find second hand ones or ask your supplier whether you can rent one for experimenting.

Fow other lenses, check here (X-mount)

https://fujifilm-x.com/global/products/lenses/

For free traffic sites, you can use shipXplorer, which is linked to Shipspotting.com
https://www.shipxplorer.com/


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Shipping News and information / MOVED: Some ships to identify
« on: February 10, 2024, 04:49:14 PM »
This topic has been moved to Maritime Research and History.

https://forum.shipspotting.com/index.php?topic=17850.0

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Just some remarks here:

The DWT increase of containerships is also related to the number of loaded containers that may/can be carried, (no need to increase TEU capacity, just carry more cargo in the containers,  carrying empties is not a big earning model) In the past when Maersk announced that the Lindo yard was about to produce a new series of contanerships, they were very secretive about the actual DWT capacity, which most of the time not became public until the delivery of the first ship of the new series.

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Shipping News and information / Re: Marine Traffic revamp
« on: February 05, 2024, 03:19:47 PM »
They also recently changed the ship detail layout, and for instance year of build or names history have disappeared behind the payment wall.

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Shipping News and information / Re: ASTORIA ex-STOCKHOLM
« on: February 02, 2024, 07:35:01 PM »
Is ASTORIA still at Botlek? -no photo here since 11/2022.
Nothing seen in the news since 1/2023 report - and denial - of scrapping sale.

Still Laid up in the Waalhaven, AIS off. (She was never in the Botlek)

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Help and Advice / Backlight photography
« on: January 24, 2024, 01:41:01 PM »
We regularly come across backlight photos where the subject, the ship, has become so dark that details are hardly visible. These photos can most of the time be easily corrected with the right software, by lighting up the shadows and in fact we have done so in several cases, making use of the facility to edit and re-upload photographs.

However, it is much better to avoid dark ships by applying some overexposure beforehand, which will of course make the background even lighter, but at least will show much more of the ship. Check your camera settings to which extent you can apply overexposure (one stop aperture increase may already do the trick), but it could be something you have to practice your self, by making shots with different settings and see what gives the best result. 

If you are used to have your camera in the P function, you have to switch that off, to overrule the automatics that  take over manual control.

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Shipping News and information / Re: Cruiseship MAUD storm damage
« on: December 22, 2023, 05:55:38 PM »
Lash Carrier Munchen revisited. Exactly the same happened there, but she was in the middle of the Atlantic, with desastrous consequences.

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The site standards say the following:

READ THIS CAREFULLY BEFORE UPLOADING TO THIS CATEGORY

The category is not to be treated as a repository for photos of distant vessels that would not meet site standards. Distant views where harbour features are a small part of the image may be considered for deletion. Members should understand the limitations of their camera.


USE THIS CATEGORY FOR

Photos with clearly visible Harbour features. This may include occupied/unoccupied berths and loading/unloading facilities. The harbour must be used by vessels that meet Shipspotting criteria

Photos of canal locks which meet the above criteria.

FOR THIS CATEGORY :-


DO NOT UPLOAD photos showing an area with ships anchored, but without visible harbour facilities. That type of photo should be placed in the Shipping (main) category, where views of more than one ship normally are placed. They must meet the requirement of this section of the FAQ titled Uploading Issues http://www.shipspotting.com/modules/x ... q/index.php?cat_id=16 (FIX)

DO NOT UPLOAD photos showing close-ups of lighthouses or beacons

DO NOT UPLOAD photos showing breakwaters with water or distant ships in the background, unless harbour features are clearly seen somewhere in the photo.

DO NOT UPLOAD photos of harbours for small yachts and boats used for recreational purposes.This includes Yacht Marinas.]

So the answer to the deletion one of your shots is given in the final sentence. And yet I would support those who would argue that for instance Monaco is not exactly a Marina, given the amount of sizeable yards that are for too large to enter a small British clay exporting port, of which a shot would qualify for inclusion. It sometimes seems that we are making life difficult for ourselves. Would there be a great opposition from members to delete the final four words of this section i.e. : This includes Yacht Marinas. ?




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Shipping News and information / Re: Marine Traffic revamp
« on: December 15, 2023, 07:54:22 AM »
Developments of a disquieting nature.*

They've changed the photo uploading page. Even as they still only allow photo uploading one by one, there is no more possibility to keep the data by clicking "Back" and keep uploading other photos. The worst thing is that the map to mark the position of the photo resets to zero after every upload, and the map itself has lost the satellite view option, as if they don't care about the exact spot of the photo.

There's also no more option to write an description/comment to the photo, again, as if they don't care about this information.

* Stephen King, "Jerusalem's Lot"

and what did not change, but was already a pain in the A.. is that the title of the photo does not necessarily represent the name of the ship in the picture, but it seems to given as the name that the ship had at the day of posting. So if you post a photo taken a year ago and the the ship has been renamed during that year, the new name will be allocated....

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Shipping News and information / Re: Marine Traffic revamp
« on: November 30, 2023, 06:19:10 PM »
I made a complaint that the white sea does not show the finger piers any (as used in the Europoort). You cannot see whether a ship is moored east or west of a jetty, which is important for the time you want to take a shot of her.
I got a polite message back that my complaint had been addressed and that the problem was solved.
Next thing I did was checking, no difference...no solution
About three to fours our later I received one one those message that ask you what your thoughts are about the follow given by MT.
I replied that I was 100% dissatisfied as the problem was not solved.

Since then I heard nothing and nothing has changed. 

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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: New category.
« on: November 16, 2023, 06:14:55 PM »
This seems to be a fake named ship from a popular movie

https://www.shipspotting.com/photos/3650248?navList=gallery&page=9&viewType=normal&sortBy=newest

does anybody know its true identity?

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