Post your best current shots

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Originally Posted by Andy Stringer

I like the arrangements. Did your wife use that sabre to cut the flowers? I must admit that I found the background slightly distracting, especially in the second shot. Perhaps you could use a shallower depth of field to separate your subject, or find a plain feature to place behind the subject to isolate it from the background.

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How about a little photoshop magic :)

Painstakingly added lens blur

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7185/6...2619df64b9.jpg
IMG_0945_DOF2 by sambisu, on Flickr

Went out to collect lizards last weekend with one of my collaborators. I only took my loaner 180mm macro. I still believe the 300mm f4L IS is the "Lizard King", but the 180 macro is really nice if you can pose stuff.

Broad-headed Skink
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7058/6...81e1ecf1_c.jpg

Fence Lizard:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7115/6...3f8d00c7_b.jpg

Milksnake
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8153/6...324cf3f1_b.jpg

Black Rat Snake:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7213/6...4a025b88_b.jpg

My farmer friend bought himself a new toy.

http://bimmermail.com/2012crop/2012crop17-sm.jpg

I haven't looked at this thread in awhile ...very, very nice shots everyone!

I won't post this in best of the birds thread because IMO it needs alot of improving and hopefully as the season goes on, they will only get better! I was walking through my bedroom and caught a glimpse of this little guy through my window and I just had to hurry and grab the camera so no time for set-up on this one!

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8152/7...4c93a64e_z.jpg
Ruby Throated Hummingbird by Denise Trocio ( www.dtrociophotography.com), on Flickr

Looks like a painting, well done.
Nice reptiles and like the really wide harvester.

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Originally Posted by sambisu

How about a little photoshop magic :)

Painstakingly added lens blur

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7185/6...2619df64b9.jpg
IMG_0945_DOF2 by sambisu, on Flickr

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That's a great flower arrangement not to mention the light, color and saturation.

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Originally Posted by M_Six

My farmer friend bought himself a new toy

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Nice, certainly an unusual picture :-)

A little fill-in flash would have been nice. Call Sean next time :-)

Arnt

Cool shot Mark.....I actually like the slight silhouette. Makes the shot look very ominous. One thought for the future, but, it would be even a little better in my mind if the ends weren't clipped. But I really do like the shot. Well executed concept.

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Originally Posted by Kayaker72

Cool shot Mark.....I actually like the slight silhouette. Makes the shot look very ominous. One thought for the future, but, it would be even a little better in my mind if the ends weren't clipped. But I really do like the shot. Well executed concept.

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Thanks. Yeah, I'm a little disappointed in myself for missing the framing like that. I thought I had the whole thing in the image. The farmer and the tech from the manufacturer were waiting to make a test run, so I had time for just one shot before I needed to get out of the way. Still, I was confident I had the whole thing and only saw later that I had clipped the left side.

A picture of my beloved, on a quick break to Melbourne. It's hard to take a shot of your wife that she is happy with.
We tell them them, but they refuse to listen.
Tim McGraw sums it up best in this song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnEia9uuK6c

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Where are the shops? by Steve's Life, on Flickr[/img]
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