Nice shot Denise. Looks really sharp. Caught with your 100-400?
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Nice shot Denise. Looks really sharp. Caught with your 100-400?
Thanks! Yes, this was taken w/ the 100-400mm. I was out in the backyard trying to get a few more bird shots after the rain stopped. Mr. Cardinal flew out as fast as he flew in but this guy hung around for awhile. Sometimes you just have to take what you can get!
Denise
Birds are nice but this guy is cute. Even if he is a thief.
Mark
I found a few critters as well.....
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Sea otter off the west coast near the isle of skye;
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Nice duck there DD, great to see this thread resurected. I
Caught this one a few days ago after the rain, comments and critique welcome! (I know the ISO is very high but it was pretty cloudy and I was in a shady area) More of them in my blog: http://qwrad.wordpress.com/2011/05/22/rainy-day-snails/ and I also put up one version in the pixel bender/manipulation thread. Thanks for viewing!
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7D + 100mm L macro @ f/11, 1/250sec, ISO3200
Very sharp shot, qwRad!
Looks like we all are getting our share of rain!
Here's a few from today ...
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Cool, you
LOL! Maybe I should have pp
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ROFL!!!
Great pictures Denise....[Y]
Thanks Denise. Your shot of the red "punk cardinal" ([:D]) is very cool :)
Very nice shots Denise, the purple crest might be worth trying![H]
Keep up the great work,
John.
Very nice shots Denise. Just proves that in capable hands the 100-400mm is a fantastic birding lens.
I would love to have had that focal length last week - I was on a week long fishing trip up the in Gulf of Carpentaria and the bird life was incredible after the recent wet season. I got a few nice ones that I
Here isa couplefrom me.
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24mm,ISO 100, 0.8 sec, f/11, tripod.
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24mm, ISO 100, 5 sec, f/22 (needed lots of DOF), tripod.
I was using my Minolta MD 24mm f/2.8 Rokkor-X, great lens!
John.
At the end of May, I visited Knoydart, a remote part of the west of Scotland. I've wanted to go there since seeing it from across Loch Nevis on a trip last year. This time, the weather was very unkind with stormy winds and heavy rain much of the time, either falling on me or my intended landscape subject. In between the showers, I captured a few shots:
Sunlit lichen on a boulder on the shoreline of Loch Nevis
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5D Mark II, TS-E 24mm f/3.5L II @ f/11, 1/400s, ISO 100
Deer come down to the shore to feed on kelp in the evenings. This one was very close to the lodge I was staying in.
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1D Mark IV, EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM @ 285mm, f/6.3, 1/250s, ISO 1600
I spent a day on the Isle of Eigg, where I found these concretions on the shore, with the Isle of Rhum in the background.
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1D Mark IV, TS-E 24mm f/3.5L II @ f/13, 1/25s, ISO 100
Andy - the third shot, of the concretions, is spectacular. If only the clouds had lifted a bit on the island in the background!
Andy -- great shots and a very nice addition to your already spectacular Flickr album. It is cool for me to see photos of a place that I also visited recently. Too bad about your weather.... but you definitely managed to capture
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Sunset on Mono Lake, South Tufas. May 2011
Erno, that's another excellent capture, along with all the others you've added to your Flickr stream recently. You certainly have a talent for good composition, and much better luck than me with the weather.
Thanks for the kind words Jonathan. Here's my version of your 'Pure Scotland' shot, with my thanks for the creative idea.http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2376/...d9fe95a6_b.jpgQuote:
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5D Mark II, EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM @ 200mm, f/29, 1/50s, ISO 3200
This is what the island looked like on a clear day, last summer. On that occasion, I didn't have time to explore the beach to my right and never even knew about the potential for some interesting foreground elements.Quote:
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1D Mark IV, EF17-40mm f/4L USM @ 35mm, f/6.3, 1/400s, ISO 200
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Captured this guy last week. Comments and critique welcome and thanks for viewing. More photos of him and one other squirrel eating in my blog
You really should cut down the photos you post here to no more than about about 800 pixels wide. By forcing the photo into a box, you
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Thanks for the suggestion. I actually thought that when I add a new photo from an URL in rich formatting and specify 800px as width (which I did) this site will automatically make a smaller 800px wide version from the URL but indeed it is as you say and the image is scaled by the browser to fit into 800px wide and seems quite jagged and wastes bandwidth and you have to right click and select 'view image' to see the full size version. I will post the 600px wide small versions from my blog from now on and make a link to the full size image. Thanks and sorry!
A few pictures from the White Mountains in NH from this weekend:
Evans Falls:
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Along the Tuckerman trail, near Crystal Cascades
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Thompson Falls (first one)
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The map just called all of these "Thompson Falls" but there are about 8 waterfalls as you move up the mountain.
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Along the Ellis river on the hike to Glen Ellis Falls
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And a moose :)
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Sorry for so many pics....thanks for viewing......
Brant
Great waterfall photos Brant! I'm jealous since we don't have too many of those here in Finland and especially near where I live. I have to go look for some a bit further away some day. And the moose is also very nice, looks like a young one? They are magnificent up close.
Here are some of my photos from today and last Friday. Don't know if they fit strictly speaking to this thread since they are from the local zoo and Sealife aquarium but I'll put them here anyways. You can find a lot more photos and links to dedicated galleries from both trips in my blog.
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Brown bear, 7D + 70-200mm f/4L IS USM @ 200mm, f/5, 1/500s, ISO100
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Asian lioness with her cub, 7D + 70-200mm f/4L IS USM @ 183mm, f/4, 1/320s, ISO320
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Lion fish of some sort, 7D + 100mm L IS USM Macro @ f/2.8, 1/50s, ISO3200
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Some sort of a ray, 7D + Sigma 30mm f/1.4 EX DC HSM @ f/1.4, 1/40s, ISO2000
Comments and critique on these and also on any photos in my blog/galleries is very welcome and thanks for viewing!
Beautiful waterfall pictures and perfect comp on the ray photo! Really nice for ISO 2000!
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Denise...love the composition of the Mallard.
QwRad....really like 1 and 4. Great character in #1 and #4 is very interesting. Just one of those things I've never really seen.
And thanks for the comments...much appreciated. Below is one more that I processed last night. BTW, I took #2 & #3 above and the one below with a B+W ND 106 filter. #1 above was with a CPL.
This is the upper portion ofCrystal Cascades. In total, it is ~80 ft tall.Shot with a 7D, 15-85 @ 24 mm, 1/4 sec, f/5.6, ISO 100 with the B+W ND 106 on an overcast day.
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Two days of walking the nature trails has left me with LOTS of photos to go thru! Very early this morning I met up with one of the deers above and he walked with me for about 15 mins. He didn't even mind my flash and better beamer!
What a great set Denise, excellent work.
Thanks, Steve! These woods were packed with deer but it was hard to get a clear view of most of them, especially the babies but this deer I ran into this morning had no problem with me hanging out with him for awhile.
I recently got my first SLR camera; a Nikon D3000, I have been taking a photo's when I have time. Any thoughts and advice are welcome.
A picture of one of the gladiolus blooming in my backyard after a late shower
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I'll be honest I took this picture for my mother who loves bee's
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I took this picture are our city's nature preserve. I think this is one of the photo's I got off the path which I found out a day later I am apparently I am allergic to poison ivy. Spent the next 2 weeks itching like crazy. I like this photo because of all the different colors & textures on the cut tree trunk.
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Blue Ridge Parkway outside of Asheville, NC, using a rented Sigma 8-16 and my backup XS body to shoot at f/16 with less diffraction worries.
16mm, ISO 100, f/16, 1/80s.
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Hi Lancer,
Welcome to the Forums and Congratulations on your new DSLR!
I like the dew on the flower in the 1st shot. There is some noise in the green background of the 1st shot, that is not noticed in the 2nd shot. See how the green background is much cleaner and creamier in the 2nd shot. Some noise can easily be removed in post-processing. Maybe you could get rid of that shriveled up white leaf in the background of the 1st one (11 O'clock position). Also consider raising the exposure a very tiny amount in the 1st shot, but try not to blow out the whites. Also, keep practicing with DOF (apertures) and compositions. In the 1st shot, perhaps a narrower aperture to increase your DOF would draw the viewers eye deeper into the flower, but some of this is personal preference. You also need enough light to do this and since there is some noise in the photo, perhaps this wasn't an option for you.
Are you shooting in RAW or Jpeg? You may want to shoot in both formats in the beginning, this way you will have the RAW file to edit later on when you get more proficient. Play around with the different camera modes, Aperture priority for stills and Shutter Priority for Moving subjects is a good way to practice. Also learn how to adjust the ISO or try Auto ISO, if your camera has that.
If you are looking for additional feedback, then I would encourage you to list your lens, as well as the EXIF data for the shot. If you use a tripod then you could mention that too.
Nicely done! Good Luck and keep posting!
Rich
Beaver River Falls on the North Shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota.
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Canon 5DII with EF 16-35mm f/2.8L @ 35mm
First exposure - 1.3 sec @ f/16 ISO 50 with 4-stop ND
Second exposure - 1/20 sec @ f/8 ISO 100
Wind was pushing the trees around, so I had to make two exposures to capture the movement of the water and another to freeze the motion of the trees. I then blended the two in photoshop by layering the short exposure on top of the long exposure and used a pixel mask to reveal the silky water of the long exposure.
At thekingb,
At f/16 you actually have more difraction than something wider, such as f/8 or f/11. This scene doesn
Thanks John. Great point about the foreground. I figured my XS at 10mp could handle f/16 better than my 7D, but I guess it doesn
I
Diffraction is always there, you just don't see it or it's less obvious at lower resolutions. You don't have to use a wider aperture because of higher resolution, if you need the DOF then use it. If not use something that hits the sweet spot on your lens, generally around f/8-f/11. Diffractionbecomes much more obvious past f/16 even at lower resolutions.
John.
A few more pictures from my trip to see family in Idaho.
We spotted this young buck on the way into a favorite spot in central Idaho. 7D, 100-400L @ 400, 1/320, f/5.6, ISO 200
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A fire had passed through the forest several years ago: 7D, 15-85 @ 15 mm, 1/640, f/4.5, ISO 100, CPL
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In the distance you can see entire ridges that burned, and a few areas that were spared. Where I was standing also burned. 15 mm, 1/320, f/4.5, ISO 100 CPL
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Another day. A line of thunderstorms moved through. 7D, 15-85 @ 15 mm, 1/1250, f/4.5, ISO 100
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Thanks for viewing, Brant
Here is a couple of my latest
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