What did you shoot....January 3rd - Jan 9th?

As you may have heard the rain and floods in my part of the world have been very devastating. Brisbane a city of about 2.3 million people is now waiting asriver levels rise and the compounding effects of king tides hit us in the next day or so. Inland of us is Toowoomba it sits on top of our mountain range and was hit by a flash flood that they are calling an inland tsunarmi that cut a swathe of destruction that has left 60 people still missing and too many dead.


I'm still re-locating wildlife that is moving to higher ground, yesterday afternoon they posted a warning to look out for kangaroos that are being flushed out of reserves.


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You can see I used an empty winebox to move him away from the house. In spite of the weather life goes on and a mate had his 50th last week and he opened some pretty big bottles of wine.


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Exif data available, but maybe more interesting is Magnum 88' RD Bollinger, magnum 04' Corton Charlemagne, magnum 95' Barbaresco, 90' Volnay, 93' Haut Brion, 96' Haut Brion, magnum 05' Ponet Canet and finally a magnum 07' Zillikin Riesling. Couldn't think of a better way to drown sorrows.


Thanks for viewing.


Steve

Nice pic's Steve. We all thinking of you guys up north. Keep smiling and keep up the QLD spirit.


Regards, Wally from Down Under [st]

A day out in the park with my two grand daughters and took this shot. This little girl is always trying out anything LOL


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Thanks Wally, great shot.


My post is a bit dreary, but there is a pervasive sense of gloom and doom here at the moment.


Creepy thing is I woke up this morning and the skies are blue, sun is shining, yet they are about to cut the electrical power to the whole CBD.


Oh well, probably be quiet work wise today.

Your post is far from dreary Steve, it actually tells the REAL QLD spirit. As the QLD saying goes: "BEAUTIFUL TODAY, PERFECT TOMORROW"

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EXIF data can be found in the click through, as can the lighting info for the first shot. The second image was shot with a 580EX, camera left, 1/2 CTO gelled, diffused by a 14" Lumodi as well as a fill flash camera right, 1/4 CTO gelled, diffused by a small Alzo collapsible softbox.


By the way, the first shot is a result of the first assignment in a 52 week project conducted by Lighting Essentials. The project is aimed at helping photographers learn how to successfully monetize their craft. Should be interesting.

Sean..... you are good. Absolutely love your shots. If I ever win the jack pot in Tattslotto (Aussie Lottery) I book a flight to your home land and you teach me how to do shots. Well done mate

You have already won that title. But you also have midlle, lower and upper Tennessee

Steve -
We've certainly heard a lot about the awful flooding in the news. Thanks for sharing some personal insight and giving it a very human touch. Best of luck as you work your way through!


This shot is from yesterday, so technically it falls outside the Jan 3rd - 9th spectrum (hope that's okay).
Black capped chickadee, Calgary
Canon 1D3, 70-200 f/2.8, 1/500 sec @f/4, ISO 200, fill flash.


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Sean..... you are good. Absolutely love your shots. If I ever win the jack pot in Tattslotto (Aussie Lottery) I book a flight to your home land and you teach me how to do shots. Well done mate
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And if I ever win Mega Millions or Powerball, I'll fly down to Australia and we can shoot all the cute natives together. ;-)

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You have already won that title. But you also have midlle, lower and upper Tennessee's cutest lighting assistant.


Nice shots.
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Can't disagree about the lighting assistant... :-)

Thanks Jonathan, appreciate it. I was thinking of your pre-Christmas family shot in the snow and remembered it had an almost 3D effect. You guys seemed to pop out of the background. I really liked it. Was it a feature of the 85mm? Is it PP? Have we ever had a thread discuccing or highlighjting the ability of some lens to do this?


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Just a little play time in the Mud and Water this week


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7D, 500MM F4L, F4.0, 1/320, ISO 800


Earlier this week there was this little guy:





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Steve, that family shot (found here, for reference: http://community.the-digital-picture.com/image_presentation1/f/15/p/5331/46560.aspx#46560) was taken with the 85 f/1.2 lens set at f/2.0. I used an on-camerafill flash, and that might be one of the reasons it seems to pop so much. Other than that, I'm not smart enough to know why it worked... really it was dumb luck on my part!

Thanks Jonathan.


Hey HD, I love your dog shot, love the trail of water coming of the tail, nice action shot.

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Thanks Steve, it was overcast when I took this and this was one of the few pics that came out without motion blur. I really didn't even think about the tail spray I was just trying to catch some action pics of the pup, when I got home there were some that were real interesting because he was wagging his tail like crazy. Some had full circles, some trails that looked like figure 8's. I am going to try it again on a day with a little more light.


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bouwy, like the picture of this little girl very much, this is the few time that better with eyes closed.[Y]

Decided togo fora driveto Cook's Bay. I didn't realize that after leaving the parking spot that I had actually parked on a frozen lake. Snowkiting, snowmobiling, ice hockey and ice fishing just to name a few on the activity menu. Knowing my luck, I would be the only that would have the ice give way under me, I guess the *gods* were looking the other way!


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Elmo, the third pic, the guy 20 feet in the air. Are they supposed to be hang gliding like that? That is an interesting shot.

New Australian Shepherd Puppy.


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You can notfind a lot of open water around here (everything is iced over), but the small amount of open water really concentrates the water fowl. Here are a couple of swans.


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Pat

here is my shots from last week


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thanks fro viewing!

Got some nice snowfall sunday night.


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Canon 7D - Canon 85mm f/1.8 @ f/2.2 1/1250 +1/3EV ISO100

Congrats on the new pup, David! Very envious ...awesome breed that I would love to own!


Both shots are great but the second is a fantastic capture! I don

Wow, great shots this week! Hopefully the rainproblems in Australia stop any time soon though, my best wishes to them.


I have never submitted before in what you shot this week post...mainly because I'm always late with sorting and quick-editing [A] Months behind here...


Tuesday the 4th we had a partial solar eclipse here in the Netherlands. Unfortunately it was too cloudy and there was only one very small area of free view. This area was a lot higher, so the sun was already a lot brighter than it would have been when closer to the horizon. Nonetheless it was very beautiful to watch. Better than the photo's [;)]


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5D2 ~ 70-200 F4L IS @ 200mm F5.6 1/8000 ISO400


And last saturday I shot a Ice figureskating "show". It was actually a club-championship for the younger members. I haven't sorted them yet, but quickly snatched 2, so no post-processing of any kind. The sun wasn't up yet when it started and it graduately became brighter, but it was still way dark for me to get good settings, so I'm afraid my keeper-rate is low on this one.


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5D2 ~ 70-200 F4L IS @ 200mm F4 1/500 ISO1600


This girl was one of the last and was shot with the "best" settings that I could get that day:


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5D2 ~ 70-200 F4L IS @ 200mm F4 1/1250 ISO1600

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Elmo, the third pic, the guy 20 feet in the air. Are they supposed to be hang gliding like that? That is an interesting shot.
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LOL, I'm not sure butthis one particular fellow had some serious height on his runs with this being one of the smaller ones.

Great photos everyone!





I decided to go the beach last Sunday... That's what most people do in January, right?


Wasn't a spectacular day but I think I got a few good shots.


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Youth Volleyball season started today! Woke up at 06:00 on a Saturday. I should be shooting sunrises this early!


Canon 7D, 50 mm f/1.4 Canon @ f/2, ISO 1600. Aperture 3 conversion.


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