Great series Jonathan!.
Love 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6 (caused by a volcanic event?)
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Great series Jonathan!.
Love 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6 (caused by a volcanic event?)
Beautiful series Jonathan. Thanks for sharing.
I'll repeat everyone else one more time...excellent series. Number 8 is by far my favorite. But Im a sucker for old structures like that.
Thanks, Brant ---- the jagged line of dirt in the iceberg is most likely due to a merger of two ice flows, coming together at a central moraine on the ice sheet. The rubble gets pressed between the ice sheets, creating these features. Incidentally, the blue ice on the right side is also likely due to water coming into a gap and then freezing. There's all sorts of 'cool' stuff going on in these bergs..!
Beautiful Gallery, Jonathan!
It looks like you had a wonderful trip, thanks for sharing the photos!
1, 4, 11, and 18 are my favorites!
Rich
Great work Jonathan.
Less stunning than Jonathan but nonetheless my current bests.
7D 17-55mm f/2.8 @ 55mm, 1/250, f/2.8, ISO 100 with 430 EX II bounced
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7D 50mm f/1.4 @ 1/200, f/1.4, ISO 100 with 430 EX II bounced
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It's a colleague/friend of mine who wanted a nice picture of him that he could used on his LinkedIn/Facebook/you-name-it accounts. Of course nothing was foreseen and the idea came as I happened to have my camera at a BBQ at work.
Comments & advice welcome
He should be happy with these Steph.
The light in the second is a little better managed than the first, you could crop that body out on the left as it is a little distracting. The first one is a nice relaxed portrait that could have benefitted from a little bit of light from a reflector or a tablecloth or towel just angled upwards to decrease those shadows around his eyes.
Nice work, keep them coming please.
Thanks, yes, I think I see what you mean. On the first one, the flash was completely bounced off the ceiling while for the second one I had the opportuny to use the wall on his left. I would have needed the little white card there is on the 580 but not on the 430.
You don't always need a proper reflector, just a white towel thrown on the ground in front of them will reflect light upwards, to help eliminate some shadows. Or even someone else just holding a piece of white cardboard or paper so the flash bounces off the roof and then off the towel or cardboard back up at them.
Of course this is very easy to say sitting at the computer, not as easy when you are relaxing at a BBQ. Sean is the expert in this regard not me, but light reflected at the right angle can take years and pounds off.
There is a real connection with the eyes of your subject and a relaxed feel to the portraits, again I think he should be very happy with these shots.
It started raining this afternoon while we were in the U.P. of Michigan... so it was time to go find a waterfall to take advantage of longer shutter speeds with the overcast skys.
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Tannery Falls-8783 by westmichigan, on Flickr
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Tannery Falls-8782 by westmichigan, on Flickr
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Tannery Falls-8789 by westmichigan, on Flickr
F8F Bearcat. Had to mount the 7D on a monopod to lift it above a fence. 2 second delay shot.
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Great capture Mark, specially considering the timer delay. How long is this plane? It looks short.
It's not a big fighter, but the lens was a Roki 14mm f2.8, so there may be some distortion. Here's a slightly different angle.
http://bimmermail.com/Airshow/airshow01-sm.jpg
Brisbane City skyline.
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Thanks for viewing.
You're lucky, Pat. It started raining here in March and has hardly stopped since. It's the reason I've only been out twice with my camera this summer. I don't need to go far for shots of falling water. I took this earlier today through my living room window.
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8294/7...8d6dbeff_c.jpg
Raindrops by Andrew Stringer, on Flickr
Went to the local county airport airshow today. Not much of a show, but this one aerobatic plane made a few passes close enough to my spot outside the fence to get a few crops. These were shot with my new 70-300 f4-5.6L that I got yesterday.
http://bimmermail.com/Airshow/airshow12-sm.jpg
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Congrats on the new glass, Mark! Nice sharp shots!! I have been debating for awhile now on whether to trade my 100-400mm for this lens!
Thanks, Denise. The thing that sold me on this lens is how compact it is at 70mm. It fit easily in the main slot of my Crumpler 7MDH attached to the 7D. The 70-200 F4L IS wouldn't do that. Plus it's really sharp at 300mm wide open. It even works with the Kenko 2x TC, albeit manual focus only. And they're seriously reduced right now at Adorama (something I missed out on).
Mark,
Really like the first one. Congrats on the new glass. I'm waiting on mine which should be arriving next week. I got sold for the same reason.
Arnt
Andy...there is a gentlenesss to that shot of rain I really like.
Mark...#1 should be up on a wall someplace. Great shot.
I have seen many amazing shots of hummingbirds on the forum. But I've been trying for years to even get them to frequent my house, typically only seeing 1-2 a year. Hopefully, this is a sign that things are changing:
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HB-7412 by kayaker72, on Flickr
Thanks for viewing...Brant
Nice shot, Brant! The key to getting them to frequent your yard regularly is timing. Get those feeders out a few weeks before they are due back in your area in the very early spring. Once you snag them and their preferred flowers have bloomed you can slowly decrease the sugar/water ratio in the feeders and then eventually put the feeders away altogether. This is the first year I had hb's coming in my yard to feed about every 10 minutes from sunrise to sunset every day! Next year I am hoping to get the feeders put away alittle sooner so the bees don't chase the male hb's away!
These are nothing special. I was just shooting these to show a friend how it works. But here are three shots for demonstration purposes.
The first is looking across the living room into the kitchen using a 24-105 at 24mm. Note the microwave out in the kitchen (and kindly overlook the cluttered room).
http://bimmermail.com/mw02.jpg
Now here's one with the 70-300 at 70mm.
http://bimmermail.com/mw03.jpg
Lastly, here's one with the 70-300 and Kenko 2x TC at 600mm.
http://bimmermail.com/mw01.jpg
Maybe not razor sharp, but pretty good considering it's a 1.6 second shot using a somewhat wobbly tripod.
That is very impressive! For being on a 2x and at such a slow shutter speed, the sharpness is amazing! I think it is definitely worth my giving up my 100-400mm for but I will probably have to wait until these start hitting the used and refurb market.
Thanks for posting the pics ...it has me sold!
Andy - I understand... I once spent most of the winter in the U.K., and it rained every single day. And it did not just rain for part of the day, it rained all day long, everyday.
That is a nice shot of rain... but I suppose you get lots of practice.:p
Mark - That Bi-Plane is cool... I like the second one.
Brant - Wow... what a great shot of the HB. I always like to see the colorful flower with the bird.
Thanks for the tip Denise! I'll give it a try next year.
Thanks Pat!
A random assortment of things we've been up to this weekend.
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Anybody home? by namethatnobodyelsetook, on Flickr
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Jumping the waves by namethatnobodyelsetook, on Flickr
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Happy Karter by namethatnobodyelsetook, on Flickr
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Happy Golfer by namethatnobodyelsetook, on Flickr
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Zuni makes a splash by namethatnobodyelsetook, on Flickr
David, that shot of Zuni is spectacular.
I was out feeding the mosquitos tonight and shot this from the front yard. Canon 70-300L + Kenko 2x TC. ISO 100, F11, 1/125 sec. Manual focus with live view at 10x. In hindsight I should have upped the ISO and grabbed a faster shutter speed, but such thoughts were far from my mind. All I could think of was getting back in the house while I still had some blood left in my veins. http://bimmermail.com/Moon/moon083012-01.jpg
This picture will be used to announce the birth of the baby (the one in the belly in the picture :p)
7D with the 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS II @ 100mm. 1/60, f/4.0 & ISO 800. Two remote 430 EX II were used.
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Comments & advice welcome.
Like that one a lot Steph, nice light, great image.
Steph...really like the shot, and concept. And I don't do this type of photography/post processing enough to know what I am talking about, but I wonder if you could remove some of the blemishes and somehow smooth the skin tones. Not much as I like natural feel to photos.
But the suggestion isn't meant to take anything away from the shot, I could easily see going with it as is.
Thanks!
@Kayaker72: I agree with you and I already got rid of the piercing with PS. For the rest, I would have gone further as you suggested but the mother liked it that way with her "imperfections". I find a lot of people don't like too much retouching. I'm a big fan, even though not an expert, as I'm still amazed at the result you can get with a 30-mins PS session.
Took a few shots of Bo on the weekend, so you guys will have to suffer through them again.
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Poser.
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If he gives you this look, it's already too late.
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Thanks for viewing.