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Hey Chris,


These look better to me. The action looks good, you've isolated the ball carrier well, and you've captured their faces, and eyes in some of them.


These girls play hard and without helmets too..., their hair flying around is a nice touch as well..


The tighter crops look better! I also like the colors and I think the exposure looks good too. They don't look too noisy either.


Watch the horizon in the 5th one. Some of the faces still look a little soft to me, especially the 5th one, which looks slightly back focused or missed focal point of ball carrier. The focus point looks to be on the girl to the left of the ball carrier, as opposed to the blonde haired girl with the black headband.


I don't know what your shutter speed, ISO or apertures were? Perhaps a faster shutter speed may be necessary, butI like the narrower DOF in #5 and #6,


It looks like you were standing in some of these, so try and shoot a little lower if possible, perhaps down on one knee, as it will provide a more pleasing background and better impact of the runner.


Nice set, thanks for sharing and keep up the good work!





Rich

Thanks Rich,


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Nice shots Chris and great advice Rich.


I have been away for a bit, but I would like to continue on the football theme from downunder.


25 years ago I started playing Gridiron, as we call it down here and played for a fair while, represented the state and so on. Well 25 years later they are having a charity re-union game for all us old timers. I have put my name down to play and being the slightly competitive type I didn't order the "don't hit me" jersey andI have lined up to have another go at my running back spot after 25 years break.


I figure it's best not to rush straight in to heavy training and have decided to ease my way back into it. For the first week I have decided to cut down on cake a couple of days and then maybe be ramp it up to 5 days a week without cake. Do you think I might be overdoing it? I don't want to peak to early.


These are not the best shots but the yellow is actually from the shirtthat I found buried in the bottom drawer. This was an undershirt that special team players wore 25 years ago. My son has it on at the moment, because I didn't want to stretch it.


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And the back of the shirt:


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Yep we thought we were cool. The first charity game was in aid of spinal research, I hope that after 25 years, when I decide to put ahelmet back on, I won't end up playing to subsidise my own treatment.


The game is on August the 6th, so I have about 12 weeks to whip myself into shape. Hmm maybe some before and after shots...


Thanks for viewing and reading.


Steve

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I have the 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II which is an awesome lens and one of my favorites. I think you will be very happy with a 70-200 f/2.8. The fixed 2.8 aperture will be a nice upgrade from your slower variable aperture 70-210mm lens that you have now. It will be great for your Sports Shooting, as it will AF faster and it will also work better in lower light, and allow you to use a lower ISO.


As you know, Canon makes a few 70-200mm f/2.8 lenses, so I would suggest get the one that you can afford. I don't use IS for Sports, but some say that the IS version is sharper than the non-IS version. Also, IS can be verybeneficial for other uses besides sports, such as stationary objects in low light.


Rich

Hey Steve,


Thanks and welcome back! I would probably cut the cake down slowly, perhaps to every other day. I wouldn't want you to go through withdrawls.[:P]


Good luck with the game, it sounds like it will be a lot of fun!


I wish you lived closer, as I would love to shoot the game from the sidelines!


Rich

Eastern Towhee


Just one of a few shots of this bird taken at Cedar Point Nature Trail, Croatan National Forest, North Carolina.


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Those are some very piercing eyes, Tim! Nice shot.


After about five continuous minutes of simultaneously entertaining with one hand and shooting with the other, and cutting off her head and ears, I finally got her whole head in a frame. Next time, I think I'll set up the tripod and remote.


28mm @ f5 and 1/50th.


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A visit to Canyonlands last week. Thanks for viewing.





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A visit to Canyonlands last week. Thanks for viewing.





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Steve...that is awesome....definitely something I would love to see pictures of. Maybe Mrs. U can take a few photos.


Tkerr love the eyes as well, and rlriii....great expression. Nice job capturing the moment.


Deltasun....it has been a long winter, a cold wet spring and I am loving seeing those landscapes...especially #1.


Nice photos everyone!

Perhaps not my best...but I do love the subjects! [:)]


"Reading Lessons"



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Thanks for looking!


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And so you should John, Great looking kids. Love the second shot.





Bob

They are both beautiful and precious. I was wondering when we would see them again.


thanks for sharing


Mark

Sunset through the clouds and smoke.


Location: Cedar Point Nature Trail, Cedar Point, NC.


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John...great photos....the "little sister" and "big sister" shirts crack me up.


Tim...very nice silhouette.......

One thing I have noticed when uploading images here compared to attaching them to a message on other forums is the colors seemed to be less vibrant.


I'm wondering if the color profile is being stripped when you upload rather than link them.


Here is the same sunset picture attached to a message at POTN forums.
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It was good to get out and stretch the old winter legs, Kayaker. :)


Nice pics, Neuro!

Ha ha great shots Neuro! So amazing to see when the elder sibling naturally takes it upon themself to teach and guide the younger one. Beautiful subjects, beautiful shots.





Damian

Time to chill.


Too hot to be raiding the bird feeders.


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Ahaha that's great tkerr! Such personality.


I'm not normally a huge bird photographer but my inner ornathologist came out during a recent fishing trip to the gulf. This is pretty much the first opportunity for the year that I've had to get up North to go fishing due to the long wet season we had this year. So it was very much alive up there, I certainly didn't want to go back to work.


My internet has been incredible slow lately so I haven't included exif data (because I can't be bothered looking through flickr), but if you click the image it will take you to my flickr page if you are interested. All shots were with the Canon 5D II and either the Canon 24-70mm f/2.8L or Canon 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II.


This is Indarri Falls at Lawn Hill National Park on the way to the Gulf. This place is AWESOME. I've been there 3 times now as I love it so much, we camped there for a couple of nights on the way up. It's a 10 shot panoramic stitched together in PTGUI, CPL attached for this shot.


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This is a Brolga, they're a member of the crane family and are huuuuuge with a wingspan up to 2.4m (8ft). It was pretty difficult to get a decent shot of one because they frighten very easily. This is heavily cropped.


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I took this shot at Adel's Grove just outside Lawn Hill National Park. I believe it's a wren of some kind but not sure which (maybe one of our regular birders can help me out here?). Inquisitive little fella though.


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Here's another shot of the same bird (or maybe his friend, who knows)


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I was driving into Karumba at sunset and came across this guy on the road. I managed to do a u-turn and get close to him before he slithered away. He's an eastern brown, a very common snake in my part of the county and one of the deadliest and most venomous snakes in the world (well, we do have the top ten most deadly snakes in the world here in Australia so it's pretty likely most snakes you see will be nasty).


At this point I was doing two things - being grateful that I've got enough spotlights on my truck to make night look like day and let me get the shot, and wishing that I had another 600mm of focal length. I was probably 5-10m away and very on my toes.


As I turned away to walk back to the car I looked back (after about 5m) and he had disappeared. The walk turned into a jog rather quickly.This photo doesn't really do justice to the size of this snake, it was a least 3.5m long and as thick as my arm, really beautiful actually.


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I understand the watermark can be a little distracting but my photos were stolen from my flickr account a couple of years ago and the guy actually started selling them, so it's there for a reason.


Hope everyone has a fantastic weekend.Thanks for looking.


Ben.

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As impressive as ever Ben, nice shootin

Thanks Steve :-)

Had a walk in the Garden Yesterday. After that I realised that I need a much better Tripod :/.


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Is there an exorcist in the house!?

Beautiful shots, Ben! Beautiful panorama!!


Here is a head shot of a Brogla ...


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Great shots from everyone and a great topics to post. Here

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I really like that one bgood. Very well executed.

Thanks Sean. My daughter and I had a lot of fun that night.

Really like the pics EastsideR and Bgood. [Y]


We found this guy in our yard yesterday morning.


Canon 7D, 15-85 @ 85 mm, 1/60, f/5.6, ISO 100


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We went on our annual trip to the coast, and I couldn't pass up yet another shot of Nubble Light House in York.


Canon 7d and 70-200 f2.8 L II, 123mm, f7.1, 1600/sec.


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Sunset at Wisconsin Dells. 7D and EF 70-300L at 300mm.

Magpie hunting for grubs in the lawn. The whippet chased this bird away.


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Juvenile magpie watching the adult hunt for grubs.


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Thanks for viewing,


Steve

Steve - All of your shots posted recently are tack sharp w/ awesome 3d effect going on! What

Thanks Denise, I can

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Evening all,


Well on the weekend I went out to Carrandotta cattle station with a couple of friends. It has the Georgina river running through it and is renowned for catching redclaw yabbies (freshwater crayfish). We ended up taking home about 500 yabbies around 8" long average. They are delicious. Anyway, the sky was incredible. New moon, middle of nowhere (300kms to the nearest town), freezing cold... but incredible. Here's a couple of shots.


5D2 + 24-70mm f/2.8L @ ISO 3200, 49sec exposure, f/5.0, 24mm


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The Milky Way by Ben__Taylor, on Flickr


5D2 + 24-70mm f/2.8L @ ISO 200, 34 min exposure, f/4.0, 24mm


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Milky Trails by Ben__Taylor, on Flickr


Have a great day,


Ben.

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Well done everybody!


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+1....great pictures everyone.