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Lazing around catching the winter sun.
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4 in the sun.
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Please excuse the blown out highlights here, it is rare enough to get these 4 looking at me at once, that dirty pot in the background was just a bonus. LOL.
Thanks for viewing.
Steve
I took a break from mountain biking to go looking for bears. I was lucky to spot this one along with its sibling near Lake Louise, Alberta.
Canon 1D3, 300 mm f/2.8 lens, 1/800 sec @ f/2.8, ISO 3200 (shot from the car window)
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The Marine Hotel at Troon, Scotland. 5 shot HDR.
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Wow....some great pictures everyone!
Ade, I really like those biking shots........Steve, great lighting on your "kids".....Jonathon...great pic, and I hope that was cropped....Joel....your photos are making me want to learn HDR (as if I don
Hey thanks ---- it took me quite a while to find a bear, which makes getting a shot all the more rewarding. It was 13.8 metres away, according to the camera info. I cropped the shot only about 10%. I
A walk around the garden today, just some snapshots.
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Cheers,
Steve
I LOVE the shots of the pups, Steve!! What
Just pure love Denise. And they know that I have the power to produce treats when they are especially good or cute. Which is most of the time.
And that spot is a sun baking favourite for them as the temperatures get lower.
Thanks.
Tuesdaynight it was "stormy" weather after 2 hot days (32+ degrees Celcius). We parked the car on a closed road on top of the highest hill. Placed the tripod outside in the rain and hoped for the best. This is what is left:
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24mm ISO-400 f5.6 149s
Ps: I think I managed to get the photo uploaded correctly here now. I used the HTML link from Flick and the HTML button in the rich formatting. Is that how you guys do it as well?
Steve, like the lighthouse shot, the clouds look very nice in the picture!
Ade, very nice set, I like the third one the best.
Jan, really nice flash shot. the light closer to your camera looks very dreamy, did you use flash?
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No those are actually the headlights of the car I was in. I was on top of a hill in pretty open ground. I prepared the tripod and camera and used a timed remote with an interval(for time-lapse etc). I ran outside the car, placed the camera and ran back in ASAP. I've never seen lightning strike all around me...it was beautiful. But kind of creapy as well [;)] If you look carefully you can see the shadow from the tripod in this picture, because I placed it just in front of the car.
Jan,
I really like that lightning shot! I think the headlights lighting up the road really adds to the shot.
What do you think about cropping some of the darkness from the left side of the frame? Is that because the 24mm lens was wider than the headlight angle of view?
I still like it a lot anyway, Great job!
Rich
Jan, did you use a ND filter for that shot? It's fantastic!
I was up in northern Minnesota these last two days on Whitefish Lake near Pine River, it's one of my favorite places to be, and after seeing all of your guys fantastic HDR photos, I figured I'd give them a try. So here's my first HDR photo.
Canon T1i, Aperture Priority Mode, f/13, ISO 100, shutter speed was variable. Canon 18-55 f/3.5-5.6 IS Lens. Handheld.
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Thanks for viewing!
Check out comalleyphotography.com for more!
- Chris
Jan...that is a fantastic shot of the lightning. [Y]
A few from this past week (I was traveling for work). Lake Tahoe, Canon 7D, 100-400L @ 400, 1/500, f/5.6, ISO 400 CPL
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Squaw Valley--Olympic village: 7D, 15-85 @ 26 mm, 0.3 sec, f/5, ISO 1600
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Thanks for viewing....Brant
A few shots from yesterday's Canada Day parade in Canmore, Alberta. All taken with a Canon 1D3 and 70-200 mm f/2.8 lens, set at f/2.8
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Some beautiful shots posted above!
I thought I'd post a couple photos of my new wheels :)
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Nice Wheels Denise, Now you finally have something big enough to carry all of your camera gear:)
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Hope it has one of those hot tubs in the back. You'd be the talk of the town. [:O]
A few from the last couple days
Daisy - 18-55mm IS kit lens @ 55mm, f/5.6, 1/250s, ISO 400
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Life finds a way - 85mm f/1.8 @ f/3.5, 1/200s, ISO 400
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Mushrooms on an old stump - 85mm f/1.8, @ f/3.5, 1/125s, ISO 400
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Zuni - 85mm f/1.8 @ f/3.2, 1/800s, ISO 100
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Sunset tonight (July 2), Vermilion Lakes, Banff.
Canon 5D2, 24-70 mm f/2.8 lens, Singh-Ray 2-stop soft-edge ND grad plus Singh-Ray 5-stop solid ND
20 seconds @ f/22, ISO 50
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We are in the depths of a cold winter here in Brisbane as the temperature plummets to a bone chilling 6 degrees Celcius(42 Fahrenheit) we are all rugging up and lighting the fires at night. Brr it's cold.
But out in the wilds, leaves have changed colour and fallen off and deserted the deciduous trees.
I went for a walk today and spotted this ancient tree growing below me on a sandstone ridge. The tree looked like it had been hit by lightning at some stage and had a wierd break in its trunk and the twisted branches bore no leaves for shelter for the birds that would hide there in summer.
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I walked on some more and reached a place where I could get a better view of the ancient wonder. The massive trunk widening as it tried to clasp a desperate foothold in the unforgiving sandstone.
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As I snapped away, I heard a strange noise above me, something I had never heard before. There was a fluttering, a deafening beating of large wings, as a huge bird landed gracefully in the tree. I had never seen a bird like this before, but grabbed myfield guideand discovered it was Fakus Wierdusbirdus. I didn't think they flew this far north.
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The bird was spooked and I couldn't work out why. I edged a little closer using my stealthy skills honed from years of sneaking inside when I have been out too late. I managed to grab a close up, I wish i had brought a longer lens.
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The I heard a low growl and I retreated to the shelter of a nearby cave. There was a heavy panting, leaves rustled as the hairs on the back of my neck began to prickle. What was coming the wierd bird fluttered and jumped from twig to twig.
What was coming?
Then I saw it, normally a shy reclusive creature that hides in snowy caves, I was lucky enough to be witnessing the very rare, almost extinct.........
Very rare.
Hard to find.
Did I say almost extinct.
Sad eyed puppy stalking a wierd bird in a bonsai tree.
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Thanks for viewing and putting up with the tale.
Steve
A few from our trip to Albuquerque:
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I decided not to take my equipment on the reservation[:|]
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Mark
Great story, Steve... I was on the edge of my seat! Goes to show, you need to be ready for anything out there.
Ps. 6 degrees is when we call it warm enough to start wearing shorts! I guess it
Thanks Jonathan, yeah we are pretty soft over here when it comes to the cold, just not used to it.
Steve, Great storry and illustrative photos----loved it-----Just how board do you have to be to get this creative???
Thanks Bob, yep pretty bored, I
Steve You are good. I showed my 3 and 4 year old grand daughters your pixs and told them your story. The LUVED it. No more Wiggles.
Wally
Thanks Wally, I was hoping the youngsters would get a kick out of it.
Just came back from a holiday[ip] and my wife insisted[:@] that I showed off her shot of me[H] (LOL) in Kuala Lumpur.
Taken with a 400D/50mm f1/4 post with Canon DPP.
Wally
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Very suave, it has that 70
LOL[:$] You cheeky bugger. [B]
Wally
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Nice photo Wally. Great use of light and I like the vintage look[Y]
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I loved the story Steve! For some reason [A]my initial thought was "that must have been a good bottle of whine" [;)] You made me laugh, that's for sure[:D]
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Thanks Chris! I didn't really think about it, but there was still a polarizer filter on my lens. So about 1.5-2 stops ND. Good spotting!
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Nice HDR! I really like the flare in your photo. I never get such beautiful ones. It adds to the photo.
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Thanks Rich, I think you've got a good point there. There are 2 factors. 1: The 24mm was wider than the headlights reached. Plus I didn't line the camera with the headlights. I was focussed on the road. And 2: I had placed a big plastic bag over my camera and used screwed it tight between the lenshood and the lens. There was still a bit of plastic covering the right lower corner. It left a hard black spot. Therefor I used a gradient filter to make it look less obvious and I also applied it to the left side to balance it. I tried to crop the dark bits away, but that didn't really work for me.
Brant, also thanks.
@Brant and Mark....those landscapes are amazing! [Y]
Just a photo to stay on topic. I made this one during the local Triathlon saturday the 25th of June:
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Jan
A few turtles from a recent kayak trip. All shot with the Canon 7D, 100-400L and CPL:
@ 275 mm, 1/500, f/5.6, ISO 320
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@ 400 mm, 1/500, f/5.6, ISO 320
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@ 400mm, 1/500, f/6.3, ISO 320
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@ 400 mm, 1/500, f/6.3, ISO 640
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Thanks...Brant
Hey Ben. I'm quite glad you uploaded this photo to flickr, I was able to look at your metadata to see what settings you were using. The first time I did a shot like this, it was something like f/22 and the shutter was open for about two hours, it didn't work too well at all. This shot is f/5.6, shutter was open for almost 25 minutes, there is a decent amount of color editing here. But again, thanks for putting the metadata up, you saved me a lot of time.
Thanks again,
- Chris
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Thanks for viewing.
Jan- I don
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First attempt at using a slow shutter speed for a waterfall. I can see alot I did wrong but the strong sun and dark ND filter making it impossible to see what I was even doing, I'm surprised the shot was even saveable ...
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A few other shots from the day ...
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I saw this shot on facebook. I think you did a really good job with it. You sell yourself short. You are your worst critic. I personnally have never had much luck with waterfalls, not that we have that many here in south Texas.
The macro shots are great as well. Some day maybe I'll get a macro lens.
Mark
Very nice pixs Denise.
Wally