Post your best current shots

My current favorites at the Humane Society. Critiques welcome.


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Dollie


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All very nice dogs, dsiegel5151. Love the merle nose on the first.

Nice doggie portraits, dsiegel.

Wonderful photos, dsiegel!! Fantastic sharp focus & beautifully blurred background...very nicely done! I hope they all find homes soon!


Would you mind posting Exif info?


Denise

Thanks guys and gals. Denise, all these shots were taken with a 40d and a 300mm f4L IS (@f4, IS off) tripod mounted. Camera settings were aperture priority mode and ISO 200. I also tried using the 85mm f1.8, 60mm f2.8, and 70-200mm f4L; however, getting farther away from the dogs with the 300 seemed to work the best (i.e., so they weren

Went and took some snaps at a local triathalon today. It was held in Raby Bay, which is a coastal suburb close to where I live in Brisbane. Raby Bay is a part of the suburb Cleveland and they use the harbour for the swim leg and have different coloured caps for the different divisions. There were the full-on pro athletes there and the beginners and some who looked as though their doctor should have advised them not to compete just yet. But it's not about the winning it is about finishing.


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Everyone who finishes is a winner, but this girl actually won the open female division.


Thanks for viewing.


Steve

dsiegel....very nice pix of the pups.


All of our (adult) dogs and (adult) cats over the past 25 yrs have been rescues....these pix hit home.


Do you offer your pix to the Humane Society to post on their web site?


Thanks for sharing


Bill

Steve....nice to see pix of folks out in warm wx, for you see, as I type, it

You are right Bill, only a part Tri, while there were some serious competitors, there were some taking it pretty easy. Stay warm.

C'mon Steve, Thats not even two bottles per person---what kind of lightweight lunch is that among friends?I am also a bit disspointed that you didn't knock the bottom off of one of those bottles and place it on the end of your camera---just to see what your friends looked like all "green and distorted"------Glad you had a good time [B][B][B]


Cheers,


Bob

Bill W, That was actually the reason for taking the pictures. The current website pictures are terrible.

Feed them and they will come ...


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DD, Very Nice catches here---Now all you have to do is get the birds away from the man made objects. I have the same problem, but I have noticed that there are always birds waiting in line and perched somewhere close to the feeder until thier turn---So, I thought about strategically locating some natural looking sticks and small branches just a little higher than the feeders, that way you might be able to catch them while they are waiting----Just a theory I plan to try very soon.


Nice job,


Bob

Yep, that

Killer shots Denise! Which lenses did you use?


Well, I have this entire week off without plans except for 2 days in Yosemite after the next storm. Can't wait. Since I had free time, I drove 500 miles round trip yesterday just to go on a photoshoot. That is a personal best for a day. Is there something wrong with me? Anyway, I've never visited this place in N California but will be going back when the snow melts.


McArthur-Burney Falls


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Nice work Erno, I'd like to jump in there and cool off.


500 miles, no I don't think you are crazy. I'm trying to make something happen once a week for my photo opportunities. Whether it is a horse auction, a triathlon or a fundraiser for abused pets, I go along take a few shots and come back and try and work out how to make it better next time I do it.


I went to a harbour and took photos of boats and jetties and didn't like any of them. I walked down wet slippery stairs and leaned on a funny angle supporting myself one-handed to get this shot and thought it was going to be a compostion masterpiece. Only to get home and find that the shot looked like this. Because I wear glasses to read, but have adjusted the eyepiece so I don't when I shoot, I find it difficult to review shots, while I'm shooting. Hence a little out of focus, or people blinking and so on. Anyway I'm working on that.


This is a great example of the "best" line up of a rope in a picture.[:(]


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Oh well live and learn, at least i didn't fall in the water and get to wash my camera gear. I'll see if I can clone the rope out.


Steve

Cool shot SteveU. At first i thought they landed a baby dolphin in the nets, then I looked a little closer and realized what it was instead. Maybe I should borrow your glasses sometime.


Hey, are you sure about making that jump to cool off? Here is what the scene looked like with my wide angle lens... (btw, my images don't seem as sharp as yours and others on these posts. am i actually UNDERsharpening?) thanks, Erno


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Thanks Erno, sharpness has never been my thing, but one thing I learned on another forum was not to trust the automatic sharpening when downsizing your images. And when you downsize don

thanks. i have been downloading directly from Flickr, so maybe that

I took this tonight at the Myriad Gardens Crystal Bridge in Oklahoma City. It is undergoing a remodel and they were testing the new lighting system tonight





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Hi, I'm new to the forum but have followed TDP and the forum for about two years. Actually the reviews and the forum discussions have contributed significantly to my purchasing decisions.
As an enthusiast rather than a professional photographer, my time with the camera is more or less limited to a couple of hours during the weekend. These are some shots from the last two weekends showing that the winter is still going strong. All photos are taken with 24-105 f/4 L on Rebel T1i at ISO100 and f/8.


Big blocks of ice thrown ashore by a recent storm (24mm -1/250 sec)
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A heavily overcast sky and snow in the air. But the sun found a small crack in the clouds (55mm - 1/320 sec)
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Some brave swimmers found a spot not covered by ice (24mm - 1/160 sec)
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But no one will be swimming here for a while (45 mm - 1/30 sec)
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Thanks for viewing!

Welcome to the forum, nice shots and good comments. I

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Peterborough photography is a commercial professional photography company based in Peterborough and Stamford which is located in Cambridgeshire in the United Kingdom. I shot this last week, although I will be doing lots of weddings in a few weeks time.

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Welcome to the forum, nice shots and good comments. I'm guessing that's not Australia.


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True, that&rsquo;s not Australia. The photos are from the east coast of Sweden where the Baltic Sea has been more or less completely covered by ice this winter. I guess north European geography is not obvious for someone living on the other side of the globe, so I include a link to a Wikipedia map for information. (Sweden is the dark green area and the Baltic Sea is the water east of Sweden.)


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took this picture this afternoon, I took total about 500 shots, and I have posted 2 more in "post your best bird shots thread" which are more close up pictures


7D, 500mm 4.0. all I can tell you is that my hands were shaking and my heart were beating so fast when I was taking those pictures. it was pretty bloody, I had the chance to save that poor bird, but I know it's just the way it should be.


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took this picture this afternoon, I took total about 500 shots, and I have posted 2 more in "post your best bird shots thread" which are more close up pictures


7D, 500mm 4.0. all I can tell you is that my hands were shaking and my heart were beating so fast when I was taking those pictures. it was pretty bloody, I had the chance to save that poor bird, but I know it's just the way it should be.


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Denise - Nice results with the new lens! Looking forward to seeing more.

Thanks, Jonathan! I

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WOW! That is like a photographers heaven ...I AM SO ENVIOUS!!! Very much looking forward to seeing those pics when you return!

Denise

Good day! I was able to go to an orchids festival where I live. They surely have lots of beautiful flowers not just orchids. I really enjoyed my short visit and sharing it with you all my top two favorites!


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Had a bit of a hitout with five ofmy wine geek mates last night.A lot of my friends are in the wine business, so we often choose a wine theme and match some food to those wines and make a night of it. Last night was Australian Chardonnay and you are expected to pony up for two appropriate bottles and afoodcourse.


Itook my avacado and cucumbersoup, with sashimi tuna and soy and wasabi. Remember it isSummer here,this is a cold soup.


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Instead of exif, I'll post a recipe instead.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"]<span style="font-size: small;"]<span style="font-family: Calibri;"]20g castor sugar<o:p></o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"]<span style="font-size: small;"]<span style="font-family: Calibri;"]2 avacados<o:p></o:p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"]<span style="font-size: small;"]<span style="font-family: Calibri;"]100g wasabi powder<o:p></o:p>
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Examination of Chardonnay complete, hereare the dead soldiers. The last two wines were stuffed, one oxidated and the other was corked.


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This shot is a bit grainy, but it was after midnight, handheld and wobbly boots on.


Please note that this is like work for me, wine should be consumed in moderation. These are more like educational events, that I amobliged to attend. Winelists for some local restaurants are formulated fromthese nights.


Thanks for viewing and when it warms up over there, try the soup.


Steve

Most of these were taken out of sheer boredom! It's amazing what you find to shoot when there is nothing to shoot but you simply must photograph something!!


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Very nice photos, Steve! Love the soup presentation! I don

Denise,what you have been photographing is a lot more wholesome than the mischief I have been getting up to.


I thought you might have used your 90mm on the bird as well, but you did manage to take it off for a little while to use your 100-400mm.


Nice work.


Steve

Loving some of the new shots coming through. Keep it up guys!


Steve - not a bad selection you have there. At the moment I'm working my way through a mixed bag from Tempus Two (Hunter Valley). They've got an amazing Sangiovese, you should check them out.


Here's a shot I got last week. It's been a pretty late wet season so we're only starting to get the good storms rolling through now. I got out of bed in the middle of the night to chase this one. It's actually a composite of two shots, needed a couple more strikes in there to keep it interesting.


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I've got a few more to come, the rain has made everything really stunning out here at the moment. I went out yesterday and got some nice ones so I'll post them very soon.


Cheers,


Ben.

Beautiful shot Ben, I like the tones and the purple hue to the sky, the dark bank draws your eyes into the photo.


Good job. I

I submitted this to the competition thread, but thought I'd put it here too. This is the shot I had in mind when I picked up some cheap Kenko extension tubes on Ebay...


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Ben, I hope you have a gallery and are paying your mortgage with a shot of that quality...the lightning image you made is simply amazing. I wonder what it would look like printed on metal...


sean, that macro of the ring is off the charts. love the tones on it.


i had the fortune to shoot Yosemite last week with three fellow photographers and have these to share:


1- my attempt at B&amp;W of El Capitan and the Three Brothers


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2- From my Flickr account:


Perhaps my favorite shot from 2 days of shooting Yosemite with 3 friends...done with my iPhone of all things!
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