I'm sorry, but useless gifs and video clips don't mean diddly to me. if you want to express something, an actual thought or concern to me, please just do it in real words. Thank you!
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Photo of the Day January 2023
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I was being nice and humorous, but ok, my bad. I was simply referring to sneaking a second picture of the day in.
From my experience with the Sony 50mm macro, regardless of what I'm trying to shoot, it is slow to acquire focus and "hunts" much more than it should.... It is a nice lens but does have its limitations. That is one reason I much, much prefer my Sony 90mm macro. That lens has been a favorite from Day One.
As for the water-drop shooting scenario, I haven't tried it, but if I were attempting to do that sort of photography in natural lighting conditions I'd use one of the fastest lenses I have, an f/1.2.....or barring that, one of the special kits that some people use to get the timing dead-on right on their water (liquid) drop shots. I do think, though, that most people who produce water/liquid drop images do use flash / strobes to light and capture the exact instant of the drop(s). Even at that, it still takes time to get things exactly right!
Civic Fame in the civic jumble
1/400s 500mm @ f/7.1
Ah, sorry, I missed that point altogether, as I thought it was pretty clear from the context of both Hugh's and my earlier posts that there was mention of something from the past...and that I was going to look for an image relating to that, which I did, and then finally having found at least one image, since he had requested this, I shared it here. Yes, that whole discussion should have been somewhere else, not in the middle of the POTD gallery thread.I was being nice and humorous, but ok, my bad. I was simply referring to sneaking a second picture of the day in.
Mind you, I'd already posted and shared my actual and current "POTD Entry" earlier in the day.
Seriously, folks, this POTD thread is meant to be purely a gallery of photos of the day, not a discussion thread, not a thread for lots of potentially irrelevant comments from the "peanut gallery," and, yes, also not the place for resurrection of old images thread, etc., etc....
Unfortunately it seems as though the rules and guidelines for both the Digital Photography Subforum and the POTD Gallery thread have been blithely ignored over the past several months, with people posting multiple images, with people posting images of scenes that they actually haven't shot themselves, people getting involved in discussions which then detract from the original image and the purpose of the thread, with people posting videos, maps and other non-related material, etc., etc.
It really would be nice if we could just get back to the actual and original intent of the POTD thread concept.
ONE post of ONE original IRL real-actual-scene (no screen caps or iPhone snapshots of other peoples' images) photo per day, an image actually shot by the person posting on the current POTD thread. People''s best and most interesting images from wherever around the world they are. No lengthy discussions that tend to veer off-topic... Just photos. Seriously, how hard is that? We even permit old stuff from the poster's personal photo archives, no requirement that material be fresh and new....
Want to have a discussion about something someone has posted or the location / scenery around there or whatever? Great! Just go right ahead and start a new thread in the Digital Photography subforum -- we've got lots of room to do that! After looking at an image, you've got a kind of off-track but sort of related cool story to relate? Interesting! Just go right into the main Digital Photography subforum and start a new discussion thread there or perhaps share your comments privately with the photographer in a PM.
Or if relevant, post your question(s) or discussion comments in Molly's year-long workshop thread....which is meant to be a sharing/learning experience....
And yes, in my last several posts it will be noted that indeed I have deliberately violated all of the guidelines and such that have been so carefully set in place. Bottom line: This, the POTD thread, is not a discussion thread. it's meant to be a gallery thread of images.
Isn't it time to let the POTD thread/gallery of members' best and most interesting images get back to its original intent?
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I can start with myself and try to be better😊
Because I Love humor, and humor has a big place in my life and heart, I sometimes forget about the threads purpose and my fantasy and mind takes me somewhere else😁
Can I still make jokes (hopefully) about the images, and try not to derail?🙂
Edit: please, please, please, please?😂
You don’t have to change for anyone my friend. I assure you.
Seattle fireboat doing system testing on Puget Sound.
Probably my favorite flower in the sunroom. Just keeps sharing its beauty with us.
Double Petal African Violet
Double Petal African Violet
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They're back. Retreating from the cold water in the river to the warm spring.
This is also from Dubrovnik in September 2012, at 6 pm.
Nikon D40X - 27mm, iso 100, 1/200s
The info file says f/7.1 but that’s not possible, because the lens is f/3.5-5.6, so I’m not sure what it is🙂
3.5-5.6 refers to a lens' max aperture at a given zoom level. Lenses will often have a minimum aperture of f16 or f22 or some such so 7.1 is absolutely fair game
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Paradoxically I ended up using my Olympus 14-150 mm Micro Four Thirds zoom lens at ~50 mm (that's equivalent to a 28–300 mm lens at about 100 mm for a 35 mm camera).
I rarely do pure macro photography, so I don't own a macro lens (although I'm thinking about getting one). But with the zoom lens, I still can get some pretty good close ups with nice shallow DOF by zooming in and getting (relatively) close to the object.
