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Photo of the Day May 2014
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Nice place to end up.
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Good to see you posting regularly again! Just had to let you know I'm enjoying the latest additions to "Bandcamp." Your sound is coming together nicely, I could easily see "Lets Be Friends" making it to success! Sad thing is that I was a teen for that sort of sound first time round (in the 80's...)
Yup. I thought the same thing. And I too was a teen the first time this stuff came around, LOL.
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Great capture!
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My trip to the Wild Animal Park did not yield as many great photo ops as I thought, mainly due to time of day (many of the animals were out of sight or uncooperative) and crowds (way too many people).
But I managed a few decent ones.
Nice shot of a beautiful girl; just a bit sexy without being overt.
I have a 28mm Albinar Macro (Minolta MD mount) arriving today; I'll be shooting with it on my Sony, though. I recently purchased 135mm MD lens; I'm loving shooting completely manual again - just the way I was taught/learned (some teaching, but I learned mostly on my own).
Thanks, not only is she beautiful, but she is one heck of a person too!
I was working on making a Minolta MC/MD mount for Canon Crop bodies, it replaces the Canon mounting ring. I had a guy make the first prototype and then we went over the changes. But he disappeared before making the revised prototype so now I'm stuck trying to find someone else that can do it for me. The biggest problem with the first prototype is that the lens is a bit too far forward, so there is no infinity focus. Outside of the focus issue, I love these lenses. Great sharpness, awesome contrast and color, and no less flickering when doing timelapse stuff.
Todays photo is a quick 5 second video I threw together last night. A friend works at a local art/framing shop and he had commented about how horrible their photo reproductions were so I setup a couple lights to see if I could do better. This eventually led to breaking out the 50x50" softbox(because it's my favorite modifier) for fun and that led to me getting in front of the camera...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVRcqClaFig&feature=youtu.be
I've got one of those, too! I'll have to see what I've got when I get home to my photo library.
Only bad thing is I only entered the DSLR world about 3 years ago; my daughter is 2, so needless to say nearly every "good" pic we've taken in recent years has been of her! Meanwhile, my gorgeous wife is typically only in pics as the one holding the baby. A shame really, as she is simply stunning. EDIT: I do have this pic... not of the highest quality, not taken today, and she wouldn't let me post her face when I took it because it was for eBay (selling her racer chick costume). Still proves my point though, right?
Good news is that my skills have improved; better news is that my wife has gotten even hotter, too.I think I have the original without her head cropped out at home. I've kept that one saved on my flash drive... for inspiration...
I ended up not getting to use my MD lens... because it wasn't an MD lens! It's actually a Canon FD lens - I want to kick myself because the seller pictured the mount and I only gave it a cursory look and went on the description. It's in great condition, though... I just didn't have an adapter to mount it. Being returned today.
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Wish it was here! Been raining all day and more forecast tomorrow and Friday. I'm off for the week, and supposed to be taking photos.
Just looking at this image makes me feel warmer.
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Beautifully sharp. Your bird pictures really put mine to shame.
Photo of the Day May 2014
Sucks doesn't it! It has rained non stop here all day and pretty much did the same yesterday.....and the day before. I haven't been out to take any photos and my house is a dingy un photogenic black hole of a place at the moment. At least I get to do some stalking in London again tomorrow.
Another nice shot.
Took a shot of my dog today just so my camera didn't think I'd fallen out of love with it. He only seems to have two expressions - sad puppy dog or douchebag.
Sucks doesn't it! It has rained non stop here all day and pretty much did the same yesterday.....and the day before. I haven't been out to take any photos and my house is a dingy un photogenic black hole of a place at the moment. At least I get to do some stalking in London again tomorrow.
Another nice shot.
Took a shot of my dog today just so my camera didn't think I'd fallen out of love with it. He only seems to have two expressions - sad puppy dog or douchebag.
Tell me about it. I've been shooting sparrows on and off all day through the kitchen window.
Thanks very much AFB but that's just not true.
Now that's the spirit mate! Next time, pop a brolly, throw on your rubber wellies and get a tighter shot of the little buggers with a little rain in the bokeh.
Not the best shot, but I've been trying to capture the feeding of the fledgelings in our garden for a while without success.
20140526-_DSC2503 by apple fanboy1, on Flickr
20140526-_DSC2503 by apple fanboy1, on Flickr
Will give you a break from animals today
Was walking around Balboa park and switching between 50mm and 20mm primes. I find ultra-wides challenging to shoot, but came across this small sculpture and thought the 20mm might be interesting for it. Put the camera on the ground with the lens hanging over the water and took some shots.
Was walking around Balboa park and switching between 50mm and 20mm primes. I find ultra-wides challenging to shoot, but came across this small sculpture and thought the 20mm might be interesting for it. Put the camera on the ground with the lens hanging over the water and took some shots.
Thanks, Alex. It had a bit of jiggery-pokery to get it there, using Lightroom with no plug-ins.
The before and after can be compared over on my blog.
Really nice!
I also really like Charlie09's photo - really cool pictures, both of you!
