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[freebooter]

Freebooter: I'm loving your bug friends and neighbors. It's almost as if they just wait for you to show up with your camera so they can pose... Now I really want one of those macro lenses in addition to a superwide. There goes the budget...

Thanks a lot. Macro is a lot of fun. There are lots of great used macros around. Mine (the "D") cost half that of the current VR model. The Sigma 150mm or 180mm would be excellent, too. If it wasn't so hard to find certain items here in Korea--if you don't want to internet shop and you don't live in Seoul--I'd have one of those already.

Edit: Does anybody have the new Nikon 70-300mm lenses? If so how do you like it, I'm thinking about buying it.

Great lens, very sharp, i like the color, a bit large, but not heavy, these guys give it the thumbs up
http://www.photozone.de/8Reviews/lenses/nikkor_70300_4556vr/index.htm

Freebooter... Do you edit your photos at all? They just look so awesome! I am going to be getting the D40x and the 105mm lens like you have and would love to know how to get pictures like you do!

Thanks. Consider also the Sigma 150mm or 180mm macro's, too. They are well regarded.
My pictures: I edit them to varying degrees, but as little as possible to avoid that over done look. Usually: color balance, exposure, contrast sometimes: cloning, cropping, dodge/burn always: sharpen, resize for web occasionally: a sfx filter not that uncommonly: slightly buzzed

I love dragonflies; I love this photo.

Thanks aplenty! I was pleased to when he/she "posed" so nicely.

Thanks for the tip, I can't believe i've never noticed that option in Photoshop. I'll give it a try.
Your latest is great again ......poor butterfly And as pdxflint said the dragonfly picture is awesome.

Thanks! I like your frog. It reminds me, I ought to try to snap a few. They are getting scarce now that the monsoon season (such as it was this year) is pretty much toast.

Freebooter, love your pics. Nice to see that you've inspired others here, as well . I have been wanting to ask how you get the black background in many of your pics? Perhaps its a "Duh" thing, but I had to ask.

Thanks a lot! Inspiring people? That's cool. I learn a lot from others' pictures, myself. The black background is from using much more light from the flash than from the surroundings. I have been using a very simple milk jug, duct tape and foil light diffuser in combination with my pop-up flash. Works great, especially since Nikon seems to have mastered TTL flash metering. I just bought a "real" flash, though, and I plan to use it to give more lighting variety to my pictures. I'm ready to learn something new, I guess you could say.

 

[phelim]

sharp/blur

taken in surrey on 6th august, tweaked in iPhoto

p.s looks much, much better enlarged

 

[freebooter]

Rainy Rocky Ridge

Rainy Rocky Ridge
August 12, 2007
Daegu, South Korea
Nikon D40
Sigma 10-20mm, tripod, umbrella​

A stormy day on the mountain.

 

[Silverbird0000]

Awesome picture Freebooter! It's nice to see a different angle to your abilities other than macro. It came out awesome. I am going to get a D40 and part of my decision is based on the pictures you take with it!

 

[srf4real]

more fireworks

Lumix L1+kit lens
F3
ISO 250
6 sec.

 

[sthpark7791]

whew...just taking a break from school work..

 

[JMD123]

Wow

I just stumbled on to this site and this forum. AMAZING STUFF I have seen. I thought I would add a few of my images. I know the rules Ill only put up one per day.

Maui
10 D 20mm Sea & Sea housing large domb 2 strobes
Underwater
2006
I dont remeber the exposure

 

[JMD123]

ok its past midnight so here is another

ok its past midnight so here is another

 

[Soschil]

Parents' back garden

First post in this thread.... Here goes:





Taken in my parents' back garden in Nykøbing F, Denmark last weekend.
Camera: Nikon Coolpix L4

 

[M@lew]

 

[freebooter]

Yongji-bong Sunset

Sunset on Yongji

August 19, 2007,
Mt. Yongji
Nikon D40 + Sigma 10-20mm
Nikon SB-800
tripod​

I've been wanting to do a sunset from "my" mountain for a looong time.

 

[Scavenger]

Tree Bark with Light Shining through

Camera: Nikon D40X
Exposure: 0.033 sec (1/30)
Aperture: f/4.8
Focal Length: 38 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Exposure Bias: -2/3 EV

 

[PkennethV]

The BTS Sky Train in Bangkok (Thailand)

Nikon D 40 18-55 kit lens

 

[macgfxdesigner]

trio of icky

Camera: Canon EOS 5D
Aperture: f/8
Exposure: 0.05 sec (1/20)
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO Speed: 50
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Flash did not fire

 

[epicwelshman]

Not one of my better ones, but this is the view of the Halifax harbour from where I live.

It's an HDR, so the exif is all screwed, but it's an f 13 aperture with a 23mm focal length.

 

[GnrlyMrly]

Camera: Nikon D80
Exposure: 0.003 sec (1/320)
Aperture: f/9
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO Speed: 125

Taken on
August 22, 2007 at 10.24am EDT

 

[Veritas&Equitas]

I just have to say for the 4th time in this thread, Freebooter is absolutely insane. I would buy nearly every picture he submits daily if I had the cash...

 

[Steamie]

Cloch Point.

Camera: Pentax K10D
Exposure: 0.067 sec (1/15)
Aperture: f/19
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 100

Freebooter

"Sunset On Yongji" is amazing !!!

epicwelshman

I really like this shot, I like the view you have from your home and the colors are great. Maybe we should start a thread with everyone just taking 1 shot that shows what they see from their front door

Mine for today is taken not far from Greenock in Scotland .

 

[JMD123]

[/QUOTE]
I really like this shot, I like the view you have from your home and the colors are great. Maybe we should start a thread with everyone just taking 1 shot that shows what they see from their front door

Mine for today is taken not far from Greenock in Scotland .[/QUOTE]

Thats a great suggestion for the Photo Assignment 15.... Maybe broden it a little to be view from your place. Not just the front door.

 

[Veritas&Equitas]

Cloch Point.

Camera: Pentax K10D
Exposure: 0.067 sec (1/15)
Aperture: f/19
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 100
​

That could be a sick HDR shot if you tried it.​

 

[Educ8r]

Brown Leaf

 

[stcanard]

The Offering

The Offering
Nikon D80 + 50mm f/1.8
Exposure: Manual
Shutter Speed: 1/3
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 50mm
Flash: Off
ISO: 100
​

Taken with my new tripod, and a very steady model

I have to admit -- the concept was not mine, but exposure and composition was.

 

[Silverbird0000]

I'm not sure what this little bug was, but it looked cool!

Camera: Sony DSC-H5
Shutter: 1/125
Aperture: f/3.5
Focal Length of Lens: 31mm
Raynox DCR-250 macro lens attached to the main lens.
ISO: 125

 

[Steamie]

Dragonfly

Camera: Pentax K10D
Exposure: 0.011 sec (1/90)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 55 mm
ISO Speed: 100

Taken yesterday at Eglington Park Irvine. It's the first Dragonfly I've seen in years so I was quite surprised when I stumbled across it. As usual just the 18-55 kit lens.

Veritas&Equitas

Thanks for the idea, I tried in photomatix using a single raw and it looked great, but my trial has expired so it was watermarked. I'll give it another go when I have purchased photmatix

JMD123

Yeah that's a good idea. I posted the suggestion over in the Assignment 15 thread. Thanks.

macgfxdesigner

Lovely colors in the peppers shot. I see you have the 5d now .... Lucky Guy !

 

[pdxflint]

Someone was here...

After a day of surveying property lines, this ribbon marks an invisible corner in the woods on our back "40."

Model: NIKON D50
Exposure: 1/320 sec
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 19mm
Latitude: 44.956189° N
Longitude: 123.951949° W​