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Bit of a thunderstorm here after a cloudy day. So, rushed out to grab some pictures of delectable droplets.

Shot hand-held with a +3 close-up lens on my 55-200 mm VR

105 mm Focal Length
1/50 shutter speed
f/8 aperture
1100 ISO

Little bit of PP in Aperture for contrast and sharpness




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Hardware: Nikon D80, Sigma 10-20mm, Nikon 18-55 mm VR, 55-200 mm VR, 105mm f/2.8D Micro, 35mm f/1.8G, SB-600, Manfrotto/Bogen 190CXPRO3 + 468MGRC2
Software: Aperture, Photomatix, GIMP

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I think Defiance likes trees buff...look at the one he slipped in on da duck o' the day...good thing he is on a little vacaction...from the looks of it too me, all buffing aside, it looks like a white birch seed pod...but I dunno...back to my featherd friends...ask Bob...he knows about trees and can google it faster then anybody.

Syncharmony beautiful, simple, and elegant...lovin' that one.
patti.


here is mine, and I tried to make it big, for Calmac,Lah, and Alex, who insist I can do it...here goes..hope it works....

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Patti, that is the cutest little duckling! Does it classify as a duckling?...it looks quite small.

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Nikon D300 / Sigma 10-20mm / Nikkor 17-55 f2.8 / Nikkor 18-200mm VR / Nikkor 50mm f1.8 / SB600 Speedlight
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yeah, he was with his family, but it was a "blended" family...there were babies from different families, all together, with one mama and daddy, watching over them all, he was the little one, and was looking back at me, I forgot my popcorn today, so they only stayed for a minute or two, but he was a little wistful...I got a really good one of him, flapping his wings, on da duck o' the day...he was WAY cute, CM. Sorry GR...I wanted to participate on your thread, and this was all I had for today, tomorry I will do better, and promise no more quackage up here...this is going to be a great little thread, and fun project..


patti

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Photo #1
It is a Blue Crane fishing or trying to swim


Photo #2

This is a bronze "mine worker" that is in front the cole mining headquarters


both were taken today (19th)
comment welcome

Nick

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Comments and critique welcome?? For the second shot, I can see the sun is coming from the left of the frame, a cool idea might have been to take the shot from down low, you a little bit to the left of the front of the statue, so that it creates a silhouette, the sun behind the statue, then you using the built in flash as fill flash. In your camera settings there should be a setting where you can increase/lower the output of the flash to make it a bit softer as well. Just a thought, hope you don't mind me thinking out loud here

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Great shot, Syncharmony, I love the DoF and the water dropslets.
Nice ducks Patti. I saw some ducks already in the "Duck of the Day"-thread, I believe it was. The left one looks funny.
I like Nick's second picture, it's an interesting sculpture. You may want to crop it a little, all the trees and sky above the head are unnecessary.

No pics for me today.
- Bjorn -

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hi all,
bit of a rush in my lunch break but this taken today.
could anyone do without their mobiles I know I could!!

focal length 31mm
1/400sec f10
iso 200
exposure compensation +1.0EV

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Nikon D80, D40 and various lenses.

Assuming this thread takes off, I hope it can get stickied so we don't have to scroll around to find it all the time.

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Hardware: Nikon D80, Sigma 10-20mm, Nikon 18-55 mm VR, 55-200 mm VR, 105mm f/2.8D Micro, 35mm f/1.8G, SB-600, Manfrotto/Bogen 190CXPRO3 + 468MGRC2
Software: Aperture, Photomatix, GIMP

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Ah, but if it takes off then it will stay near the top of the topic list.

Bob.

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Astrophotography: TEC 140 'scope, FLI ML16803 camera, ASA DDM60 Pro mount.

here is my shot for today, out with the horses, and came across a volunteer sunflower...am waiting for the cactus to bloom, and went to check on them, and instead was greeted by this...cactus are about 5 days from bloom, so not wanting to be empty handed, I submit this for today..




I fixed the duck, GR...thanks for the heads up on that...will watch my size from here on out...

patti

(sorry for the chunk of dust, will get that taken care of!!!)

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Cheers Pati




Forgot my D80 on Iso 1000
Taken with 70-300VR
1/1000
F5.6
220mm

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Nikon D700, Nikon D80, Micro Nikkor 105 f2.8 AI-S,Nikon 85mm 1.8D, Nikon 50mm 1.8D, Nikon 35mm F2D, Nikon 16-35 f4 VR, Nikon 24-70mm F2.8 AF-S, Nikon 70-200VRII, Nikon 70-300mm VR, 300mm f2.8 AI IF ED, SB-800, SB-900. Noiseware pro,NIK Dfine, Nik Colour Effex, Nik Sharpener Pro

Took this today at a park after the rain let up and the sun shone through




D80
55-200 mm VR
ISO 100
f/4.8
3 exposures at 1/250, 1/125, 1/60
105 mm focal length
Aperture for final adjustments

Creating a thread in Natural Landscape for a couple of other shots, going to put up the large version there.

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Hardware: Nikon D80, Sigma 10-20mm, Nikon 18-55 mm VR, 55-200 mm VR, 105mm f/2.8D Micro, 35mm f/1.8G, SB-600, Manfrotto/Bogen 190CXPRO3 + 468MGRC2
Software: Aperture, Photomatix, GIMP

My Flickr Page

Hey all, I just added this to the main intro to the thread;

"Please state if you would like to receive comments and critique. The nature of the thread is to have a place to just post a spur of the moment photo that you might want to share, but if you'd like to be given constructive comments and criticism, please indicate this by putting "CC Welcome" in the subject line after the title of your photo."


-Greg

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Nikon D700, Nikon D80, Micro Nikkor 105 f2.8 AI-S,Nikon 85mm 1.8D, Nikon 50mm 1.8D, Nikon 35mm F2D, Nikon 16-35 f4 VR, Nikon 24-70mm F2.8 AF-S, Nikon 70-200VRII, Nikon 70-300mm VR, 300mm f2.8 AI IF ED, SB-800, SB-900. Noiseware pro,NIK Dfine, Nik Colour Effex, Nik Sharpener Pro

I like that picture, Syncharmony, great job. Nice sharpness and DoF and beautiful colours too!

- Bjorn -

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