PHOTO-A-DAY: June 2013

nitro4me

I never know what will show up at the bird feeder

hammers71

The Bridge

birdman

Another Sigma 35mm at F/2.2. I guess every shot was at that aperture! Jeez

bland

@PitchBlack ..... if you ever give a course on how you edit, sign me up!

dissent

*sigh* seems I can only get blackbirds to pose for me much lately

D7000, 70-300 VR @ 220mm, 1/1000, f/10, ISO 400, cropped

Pierre

@PitchBlack ..... if you ever give a course on how you edit, sign me up!

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@pitchblack I have done something similar but not with such a beauty, mine was a big piece of metal.
@Swame_sp, @donaldejose, @proudgeek nice animals.

I have abandoned all sense of self preservation and re-uploaded all of my portfolio at full rez in one of my many flicker accounts that I now marked as my official.



Have fun with this old one, it is the chapel of the very famous Mont-Saint-Michel in France. It is a full 90 degree 3-shot pano that was very hard to assemble.

I will leave access to the original size for a while.

I probably will delete my other Flickr accounts.

Gitzo

@ Pierre.......What a marvelous and amazing shot, Pierre ! That is a shot to be proud of ! Fabulous structure as well !

BTW......I spent a BUNCh of time last night on Flickr, mostly concerning irate Flickr members jumping ship and going to Ipernity ( I believe it is ? ) And it seems that the French have a lotv of very draconian laws concerning what you may photograph, and what you CAN"T photograph, without getting signed permission slips prior to taking the picture; Do you ever have any problems with this ?

Scott_D

I've been looking for subjects for my new Tokina 11-16mm. I had to do some cloning in the lower corners after correcting the perspective in PTLens and cropping the result. I need to leave more room around the subject with this lens when I'm planning to correct perspective!

Golf007sd

D800 24 1.4G 1/50 ISO 500 @ f/2.0

Msmoto

proudgeek

Thanks Pierre. That church is beautiful.




D90 | 300mm | f/5.6 | 1/2000s | ISO 400 | -1/3 EV
Because the sun was in front of me the trailing portion of the right wing as well as the birds back were in shadows. I processed in Viveza to bring the detail back.

dissent

Happy Flag Day, Americans

donaldejose

Entomologists, all the bees I was photographing had brown hair with a small bald spot like the last one I posted. But this bee has gray hair with a large bald spot. Does that mean it is an "old man" bee?


D600, old 60mm Nikon Macro, f11, side mounted SB600 flash with small soft box.

To see more detail:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/76080384@N03/9001509724/sizes/h/

dissent

worker bees are sterile females, so technically it wouldn't be an old "man".

Pierre

...And it seems that the French have a lotv of very draconian laws concerning what you may photograph, and what you CAN"T photograph, without getting signed permission slips prior to taking the picture; Do you ever have any problems with this ?

Now you make me worried, perhaps I will just get arrested next time I land in Paris (next month)

:-O

I never encountered any problem on the ground while shooting, even at the Louvre Museum, in Paris, everybody has a camera. At Mont Saint-Michel, there was more cameras than people.

JJ_SO

about 20 years ago, 3 friends and me were in Paris to shoot architecture as part of our photo-circle's event proram. We all had film cameras, of course, Medium format and one of us had his Sinar with him. As soon as the guards saw him, preparing his tripod, they approached rapidly and asked for permission. Of course we had none: we hadn't known before and we were shooting exclusively as amateurs.

But having a tripod makes you a pro. That happened at Forum des Halles, La Defénse, Palais de la justice and at the pyramids of Louvre. He got very frustrated as he had to carry the equipment but could not use it.

birdman

@Golf007SD, you have me sold on the 24G. I knew it was great....but didn't know it was "other-worldly"!!

That being said, for $810 the Sigma 35 I bought is plenty good for the time being. I'll skip the Nikon 35/1.4G if I upgrade and head straight for the Nikon 24G - WAY DOWN THE ROAD, of course. Happy Friday NR members!!

itsnotmeyouknow

A roadside flower in the lakes:

Nikon D800 Carl Zeiss 35 f/2 Distagon T* f/8 1/50 ISO 100

MikeGunter

Something very different today; this picture was taken in 1940 in Delta County, Colorado, by Mr.Russell Lee
It is part of a collection of vintage photographs that was archived in the Prints and Photographs Div. of the Library of Congress for over 70 years; finally, a decision was made to release them all to the public, in an attempt to have them viewed by as many people as possible. They were all printed from original color slides, (and if I'm not mistaken, this was before Kodachrome was invented.) I remember using Kodachrome in the early 1950's and it was pretty new then, ( and it had an ASA of 10 at the time )
The old automobiles in front of the haystack all belong to migrant peach pickers.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/53334600@N02/8608217905/

Hi and nice photo!

@ Gitzo - in the treasure store of worthless information, Kodachrome came out in the mid-1930's. The ASA was originally something like 6.

As for the French's photograph-phobic-ishness, I've never noticed it before, but that was before 9/11.

My best,

Mike

Golf007sd

D800 24 1.4G 1/80 ISO 500 @ f/2.8

Larger Version.

SquamishPhoto

D800 • ZF.2 100mm f2 @ f7.1 • 1/200 • ISO 100

Pierre

JJ_SO

While playing a bit with Capture One, I found pictures of "2 years before D800". Still like them.



Canon G11, ISO 800 | f/6.3 | 1/320 | 30.5mm (equiv. 140mm)

hammers71

Circular Quay

kanuck

This is the entrance to Gwaneumsa Temple on Jeju Island. It was a beautiful day for photography. Morning fog, puffy clouds, and temperatures in the high 60s.