PHOTO-A-DAY: March 2013

Msmoto

Still playing w/105

dissent

Still trying to get sharper shots of these guys. Guess I'll need more light so I don't feel like I need to shoot wide open at 300mm (with the 70-300 VR).

pippigurl

@Gitzo: Have another I will post that will be more typical! But you are right.

SquamishPhoto

Nice one, dissent. The reds are very rich, the bokeh is pleasing and the split tones in the back ground help make the shot even nicer.


D800 • ZF.2 100mm f2 @ f2.5 • 1/200 • ISO 125

Coastalconn

I can finally say Welcome Home!!!!

TheGipper

Nikon D600 +70-200mm VRII + 1.7xTC. Find this to be a good combo for insect photography, although no match for a dedicated macro lens.

Gitzo

@ Msmoto........Please tell me that flower is indoors! We had 50 degrees yesterday in Indiana, then woke up today (Sunday) with 2'' of strange "white stuff" all over everything; now, (at 1:00 PM), it's already about 3/4 melted away; (only to be replaced.........by more mud!) Flowers.....they always look SO pretty, but when I try to take their pictures.......they seldom look as pretty; (yours are VERY pretty!)

@ SquamishPhoto........One thing you won't need to worry about.........any one putting up a picture of a prettier girl, with a cuter smile! (Don't tell her I said that)

@ Coastalconn........Is that guy an osprey ? Kinda looks like it from his head; I think the easiest place I've ever seen yet to photograph ospreys, was the road leading out to Marco Island, just east of Naples, Fla. The power company has nesting platforms on every 4th or 5th utility pole, and many of them had nesting ospreys; because the poles weren't too high, you could set up a tripod and be assured of getting lots of shots of the same birds as they returned to the nest with fish; unfortunately, I was still shooting with my F 5, and I ran out of film. Also, my longest lens at the time was a 80-200mm/f2.8, and I really needed a bit more "reach".

Gitzo

@ TheGipper.......That's a very nice shot of that old bee just starting to "make his rounds"; ( no pollen on his back legs yet ); one suggestion; with a circular polarizer on the lens, it would have greatly reduced the glare from the direct sun light, and the hibiscus would have been much "pinker"? The overall DOF and sharpness are great.

TheGipper

@Gitzo, thank you. That's a good suggestion, but I always just leave a standard UV filter on the end of my zoom to avoid messing with the glass underneath. It's been on there since the day I acquired the lens
I suppose I could polarise it with software (E.g. Color Efx.)

dissent

@SquamishPhoto - Thanks. Keep the great portraits coming - this one is terrific.

@TheGipper - that's a spot-on capture! I tried doing some like this with my 105mm last fall, but my handholding technique was (and still is, I think) terrible. If you can shoot those with your combo, I'd say, keep shooting 'em.

Msmoto

@Gitzo

The flower was outdoors, wind about 15 mph, temp about 40°F. I caught one as the wind dropped...lucky shot... SB-800 w/Lumiquest box

starralazn

Squamishphoto, you always have the prettiest models

HenryG87

D7000 with a 35mm 1.8

mk2pop

amazing everyone

Down!

D90, 55-200 VR

Yetibuddha

Dissent, can you try raising the iso to 400 to get to f8? Thats what I figure I have to shoot at for sharpness on the 70-300.
Coastal, we have three more weeks at least before the osprey show up back here. We do have a bunch of tundra swans, but they stay about 100 yards away from any place I can shoot from.

Yetibuddha

Well, since my buttercups were buried in snow the last few days, I thought I would share a few images from Lolo Pass where I go cross country skiing. Some of you may recall I have shared this area before:

mikep

nice yeti

Postman

Yes Yeti, very nice capture.

Another old one I've recently dug up from 2010. This is an amazing sunset I witnessed from the comfort of my hotel room looking over the Andaman Sea in Thailand. 3 photos stitched together to create a panorama.

D3000, 18-55mm @ 55mm, f5.6, 1/20sec, ISO 400.

SquamishPhoto

Nice tonal range, postman. I like the how dark the lower altitude clouds are as well.

pippigurl

More typical of a Carolina shrimp trawl...


Nikon D800 | Nikkor 18-35 f/3.5-4.5 | 1/250@f/8 | ISO 100

mikep

yeah, those clouds as silhouettes are really great postman

that boat certainly looks smellier than the last one, pipigirl

Benji2505

Jon9v

Yoshino Shrine, Nara, Japan one of the famous places for sakura blossom viewing. Went there too early.

MikeGunter

Hi all,

Very nice!



My best,

Mike

Tidewatcher

Apalachicola shrimp trawler nets...