Thanks adamz. I had to stand 15 feet behind everyone else...yes I was using my 300 2.8. Focused nicely right through the chain link too.
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P-A-D: NR edition (January) - animals
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I'm sure this isn't the standard fare, but this is from my travels in Russia last year:
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Very nice Aprille. It almost looks like a pencil and charcoal/pastel drawing.
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@ Aprille, great timing. As much as I dislike birds, your shot is stunning.
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One more of everyone's favorite Chow Chow & Golden Retriever...
Morley and his football.
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Yup, nice pic aprille - wouldn't expect a picture from You in this thread, so it's even nicer :)
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Great shot, aprille. Perfect timing and I almost can't believe that's at 50mm. Ignore the rest of my comment if you were going for this effect, but I think the curves adjustment here is a little severe and you're getting weird-looking halo-like edges on the wings. Three sliders in Lightroom I usually avoid are highlight recovery, fill light, and black clipping. For nearly blown highlights, I think it looks more natural to bring exposure down and then play with the tone curve's lights and highlights until you get what you're looking for. Instead of black clipping I prefer the tone curve's shadows and darks sliders. For B&W, you have even more options for mapping the tones the way you want them by using the grayscale treatment (instead of color with -100 saturation) and then using the grayscale mix sliders. Sorry for the long post.
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jonnyapple said:
Great shot, aprille. Perfect timing and I almost can't believe that's at 50mm. Ignore the rest of my comment if you were going for this effect, but I think the curves adjustment here is a little severe and you're getting weird-looking halo-like edges on the wings. Three sliders in Lightroom I usually avoid are highlight recovery, fill light, and black clipping. For nearly blown highlights, I think it looks more natural to bring exposure down and then play with the tone curve's lights and highlights until you get what you're looking for. Instead of black clipping I prefer the tone curve's shadows and darks sliders. For B&W, you have even more options for mapping the tones the way you want them by using the grayscale treatment (instead of color with -100 saturation) and then using the grayscale mix sliders. Sorry for the long post.Thanks Jonnyapple...I really don't have Lightroom mastered yet, haha. I learned photoshop at school, then couldn't afford it and got Lightroom instead. But that's really helpful!
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try TheGIMP its free.. I use it. Paint Shop Pro is not free, its cheap, but its really good too.
There is a version of theGimp that has been made to look like Photoshop. I think its called gimpshop or something similar. Lots of Free tutorials on the Gimp too.Posted 3 years ago # -
Finally got around to uploading one of my new (used, old version) Bigma's test shots. I'm posting it kind of big, let me know if it's too big. I'm very happy with this lens, although now that I'm back in Vancouver the weather is horrible and so no photography for me, certainly not with a Bigma anyway. Maybe when the weather gets better I'll write a review of the Bigma; all I can really say about it right now is that if you aren't printing huge, it's an absolutely solid lens in good light. If you are happy with the IQ from something like Nikon's 70-300mm VR, you'll be happy with this lens if you can handle how heavy it is and know you can do without the stabilization.
Here's the shot, 500mm 1/400th, f/10 ISO 400.
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Very nice ShadeofBlue. I don't see any jaggies or noise. It's always better to zoom in with glass than crop a lot out of a shot. Great pose too.
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Shadeoflbue very nice. I don't have many picture of Mockingbirds myself.
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Buffelhead. I like this one because with this species, it's very hard to get their eye. It usually blends in very well so it looks like they don't have one.Posted 3 years ago # -
Bufflehead. I like this one because with this species, it's very hard to get their eye. It usually blends in very well so it looks like they don't have one.Posted 3 years ago # -
Gentoo - I love the water in this one. Gorgeous DOF.
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The Bigma looks like a great lens.. you seem to have a bit of a back focus on that shot though..
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The Rain stopped in Vancouver, FINALLY!!! got a fre hours to hike around looking for willing subjects.
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Hi guys....it's been awhile.....thought that I would add a few!!
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shutter - I like Your second shot more, is it a merge of pictures or You somehow managed to get this is one shot?
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Thanks adamz...it wasn't a merge...just heavily cropped with the flying bird lightened and the bg darkened.
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Very nice shutterdancer. Glad you're back posting here again. I like the second one with the Chipping Sparrow a lot. The first one was at a feeder right?
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almost didnt want t post any of these here, I went to try and capture some eagles with not very much luck. Too many people out on saturday scaring them across the river.
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Gentoo said:
Very nice shutterdancer. Glad you're back posting here again. I like the second one with the Chipping Sparrow a lot. The first one was at a feeder right?Both shots were taken with the birds at my feeder...thats the reason for the strange crops....my homemade feeder is really ugly LOL.
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