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The first nuthatch I've seen in ages... knew they had nested in the woods but hadn't spied any since. These are from my first trip out with the 70D, focus not quite perfect - think that is me, not the camera! (managed other sharp shots later in the morning of other subjects) but these seem to have a sort of 'watercolour' feel to them that I rather like.
Please see Local Birds and wildlife set 2013 www.flickr.com/photos/wendycoops224/sets/72157632400771125/
Percy, James, Gordon, Henry, Edward and Thomas!
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Thomas & Friends Wooden Railway System
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scanned on my scanner's 'bad side'. my second shot with the new 'first flush' impossible project film. it was also my second shot with my sx-70; i had the focus dial aligned completely wrong. i wrote about this new film here.
- Straws: www.partypartnershop.com/product.php?productid=74&cat...
- Cups: BPA-free reusable animal cups with lids www.learningcurve.com/product/detail/Y1157A3?locale=en_US
From a test shoot at my Studio Portraiture class. This is our tutor, Grahame Fleming, who's a good teacher, great photographer, very frendly bloke, and all-round diamond geezer. He doesn't normally hang around to pose for us, but on this occasion, he was demonstrating a couple of poses, so a couple of us fired off a couple of test shots, and this one I think kind of sums him up really well.
The lighting are all Bowen flashheads, two behind with honeycombs at 45 degree angles for rim lighting on the hair- you can see one here- and one softbox in front. The softbox is set for f8, and the other two are about 1 and half stops below.
In Photoshop I've slightly tightened the contrast, turned it monochrome, and used colour balance to simulate a dutotone effect.
6000+ of our beloved brothers and sisters in attendance pay rapt
attention to the example set by young Timothy
a fine june morning in the ornamental gardens, central experimental farm, ottawa.
the sensor in the a100 has problems with certain pinks and reds, especially in the sun, so i played a lot with curves and hues in the gimp. also added a gaussian blur layer to soften the overall image, then added the vignetting for the heck of it. learning the ropes after years of ps elements, but now i've sorted out a few gimp quirks, i think it has great potential! still so much more to learn, but this was a good start.
(next step: tracking down a good, freeware, sony-compatible raw converter, that might actually save exif data! i've heard rumours...)
this zoom lens I got does just that, so easily and smoothly! Now I can actually catch some of those birds. hurrah!
oh, my daughter just called today and told me a great story about being at the Grand Canyon on a training event..and critters got into their coolers and she was the one on the crew to discover it. So, while cleaning up the mess, first she got shots with her new camera of the ravens and chipmunks tearing into the fruit... then she turns around and a cow elk is only 10 feet away trying hard to swallow an entire 5 or 10 pound plastic bag full of apples... She video taped as she tried to talk the elk into spitting out the bag so she wouldn't suffocate on the plastic... the elk came within 5 feet of her before finally dropping the bag and taking off after another girl rolled an apple toward her to distract her from the plastic bag. how fun! I laughed so hard as my daughter told me of her adventures!
She (Leannan Sidhe is her user name) is at the Imperial National WIldlife Refuge near Yuma, Arizona.. on an internship for the Student Conversation Association.
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you would have loved it, and so would I.
Thomas
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I've seen several pretty crocheted flowers recently and decided to have a go!
I sent for a begnner's guide and a book of 100 flowers, but couldn't wait .... long ago I made four granny squares at a craft class - but can't remember how I did them.
So I found a hook and as all I can do is chain and slip stitch "free form" is for me.
It's fun so I'll be doing more!
one of my hybrids that I made.. its so tiny it will likely die but for today its alive... and super small. the seed pod www.flickr.com/photos/flyingbytheseatofmypants/9786384582...
I've always been an advocate of natural lighting. I still am. But I've also been interested in other ways of lighting a shot. And there are so many ways of doing so.
One way I've tended to shy away from is flash. In the past I only had a fixed head flash, or built in flashes and got lousy results. Until discovering the freedom of digital, and before seeing the inspiring work of so many people on Flickr, I didn't know what to do with a flash and so just didn't use it. But recently the idea of getting a decent flashgun popped into my head. I still don't really know quite what to do with a flashgun but I'm sure it will open up all sorts of possibilities.
The first nuthatch I've seen in ages... knew they had nested in the woods but hadn't spied any since. These are from my first trip out with the 70D, focus not quite perfect - think that is me, not the camera! (managed other sharp shots later in the morning of other subjects) but these seem to have a sort of 'watercolour' feel to them that I rather like.
Please see Local Birds and wildlife set 2013 www.flickr.com/photos/wendycoops224/sets/72157632400771125/
ODC STEEP - I'm a bit lacking in inspiration and time today (waiting for an appointment just now). Moving every few years means getting to grips with a new culture and/or language which can be a steep learning curve. Five months after arriving in Germany I still think in Italian when resorting to a 2nd language, even though I have more German knowledge to start with than I did on arriving in Italy. I regularly find myself figuring out the German vocabulary in my head only to speak a gobbledygook of Italian, German and English, which results in bafflement all around LOL. However, I do know how to say "lawn-mower" in 6 languages, although I'd prefer to be able to explain precisely how I like my coffee or to discuss the things I'm actually interested in.