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Macro Practice - With the warm weather rolling around, I am trying get further practice with my "pseudo-macro setup".
This is some sort of ground/solitary bee inside a California Poppy in the yard. Hardly the size of a grain of rice. Still a lot more practice to get better with my current setup before I decide to add a serious macro lens down the road.
Species: Ground/Solitary Bee
Equipment: Canon EOS R5 + EF 100-400mm IS II + 1.4x TC III
Settings: 1/1000s, ISO: 320, f/10 @896mm (APS-C Mode), Electronic Shutter
You practice with your trumpet don't ya?
You practice your guitar till your fingers bleed.
Why?
Because if you're not an idiot you wanna give a wonderful performance with the camera.
- John Free (LA Street Photographer)
Taken at the same time as my 'Blowin in the Wind' shot. This is just a little further down the hill. Since I fixed my camera I have been thinking about my photography differently. Whilst I realise that my camera skills have improved, I still have a lot to learn about seeing a shot in my mind and quickly capturing it. John Free's video uploads have kept me motivated in practicing and improving what I do here.
**this shot didn't have the great light as the previous one shown below. This scene is in a dip, when we drive through here we always lose phone signal, it's a communication black hole! The light is softer and more subdued, giving a more gentle scene. I like this shot, however it has undergone multiple revisions and I'm still not 100% about it.
Thanks for coming to look at my little dusty corner of Flickr :)
..but it also fills the memory cards and hard drives pretty fast ツ
Thanks to skilled Even in the Moskusguiden company, I managed to take my first usable panned photos on the workshop in Greece this week, like of this adult Dalmatian pelican (Pelecanus crispus).
But all the practice and series of slow shutter photos following pelicans in action, almost filled all the 10 memory cards I brought with me (and had thought was way too many) ツ I ended up with nearly 13.000 photos, but still I was among those who took the fewest (!) I hope sorting out and deleting the thousands of bad ones will go fast ツ
I also took many nice portraits of the birds that I look forward to show later on.
(Voksen krøllpelikan, in Norwegian)
My album of photos from Greece here.
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Ever since I became a Flickr member I've enjoyed the gorgeous Bald Eagle pictures of, for instance Imtoootall, Doug LLoyd, Nikographer, Fella-1 and Garnite (to name a few...).
I long to go to the places they live/visit, see the eagles with my own eyes, but it seems that my wishlist of 'must see before I die'-places only grows longer since I'm on Flickr and the time left only becomes shorter.. :-)
But.... there are vague plans to go to Vancouver Island in autumn. I've heard from a friend that there seem to be a lot of these flying beauties around there.....
Meanwhile, last sunday I went with friends and their kids to Beekse Bergen in Holland. Apart from it being a lovely day which really lifted the spirits of us sunstarved people in the Netherlands (:-), they had a wonderful show with birds of prey.
So here was my chance to practice a little! You might call it a small miracle that I haven't hit anyone on the head with the camera and lens but I was só eager to get at least one shot right!
Ok, it might not (yet) be the real stuff, and it doesn't come near the quality of the above mentioned gentlemen's shots, but still I've enjoyed seeing this wonderful eagle fly enormously. (and at least it felt real !!! :-) )
Explore #118 March 2nd, 2009
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I've put a 'CANON 70-200mm f/4L USM Lens' on lay buy, so I thought I'd do some practice shots at around 70mm with my trusty kit lens!
I don't plan on using the new glass for landscapes, but there will be sometimes when I will, and I want to challenge myself to work within this focal length, tighter crops etc
- ISO 100, f9, 1/320, 70mm
- Canon 75-300 Kit lens.
- Tripod.
Processing
- Off camera.
- 'Landscape' calibration in Lightroom 2.2.
- A small 'photoshopped' bird for a bit of fun, (bird shots are taken at same location).
Used a DSLR for the first time this week... my three most recent photos are from my experiments with an aperture opening thats actually smaller than 8.0. Yay!
Practice makes perfect!
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This is a pretty common scene during the elk rut. A couple of satellite bulls sparring. Since they aren't challenging for dominance, this activity is primarily an exercise in preparation for when they are ready to do so. It's fairly rare for these practice bouts to get very intense...why risk injury when there is no reward to the victor?
Taken in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada.
Heavy winter rains create seasonal creeks that cascade down hillsides in unexpected places. This one was off OR-99 south of Oregon City.
With the recent onset of true, winterlike temperatures in our area, the thistle sock has seen an increase in activity. Seems there's at least one or two Goldfinches on it whenever I look outside.
However, on this rather rainy day, while doing some birdwatching, I noticed there were lots of Goldfinches on the thistle sock, so I grabbed a shot before they flew off. I caught eight of them in this shot.
As we await the arrival of Winter Storm Ezra tomorrow, it's a good thing the Goldfinches were practicing their clinging and sharing skills, as those skills may be put to the test over the next two days.
And yes, there's a squirrel photobomber in the background, scarfing up the whole peanuts I'd tossed out earlier.
Can't wear this yet under "combat" conditions--too wintry out! But at least I can see if it works or not.
Amateur looking for comments, advice & tips!!
Sony A58
F/9
Exp 1/60sec
ISO-3200
Aperture priority mode
No post editing (clearly!) :-)
The world you see is just a movie in your mind.
Rocks dont see it.
Bless and sit down.
Forgive and forget.
Practice kindness all day to everybody
and you will realize you’re already
in heaven now.
That’s the story.
That’s the message.
Nobody understands it,
nobody listens, they’re
all running around like chickens with heads cut
off. Jack Kerouac
Practicing a Cygnus capture ahead of our Orbital launch and rendezvous next week
Credits: ESA/NASA
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"Practice makes perfect". When not deployed, Tier 1 operators from the Special Operations Group spend countless hours on the range to perfect their shooting.
First time taking the Phantom 4 Pro+ out for ferroequine pursuits, with the intention of capturing the 'purple boi'. If only I'd taken it a split second earlier...
EMR's unique purple powercar, 43274, leads 1C61 (the 1431 Leeds - London St. Pancras Int'l HST) over Fourteen Arches Viaduct, Wellingborough, with fellow celeb powercar 43102 "The Journey Shrinker" in tow.