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4/5/2014 Mike Orazzi | Staff
Participants listen to Connecticut Citizens Defense League President Scott Wilson during a CCDL gun rights rally at the Connecticut state capitol in Hartford, Saturday April 5, 2014, speaks out against the state's gun control law passed one year ago on April 4, 2013 restricting magazines to 10 rounds and prohibiting the sale of certain semi-automatic firearms, including the AR-15.
Video & Slideshow here: youtu.be/XbILfKZkMbs
This is the screw thingy on the back of the mounting flange of the lens. The camera has a mating bit that spins this one when autofocusing.
This is a single-frame, unstacked image, taken with an inexpensive 10X "finite" microscope objective lens.
Depth of field is only about 11 microns, which is .00043 inches. Yikes. Stacked images made with this lens require the subject to be precisely moved between frames in increments of less than a half-thousandth of an inch!
Lots of dust/oil spots on the D600's sensor, clearly revealed by the very small aperture of the microscope lens. Gotta buy a wet cleaning kit, as Nikon apparently has no intention of dealing with this very widespread problem.
This was my first time shooting fire dancers/spinners at night. Some post processing was required to get the results seen here.
I used my Nikon D600 with a Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 "APO" macro lens with internal focus motor ($100 used on eBay).
I have a bunch of other shots of the firedancers in this set- check 'em out if'n ya like this sort of thang.
An inexpensive Walmart LED lightbulb in the Compound bathroom draws them in like moths to the flame.
If anyone can identify the species, I would appreciate it...
My guess is raven, as it was HUGE. I've never been this close to one before. It was almost tame.
We thought Matthew might like this (well, Matthew and quite a few other people we know!).
Bill Of Rights, Second Amendment, constitutional rights, tin sign.
gun control. guns. politics.
upstairs, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
April 29, 2012.
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Got this gun a couple of months ago. I think it would be perfect for concealed carry or locked away in a bedroom drawer for home defense. It was found in storage at my mother's house and belonged to my grandfather. It is a top break revolver with original pearl grips. The gun is in working condition.
Guns on display at anti-Islam rally in Phoenix. Protesters brought plenty of firepower to a protest against Islamic terrorism and Islam itself on October 10. Police separated them a smaller group of counter-protesters. Held in front of the Islamic Community Center, the event was part of a broader "Global Rally for Humanity," with similar protests scheduled in other cities that day.
Guns on display at anti-Islam rally in Phoenix. Protesters brought plenty of firepower to a protest against Islamic terrorism and Islam itself on October 10. Police separated them a smaller group of counter-protesters. Held in front of the Islamic Community Center, the event was part of a broader "Global Rally for Humanity," with similar protests scheduled in other cities that day.
The spider (and it's shadow) in the enlarged inset image is also visible in the center of the larger image, if you look carefully.
This image came from my old Nikon D50 DSLR, with a low-end Nikon 70-300mm f/4-5.6 "G" lens mounted. The lens was at 300mm and wide open (f/5.6). I had the D50 at ISO800 under the cloudy sky to freeze squirrely motion. Exposure comp. was at +1 to get some detail in the shadows without blowing out the sky too much.
In the next image in my photostream, you can see that the as-shot image is terrible, with tons of chromatic aberration, too-dark shadows (despite a +1 exposure comp), soft details and quite a bit of noise.
Here you can see what a difference some post-processing can make with a poor image.
There is no built-in lens profile in Lightroom 5.4 for this lens, and I no longer own the lens. So the chromatic abberation correction settings were done manually, with a little vignetting reduction, too. I made no attempt to correct for other lens reality distortions. I wonder if a proper lens profile would have helped to further reduce the remaining chromatic aberration seen here. I maxed out the CA settings in Lightroom, including an eyedropper selection of the proper color ranges to confine the efforts to.