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...or out.
Someone near us has an electric fence and "kindly" indicates the danger with bright yellow and red flags. The white thingy carries current, I think.
Lots of birds in this photo, but shallow dof hides them. Birds have no fences.
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Oh! Go, Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I don't have a Twitter account, but apparently he vowed "... Pittsburgh stands with the world and will follow Paris agreement. As the mayor of Pittsburgh, I can assure you that we will follow the guidelines of the Paris agreement for our people, our economy and future.”
As the morning sun appeared over the trees I set the camera down to ground level very stealth-like next to this roosting male Common Blue.
The idea was to get a silhouette of him in the sun. So, there I was laying in the wet grass looking through the viewfinder nudging the tripod and camera into position. I quickly experimented with different apertures and exposures hoping I could achieve the shot I imagined. This was the result with an unusual additional ghost sun all in one shot (no composite).
Bystock Pools Nature Reserve, Devon.
#butterfly #butterflyconservation #commonblue #sunrise
#silhouette #creative #fineart
Playing around with my old Pentax DSLR and a few lenses I've rarely, or never used on a digital camera. The weather was clear and sunny, I took an opportunity to take a few bokeh shots while the sun was still well above the horizon. October 2021.
Taken with Pentax K20D digital camera and Chinon Auto 50mm F1.9 manual focus lens. Wide-open aperture, at a minimal focusing distance, to have as much bokeh as possible. I'm positively surprised!
✨ Thank you all for pushing this photo into Explore at #128 at one point in time. Yay!
An advantage of having the woods in your backyard is the easy ability to grab a picture when there are brief breaks in the weather.
Still confined to barracks, its only mild agony now so I reckon by tomorrow I’ll be able to stumble around somewhat.
So, in the meantime what’s a chap to do? I’d exhausted the photographic possibilities of the kitchen so I thought I’d get some of my fav nick nacks and see if I could kill an hour in between arthritic spasms.
Shot by E-M1, 12-40mm and one of the art filters as well as a swift pixel pummelling in Adobe Photoshop Express and Snapseed.
Another beautiful lily from Lillian's garden, shot through foliage using a very shallow depth of field.
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Sony A7II
Sony FE 35/1.4
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One of my favorite assignments for my students is a telephoto/selective focus/looking and seeing study creating a photo featuring one subject - the hand - and one background - enough of the scene to identify the activity and compliment it. l also like using my telephotos' magnification power for my focus, holding the exposure button halfway down and letting the camera seek the optimal focus. But l make the final decision, not the camera or lens. l want to see sharp details - pores, individual hairs, etc., before firing.