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Your Best Photo, Week Ending 16 March 2014


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Let's get started on our weekly challenge then!

Sometime before this Sunday night, 16 March, post the best photo you have taken this week. Any subject, any style--just give us your best shot.

Hoping this will encourage everyone to get out there and shoot!

PS: If you can, list your EXIF info and any special lighting setups you may have used.
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"This week" meaning starting today, correct?
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I posted two photos I took yesterday n my blog.  Where shall we post them for all to view?


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I posted two photos I took yesterday n my blog.  Where shall we post them for all to view?


Just post them here. We can say it started yesterday or even last week when we started talking about it. Let's see them deancrandall!
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This is from Sunday, two days ago.

We were in downtown Phoenix and saw this on the side of a building in the Arts District.

While it is wall art it is also an ad for a flower company.  It needs to be repainted, but still better than just a side to a building.

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This is one of a series of pictures taken with my 7100 and Tamron 70-300mm Macro lens.

Used natural sunlight with white board reflector. Background is a black piece of card.

Daffodil

Fstop = F4.5

ISO = 1400

Exposure = 1/100


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An old toy, cleaned up for the next generation to use.
Spring coils

 

Body: D700

Flash: SB-910

Lens: MicroNikkor 105/4 AI'd

Aperture: f/16

Shutter: 1/250

ISO: 200

 

One flash camera right @ about 2 o'clock, horizontal, controlled via CLS, internal reflector set to 35 mm. Flash-to-subject distance ~25 cm, flash-to-lens axis ~30 cm. SG-31R on camera to cut the pop-up flash completely.

 

Background is a black velvet, but could just as well have been black cardboard or muslin


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Llyn y fan taken last week
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So far this is my fav this week:

 

Self portrait

 

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D610,

Nikkor 28-80D @ f/8

Manual focus,

ISO 640, 1/50 sec,

2 manual speedlights and whole set up triggered remotely :)


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NIKON D610
ISO 5000
Focal Length 62mm
Aperture f/5
Exposure Time (1/100)
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This is exactly why nobody wants to post in these things.

 

Very nice work.


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This is exactly why nobody wants to post in these things.

Very nice work.

Yep, I was thinking I'm really going to have to step up my game if I don't want my work to look silly next to all these great photos. So far this week I haven't done much I want to show off!

But I guess that's the purpose, eh? To get us out there and stretching a bit...
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I agree, I think the main focus is to get us out there improving on what we know and how to improve  I particularly like having the metadata listed.

We need to be encouraging each other with helpful hints and "atta boys", not discouraging remarks.


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Taken on Thursday at The Power Plant - a light show set up in the local botanic gardens as part of the International Festival of the Arts presently on in Wellington, New Zealand. A bit of a sneaky one as it was meant to be no photography.

Nikon D600
Tokina ATX-PRO 28-70 f2.6-2.8
Shot at 38mm and f9.5
1/6th of a second
Monopod
Manual
ISO 400
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That is tres cool.

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OK...this isn't as easy as it sounds :)

 

Here's mine for this week...got to shoot a lacrosse scrimmage yesterday and I like the action this shot has in it...I'll post a series of some lax photos later this week...Didn't get to shoot any baseball...was planning on 4 games this weekend but field (3.5 hours away) was not playable yesterday.  Thought about going today, but with the weather forecast, decided against it...good thing - they played the first and stopped mid way through game 2 because it was snowing too hard!

 

TL-SBatWoodGrove-1829.jpg

 

D600

Nikkor 200-400 at 240mm

ISO 560 

f4.0

1/1250


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Oops! Got busy AND sick and forgot to post last night!

 

So I didn't take many photos last week, and those that I did were pretty mediocre. Nonetheless, since I started this challenge, I guess I'll have to suck it up and just post what I can, embarrassed though I may be.

 

This was taken for an assignment for Project 52 Pros--had to make an image showing the effect of weather on people (very general, oversimplified description)

 

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Weather by nbanjogal, on Flickr
 
I think I'll try harder this week!!!! The challenge will be good for me...
 
PS: forgot to add EXIF!
D600
nikkor 50mm
ISO 100
f/1.4
1/125
Fill flash off camera right with umbrella and black cover, flash set to 1/128 and 24mm

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I like it Nicole!


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I like it Nicole!

 

Thanks! You're very kind. I was blown away by the quality of the images we received on this little challenge. We've got some great photographers in this forum. Your lacrosse photo is an excellent capture of emotion and action!


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I've never seen a bat that pink.  It does fit your assignment to a tee.  I actually took a photo for this challenge, but got busy yesterday and forgot to put it up.   :wacko:


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