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[nbanjogal]

Sorry I'm late! Busy times. Any advice for how to kick myself in the butt and make more photos??? Life is sure getting in the way...

 

Sometime before midnight (whatever time zone you are in) this Sunday, 25 March 2018, post the best photo you have taken this week. Any subject, any style—just give us your best shot.

 

If you can, list your EXIF info and any special lighting setups you may have used.

 

 

P.S. Peter is running a fun single-lens challenge--everyone is welcome to play. Just look for the One Week, One Camera, One Lens thread in the mini-challenge forums.

 

P.P.S. The editing exercises are taking a break at the moment, but feel free to play around in the old exercises. 

 

[Steve M]

All taken with D7200 and my 55-300 The first three were at a zoo so thus the reason for the closeups

[Merco_61]

PES_2018-03-20_12-35-08_35mm_ by merco_61, on Flickr

 

Model: NIKON D7200
Lens (mm): 35 (AF-S DX Nikkor 35/1.8)
ISO: 1250
Aperture: 22
Shutter: 1/60
Exp. Comp.: +0.7

[Tony]

Blood Red Macro.

 

Taken with:  Pentax k-50 body and Pentax-M 100mm Macro Lens.

 

1/60s, F/8, Focal Length @ 100mm, Manual Exposure Mode, 5EV, ISO @ 200, No flash and used CWA Metering.

 

Thanks for viewing.

 

TT

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[Jerry_]

I’ve been trying to explore a bit with minimalistic B&W captures.

Here are two captures of wood left-overs in the water, processed while pushing the values to its (useful) extremes.

[TBonz]

For the first time since my mother-in-law passed away in January of 2016, one of the orchids she kept bloomed.  My wife was very excited and asked me to get some photos of it.  In part I decided to mess around and try a few things with the natural light that was available...I used my D500 and my 105 Micro...I just realized that these are actually in the reverse order that i shot them...

 

ISO 3200, f3.5, 1/125

 

ISO 1600, f3.3, 1/80

 

The last I am posting is my wife's favorite.  As you can see compared to the other images, it was well under-exposed.  I brought it up quite a bit in post production, but the combo gave it a lighting effect that we were both happy with!

 

ISO 400, f3.2, 1/100

[Ron]

For the first time since my mother-in-law passed away in January of 2016, one of the orchids she kept bloomed.  My wife was very excited and asked me to get some photos of it.  In part I decided to mess around and try a few things with the natural light that was available...I used my D500 and my 105 Micro...I just realized that these are actually in the reverse order that i shot them...

 

The last I am posting is my wife's favorite.  As you can see compared to the other images, it was well under-exposed.  I brought it up quite a bit in post production, but the combo gave it a lighting effect that we were both happy with!

 

SnowOrchid-1883.jpg

ISO 400, f3.2, 1/100

 

Your wife has a good eye. The third one is my favorite too and I shoot these guys all the time.

 

The only critique I can give is that, in order to get decent depth of field with this stuff, you sometimes need to forget about diffraction and close down the aperture. I routinely shoot these at f/22 and up (with off camera flash of course). F/16 is about my starting point and I almost never go below f/11.

 

But the images are lovely, especially the last one. I love the bokeh in all three.  

 

I noticed that you called it a "snow orchid". Did you happen to take note of the name on the plant tag that should have been either on the plant on in it's pot or basket?

 

--Ron

[Merco_61]

Tom, nice work! I too like the third best. When shooting flowers in available light, a small, 30 cm or so, sunfire/silver Lastolite reflector is your friend. This will make it easy to get some fill light in where you need it without having to struggle with flash if you are not comfortable with it. If you don't have a reflector screen, a wrinkled piece of aluminium foil works, even if the reflector is easier to use and has a warming side as well as the silver.