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[nbanjogal]

Sometime before midnight (whatever time zone you are in) this Sunday, 18 May, post the best photo you have taken this week. Any subject, any style--just give us your best shot.

 

 

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

 

 

[K-9]

I watched the Revs trounce #1 team Seattle last night, 5-0.  

 

Samsung NX20 with 10mm lens, f8, 1/250, ISO 800

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[nbanjogal]

Very cool shot! Looks like you have fun with that fisheye.

[K-9]

Very cool shot! Looks like you have fun with that fisheye.

Yes, I want to take it everywhere. It's so light and small, the camera literally fits in my jacket pocket with this lens attached.

[alden]

Olivia turned 6.



D7100
ISO 1100
Focal Length 38mm (57mm in 35mm)
Aperture f/4.8
Exposure Time 0.0166s (1/60)

[nbanjogal]

Here I am posting early again. This is an experimental shot for me. I've never tried the whole "make a light background black" thing before, but thought I'd give it a go. I don't have a black backdrop, so this method was the next best thing. 

 

Patient man by nbanjogal, on Flickr

 

D600

Nikkor 24-70mm at 29mm

f/14

1/200

ISO 100

Used flash off camera at full power with a collapsed umbrella in bounce position

 

 

 

 

[TBonz]

Storm tonight which meant no soccer game to shoot...so I thought maybe I'd try to grab a photo of some of the lightning...didn't get much to shoot until we were all at the dinner table...then I decided to mess around a bit more...really strange results...

 

I did catch one bolt - missed the first...

 

 

Played a bit when it got darker and got an interesting color to the sky...

 

 

Later after dark, I shot a longer exposure...

 

 

All three were with my 24-70 at 70mm, f/22, ISO 100 on tripod with TriggerTrap.  First two were 1/2 second exposure and last was 5 seconds.  Nothing other than cropping on the last two...a bit of tweaking on the first...

 

[itsoeze]

Couple of shots from Church Ope Cove, Portland Dorset from this afternoon. Playing with a bit of focus stacking

 

[IanB]

Hi, a couple of shots taken today again with the budget Sigma 70-300.  I am really becoming rather fond of this cheap wee lens, it's much better than i expected and very versatile IMO. The quality does drop off between 250mm and 300mm but when you look at the garden sparrow, or spuggy as we call them locally at 300mm i don't think they are that bad.

[Mr_Leeman]

Thought I'd post a few of my boy for a change! lol

 

The sun flooded through our doors and was casting some fun shadows, but these two are my pic. The one he's holding a picture of himself when he was born, the other haveing some grapes for a snack - nothing much exciting happened this week. ha

 

 

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[iNYONi]

^{Havent had a chance to get the camera out this week so far...best I up my game and get}

^{snapping. Might even get down to the wire and set up shome shots on Sunday.}

^{Great shots from everyone so far...as always.} 

[Thumper]

 

Nikon D4

Nikkor 50mm f/1.8

F/2

1/15s

ISO 200

[Jerry_]

I guess he was trained as a model

Very nice shot

[Mr_Leeman]

V steady hands, or a tripod Thumper?

Nice shot btw!

[Thumper]

I guess he was trained as a model

Very nice shot

 

Thanks!   It reminded me of Aslan.

 

It was actually a taxidermied "trophy".  The owner of one of the businesses in the building that I office in is a big game hunter.  He just had this one brought in this morning.  Apparently, he just returned from a safari where he killed it.   As I understand it, the costs of having it shipped over, taxidermied, and mounted was over $400k.

 

Kind of sad though, if you ask me.  Killing such a beautiful animal for just the sport of killing it.   I am not against hunting to harvest the meat for survival or if it is to reduce the over population of a nuisance animal, but to kill animals for no other reason than just to kill them is not something that I agree with.  But that's just me.

 

V steady hands, or a tripod Thumper?

Nice shot btw!

Thanks! No tripod.  Just hand held, no VR.   I have relatively steady hands, and it was only a 50mm lens, so no forward weight to try and steady.

[iNYONi]

I agree thumper, I've seen lions in their natural habitat and that's where they should stay.....alive. but great photo though.

[Jerry_]

Thumper, indeed a sad story ... Such a great animal ...

[Daniel]

Olivia turned 6.



D7100
ISO 1100
Focal Length 38mm (57mm in 35mm)
Aperture f/4.8
Exposure Time 0.0166s (1/60)

Nice shot Alden very vibrant photo

[Thumper]

One more for this week.

 

This time of a live animal.   White-tailed Kite (sitting in a tree in my front yard).

 

Nikon D4

Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8

f/4

1/320s

ISO 200

200mm

[Merco_61]

A flower from me this week.

 

A Sutera Cordata "Snowflake" that has either hybridized or found some strange minerals as the top flowers aren't white, but most are.

 

Body: D700
Lens: MicroNikkor 105/4 with PN-11
Aperture: f/16
Shutter: 1/500
ISO: 1600

 

Lens at full extension with the PN-11 mounted (52.5 mm in the lens helicoid + the 52.5 mm of the extension ring.), so 1:1 reproduction ratio. No special lighting, just nice morning light.

 

I had an idea of stacking, but it was too windy and I couldn't set up a wind screen without harming the plant next to it.