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[nbanjogal]

Sometime before midnight (whatever time zone you are in) this Sunday, 12 April 2015, 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.

 

 

 

Also, come join us for the editing exercise--because of a holiday, we're still working on an informal editing exercise this week, but next week we'll start the regular exercise again.

[OTRTexan]

Stopped off in Memphis and went down to Beale St. This band was playing at Jerry Lee Lewis's bar. The piano player was awesome. I should of moved from where I was for a better composed shot without the crowd, but still really like these pics.

 

D810, 85mm f1.8. 1/100, ISO 400, f2.8

 

 

D810, 85mm f1.8 @1/100, ISO 1000

[morticiaskeeper]

Torn between these two





D80 ISO400 1/640 f8-f11

[nova85]

Opening day!

D5300,Nikkor17-55 f/2.8, ISO400,1/100s,f8

Aged with LR

[deano]

We spent an afternoon at the MIM (Musical Instrument Museum) in Scotsdale, AZ.  If you have any appreciation for or love of music this museum is a must.  Every musical instrument imaginable from all corners of the world are here.  Plus the museum has a great entryway that consists of many rows of paddle cactus, and other desert fauna, which all are in bloom.

While I was taking a photo of the attached cactus flower, two small bees flew in the center and started rolling around in the pollen.

 

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[Jerry_]

From a citytrip to Rotterdam this week.

Rotterdam

Nikon D610 Nikkor 24-120/4 35mm f7.1 1/200@ISO200

@morticiaskeeper : my preferred one is the second one.
Must be interesting to have so many opportunities to take captures of jets and other military planes.

[morticiaskeeper]

@jerry. We were just lucky! I took my son camping to the airbase, hoping we might see something, we saw 21 launches! Other days, there may be zilch.

All taken through a chain link fence.

[dcbear78]

My city has their annual festival over the Easter weekend. It's my one guaranteed opportunity to get fireworks. I am now comfortable with my technique (although new camera was slightly different). So now I am trying to take my fireworks and include some element to add context to the shot. I spied this location last year and thought I would see what results I got...

 

Gladstone Harbour Festival 2015 by Crew One Photography, on Flickr

[iNYONi]

The weather wasn't too great this week so I decided to do a little indoor photography, flowers from my garden a drinking glass and a tray. 1 light reflector.

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[chandra]

Jet Skiing is a popular water sport in Bahrain, where I work.

I thank the gentleman for these shots.

 

F5.6,iso 800

200mm ,250mm (on a Nikon 18-300mm )

1/1250

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[Brian]

Nikkor 200mm F4 Ai version, wide-open on the Df, ISO100.

 

Nikkor 200/4 ai, Wide-open by fiftyonepointsix, on Flickr

 

I had this lens over 30 years ago, traded it off. bought this near-mint replacement for $75. I'm happy! This is a compact lens, focus to 7ft. The Micro-Nikkor 200/4 is sharper, but not 20x as sharp!

[OTRTexan]

Just had to post this one because I like it!

D810, Tamron 150-600, f8 @1/1250, ISO 200, 300mm

[deano]

At the drag races, eh.  I like it also.

[OTRTexan]

I'm not a race fan, but it was only a few blocks away, and I had the day off lol. Got some decent pics out of it

[greatscott94]

Been away for a while so here are a few photos from last week... each photo is clickable to the flickr image where you can see the EXIF.

 

 

 

 

[deano]

Great, and interesting burlesque photos.  Love them in b/w.  The flickr images are also awesome.

[nbanjogal]

Nice to see you again, Scott--and what a cool couple of sets! Where were you for all the movie memorabilia?

[TBonz]

Back to baseball this past weekend for me.  I really enjoy shooting baseball - both the challenge of it andI still have most of the photos to go through from the weekend, but did get a few of Saturday's photos done...While I used my D4 with the 200-400 and both D600s with 70-200 and 24-70, all of these were with the D4 and 200-400 combo at f4 with ISO 400...

 

The first three are of the catcher.  My timing was just right on the first shot as he was receiving the ball...

 

1/2000

 

Later in the game I caught this shot of his home run...

 

1/2500

 

He was still smiling about the home run when he came back out to play defense the next inning...

 

1/2500

 

I usually want more face, but loved the action in this shot of a tag out at third base...

 

1/2500

 

Lastly a couple of shots of the pitchers in the first game...

 

1/2500

 

And the second game...

 

1/2500

 

1/2000

 

[greatscott94]

Nice to see you again, Scott--and what a cool couple of sets! Where were you for all the movie memorabilia?

 

Thanks Nicole.

 

I took a road trip to Seattle to visit the EMP museum (experience music project) where they had a Star Wars exhibit and a Horror/Sci-Fi exhibit. All the items were actually worn or were props from the original movies. Really cool to see.

Great, and interesting burlesque photos.  Love them in b/w.  The flickr images are also awesome.

Many thanks

[alden]

I love your photographs Scott.

 

You never fail to hit the mark.