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Your Best Photo, Week Ending 17 January 2016


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Oops! Forgot to start a new thread again, so I'm late! Sorry...

 

Sometime before midnight (whatever time zone you are in) this Sunday, 17 January 2016, 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. The editing exercise has started up again, so come play with us.

 

P.P.S. Go post your best photos of 2015 here! We'd love to see the best of what you've all been up to all year (it's also a great exercise to force yourself to choose only 3-6). 

 



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And I guess I'll start us off this week--this was my assignment for last week for Project 52 Pros (I shot it tonight--a day past deadline...oops). We were to come up with an illustration for a story about the new year, and I decided to make it ambiguous. You could look at it as a mysterious gift or treasure, or you could interpret as Pandora's box. Who knows what the year holds? But let's hope for the former, right? I also went for some symbolism and included the hourglass, which had just been turned.

 

24220518952_3c3836bb90_b.jpg2016: A Mysterious Gift by Nicole Fernley, on Flickr

 

Used the 85mm 1.8G for this one. ISO 100, f4.5, 1/100. Three speedlights: one gelled with orange and yellow inside the box (which had a piece of white paper taped to the lid to spill the light back onto the table a bit), one above and behind my sweet model to light her hair a bit (draped the diffuser cover from my softbox over it), and one more camera left quite a few feet back to light the back of the chest. 

 

My six-year-old has informed me just how unoriginal this idea is. After seeing the picture, she said excitedly, "Lots of movies have light coming out of a book or a box." Sigh... Well, at least I got some good lighting practice. :)



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Had a young lady in for some portfolio work in the studio. Afterwards we went out and got a couple outside just for fun.

 

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Tara by Crew One Photography, on Flickr

 

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Tara by Crew One Photography, on Flickr

 

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Tara by Crew One Photography, on Flickr

 

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Tara by Crew One Photography, on Flickr



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Wow! Beautiful young lady, and your lighting is gorgeous and flattering too. Well done!



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Wow! Beautiful young lady, and your lighting is gorgeous and flattering too. Well done!

 

Thanks.... The studio shots were lit with a really big octabox, a light on the back ground and one above with a little gridded beauty dish as a hair light. This seems to be my go to lighting setup in the studio.

 

The outside one was with my Godox AD360 and a 22" beauty dish camera right. First time using it in HSS mode. The sun was so bright behind her I was almost being blinded through the viewfinder. It was 200mm, f2.8, 1/800s, ISO 64. I think the AD360 was on 1/2 power?

 

I have been very pleasantly surprised at how these photos have turned out. Not brilliant as far as posing goes. But the technicalities are good.



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And I guess I'll start us off this week--this was my assignment for last week for Project 52 Pros (I shot it tonight--a day past deadline...oops). We were to come up with an illustration for a story about the new year, and I decided to make it ambiguous. You could look at it as a mysterious gift or treasure, or you could interpret as Pandora's box. Who knows what the year holds? But let's hope for the former, right? I also went for some symbolism and included the hourglass, which had just been turned.

 

24220518952_3c3836bb90_b.jpg2016: A Mysterious Gift by Nicole Fernley, on Flickr

 

Used the 85mm 1.8G for this one. ISO 100, f4.5, 1/100. Three speedlights: one gelled with orange and yellow inside the box (which had a piece of white paper taped to the lid to spill the light back onto the table a bit), one above and behind my sweet model to light her hair a bit (draped the diffuser cover from my softbox over it), and one more camera left quite a few feet back to light the back of the chest. 

 

My six-year-old has informed me just how unoriginal this idea is. After seeing the picture, she said excitedly, "Lots of movies have light coming out of a book or a box." Sigh... Well, at least I got some good lighting practice. :)

 

That's wonderful lighting. I like the setting you have created and the fact not everything is lit. I think people, including me, forget the importance of shadows.



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Two macros from me this week:

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Body: D700

Lens: MicroNikkor 55/3.5 Ai + PN11

ISO: 200
Aperture: 3.5
Shutter: 1/60
Flash with 29° reflector and 11 cm deep cylindrical snoot camera left, 45° horizontal, 0° vertical. Flash setup with the snoot touching the lens barrel

 

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Body: D700

Lens: MicroNikkor 55/3.5 Ai + PN11

ISO: 200

Aperture: 16
Shutter: 1/200
Flash with 29° reflector and 11 cm deep cylindrical snoot camera left, 45° horizontal, 0° vertical. Flash with 18° reflector and 5 mm raster, 20 mm deep camera right, 45° horizontal, -10° vertical. Both flashes as close as possible.


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I did some sport shooting one day this week at a girls junior varsity soccer match.  I Used my D750 with my Nikon DX 18-300 lens, auto iso (1st time). It took a while to get used to the decreased framing (cutting off heads and/or feet), but I think the lens performed well. 1/4000 @ f5.6 - 8.0

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Two black and white captures this week, taken at night.

Both are wide angle and long exposure.

The BW results from a postprocessing in LR, first using the BW preset #3, and then tweaking the resulting rake.


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D610 Nikkor 24-120/4 24mm f11 15s@ISO200


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D610 Nikkor 24-120/4 24mm f14 30s@ISO200

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Its been 7 weeks recovering from throat and nose surgery and then a bout of shingles that really did me in.  So it was nice to get out today to do some photography.  I went looking for eagles.  Saw a few but not close enough for any good pictures.  But there were planty of geese and I found a couple Bison.

 

D7200, Nikkor 35mm f/1.8

ISO500, f/9, 1/160s

 

24340110811_c8bff82ff5_o.jpgDSC_1505-1 by Tim Ramsay, on Flickr

 

D7200 Tamron 150-600mm

ISO 1000, f/10,600mm,1/1600s

 

24126963750_eb67102778_o.jpgDSC_1385-1 by Tim Ramsay, on Flickr


And I guess I'll start us off this week--this was my assignment for last week for Project 52 Pros (I shot it tonight--a day past deadline...oops). We were to come up with an illustration for a story about the new year, and I decided to make it ambiguous. You could look at it as a mysterious gift or treasure, or you could interpret as Pandora's box. Who knows what the year holds? But let's hope for the former, right? I also went for some symbolism and included the hourglass, which had just been turned.

 

24220518952_3c3836bb90_b.jpg2016: A Mysterious Gift by Nicole Fernley, on Flickr

 

Used the 85mm 1.8G for this one. ISO 100, f4.5, 1/100. Three speedlights: one gelled with orange and yellow inside the box (which had a piece of white paper taped to the lid to spill the light back onto the table a bit), one above and behind my sweet model to light her hair a bit (draped the diffuser cover from my softbox over it), and one more camera left quite a few feet back to light the back of the chest. 

 

My six-year-old has informed me just how unoriginal this idea is. After seeing the picture, she said excitedly, "Lots of movies have light coming out of a book or a box." Sigh... Well, at least I got some good lighting practice. :)

Great Picture



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I did some sport shooting one day this week at a girls junior varsity soccer match.  I Used my D750 with my Nikon DX 18-300 lens, auto iso (1st time). It took a while to get used to the decreased framing (cutting off heads and/or feet), but I think the lens performed well. 1/4000 @ f5.6 - 8.0

 

 

Crazy women in that first shot - attempting a header that low down is almost asking for a kick in the face.  Did you wince as you took that photo?


And I guess I'll start us off this week--this was my assignment for last week for Project 52 Pros (I shot it tonight--a day past deadline...oops). We were to come up with an illustration for a story about the new year, and I decided to make it ambiguous. You could look at it as a mysterious gift or treasure, or you could interpret as Pandora's box. Who knows what the year holds? But let's hope for the former, right? I also went for some symbolism and included the hourglass, which had just been turned.

 

Nicole

 

I've praised this photo on Flickr but love it so much I must say again I think it is really marvellous and de la Tourish:)


The Guayas, entering Wellington Harbour in front of bank of fog this afternoon.

 

Nikon D600 and Nikkor 300mm pf

 

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Some really good images posted.



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Had a great time at Conowingo damn, so hard to pick out just a couple. But here they are.

 

24152433860_46f5145cdc_k.jpgEagles fishing-1 by James Childress, on Flickr''

 

24339784612_a82423c484_k.jpgEagle high five-1 by James Childress, on Flickr

 

24080258059_47db6ea2bf_k.jpgEagle cluster-1-5 by James Childress, on Flickr



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I slipped out to do some documenting for some family members this morning. I took the D200 wit the 24/2.8  and 70-210 AF. I ended up with the 24 for almost all the shots.

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Lots of great photos this week!  

 

No opportunity for me to shoot this week...going back to an image from last year, a phone photo of my wonderful mother-in-law who passed away this week...She lived with my wife and I for the last 22 years and passed in her sleep at 88.  This image was taken in one of her favorite places, our RV while we were visiting with one of our boys...

 

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Thankfully she was able to spend time with every member of her family and lots of their friends at my niece's wedding over Thanksgiving weekend...

 



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Sorry for your loss Tom. It's always a blessing when they pass peacefully. My grandfather went as he was riding to a routine checkup at 92. Just fell asleep one last time. So thankful for that.

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Please accept my deepest condolences for your loss, Tom. I too am glad that she passed peacefully.

 

--Ron



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Sorry for you loss, Tom. Please pass on my condolences to your wife.

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Funny peculiar, yes, you see some scary, though innocent, moves watching amateur sports.

 

Tbonz, sorry for you loss and my condolences to your family.  I pray my Mom, 96, soon to be 97, passes as peacefully.



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Tom, I'm glad you have that lovely photo to remember her by--I'm guessing you have many others as well. Sometimes it's a blessing to have a photographer in the family. I'm sorry to hear of your loss, and I hope your wife especially is able to find peace and comfort. It's hard to lose a parent! You are wonderful and generous people for taking care of her for the last 22 years--it says a lot about you that you describe her as "wonderful." What a privilege for your sons to get to know her during that time and to see your example of kindness and generosity.