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Your Best Photo, Week Ending 12 June 2016


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Sometime before midnight (whatever time zone you are in) this Sunday, 12 June 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. Come play with us in the editing exercise. This is our last week of the editing exercise before taking a break for the summer, but everyone is welcome to go into old editing exercises and play around.

 

P.P.S. Also check out the new music inspiration challenge--music has already been posted for June's challenge!



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I ran the registration for the Uppsala section of Randonneur Stockholm this morning. Today's brevet is a 300 km round north of Uppsala, running in 4 counties.

 

Briefing

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Body: D300

Lens (mm): 17 (Tamron 17-50/2.8)

ISO: 200
Aperture: 6.3
Shutter: 1/60
 

 

The start line-up

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Body: D300

Lens (mm): 34 (Tamron 17-50/2.8)

ISO: 320
Aperture: 6.3
Shutter: 1/500
Exp. Comp.: +0.3

 

And they're off

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Body: D300

Lens (mm): 17 (Tamron 17-50/2.8)

ISO: 320
Aperture: 6.3
Shutter: 1/800
Exp. Comp.: +0.3
 
The higher ISO in the outdoor shots is to get shorter exposures as cyclists move much more when getting on their bikes than when listening to a briefing, and the D300 doesn't handle incandescent light too well above the base ISO of 200.


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As my single best of this week photo, I personally nominate the following (the rest I posted in "Critique") :

 

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This is a flower of Cornus kousa, which is also called Kousa dogwood or Chinese or Korean or Japanese dogwood.

 

Taken with a Nikon D3100 and a Nikon AF-S DX 35mm 1:1.8 (shutter: 1/200 sec; Aperture: f / 4.0; ISO: 100) right around the corner of my office.



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Just a quick edit off the JPEG backup, but it seems ok.

Untitled | morticiaskeeper | Flickr

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At the pool all weekend managing a senior boys underwater hockey team in a tournament.

 

This with my Nikkor 300mm pf lens.  ISO 2500,  f4 @ 1/640th sec.  No flash.

 

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Here are two images from a trip to our intermittent lake called Cerknisko lake. It is starting to disappear slowly. Taken with my d750 and tamron 24-70 VC.

 

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ISO 200, 24mm @ f13 1/320 sec

 

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ISO 100, 24mm @ f13, 1/100



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This one is for Merco_60.  Sweden won the first race.

27357617600_19c6b7d4ec_o.jpgDSC_4690-1 by Tim Ramsay, on Flickr

 

27601306926_aa4092d6c3_o.jpgDSC_4804-1 by Tim Ramsay, on Flickr

 

 

The race pictures were taken with the 150-600mm Tamron lens on a Monopod.  Very hard to keep steady in a crowd.  I wasn't please with the sharpness.

The next pictures were

the best of the week for me.  Buddy Guy (Chicago Blues) playing in my home town.


27601285036_9bc2973b48_o.jpgDSC_4563-1 by Tim Ramsay, on Flickr

 

27025731513_480dcbd203_o.jpgDSC_4589-1 by Tim Ramsay, on Flickr

 

27025732213_597ecde457_o.jpgDSC_4588-1 by Tim Ramsay, on Flickr



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Kids and 3 of the Grand kids

D200 and 18-55

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Racing for the America's Cup on Lake Michigan! Amazing! I never thought I'd see that!

 

--Ron



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In my best Paul Harvey voice........And now, for the rest of the story...   :)

 

The 200-400 was fine and I took off to shoot Sunday morning at the baseball tourney with my one body and 200-400.  I was expecting to shoot the last inning of a game that had gotten postponed the night before and then 2 more games.  Shot the end of the game (Coastal Carolina vs. North Carolina State) which was quite brief.  The looser, NC State, had to come back and play against the United States Naval Academy that afternoon.  NC State won the game and would face Coastal Carolina in the later game or games.  I believe there is some rule that caused the decision, but either way, they decided to move the Championship game (or games) to the following day.  So, back up to the stadium on Monday for one or two games depending on who won the first game as it is a double elimination tournament...Of course, they were calling for rain, so like the intelligent person that I am, I made sure I had the camera's rain gear at the ready...

 

Unfortunately, I forgot to bring rain gear for the photographer!!!  Shot the first game and NC State won, so they were going to have to play the second game with the winner moving on and the looser's season over.  They had a bit of rain which delayed the start of the second game, but they finally got going.  I managed to find myself an unused, big, heavy duty trash bag that I stuck in my pocket just in case.  I think we got to about the 4th inning before it started raining...

 

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ISO 12800, 310mm, f4, 1/1000

 

Lots of scenes like this between innings until it got even heavier...

 

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ISO 10000, 280mm, f4, 1/1000

 

So a delay of a couple more hours and they got going yet again...We move forward to the 9th inning - normally the final inning unless the game is tied in which case they play inning by inning until they are no longer tied.  NC State was winning 5-3 when the rain started again.  When I say it was raining, I'm not talking about a gentle rain or a big thunderstorm...just REALLY heavy rain:

 

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ISO 10000, 400mm, f4, 1/1000

 

NC State got one out and Coastal Carolina managed to get the bases loaded before the umpires finally decided the rain was a bit too hard and that they would have to stop play until the rain was gone...Shortly after that, they decided that it was going to rain too long and decided that they would start again on Tuesday so I got to head back for Day 3 of my one day assignment :)!  

 

Day 3 promised to be fairly quick and while it didn't end as I expected, it was fairly quick with no rain...Coastal Carolina managed to score 4 runs in the top of the 9th and NC State couldn't score in the bottom of the 9th, so Coastal won 7-5.

 

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ISO 400, 200mm, f4, 1/4000

 

And that is why I've been behind on my editing and have yet to look at getting my D4 repaired.  Hopefully tomorrow since I am now caught up on things...Oh, for the record, that trash bag, while not very stylish came in quite handy in the rain and kept me mostly dry...