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I love that. It's so clean and sharp. Wonderful details in the surface of the steel.

A Citizen Ecodrive is a really good watch. Great choice.

At 600mm you need to be shooting with a shutter speed of 1/1,000s, minimum, and I would also use a solid tripod, or monopod, but a monopod is going to take some practice.

I really like that. What is it?

Not that it matters. From design perspective it's beautiful.

Here is a repost from Peter's single lens challenge. So far, this is my favorite from this week.

Still working on the same timepiece. Trying to capture the pure essence of it.

I shot this in RAW, made a cropped JPEG with Win10, and then used that and played with the "curves" in GIMP.

Another.

Yes, rule of thumb for portraits is to always focus on the pupils of the eyes.

That's a beautiful portrait, and notice that it is just a little soft focused. That is what a good portrait is supposed to look like.

If you want an really nice sharp affordable f/1.4 lens, take a look at the Korean made 85mm manual focus that goes by different brand names: Rokinon is the most commonly used brand name.

https://www.amazon.c...kinon for nikon

I got mine from an Ebay seller for a bit less.

Not quite Nikkor quality, but for the money, it's hard to beat.

I'll be using my D7100 and shooting with the 40mm AF-S Micro Nikkor f/2.8 -- probably mostly closeup/macro shots. Here are a few from today.

ISO 6400, shot in NEF-RAW, post processed with WIN10 photo editor and converted to JPEG images.

Well, since no one else is posting, here's another one. Nikon D7100, 55-300mm lens.

Cocoa beach, today.

I talked myself out of buying one now because of the cost, but I may still get one.

I just really want one. A lot.

I may sell a few things to help finance it. In fact, I'm about 90% sure I will.

Osprey is much clearer.

Nikon glass is just superior.