i have always wanted to try saltwater and being fish only its been really easy so far (touch wood) i test PH and salt level and temp everyday, do usual water change, simply add seachems matrix to filter and some polyfilter pad, tank cycled in two weeks and all levels have been great since adding fishjulifhy said:I love these pictures so much! They’re so colorful and dreamy! Now I wish I had saltwater fish lol
Absolutely gorgeous picture of the giraffe. Last time I went to the zoo I had a three year old in tow with me and it was her first time to go. She is my grandniece, the apple of my eye. She has the largest most beautiful blue eyes, and she knows how to use them. When we where in the gift shop she grabbed two stuff toys and asked me to buy them for her. I told her only one, then she flashed those eyes at me, and will she went home with two large stuffed toys. I'm just an old softie.Pescado_Verde said:I bought one of those refurbed 70-300mm Nikon lenses, it was on my doorstep when I got home from a trip to the zoo yesterday. Once I got my things put away I stuck it on my D7500 and took a couple of shots here in the house. Zoomed to 300mm and shooting at one of my fish tanks I was able to take reasonably sharp pictures at 1/30s. I still don't know what I'll use the feature for but nice to have.
So about that trip to the zoo... I spent 4 hours walking around on a bright, bright sunny day. The place is heavily shaded with trees everywhere but there's also large open areas and of course sunlight streaming thru holes in the trees. Makes for really contrasty pics unless you're just totally in the shade. Not real fruitful from a photographic standpoint.
Towards the end of the afternoon I was sitting at a picnic table watching some gibbons in the trees and hoping for a passing cloud to give me a little better light when I felt something drop into my lap. It was my camera battery. I looked at the camera and somehow, somewhere during the day the little battery compartment door had fallen off and vanished. I haven't had any issues with my Nikon gear up to this point so I kinda freaked and called my camera guru. He said he's had it happen before and that if I could find it it should snap back in easily. Well, finding it was not going to happen but I got on the phone and found one at Nikon parts for less than $4. Shipping and tax was another $10 but hey, replacement is on the way!
I think with a good post processing software some of the pictures I took are probably salvageable but I don't have that, nor the skill or patience for messing with snapshots of a zoo trip. Anyway, what would be a photography discussion without at least one picture, right? So here's a giraffe.
Those AWACS?86 ssinit said:Here’s the building I’m working in . And I saw these flying bye. No birds up here .
They look look Osprey's to me.Pescado_Verde said:Those AWACS?
Brave lads.Cheesecake said:They look look Osprey's to me.
Quoting myself here... Change of plans, apparently the horse show is still happening this weekend but without any spectators being allowed. I had my gear all laid out, done pre-checks, bags were packed. Pfffttttt... Whole weekend off and now I gotta come up with a plan!Pescado_Verde said:My little Wal-mart bracket showed up so now I've got TWO dual flash units. I did some math just based on the guide number(s) of the speedlights I have and I THINK I have some idea of where to start. There's a little horse show scheduled for this weekend in the actual coliseum, not the poorly lit horse barn/arena, so I'll get a chance to find out. Having better ambient light is something else that will likely play into my results. Based on my rough calculations I can shoot at 1/4 power, ISO 800 and probably around f3.2 which I think will give me decent recycle times and not drain my batteries quite as quickly. Oh, batteries. This whole rig uses 22 AA NiMH to power everything, lol. I have no idea what the life of one of these is but they're not cheap so they better be good for more than a couple of charges. Wish me luck!
Looks like the E-2 to me86 ssinit said:Here’s the building I’m working in . And I saw these flying bye. No birds up here .
it dont matter if you get the shot you want, i use a super zoom camera, like to travel and have enough to pack, so super zoom gives me zoom and decent shots without heaps of equipment86 ssinit said:Oh I hate to admit this but that’s the iPhone. Pictures from work.
they are creepy and coolPescado_Verde said:Still perusing the shots from the cemetery and man, some of the statuary, particularly the really old stuff, was incredibly detailed. Almost makes me wish I had a macro lens so I could do some detail shots. Then again, I don't know how they'd do taken out of context. Here's one of a lady who, it looks to me like, has used the bottom of her shawl as a sort of basket and gathered flowers (roses?) for her beloved. The frills/embellishments on her garments are really mind blowing to me. Granted I know nothing about the art of casting these markers but someone had to create the original.
This one is just a creepy angel lady as viewed from the tenant's perspective.
I seem to do creepy a lot, haha. Here's "Monica" in a 3 light setup (key, fill and rim light).Raideress said:they are creepy and cool
I would say the 2nd one looks better.Pescado_Verde said:I seem to do creepy a lot, haha. Here's "Monica" in a 3 light setup (key, fill and rim light).
EDIT: Same pic, just bumped up the exposure a full stop and didn't crop it.
. Can't decide which is better.
i agreejulifhy said:I would say the 2nd one looks better.
My first camera was the family hand-me-down Yashica twin lens. I don't think I ever shot color film in it, too expensive for a teenager, lol. The negatives were great, large enough that 8x10 was not a stretch. Bought a used enlarger for $100 from a classmate and turned my mom's bathroom into my darkroom a few times a month. Mowing yards and throwing a paper route I could afford the paper and chemicals to work with b&w.Magnus919 said:
I picked up a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi back around 2007ish. That and a 50mm f/1.8 lens. A coworker who was really into photography saw my eye developing and invited me out for beers. Over beers he slid a Mamiya C330 twin lens reflex film camera across the table. That camera changed my life. I learned real photography on that camera.
I still have it. Sometimes I still use it. I mostly shoot digital now. Mostly on the Fuji X platform. But I have many vintage manual focus lenses from my adventures, so I have a Sony A7ii body for use with those lenses. I haven't invested in any Sony native lenses, so that's really just for the vintage lenses.
Getting good at film photography has made me a better digital photographer, I think. It's slowed me down, helped me to appreciate the push & pull of exposure settings and how to craft the final image.
I did manage to capture the moment that old Mamiya was introduced to me, if you were wondering what it might look like. It takes 120 or 220 medium format film, and shoots square 6x6cm images. You compose the image in a ground glass through the periscope up top, looking down into it. The image in the ground glass is flipped backwards left-to-right. And you're composing through the top lens. The image itself is taken through the bottom lens onto film, and the shutter is inside of the lens, so it's pretty quiet. No mirror slap. Just a subtle "snick".
I was about to call you out on an unfair advantage living in CO after looking at your pics....and then I read the post about the fires and dang that sounds awful Your shots are lovely though.toeknee said:A few photos from around the area with the Nikon D7200 and 12-200mm lens. With all the wildfires in Colorado I haven't been able to get outside much recently to do any photography. The smoke is so bad around here. The 25,000 acre Grizzle Creek fire is only 15 miles away. Pine Gulch fire at 80,000 acres is further west and currently the largest fire in Colorado history. The Williams Fork fire is 50 miles north at 7,000 acres and the Cameron Peak fire is now at 8,000 acres. Anyways enough about the state of Colorado burning down, here some picks before the state got covered in smoke.
