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Animal Kingdom / Re: Show your Bird Portraits

« on: March 30, 2013, 05:14:12 AM »

Thanks Harv...I'm still trying to learn from guys like you and Krob78 and Gary and many others who are always posting such amazing wildlife photos. You guys set the bar high.

Yesterday, I discovered a mother wild duck and her 2 babies in the drainage ditch bordering my house. Taken with 7D, 100-400L @400mm all f/6.3, ISO320-500, handheld. Aggressively cropped and over-processed in DPP. Any constructive critiques welcomed. Thanks.

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Canon General / Re: Think I need a 12 step program

« on: March 29, 2013, 11:18:05 PM »

Bottom line..... THERE IS NO CURE.

Keep Calm...and Canon On 

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Animal Kingdom / Re: Show your Bird Portraits

« on: March 28, 2013, 06:00:41 AM »

Great Grey Owl...



 

Beautiful photo...well done!!

If you don't mind sharing...what camera, lens and settings did you use?

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Lenses / Re: naked eye equivalent?

« on: March 23, 2013, 10:36:33 PM »

The answer is 42  

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Lenses / Re: naked eye equivalent?

« on: March 23, 2013, 10:27:55 PM »

From Wikipedia (the standard for all knowledge ) on the human eye:

Field of view

The approximate field of view of an individual human eye is 95° away from the nose, 75° downward, 60° toward the nose, and 60° upward, allowing humans to have an almost 180-degree forward-facing horizontal field of view.[citation needed] With eyeball rotation of about 90° (head rotation excluded, peripheral vision included), horizontal field of view is as high as 270°. About 12–15° temporal and 1.5° below the horizontal is the optic nerve or blind spot which is roughly 7.5° high and 5.5° wide.[6]

In photography and cinematography a normal lens is a lens that reproduces a field of view that generally looks "natural" to a human observer under normal viewing conditions, as compared with lenses with longer or shorter focal lengths which produce an expanded or contracted field of view that distorts the perspective when viewed from a normal viewing distance.[1][2] Lenses of shorter focal length are called wide-angle lenses, while longer-focal-length lenses are referred to as long-focus lenses[3] (with the most common of that type being the telephoto lenses).

For still photography, a lens with a focal length about equal to the diagonal size of the film or sensor format is considered to be a normal lens; its angle of view is similar to the angle subtended by a large-enough print viewed at a typical viewing distance equal to the print diagonal;

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1D X Sample Images / Re: Any Thing shot with a 1Dx

« on: March 21, 2013, 09:55:57 PM »

I think Gary is the Eagle Whisperer and they do exactly what he tells them to do on command

PS-As always another fantastic photo Gary

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Animal Kingdom / Re: Show your Bird Portraits

« on: March 21, 2013, 09:49:49 PM »

Burrowing Owl

This Owl looks like its high on some fine weed  ... nice pic.

LOL....you are a riot

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Street & City / Re: How to not get beat up when photographing public places?

« on: March 18, 2013, 02:24:02 PM »

So I drive into the darkest corner of a parking lot way out in the middle of nowhere....set up the telescope, mount the camera, and am happily snapping away when I hear a LOUD voice say "SIR... STEP AWAY FROM THAT CANNON". I turn around and see two policemen and say "how can you tell I'm shooting Canon in the dark?" The closer policeman then says "SIR: STEP AWAY FROM THAT WEAPON". After a few tense moments they realize that I am not sitting with a cannon getting ready to lob projectiles at our nation's capitol but instead trying to photograph Saturn's rings.

Moral of the story: You can get into a lot of trouble when people with guns mistake what you are doing.

Second moral: Police can't tell the difference between a dobsinian telescope and a cannon in the dark.

LOL...great story!

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Animal Kingdom / Re: Show your Bird Portraits

« on: March 16, 2013, 05:33:27 AM »

Juvenile Black-Crowned Night Heron, taken in my back yard yesterday. He was very timid and was trying to hide behind the branches of an octopus tree.

7D, 100-400mm L @ 400mm, f 6.3, 1/500s, ISO 800, hand held. PP in DPP and moderately cropped.

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1D X Sample Images / Re: Any Thing shot with a 1Dx

« on: March 11, 2013, 10:45:34 PM »

a little more hockey...1dx w/ 70-200 2.8ii

really shouldn't stand on the ice  lol

lol...at least his CF card survived

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Portrait / Re: Bikini girl in my studio with my first scenic bacground

« on: March 11, 2013, 10:33:31 PM »

I think you are looking at the wrong curves.

I agree. Some people can't focus on the right stuff...
 

May need AFMA

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: f/22 and diffraction

« on: March 11, 2013, 02:04:25 PM »

Dunno, when I shoot F22's I haven't noticed much diffraction


Fleet Week San Francisco 2012 - The F-22 Raptor... piloted by Major Henry “Schadow” Schantz by David KM, on Flickr

As long as they don't shoot back

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Portrait / Re: Bikini girl in my studio with my first scenic bacground

« on: March 10, 2013, 06:20:53 AM »

I wonder if you're going to have to exchange your model for a plastic duck.....

Only if you are shooting landscapes

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Landscape / Re: How Would You Edit This Landscape Photo?

« on: March 10, 2013, 06:03:38 AM »

Fun topic. Here is my ave joe's edit

Very nice interpretation. I really like the sky.

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Landscape / Re: How Would You Edit This Landscape Photo?

« on: March 09, 2013, 05:54:10 AM »

Now for the "artistic" psychedelic interpretation