Asher Kelman
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This is a great subject! I hope you can go back and do more. What a fabulous beach: birds, water craft, great place to shoot!
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This is a great subject! I hope you can go back and do more. What a fabulous beach: birds, water craft, great place to shoot!
Asher
Jim Olson
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Play with macro again today and took a shot of Naomi's birthday orchids that Lars got for her.
Jim Olson
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We did go there a lot before all this Covid-19 thing, but now we can go again, I'm sure will we when the wing blows again. And it's only 5 miles from our house.
Asher Kelman
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You had better be ready for Will to drop in and visit you. He is all excited about everything you have nearby to shoot!
Asher
Jim Olson
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Did just a couple of pix today. I was working on my motorcycle trailer most of the day.
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
I enjoy this field of yellow flowers! Any idea what they are. What a good job. We get a real sense of spring!
Great you used f 10 to got so much in focus. Did you take any with a longer focal length to catch both these flowers and the mountains?
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Jim Olson
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Jim Olson
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And this one was different
I saw the tin man & took the shot then saw the old guy & his dog.
I saw the tin man & took the shot then saw the old guy & his dog.
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Beautiful! I will look at it later again on my large screen for the bee!
But 39mm must be using your kit lens, not the 70-300, LOL!
With that, You’d disregard nearby flowers to then instead, grab flowers much further away.
Such a rich scene to go back to!
Asher
But 39mm must be using your kit lens, not the 70-300, LOL!
With that, You’d disregard nearby flowers to then instead, grab flowers much further away.
Such a rich scene to go back to!
Asher
Jim Olson
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Here is a different angel of the grain silo looking over someone's house. Lars was driving & I was hanging out the window shooting pix
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Interesting! The contrast is striking!
BTW, Jim, go through all your pictures and ask yourself if you could have used a lower ISO for that shot. When you use ISO 1600, for an enthusiast grade Canon camera, one is likely introducing unnecessary noise and image degradation.
It’s alway better, IMHO, to use ISO 400 as your Max whenever possible and underexpose the shot and then recover the highlights in processing. Noise in the shadows is not as noticeable!
I often shoot at -2/3 EV.
Exposing to the right is fine for a Professional grade Canon 1D or 1Ds type Camera. The pixels are better! You can use 1600 ISO if necessary.
For the 50D, however, it’s a different story. Try to increase the aperture and use an ISO 400 and less instead!
Asher
BTW, Jim, go through all your pictures and ask yourself if you could have used a lower ISO for that shot. When you use ISO 1600, for an enthusiast grade Canon camera, one is likely introducing unnecessary noise and image degradation.
It’s alway better, IMHO, to use ISO 400 as your Max whenever possible and underexpose the shot and then recover the highlights in processing. Noise in the shadows is not as noticeable!
I often shoot at -2/3 EV.
Exposing to the right is fine for a Professional grade Canon 1D or 1Ds type Camera. The pixels are better! You can use 1600 ISO if necessary.
For the 50D, however, it’s a different story. Try to increase the aperture and use an ISO 400 and less instead!
Asher
nicolas claris
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A pretty good advice!
Jim Olson
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I went on a 230 mile motorcycle ride & didn't take to many pictures but I really like this one.
This Memorial Monument was in Forks WA.
This is the small town that inspired Stephenie Meyer to write The Twilight Saga
This Memorial Monument was in Forks WA.
This is the small town that inspired Stephenie Meyer to write The Twilight Saga
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Jim Olson
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One more picture
Jim Olson
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You guys talk about ISO but going back & look exifdata all of my shots have very low ISO. Also I keep my camera in Auto ISO most all the time.
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
I agree.
Just keep and eye out for the odd time when you needed greater depth and you closeddown the aperture!!
Watch out for that occasionally unneeded 1600, LOL!
F10 is worse than f8! I never use auto ISO so I am in control. I only shoot aperture priority except with studio lights!
Asher
Just keep and eye out for the odd time when you needed greater depth and you closeddown the aperture!!
Watch out for that occasionally unneeded 1600, LOL!
F10 is worse than f8! I never use auto ISO so I am in control. I only shoot aperture priority except with studio lights!
Asher
Jim Olson
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I was trying to capture some smoke at the in-law's house Sat night
Then I went for a short walk to get the sunset
Then I went for a short walk to get the sunset
Jerome Marot
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Rapeseed (Brassica napus), often also called canola in the US (canola is actually a selected subspecies). The seeds produce cooking oil and are also used for animal feed and biodiesel. The yellow flowers you see here are very attractive to honeybees and produce large quantities of honey. I had my first harvest yesterday and that field is next to the hives:
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Asher Kelman
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Awesome!
Thanks le frog for me! Was this by
a drone? Or do your bees download their images automatically to their master, LOL!
I wonder what tge flavor is lije of the honey?
Asher
Thanks le frog for me! Was this by
a drone? Or do your bees download their images automatically to their master, LOL!
I wonder what tge flavor is lije of the honey?
Asher
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
wow, Jim!
this is so damn creative and impressive!
what was the red on the b.g.? A tomorrow or what?
Bravo!
Asher
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Jim Olson
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Thank you & yes the red & green is just the background
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
But what objects?
Jim Olson
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I'm not sure what was in the background. I think it was my mother-in-law's potted plants
Jerome Marot
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😀
Yes, this is taken with a drone. It would not be possible to fly so low over the field with anything else and the low altitude is what makes the video work.
The honey cristallises very quickly and looks white with a mild taste.
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