**** This Week Thru Your M43 (November 10, 2012) ****

Hi all,

I'm on the road, so no time for the M43 Onion.  Hope you've had a great week, and please share and contribute!

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SLOtographer
"If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better." -- Galen Rowell

Apple releases their next gen iPad Six with double-sided touch screen:

And some random other shots from this week.







Poached egg with pepper sauce



I'll go for the mushrooms and the shield bug....should be a tasty snack!

Not much this week since I am preoccupied with thoughts of forthcoming butchery. So here are three dragons. The smaller ones are unskinned, one of which was made by my master when I spent a week learning how to cut and bend bamboo bones in China.....



Chinese Dragons.....in the Year of the Dragon

.....I may be gone for some time......

Enjoy!

-J

Both good...but the first is really good....

Several photos take with the Panasonic G5 and the Olympus 150mm f/2 and the 35-100mm f/2.8 at University of Florida Homecoming



Homecoming Parade:  Bokeh of the 150mm f/2 @ f/2.8



One of the many Homecoming Parade Queens ..... this one from a local retirement village.  Show the bokeh of the 150mm f/2 @ f/2



Mother and daughter watching the parade.  150mm f/2 @ f/2



"Swamp Thing" before the Homecoming Football game.  35-100mm f/2.8 lens at 100mm and f/2.8



Boy before the Homecoming game.  The 35-100mm f/2.8 lens @ f/2.8 and 100mm with nice blurring of background



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William Castleman http://www.wlcastleman.com

The first one looks like it was taken in the 70's



The rule of thirds goes out for a drink...

Just a walk around





G5 + 75=300/  Semiahmoo, WA

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Steve Barnett

Like the first, has a bit of an abstract feel going.  Last leaves me feeling a little green 

Like the last two, especially the last.  The first two look a little washed out for my taste.

Like the first, nicely staged!

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Canon 650D, Canon 600D EFS 15-85mm IS, EF24-70mm L, EFS 55-250mm IS, 580EX,430EX, Hensel and Elinchrom studio lights, Canon Ixus 80IS

A few shots of some insanely stanced-out rides at Destination Daytona this weekend. E-M5, 25/1.4 and CS6/Nik Silver Efex 2.

Impressive captures, particularly the second one. Did you use area AF or tracking for that?

WoW! why are the feet a bit unsharp/ca? Did the  bird fill the frame and this is the edge, or is it movement? They are both grate, the 2nd inspires a sense of awe, good thing I am not a rabbit or such...

JL

Very nice, what did you do to give em this metallic look?

JL

Are you referring to the color ones? What I did for these is tweak pretty heavily a B&W version in SilverEfex to get the tonality I want, then duplicate the original layer and set to "Color" mode... finished off using Curves and Levels adjustment layers (RBG channels independently adjusted) to get a cross-processed look. Works better on some images than others... the first shot of the wheel is my favorite.

before the storm...



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