Your pictures are interesting with a variety of architecture and people. Is your EXIF data correct? It seems that you were using a lot of high F-stops and low shutter speeds. What was your reason for doing that? I'm intrigued by that, because that's some of the things that I would do, just to see what the pictures would look like...even though I know that it might be outside the "sweet spots" of the lens.
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Show Your Snaps...March 12, 2012
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Oh, is that the reason...I thought this specie suffers from ego personalities, look at the way (in the 2nd pic) it admires it's own coat of feathers as it spreads it out - show-off is the word. :O 
(just kidding...)
joshua
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joshua
Sailorshavemorefun
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Digirame there is not much science behind it, maybe I have to admit the reason is more like lack of attention and taking photos in a hurry since I was inside my car in most of the shots I took (exception are the shots at the temple, which are majority in the series I shared here. I started taking the photos of the small town wanting to have foreground and background (mountains) in focus and sharp (like the one with the blue gazebo at the park). I was shotting in M and had a high f-stop and adjusted the shutter speed to get the best luminosity, guided by the viewfinder indicator. To be frank, I need to confess I do not know what is the sweet spot of my lens, where can I find it? Definitely, I had some chalenge when I had some moving objects in the pictures. Saying this, let me ask what do you thing on the final result?
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But very old ones. I took them back in 2009 with my Pentax K10D in my country. I'm homesick 
On of the best vacations with my family ever.
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On of the best vacations with my family ever.
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impulse9
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Thank you for kind reply.
I'm personally a little bit dissatisfied with framing of the picture. There is a bit too much free space to the right. What do you think?
That's very nice sunset pics, Martin...my fav is #3 with the more extensive golden glow.
joshua
--But very old ones. I took them back in 2009 with my Pentax K10D in my country. I'm homesick
On of the best vacations with my family ever.
joshua
Azfar
Well-known member
Thanks Digirame. Yep it really was one hell off a trip. Had great fun. Specially Pattaya is such a beautiful city. Definitely a place to visit.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28498283@N00/
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/28498283@N00/
Thanks Joshua. Is a place called "Club Puerto Azul". Is a beach club in La Guaira, Venezuela. Lots of pools, beaches, really awesome dining, Tennis, Bowling, fishing, boat riding, lots of room for walking, jogging or bike riding, local accommodations. Jeeze, it even have a sushi bar. What else can you ask.
Martin Ocando
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--That's very nice sunset pics, Martin...my fav is #3 with the more extensive golden glow.
--But very old ones. I took them back in 2009 with my Pentax K10D in my country. I'm homesick
On of the best vacations with my family ever.
joshua
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Canadian Club
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Hi: Taken from the Windsor side of the Detroit River - T3i with 28-135.
CC
Aperture Priority at F11 and full zoom 135mm
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Canadian Club with a chaser.
3D Frames and OOB Gallery
http://www.pbase.com/otfchallenge/george_mocks_3d_frame_gallery&page=all
CC
Aperture Priority at F11 and full zoom 135mm
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Canadian Club with a chaser.
3D Frames and OOB Gallery
http://www.pbase.com/otfchallenge/george_mocks_3d_frame_gallery&page=all
carnaga
Forum Enthusiast
Thanks
I got some probs with DP gallery- I think I accidentally deleted the image
Meanwhile I decided to go with rev.2 which had more symmetry in it. Argh, I'm waiting so much for the spring and the summer!!1
I got some probs with DP gallery- I think I accidentally deleted the image
Meanwhile I decided to go with rev.2 which had more symmetry in it. Argh, I'm waiting so much for the spring and the summer!!1
carnaga
Forum Enthusiast
You captured the bird - or what ever it is - really nice. The feathers look like it's wearing either an reptile skin or some kind of super-hi-tech scifi armor -- plated with nano cells like in Crysis...
James Cafferty
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Great shot of your grandson. Nice color; tack sharp. And, he is a handsome lad, too.
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Photographers take pictures; the camera is only a tool.
For a little better composition, I think if you took a small amount off on the top & the right and maintained the same height and width ratio...that might be an improvement...try it...and see what it would look like.
I like to check the SLR Gear website for the sweet spots of the lens. Find your lens or one like it, and click the blur index. Slide the focal length up and down, with different aperture settings. That helped me a lot with one of my telephoto lenses. I noticed some soft images that I was taking at full focal length and less than F9, and what I found on the blur index coincided with what I was experiencing. So then I started using F9 to F18 on my telephoto lens and that helped a lot.
Sometimes people want to spend a lot more money to get a better lens, when really sometimes they just need to understand the limitations of their present lens and the images can look sharper.
Sometimes people want to spend a lot more money to get a better lens, when really sometimes they just need to understand the limitations of their present lens and the images can look sharper.
It's nice to see your old pictures. I like the first one the best, showing the boat and the people. Is that a fishing boat? It looks pretty long. Since you are homesick, do you think you'll ever move back to Venezuela?
That's a nice picture...sharp & clear. It looks like you have pretty good weather...plenty of blue sky. So are you now going to use the Tamron 18-270mm lens on the Canon T3i on a regular basis? It's nice to have that extra zoom.
leroyvanhee
Senior Member
Thank for both your comments. I've been trying to improve my lighting technique. In this shot I bounced the flash off the ceiling.
Thanks, carnaga, it's a Double Crested Cormorant, from a layman's eyes, it looks like the usual edible duck we see in the markets but multiplied 100 times in size. I was captivated by it's feathers too! Cheers.
joshua
in size. I was captivated by it's feathers too! Cheers.--
joshua
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