03/4/18 to 03/10/18 Weekly Show, Tell, and Critique

Harvey Rawn · Mar 4, 2018

elliottnewcomb said:
Harvey Rawn said:

As a counterpoint to the preceding winter weather photos, here's one I processed last week from my recent trip to Baja California.

Livin' the life in Cabo Pulmo.

--
Harvey
I stop for photo ops.

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Oh yeah, looking like a true escape.

When I was a Junior in High School, 1964, Baja was essentially undeveloped. Best friend Jack and I were going to run away and live off the land there. I had a 'motel' quality painting of Baja in my room. Many hours looking dreamily, mentally 'escaping' from the new step father. I have never been.

--
Elliott

Since then, several areas have experienced hyper development, but there are still many many many undeveloped parts of the 1,000-mile-long peninsula. Go for it!

--
Harvey
I stop for photo ops.

elliottnewcomb · Mar 4, 2018

hwvlover said:
As some will know from my post elsewhere in this forum I got lucky with a sequence of photographs of a robin I got on Friday...it, the robin, and I braving a blizzard for our respective purposes.. This is probably my favourite of the sequence, it really had the wind beneath its wings.

I agree with Greg, simply outstanding!

hwvlover said:
And this, from yesterday, while not the same detail, just makes me chuckle. It is as if the little bird is saying "I told you that I was eating it".

This one, first I thought, PP out the food, it would look more 'in the wild', then I viewed the original, saw the food in the mouth, and decided, the story would be better if the food in the mouth could be better seen. I also went for a square aspect ratio

hwvlover said:
And now the snow has all gone. Roll on Spring.

Regards,
David
***************************************
Growing old is inevitable; growing up, however, is optional.
And I have opted out.

--
Elliott

elliottnewcomb · Mar 4, 2018

Birddogman said:
This is pretty much where Chase, Joy and I live and work - my home office/library/gun room/photo lab/media center. Has circa 1910 photos of my grandparents' families and their farm on the wall.

I love this photo, captures your life so well, the TV gives it a time stamp, otherwise it might be from right after electricity was available.

Birddogman said:
Greg

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Check out my photos at: https://www.flickr.com/gp/137747053@N07/4M38jj

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Elliott

abiquiuense · Mar 4, 2018

. . . feathers, sometimes, mostly feathers."

I prefer chicken cuz then one doesn't have to carry a magnet. I prefer my chickens in blue grouse fashion with a .22 mangum through the neck. I cheat. I use a variable, nine-power, shoot lefty, so that I can use my one good eye with which to aim. It's a single shot, bolt action that has killed many grouse.

Well what do you know? I don't have a blue grouse picture.

elliottnewcomb · Mar 4, 2018

Bill Borne said:
Bill Borne said:

Bill Borne said:

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OK, however, I might get closer this way, and go for square

Bill Borne said:
I would have cropped it no need for the other stuff in the pic

Bill Borne said:

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Same here!

Yours is much better, thanks

Elliott

Bill Borne said:
--
Bill
"Life's Too Short to Worry about the BS!"
So I Choose my Battles
Click for Wild Man's Photos
Using Rx10 IV at Present

--
Elliott

abiquiuense · Mar 4, 2018

Aquaroid said:
Fresh out of the SD card. It is still snowing and supposed to snow for the next 36 hours.

Nick

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https://g4.img-dpreview.com/4D25D488D2EF4EA8B7FC7CF36455AA32.jpg

Nice snow. May I borrow some?

Crop, stitch, and hang it up!

abiquiuense

elliottnewcomb · Mar 4, 2018

Bill Borne said:
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3 Winners Bill. I made this alternate crop, just to see more detail

none of the trees are cut off top left, dead scrub out right side, more focus on the corner turbulence

Bill Borne said:
Bill
"Life's Too Short to Worry about the BS!"
So I Choose my Battles
Click for Wild Man's Photos
Using Rx10 IV at Present

--
Elliott

elliottnewcomb · Mar 4, 2018

Actually, the biggest problem is an antique lawn chair got smashed, that will send Donna on an expensive hunt.

elliottnewcomb · Mar 4, 2018

Evenstar606 said:
Such a pretty shade of purple, I like them all, good focus on the flowers. I think spring is trying to shove winter out of the way, but we all know how stubborn and unpredictable winter is.

Our purple ones are the first out of the ground in our neighborhood. My neighbor has a misture of Purple, Yellow, White, I am looking for them, no sign yet.

As for focus, they are all RX1r AF, my knees would not let me get down low enough to see, I just guessed where I was aiming. RX1r has a fixed LCD, and I was holding it too how to use the hotshoe EVF which hinges up 90 degrees nicely.

I often use MF with my rx100m3's tilt lcd, I wanted to see what RX1r f4.0 shallower depth of focus would get.

Evenstar606 said:
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Courtney

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Elliott

elliottnewcomb · Mar 4, 2018

edform said:
We had cold windy weather for some weeks and then a short spell of calm, really quite warm days before the snow came, so we took the opportunity of that break to fill up two large garden bins with leaves from our monster walnut tree. Under the mulch we found lots of treats...

We have a sort of 'woodland glade' beneath the walnut tree filled with ferns and other shade-loving stuff - and loads and loads of these.

The snowdrops were tall enough to show above the carpet of leaves but we had to clear it away to reveal these...

These miniature irises have flowers wider than the plants are tall - they're only 3 inches high.

In the patch of garden that isn't dominated by the huge tree there were more, equally lost beneath the six-inch deep carpet of leaves...

These things are quite exquisite to look at: tiny blue and gold gems.

The snow came as a nasty disappointment because buds on the acers had us convinced that spring was just around the corner...

Makes for a good composition of soft life against black. The buds are about two millimetres across.

Who would have guessed that Siberia was going to pay us a visit a week later.

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My OH My, what a treat these are.

edform said:
Ed Form

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Elliott

abiquiuense · Mar 4, 2018

Harvey Rawn said:
As a counterpoint to the preceding winter weather photos, here's one I processed last week from my recent trip to Baja California.

Livin' the life in Cabo Pulmo.

--
Harvey
I stop for photo ops.

Which direction to the oranges?

:-D

Harvey Rawn · Mar 4, 2018

elliottnewcomb said:
elliottnewcomb said:

here we have early spring crocus. I cropped but did not make any other PP, I wondered who might show what they would do with one or more of them

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I was hoping someone would show some PP skills on this one, perhaps get the upper right stone 'in' as I hoped when I decided on the crop.

elliottnewcomb said:

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This is fairly typical of my cropping decisions, leaving essentially 'equal' space around the leaves left and bottom; running the shadow into the corner bottom right, and again 'equal space around the stone top left. We/I get stuck in ruts making the same decisions over and over.

elliottnewcomb said:

Elliott

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Elliott

More like this?

--
Harvey
I stop for photo ops.

abiquiuense · Mar 4, 2018

hwvlover said:
As some will know from my post elsewhere in this forum I got lucky with a sequence of photographs of a robin I got on Friday...it, the robin, and I braving a blizzard for our respective purposes.. This is probably my favourite of the sequence, it really had the wind beneath its wings.

And this, from yesterday, while not the same detail, just makes me chuckle. It is as if the little bird is saying "I told you that I was eating it".

And now the snow has all gone. Roll on Spring.

Regards,
David
***************************************
Growing old is inevitable; growing up, however, is optional.
And I have opted out.

That is the bird equivalent of a Marilyn Munroe. For a bird, that is quite flamboyant.

:-D

Harvey Rawn · Mar 4, 2018

abiquiuense said:
Harvey Rawn said:

As a counterpoint to the preceding winter weather photos, here's one I processed last week from my recent trip to Baja California.

Livin' the life in Cabo Pulmo.

--
Harvey
I stop for photo ops.

Click to expand...

Which direction to the oranges?

:-D

Wait a bit, they might come to you.

--
Harvey
I stop for photo ops.

abiquiuense · Mar 4, 2018

Birddogman said:
This is pretty much where Chase, Joy and I live and work - my home office/library/gun room/photo lab/media center. Has circa 1910 photos of my grandparents' families and their farm on the wall.

Greg

--
Check out my photos at: https://www.flickr.com/gp/137747053@N07/4M38jj

This is amazing! A sepia capture.

abiquiuense

abiquiuense · Mar 4, 2018

Bill Borne said:
--
Bill
"Life's Too Short to Worry about the BS!"
So I Choose my Battles
Click for Wild Man's Photos
Using Rx10 IV at Present

. . . the addition of an ND filter on all the photos. Wait next time for the people to move over just a bit in the first.

abiquiuense

Bill Borne · Mar 4, 2018

SoCalWill said:
Bill Borne said:

Sky looks ok lost something in the water. I still think your monitor is slightly off

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The sky was edited, the water was not. Now we know what's off

Bill Borne · Mar 4, 2018

elliottnewcomb said:
Bill Borne said:

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3 Winners Bill. I made this alternate crop, just to see more detail

none of the trees are cut off top left, dead scrub out right side, more focus on the corner turbulence

elliottnewcomb said:

Bill
"Life's Too Short to Worry about the BS!"
So I Choose my Battles
Click for Wild Man's Photos
Using Rx10 IV at Present

Click to expand...

--
Elliott

Don't like it at all. Changes the perspective and context of the photo and really draws attention to the blown out water....and lost the depth of the photo

--
Bill
"Life's Too Short to Worry about the BS!"
So I Choose my Battles
Click for Wild Man's Photos
Using Rx10 IV at Present

Bill Borne · Mar 4, 2018

abiquiuense said:
Bill Borne said:

--
Bill
"Life's Too Short to Worry about the BS!"
So I Choose my Battles
Click for Wild Man's Photos
Using Rx10 IV at Present

Click to expand...

. . . the addition of an ND filter on all the photos. Wait next time for the people to move over just a bit in the first.

abiquiuense

1st and 3rd had polarizer and second had couple nd filters which allowed me to get that 2 second exposure. And I wanted the people in the photo to give perspective of height of waterfall...but thanks for your comments... 3rd was bracketed exposures but water still got blown out!

--
Bill
"Life's Too Short to Worry about the BS!"
So I Choose my Battles
Click for Wild Man's Photos
Using Rx10 IV at Present

abiquiuense · Mar 4, 2018

It's puzzled me that B&W was film, and not cited as a conversion. Yet, I find discussions where in digital, B&W is a conversion whether, as it goes into the can, or, when a color capture is received in color, then post-processed into B&W.

Your earnest opinion is appreciated; I remain yours,

abiquiuense

A yucca, not the famous Spanish Bayonet, a wall in two mediums, and a crick in my neck.

Jicarilla basket in the making.

Red is Gray, and Yellow, White.

Yeller Wall; 03

I'm either dizzy or my neck just went.

Looking down at the Coelophysis layer. (The DPR dictionary thinks I misspelled something.)

Yes, Babe; I'm on the road home the instant I find my flashlight.

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