Show Your Snaps...July 25, 2022

Jethro B-UK wrote:

Cool groundhog photos Steve.

My older Sister was just away studying in USA, I wonder if she saw any of these. Are they common?

Jethro,

Yes. Kinda sorta.

You have to be out in the country though.

Steve

For the books I get a company close to me, usually 20 page 12 x 8 inch.  Bound.

I have also used them for larger prints done to the exact size using frames I have picked up.

For the normal  A4 prints I will print them myself sometimes but that comes at a cost, I've tried different cheaper ink cartridges (failed).

Canon inks are expensive.

If your monitor is not calibrated for prints then you will have another fail.

It's not as easy as it sounds.

Thanks for the info mocha123.

Star gazer lilly

Steve Thomas

Thumbs up to the Lily Steve.

I don't know what kind of bird this is.

When I saw them, there were a pair of them sitting side by side on the top of this narrow pole. (It's that time of year, you know).

By the time I went in and got my camera, the female had left, leaving the male looking forlorn.

Heavily, heavily cropped.

Steve Thomas

stevet1 wrote:

I don't know what kind of bird this is.

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I'm afraid I can't help with american bird identification. Sorry.

Is the pole hollow? Some birds nest in hollow poles like that. I've found several nests like that.

I showed google your photo, and the big G thought it might be a House Sparrow. But, IMO, unless american House Sparrows look radically different from british House Sparrows it can't be. And I think we (USA &UK) share the same house-sparrow species.

Jethro B-UK wrote:

Wonderful photos as normal.

I'm surprised you managed to get such a close-up of the dragonfly with a 70-300mm. Did you crop any?

Just as a matter of interest this was taken with my Tamron 150-600mm, no crop 5472 x 3648. Both the 70-300 Tamron and the 150-600 Tamron are versatile lenses.

(Aperture f/8 ~~ (SS): 1/100 ~~ ISO 100 ~~ EC: 0 ~~ PASM Mode: Manual ~~ Focus Type: AI Servo ~~ FL: 600mm ~~ Lens: Tamron SP 150-600mm f/5-6.3 Di VC USD ~~ Camera ID: Canon EOS 7D Mark II ~~ Notes: Evaluative metering used for initial start point).

Very nice dragonfly mocha123.

Hi Jethro B, Thank You.

It was a cloudy day today, so I experimented a little bit. The first two pictures, I set my camera with a Cloudy white balance. center-weighted metering and a negative 1/3 exposure compensation. I really wanted to bring out the green.

The third picture, had 0 metering, with no negative EC.

Steve Thomas

There may be better ways, but I generally leave WB at auto and adjust in post. That way I don't forget to change it back on the camera. 

Don’t know what this plant is, but the pastel coloring on the new leafs is really cool to me.

Callaway gardens is located in south central Georgia.

ellare

ellare wrote:

Don’t know what this plant is, but the pastel coloring on the new leafs is really cool to me.

Callaway gardens is located in south central Georgia.

ellare,

That's a pretty picture.

Steve Thomas

It's good to experiment.

I'm meaning to try adjusting WB in cloudy conditions, but so far I always forget. It's on my to do list.

That's a nice flower Ellare.

Well done.

Stevet1, much appreciated.

Thank you

ellare

jethro B-UK, appreciate  the compliment.

Thank you.

ellare