** Weekly X-Series Photo-Sharing Thread 19 MAR – 25 MAR **

MrKazador31 wrote:

jm10 wrote:

Another great series MrKazador! You make it look so easy (and I know it is not...). Do you live close to this Sanctuary?

jacob

Thank you jm10. Not so close, about a 50 mile drive one way. It was my first time going and I plan to go back.

Its easy when they're perched on a branch lol. It also helps I took 4500 photos that day so there has to be a few good ones.

In the past I've taken a lot of photos in situations where I needed to do many FPS but that's a lot of images to go through!  Air shows come to mind.  But maybe this is the usual these days.

BobsYourUncle wrote:

MrKazador31 wrote:

jm10 wrote:

Another great series MrKazador! You make it look so easy (and I know it is not...). Do you live close to this Sanctuary?

jacob

Thank you jm10. Not so close, about a 50 mile drive one way. It was my first time going and I plan to go back.

Its easy when they're perched on a branch lol. It also helps I took 4500 photos that day so there has to be a few good ones.

In the past I've taken a lot of photos in situations where I needed to do many FPS but that's a lot of images to go through! Air shows come to mind. But maybe this is the usual these days.

I do take a lot of photos lol. I worry I will miss the shot if I don't take multiples of the same subject. I'll try different settings or exposures. I use FastStone Viewer to quickly go through them and copy the ones I like.

Jerry-astro wrote:

Superb shots. Makes me wish we’d visited a couple of the places you so nicely captured here during our visit a couple of years ago. Also would have loved to see a puffin or two. No such luck.

Absolutely awesome place and some amazing opportunities for photography. Thanks for sharing!

Thank you kindly Jerry! An awesome place indeed; I already miss it...

jacob

Wow! Fantastic shot, Jose. Beautiful!

A day early...supposed to start tomorrow. But it's supposed to be cloudy or rainy for the rest of the week.

Great set.  Number 5 is a fav.

Picked up the 70-300 recently, and quite impressed with its lightness and compact size (although I don't think I've ever had a zoom that extends out so much!). Forgot how tricky snow can to expose and white balance for in the second two shots. The white balance keeps posting slightly different on the last image, despite a few tries.

jm10 wrote:

Nice color Bob! I was reading some opinions that the Superbloom may not happen this year in spite of all the water that came down lately. The seeds may be washed out and there is not enough warm days for sprouting...we shall see...

Meanwhile a few more pictures from my Iceland visit:

Gorgeous pictures! That Puffin looks so sad, though

On some of the milder wet evenings recently our local toads have been venturing up from the pond for a feed though one is clearly less interested in food...

First image is really nice 

GreatOceanSoftware wrote:

These are a few shots I pulled from the archive to share. The macro shots were done with an adapted 50mm Olympus lens from the late 70's and the 11mm Fujifilm extension tube.

Love these they have character.

Central canal on a still frosty morning

Trying a Tri-X SIM and a Sigma 56mm

Now that's a subject rarely seen in this forum!  Nice images.  I suppose you did not use subject detection? 😁

Ulrik Christiansen wrote:

jm10 wrote:

Nice color Bob! I was reading some opinions that the Superbloom may not happen this year in spite of all the water that came down lately. The seeds may be washed out and there is not enough warm days for sprouting...we shall see...

Meanwhile a few more pictures from my Iceland visit:

Gorgeous pictures! That Puffin looks so sad, though

Thanks Ulrik! Perhaps it is the look of contemplation - where to fly next to catch more fish

Jerry-astro wrote:

Gorgeous, Bob! A very pleasant reminder of the early wildflower bloom that we enjoyed when we got together a few years back.

Thanks, Jerry... and Aloha!

First urban outing last week with the Mk1 10-24. I’ve already upgraded it to the Mk2 version…!

All out-of-camera Acros JPEGs, other than occasional tonal adjustments.

BobsYourUncle wrote:

Now that's a subject rarely seen in this forum! Nice images. I suppose you did not use subject detection? 😁

Thanks Bob.

The absence of Amphian detection is a major oversight on Fujis part, its a wonder how I was able to get these shots at all, pretty sure it's coming in the next Sony firmware 

BobsYourUncle wrote:

Now that's a subject rarely seen in this forum! Nice images. I suppose you did not use subject detection? 😁

I didn't have my glasses on. I didn't detect the subject till lightroom 🤣

BobsYourUncle wrote:

Jerry-astro wrote:

Gorgeous, Bob! A very pleasant reminder of the early wildflower bloom that we enjoyed when we got together a few years back.

Thanks, Jerry... and Aloha!

You’re welcome, and Alooooooha right back at ya!  I’ll spare you any photographs for the moment at least, but doing some whale watching tomorrow, so hopefully something worth sharing there.