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Matt Laur

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<p>Got a 10.5mm Fisheye for Christmas. I got to try it out in Santiago, Chile. I LOVE this thing. This is a winery about an hour outside of Santiago. It's won a bunch of architectural awards.<br>

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<a title="Perez Cruz Winery by Gabriel Hasser, on Flickr" href=" Perez Cruz Winery src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5281/5338907763_c3747be412.jpg" alt="Perez Cruz Winery" width="500" height="333" /></a><br>

<strong>Nikon D40, 10.5mm Fisheye @ 10.5mm, f/2.8, 1/15s, ISO 800. Handheld.</strong><br>

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<p>Traded in some old (Nikon) gear for a PN11 and went out to try it out with a 180mm/2.8AF, SB600 and tripod...<br>

It was hard to find something colorful out in the field in this season.... wind (making subjects move) and manual focussing posed some more challenges on my first 'macro'-ish explorations :-)<br>

Had fun though... taking my time in peace and quietness out in the nature!</p><div>00Y14d-320077584.jpg.a71de76f541e773d5a0b0d6467015d25.jpg</div>

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<p>I'm enjoying looking at everyone's photos on this overcast Wednesday afternoon. Two of my favourite shots so far come from Juho Niva and Javier Gutierrez. Thank you to D B Mills for your kind mention last week :)<br>

I took this photo of some of my cyanotypes as I was experimenting with an old manual macro on my new d7000 (nice to have some metering again rather than just using the histogram!)</p><div>00Y15u-320129584.jpg.f066322d3d42a7d94a4f859d94d2f100.jpg</div>

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<p>Paul Beavin -</p>

<p>Thank you for your kind comment. I am a geologist by profession. Photography is a hobby. I started shooting churches after wandering into a Roman Catholic church in Pasadena, CA named St. Andrew. It's an Italianate church built in late 1920's and early 30's. The church hired an Italian artist named Carlo Wostry and brought him over from Italy. Wostry spent the next 8 years of his life decorating the interior of the church including an amazing mural over the baldachino. The workmanship and artistry in St. Andrew are exceptional and inspired me to start photographing churches. Over the next few months it developed into a project and eventually I developed a book proposal that I am currently marketing to potential publishers. So far, I've had interest from publishers, but no takers. I've currently photographed 46 churches and temples ranging from Catholic to Jewish to Vedanta and everything in between. I appreciate your comments very much.</p>

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<p>Hello, my picture comes from a local ice festival this past weekend. My wife and I went down during the day to get some pictures, but it was too crowded to get any really good pictures. So we went back at night, and found it rather easy to get up close to the sculptures. And yes Matt, at 5 degrees fahrenheit the off camera flash had a little trouble resetting between flashes.</p><div>00Y19y-320187684.JPG.bb360edd0f7de6822c696af7b74e563a.JPG</div>
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<p>This image is a five frame panarama. Each frame is oriented vertically. Each frame is a three shot exposure bracket. The images were processed for exposure and tone mapping with Photomatix. The processed images were stitched using PTAssembler. The stitched image was corrected for lens and stitching distortion, horizontal and vertical tilt, white balance, and color saturation using DXO Optics Pro. Finally the DXO image was processed in Corel Paint Shop Photo Pro to crop, adjust highlights, midtones, and shadows, adjust contrast, and fix any stitching problems that may have existed.</p>

<p>Many of my images are panaramas. I like to use the Nikon 14-24/2.8 at 14mm and orient the images vertically. Then I stitch them together. This gives me a very large viewable area comparable to an 8x10 view camera with a wide lens. To get good lighting I use exposure bracketing and HDR. I process the HDR image to be as close to real life as possible. HDR has really changed the way I shoot architectural imagery.</p>

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