Canon Thursday Pic 2010: #13

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<p>Well it's a few minutes past midnight here in Indiana so let's get this week's POTW thread started. We had more posts last week than the previous but still failed to reach triple digits. <strong>ASHTON KUCHER IS BEATING US! </strong>So post your photos and tell all your friends to post theirs too. I saw a lot of great photos last week, let's keep 'em comin'. And if there's a story or motivation behind your photo, tell us about it. And if there's not, tell us the unmotivating story about how that particular scene made its way in front of your lens.</p>

<p>The weather is starting to cool down and the days are getting shorter so it makes it harder to get out and photograph as much as I'd like, but I was out for a couple hours this week trying to find some woodpeckers when I saw this guy. He was a little shy at first, but warmed up to me after a few minutes and posed on a log for me while he ate a nut. Not my masterpiece, but if I get at least one shot a week that I'm not ashamed to post here, then it's a success.</p><div></div>

<p>Southport, ME</p><div></div>

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<em> Nancy</em></p>

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<p>A good bottle of cabarnet, some comfortably old friends for company, and David Gilmour raging quietly in the background. I miss summer already, but the gentle Indian Summer and the indoor season has its merits as well. The board is handmade from scraps of very tight grain bubinga and some bird's eye left over from a gift to my elder brother. It occurred to me as I cleaned up afterward the board had never starred in a picture series all its own. Next time I'll use the studio flashes with a modeling light instead of winging it with the Speedlites. The shoot wasn't a complete waste, however.</p>

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<I>Mark, in the Tenderloin</i></center><P>

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<p>Just walking.</p><div></div>

<p>Morning, Had the opportunity to take some pics at a dance school. My background is white but we improvised and got some of the white tutu. I like it alot. I have alot to learn with the studio kit but its coming along nicely.</p>

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going away gettogether

party time

again<div></div>

<p>Getting ready for work</p><div></div>

<p>The 72nd Festa das Flores was this past week in Joinville. It is indoors so I took my 85 1.8. I really like that lens. Here's one of the photos of an orchid.</p><div></div>

<p>I have not too many pictures this week, the only time I took the camera out of its bag was to take pictures of horse jumping training for my friend. It was too dark and the operator was always making mistakes. This picture was no exception. But still I like it. (7D, 70-200/4L IS@200, ISO 6400, 1/60, f/4.0)</p><div></div>

<p>Our fall is finally upon us with beautiful red, orange and yellow leaves everywhere. Just a simple composition of some leaves that were changing colors, lit nicely by a random sunbeam. Funny how amongst millions of leaves, some just seem to stand out more than others.</p><div></div>

<p>I forgot to congratulate you last week, Nathan. Great job so far.<br>

Autumn colors reflecting in a pond.</p><div></div>

<p>Every now and then I bring out my old FD 50mm f3.5 macro lens and the old auto bellows to play with as I don't have a dedicated macro lens for my EOS cameras. Even with the auto-bellows rail, I find it extremely painful to get the focus right. It may not be as sharp as the newer EF 100mm or the EF-S 60mm macro lens, but it does give me half-decent images. Then the biggest problem is finding an interesting enough subject matter. In this case, I choose these flowers from a cactus plant. The resultant magnification was around 1.3x, I believe. I did crop the image by about 60% beyond that. Canon 40D @1/4 sec, Canon 50mm f3.5 macro(at .4x & f16), el cheapo adapter(8mm), auto-bellows(37mm), flash on manual.</p>

<p ><a> <img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/11967890-lg.jpg" alt="" width="700" /> </a> <br /><strong>Cactus Red</strong></p>

 

<p>I hope this is ok to post here. I was able to shoot a Boudoir Party last week. A group of friends got together for some food and wine and each had a small session with me. They wanted to get them done as gifts for their husbands for Christmas. Yes I do have the ok from this particular lady to use her images. :-)<br>

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star ferry, hk</p>

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<p>From a promo shooting with friends/local DJs.<br>

f/8, 1/40, ISO 400</p><div></div>

<p>No photos this past week, but here's one I've wanted to post for a couple of weeks now. I spotted this red-tail hawk sitting on the crossbar of a power pole as I was driving by. He was still there when I returned, so I pulled off the road to try to get a shot or two. As I was stopping, I looked out my passenger window to see him flying straight at me. He landed within a few feet of the car and waited as I got my camera out and walked around back to photograph him. He walked around the area for at least several minutes looking for something he apparently had spotted, while I shot away. This is one of many shots I got. Canon EOS 50D with EF 70-300mm f4.5-5.6 lens. </p><div></div>

<p>A stolen kiss in the park.</p>

<p>7D, Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8, iso 800</p><div></div>