Photo Of The Week 3/15/09

<p>Well following another week of great shots. It's time to see everyone's new efforts.<br>

A couple early morning shots from me. Yesterday at the beach before the sunbathers arrived.<br>

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<p>Don't let the warm colours fool you. - 17C<br>

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<p>That's a nice tropical sunset, Peter ;~)<br /> I did a fair amount of shooting this week--but nearly an equal amount of deleting. Here's one of the survivors.</p><div></div>

<p>Did you get any shots of the sunbathers, Peter? Nice sunrise shot. I like the daffodil, Dave, very nice composition and so sharp. I have been enjoying having my K10D back in my hands but I have also been making great progress in learning photoshop. I am finally beginning to feel like I have the basics down. Of course, the camera still remains my primary focus but playing around with ps beats grading papers every time. </p><div></div>

<p>from last weekend..</p><div></div>

<p>finally</p><div></div>

<p>"playing around with ps beats grading papers every time." LOL! As to the ducks, Robert, your fancy-schmancy pp may make ID more difficult but I really love the image: the color is wonderful and the ducks just pop out against the gently blurred background--well done!</p>

<p>We still have a lot of snow.... Taken from my kitchen window on 3rd floor....</p><div></div>

<p>K200d SMCP-M 100mm/2.8 1/640sec @ f4. Taken on highway between Bucharest and Ias (pronounced Yash). White balance was a problem throughout.</p><div></div>

<p>Well, it has been a long time since I participated. I have some shots from the last few weeks.</p>

<p>First two are the only really acceptable shots from a test session with my newly recieved back from Pentax Japan DA 50-200. The lens is back in Japan - even softer than before. A friend:<br>

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And a bad habit:<br>

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And then a really large fleshy flower. One fell on my head - nearly gave me a heart attack! Taken with the K20D and FA 43mm limited:<br>

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<p>Part II from my Montreal Trip <a href="http://s407.photobucket.com/albums/pp153/marzrw/Montreal%20March%202008/?action=view&current=stadiaolympique.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp153/marzrw/Montreal%20March%202008/stadiaolympique.jpg" border="0" alt="Stadia Olympique" /></a> <a href="http://s407.photobucket.com/albums/pp153/marzrw/Montreal%20March%202008/?action=view&current=OldVieuxbuilding.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp153/marzrw/Montreal%20March%202008/OldVieuxbuilding.jpg" border="0" alt="Building in Old Vieux" /></a> <a href="http://s407.photobucket.com/albums/pp153/marzrw/Montreal%20March%202008/?action=view&current=Brasserie-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp153/marzrw/Montreal%20March%202008/Brasserie-1.jpg" border="0" alt="Les Brasserie" /></a></p>

<p>Here are a few from me..</p><div></div>

<p>2</p><div></div>

<p>3</p><div></div>

<p>4</p><div></div>

<p>Food and drink related for me: The first one I had the 360gz flash behind the bottle and it was fired by the default optical (ie the pop-up flash) and it was 1/16 powered:<br>

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The next two the flash was held in my hand pointing to the celing fired at full power:<br>

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All shots taken with the kittens. I have gone back to it since I've been getting way too many focusing issues with my 18-250 lens and actually liking the lightness and clarity of the kittens.<br>

I'll comment later, right now I'm off to the grocery store before the crowd gets there...</p>

<p><b>Dave</b>, thanks for the comments. Actually the duck shot is practically right out of the camera, save a little saturation increase.<b> Ben</b>, I think your b&w shot is really good. Is that the moon in the upper left?<b> Garry</b>, I really like the flower shot, the contrast in the colors is striking.</p>

<p>Something different to what I usually do. (It's from last week, but this week I've been too busy to shoot.)</p>

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<p>Peter - The first pic's a charmer, would love to see what it's like when things heat up a lil.<br />Dave - Great b/w work!<br />Robert - Is there a big difference in the streaking effect when you zoom in (vs zoom out) for #3? Excellent btw.<br />Kari - That's one cool bike :)<br />DC - Nice capture, i think it would be just as striking in portrait orientation.<br />Garry - Great pics, especially the peachy flower.<br /><br />Never taken any flower pics before, so this is my first attempt. Honestly can't say what i'm aiming for, but here it goes.<br /><br /><img src="http://i487.photobucket.com/albums/rr235/hchune/Web%20Uploads/IMGP9845.jpg" alt="" /><br /><strong>After The Downpour</strong><br /><br /><img src="http://i487.photobucket.com/albums/rr235/hchune/Web%20Uploads/IMGP9862.jpg" alt="" /><br /><strong>Fallen On The Car</strong></p>

<p>Chune, the streaking was done in photoshop by overlapping the same image and adding a radial filter to one and then erasing the part you don't want blurred. But I do think there is a difference between zooming in and zooming out if you're going for that effect in the camera. Perhaps someone with more experience can shed some better light on this.</p>

<p>Here are my three for the week.</p><div></div>

<p>Crocus revisited</p><div></div>

<p>Crocus part II</p><div></div>

 

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<p align="center">Sigma 105mm Macro On Flower</p>

 

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<p align="center">Broken Piano in Children Adventure<strong><br /> </strong> in Berkeley</p>

 

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<p align="center">Kids with Broken Piano</p>

<p>Hi,<br>

I think this is my first time contributing to PoW. I just came off a trip to St. Lucia with some friends. The local economy is based around bananas and tourism; if they think you have money they will try to rob you blind. I think world economic problems are hitting them hard, as they aim at the higher end of the all-inclusive resort crowd. We stayed in a house on one of their iconic pitons and drove ourselves around. The locals speak an utterly incomprehensible patois of french, english, carib, and various african languages drawn from the slaves that were imported in the 17-1800s.<br>

For such a lush island the produce in the markets was astoundingly bad. We had to barter with a restaurant's kitchen staff to get a shrunken pineapple. I guess the good stuff gets exported.<br>

All photos K10D and either a DA21 or D-FA 100mm macro.</p><div></div>