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Deceiving - looks like summer (until you look closely), feels like winter.....<div></div>

<p>I will have one day in mid February in Copenhagen (Sat 12th at this point). I've checked this forum and see a few photo-op ideas that might be appropriate for summer, but thought I would check in on ideas for mid-winter.<br>

Happy to be outside, I'll have appropriate clothing (being Canadian and all, eh?).<br>

Thoughts welcome!</p>

<p>It is an excellent lens with the budget you have in mind. I've obtained numerous excellent shots with it, very sharp, right up to 300mm. It is a better daylight lens than lowlight, esp. since it's only 4.5 wide open, but within its limits it is great.</p>

<p>One example below. Left it as a link instead of downsizing so you can see it at close to full resolution. I've cropped it down myself to around 25% with no issues.</p>

<p>http://www.photo.net/photo/11973435</p>

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<p>Let's see if my computer will let me actually post the picture.</p><div></div>

<p>Martin, you made me laugh this morning. Thanks for that.<br>

Wasn't a particularly productive picture week. But, it was still in use. Following on from Alex, I bring you.........CAT.</p>

<p>My favourite day of the week.</p>

<p>and...........</p>

<p>my favourite subject, bar none.............</p><div></div>

<p>If you are into wildlife, getting pix of birds and other wildlife that isn't necessarily real close (in flight or just sitting), the 70-300 is an excellent idea. I'm really happy with mine, got some great shots from a couple hundred feet away that I've been able to crop down and still enjoy. Deep in the forest the fact that it's 5.6 at the long end may be a tad restrictive, but crank up the ISO and deal with the noise in post.</p>

<p>Came downstairs to a world covered in hoarfrost. Grab the camera, hop the fence, upset every dog in the neighbourhood, got this shot.</p><div></div>

<p>There is a discussion going on in Toronto in the same vein; a streetcar photograph appears (to me and many others) to be the clear inspiration for a painting. You can see them side-by-side in the below link.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/article/912094--streetcar-photo-raises-questions-about-inspiration">http://www.thestar.com/news/article/912094--streetcar-photo-raises-questions-about-inspiration</a></p>

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<p>Was having similar issues when I first started experimenting with my new SB-900. Per Matt's comment, hard to say what your issue is without seeing some examples along with the EXIF data. <br>

Flash photography especially is an art. As I am learning :). </p>

<p>A cold afternoon for a dog walk - who decided to look rather 'focused' that day...</p><div></div>

<p>Nice pics! Welcome...........</p>

<p>My wife asked me to get some pix of the oldest of our pets, clsoing in on 16 yrs. Lots and lots of attitude, as you can see.</p>

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<p>Memories of a beautiful day and some wedding guests. I like the smirk in the husband's eyes.....</p><div></div>

<p>Lots of good stuff today as always.<br>

From a recent trip to Mexico, a juvenile brown pelican. </p><div></div>

<p>Tiffany, Narayan, Martin, Paul - favorites this week.<br>

Mine is a memory from an early morning in Tulum, Mexico.</p>

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<p>Adey L, great shot; wonderful atmosphere.</p>

<p>Mine is of a couple of guests from a beach wedding I attended recently - you can tell these 2 like each other. A lot.</p>

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<p>Extremely sharp lens in the middle of its range, great for medium to bright light. Would buy it again in a heartbeat.</p>

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<p>I'm just about to own an SB-900, and was looking for this sort of info. Thanks!</p>

<p>Thanks to all for their advice. I'll look forward to obtaining some critiques of my work when I have something worthwhile to show.</p>

<p>Thanks to all, and I did subsequently discover the Nikonians site. With regard to any references to the above, I can only grovel abjectly and beg forgiveness.</p>

<p>The strobist site looks rather detailed. Good stuff.</p>

<p>The basics of flash I understand; but I also know I have the ability now to bounce, use off-camera, over and undercompensate, use diffusers, combine with flash timings, and so on. The mastery of which will take me several years, if lucky, so my proudness shall have to wait, agreed.</p>

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<p>Hello, fellow Nikonians. I am about to be the proud owner of an SB-900 (OK, I already am the owner, but it won't officially be 'given' to me until Christmas :) to go with my D90.</p>

<p>There's a lot of books around on how to use flash. Any specific recommendations you can share? Primarily looking into how to best use it to complement casual portrait photography of people and pets.</p>

<p>Thanks, and for the Americans on the board, happy Thanksgiving!</p>

<p>Best update? GF 2.0 ('course, that does tend to cause lots of lockups/lockouts due to conflicts with GF 1.0.....)</p>

<p>As always, a lot of great shots. Favorites so far this week:</p>

<p>Dieter Schaefer<br>

Hamish Gray<br>

Peter Simpson<br>

Roberta Davidson</p>

<p>Mine is a shot of the Olde Kerk, in Amsterdam. Conveniently located beside the Red Light District.</p>

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<p>Agree with Les. Your camera has done its job, you need to know when what you are looking at is not averaging out to 'middle grey' and compensate for that. I have the same body and lens, and find that I usually have to crank it up a bit with either exposure compensation, or adjusting aperture/shutter in manual mode after taking what the meter tells me.</p>