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Photo of the day: August 2012
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My first POTD, a female Ruby-Throated Hummingbird taken a couple of days ago in my backyard.
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Ruby Throated Hummingbird by alphaflick, on Flickr
Sony A77
ISO 800
Minolta 300mm F2.8
f / 5.6
1/640 s
Ruby Throated Hummingbird by alphaflick, on Flickr
Sony A77
ISO 800
Minolta 300mm F2.8
f / 5.6
1/640 s
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Here's another one from the archives:
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Beautiful shot, great colors. Can't help you with shooting locations.
Kelowna, BC...
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Since we're both MacRumors regulars, I'd be remiss if I didn't remind you there's a bit newer technology around now...
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My solution to the "where the hell am I?" problem is a tiny voice recorder, which never leaves my pocket. Very lo-tech (and all the better for it... ). I buy them on eBay for about $10. Pic locations, shopping lists, writing ideas, funny things I overhear... this is my lifeline!
Since we're both MacRumors regulars, I'd be remiss if I didn't remind you there's a bit newer technology around now...
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That's a great idea...now we just need to start a donation fund here for this very good cause.
Seriously, though, I really appreciate your kind compliment. Nice wave action and lovely golden light reflecting in the water. Makes me want to step in and stay awhile.
Have you read Arthur Ransome's wonderful kids books about holidays on the water in the Lakes? 'Swallows and Amazons' was the first title.
They are a delight for adults and kids. Most are - I think - set on Coniston, and reflect an earlier lifestyle at the turn of the last century, early 1900s.
Good picture. Just in time too, before you hit the iceberg.
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Nice picture.
Well done. You nailed the most critical feature of doggy portrait photography. The eyes AND the leather tip of the nose must BOTH be in focus. On many dogs this is a fair distance, so depth of field is critical. It is also more difficult in close-ups.
One solution is to back off then crop to the portrait from a larger pic.
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Love it.
Wish I had taken this picture
Ben Wilson - Gearlink Kawasaki
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Nikon D80 - Sigma 135-400mm @400mm
ISO 500
f/6.3
1/640
Location - Melbourne Hairpin, Donington Park, Castle Donington, Derbyshire (Technically).
Nikon D80 - Sigma 135-400mm @400mm
ISO 500
f/6.3
1/640
Location - Melbourne Hairpin, Donington Park, Castle Donington, Derbyshire (Technically).
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Since we're both MacRumors regulars, I'd be remiss if I didn't remind you there's a bit newer technology around now...
Erm, I am old enough to remember a time when products just did one thing. They didn’t multitask. They didn’t promise to “change your life”. They didn’t ‘communicate’ with each other... or need to. When the toaster malfunctioned one day, grilling the bread slices until they were black and smoking, my dad didn’t chuck it in the bin. He took it down into the cellar, where his tools where, and took it apart to see what was wrong. Mending things was his passion. The only time I saw a toaster like ours was in a museum - in a glass case, with a label attached - whereas ours sat on a kitchen worktop, turning out toast day after day.
We didn’t need to upgrade the operating system every six months, only to find the toaster would only work with brown bread until the manufacturer issued a software patch that dealt with some of the conflicts. The toaster was never infected by viruses, or malware, or malicious code written by a disenchanted teenage hacker in Montana or Minsk. We didn’t need to read a manual the size of a telephone directory to understand how the toaster worked. In an early 20th century nod to a digital future, the ‘control panel’ was simplicity itself: just an on/off switch. We didn’t need to read the ‘help’ files, or go to an online users’ forum to find out why the toaster might be making funny noises.
We didn’t wake up in the middle up the night, fretting about whether it was time to upgrade the toaster to version 2.0, or just stick with the old one until version 2.5 came out (most likely the following spring, as we read on ToasterRumours). We didn’t pay a monthly fee for “unlimited toast”, only to get an email from the ‘provider’ informing us that our toasting activities were being capped at 125 slices per month, and that beyond this figure we would now be charged $25 per slice. We didn’t need to spend three hours on a helpline, speaking to a guy in Mumbai, just to get our contract cancelled.
This is why my little voice recorder appeals to me. It sits in my pocket and takes my notes, at every time of asking, when I press the ‘record’ button with my thumb. A simple tool for a simple man...
Hay-time at Esthwaite Water...
Erm, I am old enough to remember a time when products just did one thing. They didnt multitask. They didnt promise to change your life. They didnt communicate with each other... or need to. When the toaster malfunctioned one day, grilling the bread slices until they were black and smoking, my dad didnt chuck it in the bin. He took it down into the cellar, where his tools where, and took it apart to see what was wrong. Mending things was his passion. The only time I saw a toaster like ours was in a museum - in a glass case, with a label attached - whereas ours sat on a kitchen worktop, turning out toast day after day.
We didnt need to upgrade the operating system every six months, only to find the toaster would only work with brown bread until the manufacturer issued a software patch that dealt with some of the conflicts. The toaster was never infected by viruses, or malware, or malicious code written by a disenchanted teenage hacker in Montana or Minsk. We didnt need to read a manual the size of a telephone directory to understand how the toaster worked. In an early 20th century nod to a digital future, the control panel was simplicity itself: just an on/off switch. We didnt need to read the help files, or go to an online users forum to find out why the toaster might be making funny noises.
We didnt wake up in the middle up the night, fretting about whether it was time to upgrade the toaster to version 2.0, or just stick with the old one until version 2.5 came out (most likely the following spring, as we read on ToasterRumours). We didnt pay a monthly fee for unlimited toast, only to get an email from the provider informing us that our toasting activities were being capped at 125 slices per month, and that beyond this figure we would now be charged $25 per slice. We didnt need to spend three hours on a helpline, speaking to a guy in Mumbai, just to get our contract cancelled.
This is why my little voice recorder appeals to me. It sits in my pocket and takes my notes, at every time of asking, when I press the record button with my thumb. A simple tool for a simple man...
Fantastic. Finally some sanity.
Yeah, I don't think my cameras have that feature, but now I'm starting to understand why someone might actually want it. I spent a good half hour in Google Earth yesterday trying to retrace my steps and figure out where I took that photo...no luck. I cannot find that spot for the life of me, which is going to make keywording it very 'interesting'.
I did have a GPS in the car that day, but it's hard to watch the GPS and scout out landscape opportunities at the same time...at least that's my story and I'm sticking to it!
What a great idea. And there's even an app for that! And I already have it too...now if I can just remember to use it...
Fortunately, the Nikon pro bodies have voice annotation built-in. However, instead of shelling out for a GPS unit for your cameras, one thing you can do is record your GPS position and time with a phone and then match the images later by time. There are lots of applications to sync a GPS log to the time stamp in the image's metadata and then all you have to do is run any phone application that tracks your location- there are a plethora of those for runners, hikers, etc. Then simply turn on the application when you're out shooting, download the track log and sync it all up. You can also use a track log from an external GPS to do this.
http://code.google.com/p/gpicsync/
Paul
An attempt at shooting the sunset. Same shoot as my last picture of the ruffling duck. Actually really happy with how the clouds turned out. Wound up having to wait it out a little bit since the sun kept hiding behind them.
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Fiery Heavens by emtreypics, on Flickr
Fiery Heavens by emtreypics, on Flickr
There was a music performance in the park nearby, so I made a number of shots of the performing artists. All shots manually with the 70-200mm with VR, my muscles still hurt from carrying and lifting the body + lens (2.5 kg) for several hours, but a few shots were worth it, I hope.
First attempt at hummingbirds. Little noisy, so that's something I'll need to fix for my next attempt.
