A few from over the hill this afternoon. I wish you could share in the beauty down there... it is heaven on earth...
My dog and my cats love tagging along... it's a riot to watch them. They love being with me in the woods. Five of my seven cats trailed along behind me on our photographic safari.
Terry, I'm sure I have said this before, you killing me with these wonderful shots! Your style is wonderfully sublime, you know exactly how to simplify. 4 is mind blowing. Great work my friend. Nice kitty, centered(?).
Tim
ps, I would love to tour these grounds. Looks like you have something real nice!! Good for you.
Tim Kuhn wrote:
Terry, I'm sure I have said this before, you killing me with these wonderful shots! Your style is wonderfully sublime, you know exactly how to simplify. 4 is mind blowing. Great work my friend. Nice kitty, centered(?).
Tim
ps, I would love to tour these grounds. Looks like you have something real nice!! Good for you.
Hi Tim. I think you are keying into my shooting style... something I don't think about much, but just kinda do. There are thousands of flowers to shoot and choose from, but I look for a certain symmetry in them and color, then the background and then I get down in the mud
I will say this. I shot for over 30 years with a Nikon SLR and me and the DOF preview button were well acquainted. When Nikon came up with the DX format, I was lost for a while... just couldn't get the hang of DX DOF... but the D3 has set me free from that now and I'm so please about that one little detail. To me it makes ALL the difference in the world when doing this kind of photography... that and a big bright viewfinder so you can see what is going on in there.
That's my secret..... and now you know.
Thank you very much Tim. I truely an flattered that you guys like them.
Terry - - just beautiful as always. My cats always bump into me when I'm shooting & at the worst time possible - - bad result. So I prefer not to be trailed by them, no matter how much I love them.
Kitty just melts into that shot for total color harmony. Delightful.
Beautiful, jus love the way you control the BG blur/DOF to bring out your flower subjects. Your added comments in reply to Tim is most interesting and helpful. I would love to also see your EXIF data, which lens/fNo, and do you ever use any fill flash?
There are some lovely wild orchids here in Sri lanka's rain forests and I would love to hone my technique and take a more serious crack at them one day.
Terry, your killing me too... quit would ya, please JK these are all great and what a nice story to go along with, I think its great you have a fan base. and that last shot of your #1 fan is way cool. I wouldn't mind following you along some day myself
Terry, really lovely shots. I would second Mabidally's request for the tech details. Love the photo of your cat and the colors and shades there. Would have been great to see a shot of your 5 cats with/without your dog.....if you could get them all in the one frame!
Martin
May 07, 2008 at 06:38 AM
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Terry, I knew you would be out enjoying that sunshine and warmth in your favorite location. No, I don't think you are 'over the hill' but your shots are over the top man Lovely use of shallow DOF, funny how the subject and BG dictates how little or how much to use. I too had a great day out and will be sharing later, birds, critters and of course................wild flowers too!
Pretty kitty, perfectly centered cool eyes and just look at those wildflowers in the BG
Think I will pick up that Canon gear Anthony is offing too
The beauty of simplicity, Terry. You really know how to capture it. 1st and 4th are my favorites. I also like the lighting and color tones in the last shot.
Socrate
Lil Judd wrote:
Terry - - just beautiful as always. My cats always bump into me when I'm shooting & at the worst time possible - - bad result. So I prefer not to be trailed by them, no matter how much I love them.
Kitty just melts into that shot for total color harmony. Delightful.
Lil
Well Lil, with such flattering comments from all of you, I hardly know what to say, except thank you so very much.
My kittens get in the way sometimes, but they really are pretty good... we've been doing this a long time and they have me trained.
mabidally wrote:
Beautiful, jus love the way you control the BG blur/DOF to bring out your flower subjects. Your added comments in reply to Tim is most interesting and helpful. I would love to also see your EXIF data, which lens/fNo, and do you ever use any fill flash?
There are some lovely wild orchids here in Sri lanka's rain forests and I would love to hone my technique and take a more serious crack at them one day.
Thank you so much mabidally . I don't know why (or can't remember why) my exif is dropping out... it wasn't intended. Could it be getting lost when I save for the Web in CS3 If someone can enlighten me, I will address that right away.
To answer some of your questions:
- I do use flash sometimes, although the last 3 posts had none used in any of them... all natural light.
- I have always used either a 60mm micro or the 105mm micro Nikkor, but have just recently upgraded to AF and VR versions as I'm getting older and find I need all the help I can get sometimes. I have to add, though, I'm NOT a big AF user... If it HUNTS one time... IT GET'S TURNED OFF. I usually MF focus to get the approximate size for repro and cropping I want and then move in and out "Find Focusing" to focus the Stamen of the flower and check DOF to see how much of the petals will focus at any given f-stop.
- I LOVE and use selectively, D-Lighting to even out the contrast... eliminates the need for flash! Even with a backlit shot it works very well.
- I seldom shoot stopped down more than about f11... I like the OOF effect. It isolates the flower and keeps distracting backgrounds from competing for attention.
- I'm not afraid of noise... and not adverse to using noise reduction to clean it up later. I do go back over the flower with the history brush after using it, because the noise seldom hurts the subject detail, but does distract if in the background area.
I hope this helps a bit. My main go-to lens is the 105mm . I really like the new one, but honestly, could do the very same thing with the old MF version. I need the VR help now.
72chevelle454 wrote:
Terry, your killing me too... quit would ya, please JK these are all great and what a nice story to go along with, I think its great you have a fan base. and that last shot of your #1 fan is way cool. I wouldn't mind following you along some day myself
Thanks Chad... hey I look at your web site and you have some very fine work compiled there. I'd be pleased to shoot along side of you any day of the week bud. From the looks of it, you live in a great area for photography up there at the Zoo.
Martin Good wrote:
Terry, really lovely shots. I would second Mabidally's request for the tech details. Love the photo of your cat and the colors and shades there. Would have been great to see a shot of your 5 cats with/without your dog.....if you could get them all in the one frame!
Martin
Thank you Martin. I'll try to get some shots of the cats together (not an easy trick) the next time out. I do have one from a few years back that was taken this very time of year that I'll post in a new thread for you. It has always been one of my favorites.
I'll also get it together on the EXIF and tech stuff on future posts.
anthony whitmo wrote:
Golden..............................
Freaken Lovely...................
For Sale: Mark III
500 IS
Bunch of other Canon Gear
Reason: Terry D keeps setting the bar toooooo HI
Love em Terry.................. ALL My Gear is Up for sale
I LOVE YA MAN !!! And these are absolutely wonderful, The Cat belongs in a Calender (After you recrop it)
Now, now Anthony... that's how I feel when I see you guys' bird shots. You CAN do macro shots with the 500 you know... focuses down to 12 feet.
You are very kind to say these things... I really don't know how good they are... but they are only good from my stand point if YOU enjoy them a bit... and I thank you for that.
If someone can enlighten me, I will address that right away.
From the looks of it, you live in a great area for photography up there at the Zoo.