I hope everyone's enjoying the holiday time-off and your new "gears". We are still pretty much in a holding-pattern for true winter weather, so not much in the way of snowy backgrounds. My swamp area has got its first glaze-coating of ice, and the birds have been checking-in at the new feeder stations. Some shots with the G10 and 7D with the FD 300mm f4 L (MF).
Also: My FD 800mm f5.6 L is back to warmer climates for a bit... .
Excellent shots! Did you use flash for the pets? Those have a really excellent quality about them. What lens/camera did you use if you don't mind my asking?
eskimochaos wrote:
15Bit, if you put a more aggressive crop on that picture it looks like your daughter(?) bitch slapped the crap out of your dog. I lol'd.
You know, i hadn't looked at it like that but you're right - crop out the ball and it looks like she did a "Rocky" on the dog.
15Bit: Norway always looks good...and the photos of your daughter & the pooch...too funny .
And thanks for the kind words/wishes.
Peter: Also, thank you for the kind words/wishes. This really is going to be an interesting year of change for many reasons...all for the positive.
We took a trip to Thoreau's "Walden Pond" today (in MA), which normally is used by us as a cross-country skiing site through early March. Not a speck of snow to be seen in this region at all, but the wind was a biting 28*F at 30-35 knots. Used the 5D MkII with the 24-105L walk-around lens only.
Does anyone have any jewelry/watch lighting and photography tips/tutorials? The watches were a bitch to keep reflections under control. They were both natural light and my CPL did literally nothing.
Very little wet snow on the ground, mild temperatures and wretched light.
Went out for a little walk but nothing caught my attention except this poor seagull.
1DsMkII + 135L: ISO 400, f/2, 1/1000 sec.
Thanks Ernie. Junior does like to feed the ducks/geese, and they indeed like to be fed Usually they are more aggressive though - the waiting/submissive pose is unusual.
Also spotted something i have not seen before, just as we were leaving unfortunately so i didn't have time to take better shots of it:
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