On the way to the monorail station; we had to take the underpass going below the tracks
Thought this would be a cool shot and hey, it turned out quite alright
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The 45 requires no focus peaking just focus until you get a green box
No processing on the last 2 and usually only adjust the exposure a little
The woman on the left is my wife
leighton w wrote:
Aren't you proud of me that I'm staying out of this? But, Kevin is right.
There are quite a few things that Apple has done over the years that infuriate me but they have their hooks into me so deeply I doubt that I'd ever escape. I'm on my third iMac, second with a 27" monitor. The newest one I bought new but as an older model without Retina display or an internal SSD. But I was more than happy with the $1298 price from B&H. It doesn't have a fast processor but I'm retired so what's the rush, anyway. My needs are rather simple. I did upgrade the RAM to 24 GBs. It works fine and I hope to get many years out of it. But I also bought a 13" MacBook Air that I'm typing on at the moment. It doesn't have a Retina display and has only 128 GB of drive space and 4 GB of RAM, but guess what? It does everything I want and cost under a thousand dollars. Then I added an iPhone, an older model, the 6s that I bought for $340 brand new... a discontinued model. Finally I added an iPad, a 16 GB WiFi model that takes a signal from the iMac. The MacBook Air used WiFi as well. When I add an appointment on any of my devices, it appears on all. When I add a contact on any device is appears on all. Everything works seamlessly.
I simply hope everything keeps running because upgrading is expensive and Apple is inclined to change things so you have to us adaptors... a royal pain in the butt. I'm guessing from what people are saying the Microsoft has gotten its act together so that less expensive computer you can put together actually works. That's pretty sweet. I know since they bought Skype that it has improved. I use it quite often when speaking with Rinie. Of course, FaceTime generally produces a better quality picture but you can only use that with Apple products...
If I were just starting over I might be tempted by a Windows machine, but I have to say I'd still a sucker for the form factor of these Apple products. They are beautiful...
I thought we were done with these conversations... but... Here we are again. And yes, you've been very restrained.
Zichar wrote:
On the way to the monorail station; we had to take the underpass going below the tracks
Thought this would be a cool shot and hey, it turned out quite alright
Somehow the black and whites of the market connect with me more, I can better imagine people milling around from stall to stall in the busy market. And suddenly its all a ghost town, abandoned.
After having a week of beautiful, sunny, warm weather here in western Montana, we have had a week of cold, cloudy and wet - sort of put the breaks on Spring somewhat. So, when I went out for a hike behind me Wednesday, I thought maybe I would only be taking photos of fungi and moss. However, there was an explosion of wild flowers that took me by surprise. In particular, more wild clematis than I have ever seen and more of these little guys, too. Known here as "Fairy Slippers", they are one of a small number of orchids wild to western Montana. I am still working up the clematis photos:
orchid_1 lr by Doug Stevens, on Flickr
Nikon Df, 55mm f2.8 micro, f2.8, ISO 400, 1/640s, 3 images focus stacked
At barely 3 inches tall, (if that), you have to get low to the ground. I wasn't sure my tripod would go low enough. I had to splay the legs completely and put rocks on them to steady it, but it seemed to work. Of course, I had to get down in the dirt to even see through the view finder
graytrekker wrote:
After having a week of beautiful, sunny, warm weather here in western Montana, we have had a week of cold, cloudy and wet - sort of put the breaks on Spring somewhat. So, when I went out for a hike behind me Wednesday, I thought maybe I would only be taking photos of fungi and moss. However, there was an explosion of wild flowers that took me by surprise. In particular, more wild clematis than I have ever seen and more of these little guys, too. Known here as "Fairy Slippers", they are one of a small number of orchids wild to western Montana. I am still working up the clematis photos:
At barely 3 inches tall, (if that), you have to get low to the ground. I wasn't sure my tripod would go low enough. I had to splay the legs completely and put rocks on them to steady it, but it seemed to work. Of course, I had to get down in the dirt to even see through the view finder
