Hello All
Less than six hours to go to the start of this theme week so I guess the NZers and Ozzies will be ready to go (!).
I chose the theme of "Wide Open" for this week because I felt that many of us, especially landscape-oriented folk, rarely used their lenses to the ultimate light-gathering capacity for which they were designed. I couldn't see a similar theme from what I can see of past weeks so I thought a bit of exposure (sorry!) to having to think about it and do it might be of help to many of us. Shamefully, when I started to trawl through my flickr pics for examples a couple of days ago, I couldn't find ANY where I had used the full, wide open capacity of any of my lenses. So I had to go out and take some. Not as easy as I thought, so kudos to those who take the stunning portraits we see on this site. Hopefully we can all benefit from a bit of testing ourselves to one of the limits of our lenses and we will see some great pics this coming week.
Here are three examples from my walkabouts yesterday and today:
Some Canada Geese suddenly visited the field next door. Nikon 70-300 VR at 300mm and f5.6.
_DSC2033-2.jpg by warth man, on Flickr
Rose Bay Willow Herb in seed. Nikon 105mm micro at f3.0 (best it would allow).
_DSC2055-2.jpg by warth man, on Flickr
Through Stone. Nikon 50mm f1.4G at f1.4. This is the wall of my house, a converted barn. Through stones are the bigger, deeper stones that sit across the whole depth of the rubble walls that are typical of the time (200 years+) and placed at intervals sufficient to help the stability of the structure.
_DSC2097-2.jpg by warth man, on Flickr
Usual CS rules apply. Pics to be taken from midnight tonight until midnight next Wednesday; max size 1200 pixels longest side and three per post at most. Post twice if you have more! I hope you have fun and that we test ourselves a little bit too. Good luck!
Less than six hours to go to the start of this theme week so I guess the NZers and Ozzies will be ready to go (!).
I chose the theme of "Wide Open" for this week because I felt that many of us, especially landscape-oriented folk, rarely used their lenses to the ultimate light-gathering capacity for which they were designed. I couldn't see a similar theme from what I can see of past weeks so I thought a bit of exposure (sorry!) to having to think about it and do it might be of help to many of us. Shamefully, when I started to trawl through my flickr pics for examples a couple of days ago, I couldn't find ANY where I had used the full, wide open capacity of any of my lenses. So I had to go out and take some. Not as easy as I thought, so kudos to those who take the stunning portraits we see on this site. Hopefully we can all benefit from a bit of testing ourselves to one of the limits of our lenses and we will see some great pics this coming week.
Here are three examples from my walkabouts yesterday and today:
Some Canada Geese suddenly visited the field next door. Nikon 70-300 VR at 300mm and f5.6.
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Rose Bay Willow Herb in seed. Nikon 105mm micro at f3.0 (best it would allow).
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Through Stone. Nikon 50mm f1.4G at f1.4. This is the wall of my house, a converted barn. Through stones are the bigger, deeper stones that sit across the whole depth of the rubble walls that are typical of the time (200 years+) and placed at intervals sufficient to help the stability of the structure.
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Usual CS rules apply. Pics to be taken from midnight tonight until midnight next Wednesday; max size 1200 pixels longest side and three per post at most. Post twice if you have more! I hope you have fun and that we test ourselves a little bit too. Good luck!
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