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[Helene4]

man...last trip I took that I got a decent photo of was a contracting gig in houston before I took over tug.

fantastic shot of traffic...I had never seen 14 lanes of dead stop traffic before!

sorry its not a pretty vacation type pic =D

Come to Long Island at either 8:30 a.m. traveling west or 4:30 p.m. traveling east on the Long Island Expressway. And we choose to live this way???!!!!!!!!

 

[geoand]

Kristin,

DW (she is the one with the knowledge - I am the one with pure luck) wants to know what iso and lens you used to take the shots. I took osprey shots at Merritt Island but even with cropping I couldn't get the Osprey to look that good.

 

[KristinB]

Kristin,

DW (she is the one with the knowledge - I am the one with pure luck) wants to know what iso and lens you used to take the shots. I took osprey shots at Merritt Island but even with cropping I couldn't get the Osprey to look that good.

I took that shot with my new D700 and a friend's 80-400 VR lens at 370mm (the D700 is full frame, so it was truly 370mm). Yes, I did crop it a bit. ISO 400, 1/1000, f/6.3

But you should know, I took that shot (and many of the others that I'm posting from this trip) from a boat. I went out with Captain Tom Carver. He does fishing charters most of the year, but when things are slow for fishing in the winter, he takes photographers out to an island near the Merritt Island refuge that is a rookery for roseate spoonbills, herons, and egrets. It's an amazing place. Nearby the island is an osprey nest, which is where I got that shot.

 

[KristinB]

Sandhill Crane (in the rain):

For Geo and his wife -- ISO 4500 (yes, the D700 is that clean at high ISOs ), 1/640, f/6.3 at 500mm (my 300mm f/2.8 lens with a 1.7 teleconverter, propped out my car window at the Viera Wetlands) -- no cropping

 

[geoand]

Kristin, you must be in 7th Heaven with the new camera. Great shot.

 

[Timeshare Von]

Nice photos Kristin. I'm such a hack compared to you!

 

[KristinB]

Kristin, you must be in 7th Heaven with the new camera. Great shot.

Thanks! It's really, really nice, I have to admit. Well, I resisted as long as I could, but when the prices started dropping, and I got a decent year-end bonus, I figured, why not? (Last year, I bought my 300mm f/2.8 lens, used -- I pretty much stick to one major gear purchase per year.) So my D70 is officially retired until I get around to converting it to infrared (one of these days). I kept my D200 -- so I still have a DX camera (you'll see some bird shots from it soon), but I have a friend who wants to buy it from me, so I'm on the lookout for a used D300 at a certain price point. If I find it at that price point, I'll pick it up, sell my friend my D200, and essentially upgrade to the D300 for only a few hundred dollars. Not too bad!

 

[KristinB]

Nice photos Kristin. I'm such a hack compared to you!

Yvonne,

Thanks, but you have to understand -- I live and breathe this stuff, day in and out. This is my major hobby, other than timesharing (although it's quite complementary to it, of course). I've invested a fair amount of time (and money) into photography. You just choose to have more of a life, LOL!

 

[KristinB]

It's a party!

From left to right, Reddish Egret, Great Blue Heron, Great White Egret, Cormorant; at the bottom, Roseate Spoonbill (ISO 200, f/8, 1/1250 at 400mm, no cropping):

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

It's a party!

From left to right, Reddish Egret, Great Blue Heron, Great White Egret, Cormorant; at the bottom, Roseate Spoonbill (ISO 200, f/8, 1/1250 at 400mm, no cropping):

Kristin - that is an outstanding shot in so many ways. Not only did you get the variety of birds, they all echo each others postures. They're perched forming a strong diagonal line across the photo, with the spoonbill nicely balancing the patch of blue sky on the top right. Finally, your technical work is, as always, first-rate. The photo is crisp and clean, the tonal balance is great, and the colors are fully developed without being oversaturated.

Put it all together and it's an outstanding piece of work. Congratulations!!! As I've said before, when I consider where I would like to be as a photographer, I often think to myself that I wish I could be as good as Kristin.

 

[jerseyfinn]

Finally get some time to catch up on tasks such as working on my backlog of photo galleries, doing lots of Photoshop work, and creating some videos of our travels. Thought I would post some of the selective color images I've been playing with. The full selective image gallery is found here.

Hope you enjoy them -- Barry

This gal & her family were walking across the Tower Bridge a few summers ago. I loved the color of her sari.

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A shot taken during Chinese New Year in London. Crowds packed shoulder-to-shoulder. I finally figured out a few Photoshop tricks which make this into a different sort of image.

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Catalunya Square in Barcelona. Lots of folks feeding the pigeons here when I notice these two kids. One of them ran out of seed & his face tells the whole story.


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[thinze3]

This may be my favorite photo thus far.

It's a party!

From left to right, Reddish Egret, Great Blue Heron, Great White Egret, Cormorant; at the bottom, Roseate Spoonbill (ISO 200, f/8, 1/1250 at 400mm, no cropping):

 

[HatTrick]

I'd never heard of a Roseate Spoonbill; looks prehistoric!

Great group shot, Kristin. They look like they're spectators at a sporting event.

"Leave it to you to get obstructed seats."

"Shut up and eat your grub nachos..."

Roger

 

[KristinB]

White Ibis, reflected:

(ISO 800, f/8, 1/640, at 500mm, slight crop for composition only)

 

[Brett]

It's a party!

From left to right, Reddish Egret, Great Blue Heron, Great White Egret, Cormorant; at the bottom, Roseate Spoonbill (ISO 200, f/8, 1/1250 at 400mm, no cropping):

Wow !
birds not of the same feather flocking together !

 

[KristinB]

Kristin - that is an outstanding shot in so many ways. Not only did you get the variety of birds, they all echo each others postures. They're perched forming a strong diagonal line across the photo, with the spoonbill nicely balancing the patch of blue sky on the top right. Finally, your technical work is, as always, first-rate. The photo is crisp and clean, the tonal balance is great, and the colors are fully developed without being oversaturated.

Put it all together and it's an outstanding piece of work. Congratulations!!! As I've said before, when I consider where I would like to be as a photographer, I often think to myself that I wish I could be as good as Kristin.

This may be my favorite photo thus far.

I'd never heard of a Roseate Spoonbill; looks prehistoric!

Great group shot, Kristin. They look like they're spectators at a sporting event.

"Leave it to you to get obstructed seats."

"Shut up and eat your grub nachos..."

Roger

Wow !
birds not of the same feather flocking together !

Steve, Terry, Roger, Brett -- thanks so much! On my photography BBS, that shot was pretty much everyone's fave of the set that I posted. I only wish I could have gotten that one spoonbill in the lower right hand side to move over a little bit... (I know what Steve's going to say -- clone it out! I will when I have time.)

Roger & Brett, you both have quite the way with words, LOL!

 

[KristinB]

Barry,

I love the selective color and the clever cloning in the red balloon image -- very nice!

 

[RDB]

Caroll, Robert, Michele and Dan at Abbey Road celebrating Caroll's BD and Valentines Day.

Held up at the Four Sails.

Overlooking the non-crowded Virginia Beach.

 

[KristinB]

Nice, Robert! I saw you soliciting camera advice on the Cafe -- any closer to a purchasing decision?

 

[sandesurf]

Thank you, everyone, who posts here. The pictures are awesome. Now that I figured out how to do it, I wanted to add a couple.
Name this harbor!

View of Bar Harbor, ME, from the top of Cadilac Mountain. That's our cruise ship too.

 

[sandesurf]

One more from same trip, taken from the pier, in Bar Harbor, ME

 

[Makai Guy]

Ummm... MI = Michigan. ME = Maine

 

[sandesurf]

Ummm... MI = Michigan. ME = Maine

OOppps!!!! I knew that!

 

[sandesurf]

OOppps!!!! I knew that!

And thank you!

 

[KristinB]

Great Blue Heron:

(ISO 1600, f/7.1, 1/1000, at 500mm, slight crop for composition only)