Real life photography/photo editing

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[Supah 0]

I'd lose the watermark verbal

[iNeo 0]

Thanks to those who commented my pictures, makes it worth posting them.

http://img447.imageshack.us/img447/4461/feet7gv.jpg

Tried some new pants today. Selftimers are lovely things.

As Bridges Burn played at Grand (moshpit photography).

http://img447.imageshack.us/img447/8812/hardcore0sc.jpg

These are the two styles of yours I really like, hope to see them survive the change of cameras. Especially that of the first one, makes me look at the different... things, the details.

[killagee 0]

I'd lose the watermark verbal

I'm not so sure Supah, Watermarks are a great way to protect from coyright infingement. I dont do it here because we are a pretty trust worthy bunch I really should though...

Congrats on your purchase Blackdog Its your thread, great to see you here posting again...

[ralphwiggum 6]

I'm thinking that maybe it's about time we lock this thread and start new one. any comments would be welcome, in Ask a mod thread

[GoOB 0]

Well, I had my first serious photosession with the D70 today, I'm quite amazed with what it can do. But in turn, quite a bit less impressed with what I can do with it. But hopefully I'll grow in to it

@killagee:

The 70-300mm lens is a Nikon one. I'm not really sure how to refer to it. But here's the text on the box:

Nikkor f AFG 70~300mm f/4~f/5.6 G

@iNeo:

Thanks for the comments, really means alot

[killagee 0]

@killagee:

The 70-300mm lens is a Nikon one. I'm not really sure how to refer to it. But here's the text on the box:

Nikkor f AFG 70~300mm f/4~f/5.6 G

Its the same as mine. Quite good reach, but a little slow (5.6) at 300...

Great photo's Goob! I love the off-centre approach and 'movement' that always comes through in your shots. But maybe you should get a little mono-pod and try getting the same effect via shutter speed... would open up a whole new world to ya

[GoOB 0]

@killagee:

The 70-300mm lens is a Nikon one. I'm not really sure how to refer to it. But here's the text on the box:

Nikkor f AFG 70~300mm f/4~f/5.6 G

Its the same as mine. Quite good reach, but a little slow (5.6) at 300...

Great photo's Goob! I love the off-centre approach and 'movement' that always comes through in your shots. But maybe you should get a little mono-pod and try getting the same effect via shutter speed... would open up a whole new world to ya

Yeah, it's a nice lens. Although I really need one with a wider angle aswell. Doing portraits, or shooting indoors is really tricky when the widest you can go is 70.

Oh, thanks. That really means alot

Oh, and whilst it may not look like the movement is done with shutterspeed, it is. The fourth one was taken with a speed of 1/3 of a second, and the last one 1/5 of a second... Granted, my hands were really shaky aswell.

But yeah, after Iv'e gotten my 18-70 lens a tripod is next in line. One new world that's definatley opened up is the spending money world But I kindof like that too, that you can improve the abilities of the camera as you go along, adding new dimensions to ones photography.

By the way, ever thought of sending any of your photos to a picture agency?

[killagee 0]

By the way, ever thought of sending any of your photos to a picture agency?

Done that mate

You can see the current small section here:

Chris Gee's Images @ Alamy.com

But check this out... I was at the beach on a landscape photo mission (pics coming 2moro), when I found this dead white "slug' like creature... My first thought was that it was a lost 'huhu' grub, common here in New Zealand.

Next thing, this crazy kind of bee i had never seen before came and landed on it, giving me a hell of a fright. Then it proceeded to bury itself underneath it, and dissapeared... Can anybody ID these creatures? I am positive it is no normal bee...

Its a bit contrived, but i made the slug a little final resting place...

I know the photo's are not great, but is this the right forum for this info or should i ask in death and destruction section? LoL

Cheers in advance...

[BlackScorpion 0]

I think that the "slug" is a caterpillar or some kind of maggot in general. You know, becomes an insect one day...

Dunno about the bee though. So many species around. Might be some kind of wasp, a hornet maybe.

[earl 0]

Wow!  Very nice, that set is like something from National Geographic.  I don't have time try and figure out which species (though I'd like to).  It's most likely a solitary wasp (not living in social groups) which has just stung the larva and layed an egg on it.  It was probably trying to bury the larva as a food source for its offspring.

From some text about the cicada killer wasp, it lives in southern USA:

Quote[/b] ]Cicada killers are among the largest wasps in the south, reaching a length of almost two inches. They resemble yellowjackets but are considerably larger (Figure 26). As the name implies, they prey on cicadas. They excavate underground chambers where they place paralyzed cicadas. An egg is laid on the cicada. Upon hatching, the larva feeds on the comatose cicada. A considerable amount of dirt is removed during the building of the underground chamber. Sometimes this creates a problem in lawn areas. Cicada killers can inflict a painful sting but rarely do so. Most stings occur when they are touched or stepped on. They do like to buzz around humans and instill a little fright.

[Tovarish 0]

I'm a bona fide MacGyver!

Decided to take appart a $20 telescope I never use (Damn thing is useless anyway :P) And make myself a little tripod I can use for macro photography. This involved resizing a hole on the base where the telescope would sit to accomodate a larger thread, and shaving off the sides of the base with a boxcutter .

The first result:

*edit* Another:

*edit* I know they're nothing special, and the lighting in my room sucks tonight (One of my lamps burnt out) but I'm just feeling clever because of my Franken-tripod

[blackdog~ 0]

Damn, I thought it'd be more like you hooked up that telescope to the camera.

Cool anyway.

[killagee 0]

Apparently The "slug" is actually the larva of a scarab beetle, and they are called "white grubs" here in the states. The flying insect is a female scoliid wasp (family Scoliidae). They are specialized parasitoids of white grubs. So, she was stinging it to paralyze it for a moment, then she laid an egg on it. Her own larva will feed externally on the big beetle grub.

Yuk.

Here are some pics from the beach where i found it... about 35mins drive from my house

[killagee 0]

New Zealand is a photographers paradise

[GoOB 0]

Wow, the one with your camerabag in it is just amazing. So are the others, but that one in particular

My mate asked me to take some pictures of her, although none turned out good here are the acceptable ones:

[jtec 0]

New Zealand is a photographers paradise

Too right about that.  Was there beginning of this year, that or Australia are my 2 places i would ideally live as Englands turning into land of concrete and too many people.

Bigger image here

big pic

This was a pic i took (major downsized) in Nz on the north island Rotorua if i remember right.  Place stank of sulpha, great trip by the way, highly recommend getting the Magic bus

[Blake 0]

Phoca hispida saimensis or Saimaa Seal. Photos taken with cell phone camera from a row boat, 2km from our summer cottage. I was just rowing around when I noticed something in the water, I stopped and took a quick snapshot. Then the surface was still again. I realized it was a seal but though I scared it off and started rowing again. Then after a few minutes later the seal suddenly bopped up straight in my boat's stern in touching distance and scared the hell out of me. The creature looked me straight in the eye and with a hiss of air from it's nostrils it dived again. I halted the boat and grabbed my cell phone and some minutes later the seal popped up on my starboard side and again on the port side. Tried to take some photos but the bastard was too quick. Then it came to surface just where I was aiming and managed to get a shot.

Then I got this stupid idea of feeding it and threw some crumbs of bread at it but the taming attempt failed and the seal promptly dived never to rise again. Waited a while and contiuned my rowing tour.

'Saimaa Seal' is a very rare species there are probably 230-250 individuals living about in Saimaa lake district and they are certainly not that common to see let alone so curious that they'd come close to humans. I've seen them before couple of times though, but from a considerable distance.

Once-in-a-lifetime experience, probably

EDIT: Google Earth Coordinates

61°44'6.06"N, 28°35'33.92"E

(Just copy-paste to 'Fly-to' slot)

[DBR_ONIX 0]

At college today, I was told to go out and take a bunch of photos (Card only had space for 15 more), to get used to the camera (Only took one photo with it before)

Results :

The camera was a Canon EOS 3500 or something (Not sure about the number), I like it, other than it started screwing up the last few photos, said "Error 02" when I tried to put the picture on the card, so I lost a couple of photos

Anyway, http://img.photobucket.com/albums....olo.jpg is a great photo, looks a little odd because there is almost no colour in the bottom area, if the bag's coloured areas were brighter it would be a bit less confusing, but still really impressive

- Ben

[raedor 8]

wow, nice pics here. looks like i have to check loads of pages here (the last three months?! ).

as soon i have some time left i'll post some pics from my "short" travel (didn't i already announce this? anyway...).

[killagee 0]

Cool. It looks everybody is getting into tight aperture control here Good stuff. Heres a few from the last few daysz...

A most beautiful Creature: The (ex ) RNZAF TA4-K Skyhawk:

My Tour Manager

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Rocket Launcher closeup:

Cactus Crazy:

Driving Surprise

[sniperuk02 0]

Quote[/b] ]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v128/chrisgee/Military/RNZAFSkyhawkRefuello.jpg

Really like this picture.

The rest are good too.

Quote[/b] ]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v128/chrisgee/LandScapes/WhatipuLoweProlo.jpg

This one is really cool looking too.

[Tovarish 0]

killagee - Love the casing & cactus shots and "driving" surprize