Day 15: October 2010 PAD

Today, i just enjoyed my family and getting a little housework done. I picked up my camera, though. Only trouble was, I didn't remember how to use the flash. :eek: I had to put it in automatic portrait mode for the first time in ages. :o

OH, btw, it snowed here, today!

Jack's Labotomy!

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Canon 50D, EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM @ 200mm, f/5.6, 1/1000s, ISO 100. Full EXIF, PAD slideshow.

A fisherman had been at the end of Mallory Square in Key West, and left a small bait fish on the ground. This egret found it, and (apparently) flew off to avoid fighting with the other birds in the area.

C&C are always welcome.

Cheers,
Rick

I like that.

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You suggesting that I don't posses that razor-sharp ability to provide the flashing riposte so beloved and developed by those who run around the Welsh valleys? What do you think we did on those winter nights in the croft? Okay, there were the sheep!

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Not at all. I do however feel that a change is as good as a rest. I know your basket hilted wit is every bit as sharp as the Welshman's foil. Plus..there is more material in kilts, deep fried mars bars and tossing your caber....you don't have a little pink camera by any chance. A long shot I know but it would have been a start.

Steve

Initially out where I saw him/her a few days ago (see Day 9), either the wind, or me, made this creature run back into its lair in the top of the hedge. So I thought I'd show the context of 'home, sweet, home' spider style this time, especially as I couldn't get a clear shot.

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Nikon D5000 + Nikon 105mm f2.8 VR2: 1/60s f/11 at 105mm iso200 Flash Av -0.5EC
F11 and click image to see at 1,500px x 1009px

Taken on Day 16, but put in Day 15 as I missed it yesterday, to (hopefully) encourage me to shoot something else later on for Day 16.
... and I think it was taken before midnight Day 15 somewhere in the world (11:30 am on Greenwich BST) :o

Cheers,

Good Idea but...

I am not at all a fan of ring flash but, when I found this unit at a photography rummage sale, I decided to take a chance on it.

The theory is that you attach the top of the ring flash unit to the front of the flashtube of a hotshoe flash with Velcro straps. A series of prisms and mirrors directs the light from the flash out the front through which the lens peeks out. You are supposedly able to keep complete e-ttl control of the flash.

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I guess that is may work but, it is so heavy and off balance hanging from the flashtube of my 550EX that I am quite reluctant to use it on my flash unit. The 550EX shoe is only plastic and I don't believe that it would support the weight which would be increased by the torque of the ring hanging way out front of the flash head.

No big loss, I only paid a few dollars for the unit and it gives me a project to see how I can build a bracket to help keep the weight of the ring off of the 550EX shoe...

Yes Richard,

You're not wrong, my first thought was "I needed a ringflash for that" (when I saw the shadow), but the PAD waits for no one ;)

Cheers,

Today a friend and I are travelling to The Little Desert. On the left is the Grampians Mountain Range - no time to stop.

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Originally Posted by carregwen

I think you posted this in the wrong thread...:) https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/fo....htm#post64479

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*snigger* Have put some of my favourite signs in an album (don't know how to do a hyperlink to it though). Well, the ones I had time to do last night :D it really cheered me up :D

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Originally Posted by melikarish

Have put some of my favourite signs in an album (don't know how to do a hyperlink to it though).

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Mel

Go to the album and click on an image. When it views full-size right-click and select 'copy image location'. Go to a thread post and use the 'insert image icon' on the edit panel and paste in the link. PM me if you get stuck


like this... (one of yours, not mine)

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Originally Posted by Peter Ryan

Today a friend and I are travelling to The Little Desert. On the left is the Grampians Mountain Range - no time to stop.

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I like this Peter! Often tried and failed (by me ;)), but well executed here.

Thanks Steve. I had a couple of goes but roadside trees got in the way. I was happy wih this one.

A late entry for day 15. I saw the Smashing Pumpkins play at Festival Hall in Melbourne. Billy Corgan is the only original member left but the new band was great and BC sounded wonderful. This was taken with my P&S (real cameras not allowed).

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