Picture This!!
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Nancy, they are great
I just love them
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Thank you ladies. Those heron shots were taken with my first long lens that I hardly had a chance to break in. I am very pleased with it and glad I bought it now.
Today was another gorgeous day but outside projects took priority before the cold sets in so no camera time today. I am already trying to figure out how to do indoor macro flower photography during the winter. LOL I suspect I will be buying a lot of cut flowers this winter!
Do any of you have any experience or knowledge of the Lensbaby lens. There is one out called the Velvet 56 and I have seen pros pics and the backgrounds are just gorgeous with this dreamy blur more so than a regular lens can produce. I am thinking of getting this lens to practice during the winter.
Have a great weekend and remember to set your clocks back if you are in an area that does the time changes.
Nancy
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Nancy, go to a greenhouse or garden Centre. I always carry a black cloth for a background when I want to highlight a single bloom like an orchid. Make sure your settings get black and not grays it's good practice!
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Barbe,
One of my friends who also loves gardening and flowers introduced me to this orchid nursery not too far from my town. I hope to visit that place in the winter as I have never really photographed orchids but once at this flower and garden show this past spring. That is a good suggestion, thanks.
Nancy
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Sometimes you can blur the background a little by just stepping back a step
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You can blur the background with depth of field. Like Lisa says step back and then zoom in. Gorgeous stripes on the flower!!!!
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My old 35mm Nikon had a button to push to see what the debth of field would be for a shot . Do they have that on any of the digital cameras ? Lowering the f stop can blur the background
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Beautiful flower Lisa. What is that? I usually control the depth of field by my f stop and the more open the aperture the more blurry the background. My macro lens is a prime lens so there is no zooming other than my body but when I am hand holding I have to step back and forth to get focus because it is so extremely sensitive. I may have a chance to do some experimenting with my roses before they are done for. My 50mm prime is the largest aperture I can achieve with my equipment and it would give me as blurred of a background as I could get with my normal lens. My camera does have a DOP button but to be quite honest I don't think I have even used it on this new camera. When I used it on my older camera it darkens the shot in the viewfinder and is sometimes hard to see what is going on. I know in the digital age we are quite spoiled because we can do a lot of experimentation in the field as opposed to the film days. I can play around with the DOF by changing the aperture and with moving back and forth and I do that alot and the go home and study what seemed to work and what didn't. Also different lens have sweet spots which is usually a couple of stops down from the maximum aperture.
I wish I could show you some of these flower pics for you to see what I mean by what can happen with a Lensbaby lens. The photographer is Anne Belmont and she is probably the premier photographer for the Chicago Botanic Garden. If you google her name you will find her website. She loves flower and butterfly photography so when I found her website I was excited to see what a pro does with these subjects.
I do think just plain old practice and getting out there and taking a ton of pictures is going to help.
Thanks for all of the advice.
Nancy
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I just checked out Lensbaby and it reminded me of some of the filters I used to play with. What's the price like on the lenses? I didn't check.
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For the Nikon in black it is $500. They have a silver and gold version (looks only) for $50-$100 more) I sent Anne Belmont a comment on her website and she wrote me back this long email and said she read it to her husband and started to cry. She would like to meet some time. She teaches with a group called Out of Chicago and will have a conference in Feb and June. I may check that out. She said if there is anything I can do to help you she seemed very willing and wanted to see some of my photos so I sent her some and said I would love to hear her comments.
So I am excited about some new possibilities to grow and learn.
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Very pretty Lisa. I love the colors.
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Honoring our Veterans
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BEST THE ALL
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I was hoping to get this picture myself tonight at the Cantigny World War 1 Museum to view the luminaries but I got this off of their website instead as I won't be able to go tonight.
We salute all the Veterans this day and our own Lisa being one of them.
Nancy
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Those are great photos... Happy Veterans Day to All our Vets!
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Barb, what kind of monitor do you use for photo editing ? How about a spyder? I need an upgrade .
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Joanne, those are beautiful flowers and I think those birds are Florida Sandhill Cranes. I am not too fond of the last pic though!!!!!
Lisa, I use a Spyder 4 Pro. There is a newer model out but I haven't had mine but maybe 2 years even at that. I know you asked Barbe but hope you don't mind me adding to the conversation.
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Jo good to see you and your pix...thanks
Nancy, thanks about Spyder...I think my husband is getting me one for my birthday..now I need to get a good monitor for photos, not gaming, to link to my laptop..what do you think?
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Lisa, I have a bad habit of doing all my photo editing on my 17 in laptop while I watch TV. I have a bigger monitor upstairs on my desktop but I don't use it for photos. I keep all of my photos on my laptop. For me the big issue is keeping up with the backing up and having several portable devices so I don't lose all my pictures.
I know I really should have a much larger monitor to use with photo editing but this is portable and when I am at my mom's I can still work on the laptop so it works for me for now.
As far as brands when I bought my new desktop a couple years ago they were really pushing the Asus brand which I bought but I am still using my Dell monitor. My laptop is an HP and has lasted for a long time. I research a lot of things but have not researched the monitors photographers like to use. I may have to do that right now!
Good luck and Happy Birthday whenever it is!
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Those are great photos... Free Pets... wouldn't want the snake though... lol
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Wow!! Love the close up orange one. Would be stunning blown up. I have framed pics all over my house tucked here and there.
I don't use any editor just store my pics on my garden drive.
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What's Spyder? I use my laptop. I don't blow pics up big and don't edit anyway so it works for me.
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A spyder is a color calibration device for tweaking the colors on your computer monitor. My niece has a graphic design business and she can tell the lab that prints for her what the color levels are so it matches what she sees on her monitor. You have to recalibrate often and I must admit that I have shirked my responsibility in that area. I need to be more disciplined to do that, Now that I am selling some things it becomes more important.
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Perfectly understood explanation. I recall getting photos from Turkey and Greece redone over and over as the blue of the Mediterranean was just not quite right. Drove the place nuts. That was film years.
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Oh Lisa!!!!! You've done the best shots I've seen anywhere!! Congrats.
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