Photo-a-day

[kalniel]

Last shot's a great one - the tele has brought in that lovely scenery too.

[kalniel]

Our garden visitor is back again! (Actually, this is probably the offspring of the last one)

[Ruggerbugger]

Lovely shot

I like this one for the moment, rather than the image quality, which has suffered a bit

[Gerrard]

You did better than my attempt taken a couple of months ago: -

[YorkieBen]

nice shot Kal, you're a lucky sod to have such a nice visitor in your garden - makes a change from the odd unwelcome cat we get!

From Studley Royal Deer Park today, need to process the rest but too tired at the moment

[tfboy]

Nice deer shot, Ben

A good friend of mine is starting up her facepainting business and she runs a Saturday morning activity class in a hall and invited me along to take some photos (and I could really do with the practice!).

One of those really poorly lit halls, with just a few fluorescent tubes at the top making action photography (of 3 year olds running around) near impossible. I still need to work really hard at this, but there just isn't enough light to accurately focus on the kids running around. Decided to stick to the more static moments of when they were getting their faces painted.

The high ISO performance of today's cameras never ceases to amaze me!

D700 + 70-200vr @ ISO 4000, 135mm, f/3.5, 1/60s


D700 + 70-200vr @ ISO 1600, 125mm, f/3.2, 1/30s


D700 + 70-200vr @ ISO 1800, 105mm, f/3.5, 1/60s

[Ruggerbugger]

great photos, you've really nailed the eyes

[Blastuk]

Can't see a speck of noise at iso 4000

[YorkieBen]

from yesterday - not sure what its got in its mouth?

[Ruggerbugger]

I'd have cropped the first two. Nice shots, but the backgrounds are very distracting, for me anyway.

[merdat]

Great pics Yorkie

[YorkieBen]

Thanks Merdat

Rugger - I've already cropped the gull in flight a fair bit, didn't want to do it too much as it might degrade the quality too much but will have a pop.

love #1 there tftboy, a great expression

[Blastuk]

I didn't have a proper tripod on me so I used a mini one and put it on a bench; seemed to work fine
It's that time of year where you can get fireworks and sparklers etc, I intend to do a few more in a few days, anyone with good ideas on how to use sparklers?

[Gerrard]

I've been trying to get a time exposure shot of water to give it a smokey feel for some time now, but I think I've finally got a good one yesterday in the Imperial Palace East Gardens, Tokyo: -



(Click for larger image) I might even make this my wallpaper!

[kalniel]

Really nice Gerrard.

[kalniel]

You'll like it.. not a lot...