[eaglem]

Deep veined Deep Pink Rose

[jabobby]

The last couple of pages are loaded with some wonderful photos & good comments, this forum sure has many very talented photographers and really good people.
Eric, in response to your question regarding B&W vs color, I agree with Racer and your remarks on the given sky and foreground, lots of choices. Of course some times it is a matter of simply subject, a beautiful example is the Friends shot by acoufap, a special look compared to all the normal flower shots.
Quite often I have said that each of us every day has choices of what to do, how to behave. And just as you stated with photography some are more popular than others. It is all about choices, what to do, what to like.
On that subject, I love sunsets & sunrises so here are a few sunsets shots on the old farm
Best Regards, Bob

[Rondec]

Patoka Lake (DFA 15-30 with pixel shift)



Tucker Lake (DFA 24-70 with pixel shift)

[Erictator]

The last couple of pages are loaded with some wonderful photos & good comments, this forum sure has many very talented photographers and really good people.
Eric, in response to your question regarding B&W vs color, I agree with Racer and your remarks on the given sky and foreground, lots of choices. Of course some times it is a matter of simply subject, a beautiful example is the Friends shot by acoufap, a special look compared to all the normal flower shots.
Quite often I have said that each of us every day has choices of what to do, how to behave. And just as you stated with photography some are more popular than others. It is all about choices, what to do, what to like.
On that subject, I love sunsets & sunrises so here are a few sunsets shots on the old farm
Best Regards, Bob

Thanks Bob! Yeah, there is a lot of Zen in photography for me...love a peaceful hike, take my time capturing a moment I know no one else has witnessed... my mood usually shows in my work, other times I'm clinical, just getting the tech stuff right, but I'll just keep shooting for the practice until a subject moves me, then the tech goes out the window as I scamper to make sure I catch the moment and perfection be damned. It's an inner struggle of our ocd and poet. Heh heh. Sometimes a photo is a dud, at least I find nothing evocative to me about it... flip it to B&W, re-crop it a different way and it can be a whole new ball game... and some are still duds, and wonder what I was thinking when I tried to catch it. LOL!

I like your sunrises too.
Eric

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For instance, these two... I didn't have my tripod, and I really wanted close and infinity focus, but even F11 @ 20mm wasn't enough, and if I stepped back I could have but I didn't want more foreground. The only way would have been to step back to where infinity scale said I would get it, and crop in post to the framing I wanted... but that just rubbed me wrong, I hate throwing away pixels... but in hindsight I wish I had taken the extra shots from further back, just to play with.

So, not realizing my original vision, I was playing around and tried color & B&W of each, and bizarrely in my minds eye, one, the woman looks better in color, and the other guy better in B&W. Basically same shots, flipped, but for some reason, I have a specific preference for each.

Pentax K-1 Tokina ATX II 20-35mm F3.5-4.5 ƒ/11.0 20.0 mm 1/200 iso160


Pentax K-1 Tokina ATX II 20-35mm F3.5-4.5 ƒ/11.0 27.0 mm 1/200 iso125

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[Patriot]

West Fork of Oak Creek, Arizona
D FA 24-70mm F2.8

[fs999]

Nice shots all !!

Whatsit?

Idontknow!

1. FF Mode • 100 ISO • Pentax DA* 200mm F2.8 ED SDM


2. FF Mode • 100 ISO • Soligor C/D Wide-Auto 20mm f:2.8


3. FF Mode • 400 ISO • Pentax DA* 55mm F1.4 SDM


4. Crop & Pixel Shift Mode • 200 ISO • HD Pentax DA 560mm F5.6 ED AW

[Sweets]

Love my old 28-70 on my K-1 ����… sorry, correction. It's my Sigma 70-200 ��

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[eaglem]

Getting stuck right in.............

[timautin]

Some wildlife these last days:

Willie wagtail:



Crested pigeon:



Rainbow lorikeet:



Crested tern:



Pied cormorant:

[ChatMechant]

With the Tamron 90mm 52bb macro wide open.

[Fenwoodian]

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Backyard Iris. Zeiss 85 Milvus on K1

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[eaglem]

A wet yellow flower........

[Rondec]

Tree at Patoka Lake



Reflections



Both shot with the DFA 15-30 using pixel shift feature.

[Rupert]

Been missing in action a while. Nope, not banned (again) for nasty words or arguing with Mods or letting squirrels run loose all over the place and creating turmoil. I have a bad case of pneumonia and have been on the Forum very little. Don't feel like shooting, posting, or much of anything but sleeping and trying to take all the meds and get better.
I do see you guys are still posting the most excellent of shots and when it seems they can't get any better ...they do!

Maybe I will be back around soon.....this is rough stuff, it could be a while. Meanwhile I did manage to shoot a couple of squirrels for those that are feeling "squirrel deprived".




Hope to recover and be back enjoying this fine thread sooner than later. Meanwhile, I hope someone can take over my responsibility of looking after FS.......I hear that in my absence he has backslid to posting his moon shots again.....so sad, he had been doing so well.

Best Regards!
Rupert

[Erictator]

Oh no! Get yourself better soon Rupert, and follow doc's orders. Try and stay vertical as long as you can stand it during the day, do the breathing exercise thing into that tube the doc prolly gave you and keep your lung capacity up.
Don't you go and do anything silly, you have to stick around to feed all those orphan squirrels that peanut sap!
Eric

Been missing in action a while. Nope, not banned (again) for nasty words or arguing with Mods or letting squirrels run loose all over the place and creating turmoil. I have a bad case of pneumonia and have been on the Forum very little. Don't feel like shooting, posting, or much of anything but sleeping and trying to take all the meds and get better.
I do see you guys are still posting the most excellent of shots and when it seems they can't get any better ...they do!

Maybe I will be back around soon.....this is rough stuff, it could be a while. Meanwhile I did manage to shoot a couple of squirrels for those that are feeling "squirrel deprived".




Hope to recover and be back enjoying this fine thread sooner than later. Meanwhile, I hope someone can take over my responsibility of looking after FS.......I hear that in my absence he has backslid to posting his moon shots again.....so sad, he had been doing so well.

Best Regards!
Rupert