Eyelight's First Click of the Day

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Eyelight

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Thought I would try some sort of a regular photo post, to encourage myself to learn something new. So, these pics won't necessarily be the best shot, but the shot that I gave a little thought before clicking. I do plan to post only the first shot of the day, though may not post every day's first shot, due to various reasons.

So, here we go. My original 35mm film camera had a combination split-image, microprism, matte focusing screen. Three ways to focus manually as compared to one with the D3200. I relied heavily on the split-image of the film camera, so focusing has been a bit of an issue with the D3200; both manually and catching when the auto-focus misinterprets the focus point. So, the purpose of this shot was simply keeping the subject in the depth of field. I guessed the auto-focus could work with the subject, and it seemed to, so the first shot is a success.

PSE Auto Smart Fix Applied and a slight crop.

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Lawrence

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Yes the old split image micro prism certainly was useful. But great job on this one and thankfully so because ….
when I saw the heading I was very apprehensive about looking not knowing what I might find. ;)
 
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Eyelight

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I heard a bird outside the window this morning that was screaming (chirping) for me to come out and take it's picture. Took me a bit to get out the door and as usual the bird was gone and all the chirps I could hear were too distant for my taste.

Shortly though, a flying creature of another sort invaded my peripheral vision.

First click, cropped to roughly 1/3 (6016 -2070 pixels wide).

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Eyelight

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Mount Kill-a-ant-jar-o

Not that exciting, but an acceptable first click.

I was attempting to catch an ant at the top edge of the "crater" and he veered right like an over-steered dirt-track race car. These little fellers just fly.

Another first as I worked it thru LR5 just to play with the sliders a bit.

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Eyelight

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I must confess, this is click number two. Somebody forgot to check settings before click #1. But I suppose this was the first click after brain engagement.

A reptilian rendezvous.

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Eyelight

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Decided to step out last night and look for comet dust. Had a clear sky, but not a very good location. Rather than walk out to a clearing with no man-light, I opted to play with a street lamp, a tree and a constellation.

First click was a little overwhelmed by the street lamp, which created a solar system of it's own "in a galaxy far, far away.
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Blacktop

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Eyelight said:
Thought I would try some sort of a regular photo post, to encourage myself to learn something new. So, these pics won't necessarily be the best shot, but the shot that I gave a little thought before clicking. I do plan to post only the first shot of the day, though may not post every day's first shot, due to various reasons.

So, here we go. My original 35mm film camera had a combination split-image, microprism, matte focusing screen. Three ways to focus manually as compared to one with the D3200. I relied heavily on the split-image of the film camera, so focusing has been a bit of an issue with the D3200; both manually and catching when the auto-focus misinterprets the focus point. So, the purpose of this shot was simply keeping the subject in the depth of field. I guessed the auto-focus could work with the subject, and it seemed to, so the first shot is a success.

PSE Auto Smart Fix Applied and a slight crop.

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Why is my dog Max lifting his legs?:redface-new:
 
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Eyelight

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A true first click. Not the best exposure, but some extensive LR5 work seem to give it enough life to save it from the last keystroke.

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Eyelight

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First creative click. OK, I did not use my Nikon, or any visible light camera. This is an image of the night sky as seen in the thermal infrared portion of the EM spectrum. It's not a real high resolution image, so I played with it in PSE and LR5 to smooth it out a little just for fun.

As opposed to visible light or infrared light images which show reflected energy, the colors here represent radiated (and some reflected) energy in varying levels; the darker colors being cooler temperature and the brighter colors being warmer.

Trees below the wispy clouds and the moon above.
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Eyelight

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Thought I would back up and share the very first click with the D3200. It was late night when I returned from the initial NAS treatment, but I thought I'd see what it could do. The subject is not all that fantastic, but the result was more or less astounding, all things considered, low light hand held, etc.

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Eyelight

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A little bit of an odd first click, but hey, sometimes the first click is a little bit odd.

Different ideas out there in the world about using filters to protect the lens. This is why you need a filter if you routinely shoot in hostile environments.

This is a CP filter on my 55-200mm with a little dust on it.
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or maybe it's more than a little dust. Let's look a bit closer.
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Why it's better to carry lens cloth than use a shirttail. Shirttails have oil on them. (no offense to shirttail users:friendly_wink:)
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BTW, the hostile environment to a lens is one that is not in a hermetically sealed envelope.
 
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