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Playing with HDR again. This is a three exposure HDR. These were done with the free software Luminance HDR.

Another attempt at an HDR image. Still I am not doing this correctly. I took one image and changed the exposure values in LR and used two images. I like what I got but I know this is not correct.

I been stuck on Facebook all afternoon with Don! :p

Not wanting to waste the whole afternoon I made all attempts to capture some of those non-posed moments and intimate moments between people who may not see each other very often. These will mean things only to those who know who are in the photos but I guess that is what makes family memories.

Now I mentioned some of those that were just wanting their photo taken wherever they were at the moment. I just did the best I could do. Use my lens to blur the background as much as possible and keep as much of the background as possible out of my photo. Those mostly looked like this. I don't...

Ok well, I am not going to start a new thread and bore you all with photos of my family and their friends. I will just post a few more in here and let that be representative of how most of the shoot went for me. I don't know how many of you have encountered this but, do you ever go to shoot...

Whew! Long day. I only managed about 135 shots. Lighting was fine with no real issues whatsoever. What was a problem was the location and the condition of the interior of the room. Walls were horrible and cluttered everywhere. Just not set up for good background at all. I made do with...

Not a wedding, but not that much different. I have been asked to shoot the reception party for my aunt's 90th birthday party reception. I k now the building and it has fluorescent lights inside. It also has windows along the outside perimeter but they are small. I do not remember the...

This is how I imagine the lighting should have been. If I am incorrect please speak up as I am interested in this and am learning as I go as well.

Ok. I see a few things that you need to change. But, I need to know if you are using the 1.4 converter on these? That will change the amount of light you are getting and will affect things a bunch. Second, how close can you get to the birds? Can you get set up within 10 feet of where they...

Day #44 Playing with the Nikon AF-S Nikkor 18-70mm "DX" lens a little. I don't use this lens much but I have read that it is a very sharp lens. It does seem to be just about as sharp as my 50mm f/1.8 but only more in the center where the 50mm is sharp almost everywhere. The new $100 USD Bill

Day #43 Playing with close focus of the 50mm f/1.8 lens. There will be no EXIF on this shot as it was done with manual exposure and reverse mount lens. I took this photo on Wednesday February 12th. As shot. Cropped

These are crops, still at 100% view, of some of those images above.

Here are some better examples of the detail that you can get with this reverse 50 rig if you are careful with the focus and have light without shadow. This is the new $100 USD bill I got today. None of these are cropped and none are sharpened. These are 100% out of camera, with minor...

And the final shot with a little more DOF

Here is another with slightly more DOF.

Here I used a pencil and a sharpener to get some shavings. This was easier to focus on and I did similarly with aperture to get less, then more, DOF at each shot. The first shot is a 100% crop of the uncropped shot below it to give an example. And for comparison this is about as close...

Seeing Scotts macro shots using his rig I thought I would post some macros here using a simple macro reverse ring and a 50mm "D" lens with adjustable aperture ring. The ring is a simple metal ring with a bayonet lug on one side and filter threads on the other. You click the bayonet mount into...

Very impressive stuff Mai! You really do have some beautiful work! Actually, you are my inspiration for pet photography! Here is my second attempt at a studio type portrait (of myself) using one primary light off camera (brolly box) and a key light (beauty dish) above camera.