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Picked up my D800 from its bath,, and it is always a thrill,, all sparkling clean,, from the mirror to the sensor, Almost as good as getting a brand new camera. Now that the camera is no longer a Pig, it changes my focus on the lens,,, find myself now cleaning each lens,, to rise the...

got to decide now the framing of the metalic print, I am thinking nonreflective glass in this case,, since the print already has that shine,, and will look better without the glare of the glass, so,, that will be more expensive. so,,, I'll have to now research, I guess I'll use my local shop...

The metalic print came today from Adromapix,, and its like beautiful.. really nice,,, gives it extra depth,, now granted choose a BW tree with fog,, so kinda matched to the print medium,, I am totally happy with the shipping/quality/look of the final print.. enough for me to try another...

must be spring,, I feel like buying something,,, maybe the results of dropping off my D800 at the camera store,,, mmmm looks up at the used gear,, oh hey tripods,, like I need another tripod,, but darn,, that elusive travel tripod,, the current one I have works but too flimsy,, pain in the...

Today,, I will bring my D800 to the camera store for a pro cleaning,, about time,, its filthy. after 2 years dragging it everywhere,, and countless lens changes. so,, considering,, overall,, it stayed fairly clean. I know I know,, can do it yourself,, I have the Artic Brush, and such, but...

No wonder we yearn for the Green of Spring,, day after day of dreary gray,, dirty snow, bare trees, good day for indoor shooting. but soon,, the dandelions will be popping up,, and so will the early ferns,, I love early ferns.. life will come bounding back. course, I know lots here don't...

slow sunday, gray gray day,, almost got out when the fog was out, but once I was ready, the wind had blown it away. I was about to print some pictures today,, and darn,, out of Cyan, seems like I just put one in,, that i is the trouble with these printers, they use up ink whether you use or...

one never knows,, what one sees,, as I was walking between two buildings,, I caught sight of the water flowing across the street and the patterns were amazing, I did not have my favorite camera or lens for this,, but did have my D7000 and the 18x200 nikkor,, which was fine. so,, here is the...

Adromapx is having a 40% off sale today on prints,, so,, did a test print of the metalic print,, never done one of those so I am curious,, and with the discount,, even with shipping was not too high of a risk 18 dollars with shipping. I picked I hope an interesting photo. maybe,, I'll...

Fun to meet a serious photographer,, and a Nikon user ! she shoots with a D90,, nothing wrong with that,, but did encourage a model that can meter old glass.. so much great glass out there,, and once you move up to a camera that can meter,, the world is your oyster, so many great lens out...

It is interesting to vary the amount of color in a shot,, taking it down, now I tend to have my JPEG set to vivid mode, normal saturation,, but that tends to boost the color some,, so if I edit from the JPEG, I often have to take the saturation down some, here is an example from the pepper...

Interesting and predictable to watch the arch of 500PX, now that the site has lured 10's of million pictures onto the site,, oh,,,, what's next,, why to license all those photos of course,,,, the site benefits greatly, and well a lucky few photographers get some cash,, but the vast majority...

oops,, my days are getting wrong,,,, this is day 254,, I tried a few more edits of the pepper,, this one almost reaches the exotic state,, even though only a plant... here is another of the series.. i typically don't do food,, but,, kinda fun,,, I actually used the sun as natural...

I was mostly hanging around the house,, and while getting ready for dinner,, saw the carcass of a yellow pepper,, and it fascinated me,,, I have seen lots of whole peppers, but not as much of the carcass as the good part is carved off for dinner,, so,, down to macro,, and on my knees...

been tone mapping photos today,, interesting how the final tweaks come in just takes a while to get the shot the way i want.. so for example,, here is the tone mapped shot. here is the pre shot.. that is too saturated for my taste . guess it depends on the taste on the vibrant or...

Early this morning,, the moon was simply perfect for photography,, it was bright, clear,, and the timing was perfect where it was early light,, so you could get a moon shot and still get a hint of sky,, and the angle was nice, that you could had easily include other objects,,, course,, I was...

so,,, mid week already,, and so,,, thinking weekend,, laughs,, and any photo opportunity. Still white snow, so no green stuff,, but,,, lots of huge ice potential soon,, as the lake begins to break up,, I am thinking huge ice sheets. so, potentially as the ice breaks,, and gets blown...

added to a lens forum discussion today, always a big topic, after all, part of the pleasure of SRLs are the fantastic lens. looks over, sees that I have my 20-35 2.8 Nikkor on my 800 at the moment. now that is one sweet lens . A clean copy runs about 550 dollars which is almost a steal...

Sometimes the boundary between Man and the world fascinates me,,, s,, I find my eyes drawn a bit to type of boundary .. like so a bit of the ying and yang,,, man and natural world,, with a boundary has to stay merged for the test of time.

nice lazy Sunday,, need to sort out the print shots from the trip,, maybe print 4-5 shots. I remember 10 years ago when I first got my larger format printer,, I went crazy and printed up a lots and lots of photos,, the ability of printing quality prints was so great compared to paying lots...