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ah,, finnally a Spring day,, which I got to spend outdoors, all day.. I was mobile, so,, I just carried three primes, one on the camera, and on in each pocket, the 20mm 3.5 old manual, a 28 mm autofocus, and a 85 mm AF, perfect, easy to switch out, and lighten the load. As a bonus, each...

Laughs,, I have found a useful purpose for my photographs,,, as a relaxing means of falling to sleep.. Sure, Sure, these are my folders of keepers, but ,, I find if I put the pictures in slide show mode, and just let it go,,, well,, after just a while,,, my mind will go blank,, which is the...

age vs youth

When you create photographs, most often the What of the subject is the first objective, what exactly are you photographing, The more subtle is the why, why exactly are you framing the shot, and what is the message or story if any you want to convey. I confess that most of my shots fall in the...

itty bitty desert flower captured with my 60mm macro.

and here is a wild horse past sunset, hand held using the older Nikkor 80-400 lens I am pleased with the results for how dark it was (I already needed lights) here is another one without the 400mm, I could not have gotten this shot.

I know people are excited about the niew 80-400 nikkor, but frankly, I am impresssed with the older one. I lost one out in Vegas, but.... housekeeping was honest, turns out, it was left in my room! Meantime, I am off to another trip in a couple weeks that demands a long tele (think topical...

Sometimes Chaos!

Death Valley!

A week over, and I am about 1/2 thru the edits, so, still about a 1:1 hours or more in editing versus taking photos. and that that does not include when you start layering in effects, I like to start with the low lying fruit, and then next some photo merges, followed by HDR shots, and then...

and here is the famous arch with a bit of a vintage treatment

Many of the Vegas area shots need stitching to really capture, even with my wide angle, the space is just so expansive. Like:

On this trip, I worked on inclusion of people if they were either the story, or part of the scene, where historically, I would patiently wait, and wait, this time, I would not exclude if the person/people added to the story. Of course, I still waitied until empty, or later cloned out people on...

sometimes you wonder with all the progress of the cameras why skys are still sometimes with fringing, and even yuck, perhaps its an artifact of the lens, but in some light conditions, it still seems like sky can be hard to get right, especially around the boundary of the primary subject, and...

In my desire to reduce the number of laptops, I loaded my work Laptop with ViewNx, but,, it must have been an earlier version. I tested it of course,, and it downloaded my D800 onto,, so,, seemed to be ok,, even looking at properties.. So,, came back and tried to open the raw on my other...

The smallness of man

and for those that don't think the D800 is an action camera: quick burst shot.

While Adobe CS has replaced my PTGUI work flow for photo panos,, but not for HDR flow. I compared the results between CS HDR and Photomatrix,, and no comparison in my view, way better control and results. I have just started some of my HDR shots, and now regret I did not do more bracketed...

I shot this with my 15 mm 3.5,, never used it as macro, but darn, it does a nice job.. what a gem of a lens. find them why you can!

I have started the photo picking/editing stage of the trip,, I started mostly with the people shots, and a few of the buildings/landscapes, and keep diving into the folders. I personally don't start at A and go to Z,, but tend to jump around a lot when picking which photo to edit, maybe it is...