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January 22 Some outtakes from an "Abstract Landscape" challenge. All motion and blurring shot in camera with long shutter speeds and a 9 stop ND. First handheld, second handheld out the window at 40mph.

You mean for something like this? (SOOC w/ 24-120mm on D750 - have a few of these I need to process) I can certainly get closer in cases, but I can't always guarantee they'll be there. I have some shots with the 70-200mm but they're on a D610 - if I had thought they'd be there I would have...

January 21 Those Snow Geese I just missed last weekend? Found 'em.

January 20 With snow coming this weekend I went to move the garbage cans off the driveway. It's amazing the amount of water that can get through a hole smaller than one inch in the top of your spare recycle trash can, particularly when you don't open it for 4 or 5 months. Almost threw my back...

January 19 Playing with a little masking and background replacement for a project I'm working on. Need more practice with Refine Edge in Ps.

January 18 Lesson learned today - Ireally, really, really need to learn how to shoot with flash. I need to make that a goal while I'm trapped inside during the cold winter months. I truly suck at it. OK, so with that said, I was also messing with my 50mm and took this one. Then, for...

January 17 This is one of those "almost" shots. I took the scenic route on the way to grab a newspaper and as I crested one of the big hills near me I saw swarms of Snow Geese rising out of a nearby quarry (formerly belonged to the Edison Concrete Works, owned by that Edison). Had I taken the...

January 16 Spent most of my weekend on house projects and shooting for other stuff I can't post yet, so for today you get a little Beertography...

Was stitching some panoramas in Lightroom over the weekend and when I went to check something in the folder the original Raw images were in I noticed something completely unexpected - XMP sidecar files were created for each of the panos segments. I have Lr set up to store edits in the catalog...

FYI, if it hasn't been mentioned, LR and ACR will do this as well. In the Lens Correction section there are various evaluation buttons that will auto-correct, either for Verticals, Horizontals, Full Perspective and an "Auto" which evaluates all of it and attempts to correct it in a balanced way...

Was watching Scott Kelly interviewed on the Late Show on Friday night and kept getting distracted by a couple things velcroed to the walls if the ISS. Looks like the 800mm f5.6 and the 500mm f4. You can handhold those suckers all day long in space, I suppose. Astronauts get all the...

They're nature's scavengers. Not predatory at all. We're backed to a field and we always know when a deer has dropped dead because they show up in the trees along the back of the yard. There's a spot about a mile from us along a stream where they seem to roost during the winter. I suppose...

January 15 A little natural light focus stacking practice during a conference call.

There's been some discussion about how I did the track image elsewhere so I thought I'd share that here as well. Pretty straight forward Ps editing. If Photoshop is "complicated" it's not because it's hard to use as much as there are so many basic tools you need to learn. Once you know them...

Flashback Image As I mentioned above, occasionally I'll have to delay posting something because of an image being posted elsewhere. Here's the first, taken on January 7. It's an IR image taken at a spot I'd shot IR before. I was hoping for the same level of false color I'd gotten previously...

January 14 Playing with the bokeh on my Sony 50mm f1.8 while I still have daylight And yes, it's been that kinda day. Yes, I know it's not shot with a Nikon, but the combination of the a6000 and this 50mm is a really nice, fun combo.

When my brother dropped off a pair of 1D's for me to play with he pretty much said the same thing. In a pinch he'll go to 1600 but preferred to stay at 800. With the D750 I actually never think about ISO in most situations. Here's 12800 straight out of the camera, zero adjustments 100%...

January 13 OK, this image sucks unless you realize that it was shot with a D7100 in a way that rendered it nearly 60K pixels wide. It's a close-up pano process that I'm practicing and I promise to post better stuff with it eventually, but since this is a long-ass year and this is all I had...

January 12 I saw a video on Phlearn about how to add snow to a photograph, and while I don't necessarily like the idea of faking reality in photography knowing how to do manipulations like this can come in handy when you need something there and can't wait on the weatherman. We got just a...

Oh lord, what have I done?!?! ;) Here's one of the first I did - actually I think it is the first. I learned the technique from someone who participated in a "Flip 'n Blend" photo challenge on another site. There are things you can do to take this way beyond simple twirls and it can get...