Marcel's 2016 occasional photos

Marcel · Aug 1, 2016

RON said:
No. 3 is awesome!!!!!!!!

Thanks Ron.

Marcel · Aug 2, 2016

Morning picture. Bronzer (13 images) stitched with PS CC. D700, sigma 105 @ 2.8 manual mode and focus to get same exposure and shallow DoF. The psd file is about 120 MB and could probably be printed 4x6 feet.

Marcel · Aug 2, 2016

The birds didn't eat them all, thanks to our cat that's been watching over the blueberries. Wit the morning mist, they are just mouth watering. Out of camera jpeg cropped a bit.

Marcel · Aug 2, 2016

Another stitched photo. 12 different images that didn't overlap enough for photoshop to blend, so I had to do the manual blending of the layers... Not even sure it was worth it, but I wanted to try the experience. Done from jpegs, the original file would make a 36x36 print at 300 dpi.

hark · Aug 2, 2016

Marcel said:
The birds didn't eat them all, thanks to our cat that's been watching over the blueberries. Wit the morning mist, they are just mouth watering. Out of camera jpeg cropped a bit.

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Umm...is that a little bit of drool on them?

Nice one, Marcel!

Marcel · Aug 2, 2016

hark said:
Umm...is that a little bit of drool on them? Nice one, Marcel!

No Cindy, just the morning mist.

Marcel · Aug 3, 2016

Zen was the theme of my morning.

Small creek that I had to take with the Fuji X-E2 since it can focus with a ND8+polarizer to get the long exposures.

And Boudhist Monks doing a Mandala with the Df.

Marcel · Aug 4, 2016

Flowers of the day.

Marcel · Aug 5, 2016

Today is still Macro mode. D700, Sigma 150 Apo-Macro 2.8.

These two were fighting in our bird bath. They both gave up and split after a little while.

hark · Aug 5, 2016

I'm not into bugs, but this last shot is pretty interesting!

Marcel · Aug 7, 2016

Thistle flowers that look like wedding pics.

Happy couple

family

nephews & nieces

Friends

Marcel · Aug 9, 2016

Daily shots, d700 Sigma 150 macro

Marcel · Aug 10, 2016

Today I decided to go B&W with the Df. So I used the Monochrome setting on the camera and used jpegs.

Marcel · Aug 11, 2016

The shadow is more impressive than the beast itself.

hark · Aug 11, 2016

Marcel, did you have to do a lot of post processing to adjust the black & white, or did the camera do a pretty good job?

Marcel · Aug 11, 2016

If you are talking about yesterday's shots, I still had to adjust a bit of contrast and brightness, and I burned a few offending elements that I wanted to subdue. For the Spider, I had to crank up the contrast to accentuate the shadow which attracted me to the picture to start with.