Piperbarb's 2014 Project 365
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4-7-14:
Okay, it's raining, so I decided to take advantage of what rain does... leave water droplets on stuff. This is water droplets on a storm door window. I used my 90mm micro Nikkor lens. It had problems autofocusing on the droplets because there was not enough contrast in the droplets, so I put it on manual focus. In post processing, I converted it to B&W & upped the contrast. I like out it came out, especially with the graduated shading of the background.
Doing What Rain Does
Okay, it's raining, so I decided to take advantage of what rain does... leave water droplets on stuff. This is water droplets on a storm door window. I used my 90mm micro Nikkor lens. It had problems autofocusing on the droplets because there was not enough contrast in the droplets, so I put it on manual focus. In post processing, I converted it to B&W & upped the contrast. I like out it came out, especially with the graduated shading of the background.
Doing What Rain Does
4-8-14:
We have had a ton of rain, warm weather, and still, there are a few lonely piles of snow around.
Last Snow Standing
Although I love nuthatches, they do seem to intimidate the chickadees. This poor chickadee was happily eating seeds, when the nuthatch came in for a landing. The chickadee decided to move away a little and wait for the interloper to get its fill and leave.
You, Again?
We have had a ton of rain, warm weather, and still, there are a few lonely piles of snow around.
Last Snow Standing
Although I love nuthatches, they do seem to intimidate the chickadees. This poor chickadee was happily eating seeds, when the nuthatch came in for a landing. The chickadee decided to move away a little and wait for the interloper to get its fill and leave.
You, Again?
Half of the time I do not get to see the exif file. What was your shutter speed? For these speedy critters your shutter speed really has to be up there.
4-11-14:
After an insane week, and the beginning of the break, I took some photos but by the time I was going to post them, it was late and I was tired. Okay, so I am a few days late posting.
Here goes....
Late in the day photos result in shallow depth of field and long shutter speeds. I just love it when it looks like the deer's legs are evaporating. These guys were in my next door neighbor's backyard. There was a group of 5 and a group of 8 right near each other.
After an insane week, and the beginning of the break, I took some photos but by the time I was going to post them, it was late and I was tired. Okay, so I am a few days late posting.
Here goes....Late in the day photos result in shallow depth of field and long shutter speeds. I just love it when it looks like the deer's legs are evaporating.
These guys were in my next door neighbor's backyard. There was a group of 5 and a group of 8 right near each other.4-12-14:
It was a beautiful day yesterday so I thought I would take a drive up to Syracuse. I had not done that in a while. I knew there was a reason I always try to avoid going to Syracuse. I hate driving around Syracuse. It's a case of "you can't get there from here." In some areas, you can get back on I-81N but cannot get back on I-81S without going on another highway, in the opposite direction. It is totally counterintuitive. It does not help that I have no sense of direction.
Anyway, my purpose was to get a new acquisition. No, not a new lens, that will be next, but I went to the Apple store and got a new new 15" retina MacBook Pro. The resolution is beautiful. I did not realize how sharp some of my photos are until I looked at it on that display! It is way faster than my mid-2010 13" MacBook Pro. That's what a quad-core i7, 16GB RAM, and discrete GPU will do. Anyway, I was playing with my new toy most of the afternoon and evening: transferring files, installing software, and the like, and forgot to take a photo for the day. I took this photo very, very late. I was so tired when I took it, I did not realize it was a little crooked. I could have straightened it, but being a little off has its charms. :
My New Toy
It was a beautiful day yesterday so I thought I would take a drive up to Syracuse. I had not done that in a while. I knew there was a reason I always try to avoid going to Syracuse. I hate driving around Syracuse. It's a case of "you can't get there from here." In some areas, you can get back on I-81N but cannot get back on I-81S without going on another highway, in the opposite direction. It is totally counterintuitive. It does not help that I have no sense of direction.
Anyway, my purpose was to get a new acquisition. No, not a new lens, that will be next, but I went to the Apple store and got a new new 15" retina MacBook Pro. The resolution is beautiful. I did not realize how sharp some of my photos are until I looked at it on that display! It is way faster than my mid-2010 13" MacBook Pro. That's what a quad-core i7, 16GB RAM, and discrete GPU will do. Anyway, I was playing with my new toy most of the afternoon and evening: transferring files, installing software, and the like, and forgot to take a photo for the day. I took this photo very, very late. I was so tired when I took it, I did not realize it was a little crooked. I could have straightened it, but being a little off has its charms. :
My New Toy
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4-13-14:
Today was an absolutely beautiful day. I was able to get some photos today.
I was trying to get a photo of this chickadee when it decided to fly right at me, then over my head. No, it is not a case of Alfred Hitchcock's, "The Birds." I just startled the poor thing.
Free Flight
Taking photos, after the the sun dropped down behind the hill, of one of the two herds of deer that traverse both my backyard and my neighbor's can result in some weird looking eyeballs, especially if you use flash. I used the on-camera flash and was very surprised that the flash resulted in "vampire eyeballs," considering how far I was away from them. These are the same deer whose photos I posted on Friday.
As a break from weird critters, and bizarre photos of otherwise normal critters, I thought this would be a nice change. It is just water flowing down along a drainage ditch. Running water, nice and relaxing.
Free Flowing
Today was an absolutely beautiful day. I was able to get some photos today.
I was trying to get a photo of this chickadee when it decided to fly right at me, then over my head. No, it is not a case of Alfred Hitchcock's, "The Birds." I just startled the poor thing.
Free Flight
Taking photos, after the the sun dropped down behind the hill, of one of the two herds of deer that traverse both my backyard and my neighbor's can result in some weird looking eyeballs, especially if you use flash. I used the on-camera flash and was very surprised that the flash resulted in "vampire eyeballs," considering how far I was away from them. These are the same deer whose photos I posted on Friday.
As a break from weird critters, and bizarre photos of otherwise normal critters, I thought this would be a nice change. It is just water flowing down along a drainage ditch. Running water, nice and relaxing.
Free Flowing
RockyNH_RIP
Senior Member
You have some really good deer pictures!
Pat in NH
Pat in NH
Pat,
Thanks. We have more than our share of them. I never really have to go to far to get photos of them. They are either in my front yard, or in my or my neighbor's backyard. They do not scare easily, either. They like all those nice, manicured gardens. And we used to think the rabbits and woodchucks were garden killers.
Even the dog is miserable. She is looking out the window, looking rather dismayed.
It will be gone by early norming, no doubt. It is just that it is the middle of April. Winter ended almost a month ago!
Same thing here. Sometimes the Big Ranger just likes to mess with us. On the bright side, you got a nice photo out of it.4-15-14:
This is mid-April. Yesterday was in the high 60s. Today, the snow is starting to stick on the ground. This is just wrong...
This is Just Wrong...
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What's Wrong With This Picture?
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