Rocky's 365 Thread - 2014

RockyNH_RIP

RockyNH_RIP

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Day 77 - March 18th, 2014..... It was a nice day today... nice and sunny and mid 30 deg F.

Moon shot from this Morning.....

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These 2 show the progress in the QC Lab! The main area ceiling was finished today and 1 CMM moved in.

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The bird feeders were full today!

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happy days All!

Pat in NH
 
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Day 78 - March 19th, 2014..... Tommorow is the 1st day of Spring and we are supposed to get snow tonight, go figure! :)


Today's Moon.... CMM in place in our new addition...

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3rd shift worker (WA).... beaver at Horseshoe Pond

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Birds at the Feeder......

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Pat in NH
 
RockyNH_RIP

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Day 79 - March 20th, 2014..... Happy Spring! Had an inch or so of snow last night but melted today as the temps reached high 40's (F)

All pictures taken today at work..... D7100 & 18-105


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Pat in NH
 
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grandpaw

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RockyNH said:
Day 78 - March 19th, 2014..... Tommorow is the 1st day of Spring and we are supposed to get snow tonight, go figure! :)


Today's Moon.... CMM in place in our new addition...

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3rd shift worker (WA).... beaver at Horseshoe Pond

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Birds at the Feeder......

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Pat in NH
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Pat, when you post pictures this size I can't make them any bigger so I can look at them because when I put my pointer over the picture the data screen that pops up and covers the picture and it prevents me from making it larger.
 
RockyNH_RIP

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grandpaw said:
Pat, when you post pictures this size I can't make them any bigger so I can look at them because when I put my pointer over the picture the data screen that pops up and covers the picture and it prevents me from making it larger.
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Jeff, Thanks! I was not aware of that... I was able to enlarge by grabbing off the right edge but you are correct, the rest is covered... I will watch that!~ Learn something new every day! :)

Pat in NH
 
RockyNH_RIP

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Day 80 - March 21st, 2014..... TGIF, happy this week is over!! Had a few Bird shots today and uploaded those to the 'Birds' thread... here are the others for the 365....

More of my QC Lab coming together...

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Row of parts drying from Pad Printing Logo's

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New Laser Marking machine.....

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New Plastic machining center...

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Sampling of a new part.....

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Stump up through the snow... (Spring??)

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have fun shooting!

Pat in NH
 
RockyNH_RIP

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Day 81 - March 22nd, 2014..... Wishing all a great weekend..... Saturday today and I headed to the range. Needed to test fire the modifications I made to 2 of my pistols.... On the way, stopped at a local farm and got a few animal shots....


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Wouldn't you know it, around 1:30 it started snowing!!!!!! I am tired of it!!! :(
(fortunately it was a short snow burst)

Pat in NH
 
RockyNH_RIP

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Day 82 - March 23rd, 2014..... Chilly morning... supposed to be cold overnight and then Tuesday night another possible snow event (Nor'easter) is scheduled to hit. Spent today doing Family Tree and taxes... and still have sight adjustments on my Ruger. This morning, we went out to breakfast and I planned to shoot some downtown Nashua scenes (WA). Weather was poor as was light... so I grabbed a few around the breakfast location and will save the rest for a better weekend (not so grey and overcast..)

These were all shot with the D7100 and Tokina 12 - 24mm.

Construction of pollution control project near the Merrimack & Nashua Rivers

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Skateboard Park

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BAE Systems Nashua

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Nancy's Diner, Nashua... wife waiting! :)

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Another shot in the diner

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Bypass of Nashua River around Jackson Falls...

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Railroad tracks along walkway....

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Jackson Fall, Nashua River...

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Pat in NH
 
RockyNH_RIP

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Day 83 - March 24th, 2014..... Cold this morning, down to about 8 deg F... The good news is that latest reports for the winter storm Wed indicate it may miss me!! Hoping :)

Here are today's photos....


A couple tooling shots at our maintenance bench

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Bird down by the feeder.......

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and another at the feeder.....

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This was over to Horseshoe pond......

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The was shot into the swamp at Horseshoe...

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Pat in NH
 
Marcel

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RockyNH said:
Day 83 - March 24th, 2014..... Cold this morning, down to about 8 deg F... The good news is that latest reports for the winter storm Wed indicate it may miss me!! Hoping :)


Bird down by the feeder.......

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Pat in NH
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Pat, I see something wrong with these. I don't mean to critic, but would like to lead you to improvement. I think the iso is too low and so is the shutter speed, and (just a suspicion) the VR might be turned on. Am I right? I suspect that when you depress the shutter, the VR hasn't had time to stabilize and is causing some blur, or your shutter speed is simply too slow for these very quickly moving birds. Crop and exposure are right on, but the blur can be improved. With the camera you have, you could bring the iso up to 800 easily without too much loss. And the little you could loose in resolution, you'll gain in crispiness of the birds.

Nice shop shots too.
 
RockyNH_RIP

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Marcel said:
Pat, I see something wrong with these. I don't mean to critic, but would like to lead you to improvement. I think the iso is too low and so is the shutter speed, and (just a suspicion) the VR might be turned on. Am I right? I suspect that when you depress the shutter, the VR hasn't had time to stabilize and is causing some blur, or your shutter speed is simply too slow for these very quickly moving birds. Crop and exposure are right on, but the blur can be improved. With the camera you have, you could bring the iso up to 800 easily without too much loss. And the little you could loose in resolution, you'll gain in crispiness of the birds.

Nice shop shots too.
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Marcel, thank you for the critique and suggestions!! That is the best kind of critique, that which offers suggestions and as always, I appreciate it. I actually set the ISO lower than I usually do... so you may well be correct there. I will try those improvements later this week as I will be back to the feeders at least once or twice more. I also appreciate teh feedback regarding crop and exposure.


Curious on the VR, I would have thought I would have wanted it on shooting 300mm hand held. You were correct, it was on and I can see what you are saying... and if the shutter was fast enough, I should not need the VR??? Correct???

Thanks again, constructive criticism can only help me to improve...

Pat in NH
 
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Day 84 - March 25th, 2014..... Cold again this morning... storm rolls in tonight but we are hoping the worst stays out to sea...


Moon on the way in to work today...

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Our new wire machining center.....

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one row in our tool room......

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Parts measured and waiting for the next phase....

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Pat in NH
 
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RockyNH_RIP

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Day 85 - March 26th, 2014..... Cold The good news today is the winter storm stayed off shore and no snow... did get some winds and it was a grey day.


Old CMM is now re-installed--- and space for the new. I took the picture as they were supposed to be in to
install today. I was gonna take a series throughout the day... They postponed until tomorrow :(

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Job Clip Boards in the lab....

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A bird at the feeder.....

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Looking down Main Street in Nashua, NH

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A couple shots of steeples in town....

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Gull (on my way home)

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Pat in NH
 
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Vixen

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RockyNH said:
Marcel, thank you for the critique and suggestions!! That is the best kind of critique, that which offers suggestions and as always, I appreciate it. I actually set the ISO lower than I usually do... so you may well be correct there. I will try those improvements later this week as I will be back to the feeders at least once or twice more. I also appreciate teh feedback regarding crop and exposure.


Curious on the VR, I would have thought I would have wanted it on shooting 300mm hand held. You were correct, it was on and I can see what you are saying... and if the shutter was fast enough, I should not need the VR??? Correct???

Thanks again, constructive criticism can only help me to improve...

Pat in NH
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I find birds hard to shoot, especially small birds because you have to zoom in so far, and that makes focussing hard.
I found what works for myself, especially for moving birds, is to set ISO to 400 and aperture to biggest the lens will allow and then stick it in aperture priority. On a sunny day this gives you shitter speeds up at 1/1200 or faster and helps to greatly eliminate camera shake. I have VR on of course coz I'm talking hand held ;)
 
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Vixen said:
I find birds hard to shoot, especially small birds because you have to zoom in so far, and that makes focussing hard.
I found what works for myself, especially for moving birds, is to set ISO to 400 and aperture to biggest the lens will allow and then stick it in aperture priority. On a sunny day this gives you shitter speeds up at 1/1200 or faster and helps to greatly eliminate camera shake. I have VR on of course coz I'm talking hand held ;)
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LOL....thought i'd just leave that there :D
 
RockyNH_RIP

RockyNH_RIP

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Vixen said:
I find birds hard to shoot, especially small birds because you have to zoom in so far, and that makes focussing hard.
I found what works for myself, especially for moving birds, is to set ISO to 400 and aperture to biggest the lens will allow and then stick it in aperture priority. On a sunny day this gives you shitter speeds up at 1/1200 or faster and helps to greatly eliminate camera shake. I have VR on of course coz I'm talking hand held ;)
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Thanks! I also shoot my birds handheld... especially winter .... Appreciate the comments!

pat in NH
 
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