The Backdoor Hippie's Ranchopalooza of Inconsistently Posted Images - 2013 Version
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Tree Frog...
This is insanely cute! How did you use your flash?
BackdoorArts
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I'm woefully unprepared as I'm on a trip to help my parents thru some health issues. This is just the pop-up flash on the D600 and my Sigma 105mm with the hood removed.
Don Kuykendall_RIP
RIP :(
Well, the best equipment we have is what we have with us. It looks good no matter what.
BackdoorArts
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Absolutely, Don. Learn to work with what you've got and you'll always be better off when you add the next tool to the toolbox.
Thanks for the info. The photo is terrific!
Seeing the catch lights made me wonder how you captured the image--the photo is even more amazing knowing you used the pop-up flash! Like Don said, we need to use what we've got at hand. :encouragement: And knowing these little guys are extremely small, you captured impressive detail--I'm loving your Sigma 105mm macro more and more.
BackdoorArts
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Headed home after 10 days in FL dealing with health issues with Dad. I didn't have a lot of time to shoot, but I grabbed them when I could. Lots to go through on the plane ride home ... if I can stay awake. Here's some bee shots from this morning. There may be better but I wanted to get something up...
RockyNH_RIP
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Jake, hope that things are better with your dad now. Safe trip home...
Pat in NH
Pat in NH
BackdoorArts
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Thanks, all. Circle of Life stuff with parents getting older. Dad was doing fine until an incident yesterday due to an overprescribing of blood pressure meds coming out of rehab (they increased his dose due to stress but never dropped it on discharge and never told us) caused him to faint yesterday (thankfully Mom and I were there and he didn't fall). Back in NJ after getting him checked in for a night of monitoring in the hospital - not easy to leave under those conditions, but you have to leave eventually.
BackdoorArts
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The flight home left me with time to start going through the pics from FL. Dad has a Night Blooming Cereus in the front, which produces these huge blooms 2 or 3 times a year - they start just after dark and collapse on themselves as the sun hits them. He's bragged on them for years but I've never been there during a bloom ... until this past week. Flower pics to come, but here are some more shots of the bevy of bees that hurry to grab the pollen from the giant blooms at sunrise before they die off.
BackdoorArts
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As shown in the ExIf, the D600.
As shown in the ExIf, the D600.
All right Jake, you can laugh all you want
, with my Mac, in order for me to see the exif I have to save the file to disk and then open it with Mac viewer. In my older age, time is getting precious so I went the lazy way and asked you. I'd love to be able to read exits of posted pictures without having to save them to my computer first. And sometimes when I do, the exif isn't even there...Have a nice day! And keep the nice shots coming our way.
BackdoorArts
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All right Jake, you can laugh all you want, with my Mac, in order for me to see the exif I have to save the file to disk and then open it with Mac viewer. In my older age, time is getting precious so I went the lazy way and asked you. I'd love to be able to read exits of posted pictures without having to save them to my computer first. And sometimes when I do, the exif isn't even there...
Have a nice day! And keep the nice shots coming our way.
Marcel, I'm on a Mac too!! I use the FxIF plugin for Firefox and it works just fine. It took me a while to find one that works with a Mac but this one does. That said, I'll try and remember to post basic info with the pics. I link from Flickr so you should always be able to get it on my photos.
And btw, I have no idea why the wink emoticon is laughing.
All right Jake, you can laugh all you want
Have a nice day! And keep the nice shots coming our way.
Marcel, I have something for you if you run Safari. I use ExifExt, when the extension installed all I do is right click and select it from the menu and it displays the exif info on the image. Very cool and quick. I got tired of downloading as well. If you run Safari, just select the Safari menu and go to the Extension store so to speak, not sure what the official name is and search for it. Just select Photo category, then at the top of the list sort alphabetically and then scroll down. Its a great utility. There is also Backtrack that allows you to do a reverse search on the image, played around it and works as well if you want to find the source of an image or other sites that display it. I think you can do the same with Google, but never tried it. The Backtrack puts a right click menu option as well and it uses Tiny Eye to reverse track it.
No, I did not develop or work for them, just found them by accident.
BackdoorArts
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Thanks, Kevin.
And so I'm complete with the information, these are all handheld with the D600 with the Sigma 105mm f2.8 Macro, all post-processed in Lightroom 5, CS6 and with the Nik suite of tools (Dfine 2.0 and Viveza 2.0 on all, Color Efex Pro 4 on a couple of them using just the Detail Extractor filter).
And so I'm complete with the information, these are all handheld with the D600 with the Sigma 105mm f2.8 Macro, all post-processed in Lightroom 5, CS6 and with the Nik suite of tools (Dfine 2.0 and Viveza 2.0 on all, Color Efex Pro 4 on a couple of them using just the Detail Extractor filter).
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