Cumbria UK - A simple sheep shed

I am in the UK this week for work but had the weekend free to drive through the Lake District in Northern England. The weather was wet and overcast giving a filtered diffused light. The high contrast between shadows and the bright background were difficult to manage. Without any photo editing software on my PC I used my IPad to work on the photo.
I saturated the colours a bit and adjusted the contrast a little. Any comments welcome.

Peter Wajngarten - Workshop of a previous post

This refers to a previous blog.  An attempt at cloning out the signage.  I used Lightroom for the cloning and it  is very quick and dirty attempt so don’t look too closely J .  Much better results can be achieved if care is taken.

Elephant washing in Malaysia - by Barend

I was lucky to spend a few days in Malaysia last month and visited the elephant sanctuary.

They took the elephants for a wash in the river. This shot was taken with my 50- 200mm zoom lense.

I like the way the water forms an arc over the rider, but wish he had turned to face me  for this shot.

 

 

MELBOURNE SUNSET

Melbourne Sunset, taken at sunset from Chapel St. bridge, f13 @ 1/125sec.
ISO140. WHILE WAITING TO DO NIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY FOR OUR UPCOMING COMPETITION,
FOUND THIS GEM, I THINK.

Spiderback

We have all heard of piggy back, this is a spider carrying her young on her back. Taken hand held - it makes my skin crawl every time I look at it. Yuk!

Reflections ...Where to Crop

Happy with the shot ..Nikon 18-200mm lens set on f 6.3 @1/80^th

But where do I crop? On the right hand side of Image A the yellow sign distracts, but when I crop it out...see Image B the edge of the boat shed is cropped ....does the overall composition look better in A or B ...would appreciate your comments....Gary Leete

Bath Time by Gary Leete

I really like this shot. Taken with my Nikon 5000 with a Tamron Telephoto 150-500, at 1/1000^th  on f6.3

I just happen to be in the area and saw these two birds, they are Masked Lapwings,  on the river just below the bridge at Lorne Victoria.

I had the telephoto lens on the camera so I was able to get a good close up.  I believe a telephoto lens provides a shallower depth of field at any aperture, so that combined with the f stop of f6.3 possibly explains why the second bird is out of focus. Maybe I should have been smarter and changed the aperture to say f11. I wish I could remember to make all the changes that are required for changing situations...maybe the answer is auto!!!    

Melbourne Grand Prix

Fast cars need fast shutter speeds - 

This was taken using 1/4000th of a second.

Referree's point of view

This photo was taken at the Gridiron in Gippsland last weekend. The referee's glasses are in perfect focus while the players in the distance are blurry. I wonder what the referee saw of the game.

from Gary Leete, MPC

Exercise in D of F

 

Here are two images I took with my Nikon Macro 102 mm lens . Both were taken using a tripod and remote release, and without changing the camera position.

 

Image A was at f8 @ 1/60^th ...and image B was at f11 @ 1/60^th  

 

I was trying to drop out the background with the f8 setting but as you can see more of the image was in focus with the f11 setting. I am trying to improve my macro photography skills through a combination of aperture settings and single point focusing.

 

Any comments would be appreciated.....if you are interested the fungi are  Geoglossum sp......or commonly know as  “Earth Tongues “   

 

From Gary Leete

This is a test - Uploading photo by email

This photo was uploaded to the Maroondah Photographic Society Coffee Table Blog site by Barend van den Hoek on 13 June 2011.

All members are invited to comment on this photo and post photos of their own.

Members will be provided with instructions at the club meeting on 15 June.