Topic: Fall Photography Thread

[Triple Bob]

The Center of the Universe at night.

Where did you take that from Spock? Cool shot!

[vdk]

^ Central Island.

[dr_spock]

Where did you take that from Spock? Cool shot!

Thanks.  I took the shot while on the Empress of Canada cruising around Centre Island and Toronto waterfront.
 

[Leviathan]

Neat.  How did he/she do that?  A graduated natural density filter? 

I asked and here is the response:

No filter. Zoomed in to 300mm on my zoom which made sun look big. But it was already larger than normal due to diffraction or whatever.

[Triple Bob]

Where did you take that from Spock? Cool shot!

Thanks.  I took the shot while on the Empress of Canada cruising around Centre Island and Toronto waterfront.

Cool, I'm going to centre island next week to get my skyline shot that I've been after.

[safristi]

"CENTRAL" island  have the Ewoks landed................. .......it'd nude beach and swanky yacht club mixed with 3 months of Coney island on a small scale tat ISLAND............nice Ferry' cross the MURPHY..........tho'...take yer Jacket this time of year Bob........bet ya th'y it woz gonna be Gerry & the pacemakers...........

[HeliDriver]

I stopped for lunch and thought I'd build a little fire to cook some hot dogs. Oops - I guess I got carried away with the lighter fluid.

So now you Calgary folks know where all that smoke is coming from. 

[Brig]

   Wow!

[Cord]

Just happened to look up while walking the dog and spotted this perky little fungus.

[Brig]

LOVE that shot, Cord!  And how cool is that symmetry?   

[mwqa]

Why'd the caterpillar cross the road?

I've no idea, which is why I moved him onto the shoulder before he got squished.

Then I took a picture of him. 

[Bubba]

Why'd the caterpillar cross the road?

I've no idea, which is why I moved him onto the shoulder before he got squished.

Then I took a picture of him. 

He looks annoyed with the paparazzi. 

[Triple Bob]

Another cool macro mwqa, and great mushroom shot Cord!

[Dexer]

I took this picture this afternoon. I'm still playing around with the new Sigma and I wanted to try some "live action" macro. Admittedly, I had to crop this one for composition because the magnification of the lens is 1:3 in which isn't close enough to come really tightly onto the bee. Fortunately, the image quality is good enough that it tolerates some cropping.

[Brig]

   I would kill to have that kind of capability.  You can actually see the pollen on the bee's legs!  WOW!

[dr_spock]

Come visit Toronto. 

[Leviathan]

I took this picture this afternoon. I'm still playing around with the new Sigma and I wanted to try some "live action" macro. Admittedly, I had to crop this one for composition because the magnification of the lens is 1:3 in which isn't close enough to come really tightly onto the bee. Fortunately, the image quality is good enough that it tolerates some cropping.

Nice picture  It's the bee's knees 

[Dexer]

Here's a closer crop of the first photo...and a second photo of a bee in flight.

I'm really pleased with the new lens which, ironically, I never really intended to use as a macro lens. I just wanted to use it as a normal lens. It also points to one of my preferences with Olympus which is the in-body image stabilization. Although lens based IS is arguably superior, I like the in-body IS because it allows me to use something like the Sigma with a degree of stabilization. These shots are hand held.

[Bubba]

Here's a closer crop of the first photo...and a second photo of a bee in flight.

 

[safristi]

  yer such a Pansy Winkie .....it won't sting...........................awww my god get orff me.....Ow   OW  OWWWW,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,when the bee stings those are a few o f my least fav things................

     that is an ugly lookin' bee tho'.......pick a cute one next time........