lucian
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Post by lucian on Nov 12, 2016 22:50:31 GMT
Cameras are a lot like potato chips - you can't have just one. At work I used a Nikon D200. At home I have a bunch of cameras, Olympus, Nikon, some fully auto matics Fuji, Canon and a Polaroid. One day I went into work after a heavy rain the night before. The attached was taken with the Polaroid 3030 camera which I bought new for about $25. This just goes to show you don't always need a super-money-flex camera to get a good picture.  |
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Post by BuckSkin on Dec 23, 2016 18:59:28 GMT
The attached was taken with the Polaroid 3030 camera which I bought new for about $25. This just goes to show you don't always need a super-money-flex camera to get a good picture. Nice picture and I agree about simple cameras taking good shots. We have an old point&shoot HP MP430(I think) that I dug out of a drawer and started carrying on my belt the day after we turned over a load of silage and nobody had a camera. Although, if you have the thick manual to refer to, and powerful reading glasses, and about fifteen minutes of time, you can adjust such things as scene type, white balance, shutter speed, and the like, it is such a hassle that we always just leave it on the default automatic setting. What is amazing is that every image that comes out of that little camera is awesome; although you are limited to what-you-see-is-what-you-get, everything is always perfectly exposed; the sky is never blown out and the foreground is always just right, and everything is always in crisp focus. Maybe part of the reason it does such a good job is that it is so slow to respond; you can forget action shots; by the time it finally decides to click the shutter, whatever was happening is long gone. |
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Post by cats4jan on Dec 24, 2016 14:08:00 GMT
What a beautiful shot
When my retention pond had water (before the sinkhole) I was getting these shots all the time - using my 5 year old p&s. After 6 yrs. I'm still amazed at the sunsets. I still have beautiful sunsets, but without the pond refection, they just aren't as majestic as they once were. âšī¸
Pond is fixed..waiting for nature to refill it. Got about 3 inches now - enough for the dumb geese. đĄ
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Post by BuckSkin on Dec 25, 2016 8:43:32 GMT
I still have beautiful sunsets, but without the pond refection, they just aren't as majestic as they once were. âšī¸ Even though we do live in a third-world very rural area, trying to get a sunset picture around here is an act in frustration. Although the sky will turn into a rainbow of colors and the potential is there, there are so many trees and hills, neighbors eyesore houses, cell-phone towers everywhere you look, wires strung everywhichway, pollution streams from dozens of jet airplanes streaking right across the scene. No matter which way we look, we have no horizon for the sun to set over and display all of it's fire-ball glory; it just disappears behind the woods, or a hill, or somebody's house. |
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Post by cats4jan on Dec 25, 2016 14:46:13 GMT
This is the first time we have had an unrestricted view of sunsets even though we live in a community with small lots. We built on a "Lake" better known as a storm water retention pond. These are necessary when you turn ranches into blacktop and cement and the rain has no where to soak in. Our community saw an opportunity to make a few extra bucks by calling them "lakes"
I love not having anyone behind me - until, of course, the sinkholes come. But still, there is no one behind us and I'm getting used to the "mud flats".
They fixed our sinkholes but now Mother Nature has to fill our lake. Rainy season starts in June.đđ. Our city does not allow fresh water to be used to fill things like this.
looking forward to sharing some of my older sunset photos when I get back to my desktop.
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Post by whippet on Dec 26, 2016 18:33:15 GMT
Beautiful sunset, a change from red sky.
Jan. Several years ago, during a dry spell, I saw the Fire Brigade pumping water into a local fishing pond.
We are lucky, Northumbria Water Board, can send water to any part of our country where it is needed.
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Post by cats4jan on Dec 28, 2016 18:30:54 GMT
The view from my lanai - that is, when there is water in the pond
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