Being in NZ I will get to experience the events of the holiday season well before you folks in North America: be it Christmas morning, eating too much junk and having an extra helping at dinner time. Then there will be the inevitable Boxing Day madn...
How many times have we come so close to getting a great photo but just missed it??? I was taking a look at some stuff I shot last fall while archiving old photos and two jumped out from a high school playoff game last Fall. Photo 1, I was out of po...
The Canon Forum and staff members come from a diverse range of environments. I thought it would be interesting if we could each offer one or more images showing what the Holiday Season is like and maybe offer some greetings to our fellow members. S...
I've been working on some close up shots that small apertures and tilt shift lenses still fall short for getting front to back focus. The attached image is 9 frames stacked and cooked with photoshop using stacked layers, auto-align and auto-blend. I'...
I am expanding on the image that I showed to explain more about the Gannet colony and the birds themselves. Gannets are among the largest sea birds on the planet. The biggest are obviously the Albatross, of which we have a colony in NZ, on a peninsul...
Top: Taken with Canon EOS 70D, 70-300mm lens, F stop 5.6, Exp time 1/320, ISO 1000 bottom: F 5.6, Exp 1/250, ISO 250 These are photos where I was using natural lighting of direct sunlight in early spring coming in my living room window: the sun ...
I did 2 different shots of the second one trying to get the agate in the best light
I was at the rather cloistered halls of the University of Auckland when this came by so I took a quick snap. I was amused to see that the pilot boat, out of water, needed pilots of its own to complete its journey.Canon EOS D30, EF 28-135 f3.5-5.6 IS...
