Capture: Spring Breaks
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Chris Waugh, in reply to
more drizzle
I've been wondering for ages now, how do you capture such detail?
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
how do you capture such detail?
even my little snappy camera has a nice macro function on it and I can get about 1 -2cm away from the flower. apparently the small sensors on snappy cams are an advantage when it comes to macro pics. it does take quite a lot of crouching down, peering at odd angles, hoping for the best and chucking out a lot of rejected pictures too!
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Jos,
Islander? I heard her on the radio today I think
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
frittering away...
I wonder where Islander is?
Whitebaiting!
I'd warrant,
well, posit, then...On the West Coast the whitebait season
runs from 1 September until 14 November.:- )
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Jos,
How many of those poor pale things does anyone need really?
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Chris Waugh, in reply to
How many of those poor pale things does anyone need really?
S'pose that depends on how many mouths you have to feed.
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Chris Waugh, in reply to
it does take quite a lot of crouching down, peering at odd angles,
...pulled muscles, strained joints... I've tried getting right up close but with limited success. One thing is I noticed when I got my DSLR that I naturally held it so that the edge of my glasses got between my eye and the viewfinder and I'm still working on looking through it at a better angle for focussing properly. My cellphone is the closest I have to snappy, and I've managed to get some alright up close stuff out of it, but nothing macro-like, really. And it doesn't handle difficult light conditions well and air pollution can do interesting things to light - yesterday afternoon and this morning the light was good for my phone, but often it isn't.
Oh well, lots more practice to do.
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
held it so that the edge of my glasses got between my eye and the viewfinder and I’m still working on looking through it at a better angle for focussing properly
yes glasses, a pain with viewfinders.... that's one thing I love about the little digi screen no need to rumple your glasses! check your camera 'manual' to see what it says about macro.... though I think the dslr is not as handy at that as the wee compacts - Jackson and Jos and others will have something to say about extension tubes and macro lenses I'm sure : )
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World’s worst bird photographer gets a little bit lucky….
and pukekos get a bit of action…..
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I was looking for ducklings (again)…. but all I found was signets…..
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Swan dad doing a great job keeping all other birds at bay
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And just for balance, a couple of loud gooses
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Rainy this morning but rain or shine the kingfisher turns up calling for his/her mate. Hope the mate turns up. I'd be thrilled if the had a successful breeding season this year after loosing their eggs last year. Had to sit on the floor and shoot this through the open window and a gap in the branches. Even trying not to move too much it still kept eyeballing me with disapproval.
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Playing with the happy snapper.
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Nora inspired me to try a bit more of the up-close stuff, but at first just with my phone. Limited success – cheap Mainland-only HTC means limited tool, but it’s still fun trying to stretch the limits of what it can do.
And of course, there are limits as to how close you can get when there are fences and water involved.
So I decided to try zooming in, which I generally don't bother with, having not had much luck with it in the past. But sometimes it comes out ok.
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My wife’s Samsung, which cost about 3 times as much as my HTC, generally does a better job (she took this photo – just to make it clear).
But still, my HTC does alright (back to my point-and-hope capturing).
My wife caught a dragonfly.
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I loved how intensely pink this flower is.
And these ones so yellow.
But this one was determined to hide.
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Strange park, though. Called 古塔/Gǔ Tǎ/ancient pagoda after the ancient pagoda at the southern end – and there is still some debris from the temple that must’ve been there further south past the end of the pathways. But today we took a different path along the northern edge – last time we were there we didn’t go that way because there were trucks and cranes and large trees being planted. This time it was clear, and oh, look, is that a temple under construction? Hard to know, because there were no signs of any workers and abandoned construction sites are hardly unknown around these parts, although the wall did have 阿弥陀佛/Ēmítuófó/Amitabha written on it at least twice – a migrant worker trying to increase his chances of getting home next Chinese New Year? The paint wasn’t fresh, but it wasn’t terribly old, either.
And yes, there is a Buddha in there. Would’ve had a better chance of getting him visible if I’d taken my DSLR…. Oh well, Wednesday’s I have no classes…
I had been under the impression that Guanyin was all lonely among the trees. Still, the only paths leading to the base of her statue are worn in the grass among the trees by the curious and a few worshippers. The official, paved pathways go right around her, getting no closer than about 20 metres. But the gateway that had been all bricked up has had it's bricks removed.... Still, a rather hesitant spring for Buddhists in the vicinity of 王四营/Wáng Sì Yìng/Wang's Fourth Camp (or perhaps Wang Four's Camp) and 观音堂/Guānyīn Táng/Avalokitesvara (or Goddess of Mercy) Hall.
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"chris", in reply to
Loving that first water lilies shot @17:41, very Monet, beautiful deep blue in the bottom corner, keep that up and expect to be hearing from Yves Klein’s legal team.
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Thinking of Opo the Dolphin, and who wasn't eh?, I discovered several references to This Site "Gerard Hutching. 'Dolphins - Humans and dolphins', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 9-Jul-13
URL: http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/4701/protecting-opo"
I found this image.
Gay Golphin?
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Sacha, in reply to
the kingfisher turns up calling for his/her mate
had a washing line appearance this arvo. Attempted photo was woeful.
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Visited the Botanical Gardens this afternoon, hoping to see new sculptures, but they’re coming in November, apparently. 17 minutes from Sandringham on SH20, for the record.
Took my close up lens, but not the tripod. Seems they best go together, with hindsight.
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
Took my close up lens, but not the tripod. Seems they best go together, with hindsight.
Good excuse to go back again : )
Here's govt house garden over the wall....
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
I loved how intensely pink this flower is.
And the blue is so deep it makes the lotus leaves look like they are neither on the water, nor in the air....
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Virginia creeper getting ready to go again
And Calendula puts her hand up…
Spring hunting
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