Posts for: Spider223
Feb 18, 2017 09:34:43 #
Definitely WATER. I've visited Salida, CO (7000ft) a few times, and for me anyway, with lots of fluid intake, it still took a couple days to not wake up with the beginning of an altitude headache. I was motorcycling, not hiking by the way. 10,000 ft Monarch Pass left my wife and I both dizzy, and that was just getting off the motorcycle and walking to the store across the parking lot. We're from Michigan (800ft elevation). I would guess in May, you will have snow..
Feb 10, 2017 05:29:18 #
Would your focus pattern make a difference? I've had focus problems when trying to get wildlife (squirrel) in focus with a long lens as my D5500 wants to refocus on the surround brush just as I'm ready to capture the image, and am wondering if we change to a single point auto focus instead of the Auto or 39 point if that may be our problem? I know, more questions than answers...
Btw, I haven't had my D5500 long, but when I'm shooting anything handheld above 200mm I use the VR option, I tend to blur without it.
Btw, I haven't had my D5500 long, but when I'm shooting anything handheld above 200mm I use the VR option, I tend to blur without it.
Feb 8, 2017 15:42:59 #
Fred Harwood wrote:
Nice capture. We have the opposite melanistic gray squirrel here in western Massachusetts.
That's neat. We have black squirrels here, but they look nothing like your melanistic grey squirrel. When I looked up the white morph, there are a lot of reports of them in the Boston area (I'm in Michigan). We have quite a few crossbred squirrels in our neighborhood, brown squirrels with black tails, black squirrels with white faces, etc...
Feb 8, 2017 14:41:35 #
I have been trying to get a picture of this rarity for the last year, and finally got it today. There are about three of these left in our neighborhood. Reading about them, it is a gene that some squirrels carry that gives them white fur, but they are not albino.
I cropped this in Elements 15, post processed -1/2 stop, clarity 10%, and used Haze Removal
Nikon D5500
Nikkor 55-300mm
Auto Focus
Handheld VR On
f/5.6
1/250 sec
ISO 500
300mm
I cropped this in Elements 15, post processed -1/2 stop, clarity 10%, and used Haze Removal
Nikon D5500
Nikkor 55-300mm
Auto Focus
Handheld VR On
f/5.6
1/250 sec
ISO 500
300mm
Feb 7, 2017 10:02:17 #
I bought my D5500 at Best Buy, they match almost everyone on price (even Amazon), you have a couple weeks after the sale to price match some more, and you get rewards if you don't choose the 0% 18 month payments on the Best Buy card (over $499). Lately where I live, Best Buy IS real close to being the "local shop."
Feb 7, 2017 07:04:44 #
I too was under the mistaken impression that the D5500 had PC WiFi capabilities, but apparently not built in. I looked on the web, and it appears that there is a program called DSLRDASHBOARD that is supposed to allow control, and I assume transfer to your PC. I don't have a real 'need' for it at present, but it is something you may want to look into. http://dslrdashboard.info/introduction/
Good luck!
Good luck!
Feb 7, 2017 07:00:14 #
Thanks to everyone for the comments! I thought as Cwilson341 said, the black and white made it appear more desolate, and I remember as a kid waiting for the bus to show up on a blustery cold Michigan morning, the sight of that nice warm yellow school bus was a welcome sight.
Feb 6, 2017 18:53:51 #
Took this photo today meeting my grandson at the bus stop. Shot it with selective color, and then took any extraneous yellows, and browns out with Elements 15. I know a lot of people don't care for selective color, but it's something to play with, and the bus driver liked the finished photo.
Nikon D5500
AF-S Nikkor 55-300 4.5-5.6
f/7.1
ISO 400
300mm (35mm Focal Length 450mm)
Auto Focus
VR ON
Nikon D5500
AF-S Nikkor 55-300 4.5-5.6
f/7.1
ISO 400
300mm (35mm Focal Length 450mm)
Auto Focus
VR ON
School Bus
Feb 5, 2017 09:30:14 #
Great to see that you are able to use the tools available to be creative. I don't see anything wrong with graphic manipulation to achieve what you envision the end photo should be. No different than going in and changing exposure compensation on your RAW image after the fact. Creativity is what it's all about, and your end result is nice, even without the lightning effect.
Jan 29, 2017 15:50:48 #
You are correct in the begging aspect of these birds, practically landing on us a block from the Air and Space Museum.
Jan 29, 2017 15:23:08 #
Ive lived in Michigan for coming up on sixty years, and have never seen the European Starling until I was in DC in December. This link shows the European Starling, or its variant in DC.
http://stockpileimages.com/european-starling-city-birds-dc/
http://stockpileimages.com/european-starling-city-birds-dc/
Jan 29, 2017 08:57:48 #
No, After I hit send it sounded like I ID'd your bird. The European Starling was the one in DC. Sorry about that... Oops..
Jan 29, 2017 08:43:11 #
A lot of times, if you know where the picture was taken you can google search by "Birds of 'location'" and it'll show up. I did that this last December in Washington DC., as were eating outside and thirty birds came up to beg. Did the search and it was a European Starling, of which we apparently do not have in Michigan..
Jan 27, 2017 16:28:31 #
Downloading the manual is actually better in my opinion. I also have the D5500, and the paper manual. I've looked at the paper manual maybe twice. The downloaded version on my iPhone and iPad Mini are searchable, making it so much faster to find anything.
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