This photo is better than yesterdays :-)
I dont say much because so many havealready said what I usually would say. However for today. I would like to add my 2 cents, please :-)
I would soften the photo slightly for protraiture.Nothing wrong with an extremly sharp photo, but a soft look is more pleasing in mu opinion in portraiture.

Keep up the good work.

May God Bless :-)

I stilll have my Mino;ta 7si and 9xinot sue what I am going t o do with them yet, LOL
By the way I was born in 1948 and was in the nay in nam, special forces :-)

I have had some luck, though not very sharpfocus shooting at an angle with flash. The photos I have sampled here has strong light coming from the top, the glass made this shot hard to take.
Dont be afraid to experiment , you can always view the photo and retake if necessary. :-)

I hope this helps

Shot w/flash at about 45deg angle


Shot w/flash at about 45deg angle


Shot w/flash at about 45deg angle

My Carry lense for my Sony Alpha is a Temron 18-200
and I love it for most of my shots, the 18mm setting is wide enough for most of my shots. I enjoy the farmers market for shootingcolors and interesting people. I usually talk to teh people first to get them comfortable and ask permission to take photos of them. I am posting some photos of the colors I have photographed.

I hoipe you enjoy them
BTW, please feelfree to critique :-)

Grapes


Clay pots


mini tomatoes

Circul;ar poarizers are more dependable in my opinion. I have several square polarizers from back in the old days. I have found that with the auto exposures, the square polarizers really wreaks havock with the aoto exposure. The othe thing is with the square polarizer you will be fighting with it to get the right exposure or polarization for rhe image you are attempting to capture. Clouds and skies especially will not yield a desired effect that you may think you are capyuring. just my 2Cents :-)

May God Bless

My first camera was a kodak brownie, which i too a lot of photos from. my first 35mm was an Exacta split image camera. I thought I was in heaven with that camera, LOL

I am new to this forum and do enjoy oll of the comments made good or bad<G>
but,for my 2 cents, pleae. I must add, keep it fun,dont get too strickt or overbearing on this forum please. I have seen forums come and go because it just became way to onesided or overly strick. I love this forum and would like to see it k\ligve a long and wonderful life. Just my opinion :-)

May God Bless :-)

Thank you for you thoughts ,Eric. I apreciate them very much.
I am uploading 3 more panos/ These were taken late in the year very close to winter.
I hope everyone enjoy them.
These were stitched with PSP 9

Merced river in Yosemite, early morning


View from Tuolomne Meadoow, Yosemit


Yosemite Falls in forground and Bridal Veil falls in back, Yosemite

I have a couple of Hummingbird photos that I have taken . I use 500 or 600 and 5.6 apature @ 1.500sec without flash and has given me some decent resulkts.
I have tried flash, but they scare the birds away for awhile. I hope this helps :-)

May God Bless

Sony A100DSLR 5.6 @1/500sec Iso500 300mm lense


Sony A100DSLR 300mm lense 1/500sec ISO 500 @ f 5/6

I have a few couple moon photos I would like to share :-)
The first as you would expect is just a white blob.
The second has more definition.
I uses a Nikon s220 poket camera to get the shots.
I put it on a tri-pod and set the exposer to f3.2 on the second shot and gave it about 1.275 second exposer. I also placed the camera lense on the back of a cheap telescop that you can find in any cvs store <G> This is the result.

The first was done in auto mode and was washed out.
I hope his helps.

May God Bless

F3.2 1.275 sec sony S220 pocket camera


in auto mode with Sony s220 pocket camera

I like the Fairy Rose.
I would suggest try filling the frame with the Rose of your choice. A nice close up with a telephoto lense with a wide aperture will give you a lot of detail. Also try bracketing 1 stop up and 1 stop down. It may surprise you:-)
I hope that my suggestion helps :-)

may God Bless :-)

I hope you dont mind me joing the forum :-)
I have 3 photos I would like to share with you.
They were taken in Yosemite National Park. I was experimenting with panos.
I have never done any before and thought it a challenge.
Please comment and critique my photos, I enjoy comments iof a positive nature.
I use Microsft Digital imaging for my photo work, however it does not have a pano setting, so I did this manualy and hoped for the best.

Bridge Pano


Hetch hatch Dam


Tenaya Lake