366 Project

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Re: 366 Project

Postby Mr Darcy on Sat Jul 21, 2012 11:09 pm

aim54x wrote:I can only wonder why Greg....cold night?

Nah. That was the night before. The lens had a sheet of ice over it then. But it was too B. cold to photograph it (My hands were too numb)

Murray Foote wrote:Perhaps it had something to do with painting the end of your lens black.

But but but. The guy who sold it to me said it was special focus correcting paint. Now where did I put that receipt?
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Re: 366 Project

Postby Mr Darcy on Sun Jul 29, 2012 1:48 pm

I finally got outside with my new toy last night and promptly discovered I have quite a learning curve in front of me. So nothing to share yet.
So back to plan B for POTD:
Pam was given some of her favourite Jelly Babies yesterday & I had thoughts of setting them up for a tumble. When I noticed the marble on the side board my ideas coalesced.
The original idea was for a group of 10 in pyramid formation with the ball bearing down on them, but the babies refused to stand in a group, so I switched to mid strike with the few cooperative ones awaiting their fate.
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Re: 366 Project

Postby Murray Foote on Sun Jul 29, 2012 5:25 pm

It works surprisingly well. Perhaps an extra exposure or two for focus bracketing to get the front ones in focus.
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Re: 366 Project

Postby Mr Darcy on Fri Aug 10, 2012 5:38 pm

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Re: 366 Project

Postby Mr Darcy on Fri Aug 31, 2012 6:37 pm

Its been a while. I've been busy.
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Re: 366 Project

Postby Mr Darcy on Sat Sep 15, 2012 6:33 pm

My daughter wanted some photos taken of her rooms, but didn't give me advance notice, so while I had my camera with me, I had no tripod or flash. Then I remembered Murray's technique for HDRs
I leaned against a door post for stability, set the camera to -3EV and 9/1.0EV brackets ( that gave me 7 under one, 1 over and 1 nailed according to the exposure meter) and blazed away. I have to say the results exceeded my expectations. I should perhaps have used the other doorpost to remove the edge of the wardrobe, but apart from that...
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Re: 366 Project

Postby Mr Darcy on Mon Sep 24, 2012 3:23 pm

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Re: 366 Project

Postby Mr Darcy on Fri Sep 28, 2012 12:42 pm

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This may be day 272 for me, but it is day 36,525 for him.
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Re: 366 Project

Postby Geoff M on Fri Sep 28, 2012 2:07 pm

Mr Darcy wrote:This may be day 272 for me, but it is day 36,525 for him.


Probably a few more than that Greg. You need to add some extra days for leap years!

He is looking very good for his years. I work in aged care and I know of some people that look older but are much, much younger. What is his secret to longevity?

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Re: 366 Project

Postby Reschsmooth on Fri Sep 28, 2012 2:40 pm

Geoff M wrote:
Mr Darcy wrote:This may be day 272 for me, but it is day 36,525 for him.


Probably a few more than that Greg. You need to add some extra days for leap years!


I think you may find that Greg's mathematics is correct. The 25 days above 36,500 account for the leap years (assuming the photo was taken on his birthday).
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Re: 366 Project

Postby Geoff M on Fri Sep 28, 2012 3:04 pm

Reschsmooth wrote:
I think you may find that Greg's mathematics is correct. The 25 days above 36,500 account for the leap years (assuming the photo was taken on his birthday).


:oops: never was any good at maths!
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Re: 366 Project

Postby Mr Darcy on Sun Oct 07, 2012 8:42 pm

I can't believe I am still hanging in there
From a trip out to the central west last weekend. About 15Km north of Molong
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Re: 366 Project

Postby Remorhaz on Mon Oct 08, 2012 11:04 am

Aw man - I'm going to have to shoot canola fields one day...
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Re: 366 Project

Postby biggerry on Mon Oct 08, 2012 1:48 pm

if i see another canola field image i am gonna barf... or cry cause i want one too.

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I can, well done, not far to go now. :up:
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Re: 366 Project

Postby Mr Darcy on Fri Oct 12, 2012 9:55 am

I don't care if its a great photo or not. Snow in October is worth recording
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Re: 366 Project

Postby biggerry on Fri Oct 12, 2012 10:28 am

nice greg... but why are you not out there makign snow men :)

plus, i wanna see some snowflake macros..
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Re: 366 Project

Postby Mr Darcy on Fri Oct 12, 2012 12:10 pm

biggerry wrote:why are you not out there makign snow men

I delegated that to my daughter, but she piked & made snowballs instead. I wasn't game to take my camera out to record them

biggerry wrote:i wanna see some snowflake macros..

Not this snow. Too wet.
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