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  • Teh Official Crappy Amateur Photography Thread
     Reply #510 - February 19, 2013, 04:41 PM
    Hey I might be a professional but I just wanna join your party. Its fun here Tongue

    I went out yesterday morning to photograph some owls in the wild not too far from my house. Took along 10 mice to entice them. The owls got their breakfast and I got my photos Smiley































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     Reply #511 - February 19, 2013, 04:59 PM
    Awesome pics dude! (You do realize the thread says CRAPPY AMATEURS right) lol
  • Teh Official Crappy Amateur Photography Thread
     Reply #512 - February 19, 2013, 05:08 PM
    Quote from: Pepe on February 19, 2013, 04:41 PM
    Hey I might be a professional but I just wanna join your party. Its fun here Tongue


    Totally Flippin awesome pics, not enough adjectives to describe it I guess  Afro
  • Teh Official Crappy Amateur Photography Thread
     Reply #513 - February 19, 2013, 05:43 PM
    Really amazing shots Pepe. do you have to get close to take those shots or is that the zoom? Do the animals notice you?
  • Teh Official Crappy Amateur Photography Thread
     Reply #514 - February 19, 2013, 05:52 PM
    The owls are not very shy so they let you get pretty close. I was basically standing right under one of them for a few of the shots. I was using my 70-200mm lens with a x2 teleconverter on it which gave me a 400mm zoom. Shot most of these at f6.3, ISO 400, 2000/s. The owls were actually looking to us to throw out a mouse and they would swoop down and get it, eat it and then stay there for a minute posing like they were at red carpet at the Oscars lol.
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     Reply #515 - February 19, 2013, 06:15 PM
    Great pics Pepe, but you know there's a professional photographer's thread? This thread is for the amateurs...
    "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." - Viktor E. Frankl

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  • Teh Official Crappy Amateur Photography Thread
     Reply #516 - February 19, 2013, 06:18 PM
    Great stuff as always, Pepe. Did you have VR turned off for the last but one shot?

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  • Teh Official Crappy Amateur Photography Thread
     Reply #517 - February 19, 2013, 06:53 PM
    I think the VR was on for all of them Toor
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     Reply #518 - February 19, 2013, 09:54 PM
    Owls are cool. Nice shots. Afro

    We get a few varieties of owl around here, but they're all nocturnal so are hard to catch on camera.
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  • Teh Official Crappy Amateur Photography Thread
     Reply #519 - February 19, 2013, 09:58 PM
    amazing, like always... i'm surprised those mice didn't take off running or dive under the snow.. they were so cute though
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV9vdUjuWxc
  • Teh Official Crappy Amateur Photography Thread
     Reply #520 - February 19, 2013, 10:01 PM
    Quote from: Stardust on February 19, 2013, 06:15 PM
    Great pics Pepe, but you know there's a professional photographer's thread? This thread is for the amateurs...


    I'm probably the only professional photographer on the forum. I'll be all lonely there by myself Tongue
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  • Teh Official Crappy Amateur Photography Thread
     Reply #521 - February 19, 2013, 10:09 PM
    Yeah this thread is more fun. Off topic posts are a grand CEMB Forum tradition anyway.
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  • Teh Official Crappy Amateur Photography Thread
     Reply #522 - February 19, 2013, 10:31 PM
    I'm sure everybody would follow you there anyway.
    "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." - Viktor E. Frankl

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  • Teh Official Crappy Amateur Photography Thread
     Reply #523 - February 19, 2013, 10:38 PM
    Took these on my phone one afternoon. No special effects! I was so proud lol.  dance



  • Teh Official Crappy Amateur Photography Thread
     Reply #524 - February 19, 2013, 10:58 PM
    I love the second one, mustard. Can I play with it in windows-live-gallery? and then upload it here again?
    "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." - Viktor E. Frankl

    'Life is just the extreme expression of complex chemistry' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Teh Official Crappy Amateur Photography Thread
     Reply #525 - February 19, 2013, 10:59 PM
    Have at it  Afro
  • Teh Official Crappy Amateur Photography Thread
     Reply #526 - February 19, 2013, 11:02 PM
    Pepe, you've totally inspired me to pick up Photography as a hobby one day Smiley
  • Teh Official Crappy Amateur Photography Thread
     Reply #527 - February 19, 2013, 11:04 PM
    Cheesy @ mustard. Next she'll be calling you "Hippy Mustard". grin12

    Love those pix.  Afro
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  • Teh Official Crappy Amateur Photography Thread
     Reply #528 - February 19, 2013, 11:12 PM
    Has a nice ring to it, dunnit?
  • Teh Official Crappy Amateur Photography Thread
     Reply #529 - February 19, 2013, 11:13 PM
    Just a play about on HM's photo.
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    'Life is just the extreme expression of complex chemistry' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Teh Official Crappy Amateur Photography Thread
     Reply #530 - February 19, 2013, 11:14 PM
    Sweet!  Afro
  • Teh Official Crappy Amateur Photography Thread
     Reply #531 - February 19, 2013, 11:15 PM
    I took a similar picture a while ago, but it's shitty -before I knew how to use my cam properly.

    I love the art in photography.
    "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." - Viktor E. Frankl

    'Life is just the extreme expression of complex chemistry' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Teh Official Crappy Amateur Photography Thread
     Reply #532 - February 19, 2013, 11:17 PM
    Nice effect. Brings out the drops.
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  • Teh Official Crappy Amateur Photography Thread
     Reply #533 - February 19, 2013, 11:20 PM
    Yeah, I'm a wanna be amateur photographer. I need to get a better camera than the one on my phone. Pepe, you should do like a photography tutorial thread where you give us all tips.
  • Teh Official Crappy Amateur Photography Thread
     Reply #534 - February 19, 2013, 11:21 PM
    There are some tips in this thread. I went and found quite a few, but of course have never got around to using them. Cheesy
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  • Teh Official Crappy Amateur Photography Thread
     Reply #535 - February 19, 2013, 11:24 PM
    Quote from: happymurtad on February 19, 2013, 11:20 PM
    Yeah, I'm a wanna be amateur photographer. I need to get a better camera than the one on my phone. Pepe, you should do like a photography tutorial thread where you give us all tips.


    Actually I think it would be better if Pepe started a YouTube channel for a How To Photography Lessons.


    They will reach a larger audience and it will be a more effective platform for teaching than posting on a thread.
    In my opinion a life without curiosity is not a life worth living
  • Teh Official Crappy Amateur Photography Thread
     Reply #536 - February 19, 2013, 11:30 PM
    Here are some of the links I found:

    Quote from: osmanthus on January 11, 2012, 09:33 PM
    Anyway.................

    Play With an Online Simulator to Learn Camera Settings

    21 Settings, Techniques and Rules All New Camera Owners Should Know


    And Toor posted this info about the methods used for the pix in this post.

    Quote from: toor on April 02, 2012, 10:04 PM
    Thanks, Sprout Smiley To be fair, looking at os' starting post, I cheated slightly, as I did have some idea of what I was doing.

    Short version: stick your camera in aperture priority mode, set ISO and autofocus point selection to manual (manual focus isn't my thing), and off you go.

    Longer version:
    • I used a long-ish telephoto zoom (70-300 mm) to get as close to the action as I could without crossing over into the fenced-off areas by the bank of the course.
    • Vibration reduction (a handy feature, designed to minimise the effects of camera shake) on the lens was handy - as I had to do some running to get shots of one boat in particular - but not really essential.
    • It was a sunny day, so I could use the 'f/8 and be there' rule - most lenses tend to be at their sharpest between f/8 and f/11, apparently - which works best on sunny days like this one.
    • High shutter speeds to catch the action best - 1/1000th of a second and up should do the trick.
    • Another benefit of very sunny days is that you can set ISO fairly low (I used ISO 200/400 all day). The higher the ISO, the grainier the image, but the faster the shutter speed you can use, so you can get higher shutter speeds in lower light by bumping ISO up.
    • Metering modes - how the camera picks a suitable shutter speed in semi-automatic mode - count. I used centre-weighted metering to expose for the bits I was generally aiming for, as the light bouncing off the subjects kept changing depending on where they were on the course. Spot metering would have meant too many blown out backgrounds, and matrix metering would have exposed for the brightest bits of the image.
    • Manual autofocus point selection - pick a particular focus point in your viewfinder, make sure this point covers over the thing you're interested in most, focus, take the shot.

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  • Teh Official Crappy Amateur Photography Thread
     Reply #537 - February 19, 2013, 11:42 PM
    i like those happymurtad! very nice 
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV9vdUjuWxc
  • Teh Official Crappy Amateur Photography Thread
     Reply #538 - February 19, 2013, 11:42 PM
    Played with HM's other photo@

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    "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." - Viktor E. Frankl

    'Life is just the extreme expression of complex chemistry' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Teh Official Crappy Amateur Photography Thread
     Reply #539 - February 19, 2013, 11:50 PM
    That one didn't work as well as the other. Slightly iffy colour and focus, IMO.
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