weekly RyanB's 52 for 2024 Week 45 Snappers Choice
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Yep, that works
Many thanks all, I thought my rats nest of a hair do would be ideal for unkempt!Good pic, I wasn't brave enough to go for the true unkempt look myself
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Really struggled with any inspiration for this week but today caught a starling gobbing off on my old tv antenna. Making quite the racket too!
Bit of a poor image, I blame the ancient long glass I was testing out and the massive crop/ high ISO. Still I got one in before midnight!!
Really struggled with any inspiration for this week but today caught a starling gobbing off on my old tv antenna. Making quite the racket too!
Bit of a poor image, I blame the ancient long glass I was testing out and the massive crop/ high ISO. Still I got one in before midnight!!
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Thanks! I never seem to be able to master faking skies but usually they involve treelines, this might actually be doable.
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I have to be honest, I'm not the biggest fan of a complete replacement, I'd rather try and enhance what's already there. But, from my own experience, when there's so little colour in the sky and no features, there's almost nothing to recover.
You could be subtle about it. This is just using your JPEG from here (not ideal as it's a bit jaggedy).
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Thanks Helen!
I know what you mean about enhancing rather than replacement, it is my preferred method as well(not just because I'm crap at replacement). I have to say what you've done there is pretty convincing, I'm not sure I would be able to identify it as a replacement if I didn't already know what the original was like.
Many thanks for taking the time to undertake the edit, it's most appreciated.
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Thanks Adam!
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Week 15 Snappers Choice
With all the lovely sun and warm weather bar the last 2 days I had to crack out the macro lens. A bit spoiled for choice really but it had to be the Bee Fly in flight.
1. Bee Fly
2. Mining Bee
3. Squash Bug
4. Holly Blue
5. Wolf Spider
With all the lovely sun and warm weather bar the last 2 days I had to crack out the macro lens. A bit spoiled for choice really but it had to be the Bee Fly in flight.
1. Bee Fly
2. Mining Bee
3. Squash Bug
4. Holly Blue
5. Wolf Spider
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Thanks Bob, I was using a Sigma 150mm f2.8 macro lens the original non-OS version.
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Thanks guys!Fab shots Ryan - love the Bee fly
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Many thanks all!
@nickbee Very quickly... Really I have the best luck and hit rate using manual focus and a high enough shutter speed to freeze the movement(1/1250 still wasn't fast enough to freeze the wings but I wanted to keep my ISO relatively low). With hover flies and Bee flies they tend to flit from areas but then come back to the same ones so I get the focus about right for an area and then wait for it to come back, I then move the camera rather than focus to get it sharp and fire off as many shots as I can before it's off again (usually only 2-3 shots). This was probably one of the closest one's I have ever managed of a Bee Fly so I was quite chuffed.
Here is one of a drone fly (possibly Eristalis pertinax) I caught the day before. No luck with a head on shot sadly.
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Love the bee fly, cracking quality of your pictures
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Thanks for having a gander and taking the time to comment guys, most appreciated!
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Nice blue egg, best of the bunch for me.
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Good stuff Ryan. It's the eggscellent egg pic for me
Many thanks all, got lucky that egg almost fell in my lap on Wednesday morning when I was feeling less than inspired for the theme.
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Thanks! Only using my RAW editor, mainly dropping highlights, raising shadows and putting the texture/ clarity sliders quite a bit further to the right than I usually do to emphasise the detail of the stonework.
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Thanks Dave, it is a gorgeous building. I am lucky it is right down the road and I qualify for a residents pass.
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Thanks Keith, most appreciated! For clear panes it did reflect the skies colours interestingly.
Thanks Helen, took some searching to find that perspective. Ely cathedral is really wonky due to one side being built on less than solid foundations. It lost one of its transepts in its entirety at one point so is missing an entire North West section. You can really notice its odd lean from inside when shooting towards the front doors.
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Been shooting a lot of low altitude planes flying over the garden the last week, some getting ready for Duxford air show and others doing training out of Mildenhall/ Lakenheath. Also while sky watching and listening for the tell tale sound of engines seen a lot of really high altitude commercial jets with contrails which I though would be perfect for a minimal straight shot.
Lots of twin trails but saw this quad today and said this is the one...
Lots of twin trails but saw this quad today and said this is the one...