Nature Photography

You like insects?



This is a Box Elder Bug.

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Man, you guys are bad. I have thinking about getting a good camera for a while.

After seeing those nice pics, I went out and bought a dSLR yesterday - set me back more than $500.
 
CarWeenie said:
Man, you guys are bad. I have thinking about getting a good camera for a while.

After seeing those nice pics, I went out and bought a dSLR yesterday - set me back more than $500.
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Awesome, what did you get?
 
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I'm looking for some of my frog pictures.



Camera is a S1 IS with a little tweaking. Full manual mode. I'll look up my settings after school.
 
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Once again, I failed at getting a decent shot of a snapping turtle. Even with the polarizer filter, those turtles are hard to get a good shot of. I'll try again next time. All I can manage to get is the shell.
 
I've tried to get pics of the painted turtles floating around like that, but they always dive down right when I take the pic.
 
The turtles in our pond are very friendly :) We have a total of 12 I believe, Ive caught them before with my hands when I was in our canoe, the dont go under unless you throw a rock towards the water and make a splash.

Here are some more I just took before I went into work; no photoshop just color accent feature - enjoy! Hope Im not posting too many pictures :(



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CarWeenie said:
I am getting the Minolta 5d. I found out that I could use my old Muxxum lenses for this dSLR.
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Cool, I was strongly considering a Maxxum 5D, but got persuaded into Canon. :)

If I had a collection of older Minolta lenses I would have gotten the Maxxum 5D too. The best part is you got Image Stabilization built into your camera which works on any lens you use.



Everyone else has some nice photos, all though when your competing with nature you really can't post process the image, and you can't show signs of humans (i.e. fences, posts, etc.) they can get real nit picky with that in competition.



I do think a lot of the shots posted would benefit from tighter crops. Thats one thing I definately learned in photo club, crop as much distractions out for a better center of interest. Never the less nice photos.

I gotta look through some of my gallerys and post some of my "nature" pics up.
 
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