Thanks! Nope, just a lemon tree with bare branches that they like to sit on for about three seconds. I'd get a feeder, but it would make the shot look too artificial for my tastes. But it could help improving shooting hummingbirds in general, hmmm...

I wouldn't know where to put it though. :P

Last bit of a dragonfly you'll see for awhile. I promise. THERE'S ONLY TWO SHOTS OF THEM. You can scroll down really fast if you want lololol

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/end dragonfly bombardment

...BEGIN SUNRISE BOMBARDMENT





Taken at 7:18 AM.



Taken at 7:24 AM. Orange clouds were on the run that day.

I'm SO JEALOUS though. My dad got this next shot when I was still getting ready for school, and I hadn't looked outside yet... he took it out a window upstairs. It owns all of my shots combined. Taken at 7:16, TWO MINUTES before my first shot. The time and height gain helped his shot own mine :(



Probably taken around 7:10 (too lazy to look at its EXIF data). Incredibly jealous :(

Anyways. On this cloudy day I took a few RAWs of a lightpost... here's an untouched JPEG. EV is still at 0, too.



Some RAW editing and cloning later, you've got:



I'm happy with the results.

-- Edited by Lock at 19:16, 2008-11-17

Updated moved

update tiem!!1

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Rain when the sun's out! Fun fun.



This one was with the Speedlite.



Random fly macro when I had nothing else better to do.

I did some voluntary church photography too. The sport was football (in a gym). Bad lighting meant anything with a shutter speed more than 1/80 would underexpose badly, and an aperture of 4 to 4.5 was the bare minimum. ISO 1600 of course. This was the best shot.



And since I brought all the gear, my friend and I decided to have some fun:



What's this?! A ghost?! No just kidding. Rear-curtain sync.

I realize this was a pretty bad update but next one will be better, I promise. Saving the good stuff for later.

-- Edited by Lock at 19:03, 2008-12-08

ty ty. It was really satisfying after I was done editing. Although I can't decide if that crop is better, or if this one is:



I only did this second crop because in the first one, the aspect ratio wasn't quite right... it was too tall and not wide enough. So I recropped it and did some lazy cloning and this is what I got. Which one's better?

I just realized I have too much dead space at the bottom of the second one. I'll recrop it for the third time later. :( I guess it's only a matter of whether the pole should be centered or not.