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Macro Lenses

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Step into my parlour…

Originally uploaded by swifty_mcvey.

What should you be using?  A dedicated macro lens or a close-up filter?  I dunno.  But you’ll find a great article over at Lonewolf Online that gets into the details.  Check it out.  They’ve got some great sample images comparing a variety of different setups.

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A Long Saturday Night

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A Long Saturday Night

Originally uploaded by hawridger.




Here’s another windshield shot from my Accord. Just sharing the love. Have a nice Friday afternoon.

Shot info: Tripod in rear floorboard. Canon Rebel XT and EF-S 18-55mm lens at f/16 for 10s and ISO 100. Pulled the curves down for the windshield in a separate layer to get the rich colors.

[tags]photo, pics, canon, rebel xt, windshield, car, night, lights, photoshop, layers, curves, digital, camera[/tags]

Friday Link Dump

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Learn how to extract an image from a background in Photoshop.

Enter the Crestock photography contest and you just might win a Canon EOS 1Ds Mark II.

Check out the details on photo backpacks to stow your gear in.

Rich Legg teaches us how to get rid of creepy eyes on our pets.

Since I recently got called onto the carpet for not giving props to the K10D, check out a review of the Pentax K10D over at PhotographyBLOG. I’ll take two please.

If you were thinking about getting Adobe Lightroom, you’d better hurry up the $100 off intro price ends Monday, April 30th. It’s $199 ’til then.

[tags]photography, photo, contest, photoshop, adobe, lightroom, pentax, k10d, learn, howto[/tags]

The Face of Victory

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The Face of Victory

Originally uploaded by hawridger.




Blogging has been a little slow here lately because I’ve been tinkering with the 1500+ shots that I took at the Tour de Georgia last week, which also required that I travel to Georgia. It was an exciting race and another great learning experience with the camera. I’ll get caught up soon . . . I hope.

By the way, this is Levi Leipheimer, who won Stage 3 and the Stage 4 Individual Time Trial that this shot was from.  Levi’s teammate, Janez Brajkovic, won the overall race.

[tags]tour de georgia, levi leipheimer, discovery, photos, pics, race[/tags]