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briantrumpet
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Silly selfie, but the unintentional Russian doll effect amused me.
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Way-Out-West
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I thought I’d managed a selfie in a fly’s spit bubble. On closer inspection it was a reflection of its eyes.
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briantrumpet
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That not-selfie-selfie is spectacular. Perhaps you could still pretend it's a selfie and use it as your avatar.
Way-Out-West
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Cheers. It was windy, the fly was tiny and wouldn't stop moving, together with a ridiculously shallow DOF, I count myself a bit fortunate to catch it.
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briantrumpet
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Funny how luck comes to those with an eye and a bit of patience & skill.
Way-Out-West
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Beachgoers again.
Way-Out-West
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Twisty oaks. The antithesis of a soft misty woodland in today's bright conditions. I had to edit hard to lower the strong highlights, raise shadows and reduce contrast somewhat.
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Way-Out-West
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That's got a cool retro vibe. I like the anglepoise shadow too.
In other news I photographed my first OS benchmark today. A brass one no less.
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briantrumpet
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I should have been concentrating on what my pupil was doing rather than eyeing up the shot while he was playing...
There is a thread for geographs, if you wanted... https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/t...rporating-other-interesting-geographs.215788/
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briantrumpet
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More evening light... this time snapped while I was on a Zoom meeting.
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I've just brought a Panasonic fz 38 for £25!
Let's see what its like 12mp and 18x zoom!
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briantrumpet
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Have fun. Might be as long in the tooth as my Sony, but the reviews from back then are decent.
https://www.photographyblog.com/reviews/panasonic_lumix_dmc_fz38_review
Will look forward to seeing what you do with it.
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I felt it was a law of diminishing returns and I don't have a great deal of money so I'm good to go.
I don't know if the 18x Vs 24x zoom of the newer ones is a major benefit?
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briantrumpet
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Well, for £25, 18x zoom ain't bad, as long as the image stabilisation is decent, and you'll have a lot of fun. As with my relatively cheap camera, the pleasure is in exploiting what it can do, not in wondering what a more expensive camera might do.
A bird-watching friend of mine has the newest Olympus OM1, which will do burst mode on a setting that specifically will focus on the eye of a bird, so you can imagine some of the spectacular stuff he gets, not least as he knows where to go and has lots of patience. But he's spent several £1000s on it and lenses.
