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iceman

27-11-2006, 08:19 AM

Hi all

Here's some shots taken about 5 weeks ago at Long Jetty.. Jacob was at a birthday party at the rollerskating rink, so in-between falling over I went down to the lake for some shots.

There's some bird shots in here, but no Pelicans, sorry Tony :) They were around, but they were flying off downstream too fast chasing something in the water.

The wide shots were taken with the Sigma 17-70 and the closeups were taken with the stock 70-300. All handheld, no filters (could've used a circular polariser :( )

Processed in RawShooterPremium then websized & sharpened in Photoshop.

Thanks for looking.

iceman

27-11-2006, 08:20 AM

These were taken with the Sigma.

27-11-2006, 09:19 AM

Mike they're excellent mate !
I love the sense of movement in the very first one and they all have great composition and DOF.
How on earth do you get your horizons so level. Well done. :D

The Sigma really gives great results (in the right hands). :thumbsup:

Great work.

h0ughy

27-11-2006, 09:30 AM

I am dissapointed that there are no Pelicans, thats discrimination!! nice work Mike. BTW what do you migrate to after BIRDS?

ving

27-11-2006, 12:57 PM

i want pelicans damn it! ;)

nice pics mike :)

davidpretorius

27-11-2006, 04:04 PM

yup, i refuse to look at these without pelicans!!!!

so tell me what is a sigma? a camera?

they are very good!

Striker

27-11-2006, 04:23 PM

I was a bit dissapointed there were no pelican but my excitement was raised when Mike cought some mangroves in Pic 4...thanks for not letting us down Mike...lol

27-11-2006, 05:30 PM

Show us your Pelican Tony !
The one that came with the ST11000 :P

jakob

27-11-2006, 05:49 PM

Very nice shots, Mike.
Amazing depth of field, unthinkable with 35mm film!
Keep-em comming.

spacezebra

27-11-2006, 07:27 PM

Excellent shots. I am partial to the middle pic.

Cheers Petra

iceman

28-11-2006, 08:32 AM

Thanks for the comments :D

Judicious use of the straighten and crop tool in Raw Shooter Premium :)

A new lens I got recently, the Sigma 17-70mm.

LOL Tony, I knew there'd be something in it for you :)

Thanks again :)

ausastronomer

28-11-2006, 10:22 AM

Very true, but sometimes a shallow depth of field can be used to highlight a specific part of the image, which I quite often like to do in nature and panoramic photography. Maybe that's why I am a dinosaur and still put film in my camera :) I will eventually move to the dark side but dunno when that might be.

CS-John B