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Farewell to Summer - Open Thread

Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 9:35 pm
by sury
Now that summer is fading, I invite you all to post your good bye to summer photos.
Anything that you see fit (or even not!!! :D ) go in here....

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Re: Farewell to Summer - Open Thread

Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 10:34 pm
by ValeryD
Sorry! It's private photo on the Flickr, no one has right to see :(
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Re: Farewell to Summer - Open Thread

Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 10:44 pm
by bakubo
Good idea for a photo thread. Nice flowers, Sury.

Fish hanging out, just waiting for the bars to open. :) Olympus E-M5

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Caught in a heavy downpour. Canon G16

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Children going home from school in a heavy downpour. Canon G16

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Re: Farewell to Summer - Open Thread

Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2015 12:09 am
by sury
Valery, thank you. I flexed it now. Please let me know.
Henry, nice shots.

Re: Farewell to Summer - Open Thread

Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2015 1:28 pm
by ValeryD
sury wrote:Valery, thank you. I flexed it now. Please let me know.
Henry, nice shots.
Way better! I can see the picture. :)

Henry, second and last one - nice shots. :)

Re: Farewell to Summer - Open Thread

Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2015 6:54 am
by sury
Few more from tonight at home. We had a dinner on Friday night and thus had few bouquets "lying" around.
With 135/f1.8. That lens has become an enigma to me and as JB predicted, forces me to think differently.
If I had not been familiar with macro photography, I would have struggled a lot with such slim DoF.
These were taken with camera on tripod, focus stacking done using Zerene Stacker. At one point, I was tempted
to put the camera/lens on a macro slider but trying to move the focus ring by less than a mm, gave me a more
intimate feel for the lens behavior.
Also tried to be less ham fisted with PP, trying hard to keep the creaminess of the bokeh which could be lost due to stacking.
This is my first attempt at PP which kept lens characterisitc in mind rather than the image per se.
Any suggestions or tips to improve are (as) always welcome.

Sury

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Re: Farewell to Summer - Open Thread

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2015 1:33 am
by Mark K
Well, this is it. Woke up early in the morning and started my late summer and early fall trail walk
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Re: Farewell to Summer - Open Thread

Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2015 3:21 pm
by RareTA
Sury you have the best flower garden. The photos are great!

Re: Farewell to Summer - Open Thread

Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2015 3:22 pm
by RareTA
Henry that fish photo is great! You can almost smell them.

Re: Farewell to Summer - Open Thread

Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2015 4:11 pm
by RareTA
This shot doesn't have a lot of fall colors but it still shows its coming.

Re: Farewell to Summer - Open Thread

Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2015 4:39 pm
by RareTA
This one has some more fall color to it.

Re: Farewell to Summer - Open Thread

Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2015 11:55 pm
by Birma
Great idea for the thread, Sury. Love all of the flowers and end of summer days - especially the rain in Japan; there have been a few days like that here this week.

It is dark on the way to work, and dark on the way home, which means autumn must be well on the way now. The bonus is that sunrise is at a more reasonable hour, and there is more chance of mist in the morning as well.
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Re: Farewell to Summer - Open Thread

Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2015 12:41 am
by sury
Wow. What a way to bid farewell to Summer. Excellent shot Andy.

Ken, Very nice shots and especially the second one is vibrant.

Re: Farewell to Summer - Open Thread

Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2015 7:34 am
by Birma
Thanks Sury :)

Re: Farewell to Summer - Open Thread

Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2015 7:36 pm
by RareTA
Thanks Sury but I have to say the knock out photo is the foggy one from Birma! It's just sweet!