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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Aug 3, 2008 - 12:34am PT
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the "Summer Flowers" thread is getting long to download... and this is really just stuff going on in our backyard in Livermore....
I just got a FujiFilm S5Pro (refurbished) and have been playing around with it today for the first time. Here are some shots...
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L
climber
Dancing beneath a Full Moon on the Edge of Forever
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That bee was way cool!
Osprey?
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 3, 2008 - 01:00am PT
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Kite
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Dwain
Trad climber
Apple Valley, California
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Those are great shots, Ed!!!
My favorites were the Bee, and cactus shots,
but I think First Prize, is the Bird.
Do you know what kind of Bird?
Dwain
Edit:oops Ed gave the answer, whike I was posting
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bob d'antonio
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Nice shots Ed...here are a few from a private garden we visited on our trip to Panama.
They also had several ponds with beautiful feeder fish.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 3, 2008 - 01:04am PT
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my guess, White Tailed Kite, Elanus leucurus,
Debbie's asleep right now, I'll ask her for an ID tomorrow...
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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This one's in a pot on our back deck, rather than in the garden. Bolivian Rainbow peppers -- just a centimeter or so in diameter right now, but they'll get a little bigger and go through multiple color changes before they wind up heating up our food.
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Standing Strong
Trad climber
sunlight on the surf
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lovely roses! lately i've been enjoying wandering through nurseries and checking out flowers i'd like to plant one day.
something that makes a good gift for friends is a pretty plant, potted in a pot you decorated yourself. wish i had some pix of ones i've done.
for one friend, i decorated a pot with rhinestones, planted a gorgeous gerbera daisy, and wrapped it up in colorful tissue w/a ginormous ribbon.
for my grandma, i potted an aloe plant, and on the pot, painted designs i copied from ancestral puebloan pottery.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Those Rainbow peppers looks sooo cool.
do they have flavor, not just heat?
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Jingy
Social climber
Flatland, Ca
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Great shots!! Love the bee!! Let me guess you were about 3 feet away, fully zoomed with a 55mm, maybe smaller?
Or are you a daredevil and got in close with a macro-lens, knowing that the bee had a job to do and couldn't be bothered by the likes of you or your lens!
P.S. If that thing came with a user manual, I suggest diving in and using that to the fullest. The more shots you get out of that the better.
P.S.S. Birds.... Bees... You trying to tell us something? LOL Who ever heard of Freudian Photography?
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L
climber
Dancing beneath a Full Moon on the Edge of Forever
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Yep, immature white-tailed kite--just looked in my bird book. The red eyes give it away.
Nice flowers you guys! And SS--what a great gift idea...living plants are my favorite, too. Speaking of which...
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Those Rainbow peppers looks sooo cool. do they have flavor, not just heat?
This is the first time I've grown Bolivian Rainbows, but my experience with hot peppers so far has been that anything I've grown myself has flavor as well as heat. But I think it does depend on growing conditions, including soil, water, temperature, amount and angle of sun, etc etc etc.
I grew some Bulgarian Carrot peppers last year and found them to have great flavor as well as plenty of heat. But when I was shopping for this year's seeds I saw a bunch of thumbs-down reviews of Bulgarian Carrots with warnings about "flavorless crap." So who knows?
Here are a couple more garden shots
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TrundleBum
Trad climber
Las Vegas
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The Koi in that garden pond are probably worth more than my house !
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there all.. say, i hope someday to share some pics.. flowers, etc.. and whatever... i think i learned how to do the photo "place" that you all speak of...
say, i love flower pics.. thanks for sharing...
once where i lived in mich, nearby, i had the pleasure of walking in a "typical" field out here.. .and over a few months, (as flower rotate in blooming) i had spotted about 70 different wild flowers... it was just great...
times and fields such as these, in many a city, are disappearing... thanks all for the share...
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 24, 2008 - 07:51pm PT
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more flowers from playing around this morning...
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 24, 2008 - 08:24pm PT
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no, a FujiFilm S5 Pro...
since I haven't shot digital I thought I'd just ease into it. The advantage of this particular camera is its dynamic range.
When I know what I want, I'll consider a D3 (or a D700). But I'll shot like crazy with this beast and learn the business.
So far it's fun!
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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Aug 24, 2008 - 08:34pm PT
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Really Sweet ! Great Sunday afternoon viewing.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Aug 24, 2008 - 08:39pm PT
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My garden.
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dirtineye
Trad climber
the south
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Aug 24, 2008 - 10:05pm PT
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The refurbished S5 looks like a WINNER.
What did it set you back again?
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 25, 2008 - 01:27am PT
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FujiFilm S5Pro + AF-S Nikkor 18-135mm 1:3.5-5.6G ED
was about $1400...
off of eBay...
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nutjob
Stoked OW climber
San Jose, CA
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Aug 25, 2008 - 05:30am PT
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I'd have a conniption fit before spending that much on a camera, but I have to say the difference is apparent to my unskilled eyes. Maybe the close-up lens makes the difference? I'm satisfied to ignorantly ogle.
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dirtineye
Trad climber
the south
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Aug 25, 2008 - 05:35am PT
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It's the lens and the superior chip and the size of the chip, plus 'professional features' that used to be on nearly every 35 mm SLR. Like full manual control.
And considering that Ed's new toy competes with the current $3-5 K stuff, $1400 is a real bargain.
I'd call it a really good choice, if you want to take super nice digitals without having to sell off your first born child.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 25, 2008 - 11:48am PT
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One of the considerations of buying the FujiFilm was that it accepted all of my Nikkor lenses, so some of the shots are manual focused and exposures in manual mode.
The manual focus is aided by two features: 1) a continuous diopter adjust of the view finder which allows me to see the scene well and 2) the fact that the image focus software reports in the view finder if it considers the scene focused. I've noticed that with my Nikon FM2N film camera that I can't always get the sharp focus that I could, the diopter corrected eyepieces, when you can get them, come in 0.5 diopter steps at best.
I've only started to work with the S5, so I'm not at all facile with the exposure choices. On the other hand, since I can put the camera into manual mode, I fall back to my old film experience. However, the response of the digital sensor is different than the response of film so the images come out different. Playing with "Curves" in Photoshop can restore the film "look," as does the choice of "film" shooting mode in the camera itself.
The choice of the S5 was inspired by Guillaume Dargaurd (look here) who has considerable experience shooting in adverse conditions, including climbing. He got me jonesing for a Ricoh GR-21, but that is a lot of bucks to put down for a speciality camera, the GR-1 is a wonderful machine and mine is responsible for most of my "on route" shots. The poor beast has the look of a hard used tool, but every other year it gets sent to C.R.I.S. Camera and is refurbished by their tender hands. I love the buttery soft images that it takes and the optics are amazing for its price and the fact that it is a point-and-shoot fixed focus camera.
A lot of my close ups are hand held shots with a PN-11 52.5mm extension tube and a Nikkor 55mm f/3.5 MF lens that was modified for the mount. This is an amazing lens for closeups, and the 1-to-1 images are great for the sort of botany that Debbie does, which is generally aided by a hand glass.
Anyway, so far I'm learning a lot, and I'm not too unhappy with my choice.
Thanks all for the positive comments.
EDIT: the other thing is that the 400x600 pixel back lit images posted on the web are not necessarily an indication of what a printed 8x10 or 14x17 image will look like... getting good prints is yet another skill to develop!
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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bump
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 1, 2008 - 12:57pm PT
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I woke up on Friday morning, went through my normal breakfast/wakeup routine and Debbie says "did you notice that beautiful cactus bloomed during the night?" in a tone that indicated to me that she knew full well I didn't notice... because I usually don't.
Her Mammillaria had bloomed, the one from Poot's Cactus (you who travel CA 120 know what I'm talking about)... it was pretty indeed...
here with some local fauna
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Zander
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Sep 28, 2008 - 02:00pm PT
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Great thread Ed,
I don't know how I missed this first time around. A nice way to start a lazy Sunday.
Zander
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steelmnkey
climber
Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
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Sep 28, 2008 - 02:47pm PT
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World could probably use a little beauty every day...flower shots are from the Hudson Gardens, Littleton, Colorado
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Sep 30, 2008 - 12:36pm PT
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When this thread began, I posted a shot of some peppers growing on our back deck. Two months later, it's harvest time...
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 26, 2009 - 01:34pm PT
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Debbie's rather orange Dahlia
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 13, 2009 - 02:07pm PT
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Debbie's backyard in the early morning September light...
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Risk
Mountain climber
Olympia, WA
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Sep 13, 2009 - 09:12pm PT
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my suspicions are verified: film is still better for artistic potential.
From this afternoon (digital)
I want to harvest this soon, but still need to wait a week or two
I bought this basket at a roadside stand, and the thing has gone totally ape all summer.
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MH2
climber
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Sep 13, 2009 - 10:28pm PT
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Beautiful. We must share some genetic material with bees.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Sep 13, 2009 - 10:52pm PT
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hey there ed... say, you have great pictures in here... wow...
(i know others have some great ones here, too, but i have not seen them all download yet)
SAY---kevin, i DID see yours... very lovely flowers, and nice to see you here tonight... (hope the cat is well)... :)
say, timid toprope... am just now heading back, to see your download... say, i have a few pics from years back that are kind of neat, but just regular camera stuff, no neat closeups...
thanks for this great garden flowers stuff, ed... :)
and to all a good night, and more happy flower seekig, come the morning... (
ps:
say, i always get free film when take this camera in to get developed... NOW---come morning, i too am going flower hunting, as i have seen some neat ones that i will try to share... haha, give me a few weeks, folks, okay... one is really neat though... )... hope the wait will be worth it... ;)
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Sep 13, 2009 - 11:28pm PT
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hey there say, tmjess... these were my sunflowers from back in 2002 ??? from one of the few spots in michigan that i have been able to have a garden...
naturally they are LONG since harvested and gone (from an regular cheap film from walgreens camera):
then, some lovely white kind of ?shooting star? type flower, from said-long-ago years, too:
and from said-time, a (edit-ooops gladiola!)? that didn't come in too clear, from this close up:
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well---hopefull, i can hunt down the neat flowers that i mentioned, just up above all these...
god bless to all...
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