The "Post a Picture You Took" thread

[Cajun 11771]

Got these with the drone this morning...

The video is even better, because FANDAGO...

 

[PittsburghTiger 6318]

Yesterday on the drive home from NYC. Kinda hard to take a picture coming out of the mess that is the Lincoln Tunnel but, I think it looks pretty good at 06:30

 

 

Edited October 17 by PittsburghTiger

[PittsburghTiger 6318]

Just took this one out the bedroom window. The moon is wicked bright tonight at 11:45 pm

[PittsburghTiger 6318]

My German cousin’s wife took this up at their place in the Netherlands. Really cool.

 

 

[2Dogs 108]

[mchookem 16728]

[Damor 1245]

My younger son just had his fall break and wanted to go visit his brother at school in Colorado, so I gladly obliged.  We missed the peak of the aspens, but it was still gorgeous and, like most trips up there, left me questioning the life decisions that keep me in Texas.

Numerous gratuitous trout pics are in the fishing thread.

[Anton Chigurh 3332]

Dang man, great photos! It looks incredible.

[PittsburghTiger 6318]

Wow!  Those are great!

[mchookem 16728]

not the greatest shots (can't get out of your car), but the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge has really been showing out this year...

[NWBuck 8619]

Taken from my walk last week...

[Jiggy-Z 3506]

Taken a couple of weeks ago while visiting my mom  Went to talk to my dad at his gravesite after a gravel ride on the country roads.

 

[DougO 5261]

 

[PittsburghTiger 6318]

This was this morning just off Route 40, the first federally funded U.S. road, built between 1811 and 1834. It is also known as the National Pike. 

That is the road that comes over the mountain from Cumberland, Maryland. It's basically the road that George Washington took, before there was a road, when he came this way to try to get the French to leave. The actual First World War, started a couple miles away at the Battle of Jumonville Glen, in May, 1754. From there they wanted to go to Fort Duquesne and kick them out of what would become Fort Pitt, and then Pittsburgh.

There is a ton of history surrounding The French And Indian War war all over Western Pennsylvania. Fort Necessity is just a bit east of here, basically on the Forbes Road. Braddock's Grave is also there. It's amazing. Fort Ligonier is not far from where I live as well. 

This is a view west as you see things start to flatten out as you go towards Ohio.

 

I went to Youghiogheny River Lake after I took the photo because there is a bridge, in the lake that has been revealed because the lake is very low. It is called Great Crossing Bridge and was built in 1818 and was covered by water when they built the dam/lake. 

 

Edited October 29 by PittsburghTiger

[PittsburghTiger 6318]

I thought this too was pretty cool

[NWBuck 8619]

Amazing sunrise this morning....

[PittsburghTiger 6318]

On 10/22/2024 at 10:08 AM, Damor said:

My younger son just had his fall break and wanted to go visit his brother at school in Colorado, so I gladly obliged.  We missed the peak of the aspens, but it was still gorgeous and, like most trips up there, left me questioning the life decisions that keep me in Texas.

Numerous gratuitous trout pics are in the fishing thread.

I’ve been twice to Colorado, as a friend of mine has a place in Breckenridge, and it is just amazingly beautiful. Everywhere you look is a postcard-worthy photo.

[YChang 3531]

A few from Japan and Taiwan the last two weeks... various shots from Osaka, Kyoto, and Kobe.

[YChang 3531]

Taiwan...

[nycHorn 3123]

Working in LA this week and saw these luxury buildings that seemingly stopped in the middle of construction. And then LA did what LA does….

[LTbear 4209]

For all the wildlife I photograph - wolves and grizzlies included - I really never get tired of the coyotes.

[mininghorn88 2330]

The corridor of the hotel that I stayed in overnight at the Haneda Airport in Japan.

[PittsburghTiger 6318]

Went to Churchill Downs today

[naija 2961]

On 11/11/2024 at 9:34 AM, YChang said:

Taiwan...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I was reading the thread bottom-up, and as soon as I saw the pics on this post, I knew who the poster was going to be. Nice shots

[mchookem 16728]

On 10/21/2024 at 9:13 PM, mchookem said:

changing seasons...😄

[PittsburghTiger 6318]

It’s been pretty cold here. This is at a friend’s farm. The first layer of ice for the season 

[LTbear 4209]

Pygmy owl, aka danger puff/ murder floof

[LTbear 4209]

Old coyote I've watched for years now. Broke a leg four years ago, looked skeletal for a while. Thought he wouldn't make it. Flash forward four years and he's still got the limp, plus missing a couple teeth and his eyes are beginning to cloud (he's 8), but he's the largest, most dominant alpha coyote in the valley.   

 

 

[mininghorn88 2330]

On 12/10/2024 at 9:38 PM, LTbear said:

Old coyote I've watched for years now. Broke a leg four years ago, looked skeletal for a while. Thought he wouldn't make it. Flash forward four years and he's still got the limp, plus missing a couple teeth and his eyes are beginning to cloud (he's 8), but he's the largest, most dominant alpha coyote in the valley.   

 

 

[Lhorn 5080]

On 5/19/2024 at 1:46 PM, Anton Chigurh said:

Had a macro lens adventure yesterday.

Really late to having seen these.  Very nice.  I’ve always been interested in that type of macro photography.  These are 1:1 macro?  You seem to have pretty decent depth of field.  Are they single images or stacked?  

Can you reveal the basics of these images.  Set up camera near flower, focus just above flower, bee attractant, wait…wait…..wait…… remote shutter release, profit?  Thanks.  
As I recall my camera has a feature where it’ll automatically release the shutter when something comes into focus but not sure how that would work in photos like yours where part of the flower is already in focus.

 

 

 

[Anton Chigurh 3332]

Really late to having seen these.  Very nice.  I’ve always been interested in that type of macro photography.  These are 1:1 macro?  You seem to have pretty decent depth of field.  Are they single images or stacked?  

Can you reveal the basics of these images.  Set up camera near flower, focus just above flower, bee attractant, wait…wait…..wait…… remote shutter release, profit?  Thanks.  
As I recall my camera has a feature where it’ll automatically release the shutter when something comes into focus but not sure how that would work in photos like yours where part of the flower is already in focus.
 
 
 

Thank you!

These are 1:1, yeah. Shot with a Canon 5DIV and 100mm 2.8 USM (the older one but not the OLDEST one). I normally use it for scanning film, but wanted to go experiment with actual macro stuff.

They are all single images and shot handheld. I just use continuous autofocus (I still use the single center point), aperture priority, and high speed continuous drive mode. Apertures are anywhere from 4.5-13, but mostly f9.

I also use back button focus which makes something like this way easier. I sometimes also use back button focus to obtain initial focus and then release it and pull focus manually using the lens while shooting continuously. Then, just take your pick of the lot while in post-processing.