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Contests, Critique 2020 - November - Animals

Red Squirrel Tamiasciurus hudsonicus, Grand Tetons National Park, 21 June 1985. I was surprised how close this animal let me get. It was quite content to continue eating the pine cone, even wh...

posted 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Contests, Critique 2020 - October - Clouds

The image actually didn't come out this badly, I had to reduce the quality since I always shoot RAW. I took this in the morning, when I looked out my window and saw the sun behind the clouds. Sett...

posted 3y ago by 10 Rep‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Dani‭

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Meta Table of contents with a thumbnail on photo competitions?

Questions that have many answers (4+?) have a table of contents that provides details of every answer: currently, the score and some first words. In the photo contests, wouldn't it be helpful if t...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by fedorqui‭

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Contests, Critique 2020 - October - Clouds

19 May 2020 in Montreal (near the top of Mont Royal) I took this right before sunset, and was quite pleased with the colours of the sky and clouds. I ended up staying out a bit too late and had to...

posted 3y ago by dino‭

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Contests, Critique 2020 - December - Macro Photography

Yellow Snail, Montreal QC, 2020-05-31

posted 3y ago by dino‭

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Contests, Critique 2020 - December - Macro Photography

Sunflower Pollen, Montreal QC, 2020-09-26 I grew the sunflower myself on my balcony, and took this photo on the same day that I discovered my other sunflower was crushed by a piece of plaster th...

posted 3y ago by dino‭

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Q&A Should near future smartphones replace professional cameras?

No. Dirt happens. Phones don't magically get dirty less than lenses of high end cameras. In fact, the opposite is true. Even a semi-serious camera lens has a cap or hood. This is a simple mech...

posted 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Why is interlaced footage still being used in professionally-produced videos shot with high-end cameras?

I am not a video expert, but I am sometimes surprised to see interlaced footage in professionally-produced videos shot with high-end cameras. This often gives "combing" artifacts to videos (Youtube...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Trevor‭

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Gear Recommendations Program to strip EXIF data from images

I record the GPS locations of my pictures but for privacy and other reasons I would like to strip the EXIF data before I upload them online. Looking for a program that, Will process multiple im...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Trilarion‭

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Gear Recommendations Inexpensive "family" digital camera?

I'm going to start this post off with a general response to your list of requirements in order to expand this as a learning opportunity...then we'll get onto gear. Some kind of flash. It's likely ...

posted 3y ago by Hueco‭

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Contests, Critique 2020 - November - Animals

Butterfly on bracken, Muckross House (Killarney, Ireland), July 2017. Spotted on one of the paths a moderate way from the main house, shot with my Nikon D5300 and 70-300mm AF-S @ 300mm, f/5.6, IS...

posted 3y ago by Peter Taylor‭

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Contests, Critique 2020 - November - Animals

Long skimmer (Orthetrum trinacria), Tancat de la Pipa, July 2017. Taken with my D5300 and 70-300mm AF-S @ 300mm, f/5.6, ISO 800, 1/2000 sec. A local privately owned nature reserve partnered with...

posted 3y ago by Peter Taylor‭

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Contests, Critique 2020 - November - Animals

Kirk's dik-dik (Madoqua kirkii), Bioparc Valencia, February 2017. Taken with my Nikon D5300 and 1100mm f/11 reflex lens at ISO 250 and 1/800 sec. I like to consider this photo as proof that the ...

posted 3y ago by Peter Taylor‭

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Contests, Critique 2020 - November - Animals

Mountain Goats (Oreamnos americanus) Glacier National Park, Montana, August 1974. I came across these goats on the Garden Wall Trail about halfway from Logan Pass to Swiftcurrent Pass. They le...

posted 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Contests, Critique 2020 - November - Animals

Crow tip-toeing through the trees; Summit Woods, Montreal, QC; 21 June 2020 This fellow and his friends were very vocal about their dislike of me walking through their forest

posted 3y ago by dino‭

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Contests, Critique 2020 - November - Animals

A procession of geese January 2019 in Cambridge MA, in some wetlands surrounded by office buildings, near the Alewife stop on the red line.

posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Contests, Critique 2020 - July - B&W Horizons

Comet Neowise Groton Massachusetts, 20 July 2020, 22:19. 135 mm, full frame (24 x 36 mm) sensor, 4 seconds.

posted 4y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Contests, Critique 2020 - October - Clouds

Thunderstorm over Mt Elden 18 Aug 2014 northeast of Flagstaff Arizona. I was on the east side of the ridge, so didn't get much warning about this thunderstorm coming from the west. A few minutes ...

posted 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Contests, Critique 2020 - October - Clouds

Rules that are always applicable are as follows: One photo per answer, and no more than 5 answers per user per contest. Post only photos taken by yourself/person with you. All entries should inclu...

4 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Hueco‭

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Q&A What are shutter speed, ISO, and Aperture?

Shutter speed Shutter speed is the inverse of exposure time: i.e. it measures how long the camera collects light. This is the parameter with most flexibility: most cameras support shutter speeds at...

posted 3y ago by Peter Taylor‭

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Contests, Critique 2020 - September - Fun with perspective

This is called a Deepam. I decided to take a photo of it (cuz I was bored), so here we go. Shutter speed: 1/200 ISO: 4000 apparently F-Stop: 5.6 Camera: Nikon D5000

posted 3y ago by 10 Rep‭

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Meta Status of moderation?

What is the current situation with moderation? I wasn't sure if we had any moderators or modtools or similar things.

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by ozewski‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Status of moderation?

The focus now should be on building the site; we don't yet have much to moderate, after all. The admins (ArtOfCode, Luap42, and I) keep an eye on all sites to take care of administrative requests ...

posted 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Contests, Critique 2020 - August - The Moon

2020/08/07, shot from near Ottawa, ON. Canon Rebel T6 with 55-250 lens @ 180mm, ISO 100, f/18, 1/6 second Not the first "just the moon" photo posted here by any means, but certainly the first dece...

posted 3y ago by dino‭

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Contests, Critique Critique Request - Landscape - Composition

Here is another totally different derivative of the original: The waterfall and the swirling leaves are really two separate features that happen to be in the same original photograph. Trying to s...

posted 4y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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