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alfredo

(60,071 posts) Sat Mar 31, 2012, 12:46 PM Mar 2012

Spring at our arboretum

Bee the size of your pinky finger nail.

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Spring at our arboretum (Original Post) alfredo Mar 2012 OP

These are perfect! CaliforniaPeggy Mar 2012 #1

Thank you. I love my new polarizer. alfredo Mar 2012 #2

If you like to use filters, a graduated ND filter is a nice thing to have Major Nikon Mar 2012 #3

Someday. I am not big into landscape photography, but someday I will round out my filter alfredo Mar 2012 #4

I don't use filters that much anymore Major Nikon Mar 2012 #5

I can do the same in PP, but I try to keep PP to a minimum. alfredo Mar 2012 #6

I need to get to ours as well, but Sherman A1 Apr 2012 #7

The townhouse association takes care of the lawn, for the alfredo Apr 2012 #10

What wonderful photos alfredo. Callalily Apr 2012 #8

Thanks. It's good exercise too. alfredo Apr 2012 #9

Wonderful! Love the bug. Solly Mack Apr 2012 #11

Thanks. The sky turned out better than I feared. alfredo Apr 2012 #12

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,620 posts)

1. These are perfect!

Reply to alfredo (Original post)

Sat Mar 31, 2012, 01:23 PM

Mar 2012

I love the colors and the sharpness of the details.

The second and third pictures (the blossoming branch and the bee closeup) are my favorites! But they're all wonderful...

Ya done good!

Thanks for sharing these, my dear alfredo!

alfredo

(60,071 posts)

2. Thank you. I love my new polarizer.

Reply to CaliforniaPeggy (Reply #1)

Sat Mar 31, 2012, 01:33 PM

Mar 2012

I am going out to take more images. It is overcast today, It should improve contrast and highlights.

Major Nikon

(36,827 posts)

3. If you like to use filters, a graduated ND filter is a nice thing to have

Reply to alfredo (Reply #2)

Sat Mar 31, 2012, 02:57 PM

Mar 2012

You could have used it on the first picture to darken the sky.

alfredo

(60,071 posts)

4. Someday. I am not big into landscape photography, but someday I will round out my filter

Reply to Major Nikon (Reply #3)

Sat Mar 31, 2012, 03:15 PM

Mar 2012

collection. Right now the only kit lens I have is the much maligned* Oly 14~42mm. Polarizers and graduated ND's don't work well because the front element rotates when focusing. Any adjustment to the filter causes the lens to refocus. I have my eye on two primes, the Panny 14mm and the Sigma 30mm 2.8.

Most of what you see me post is done with legacy glass.

*Slow AF and the rotating front element. Someday it will be replaced with the Panny 14~45mm.

Major Nikon

(36,827 posts)

5. I don't use filters that much anymore

Reply to alfredo (Reply #4)

Sat Mar 31, 2012, 04:00 PM

Mar 2012

Most of the filter effects I need can be done with Color Efex Pro or Silver Efex (for B&W) during post processing. I have circular polarizers that will fit all my lenses, that I use on rare occasions. I have a pair of linear polarizers that I use for neutral density when rotated against each other. I have a drawer full of filters that I just don't use anymore.

alfredo

(60,071 posts)

6. I can do the same in PP, but I try to keep PP to a minimum.

Reply to Major Nikon (Reply #5)

Sat Mar 31, 2012, 07:40 PM

Mar 2012

I am working with some images from today. Resynthisize has been my friend today. There was some garbage in the stream that had to be removed.

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)

7. I need to get to ours as well, but

Reply to alfredo (Original post)

Sun Apr 1, 2012, 05:44 AM

Apr 2012

there seems to be too much work around the house in the yard & alike with the early Spring weather that keeps me home on my days off. Also caught a notice on their FB page that they cancelled the Spring Daffodil Show as they had already bloomed, so I guess there is no really hurry for those flowers. I do enjoy the place and it is not too far from where I work.

http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/