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Random Photo thread

That's a big boat, Is he lost? Or did he just pull in for some Pronto Pups? 🌞
 
dorkburger said:
That is great. Us photo geeks need details on setup ...:D
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Nothing special, just the GX85, 60mm Macro, f/4.5, ISO800 (1st) 640 (2nd), handheld, and a fairly heavy crop.
Had three or four decent shots out of about 27.:D
 
Great closeup Bob. Love the sharpness and detail that lens brings. Ask myself. "You don't really need another lens do you?" Answer "But, but, but." By the way Dave, what camera did you end up with?
 
Redman said:
https://www.boatnerd.com/pictures/fleet/ArthurMAnderson.htm

What the photo is lacking, is when the ship entered the piers, it again sounded its horn fhoooooooowt fhoooooowt fhoooooowt fhowt fhowt.
I called my wife, 5 miles away, yep, she heard it.
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Great photos, Dave. What a sight to see.

You didn't mention a tug getting the ship to that spot and then have it drop ancor? Wow, that is one talented crew.

I can't remember ever seeing a ship that big in person.
 
Burque73 said:
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You didn't mention a tug getting the ship to that spot and then have it drop ancor? .... .
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No tug. Self propelled. Has bow thruster that can push front sideways.
Picture is coming thru piers, it went further upstream to some docks. Ties up at docks.
 
Sandy said:
. . . . . . By the way Dave, what camera did you end up with?
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Used 2016 vintage GX85, so can use what lenses I have.
ANd thought my experience with the GX1 would be applicable. And it is.

But on my second outing . . . (oh oh, starting a story here) a lot of strange things where happening. Next day I see that my pictures are not pictures, they are MP4 files that are 1 second vidios. I had no idea how that happened, no idea how to get out of it. Bob baafam came to my rescue. (apparently I fumbled the Fn3 button). And I did figure out the MP4 files were 4K vidio, comprised of 24 frames of 3300pixle wide images. And I found the incamera function to save selected frames as picture files (the ship-coming-in pictures).

Now that I got the manual (advance manual), I can learn more . . . and there is a lot more to learn.
 
Some of what Cowboy Scott and I were looking at Saturday evening.

THis on north pier looking across the channel to the south pier
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These from beach looking north at the south pier with the sunset behind.
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Saturday morning doggie walk with wife and doggie in park along the river. Had 40-150 (300mm equivalant) on, perchance see an eagle that are along the river on occasion (I have yet to see).

Did see the dragon fly in a accessible position. He flew off before I got completely ready, but then came right back just long enough for a couple shots.
P1160365c by Dave Redman, on Flickr
I didnt ask why he wasnt holding wings in symmetrical positions.

Not really appropriate lens.
Was operating at minimum focus, had to back up some to get it to focus.
Maybe could have dropped down the aperture to get get a bit better depth of field.
 
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Redman said:
Used 2016 vintage GX85, so can use what lenses I have.
ANd thought my experience with the GX1 would be applicable. And it is.

But on my second outing . . . (oh oh, starting a story here) a lot of strange things where happening. Next day I see that my pictures are not pictures, they are MP4 files that are 1 second vidios. I had no idea how that happened, no idea how to get out of it. Bob baafam came to my rescue. (apparently I fumbled the Fn3 button). And I did figure out the MP4 files were 4K vidio, comprised of 24 frames of 3300pixle wide images. And I found the incamera function to save selected frames as picture files (the ship-coming-in pictures).

Now that I got the manual (advance manual), I can learn more . . . and there is a lot more to learn.
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Yah. I'm still finding stuff on mine that amazes and sometimes totally spins me in circles. You can set all those buttons with different functions. I set my F3 to HDR and on occasion accidently end up in that mode. Live and learn.
 
This is definitely random.

When I saw Rich's pic with the bridge truss behind his bike...

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it reminded me of a scene I saw years ago.

 
:encouragement::encouragement::encouragement::encouragement::encouragement::encouragement::encouragement::encouragement::encouragement::encouragement:
 
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Drove home from "work" today (didn't really work any) and these fellas had moved into my neighbouerhood.
 
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