Party at Nook's!! Thursday, June 23rd

Had a blast last night! It was great to see everyone again. Thanks Dave for opening your home to us and not feeding anyone to Bogie. Your tanks looked awesome, the food was great, and the people were friendly. Best time I had in awhile fo sho!
 
My obsession for the night was Nooks new bartletts and they were beautiful. So they kinda stole the spotlight of my camera. Didn't get to take as many pics this time around as I was mingling more instead :D Some of them are blurry and some are decent. Here's what I got from the day. You'd think I would have took more since I was there at 1:30


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Those are some great pics Daniel:thumbsup: Good job. I love your tank and fish shots. My camera doesn't do good at extreme close ups. What are you using?
 
Very nice pics! Beth and I had a great time as always. I had some of Star's leftover scotch eggs for breakfast yesterday, very tasty :thumbsup: I hope someone polished off the bacon explosion after we left and that said person in recovering well after their angioplasty :lol:
 
Those are some great pics Daniel:thumbsup: Good job. I love your tank and fish shots. My camera doesn't do good at extreme close ups. What are you using?

To get the most crisp shots I use my 18-55 mm lens, but it's not as easy since the fish get more skiddish when you're up to the glass. Then I use my 55-200 mm lens so I can stand far enough away where the fish isn't constantly swimming away, but zooming in you either have to have a really steady hand or a tripod so it doesn't get all blurry. Once you get that down it's just a matter of taking hundreds of pics, an hour or so of looking through and deciding which looks best, and another hour or two editing them for wb, contrast, shadows, etc. I use sharpness a lot in my canon editor to get some pics really sharp, but some people don't like it that sharp. I started editing these pics and the firework pics at 11 and after uploading them to photobucket it was about 3:30. Then messing with my stupid Internet and a few emailed pics as well as uploading to the thread I crawled in bed at 5:30ish :lol: hopefully I actually explained what you wanted to know I kinda just started typing :lmao:
 
To get the most crisp shots I use my 18-55 mm lens, but it's not as easy since the fish get more skiddish when you're up to the glass. Then I use my 55-200 mm lens so I can stand far enough away where the fish isn't constantly swimming away, but zooming in you either have to have a really steady hand or a tripod so it doesn't get all blurry. Once you get that down it's just a matter of taking hundreds of pics, an hour or so of looking through and deciding which looks best, and another hour or two editing them for wb, contrast, shadows, etc. I use sharpness a lot in my canon editor to get some pics really sharp, but some people don't like it that sharp. I started editing these pics and the firework pics at 11 and after uploading them to photobucket it was about 3:30. Then messing with my stupid Internet and a few emailed pics as well as uploading to the thread I crawled in bed at 5:30ish :lol: hopefully I actually explained what you wanted to know I kinda just started typing :lmao:


I didn't even think to look back at the original post for photos. I remembered seeing a few cameras that night. Hey was the 18-55 a fisheye? I especially loved those wide angle shots, I've been debating between a regular 10-20 or fisheye.
 
My fisheye is 8 mm. It's an off brand, Rokinon or something like that. It's ok. I'm sure if I went for the one that was a few hundred dollars more the pics would have turned out better. Maybe it's jus the user :lol: I found it a little hard to judge whether something was focused or not, but then again this was my first time using it for these types of shots so it's kind of a live and learn thing. I'd like to get a wide angle lens that's not a fisheye also, but that won't be for a while. The fisheye is a lot of fun though if you're into taking goofy or unique type of pictures.

Here's what I typically look like when I'm on here


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Here's my face, real blurry, but still handsome

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Thanks Dave and Ann for the hospitality and a very cool way to kick off the 40th bday. Peggy and I had a great time. Now back to reality lol
 
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