Re: PESO: Bird of Paradise

[Toine]

I tried (and failed) to grow that flower. For Christmas I got this:
https://www.lego.com/nl-nl/product/bird-of-paradise-10289


On Fri, 3 Feb 2023, 06:17 Daniel J. Matyola,  wrote:

> From the garden in our resort condo:
>
> http://dan-matyola.squarespace.com/danmatyolas-pesos/2023/2/2/bird-of-pa
>
> K-5 IIs, smc DA 35 mm F 2.8 Macro Limited
> Comments and criticisms are invited and appreciated.
>
> Dan Matyola
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Re: PESO: Bird of Paradise

[Alan C]

Very nice capture, Dan. Good to see a bit of SA! That particular flower, 
known to gardeners world wide as the "Bird of Paradise", is the South 
African indigenous species Strelitzia Reginae.


Alan C

On 03-Feb-23 07:17 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:

>From the garden in our resort condo:

http://dan-matyola.squarespace.com/danmatyolas-pesos/2023/2/2/bird-of-pa

K-5 IIs, smc DA 35 mm F 2.8 Macro Limited
Comments and criticisms are invited and appreciated.

Dan Matyola


   


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Re: PESO: Bird of Paradise

[Larry Colen]

> On Feb 2, 2023, at 9:17 PM, Daniel J. Matyola  wrote:
> 
> From the garden in our resort condo:
> 
> http://dan-matyola.squarespace.com/danmatyolas-pesos/2023/2/2/bird-of-pa
> 
> K-5 IIs, smc DA 35 mm F 2.8 Macro Limited
> Comments and criticisms are invited and appreciated.

Lovely flower, I wish that it were better separated from the background.

If I were shooting it, and couldn’t arrange to have a simple black background 
behind it, I would try and do some sort of Rembrandt lighting on it, either 
with a speed light when there was less background light, or even just some sort 
of hot light at night from the side so that the leaves behind the flower were 
not illuminated.  Possibly doing something fancy to shade the leaves and use a 
mirror or reflector to put more sunlight on the flower.

Another thing that might help is to use a longer lens and move back so that 
there is a lot less background visible, so that more of the background were 
something darker that contrasts more with the flower (like the leaves in shadow 
rather than sunlight concrete)


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PESO: Bird of Paradise

[Daniel J. Matyola]

>From the garden in our resort condo:

http://dan-matyola.squarespace.com/danmatyolas-pesos/2023/2/2/bird-of-pa

K-5 IIs, smc DA 35 mm F 2.8 Macro Limited
Comments and criticisms are invited and appreciated.

Dan Matyola
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Fancy Camera Strap

[Bipin Gupta]

Hi Friends, Arca Swiss QR Plates with Strap Lugs can be bought for US $ 6
to 22 with Free Shipping from AliExpress or WISH. These are available with
multiple options - D-Ring attached to a swivel Carabiner ($ 4 to 5), just
the swivel Carabiner ($ 2 to 3) to a round ringed slot in the QR Plate.
Some come with a hinged Lug. Most of these Plates also have strap lugs at
both ends to attach a nylon Camera Strap. These DO NOT interfere if the
Arca Swiss Plate is mounted to a Ball Head.
WISH has a Warehouse in Toronto so shipments come in fast. But AliExpress
shipments from China may take upto 1.5 months.
My Arca Swiss PU70 QR Plate has both the tripod Female Socket + Strap Lugs.
Regards.
Bipin from Thornhill Ontario.
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Last Call - February PUG

[Brian W]

Hi all

I'll be closing submissions on Monday evening 6 February, Sydney time.  

Theme: Golden Hour

As usual submit here:

http://pug.komkon.org/submit/

Full Submission Guidelines here:

http://pug.komkon.org/general/autosubmit.html

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Brian
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Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia
https://eu.zonerama.com/apathyman/1022051
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Re: OT Rabbit hole

[lists]

> On 1 Feb 2023, at 15:49, ann sanfedele  wrote:
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> Ok I did it again this morning.. and did screen shots of my answers  got 3387 
>  with one 1000 pointer -

Interesting game indeed.

Ran it about ten times usually between 1500 and 3000. High-score of 3264 with 
one 1000-pointer in there.

Usually by about a decade ;-)


Regards, JvW

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Jan van Wijk; author of DFsee;  https://www.dfsee.com

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