Welcome back I hope you get your inspiration back. Actually I've had some loss of inspiration myself, probably because I have been photographing same kind of stuff in same places too much, I need to reinvent myself or sumthin. I only remember a rumour (months ago) about a K-5, that would be kind of a cross between k-7 and k-x.

Hi!

You're most welcome here Nothing wrong being stuck in RAW mode. This is a great forum for all camera related things and more

I must say I envy you. I'd soo like to photograph dogs, but I don't know any that has one around here. My sister has nice cats but they aren't always very co-operative and if I shoot with flash the other cat gives me the 'you will pay' look. The other one is very excited when it sees any moving lights and it gets very curious about where the flash light went.

Great photos, pleasing bokeh and shot from a good angle I believe and the dog seems happy too, not camera shy at all.

THanks for the tip. I'll check it out when I get back home.

I've never had much luck with these kind of compositions. I'd say like you already mentioned the water had evaporated and the small remaining droplets are more distracting than benefiting the photo. I'd prefer large droplets and perhaps somebody could drop them for the shoot and you could get some nice effect with slow shutter speed. It can be of course that some pro says exactly the opposite thing as I don't have much experience of this kind of thing. The tomatoes look good. Well, just my 1,99 cents. I hope this wasn't complete nonsense.

OOk, thanks for checking. My old monitor then is to blame. I need to try calibrate the monitor somehow.

Regards,
Tobio

Very nice shots with good reflections. On my crt monitor the Grebes- shots I took look terrible but these look good. My Grebes look too dark and they have a horrid yellow cast. Do they look that way on your monitor? I edited the shots on my laptop, which I've read has a bad screen and there they look nice(I only edit my photos on my laptop because my desktop comp is too slow and I want to finish editing as fast as possible). My crt is old and the shots look bad there so I'm not sure which to believe. Please comment on that.

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Tobio

Hi!

Just read this thread and couldn't help posting this link, hopefully helpful link:

http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/diffraction-photography.htm

I never go smaller than f/18, because of some tests that I read on the Internet. Never tested in practice though what happens with very small aperture.


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Tobio

Thanks for your comment
Yes, I feel I was fortunate to not to be considered as a huge threat by the birds and get so close to them, though the younglings were mostly further away from me, bit shy I guess. It was fun to watch the parent Grebes dive and then appear after a short time again to give the fish they got to the young ones. The younglings were in a group of three far away from me most of the time but sometimes one young came closer to me so it was possible to take some shots.

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Tobio