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Aug, 2015Views
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Awards
Action Award
Chatter Award
Contender in the Visual Poetry Project
Gem Award
Achievement in Originality
Zenith Award
Top Pick Award
Staff Favorite
Halfway22 Award
Top Shot Award 22
Jewel Award
Creative Winter Award
Curator's Selection
Judge Favorite
Top Shot Award 21
Legendary Award
Summer 2020
2020 Choice Award
Member Selection Award
Staff Winter Selection 2015
Outstanding
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Behind The Lens
Location
Sunset Beach, NC, along the edge of a salt marsh.Time
Late morning; tide going out. (about 10:15 am)Lighting
Natural light alone. It was slightly cloudy so not much glare.Equipment
Panasonic Lumix DMC G2 with 100mm-300mm lens. No flash, no tripod. Moderately cooperative Pelican. 1/800 sec at f 5.6; ISO 100Inspiration
I was out looking for birds; this was so majestic looking I took several photos.Editing
Lightroom for vibrance; I didn't do much to this at all.In my camera bag
I keep this camera in my car with spare batteries and the kit lens it came with; a few SDHC cards, usually 32 or 64 GB---I use the fastest ones I can find. Lens cleaning cloths and a small flat paintbrush (art kind, not house painting kind), for removing dust specks.Feedback
Go absolutely nowhere without a camera, battery (and a spare!) and a spare memory card. Take a LOT of pictures and change the camera settings with the same subject, so you can go home and see what worked best. I use Lightroom for post-processing, but less is more. If it takes much to try to retrieve a bad photos, it's still a bad photo. Look at what went wrong and try to do better next time out.
