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Now at least I know what I’m shooting for in Japan =p

I knew shooting cats was legal in some places in Europe, but…

/i know, bad joke… and probably really old and tired too. much like myself.

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I just thought I’d get that out of the way up front 🙂

thanks for taking one for the team. 😉

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So this theme might end up being subtitled “I’ve got a kid and I’m not afraid to use him/her”? 😉

Either that or “Flower and insect macros”, I expect…

… a shame the honeybee shots I took yesterday didn’t end up bokeh-y… :p

/just playin’. I wasn’t taking them for the project… I just have this bug thing. heeheehee

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From my recent experience, too much macro can get in the way of good bokeh.

We’ll see what happens over the next few days….

there’s such a thing as too much macro? say it isn’t so! 😛 Just kidding, it’s just that I love using macro. Which anyone who’s seen what i’ve posted so far has probably picked up on. 😉

/not that I mind shooting a nice landscape, it’s just that the fun of making the tiny available to a wider audience — or even just to me whenever I want it — really appeals to me.

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I’m starting to feel like there’s a reason this contest/topic is confusing the hell out of me. 😉 Every time I think I’ve got it down, someone says something that makes me feel like I have no clue. Oh well, I’ve chosen two pix so far and if nothing else they are pretty… I never expected to win anyway. 😉

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Id say that last shot would definitely work

*happy wiggle* that’s one of two pictures I’ve shown people that someone asked permission to duplicate and put up in their house. I sadly can’t remember the other one – ’twas one i took at Joshua Tree, I know that much…

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Ahhhhh…. okay, thanks for that help y’all, that makes a lot of sense. And thanks for the compliment on the lizard picture, Elisinore… I mainly like it because he totally posed for me. I was getting ready to snap his picture and he tipped his head up to show me his blue throat. =D

So straighten me on this. The first flower — the japanese silk tree — and the little blue flower do the best at capturing the idea of the theme? I don’t have any delusions of winning here, but I’d at least like to fail to embarrass myself. =P

And just for shiats and giggles, does this one also qualify? Thought maybe the “object” was too big for the premise…

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heehee couldn’t come up with a word, and i don’t think anyone would guess my phrase…….

at least this one doesn’t involve technical terms i have to learn first. 😉

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oh, and that one was a biatch to shoot, that flower is about a quarter of an inch in diameter. 😉

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Let me preface this by saying that I really appreciate y’all helping me understand this technical term. Another pic hauled out of my reserves…

too much of the frame in focus?

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Yep, I agree with that: you have a subject that is in perfect focus, and then a part that isn’t in focus.

For the photo, the blue sky patch in the upper-left is a bit distracting. The background probably shouldn’t draw attention to itself.

YAY! Maybe I have something somewhere in my files that will work. Cuz I doubt I’m up to going around shooting right now.

And i totally agree about the blue sky in that picture. I wasn’t going for art that day, just on a mission to get a photograph of each and every little flower that spring had seen fit to grace my yard with. Just the way I roll. 😉

thank you!

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okay, i think i’m getting it… although if i understand the idea the second picture showed it, but perhaps the rocks in the background are just too subtle.

I don’t think the below is a great photo, but i thought maybe it was closer to the bokeh spirit than some of the ones above….

thanks so much for your input!! 🙂 And for sharing your album.

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okay…. due to massive personal physical issues that you’d have to know me damn well to get me to talk about i’m freaking out a bit much to go roaming the country or even the depths of (panic stricken) mind for new pix, so only one these three is new. Only the lizard picture is cropped. All three are resized here “for web”. I’d love feedback as to whether I’m on the right track and also if I should post the pix a little bigger.

new:

old, cropped:

old, not cropped:

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with all due respect to red-x’s i’m moving my fartography pix to a different album. so here’s the first pic that moderator said meant i was on the right track

http://s53.photobucket.com/albums/g63/katkendig/farktography/?action=view&current=0806260002k.jpg

and here’s the deleted post…

I thought this one was okay, though not as good as the first one i posted

http://s53.photobucket.com/albums/g63/katkendig/farktography/?action=view&current=0806260003k-1.jpg

But I like spidey here better, though he’s a little hard to see…

http://s53.photobucket.com/albums/g63/katkendig/farktography/?action=view&current=0806260018k.jpg

hopefully that all worked. what a PITA.

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Aw shucks, thanks! Good to know i’m on the right track!

Thanks again.

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