Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8 EX APO IF

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Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8 EX APO IF

Postby KerryPierce on Sun Mar 27, 2005 12:50 am

Nikon D70 ,Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8 EX APO IF
1/200s f/2.8 at 125.0mm ISO 1600 hand held no flash

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Postby below-0 on Sun Mar 27, 2005 2:12 am

smart dog! -- & a lovely shot :) nice to see hardly no noise at ISO 1600!!!
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Postby sirhc55 on Sun Mar 27, 2005 9:55 am

Kerry, you are driving me insane with your beautiful shots - I get my 70-200 on Tuesday. When I get it I am going out to find a dog :roll: :roll: :roll:
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Postby bago100 on Sun Mar 27, 2005 10:33 am

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Brilliant shot of a really cool dog
Well done!
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Postby SoCal Steve on Sun Mar 27, 2005 10:44 am

Great Shot, Kerry. You'll keep that one for the rest of your life, I'm sure.
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Postby KerryPierce on Sun Mar 27, 2005 3:57 pm

sirhc55 wrote:Kerry, you are driving me insane with your beautiful shots - I get my 70-200 on Tuesday. When I get it I am going out to find a dog :roll: :roll: :roll:


:lol: :lol: That's funny, Chris. :D I've got a few more I'll put up, just to get you in the proper mood. 8)

Thanks for the kind comments, all of you guys. :)
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Postby BBJ on Sun Mar 27, 2005 5:48 pm

Great shots Kerry, but i must say all your shots are great. I want to know how to get your signature like that in the corner on an angle, i cant seem to work it out and i am a photoshop dummy.
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Postby KerryPierce on Sun Mar 27, 2005 6:09 pm

BBJ wrote:Great shots Kerry, but i must say all your shots are great. I want to know how to get your signature like that in the corner on an angle, i cant seem to work it out and i am a photoshop dummy.
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Thanks for your very kind words, John. :D :oops: I don't know how to do that in PS. I generally use PSP. I'd guess that you'd have to lay your sig on a separate layer, size it to something manageable and use the PS equivalent of PSP's deformation tool. I'll give it a quick look in PS CS to see if I can figure it out quickly. It's 2am here, I'm off to bed so I can go out to try to get some shots tomorrow.

Okay, I figured it out on a new canvas. It should work the same on any canvas. Choose the text tool, type in your text and then go to the Edit menu. About 2/3 of the way down, is Transform. Clicking on that gives you a sub menu with Rotate. Clicking on Rotate puts a bounding box around your text and allows you to rotate and move it to your satisfaction.

Hope that gets you where you want to go. If not, I'll try again tomorrow. :D
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Postby BBJ on Sun Mar 27, 2005 6:14 pm

Thanks Kerry, I will try that later, i am about to process todays 300 pictures from the track and yeh past your bed time. LOL Anyhow you sleep well and thanks again.
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Postby phillipb on Sun Mar 27, 2005 9:12 pm

Kerry, I agree with the others, this is really a lovely shot.
You didn't use flash and I'm trying to figure out what those catchlights in the eyes are from, any idea?
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Postby KerryPierce on Mon Mar 28, 2005 2:30 am

phillipb wrote:Kerry, I agree with the others, this is really a lovely shot.
You didn't use flash and I'm trying to figure out what those catchlights in the eyes are from, any idea?


Hi Phillip,

Thanks for the kind compliment. :D The catchlights are from overhead lights. The dog was looking up at a slight angle. The dog show was in a very large indoor special event arena. The ceiling is 3 or 4 stories high, lots of concrete support pillars, with lots of bare bulbs in cone shaped reflectors. That's why you can see several of them in each eye, but only above the midpoint of the eye.
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Postby meicw on Mon Mar 28, 2005 3:32 pm

I love the pic. Sharp and great colouring. The dog seems to be concentrating to hard on what is being said to it.

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