This challenge runs from May 1 through May 7, 2017.
Some of the pics are linked to larger versions
(as noted in the mouseover text).
I took 103 photos on the morning
of May 1, all of horses out in a field a few miles from my house.
I posted
this one:
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May 2's
posting. I took 104 pics
(rabbits, birds, horses, and a dog) and this was the only
one I liked. Mirror lens bokeh is just the ticket here.
Yellow‑headed blackbird (Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus), male:
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May 3's
posting.
I've lived in Lone Pine for 19 years,
I've seen this sign in town countless times,
and only last year did I notice that it's upside down:
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May 4's
posting.
I took some pics outdoors earlier in the day but didn't get
anything I liked. Hence this contrived pic taken with self‑timer.
I see room for improvement in the setup and lighting but I was working on
it in the evening, the deadline of posting it on May 4 was approaching,
and I was getting too tired to keep reshooting it.
The first three pics in this series benefitted from using a
700mm focal length but there was no point to using so long a lens for
this pic (other than to stick to the one‑lens rule of the project).
Sigh. My least favorite of the pics so far:
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No pic posted for Friday May 5.
I didn't get any pics that I liked.
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May 7's
posting. A storm had passed through,
we had great clouds today, and a number of photographers
were out in the hills.
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From a warm‑up session a few days before the challenge started:
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Lighting setup for the May 6 photo.
Plus some daylight from an open door. |
The Questar 700 was in production from 1976‑1986.
Info about the lens is about 2/3 of the way down on
this page.
As the name suggests, focal length is 700mm.
Aperture is f/8 (the only option,
there's no iris). I'm using it with a Fuji X-E1 camera:
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