....besides the exercise and learning to cope with frustration.

These are from my local course, about a mile away.

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l2...MNV_0059-1.jpg

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l2...l/MNV_0056.jpg

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l2...l/MNV_0054.jpg

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l2...l/MNV_0051.jpg

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l2...l/MNV_0051.jpg

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l2...l/MNV_0029.jpg

On 11/25/11 11:08 AM, John H wrote:
...besides the exercise and learning to cope with frustration.

These are from my local course, about a mile away.

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l2...MNV_0059-1.jpg

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l2...l/MNV_0056.jpg

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l2...l/MNV_0054.jpg

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l2...l/MNV_0051.jpg

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l2...l/MNV_0051.jpg

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l2...l/MNV_0029.jpg



Nice photos. Thanks.

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On 11/25/2011 11:13 AM, X ` Man wrote:
On 11/25/11 11:08 AM, John H wrote:
...besides the exercise and learning to cope with frustration.

These are from my local course, about a mile away.

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l2...MNV_0059-1.jpg


http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l2...l/MNV_0056.jpg


http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l2...l/MNV_0054.jpg


http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l2...l/MNV_0051.jpg


http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l2...l/MNV_0051.jpg


http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l2...l/MNV_0029.jpg




Nice photos. Thanks.


Another imposter alert

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In article , dump-on-
says...

On 11/25/11 11:08 AM, John H wrote:
...besides the exercise and learning to cope with frustration.

These are from my local course, about a mile away.

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l2...MNV_0059-1.jpg

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l2...l/MNV_0056.jpg

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l2...l/MNV_0054.jpg

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l2...l/MNV_0051.jpg

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l2...l/MNV_0051.jpg

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l2...l/MNV_0029.jpg



Nice photos. Thanks.

Yeah, and those weren't even stolen off of some pro's website like your
alleged owl pics.

On 11/25/2011 11:08 AM, John H wrote:
....besides the exercise and learning to cope with frustration.

These are from my local course, about a mile away.

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l2...MNV_0059-1.jpg

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l2...l/MNV_0056.jpg

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l2...l/MNV_0054.jpg

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l2...l/MNV_0051.jpg

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l2...l/MNV_0051.jpg

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l2...l/MNV_0029.jpg


Ah, What one must must endure just to get in a round of golf. ;-)

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On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:28:45 -0500, Drifter wrote:

On 11/25/2011 11:08 AM, John H wrote:
....besides the exercise and learning to cope with frustration.

These are from my local course, about a mile away.

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l2...MNV_0059-1.jpg

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l2...l/MNV_0056.jpg

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l2...l/MNV_0054.jpg

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l2...l/MNV_0051.jpg

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l2...l/MNV_0051.jpg

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l2...l/MNV_0029.jpg


Ah, What one must must endure just to get in a round of golf. ;-)

It's a bitch, that's for sure!

"John H" wrote in message
...
...besides the exercise and learning to cope with frustration.

These are from my local course, about a mile away.


Very nice photos, John. When looking at the EXIF data, I noticed that all
these photos were shot at ISO 1250. It's possible that Opanda is not
interpreting those values correctly, but if it is, that is an unnecessarily
high ISO value for shooting on a bright sunny day. It just invites unwanted
noise and other issues for no good reason. You were shooting in shutter
priority mode, so the high ISO setting caused the lens to stop down to as
small as f18. A lower ISO setting would have forced the aperture to open a
bit wider. I would suggest reviewing the ISO setting on your D200. It's
possible you set it to 1250 for a good reason some time ago but forgot to
reset it. My recommendation would be to set the ISO to the base level of
100 and then turn auto ISO on with an appropriate minimum shutter speed and
let the ISO float to whatever value is required for proper exposure. I
would have shot these in aperture priority mode, f8, auto ISO with a minimum
shutter speed of 1/30 second using VR. Nice composition, nuts-on exposure
and great color on these.

Russ

On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 10:51:41 -0700, "RG" wrote:


"John H" wrote in message
.. .
...besides the exercise and learning to cope with frustration.

These are from my local course, about a mile away.


Very nice photos, John. When looking at the EXIF data, I noticed that all
these photos were shot at ISO 1250. It's possible that Opanda is not
interpreting those values correctly, but if it is, that is an unnecessarily
high ISO value for shooting on a bright sunny day. It just invites unwanted
noise and other issues for no good reason. You were shooting in shutter
priority mode, so the high ISO setting caused the lens to stop down to as
small as f18. A lower ISO setting would have forced the aperture to open a
bit wider. I would suggest reviewing the ISO setting on your D200. It's
possible you set it to 1250 for a good reason some time ago but forgot to
reset it. My recommendation would be to set the ISO to the base level of
100 and then turn auto ISO on with an appropriate minimum shutter speed and
let the ISO float to whatever value is required for proper exposure. I
would have shot these in aperture priority mode, f8, auto ISO with a minimum
shutter speed of 1/30 second using VR. Nice composition, nuts-on exposure
and great color on these.

Russ


What I was looking for in most of these was depth of field, thus the high ISO and small aperture.
And, I was wanting to see what effect the higher ISO had on the pictures, but I didn't want to take
it all the way to the max of 1600.

I'd just finished the weekend Nikon School, which got me interested in experimenting. I'd played the
course that morning, and thought the colors pretty nice. Went back out that afternoon and conned the
marshall into taking me around the course in his cart.

Now I'm wanting to go back to Utah, or someplace out there, and take some more pictures!

Thanks for the input, Russ.

What I was looking for in most of these was depth of field, thus the high
ISO and small aperture.
And, I was wanting to see what effect the higher ISO had on the pictures,
but I didn't want to take
it all the way to the max of 1600.


Your thinking is correct in that the higher ISO will afford a smaller
aperture and therefore a greater depth of field. A deep depth of field is
important in landscapes such as these only when you have a subject in the
very near foreground that you want to be in focus along with the
intermediate and background subjects. In most of these photos, there isn't a
close foreground subject, so a deep depth of field isn't really required.
In the photos where the grasses are in the foreground, perhaps a bit more
depth of field is required, but not all that much. The penalty of an
unnecessarily small aperture is lens diffraction, which can reduce
sharpness.

Since I shoot primarily landscapes, I'm very much attuned to the issue of
depth of field. In fact, it is because of this that I almost always shoot
in aperture priority mode. I let the depth of field requirements of the
scene dictate the aperture setting I use and will let the shutter speed and
ISO remain variable. My default aperture is f8, because it usually offers
enough depth of field and is typically the sweet spot of sharpness in most
lenses. If I require more depth of field I will either stop the lens down
further or use a wider focal length. If I am trying to narrow the depth of
field, I'll do the opposite. In any case, I'll typically set the focus at a
hyperfocal distance (somewhere between the foreground and background of the
scene. Also, I always shoot a scene with several bracketed exposures, often
using different aperture settings and then sort it all out at home using a
large monitor.

Perhaps on your next trip out west we can hook up for a photo shoot.

Russ

On Nov 25, 1:07*pm, "RG" wrote:


Perhaps on your next trip out west we can hook up for a photo shoot.

Russ


take him up on it, John!