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Lucky Lenscap

Postby Nnnnsic on Fri Apr 20, 2007 10:42 am

The first of my Byron shots...

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Colour version here.

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Colour version here.

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Colour version here.

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Colour version here.

And the a full-size crop of the lucky lenscap...
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Postby Glen on Fri Apr 20, 2007 10:50 am

Nice work Leigh, what sort of lens was she using? Looks like an older 200 f4 sort of size.
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Postby Raytracer. on Fri Apr 20, 2007 10:52 am

looks to me like she's running a Olympus E-500 with a 40-150 - the size of the lens hood would tend to indicate that to be the case, as well as what appears to be square notches on the zoom grip...


Or I could just keep wishing I was that lenscap :p
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Postby Kyle on Fri Apr 20, 2007 10:54 am

Holy lenscap batman! :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:



Was this candid or setup leigh?
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Postby Nnnnsic on Fri Apr 20, 2007 10:59 am

Candid. Very quick, actually. All of the photographers saw her as we walked down the beach. She was shooting the surfers, we were shooting her. So far, I know that two of the others got her out of focus... the fates must have been smiling on me that day to give me an in-focus shot and other people the out-of-focus ones. :P

And it's a Canon. See for yourself.
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Postby Trieu on Fri Apr 20, 2007 11:03 am

Ah... nice pick up, I didn't even see the lens cap there.

B/W is better IMHO
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Postby Raytracer. on Fri Apr 20, 2007 11:05 am

Nnnnsic wrote:Candid. Very quick, actually. All of the photographers saw her as we walked down the beach. She was shooting the surfers, we were shooting her. So far, I know that two of the others got her out of focus... the fates must have been smiling on me that day to give me an in-focus shot and other people the out-of-focus ones. :P

And it's a Canon. See for yourself.


Heh, eheh.... *rubs back of head*

Hmm, no idea on the lens then - just the whole profile of the camera reminded me of my old olympus.

As you say, fates must have been smiling on you :)
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Postby Laurie on Fri Apr 20, 2007 11:23 am

very cute in all meanings of the word
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Postby sirhc55 on Fri Apr 20, 2007 11:42 am

Stuff the lens cap Leigh - I really like everything about these pics and the fact that you remained calm and steady whilst others had the DT’s :lol: :lol:
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Postby ATJ on Fri Apr 20, 2007 11:51 am

sirhc55 wrote:Stuff the lens cap

She did!

B&W looks much better than colour for these. I think I prefer the first.
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Postby Yi-P on Fri Apr 20, 2007 12:06 pm

First one is really good, and all the BW conversions are excellent :D


It looks like a Canon 75-300 or Sigma 70-300 lens on it. My bet is more over to the Sigma, I had one of these for a while before I sold it...
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Postby stetner on Fri Apr 20, 2007 6:18 pm

Could be the 70-300 IS
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Postby Nnnnsic on Fri Apr 20, 2007 6:25 pm

stetner wrote:Could be the 70-300 IS


From the design, it looks like the Canon equivalent of the 70-300 G.
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Postby Oscar on Fri Apr 20, 2007 8:45 pm

Great shots Leigh and lovely B&W conversions. Well done.

Nnnnsic wrote:So far, I know that two of the others got her out of focus... the fates must have been smiling on me that day to give me an in-focus shot and other people the out-of-focus ones. :P


sirhc55 wrote:Stuff the lens cap Leigh - I really like everything about these pics and the fact that you remained calm and steady whilst others had the DT’s


I didn't have the DTs - it was the camera/lens - they had an auto-focus problem :lol:

Glen wrote:Nice work Leigh, what sort of lens was she using? Looks like an older 200 f4 sort of size.


Was she holding a lens??

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Postby mark on Fri Apr 20, 2007 10:49 pm

Nnnnsic wrote:So far, I know that two of the others got her out of focus... the fates must have been smiling on me that day to give me an in-focus shot and other people the out-of-focus ones. :P


:lol: :lol: :lol:
Yes lucky you were.
I have one to post also, but not nearly as good as these.
Hard to pic a fave, I like them all but the three from the side I think are stronger images than the one from behind. Reflections in the sand in two and water rushing over the feet in the third make them for me, the B&W conversion works a treat on them too.

I'm thinking you must have studied them hard at 100% to find that lens cap. :lol:
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Postby Ronza on Sat Apr 21, 2007 2:54 am

I quite dig the reflection in the water and then also the positioning of the OOF stuff.

Noice shot :)
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Postby Rainey on Sat Apr 21, 2007 6:11 pm

Did anyone actually speak to this woman? And did she not see anyone taking shots of her? :lol:
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