In a message dated 5/6/2006 1:41:48 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Took a drive after a convention yesterday in Orlando, Florida to head over to Cape Canaveral and the wildlife refuge. We saw an alligator and many birds at Blackpoint Wildlife Drive last time, but the weather is very dry now. I did manage to catch these shots.
http://www.members.aol.com/rfsindg/Manatees.jpg *ist DS with DA16-45mm zoom at 45mm, f8 & 1/750 sec. ISO 800 small crop in on very big animals... http://www.members.aol.com/rfsindg/Darter.jpg *ist DS with A200/4 and AF1.7 converter, f8 & 1/350 sec.ISO 800 small crop and slight sharpening of a drying swimmer No 'gators... Bob S. ======= Nice shot of manatees. (Too bad the water was so muddy, but guess they like that.) On the bird shot, this is one case, if it were my shot, I think that I'd go into PS and blur the background even more (for the appearance of even shallower DOF. Normally I don't try to change the apparent DOF.) I find the flowery background too distracting, and it has lots of sort of circles. But the bird is nice, so it's a shame the background detracts from it. I think blurring the background more would really set it off a lot better. Tons better. Marnie aka Doe