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Travelogues => Travel Diaries => Topic started by: Jakov Minić on February 25, 2017, 20:15:01
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Unfortunately, today is the final day of our one week winter break in the sun.
Bundles of photos are yet to be processed but here is one that depicts the beach.
It is so nice to be a tourist off season...
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Good to know not everyone deserted Egypt - they need tourists :D
Snowing over here in my neck of the woods, thus I'm a little envious.
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Unfortunately, today is the final day of our one week winter break in the sun.
Bundles of photos are yet to be processed but here is one that depicts the beach.
It is so nice to be a tourist off season...
Thumbs up on this one. Less people though than I remember from Iceland? Not a place for the locals?
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I fed my favorite camel with an apple today :)
The apple lasted a few seconds :D
Yes, Egypt seems a bit spooky at the moment. The place where we are staying is pretty empty. It is off season in their minds, although the temperatures are well above 20ºC during the day, and the Red Sea is at 23ºC. I guess it's off season only because of the rather awkward northern wind, and the fact that it's February.
The kids are glued to the heated swimming pool all day long... and there is an aqua park with slides and the likes, etc.
I treated myself to a quartet of King Tut massages a nice book to read, and of course the usual, photography.
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As my dear friend used to say: "I succeed best where palm trees succeed."
I am more and more amazed by the petite 10.5/2.8 DX fish-eye!
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The Ray Ban goggles 8)
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You take sharp pictures when on holiday 😊
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You take sharp pictures when on holiday 😊
Bruno, I don't know what you're talking about :D
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Here is another image taken by the snorkeling instructor and the fabulous AW1. (He didn't believe me that it was an underwater camera when he saw it, and he also claims that it's far superior to Go Pro).
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Lovely shots, Jakov ! Here it's still pretty cold, felt like freezing today.
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Very cool series.
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I took the liberty to edit your last picture. I'm always very prudent by applying the dehazing feature in Lr, but with this one, it's right on purpose 8) BTW. pleasant pictures and enjoy your vacation.
You will find the edited picture here https://flic.kr/p/SreAcC
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Cool series, Jakov! Glad you enjoy your holidays. I like the image of you freeing your body and your ass following. ;D
If I remember correctly, there was a profile dedicated for the underwater images in NX-D?
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I experienced a delayed sense of scale with your first photo...this made me like it a lot!
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Speechless,,, Where to start,,,
Your images suck - the air out of my words ;D 8)
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great series
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Jakov,
I love your report and photos. I love #1, the camels, the underwater photos. So basically all of them.
I am not bothered by their sharpness. ;-)
The underwater photos bring back good memories from my diving days in Egypt. Have you been diving too?
I now know I should buy me a Nikon AW1 too.
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#3 - best apple shot ever
Underwater pics are nice.
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John Geerts, thank you. I am freezing now too.
David Paterson, you know all about cool series, thanks.
MFloyd, your version is much better, thanks!
Thanks Akira, you know how much I like to free my mind. I don't know about NX-D.
Thanks, Woodley. My zodiac sign is Libra, perhaps that has something to do with scale :)
Erik, please don't suffocate, thanks. 8)
Thomas Stellwag, thanks.
PeterN, thanks. I am sure I have some blurry ones somewhere for you and Bruno :)
I didn't dive and I am not really attracted to it. I prefer flying.
The AW1 is so much fun and it really delivers. I don't use it that much, but when I do, it's irreplaceable. Perhaps AW2 is around the corner for the 100th jubilee? Although I really miss a fish-eye.
ThomasG, thank. When they told me that I could just drop the entire apple in the camel's mouth I was surprised until I saw the size of the jaw wide open. The D750 and 20/1.8 really helped me in getting the image. I was as close as I could possibly be :D
Just to advertise the AW1 a bit more. Here are two images that I already posted in another thread, but they belong here :)
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You all ready know - That last one is just so cool, makes any father want to buy an AW1 ;D You should enter that one in Nikons 'underwater-competition' if they have one.
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Beautiful picture of your daughter. If it was mine, I would certainly put it in my yearly top ten. Again, I couldn't refrain to do my proper edit https://flic.kr/p/RWX8CE
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Jakov, seems it was a fantastic week, thanks for sharing your images
now ... jumping to amazon to check the aw1
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Erik, thank you so much, I really appreciate your words! If there is an underwater contest, let me know ;)
MFloyd, thanks again for showing me the advantages of the "de-hazing" tool. It's not as prominent in swimming pools :)
Armando, you won't regret it! Thanks!
Appart from my AW1 selfie with the kids, I have a yoga image. There I was lying in the stretcher/bed next to the pool reading my book but was bothered by the pretty strong wind. I decided to provide shelter to my sensitive body by setting one upright. Then I realised the shadow that was falling on it from my foot. Of course I liked it and I took an image at first with my other mirror-less camera, my smartphone. I liked it so much that I picked up my DSLR that had my favorite lens attached to it, the 85/1.4 AF-D. I took a couple of images of the shadow image of my foot, but then I decided to spice it up, hence the yoga attribute. Hopefully nobody was watching me performing the act :D
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I felt safe 8)
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Hence, no worries :)
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Bored in the bus 8)
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Nice one, Jakov!
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I love ❤️ the the two pictures on reply #22; #24 is the proof that you don't always produce blurry pictures 😎. Why I (we) don't see your EXIFs ?
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Speechless,,, Where to start,,,
Your images suck - the air out of my words ;D 8)
;D ;D ;D
Nice photos, Jakov!
Your camel needs some dental care, perhaps?
that AW1 works like a champ!
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Thank you, Akira.
MFloyd, thanks. I believe that the EXIF disappears when I save the images for web. The images with the military tower were shot with the 85/1.4 from a moving bus, hence the shutter speeds must have been around 1/1250 @f/5.6 and ISO 100.
All images with the AW1 were made with the kit lens zoom.
All non-amphibian images were made with the D750.
The lenses used are, 10.5 DX, 20/1.8 AF-S, 40 micro DX, 85/1.4 AF-D and 300/4.5 AiS.
For this trip I left the 45P at home and shot without any problems the 40 micro DX on a full frame camera. At close range vignetting is barely visible. I am sure I have a blurry one somewhere, in fact the last one is blurry :)
Thanks, Brent! My camel is a bad-ass waiting for tin implants 8)
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Here is a blurry example of how the 40 micro DX covers the full frame sensor at distance.
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And the 40DX up close, as I said vignetting is negligible on an FX camera.
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And another, D750 + 40DX micro.
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Mr. Embassador, I'm looking at underwater camera and at that little fisheye on eBay!
Very cool and fresh. Love your yoga hand and feet shadows
Thanks for sharing!
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Catching up old threads. Jakov - you should write a book on "creative photography". Your photos are exceptionally good, as always.
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Mr. Embassador, I'm looking at underwater camera and at that little fisheye on eBay!
Very cool and fresh. Love your yoga hand and feet shadows
Thanks for sharing!
Paco, I see you got yourself a fish-eye, but what about the underwater camera? :D
Thanks!
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Catching up old threads. Jakov - you should write a book on "creative photography". Your photos are exceptionally good, as always.
Anirban, thank you so much for reminding of a time when I was taking photos :)
And, thanks to you I could thank Paco for his comments.
A book on creative photography, well, I am flattered! Thank you so much!!!
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Have just found this thread filled with stunning and highly original photographs.
That camel swallowing an apple takes the biscuit!