The 2013 Day Prime Training aka Outtakes thread

Some practice today. The clouds broke for the first time in weeks.

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A99 and Tokina 17mm atx.
Both shot through a railing which was a PITA trying to keep out of the shot.

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Both A99 and RE Auto Topcor 2.5cm 3.5 (M42 conversion)

darosa wrote: You have some nice lenses to practise with Macca. I like those Topcor shots especially.

Thanks,the Topcor is a lens I`m really looking forward to getting to know.It`s made me stop bargain hunting for the time being, it`s that good!

The tokina didn`t excite me on APSC but it might be more interesting on FF,it already looks sharper than it did on my A35.

Sweep Panoramas on day 16


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This is a stitch of three sweep panoramas; unimaginably, Hugin actually did the math and didn't blow up. The first sweep pano is left edge to the tower (south to north); the second sweep is the tower to the bottom of the stage (west to east); the third sweep is bottom of the stage up (45-degree vertical). Hugin and Sony's Sweep Panorama are sometimes impressive!

Here's another, where the camera does an amazing job, considering. I wouldn't hang it on my wall, but I am impressed - the sweep move was an L-shaped over-then-up.


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These are my Day 10 photos. I was taking care of my mother for a week after she had surgery and Day 10 fell in the middle of that week. I had no way to post my pictures on Day 10. I just realized I can post them as outtakes so here they are. john


A77 and Sigma 10-20 3.5 @ 10mm


f/9, 1/160s, ISO 100



f/5.6, 1/1250s, ISO 400



f/13, 1/30s, ISO 400



f/7.1, 1/20s, ISO 400

john925 wrote: These are my Day 10 photos. I was taking care of my mother for a week after she had surgery and Day 10 fell in the middle of that week. I had no way to post my pictures on Day 10. I just realized I can post them as outtakes so here they are. john

Hey John, nice shots and you can post any day, as long as the shot was taken with an XY mm lens on the XY's day of the year. Since your 10 mm shots are on Jan 10 you can post them in the main day prime challenge thread. Outtakes/training are for shots taken on a different day.

We stayed in The Hague the whole weekend of 19/20 Jan.

So the 19th was used practicing for the 20th

Hotel des Indes


Lange Voorhout in the snow


WW II monument in front of the Peace Palace (Vredespaleis)


Historical bus taking visitors to the Peace Palace


The Peace Palace itself, built with a grant from Scottish born US philanthrope Andrew Carnegie in the very early 1900's. He made a fortune building a steel empire. At the end of his life he is quoted to have said: "making lots of money is easy, spending it wisely is much harder"


And finally the "Ridderzaal" on the Binnenhof. This is where once per year on the third tuesday of September the joint session of Parliament, Senate and Government listen to the Queeen's speech (for that occasion they put in chairs)

That's a very pretty Voorhout Pieter!

BTW: were you staying at the Des Indes?