tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61652892012-01-09T04:44:57.456-08:00Nikon D300, Photography, Microsoft, family, kids, work, whatever else keeps me busy.Jeroenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14317197794673920901noreply@blogger.comBlogger3841100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6165289.post-14821676995291961512011-08-16T07:02:00.000-07:002011-08-16T07:21:49.074-07:00

Calumet 7300 tripod review Yes, I am fully aware that many people advise never to save on a tripod. I know Thom Hogan wrote a good piece on the subject. http://www.bythom.com/support.htm However, I just didn't have a $1000 to spend on a tripod and I really wanted one anyway. I decided to look at the budget end of the market and see if I could find something useable for less than a 100 euros.

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I like herons. We get 'm in two basic flavours. Tame, sometimes tame enough that if you go fishing somewhere it will sit next to you ready to snatch whatever you catch before you can get the hook out.Then there's the more or less wild variety. A lot less used to humans and incline to take off if they think you get too close. This one didn't, judging by the beak it's so young it has not yet

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Grasshopper Warbler Originally uploaded by j_wijnands. Yesterday I got my first ever chance to photograph a grasshopper warbler. These are generally shy birds that are often heard but rarely seen. The characteristic sound is a very long rattle, almost like a rattle snake. I heard this one long before I got a chance to see it. This was an unusually tame bird, I got the chance to take 40 pics

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Six-spot Burnet Originally uploaded by j_wijnands. Anyone who's spend any time outdoors shooting wildlife and insects will sooner or later find that disruptions in a normal pattern are what catches your attention. The most common is, of course, movement, anything that moves catches your attention. But, it can also be shapes, some things draw your attention immediately because the shape does

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Ant eye to eye Originally uploaded by j_wijnands. A red wood ant. These insects fascinated me ever since I was a little boy. There's something about the size of them and their anthills that impressed me.Over in the west where I live these are not very common but in the wooded areas in the south you find these a lot more. They will feed on absolutely anything they can drag into their nest,

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Ruff Originally uploaded by j_wijnands. I love aviaries. They offer a unique chance to get good pictures of species that are otherwise difficult to find and even more difficult to shoot. To get a shot like this in the wild I'd need to do a lot of reconnaissance and spend a few hours in a hide.Photographically this is relatively easy. Avoid blown highlights, get down to as low as you can,

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common tern Originally uploaded by j_wijnands. Let's start something else, a photograph a day type of post. Just a picture and the story behind it.I noticed this bird hunting along a channel that also had some tufted ducks, a mute swan family and a few grebes. I like terns, nice colouring and interesting behaviour the way they swoop down and plunge into the water to catch a fish. In flight it

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Pentax Q, the right camera at the right time?Earlier this year I've blogged about what I expected of Nikon's mirror-less offering (which still has not been released). At that time I'd expected Canon to also come up with such a camera. I never expected the relatively small company Pentax to come up with a radically different mirror-less camera. But they did and here is my review of the Pentax Q (

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How to clean up memory on your Android phoneYesterday my Android phone started complaining about low memory. A quick check gave me Navigon of course as a main consumer of space. 26mb and it refuses to shift to the SD card. It wasn't the top scorer though, that was contacts storage.Some further investigation gave me http://android.appstorm.net/how-to/clear-space-without-rooting/ with some good

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How to save battery life on an HTC DesireEarly this year I bought an HTC Desire to replace the horrible Nokia 5800 I had. Nifty little phone, I like it a lot but it eats trough a battery charge in a day or so. I finally got to grips with that. Here's my tipsDisable dynamic wallpaperDisable any radios you do not use (bluetooth and wifi especially)Disable Wifi positioning (settings- location- use

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Gray Heron catching a fishI'm on a rather busy and intense project at the moment so whenever I can I take the camera with me to the office and go for a walk in my lunch break. Lovely way to keep the stress under control.Today was decent weather as well for a change. Barely out of the office I spotted my very first Green Woodpecker! Not a good picture unfortunately.A little further I spotted a

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DSC_7891_trix400 Originally uploaded by j_wijnands. This was originally part of a panorama when I noticed this would make a fine B&W. I ran it trough Nik's silver efex and accidently slided the layer opacity back a bit and was surprised on how nice that turned out.This will not draw in the crowds on flickr but I really like it, the lack of colour somehow emphasizes the emptiness of the

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Masterchef 2011 is all messed up.I liked Masterchef in most of it's incarnations. The celeb edition didn't do all that much for me but on the whole I found it nice to watch. The format works and the English edition was shot very well. Attractive lighting, nice colours, it looked like the motion version of a high end cookbook.As an example, check this clip.And now this:Which looks to me like they

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I've started to blog in Dutch as well as in English. My Dutch blog can be found here: http://wijnands.tweakblogs.net/blog/ Apparantly I'm more succesful there, my two posts are rapidly moving towards a 1000 pageviews.

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Goosander fighting Originally uploaded by j_wijnands. Spent sunday morning walking, not the greatest weather. On my way back I decided to take a slight detour and see if there was anything interesting in the canal. Goosanders, a load of them and obviously feeling the spring in their wings already. I spent at least 15 minutes watching this, started out with 5 males, 3 females but the group

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It's going to be an interesting Nikon yearThom Hogan published this on the 26th of january.D3100. Nikon's entry DSLR until late 2011 or more probably early 2012.D5000. No longer in production, some still in the sales channel. A strong candidate for replacement in the first half of the year.D7000. Still in short supply and should remain Nikon's top consumer DSLR until at least summer of 2012.

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business park pheasant Originally uploaded by j_wijnands. Sometimes it still amazes me what you can find on the edges of a business park. This male pheasant I've seen around a few times before. It spotted me, got up and made a show of pecking at the ground. When he thought I'd gone he resumed a position on a piece of fallen wood and got back to relaxing.What also amazes me is the lack of

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I just won an Ipad, now what?In a lottery at work I was one of the lucky few to win an iPad. The basic model with 16gb and WiFi but still... I almost never win things so I was glad.Then I got thinking.. what the **** am I going to do with it? I've got a decent PC in the living room for the family. I got the standard issue laptop from my employer which is good enough for a bit of internet access

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ijsvogel / kingfisherOriginally uploaded by j_wijnands. Yes, I know, now the quality I like to publish. But I was just so thrilled to get this shot.When I was a kid in the 1970s these were extremely rare (as was the cormorant) but with the cleaner waters from the mid 80s onwards they made a comeback. Harsh winters like 2009/2010 hit these little birds hard but not as hard as some people

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Geotagging with a Nokia 5800After earlier attempts with Nokia's sports tracker proved to be a bit of a challenge I decided to see if I could use my Nokia 5800, a Series 60 symbian phone with build-in GPS as a GPS logger.Nokia's sports tracker works, sort of. It can log a route but persists in using local time in your logs. It's also typical Nokia software aimed at the technologically challenged

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fallow deer Originally uploaded by j_wijnands. Is this and a couple of Whooper Swans. Ah well, at least I had some exercise and fresh air. Oh, and my new geotagging setup works, more about that later.

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A long sunday walkSunday January 2nd my wife took the kids to a musical leaving me with 6 hours to myself. And what better to spend that time than to put on my hiking boots and take a long stroll trough my favourite nature reserve, the Amsterdamse Waterleidingduinen.Another accidental blue tit. If you happen to be in their way while they are on a fouraging route and you're really careful not to

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Kodachrome is well and truly over nowhttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/30/us/30film.htmhttp://www.overoll.com/Content/Kodachrome-slide-film-rolls-into-history-/2010/12/31/437062.newsI sometimes wonder if this would have gotten as much attention as it did if Paul Simon had not had his hit "Kodachrome" in the early 1970s. OK, granted, it had a unique look and yes, it was just about the first colour

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DSC_5232 Originally uploaded by j_wijnands. Sometimes it feels that way. This was shot under a heating lamp with a tremendous red/orange colour cast, so much that it dominated the whole scene. Even with the channel mixer and adjusting the white balance I just could get something nice.So... in the end I gave up and converted to B&W

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my buns Originally uploaded by j_wijnands. 200 grams of wholemeal flour, 200 grams of plain flower2 tea spoons salt, 15 grams of yeast, 1 teaspoon of honey.Sieve the flower in a bowl, add yeast, salt and honey. Add about a 100ml of lukewarm water and start kneading. Add water as needed. It's done and ready for proving if you can pull it out quite a way without it tearing.Prove for 60

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DSC_4754 Originally uploaded by j_wijnands. I was shooting a very lively nuthatch when I noticed this little fellow at not even 4 meters. Slowly moved the lens and got him just like that. Slight crop, bit of exposure correction and that's all.

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DSC_4691_stitchOriginally uploaded by j_wijnands. Yes, 17th of December we had about 15 centimeters of snow in a day.I went out around lunchtime to do some shooting. It was snowing so hard this quickly became a major challenge.Near the end of my walk I found this family of swans. Yes, lousy angle but I was cold and could not see a way to get to eye level and don't fall into the water. I was

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caught in the act Originally uploaded by j_wijnands. After the disastrous shots from this weekend I think I've shaken off the bad bird pic mojo.A few of the ladies at the office decided they wanted to have something to look at from their window so they got some bird feed and hung it in a tree. Took a few days but now the blue tits and great tits have discovered it. This time of the year

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DSC_4315 Originally uploaded by j_wijnands. I had a few extra hours to spend so I got the camera and headed out. Solid overcast, really solid. I was at iso1200+ most of the time and struggling to get a decent shutter speed. Pretty near the end of my walk I found my friend the dipper again, relaxing, singing a bit and enjoying himself.Came home and, well, perhaps I'm getting picky, but I

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Epub Reader for Symbian Series 60 5th edition!Yes, I've finally found an ebook reader for my Nokia 5800 that is capable of handling the epub format! When I first got my phone I searched all over the web and settled on zxreader. A basic but function reader capable of handling plain text and the, in the western world, somewhat obscure FictionBook fb2 format.Now, with the freeware tool Calibre

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Vogelenzang at dawn Originally uploaded by j_wijnands. Did I ever blog this? If not why not? I had doubts at first but when I see it now it works, perhaps a bit more puddle would have been nice but I enjoy the clouds and it gives me a peace and tranquility feel.

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Missed!Now, I don't know about you but this happens to me and still to often. I really should know better. You're approaching a bird and it decides to leave. Now, what you should do is remember that in the two or three steps you did you're not all that far out of focus. You should also remember that you're in single area AF and that just blindly jabbing the AF button is not going to help. In this

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Hezbollah operates own fiber optic networkIn a spare half hour I've also browsed trough the wikileaks cable collection.One interesting tidbit I stumbled upon is that Hezbollah, or Hizballah as they are called in the cable, now owns and operates it's own fiber optic network.An understandable initiative from their part of course, after all SIGINT (signals intelligence) has always been an important

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my winter landscape Originally uploaded by j_wijnands. Driving to work and noticed one of these crossing the road, then in my rearview I saw a second one approaching. I was lucky enough to find a safe place next to the road and was just in time to shoot this. This is winter for me, snow, white and yet Schiphol, which is a very defining influence in my area, continues like it always does.

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Sigma 150-500mm F5-6.3 APO DG OS HSM reviewA review of the Sigma 150-500 from a real world point of view.Those of you that know me must have noticed that I like to spend time outdoors, walking in a nature reserve trying to get good shots of the inhabitants. Up until two days ago I did most of that with a Nikon 70-300 VR. A very nice lens, well built, able to take a lot of abuse but 300mm is a bit

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Snow in the NetherlandsThis country doesn't work in the snow. This was the Amsterdam area at 1800 today.

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Watching Joe McNally at workYesterday I visited a Dutch Photography fair organised by the magazine "Zoom". Judging from the other guests their average reader shoots Canon, needs L glass and preferably a big flash. I've seen 30-40 people shoot the same poor model, quite a few feeling the need to add their own hotshoe mounted flash to the studio lights that were already in place.Insanity aside

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Meise Church 1 Originally uploaded by j_wijnands. This time the Church in the lovely village of Meise, Belgium

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waterspreeuw / White-throated dipperOriginally uploaded by j_wijnands. Quite rare in the Netherlands, extremely rare in the west part of the country, normally you only find this in Limburg and the Ardennes in Belgium/Luxembourg.Nice bird to watch, very active and still tame enough to approach closely. Constantly in and out of the water. I've seen it fly trough a cascade of water to search for

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Ilse deLange - next to meI'm often very slow to notice new music, the fact that I don't listen to any music stations on the radio and don't watch the shows on TV where these things are often announced makes me miss these things.But, things get trough to me eventually like Ilse deLange's new album, next to me.What can I say? I liked her first efforts in the 1990s, nice, laid back and somewhere

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poo on beak Originally uploaded by j_wijnands. This crow was fishing bags of dog shit out of the bin, rooting trough them in the hope of finding something tasty. Constantly wiping his beak clean.

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DSC_3357 Originally uploaded by j_wijnands. Sint Nicolaas has arrived!

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I apologize for my friend... Originally uploaded by j_wijnands. There he is, posing majestically, assuming that his friend would be doing the same... His friend chooses this time to do some intimate grooming.

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DSC_3169 Originally uploaded by j_wijnands. The Alexandrine Parakeet. At least half a dozen live in the trees near the office where I work. These were all in this bush stuffing themselves on berries.A native of Afghanistan via India all the way to Vietnam which does, like the rose ringed parakeet, surprisingly well in our cities.

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Pondering a longer lensI'm getting fed up with how difficult it is to shoot birds, especially smaller ones with "just" a 70-300. So I'm pondering an addition. Problem is, as soon as you get beyond 300mm things get expensive really fast.Sigma 50-500mm F4.5-6.3 APO DG OS HSMSigma 50-500mm F4-6.3 EX DG HSMSigma 150-500mm F5-6.3 APO DG OS HSMNikon AF 300 f4 IF-EDNikon AF-S 300 f4 D

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Horsing around Originally uploaded by j_wijnands. More and more I'm enjoying when I can catch some movement in an animal picture. The most obvious way of doing this is panning of course but sometimes you get lucky and you can catch something like this paw moving.Shooting trough wire is always tricky as you can see here again.

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mandrill Originally uploaded by j_wijnands. I was rather unsure when I shot this. Spend some time getting the big male of the group in a good view and, somehow, I ended up with this. Bit bummed about that pole in the view on the left.What did amaze me is what a few clicks with the mouse in Adobe Camera RAW managed to get from what was originally a very drab image. The colours on the nose

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Macaque mother Originally uploaded by j_wijnands. We went to Ouwehand's zoo yesterday. Lousy weather for photography, solid overcast all the time. This picture says it all for zoos. On one hand, live goes on, this mother is suckling her young. On the other hand, animals look out of place in an artificial environment as you can see by the background here.I was by no means the only one

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I'm well camouflaged Originally uploaded by j_wijnands. I more or less stumbled upon this little deer, just about a year old I think. I was tracking a herd of one big male and at least 5 females by tracks alone when I heard something besides the path. This little girl was there with a bigger female, possible the mother. She noticed me and didn't feel much like running. Instead she did two

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Blacksmith Originally uploaded by j_wijnands. A lot of people will convert to black and white purely because this is an old trade. I didn't, I converted because it was a low colour image to begin with and I wanted to emphasize certain aspects of the image.Shots like this do make me realize how much of an art black and white really is. I wish I could do images like this out of camera. I'd

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bored now! Originally uploaded by j_wijnands. Took a bit of tweaking but this pic just looks so right to me. The colours really reflect what I saw at that time and still the deer pops out of the picture really well. I'm slowly getting the hang of Nik's Viveza to make a subject pop.The behaviour is really typical of a fallow deer buck, it's stared at me for a few minutes and now it has

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HDR Efex pro 1.0Apparantly I'm not the only one who thinks this piece of software is not as good as it could be.Yesterday at 21:06 I sent the following message to Nik Software:Perhaps HDR efex was released a bit too soon.I'm running it on an AMD x2, 240 @2.8 ghz with windows 7 and 3gb ram.I'm on day 5 of my trial now, I've processed maybe a dozen pics so far.HDR efex has crashed 4 times,

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_DSC2165_HDR Originally uploaded by j_wijnands. Not an over the top HDR but a shot that more or less captures my sunday morning. Including, I like to think the verry chilly temperature this morning.

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Roman bowmanOriginally uploaded by j_wijnands. Some old shots from august I just got around to processing. Legio II augusta from the UK visited.A Roman archer, something you don't see often. Even rarer, a Syrian auxiliaNow I'm not sure if this is also an auxiliares or a barbarian. The dagger suggests Gaul to me.And last, the Aquilifer, I think. The person carrieng the Legion's standard. An

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I love VR!D300 on a monopod, 70-300 VR on 250mm, iso 1600 and 1/4 shutter speed and I get this:Not too shabby I think. OK, granted, this was one of about a dozen but still...A bit further on I got this.Now, pictures like this will never draw in the crowds, certainly not on flickr but I like it. I'd found this doe and was tracking her for a few minutes in my viewfinder waiting for her to raise her

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HDR Efex Pro, a very quick review.Yes, it's out and you can grab a trial here. Review is perhaps a bit too strong, first impression would be better.I downloaded the 27mb trial and first surprise, even though it is apparantly a 64 bits plugin it still works well with my 32 bits Photoshop. You can call it from bridge but all that does is open CS5 and start the plugin with the files you selected. I

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fallow deer brotherly love 2Originally uploaded by j_wijnands. There's a big chestnut tree that has been claimed by a very dominant male. Usually he's there alone bellowing to the other males in the area. On Monday morning he finally had company, quite a lot of company in fact. I counted at least 4 somewhat interested females and a score of young males that the big guy would sometimes chase

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DSC_1812_3_4_5_6_tonemapped Originally uploaded by j_wijnands. Nik Software, makers of the controversial capture NX 2 suite and the pretty impressive dfine noise reduction plugin will release their latest software, a HDR tool this month.I'm anxiously awaiting that, their other plugins are very good and photomatix, my main HDR tool, is driving me bonkers!

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Run away! Originally uploaded by j_wijnands. Some fallow deer exhibit a typical gait, almost bouncing, just like Pepe le Pew in the old cartoons. The one on the right here is doing just that.

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DSC_1774 Originally uploaded by j_wijnands. It's the beginning of the fallow deer mating season. I'm spending as much time out in the woods as I can squeeze in. This year I've set myself the goal of getting a good action shot of two males battling. Unfortunately I've had no luck just yet. I did get a male jumping a canal twice and I've managed some good shots of female deer. This one

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DSC_1713 Originally uploaded by j_wijnands. Normally I get maybe one stream crossing per year. This is the second one in a week or so. This guy was drinking and suddenly he decided he wanted to be on the other side.

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How did a deer cross the stream? Originally uploaded by j_wijnands. Is this too dark?I was tracking this guy trough my viewfinder hoping for a nice silhouette when he disappeared behind a few trees. Heard him grunt and expected him to wander off when suddenly, out of the corner of my eye I saw him amble towards the canal, turned around and just had time to fire a few quick frames.

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helmet Originally uploaded by j_wijnands. I like shots like this. Relatively easy and stil fun. Metered on the helmet and knew I would get the guy in the dark.

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Nokia 5800 ebook readerZXReader, the only decent choice for reading ebooks on a touchscreen nokia such as the 5800 has reached the 2.0 version.I've just done some quick testing. Default screen font is very big but once you set that to something smaller it's very readable.Initial testing also indicate that it now (finally) allows you to read fb2 files without character set issues.Now if only that

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Dolphins in the air II Originally uploaded by j_wijnands. If you can shoot a swallow feeding it's fledglings without landing then this should not pose much of a challenge. And it wasn't. Only real challenge was pointing my camera at the right spot of water, you never really know where they will jump.Since this was some distance away I just went manual focus and set the lens to

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squinting sparrow Originally uploaded by j_wijnands. Doesn't that sound like a ubuntu version?I was in the Dolfinarium, our dutch version of seaworld but a lot smaller.Anyway, places like that where food is sold and eaten you find house sparrows. Usually mangy little birds that clearly show they live on junkfood. Not this little lady, a healthy looking bird taking a few seconds to enjoy the

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Back to shooting deerOr, sometimes it comes together. After my earlier success I did something really well when I came back from vacation and did my first sanity walk.First I met this big fallow, ehh, fellow:Exposure 0.005 sec (1/200)Aperture f/5.6Focal Length 300 mmISO Speed 1600And a few minutes later this nice roe deer male came out of the undergrowth, stood there looking at me and continued

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Sandisk Sansa Clip+ reviewA review of the Sandisk Sansa Clip+ 4gb mp3 player.Over the last year or so my taste in music has changed dramatically. From a lot of pop, rock and country I've shifted to classical, opera and jazz. A taste in music that my old player, a Creative Zen V plus, could not cope with well. So it was time for a new device.Last of a dying breed?At least, so it sometimes seems to

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Swallows in flightI've seen swallows in flight quite a few times. Up until recently they proved to be very elusive models since the average swallow has a very erratic and rather random flight path. Combine that with their small size and high speed (I am going to do my very best not to quote Monty Python in this post!)So, what I ended up with was a lot of blurry pictures of landscape where a

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DSC_9537 Originally uploaded by j_wijnands. A black and white conversion if you're dealing with steam engines. However in this case it wasn't because I wanted to emphasize the mood. No, I just had to deal with a high contrast and a blown sky. I n color I just didn't get the emphases on the three guys.

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Intense pictures from the Vietnam warFound this via nikonrumors which featured it because #19 is a photographer with a Nikon. All the rest is interesting as well.And a free documentary on frontline photograhper Robert King:Watch more free documentaries

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DSC_8601 Originally uploaded by j_wijnands. After our summer holliday in Cornwall last year turned out to be very nice we decided to go back this year.First thing to solve is how to cross the channel. Last year's ferry crossings where somewhat less than a spectacular success. On the crossing from Calais to Dover we had to wait aboard the ferry for more than an hour because of a problem

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Esther staring out the window Originally uploaded by j_wijnands. Somehow my 50mm f1.8 and the light in my kitchen work so very well together. Like this shot. Focussed on the eye. Ran the pic trough capture nx, applied a touch of skin softner and a bit of glamour glow and this is the result. I like it!

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Reality checkFor lack of a better word let's call it that.Anyone who spends any time around the major photography sites on the internet will notice there's an almost insane obsession with gear. We want top notch, a lot of us are willing to pay a lot of money for it and when we don't get what we want the first reaction is to throw money at it.Now take a look at this:Of course it's not serious,

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fallow males Originally uploaded by j_wijnands. At least, that's what I think when I view this shot. Early morning, not much light. There's noise, I probably didn't get the best out of it in photoshop and still..

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Getting out of your photographic comfort zone.I think it's important to get out of your photographic comfort zone once in a while. Most amateur photographers, myself included, start out shooting absolutely everything they see. After a while they focus a bit more on a few subjects, take the occasional foray in unknown territory and find a niche they are comfortable with. For me that's nature and

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DSC_7108 Originally uploaded by j_wijnands. I had a spare 20 minutes this morning and I decided to see if there was anything interesting to shoot in my garden. Now that the summer progresses it's becoming more and more difficult to get good bird shots. Foliage gets in your way and with the weather we've had the last few weeks there is an abundance of food so they no longer need to come

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Nikon predictions 2010If there's one thing common on all the gearhead forums (dpreview for example) it's the continuing debate of "when will Nikon release something new?" quite often in combination with "I want to buy a D-whatever but am afraid that something new will come out just after I bought it".The latter seems silly to me, the current lineup (with the exception of the Nikon D3000 perhaps)

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Blue tit Originally uploaded by j_wijnands. Is a wooded area with a lot of birds. There's nesting blue tits. I've spotted a woodpecker. The most common waterbirds. According to http://observado.org/index.php there's even some rarer species of woodpecker and Kingfishers have also been spotted.Of course shooting these small birds with a 70-300 in a densely wooded area at the middle of the

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HDR world Originally uploaded by j_wijnands. Yep, this symbolizes it rather well. I start therapy on Monday, bit apprehensive on one hand but also very looking forward to it. We'll see.

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Bird photography, putting in backyard practice.Any regular reader must know by now that I'm trying to improve my nature photography and that I am putting in a lot of practice to get better at bird shooting. The reason for that is simple, there's a lot more birds, both in species and numbers, to shoot here than mammals or other big animals.Last night after dinner I noticed that the house sparrows

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Ridiculous contest rules.As you can see at the top of the page I am trying to participate in a nikon sponsored contest. Unfortunately I made the mistake of choosing a contest where the first round is a popularity contest. And I just don't have the social network for that.Take this shot: http://www.whoareyouwithnikon.nl/index.php?a=inzending&code=4be2a464a53bc still top of the list. And this http:

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Succesful hunting.A good morning's hunting today. All pictures are clickable for the big version.First of all a woodpecker, great spotted woodpecker if I am not mistaken.Normally these birds are difficult to approach and almost impossible to get on eye level. Today I was lucky. It spotted me, flew a circle and decided to inspect this young tree, something I've never seen one do. I approached

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I got this one from my wife and absolutely love it. The way it makes people look at every day surroundings in a different manner. That's what you can also accomplish with really good photography

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Reading ebooks on a nokia 5800HistoryBack in the latter half of the 1990s I got my first mobile phone, a Nokia 8110 and my first PDA soon after, a US Robotics Palm pro. Back then phones could do little more than be used to call people with and to send them a text message. The PDA was used to sync my mail and agenda and, soon after, to read ebooks using cspotrun as my reading application.A second

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Just bought a nokia 5800 as a replacement of my defunct motorola V8 and aging ipaq. One of the things I want to do with it is reading ebooks. That proves to be rather tricky. A good reader for Symbian 60 s3 fp5 is tricky to find.These sources seem interesting.http://www.nokiaphoneblog.com/?p=2112http://chathuraw.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/best-ebook-reader-s60-5th-edition/

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I am so glad I do not live in the US of A.From: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/03/pregnant_woman_tasered/A federal appeals court says three Seattle police officers did not employ excessive force when they repeatedly tasered a visibly pregnant woman for refusing to sign a speeding ticketSo... either you sign the ticket or they will shock you until you give in. We've put people on trial

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Red squirrel backlit Originally uploaded by j_wijnands. Recently I blogged about how I improved a horrible shot of a squirrel into something acceptable. Normally I get maybe half a dozen photo opportunities for squirrel a year. Now the second one right after the first.Problem here is that the squirrel noticed me at the same time I noticed him. And squirrel tend to flee when they notice

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Procrastination isn't the problem, it's the solution. So procrastinate now, don't put it off. - Ellen DeGeneres

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Bird Photography Part 3(all pics are clickable)Sunday morning, solid grey sky which is supposed to be good for bird photography since it provides a uniform diffuse light.Now, my D300 tends to produce a fairly exact white balance in this kind of weather. That means that all the pics on automatic WB will get a rather blueish tint. I like to produce pictures that are a bit warmer in tone so I set

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Bird photography part 2all pics are clickableAfter blogging about my first problems here I decided to give it another try with the new settings in my camera.First of all, using the AF button proved to be an interesting experience. It takes a bit of getting used to, at first you're jabbing the AE-L button by mistake but after that there's certainly a speed advantage there.My first chance I got

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Anyone familiar with me, this blog or my photostream on flickr knows that I try to go at least once a week for a walk in nature. Usually I visit the Amsterdamse Waterleidingduinen and usually I carry my camera. I’m skilled enough to get decent fallow deer shots almost weekly and the occasional good bird shot. I’ve been doing that slightly over a year now and I was so overconfident that I thought

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wet sheep Originally uploaded by j_wijnands. Rain. And not even a downpour but one of those steady persistent types that can last hours and hours. Hardly any colour difference in the sky, mostly solid grey. Missed a herd of male deer by about 150 meters or 3 minutes.. Now...do sheep shrink when they get wet?

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DSC_2669_DXO_agfa_apx25 Originally uploaded by j_wijnands. Shot this at London's borough market. One of the few really nice spots I found in my weekend visit. I tried to get something contrasty here and ended up with something I like but isn't likely to draw in the flickr crowds.

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Synology DS110j review, part 2Part 1 is here.A little more than a month after I started using the Synology DS110j NAS I think it's time to share the experiences.Web interfaceIt works, it works well. Only thing I had to get used to is that you need to grant access to the various applications on a different tab than where you create and manage user accounts. I do expect some changes in the 2.3

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canonian in the snow Originally uploaded by j_wijnands. I wouldn't put such an expensive telezoom down without any tripods. Nice guy though, tipped me that he'd spotted a fox a bit further.

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Alanis Morissette - Flavors of EntanglementI remember the first time I head Alanis, back in 1995 with the monster hit "Ironic". At that time she was a very interesting new artist (good looking too!). After the first album "Jagged Little Pill" ,which I really liked, I also enjoyed her live album which she released late 1999. After that she got a bit soft and I more or less lost interest.Yesterday

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I'm not the only one that can kill a sonim. A british reporter killed one during a demo.I've had two of these die on me in two years, then I gave up and bought a nokia.Sonim, nice ideas if only they could get the quality control sorted out.

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Synology DS110j reviewSynology's latest 1 disk NAS, is it any good?To create some order in the chaos of data scattered around my home I had to do something. On one PC there was my photo collection, 60gb and growing fast, on another was a large collection of mp3 files and everywhere where video files.After a bit of market research I decided that the synology DS110j with a 1.5 Tb samsung disk was a

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Incompetence = Air France?Last week I was in France from wednesday afternoon until friday as a guest of IBM at their Product & Solutions Support Center in Montpellier. A day and a half to get me up to speed on Aix, Power and storage. Load of interesting information with the juicy bits under a NDA so don't ask me to blog about that.I only mention this event because it explains what I was doing

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