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This is one of my favourite shots from last weeks visit to Paris.  I was walking down the  Champs-Élysées  in the bright winter sunshine, which was low in the sky behind the Grand Palais and caused a lot of flare around the statue of President Charles de Gaulle. Using the Fujifilm X100 I took several shots of the scene, underexposing slightly to saturate the colours of the blue sky and the Tricolour flying behind the bronze quadrica, one of four by Georges Recipon waging depicts Immortality prevailing over Time. CLICK HERE for more on the Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées Image taken on a Fujifilm Finepix X100 with a fixed 23mm f2 lens ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BLOG BY VISITING THE ADVERTISERS ON THIS PAGE By clicking on the adverts you are helping support this blog - thank you. -----------------------------------------------------...

Yesterday we spent the afternoon in Stockbridge in Edinburgh and then had a family trip to the cinema at Ocean Terminal in Leith.  Our film finished at 21:45 and we saw the sun setting so we decided to drive up to Arthur's Seat and see the sunset behind Edinburgh Castle. This panoramic shot of the Edinburgh skyline was taken on the Fuji X-Pro1 and Fujinon 60mm f2.4. (C) MacLean Photographic

Nikon D700 - 28-105mm f3.5/f4.5 - 1/200 @ f8 - ISO400 I caught this scene on my Nikon D700 and 28-105 lens when out shooting the first test shots on my Nikon D800 at Stoke Rochford.  The beauty of having two camera bodies is you can be shooting long exposures with one camera (as I was with the D800) and capturing the scene a different way with the second camera. The other advantage when working with two camera bodies is you can have one type of lens - a wide angle for example - on one camera and a telephoto on the other so you don't have to keep swapping lenses. For landscapes, where time is usually not of the essence, one camera body s usually enough, but in this case where the clouds were changing very quickly in the high winds, I was able to react quickly due to the second camera body fitted with a short telephoto.  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ALL IMAGES ARE...

In the Digital SLR Photography CC Facebook group I belong to we have started to run weekend challenges with the owner of the image that receives the most 'likes' choosing the subject of the next challenge.  This weekend's challenge is 'silhouettes' and this is one of my favourite photographic genres.  It is also dead easy to learn. Sail boat sunset - off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa - Nikon D90 + Sigma 50-500 f4/f6.3 The subject has to be strong and it also has to be backlit (ie the light source is behind the subject).  This usually means sunlight but you can use off camera flash, a street light or other bright source of illumination. My silhouettes are usually landscapes but I have used the technique to shoot wildlife as well.  The technique is very simple.   Find a suitable subject with a strong light source behind. Set your camera on aperture priority or manual exposure at around f8 or f11 and take a meter reading off a brig...