"I was at my sister's cottage and this butterfly landed near me," said Eric Knapp. "I was holding my camera and I quickly turned and took a shot. However, in the camera's display the butterfly was too small and too dark. Then I remembered two of Derrick's tips on taking better pictures. The first tip was "fill flash," and the second was "move closer." So I climbed inside the electric deer fence and popped up the flash on my Pentax *ist DS. The butterfly held still for a few more seconds and I took this shot at 1/180 sec., f 5.6, at 55mm, with the flash on. The ISO was set to 200."

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"While traveling in central Arkansas," said Jan Blanchard, "I was exploring a beautiful botanical garden and happened upon this scene. I wondered if the koi were attracted by the food or by the orange shirt on the little boy. The matching vibrant colors certainly attracted this photographer's eye."

Jan captured this scene with her Canon Digital Rebel set to 1/50 of a second at f-5.6. Her ISO was 100.

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I grabbed this shot while taking architecture pictures for my company," said Chris Glass. We just built a new restaurant, and I was the 'go to' guy for capturing the images."

"While taking all the required wide-angle standard shots, my eye kept going to the bar area in the restaurant. It had frosted glass shelves with neon lights backlighting everything inside. The blue through the bottles was amazing, so when I had a chance, I crawled with my camera and tripod under the boxes to get to the bar shelves, set up the camera, and snapped this shot."

"It was taken with a Nikon D50 with a 50mm f/1.8 (my favorite lens BTW) at 1/100th of a sec with the white balance set to "tungsten". This has become my new favorite picture for my computer background!"

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"This shot of my clunky electric stove top (just outta photo school -- I can't afford a nice gas one yet) was shot with my D200 and my old manual nikon 70-150mm series E zoom (yes it actaully meters on the D200)" said Rob Sackyta. "The exposure was a whopping 15 seconds @ f-5.6 in RAW, and surprisingly, not a whole lot of noise.

"I used Nikon Capture 4 tethered to My Macbook Pro, so I wouldn't pass out from the heat, as I actually had all four coils going at once. Capture runs pretty slow on the Intel side, but it still has great advantages, especially when shooting product shots."

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"My family went to a local airshow with friends," said Andrew Mein. "It was a long day and we were all getting tired. As we walked round some of the static exhibits our friend's son just sat down in the middle of the hangar. I managed to grab the camera and got this great shot."

Andrew used a Fuji Finepix 602Z. ISO 200, 1/49 sec F/2.8 to capture this sit-in by his son.

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"I rented a Nikon SB-800 flash and took a bunch of shots of my two sons to test the unit," said Matt Jorgensen. "After about 10 minutes, they were getting pretty sick of me and the camera. I think this shot sums up my youngest son's thoughts (the older son is collapsed on the couch in disgust)."

Here are the shooting details: Camera: Nikon D70, Shutter: 1/60 sec, Aperture: f/3.5, ISO: 100, Focal Length: 18mm, Flash: SB-800.

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"A true grab shot," said Landon Michaelson. "We were on our way out of town and a storm was sweeping across the valley. Just before the rain hit, I snapped three photos out the windshield of the car (I was the passenger) with camera at the ready ;-)"

"I stitched them together, gave it a crop and a curves adjustment. It became an eye catcher. Setting sun was behind that bank of clouds. Appears somewhat composited, but was actually how it looked. The technical term is Mammatus clouds, so the title for this shot is "Mammatus Indigestus" (bowels of the storm) -- it's just a mashed together title and play on words for what it looked like to me."

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"This is one of my favorite portraits of my son," said Frank Blanco. "His team had won the baseball game that day, and I had promised him lunch at a restaurant. He ordered, among other things, a chocolate shake. I think it made him even happier than winning the game."

Frank used a Nikon D100 set to ISO 200. The flash was turned off and the camera was in Aperture Priority mode @ f-5.6. Shutter speed was 1/20th.

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"The Main Reading Room at the Library of Congress is a temple of knowledge," says Tom Bridge, "but photography is generally prohibited. I did managed to sneak this one shot of the ceiling, and I thought it was particularly cool."

Tom used a Canon PowerShot S410 in Program mode (1/50th @ f-2.8)

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I've been to Cancun a couple of times recently," said Brian Davenport, "and really love the excursions. I always find something to photograph down there."

Brian used a Canon Digital Rebel XT, Sigma 18-200 3.5-6.3 DC lens, f8 @ 1/40, ISO 100, tripod mounted.

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