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Photo of the day (April 2008)
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Outside Yankee Stadium, New York City
April 20th, 2008
D40 | 1/500 at /4.5 | 18 mm | ISO 200
An NYPD team take a bomb sniffing dog underground to the subway before Pope Benedict makes his highly-secured entrance into a mass of 60,000 people at Yankee Stadium.
PkennethV, where was that taken?
Here's one of my recent attempts at HDR. Sorry for the watermark, I can't afford Photomatix.. (And I REFUSE to use a pirated serial no matter what the temptation)
Here's one of my recent attempts at HDR. Sorry for the watermark, I can't afford Photomatix.. (And I REFUSE to use a pirated serial no matter what the temptation)
PkennethV, where was that taken?
That would be Central World Plaza in downtown Bangkok (Thailand).
I like your HDR, it doesn't look too overdone.
Courthouse in Nassau where all the Anna Nicole Smith cases were....sorry for the pole...couldn't get around it very well hahaha
Pretty in Pink Court
Pretty in Pink Court
I'm Back!
Actually I never went missing but just haven't been photographing as much over the winter and then we've had a rather damp and chilly spring, so only now am I beginning to have images to share again....
One of my true loves is macro. This spring I went a little further than just the basic macro lens, adding on an extension tube as well....
April 18, 2008
Falls Church, VA
Nikon D3
60mm f/2.8 lens with one of my Kenko extension tubes added
f/14 (DOF is still wickedly narrow and I should've stopped down even more)
1/80 sec
ISO 200
Hand-held. SHOULD have used a tripod for this!
Actually I never went missing but just haven't been photographing as much over the winter and then we've had a rather damp and chilly spring, so only now am I beginning to have images to share again....
One of my true loves is macro. This spring I went a little further than just the basic macro lens, adding on an extension tube as well....
April 18, 2008
Falls Church, VA
Nikon D3
60mm f/2.8 lens with one of my Kenko extension tubes added
f/14 (DOF is still wickedly narrow and I should've stopped down even more)
1/80 sec
ISO 200
Hand-held. SHOULD have used a tripod for this!
I looked at this shot and thought, "hey, that looks familiar, hey they had the vancouver Sun Run this past weekend, hey that's around the corner from my place!" At least I believe it's English Bay, correct me if I'm wrong.
If so, did you get any other shots of English Bay? I love going there for great sunset pics.
What is HDR? By the way I love coming to this post. All of the pics are just fantastic.
That apology about Pawleys Island. Don't be sorry. I live in Charleston area is it is quite nice up there. Loved the shells shot.
That apology about Pawleys Island. Don't be sorry. I live in Charleston area is it is quite nice up there. Loved the shells shot.
What is HDR? By the way I love coming to this post. All of the pics are just fantastic.
That apology about Pawleys Island. Don't be sorry. I live in Charleston area is it is quite nice up there. Loved the shells shot.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/401234/
Check this thread out, it explains everything and there are pages of pictures to give you some inspiration
Love the mood in this one, and the way the road leads me into the picture.
Did you get a large print, I bet it looks great on the wall.
Windmill
Definitely not as good as some of the other ones in here, it wasn't that good of a picture in the first place, and i did a pretty quick photoshop job so yeah. Also, this was the first proper photograph that I've taken (apart from family photos of course). Another problem was that i took it through a fence, and the one big that didn't get taken (because it was so thin and i focused around it) was the bit over the windmill. So yeah, it's not really that good but i think it looks pretty cool. I took it with a Fujifilm S5000 bridge-slr camera.
Definitely not as good as some of the other ones in here, it wasn't that good of a picture in the first place, and i did a pretty quick photoshop job so yeah. Also, this was the first proper photograph that I've taken (apart from family photos of course). Another problem was that i took it through a fence, and the one big that didn't get taken (because it was so thin and i focused around it) was the bit over the windmill. So yeah, it's not really that good but i think it looks pretty cool. I took it with a Fujifilm S5000 bridge-slr camera.
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I'm intrigued that you took the time to 'Photoshop' bits of fence out of a pic, instead of spending perhaps a similar amount of time finding a suitable vantage point from which to shoot. Photoshop is a great tool, but, well, it can't take the place of what I might as well call 'pre-production': ie getting things right in the viewfinder before you press the shutter.
If this is your first pic (beyond family snaps), you have a fun world of photography opening up for you. And if you rely on software to 'repair' pix that aren't very good, you'll be spending more time in front of a computer screen than taking pix. Good lighting, thoughtful composition, decisive moment, tone and colour are some of the aspects that lift a photo beyond a snapshot... and these are the result of seeing, rather than sending a shot on a round trip through an editing suite.
You can create pix... not merely repair them. Just my opinion, of course. Feel free to disregard it...
I'm intrigued by this pic. Very atmospheric, as others have said, and I like the subtle gradations in tone as the trees recede into the mist. Is this straight out of the camera, or was any post-production used?
Cascade Head trail, Oregon
Model: NIKON D50
Exposure: 1/50 sec
Aperture: f/6.3
Focal Length: 28mm
Model: NIKON D50
Exposure: 1/50 sec
Aperture: f/6.3
Focal Length: 28mm
I like the composition, with the path in the middle leading me across the mountains. The colour and light doesn't do it for me. The sky looks very blown out ( with a touch of pink, did you try to correct the highlights using some editor?)
I'm intrigued that you took the time to 'Photoshop' bits of fence out of a pic, instead of spending perhaps a similar amount of time finding a suitable vantage point from which to shoot. Photoshop is a great tool, but, well, it can't take the place of what I might as well call 'pre-production': ie getting things right in the viewfinder before you press the shutter.
If this is your first pic (beyond family snaps), you have a fun world of photography opening up for you. And if you rely on software to 'repair' pix that aren't very good, you'll be spending more time in front of a computer screen than taking pix. Good lighting, thoughtful composition, decisive moment, tone and colour are some of the aspects that lift a photo beyond a snapshot... and these are the result of seeing, rather than sending a shot on a round trip through an editing suite.
You can create pix... not merely repair them. Just my opinion, of course. Feel free to disregard it...
Thanks for the constructive criticism. Something I have a lot of trouble on is focus, I find it hard to see if something is right in the small viewfinder/lcd, as compared to a large computer screen. I also tend to look at something in real life/through my own eye's, thinking it will make for a great photo, then i just can't capture the moment on the camera. For example, at sunset today i was out taking some pictures and noticed the sun behind the clouds was producing a beautiful orange colour, then when i went to take a photo, it was all washed out and ugly. I also seem to be having a bit of trouble with the shutter speed where i will put the shutter speed just a little bit quick (not even in the hundreds) and it will pick up absolutely nothing. Anyway, not to plague this topic with my camera troubles, i will try to keep you're suggestions in my head the next time i go to take some more pics with the camera.
Thanks,
- Jaiden
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