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Photo of the Day (December 2007)
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I took this one during summer, as you can tell I'm not a Macro Photographer. The DOF is all screwed up, but still for a first attempt....
This was taken with my crappy P&S that I take Flyfishing with me.
SLC
This was taken with my crappy P&S that I take Flyfishing with me.
SLC
Australian Geese
You don't need photoshop to do that!
http://www.cheapshooter.com/2007/08/01/top-online-photo-editors-grow-into-their-own/
for sure, but i just got a new laptop and haven't upgraded photoshop yet.
i likes me some photoshop
neat programs btw
Does Kansas City ever have blue skies?
Sure KC has blue skies, it just hasn't lately. Been a constant cover of clouds for the past few days, and will for the next few also it looks like.
I think HDR has the most "dramatic" impacts around sunrise and sunset, but really there isn't a period of the day where I haven't found it useful in some extent. I think it's great on partly cloudy or mostly cloudy days, but not all that useful when the sky is totally cloudless and blue everywhere - at least if they sky is supposed to be a key ingredient in the composition.
When I first starting doing HDRs back in Oct. of 06, I always did it with a tripod and three bracketed shots from the camera. Imagine my giddyness and elation when I discovered it could be done with one RAW. Basically if the scene you are shooting has no movement at all (no people, cars, or traffic lights changing color), and you happen to have your tripod and cable release in tow, then definitely try for the multiple bracketed exposures. Since I do cityscapes so much though, I use the single RAW method a lot since it's hard to get a scene with no movement.
I was out on the lake in my dinghy a few days ago, when I saw about twenty geese flying in formation... except they were flying along the surface of the water like stealth bombers... and heading straight for my boat. In any kind of collision between a canada goose and me, I know who'd come off second best (imagine a roast turkey being fired out of a cannon). At the last minute the formation split into two, and I got off a couple of shots as these geese past. They were very close - to the water and to me - and this is a wide-angle shot. Phew...
Not a patch on ClixPix's shot, but the same bird, I think. In UK we call them canada (not 'Canadian') geese; maybe a different name in US.
great story! i LOVE the 2nd pic. fantastic.
Here in Canada, we call them all sorts of names...some i can't repeat here. They are so many in some places, that i know joggers who have been hissed and chased by these birds. They walk in parking lots and crap EVERYWHERE! there are too many imho.
BUT, they are great photographic subjects at times eh?
Canada geese is a popular name.
there is some great work here people, keep it up
especially cool are those birds skimming the water top.
especially cool are those birds skimming the water top.
The second picture is not his--It's Clix Pix's shot from a few pages back. He posted it, vaguely referencing it being hers, to compare the geese.
The Lake
This is one I took during the summer at a friends lake house in Maine.
Camera: Canon EOS XTi
Lens: Canon 50mm f1.8 II
ISO: 100
Exposure: 1.3 @ f/22
This is one I took during the summer at a friends lake house in Maine.
Camera: Canon EOS XTi
Lens: Canon 50mm f1.8 II
ISO: 100
Exposure: 1.3 @ f/22
Let's not be too rash--some of us like night photography!
This is a great shot--where was it taken?
Great shot! Awesome depth of field.
I'll post a light box shot of my iPhone I took the other day.
Shot with Pentax K110D
Cambridge, MA -- looking at a biogen building which has some really cool architecture.
Thanks for the kind comments! This was taken a block away from the last night bridge shot i posted (it's back on page 3 or 4). This one is the Western Ave bridge which is just west of downtown Boston crossing the Charles river. I am standing on the Cambridge side. I am not 100 percent sure what the building is, but I think it is the building of a pharmaceutical company novartis, I could be wrong.
I love taking night shots with lots of mixed lighting to get all the different colors to really come out.
Heres another picture I took and made it into HDR. Not sure if you will like it, i just kinda like this comic book HDR style.
No, we're not ZZ Top....
A black and white film project I did on a northwest neighborhood in Portland gave me a chance to try out a cheap, yet sharp little Konica Big Mini with a fixed focal length 35mm f/2.8 AF lens and exposure compensation capability. Very tiny, very quiet for a film camera. These dudes were panhandling on the street and I proposed a trade - I'd give 'em each a buck, and they'd let me photograph them. We managed three shots (this was the first) before they accidently knocked over a lifesized paper mache horse in front of a cigar shop when one of them leaned on it thinking it must be sturdy (wrong...) When the shop owner ran out they split in a flash before collecting their "fee." Within 30 seconds cops were there, and these boys had turned the corner at a fairly quick pace. Laughing my a$$ off, I managed to catch up to them. They were surprised, but grateful I had bothered to keep my word, and looked like they were really ready for a drink. We all had a good laugh. Anyway, here they are - my contribution for today. Scanned from work print.
Konica Big Mini 35mm w/ 35mm f/2.8 lens
Kodak TMax 400
A black and white film project I did on a northwest neighborhood in Portland gave me a chance to try out a cheap, yet sharp little Konica Big Mini with a fixed focal length 35mm f/2.8 AF lens and exposure compensation capability. Very tiny, very quiet for a film camera. These dudes were panhandling on the street and I proposed a trade - I'd give 'em each a buck, and they'd let me photograph them. We managed three shots (this was the first) before they accidently knocked over a lifesized paper mache horse in front of a cigar shop when one of them leaned on it thinking it must be sturdy (wrong...) When the shop owner ran out they split in a flash before collecting their "fee." Within 30 seconds cops were there, and these boys had turned the corner at a fairly quick pace. Laughing my a$$ off, I managed to catch up to them. They were surprised, but grateful I had bothered to keep my word, and looked like they were really ready for a drink. We all had a good laugh. Anyway, here they are - my contribution for today. Scanned from work print.
Konica Big Mini 35mm w/ 35mm f/2.8 lens
Kodak TMax 400
Like you, I've been doing a few 'abstract' shots; like you, I wonder if there's any skill involved. I suppose the answer is that there can be.
No skill in this shot, though, none at all. While photographing a waterfall, I carried my camera - on the tripod - to another position. Purely by accident, I fired off a couple of frames... and this is one of them. I'm fascinated by the colours, the 'depth', the sinous curves, and I'm trying to find ways to replicate it. No luck yet. Sobering to find that a shot taken by the camera on its own is better than the ones I'm taking...
Like you, I've been doing a few 'abstract' shots; like you, I wonder if there's any skill involved. I suppose the answer is that there can be.
No skill in this shot, though, none at all. While photographing a waterfall, I carried my camera - on the tripod - to another position. Purely by accident, I fired off a couple of frames... and this is one of them. I'm fascinated by the colours, the 'depth', the sinous curves, and I'm trying to find ways to replicate it. No luck yet. Sobering to find that a shot taken by the camera on its own is better than the ones I'm taking...
http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/281/dsc6161iu4.jpg
reminds me of a windows vista desktop :S