Photo of the Day - December 2008

[valdore]

Nice shot Valdore, is that taken with a wide angle lens? and is there a touch of HDR in that shot?

thanks... it's 15mm fisheye on a full frame sensor, single raw tonemapped.

 

[Raid]

iPhone at the vatican

I'm doubly amazed at this photo! My shots (in the exact same corridor) were really blurry with the Canon Powershot G2 I took along, and here you took it with your iPhone!

 

[Rocio]

holgarific.

 

[oblomow]

If others can post pictures of their cats ( cooked or not cooked ), I can show
pictures of my daughter at judo. In the real christmas spirit.

1/640s f/3.2 ISO3200 200mm

 

[thr33face]

Company Dinner

Nikon D40, 30mm

 

[valdore]

Four tripod mounted RAWs // HDR // Shutter: varied // Aperture: f/20 // Focal Length: 17 mm // ISO 1250

I finally managed to get off my arse and get some new photos. I haven't done much new photography at all since October in New York. This is from dusk, Friday Dec. 19... Plaza lights, Kansas City MO.

 

[RHVC59]

Just playing with light

Very cold out tonight,(12° f or -11° C), but I just wanted to play. First night of a two week vacation... Could not get the kids to come out and play, so it was just a one man show.
F 4, 30 sec, ISO 200, remote trip

 

[BigMäc]

Bowling - 12/19/2008

iPhone​

 

[nuwomb]

more can lovin'

 

[tcphoto]

My Christmas card

 

[MaddMacs]

Beach Art

Waimanu HI

 

[spazattack674]

The product of boredom due to a massive snowstorm:

Flickr:http://flickr.com/photos/17647812@N05/3120725359/

 

[ipodtoucher]

We had a little fun today

The Fire Within

 

[orangeillini14]

One of my favorite panoramas... taken from my 2006 vacation in Rocky Mountain National Park. For anyone who has (or wants to go there), this panorama was taken from Trail Ridge Road.

It's a shame I don't have my pictures from this vacation anymore... they were lost when the family Dell laptop crapped out on us and we had to restore it... I didn't have my pictures backed up anywhere.

I'm actually really pissed about it now (I was like 15 at the time when I took the images), because I would have liked to get this printed...

 

[timmyb]

Really nice shots orangeillini14 and thr33face - I particularly like the DoF on the lavender.

I saw this airport sign and rather liked it...

D40, 18mm, 0.017s, f/9, ISO 200

 

[cutsman]

 

[NintendoChick]

I LOVE the panorama. Shame that the original file was lost...


Here's mine for today...

 

[Nadav]

Had a little fun today with my friend using the flashlight application on my iPod touch. Its my first time taking long exposure shots, but I think they turned out pretty cool.

 

[orangeillini14]

I LOVE the panorama. Same that the original file was lost...


Here's mine for today...

Where's this at? I wanna go there...

 

[gnd]

Pink Bubbly

 

[Doylem]

Great shot... looks like a place you could go back to again and again, and capture those mountains at dawn and dusk...

I, too, collect squashed beer cans ; I didn't imagine anyone else would share my little hobby. I like the way that three dimensions become two. Maybe I'll incorporate them into a collage some day...

Really like this. The background shape could be just about anything: a tree, a face, a logo, some kind of punctuation...

Today is the shortest day, and the Lake District is just a blur of grey skies and drizzle...

 

[orangeillini14]

Glacier National Park (Montana)
Logan's Pass - Hidden Lake Trail

Unlike the last panorama, I actually have the originals for this one...

 

[HF2008]

I have a realy big problems taking good landscape photos.
Should be able to take better photos with my setup, so it's probably my lack of skill.

The photo below was one of the better ones i took today, but i'm not 100% happy about it.
First when i take photos i get to much sky and foreground and have to crop the picture alot, leading to lower picture quality.
Then i don't get the sharpness i want in the photo, can it be that i use manual focus and no tripod?

Would love some tips to improve and any homepages or books worth reading.

As usual a lot of the pictures you post here are awesome

Nikon D40
Exposure: 1/50
Aperture: f/5
Focal Length: 50 mm (Nikkor 50mm 1:1.8D)
ISO Speed: 200

 

[Doylem]

What was it about this particular landscape that caught your eye? It's dificult to tell. You have a very narrow strip of land... plus lots of sky and lots of water (with, presumably, lots more sky and water that you've cropped out).

In most landscape shots, think about planes: close-up, middle-distance, horizon.

Sharpness? Well, 1/50 sec seems low. 1/125 or faster would be better... and a tripod would be best of all (especially in low light)...

 

[ipodtoucher]

A new day a new photo! C&C always appreciated

Burning the Words