Photo of the Day (February 2008)

[valdore]

Sprint Center arena, downtown Kansas City Missouri.

Shutter: 10 sec
Aperture: f/9.9
Focal Length: 105 mm
ISO 100

 

[Everythingisnt]

Sprint Center arena, downtown Kansas City Missouri.

Shutter: 10 sec
Aperture: f/9.9
Focal Length: 105 mm
ISO 100

Another one of your shots that simply "wows" me. VERY good work!

 

[SLC Flyfishing]

I really like this one SLC. Good lighting and very nice against the black background. I don't remember where you said that these photos were from. Is it in Salt Lake? I might have to visit it next time I'm in Utah.

It's about 20 minutes south of Salt Lake City, it's a museum owned by the man who owns (or at least created) Corel. The place is called Thanksgiving point.

Also, the background is heavily cloned; I probably cloned out about 40% of it. There was a wall under it's snout as well as some glaring canister lights in the ceiling and a door behind his ribs.

Thanks for the compliments!

SLC

 

[pdxflint]

My first attempt at creating a valentine's card for this year.

This one really caught my eye. Let me first emphasize - I like the photograph a lot, just as it is! Love the greyscale combined with muted colors. Nice texture with the water drops.

But, when I thought about how it would work as a Valentine's Day card, this is how I saw it.... hope you don't mind my cropping your artwork.

 

[fett]

No problem pdxflint crop away.

 

[Shacklebolt]

Liars
The Metro
2/5/08
Nikon D80
Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D
f/1.4
Shutter: 1/20
ISO: 800

No Photoshoppery.

 

[SolracSelbor]

Journey's End

"Journey's End"

This took me a few hours to perfect. The original size is 7227x2283 pixels.

Sorry for the watermark

 

[Doylem]

 

[Doylem]

You've got a great eye for a photo, and a lot of skill with post-production... though I feel the 'effect' could be toned down by, say, 30%... to let more of the impact come from the scene itself, rather than PP. And, yes, I know... no-one else will agree with me on this...

And, another thing that gets in the way of me enjoying a pic is a crooked horizon. It's not the horizon itself, in this case, but those three chimneys. If they were straightened up, I could enjoy the pic... instead of my eye going back to them.

Only my opinions (and meant to be constructive rather than critical)...

 

[pdxflint]

Powell's on a Sunday morning

A patron finding some quiet time in Powell's Bookstore, Portland OR. This place is the ultimate book lover's paradise. It's multi-levels, and a complete city block square (Portland downtown blocks, which are 200' x 200' on a very human scale.)

Model: NIKON D50
Exposure: 1/40 sec
Aperture: f/5.0
Focal Length: 18mm

 

[Mark Morb]

The Norfolk Coast a couple of weekends ago.....

 

[SolracSelbor]

You've got a great eye for a photo, and a lot of skill with post-production... though I feel the 'effect' could be toned down by, say, 30%... to let more of the impact come from the scene itself, rather than PP. And, yes, I know... no-one else will agree with me on this...

And, another thing that gets in the way of me enjoying a pic is a crooked horizon. It's not the horizon itself, in this case, but those three chimneys. If they were straightened up, I could enjoy the pic... instead of my eye going back to them.

Only my opinions (and meant to be constructive rather than critical)...

Thanks. I left the chimneys the way they are because that is the actual way they appear. This photo is going into a photo gallery for that city, changing the stacks would detract from it. AT&T even used the stacks on a commercial to show the rising bars as signal bars. Sometimes it is good not to have perfect symmetry. In this case the way the towers look is the actual way they look, i would have to rotate the canvas 9.5 degrees counter clock wise to straighten them, which would result in disaster. Also, if you couldn't tell, i like being exaggerative in the coloring and many other people do as well. I've noticed that these photos sell a lot better then their original counterparts.

 

[Doylem]

Thanks. I left the chimneys the way they are because that is the actual way they appear. This photo is going into a photo gallery for that city, changing the stacks would detract from it. AT&T even used the stacks on a commercial to show the rising bars as signal bars. Sometimes it is good not to have perfect symmetry. In this case the way the towers look is the actual way they look, i would have to rotate the canvas 9.5 degrees counter clock wise to straighten them, which would result in disaster. Also, if you couldn't tell, i like being exaggerative in the coloring and many other people do as well. I've noticed that these photos sell a lot better then their original counterparts.

Like I said: only my opinion. Just glad those towers are still standing...

 

[FastEddy]

My wife and I just got back from Guatemala visiting our son Sam whom we are adopting. We had just given him a bath when I snapped this.

Cute little guy ... happiness for ever to you all ...

 

[davidjearly]

It's Almost Valentine's Day!

C & C Welcome!

David

 

[davidjearly]

Sprint Center arena, downtown Kansas City Missouri.

Shutter: 10 sec
Aperture: f/9.9
Focal Length: 105 mm
ISO 100

Valdore,

All of your work leaves a fantastic impression with me. I like HDR, but I love your HDR.

I've been keeping an eye on this thread alot recently, but don't get much chance to get out with my camera at the moment.

Looking at your website keeps me going in the meantime.

David

 

[Doylem]

Valentines is right... That's the sexiest rose I've ever seen...

 

[TimJim]

My cat.

 

[SLC Flyfishing]

Here's another from that ice age ossuary I visited last Saturday. I couldn't for the life of me get this little monkey to turn his head for me!

 

[kitki83]

C & C Welcome!

David

I am sorry but am I the only one who just there is something off in this picture? I can not point it out, did you enhance the background to be more black? I really like the flower but theres something off (not in a bad way) like maybe the anatomy of the flower is different?

 

[Martin C]

Meatpacking District, New York City
D40 | 1/60 at ƒ/4.0 | 18mm | ISO 200

 

[.JahJahwarrior.]

I had gone out to photograph whatever I came upon in a parking garage...I was trying to force myself to find interesting ways to compose things, similarly to exercises we did in high school art classes. After an hour of being annoyed at lacklustre photos, I noticed the lights on top of the garage....bulb mode, wave the camera around.....viola! I know some people here cannot stand these types of pictures, but let me say this: Itook about 30 different ones and only two came out "good." Most of them lacked any interesting design.

Pentax *ist Ds
2.1 second
50mm f2.8, shut down to f11 I believe (manual lens, no Exif)
ISO 200

 

[FleurDuMal]

A Bridge. Florence. Italy. January 2008

Taken with my Fujifilm F31fd. Minor tweaking and cropping in iPhoto.

C&C wholly welcomed as I'm very rusty with my photography skills at the moment . I've far better ones of my trip to Rome and Florence, but I haven't played with them enough yet.

 

[valdore]

Shutter: 1.6 sec.
Aperture: f/16
Focal Length: 235 mm
ISO 100

Another one of your shots that simply "wows" me. VERY good work!

Valdore,

All of your work leaves a fantastic impression with me. I like HDR, but I love your HDR.

I've been keeping an eye on this thread alot recently, but don't get much chance to get out with my camera at the moment.

Looking at your website keeps me going in the meantime.

David

Thanks so much guys.

 

[fett]

The Big Rock