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Photo of the Day - February 2009

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SuperCompu2

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I have to say I'm on CrackedButter's side with this one. He basically asked exactly what I was thinking:

What made this picture stand out to you?

I also believe he's being perfectly rational and that the bickering needs to end. Back to photographs please!

That being said, here's my submission for the day. A picture I took after a severe Ice storm about a month or so ago.

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Cliff3

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For some reason I went to visit Canepa Design one day armed only with a Canon Elph point & shoot. I was able to get a couple of nice shots hand-holding this camera in dark lighting conditions. I had the flash disabled since on camera flash generally sucks.

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FWIW, if you like Porsche 959s and are ever in Santa Cruz, Canepa is the place to visit. I saw 7 or 8 of them in varying states of disassembly during one trip there.

(edit: in case it's not obvious, that car is not a Porsche)
 
Educ8r

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hmmm that plain ol' photograph with unrealistic red colors provoked curiosity...interesting....could that be a reason I posted it....nah!

regarding the picture of the bird, I am well aware of the cropped tail, thanks for observing so closely. There is a beautiful picture of a flower with its petals cropped but I'm not going to ask the photographer why he/she cropped the petals. Quite frankly it's none of my business how he/she chooses to express their work.

Of all the pictures I've posted here I've never asked anyone to critique them, if you like the photos fine, if you don't like the photos fine. In my opinion there are photos here that are quite boring, but what's interesting is the story behind them that only the photographer knows, so I use my imagination and create possible scenarios which are endless. I suggest you do the same. Clearly my images have sparked a debate with you. I sir, take that as a "good thing." :)

CrackedButter said:
As to the second image, I don't actually see anything of interest in it bar the unrealistic red colours, and again it was just curiosity which provoked me,
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Rower_CPU

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Off-topic/personal comments have been removed from the thread so it can remain, as intended, a place to share photos.

Please stick to the rule of thumb regarding C&C: if they don't ask for it specifically and/or you don't know the poster well enough to know how it will be received, it's probably best not to do it.

Thanks :)
 
pdxflint

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Thank you! Sometimes I really appreciate the mods. :)

More point 'n shoot: This shot from Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico. A Mexican couple stop by at Amigos de los Animales, the local humane society in Mazatlan, to ask if they will accept a cat. Greeting them at the door is Edgar Barragan Arias, who gave up his career as a lawyer to run the shelter in memory of his brother, Aldo, a local veterinarian who started the shelter in the 1990s. It's a small place, but without the passions of Edgar and a few others, as well as volunteers, it would not exist.

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Camera: Panasonic
Model: DMC-LZ8
ISO: 100
Exposure: 1/160 sec
Aperture: 4.0
Focal Length: 5.2mm
 
JoshBoy

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Took this here in Sydney, this is why i love my home!!! :)
 

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JoshBoy

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Cliff3 said:
Where was the second photo taken? It looks like it was near North Head. It would be interesting to see it without the HDR treatment.
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It is "the Gap", with out the HDR it still is a really nice clean shot, I shot in RAW so I was able to play with exposure settings after the event on one shot
 
Cliff3

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JoshBoy said:
It is "the Gap", with out the HDR it still is a really nice clean shot, I shot in RAW so I was able to play with exposure settings after the event on one shot
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Ok, cool. I didn't get out to the coast on the Southern side when I was there last year. The cliffs reminded me of my trip out to Manly and North Head. I like the Harbour Bridge photo.

I am familiar with HDR and raw files. I normally bracket exposures so that I can capture as much dynamic range as I can in the camera, then blend them later in PP.
 
JoshBoy

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If you look close this was my first attempt at a self portrait X 6, it is me playing poker with me and me playing poker with me etc you get the point, it is just for a little fun and trying new things :)

Cliff3 said:
Ok, cool. I didn't get out to the coast on the Southern side when I was there last year. The cliffs reminded me of my trip out to Manly and North Head. I like the Harbour Bridge photo.

I am familiar with HDR and raw files. I normally bracket exposures so that I can capture as much dynamic range as I can in the camera, then blend them later in PP.
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thanks, I have only been doing photography for 6 months now but loving it. I have a lot of stuff that has been photoshopped but the harbour bridge is how it was shot nothing changed.
 

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JoshBoy said:
thanks, I have only been doing photography for 6 months now but loving it. I have a lot of stuff that has been photoshopped but the harbour bridge is how it was shot nothing changed.
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That would explain why I liked it then - I tend to prefer a light hand in PP. Most of the time, the world doesn't need much help being a beautiful place. Especially Sydney - loved that city.
 
johnnytraveler

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In a hotel room in Manhattan - insomnia - camera happened to be nearby. This is what I stared at while not sleeping. This was taken a while ago ... I wish I had cropped it and tweaked it a bit differently (which I suppose I could still do), but this is how I remember it, so I left it alone. The pictures on the wall were even creepier than the shadow play.
 
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