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Photo of the Day (January 2008)
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Here's a simple one. As you can see, i'm a bit of a vibrant color nut. But i've really liked the hazy, sightly washed out pictures posted by Maldini and Doylem. It really puts a different kind of mood to the picture. I will have to attempt something similar soon. 
I pointed the lens straight to the sky so i used the pop up flash dialed down a bit (i think -.7?) to get the detail in the leaf. brought it out a bit with post processing too.
Nikon D300
70-200 VR f/2.8 @ 200mm f/5
1/125 second
ISO 200
I pointed the lens straight to the sky so i used the pop up flash dialed down a bit (i think -.7?) to get the detail in the leaf. brought it out a bit with post processing too.
Nikon D300
70-200 VR f/2.8 @ 200mm f/5
1/125 second
ISO 200
Very nice colors. Is that sky color natural? Or did you slightly changed it in Photoshop? It looks great.
Nothing special, I just liked how it came out in comparison to how dark the area was when I took the photo.
30s, ƒ 4,6, 30mm, ISO100, d40x
Again; comments, criticisms..they're all extremely welcome.
All post processing for this particular photo was done in aperture. The original sky color was a little darker and a little less saturated. I used the selective color adjustment tool in aperture. That in combination with increasing the exposure a bit in aperture got the color I was looking for.
I know some people frown upon that kind of thing....and I used to be one of them. but i've come to embrace post processing as part of the workflow. Some pictures are processed very little, some a lot. I try to envision exactly how i want the photo to be after post processing while actually taking the picture. For this particular picture, I wanted a geometrical green shape against a nice blue background. The picture, out of the camera was not quite there, so I brought out my vision in post.
January 9, 2008
Green Spring Gardens
Annandale, VA
Nikon D3
24-70mm lens
Focal Length: 70mm
f/2.8 @ 1/2500 sec
-2/3 EV
ISO: 250
I bet it was a wonderful evening to be out on the beach. It looks good from the perspective of a British winter.
But the picture itself is short of a subject. The eye roams around the picture area, looking for something to give the picture a focus, a point of interest, a sense of scale. Imagine a figure, somewhere on the beach, and how dramatically that would change the picture. Although occupying only 0.1% of the picture area, the eye would have somewhere to 'land'.
Terrific... really like the restricted colour 'palette', the simple composition and the sharp (
) contrast between in and out of focus. Sometimes less IS more...
hey Clix Pix that pic is wonderful!
do you have a hi-res copy of this photo preferably ≥ 1920x1200 so i could use it as my desktop background? thanks!
Nice shot, but could I suggest cropping some of the bottom. Removing some of the bottom the picture will comply with the rule of thirds, as it is the horizon is in the middle of the picture which is a "no no" most of the time in compositional terms. Hope you don't mind I have modified your image to show what I mean ..
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Doylem, I definitely see what you mean by having a subject in the picture. Thanks for the advice. If you look in the middle right of the photo there is a person walking, but its too hard to distinguish that person from all the rocks anyways
Jack, I have to agree with you too about cropping the photo. Thanks for showing me what you mean. No problem on the advice, how else would I get better without feedback
Jack, I have to agree with you too about cropping the photo. Thanks for showing me what you mean. No problem on the advice, how else would I get better without feedback
Thanks, Doylem, Evangelion and Rich! I went out to a new place yesterday, taking advantage of our unusually warm weather, thinking I'd use both my new lenses. That new 24-70mm just wanted to stay right on the camera and I had a lot of fun seeing how closely it focuses. In many of the shots I took, I deliberately used f/2.8 to isolate my main subject and deliberately underexposed a little. The colorful backgrounds I was able to get surprised me, considering that this IS winter!
Rich: sorry, can't send you a high-rez version for a background because I may want to do something else with this image once I see how well it prints up....
Here's another one, again shot at f/2.8 and very close up for a shallow DOF. This one could've benefitted from stopping down a bit, though! I just like the colorful background.....
Rich: sorry, can't send you a high-rez version for a background because I may want to do something else with this image once I see how well it prints up....
Here's another one, again shot at f/2.8 and very close up for a shallow DOF. This one could've benefitted from stopping down a bit, though! I just like the colorful background.....
The only thing that it misses is composition, try to give the viewer a point of interest. Take Doylem photo for example, that dog, even tho it only occupies a small percentage of the photo, it is what contributes the most to the photo. Take the dog out, and the photo would be good, but not near as good as with the dog.
There is also a common rule in photography known as the Rule of Thirds, try to keep it in mind when taking a photo.
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Nikon D40x
Nikkor 80-200mm
Henry on the beach, Morecambe Bay...
Was this edited at all? If not, then that is an amazing shot!
looking south
Lincoln City, OR beach in late afternoon.
Model: NIKON D50
ISO: 200
Exposure: 1/320 sec
Aperture: f/9.0
Focal Length: 18mm w/18-55 kit lens
Lincoln City, OR beach in late afternoon.
Model: NIKON D50
ISO: 200
Exposure: 1/320 sec
Aperture: f/9.0
Focal Length: 18mm w/18-55 kit lens