Photo of the Day - January 2009

[johnnytraveler]

Lovely macro shot, what kind of lighting did you use, was it all natural ?

Another shot from the shore.

It was midday, and I was mowing the lawn and saw it as I brushed past a butterfly bush in my yard. I ran back to get my camera while it happily munched its lunch.

It seemed to be expecting me to make a grab for that butterfly.

Sole naturale! (natural sun)

 

[SansCrainte]

Mine for today. How do I make it so that the image links to a Flickr page? Thanks.

your pic reminded me of one that I took last summer...

 

[dukeblue91]

Great shot!
He is looking right at you too.

My SmugMug

 

[dukeblue91]

Brown Thrasher

Sony a700 w/ SAL 70-300G
1/500 f/5.6 ISO 800

The Brown Thrasher!
A large, skulking bird of thickets and hedgerows, the Brown Thrasher has one of the largest song repertoires of any North American bird.
Boldly patterned, it is conspicuous when singing on its territory, but is hardly discernable during the rest of year.

 

[johnnytraveler]

Great shot!
He is looking right at you too.

Thanks! It was giving me the creeps, to be honest.

 

[johnnytraveler]

Monday January 19

I sort of like the "ready to pop" nature of a soon-to-be flower. Shot last summer in my back yard garden.

 

[pdxflint]

I've been playing around with a couple of cheap point 'n shoot cameras (Panasonic Lumix DMC-LZ8 and Sony DSC-W120,) just to get a feel for how they perform... I'll post more as time permits. I'll post Exif info so you know which camera was used. Did some minor PP in Picasa (Windows version running on MBP through CrossOver...which works just fine.)

Camera: Panasonic
Model: DMC-LZ8
ISO: 100
Exposure: 1/100 sec
Aperture: 3.5
Focal Length: 5.2mm

 

[ipodtoucher]

I sort of like the "ready to pop" nature of a soon-to-be flower. Shot last summer in my back yard garden.

Nice capture!!

Here's mine for today, a break from portraits to go visit the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and watch the changing of the guards. THat place was packed with tourists, crazy tourists

Welcome

 

[sonor]

wow what a scary picture .......how did u manage to capture this ......feels like someone watching me from this pic .....

I took it in the middle of the day, just after Christmas...and the original image (after a few of the usual tweaks in Adobe Camera Raw) came out like this...

But I wanted to change the mood a little, so I played around a bit more. In Adobe Camera Raw I converted it to black & white...

I thought a moonlit look might work well, so I applied some subtle Split Toning (still in ACR), with two different shades of blue. In Photoshop I have a selection of Actions that give cross-processing kind of effects, so I then ran one of these to finish it off and ended up with my "scary picture".

 

[Doylem]

What a bummer: no manhole covers round here... just scenery...

 

[SuperCompu2]

Lovely macro shot, what kind of lighting did you use, was it all natural ?

Another shot from the shore.

I'd love some EXIF data for this one! Great shot!

 

[techie4life]

My SmugMug

Do I sense a crop-in? Certainly a great shot, but I see a lot of noise, etc... for a 40d.

 

[Clix Pix]

 

[Phrasikleia]

Very sensual. A bell pepper?

 

[Clix Pix]

Very sensual. A bell pepper?

Thank you! Yep, a pepper, indeed! Give me a pepper and a macro lens and I can be very happy for over an hour playing with the photographic possibilities.....

 

[seattle]

USB light shining on my iMac keyboard.

 

[mrkgoo]

 

[romanaz]

working on getting all 5000 shots from my saturday olympic lifting competition up and going to print and sell, but for now here are a few of my 80kilo (176lb) teammate (who competes in the 85kilo weightclass) clean and jerking 170kilos (374lbs) for a huge personal record!

 

[Doylem]

Great (and a drop of glycerine 'perspiration' might make it look more sensuous still)...

 

[pdxflint]

Great (and a drop of glycerine 'perspiration' might make it look more sensuous still)...

A scary thought... a sweating pepper.

 

[Educ8r]

 

[TheCodfather]

"Abandoned"

Posted this for this weeks contest but I liked it so much i put it here too! Little overexposed but i actually took it with my old sony point and shoot. It's from an abandoned community in Newfoundland, Canada

 

[MaddMacs]

Another shot from the shore.

We should start a Steamie fan club too. Was this done with a ND filter? Lovely.

Thats a HOT pepper!

 

[nuwomb]

Ago



Construction is finished and the building looks amazing!

 

[Steamie]

Lovely shot, gorgeous reflections in it very well done


Thanks very much MaddMacs & SuperCompu2
Yip, my last post was done using an Nd grad 0.8
Exif - 1/5 sec , f8 , Iso 100 , 38mm