Photo of the Day - July 2009

[mikeschmeee]

Great shot! Gotta love the big, blue eyes.

Hey thanks!! Yes, I love the colour of the eyes. One of my favorite photos that I took for sure.
Here is another I took two nights ago.

Clickable!

 

[nuwomb]

Forks of the Thames

 

[cosmokanga2]

Old Pier + Boat

 

[paintball312]

Obligatory firework shot. I blew this one, but for some reason I liked it, so I kept it.

 

[andrew050703]

My baby daughter Abigail - less than a day old!

 

[sonor]

Sonar - that photo is amazing! I want to be able to get portraits like that. well done and inspiring.

Thanks nuwomb. It's nice to think I can inspire someone once in a while.

Can you do no wrong in photography??!!! Yet another great shot from you! Such attitude. Love it.

It's true. I am infallible. Thanks.

Actually I take all manner of dreadful photos, but I try not to display too many of them on public forums.

Nice shot. It was also a nice bike he had. I was there at Chinnor Bike Dayz and when you took the shot was about 10 feet to the right of you. I saw you take the shot but didn't know it was someone whose work I have seen on here before. In fact you can even see my bike in the shot. Mine is the blue one you can just see the front of on the far right of the pic level with his waist.

Wish I had known it was you, I'd have said hello.

It is a great pic though.

Edit: Have also just seen your website and see you are located in the same town as me. What a small world.

How extraordinary! If only I'd realised. I must get a t-shirt saying "I am Sonor...from the Mac Rumors forums". I'm struggling to pick out your bike from that shot. I'll look at a few others to see if I can work out which one it is.

 

[sonor]

Award-winning bikes
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[Doylem]

Old quarry... slowly 'going back to nature'...

 

[londonmystery]

heres 1 the wife took.

 

[SayCheese]

Award-winning bikes
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Nice shot. I like it. How is it that you post processed this image and the previous one to get that 'look' to them? I'd love to know.

 

[bootedbear]

Another obligatory 4th shot:

 

[AlaskaMoose]

 

[dmmcintyre3]

My furball.

(that is what I call him actually. The other one is clawball)

Don't say the 75-300 mm can't take good pictures

 

[JohnMC]

Independence Day


Fireworks on the Fourth of July
Canon XSi
Canon EF 70-200 f/4 L

 

[..Ryan..]

 

[NeXTCube]

Davenport Hotel, Spokane

Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3
1/25s @ F2.3 ISO400

 

[Maxxamillian]

Soldier's Daughter

 

[NStocks]

Orchid. Not finished editing yet, need cropping and possibly lift the dark tones ?

 

[scott2006]

Fireworks on the Fourth of July
Canon XSi
Canon EF 70-200 f/4

the 70-200 f/4 L? i just ordered that lens and i can't wait for it to come in the mail!!!!!

what settings did u have it on for that shot?

 

[mcavjame]

This is so beautiful. I cannot put my finger on exactly what makes this so great: the beautiful glow of her skin, the fact she is kind of bored but still watching the festivities or the setting steeped in patriotism. I cannot express how awesome this photo is.

Orchid. Not finished editing yet, need cropping and possibly lift the dark tones ?

A suggestion: the photoshop looks really staged and unconvincing. Perhaps you could try the same shot and place a real drop of water on the petal with an eye dropper. THat way it will look like it is really sitting in the space and will depict truer colors.

 

[NStocks]

A suggestion: the photoshop looks really staged and unconvincing. Perhaps you could try the same shot and place a real drop of water on the petal with an eye dropper. THat way it will look like it is really sitting in the space and will depict truer colors.

It is a real water drop

 

[mcavjame]

 

[mcavjame]

It is a real water drop

My apologies if this is a real shot, but the shape of the lower left edge of the drop, the steps in the overlapping leaf, no shadow or reflection of the leaf, and the fact that none of the color from the petal it sits on is refracted or reflected suggests otherwise.

 

[NStocks]

My apologies if this is a real shot, but the shape of the lower left edge of the drop, the steps in the overlapping leaf, no shadow or reflection of the leaf, and the fact that none of the color from the petal it sits on is refracted or reflected suggests otherwise.

I see, it was probably the angle I shot it at... and the flash would have eliminated the shadow ?

Here's the Original, and the water drop was right on the end of the petal...

Any other tips for the re-shoot, is the background O.K, I didn't want a cluttered one and I think white makes the colors ' pop '

 

[JohnMC]

the 70-200 f/4 L? i just ordered that lens and i can't wait for it to come in the mail!!!!!

what settings did u have it on for that shot?

Yes, same lens. I stopped the lens down to f/4.5 and used Bulb mode. This one was a seven second exposure. ISO 100.