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"Photo of the day" - June 2008
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A 'garden abstract' taken with my now beloved set of Diopters attached to the end of a 16-85 VR.
Camera-mounted flash with a homemade reflector bouncing it onto the grass.
Camera-mounted flash with a homemade reflector bouncing it onto the grass.
More from the Auto Show...
Another GM product, this time a 1930's era Chevrolet Standard Coupe.
Also from the Father's Day auto show in Constableville, NY.
Arista II 100 (a.k.a. Agfa B&W 100)
Another GM product, this time a 1930's era Chevrolet Standard Coupe.
Also from the Father's Day auto show in Constableville, NY.
Arista II 100 (a.k.a. Agfa B&W 100)
A 'garden abstract' taken with my now beloved set of Diopters attached to the end of a 16-85 VR.
Camera-mounted flash with a homemade reflector bouncing it onto the grass.
Taken with an EOS 400d and EFS 18-55mm Kit Lens.
I like both of these a lot. Great performance from the kit lens there too Tommy
Thanks for that...
Blue skies tend to stay the same. That is, the scene will look pretty much the same in an hour's time, except the sun will just be a bit higher (or lower...) in the sky. But a sky full of cumulus clouds will change minute by minute, if there's enough breeze to blow them by. So every pic will be different...
Blue sky in the city...
That is really a beautiful composition to me. Not sure if it may just be my monitor, there seems to be a slight unnatural purple hue to the shadows in the clouds tho. It might just be me.
Just when you were hoping that I might switch to macros haha...
Thanks. When I shoot for myself (rather than, say, tourism promotors), I really prefer to shoot with clouds in the sky. 50% cloud, 50% blue sky is fine; 70% and 30% OK too (except the photo opportunities will be fewer). but unclouded blue skies just don't work for me. The light is too blue, too bland and too 'scattered', like a bare bulb lighting up a room.
When the light is coming out of a part-cloudy sky, it seems more directional... giving better contrast, colour saturation... more like a floodlight than a bulb. OK, you can't control the floodlight, but, on a breezy day, you can watch it move across the landscape until it's lighting up what you're interested in.
Plenty of photographers seem to do better than me with those big blue skies. Unless it's near dawn or dusk, I find that landscapes get 'overlit'... which tends to diminish the 3D effect (ie; it's the quality of light that matters more, not the quantity).
Does this make any sense to the other landscape photographers out there?
Ever seen a great landscape painting with a big blue sky? (I didn't check)
A lot of firsts here for me. This is my first post to the "Photo of he Day" threads, my first attempt 'shrinking' a picture for the web & this forum and my first time shooting pictures at night.
Can anyone tell my how to easily make my photos websized? Thanks in advance!
I hope you like the shot...
Can anyone tell my how to easily make my photos websized? Thanks in advance!
I hope you like the shot...
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Model: Canon EOS 5D
Shutter Speed: 1/50 second
F Number: F/9.0
Focal Length: 35 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Date Picture Taken: Jun 21, 2008, 7:28:23 PM
setup here
Fabulous!!! And thanks for the setup link; it makes me all the more impressed.
I might have composed this one a bit differently, but the lighting is terrific.
Thank you! Can you give me some ideas or advice. I'm a beginner and to be perfectly honest I'm not even sure what you mean by composing it differently.
Three handheld RAWs // HDR // Shutter: varied // Aperture: f.9.0 // Focal Length: 17 mm // ISO 200
I mean the composition of the photograph: how the shot is framed. There's a lot of foreground grass that doesn't add much to the picture. A different viewpoint could have emphasized the bridge to greater effect. You really nailed the lighting, though.
HOW do you pull off handheld HDR's?? even when I set Photomatix to 'high' ripple detection I always get tons of ghosting...
You must have such steady hands.