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Photo of the Day: June 2010
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Parliament Hill? Ottawa is one of the most beautiful cities I've ever visited. This is Ottawa, right?Thanks TheReef and Doylem for comments on the leaf shot. Here's one for today:
-Greg
This is really rad - i've been drawn to them as well. Where is the simple guide you found online?
Stour Centre Park (Kent) Planet
Always loved the planet photoshops that I've seen, found a simple guide online, thought I'd give it a shot, enjoyed it a lot, but man it was fiddly in places. Plan on doing a few more once I'm back home. The 'original' size on flickr is only half size, it's 10,000 x 10,000 pixels & 50mb JPEG, had to scale down to save time when uploading.
EDIT: Just noticed a few glaring mistakes, I finished this at midnight after a very long day, but I'll replace the picture on flickr soon.
Camera: Canon EOS 1000D
Exposure: 0.005 sec (1/200)
Aperture: f/3.5
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Great clouds! We had some awesome weather this year. There were several days where I said to myself that I really should grab a camera and run out to Red Rock. Unfortunately I never made it.This taken on 1-22-2010 showing a little more snow... this is a HDR effort with 3 exposures.
I really want to get out there for a sunset like you did...great shots!
By the way, the shots I posted were HDR as well. 5 & 6 exposures if I remember correctly. Too many imo but I'm still getting used to the tecnique.
(50mm, f1.4, ISO 1600, 15 seconds)
A couple of months ago I modified a Nikon D70. I replaced the hot mirror with a clear filter so it now passes everything from IR to UV. Friday night I finally got out to take a couple test shots. I have never gotten a shot of the Milky Way even close to this. Not bad considering the amount of light polution coming from Las Vegas on the other side of the hill to my left.
There are a lot of problems with the shot. The exposure time was a bit long for a 50mm lens so the starts just started to streak. The larger, brighter stars are blown out and the image just seems a bit hazy overall. I want to try a different lens and a UV filter to try and clean up the haze.
The image was red shifted due to the missing IR filter. I did a little work with Photoshop's raw import module. Another thing I want to try is working with the white balance settings.
All in all I'm pretty happy with the results. The key will be to get the process down before I head up to Great Basin for the August meteor showers.
The former industrial heart of germany is slowly turning into one large park.
This year it's European capital of culture, see http://www.ruhrmetropolis.com/
Just one in a series of shots took this solstice at the park.
Camera: Canon EOS REBEL T2i
Exposure: 0.025 sec (1/40)
Aperture: f/6.3
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Camera: Canon EOS REBEL T2i
Exposure: 0.025 sec (1/40)
Aperture: f/6.3
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
A really fun pic... and I like how it's the dog's 'planet'. But... like (most) HDR and tilt/shift pix, once you've seen one, IMO, you've seem 'em all...
A couple of linked pix: youth and age in the village of Hawkshead...
Killarney Provincial park. Ontario
Lift off! We have lift off of damsel fly 1... on a mission to procreate:
Lift off! We have lift off of damsel fly 1... on a mission to procreate:
Anyone know what species this is ?
Welcome to the wide variations of blotched back snakes. Could be: )Eastern Fox Snake )Eastern Milk Snake )Northern Water Snake )Rat Snake or )Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake. All are found in Ontario.
My money goes on Eastern Milk Snake based on the large splotches and alternating small ones on the sides. It's not a rattlesnake. The head's to narrow. Lucky you...
Dale
Thanks Dale
Yeah, I'm betting on the Eastern Milk snake as well. I've encountered one of those previously but not in the water. Most water bound snakes I've seen here have teeny tiny heads. Thanks for having a look and responding. I've never seen a Massasauga rattler. They're protected in this region.
Barry
Yeah, I'm betting on the Eastern Milk snake as well. I've encountered one of those previously but not in the water. Most water bound snakes I've seen here have teeny tiny heads. Thanks for having a look and responding. I've never seen a Massasauga rattler. They're protected in this region.
Barry
Cheers Mate ... The new camera is great, vey similar in feel to the k10d but has it's own little quirks that I'm trying to get used to. Overall though it's been well worth the upgrade.
"Midsummers Nightmare"
The longest day of the year here and it was a lovely evening this one was taken at 10:40 in Portencross, Ayshire, Scotland.
Camera: Pentax K-7
Exposure: 1.3
Aperture: f/8.0
Focal Length: 16 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Parliament Hill? Ottawa is one of the most beautiful cities I've ever visited. This is Ottawa, right?
-Greg
Yes, it is.
Welcome. But please keep it to 1 photo per day. See more info in the starting post of this thread.
^ I like the complimentary colors here. I would like to see more of the tractor tire, though. It seems a bit cut off. I had a design teacher who preached making the parts of an image look intentional. Avoid (try to) giving the impression that you weren't paying full attention to the composition in the viewfinder. This takes time to learn. Nice photo.Behind a farm stand on U.S. Route 1 in York, Maine.
Greg
^ I really love the colors and simplicity of this photo. You made great use of shallow DOF without losing the detail in the flower. That's hard to do.
^Georgous colors."Midsummers Nightmare"
The longest day of the year here and it was a lovely evening this one was taken at 10:40 in Portencross, Ayshire, Scotland.
I almost bought the K-7, but it was just a bit too expensive. The build quality is impressive.
Dale
BTW: There seem to be more oversized image quotes this month that usual. If you are new to photo posting, please read the Guide that is linked in my sig.
