LOL, no, but good guesses.
Here's another hint: This object is commonly seen outdoors.
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Photo of the Day - March 2018
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LOL, no, but good guesses.
Here's another hint: This object is commonly seen outdoors.
LOL, no, but good guesses.
Here's another hint: This object is commonly seen outdoors.
At first I thought it was an alloy wheel but your fan comment threw me off. An air conditioner or a drain cover?
Yes!!! I said “warm” in the previous post because the cover on top of the AC unit does cover a fan. So mollyc’s guess was fairly close.
It's the top of the new Mac Pro!
Yes!!! I said “warm” in the previous post because the cover on top of the AC unit does cover a fan. So mollyc’s guess was fairly close.
Woo hoo! Ten internet points to me.
Midtown Manhattan Reflections by Lance Randall, on FlickrI see Lee are still living up to their notorious blue colour cast!
DSCF7653-Edit.jpgInteresting concept, degrading your image with a resin filter on the spot, rather than in PP...
A circular vent of some kind?
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I see Lee are still living up to their notorious blue colour cast!
Interesting concept, degrading your image with a resin filter on the spot, rather than in PP...
The colour cast is all me I am afraid...
Ooft.... Ouch! I thought the effect has some mileage. I want to get some of those minimalist images but I cant work out how to fade out the background at time of capture...
Nice one...
I like it to. Even if it is the wrong side of the river!
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Nice portrait.
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Could have taken this in England these last few weeks. How fast do they go?
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Worth getting up for.
I was only joking, Ken, sorry for the low blow. It's an interesting effect, not for me, but I could see many loving it as an enhanced effect to their visual explorations. Kinda reminds me of smearing a touch of Vaseline on the perimeter of a lens in the old days.
When you say "background fade," do you mean in regards to luminosity or focus? Spot metering on the appropriate point works for me in regards to luminosity being diminished in the background and a wide open aperture for background blur. Or am I off track with what you meant?
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I don't think we need to hear about you and vasaline thank you very much! This is a family thread!
Actually I've read about such things, but I'd not want to get it everywhere. Even if using a UV filter, it would get on your stuff.
Plus I don't think you could end up with a uniform finish.
I did this to one of my Pentax lenses when last I used my K-1000, many years ago, didn't wipe it off when I'd finished taking some stylised portraits with blur around the subjects, then freaked out when I stuck that lens on my Pentax K-20D recently! Took me a few days to realise what was going on with it...I don't think we need to hear about you and vasaline thank you very much! This is a family thread!
Actually I've read about such things, but I'd not want to get it everywhere. Even if using a UV filter, it would get on your stuff.
Plus I don't think you could end up with a uniform finish.
I'd never do it again, it was a sod to remove and get clean again! You're right, it is completely random in its effect, but that's quite charming in a way, when used sparingly.
Is cool mate, I know you were just playing..
I want to do something like this:
https://yandex.ru/collections/card/596888ce8cb1f77cf3787108/
but I cannot work out, when pointing the camera at a loch, how to sufficiently fade out the far side of the loch to get this effect...
I suspect it is because these are beach shots not lake shots I am trying to learn...
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oh I do like this one...
To me, that looks like post-production, not in-camera. And maybe some mist...Is cool mate, I know you were just playing..
I want to do something like this:
https://yandex.ru/collections/card/596888ce8cb1f77cf3787108/
but I cannot work out, when pointing the camera at a loch, how to sufficiently fade out the far side of the loch to get this effect...
I suspect it is because these are beach shots not lake shots I am trying to learn...
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oh I do like this one...
In this one, the tree, the birds and the pole in the distance, heck, even the mountains to a certain extent, are all in focus, but the water through the section of the trees to the pole isn't! No lens can do that!
I was thinking that you could play with finding a lens that's notoriously soft in the corners when the aperture is wide open... Could be interesting to explore.
Another way would be to play with having something in focus in one frame and then deliberately getting the foreground and then the background out of focus in respective frames, then merging them in PP. That would be captured in-camera!
Actually, @kenoh now that I've gone back with a serious eye to that image with the birds in the tree, there's lots of irregularities to it in the reflections of the tree that look like someone actually painted them in!
There's a whole shebang of uprights in the top section of the tree reflections that don't match the trees in the image...
In other parts of the water, there's definition to the waves and in other parts, there's the appearance of a milky long-exposure...
Me definitely suspects compositing at work there and not in-camera captures.
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There's a whole shebang of uprights in the top section of the tree reflections that don't match the trees in the image...
In other parts of the water, there's definition to the waves and in other parts, there's the appearance of a milky long-exposure...
Me definitely suspects compositing at work there and not in-camera captures.
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May not be in-camera workmanship there!
I need to up my in camera and PP skills then!Actually, @kenoh now that I've gone back with a serious eye to that image with the birds in the tree, there's lots of irregularities to it in the reflections of the tree that look like someone actually painted them in!
There's a whole shebang of uprights in the top section of the tree reflections that don't match the trees in the image...
In other parts of the water, there's definition to the waves and in other parts, there's the appearance of a milky long-exposure...
Me definitely suspects compositing at work there and not in-camera captures.
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May not be in-camera workmanship there!