Photo of the Day October 2011

[Phrasikleia]

The color version of yesterday's photo...

 

[Designer Dale]

Ninja crab! Very cool. I love crabs. I haven't seen any decent crabs in a very long time. Good picture.

Thanks for the comment. This weekend of Whidbey Island produced a ton to good photo material.

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Here's a view of the north side. I don't usually work in B&W, but this one seemed to call out for it...

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Nice choice. All of these European Alps photos of yours have a wonderful feel of light to them.

EDIT: I like the B&W treatment much better than the color one you just posted.

One last bee picture before I find something else to post for a while:


Feet by Tracheotomy Bob, on Flickr

I like the framing and focus on this one the best of your bee pics. Good plane of focus, too.

Dale

 

[Doylem]

Colour for me; it's a colourful world out there...

 

[fireman32]

Here is my entry for the Worldwide Photowalk
Express yourself_HDR 2 by dspector32, on Flickr

 

[mtbdudex]

My homage to Steve Jobs. I took this self-portrait in Fall 1984 with my 1st computer, Apple Mac 128k, the original! RIP Steve, I've NEVER owned a WinTel computer.

 

[LumbermanSVO]

Early morning coffee on the deck.

 

[BarryJ]

Thanks

My homage to Steve Jobs. I took this self-portrait in Fall 1984 with my 1st computer, Apple Mac 128k, the original! RIP Steve.

Love that the lamp to the left of the Mac looks like that dancing squeaking Pixar lamp. Thanks for posting this. Condolences to the Jobs family and many thanks to Steve.

Mine for today. From the Awausee Trail, Lake Superior:

 

[appie57]

Anyone cares for a snack? Some are still alive. Directly fried in hot oil as a snack. Night market, Beijing. Not visible: a dense pushing crowd in a much too narrow alley behind me. Had to act quickly.

D7000+Nikkor 50mm 1.4G|ISO 1600|f/2.8|1/500|

 

[Tracheotomy Bob]

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I really Schtumple's picture. I like the really quite like the grainy look and the way it's lit too. This one really works for me.

I like the framing and focus on this one the best of your bee pics. Good plane of focus, too.

Dale

Thanks. They're awfully difficult to capture because*they just won't hold still. What I found interesting was the fact that these were all taken with a 50mm lens and I found the detail really amazing –*the ones that weren't too blurry anyway.

tb

 

[TheReef]

Yeah, I agree. Here's another variation that has a tad more light and longer exposure to make the water more ethereal, although still somewhat monotone... (that's it from this shoot - but I'm going to try more of this).

Sometimes you can take out your dodging brush, this works best with whitewash which is already, well, white

The color version of yesterday's photo...

Both are fantastic, my vote's for the colour version too.

 

[surfinghappy]

Anyone cares for a snack? Some are still alive. Directly fried in hot oil as a snack. Night market, Beijing. Not visible: a dense pushing crowd in a much too narrow alley behind me. Had to act quickly.
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D7000+Nikkor 50mm 1.4G|ISO 1600|f/2.8|1/500|

That is what i have seen but never dare to taste! cool!

 

[PWNkake]

Love that the lamp to the left of the Mac looks like that dancing squeaking Pixar lamp. Thanks for posting this. Condolences to the Jobs family and many thanks to Steve.

Mine for today. From the Awausee Trail, Lake Superior:

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I love this. Great job!

 

[mikeschmeee]

 

[Doylem]

This really would make a great poster. Have you investigated this angle?? The clouds really hold the pic together...

 

[Phrasikleia]

Thanks to everybody who chimed in on my B&W versus color comparison. I really appreciate the input!

This really would make a great poster. Have you investigated this angle?? The clouds really hold the pic together...

Thanks, Doylem. I'm not sure what question you're asking me: the 'angle' of selling posters or the angle from which I took the shot?

No, I haven't considered selling posters directly myself (though maybe Alamy or 500px will make it happen for me...who knows...?).

Yes, I did research that angle using TPE and Google Earth before I left for Italy, but I was surprised to find that the massif caught a lot more light on its north side than I had expected. The 'classic' shot of it can be taken only around the summer solstice, when the flat faces on the north side catch light at sunrise and sunset; but that's when everyone tries to photograph it, so I wanted to try something else.

I'm completely in love with the Dolomites now and am hoping I can scrape together enough scratch to afford a trip during the peak of Fall color this year. Everyone please keep your fingers crossed for me! Thank you!

 

[Designer Dale]

My homage to Steve Jobs. I took this self-portrait in Fall 1984 with my 1st computer, Apple Mac 128k, the original! RIP Steve, I've NEVER owned a WinTel computer.

Neither have I. Didn't you just Love those boxes of floppy disks? OS 7.5 shipped on 40 of them... rip removable disks.

Dale

 

[Keleko]

Another random person street shot from the photo walk. This is one of the few I thought looked better as a b&w.

 

[hansolo669]

heres my contribution for today
a sligtly older one from a recent (within the monthish) trip to ireland
i can assure you that all the colors are 100% real (or as real as the camera makes them )
almost no post

DSC_0278.jpg by hansolo669, on Winr

 

[fcortese]

Thanks to everybody who chimed in on my B&W versus color comparison. I really appreciate the input!



Thanks, Doylem. I'm not sure what question you're asking me: the 'angle' of selling posters or the angle from which I took the shot?

No, I haven't considered selling posters directly myself (though maybe Alamy or 500px will make it happen for me...who knows...?).

Yes, I did research that angle using TPE and Google Earth before I left for Italy, but I was surprised to find that the massif caught a lot more light on its north side than I had expected. The 'classic' shot of it can be taken only around the summer solstice, when the flat faces on the north side catch light at sunrise and sunset; but that's when everyone tries to photograph it, so I wanted to try something else.

I'm completely in love with the Dolomites now and am hoping I can scrape together enough scratch to afford a trip during the peak of Fall color this year. Everyone please keep your fingers crossed for me! Thank you!

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Buona Fortuna. In bocca al lupo! ( Literally, in the mouth of the of a wolf; it's Italian slang of "break a leg" or good luck. More colorful that bona fortuna)

 

[tjsdaname]

from the flood of 2008 here in iowa. the water crested at over 31 feet, major flood stage begins at 12 feet.


Iowa floods of 08 by tjsdaname, on Flickr

 

[Blakeco123]

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[TheDrift-]

Another random person street shot from the photo walk. This is one of the few I thought looked better as a b&w.

Image

cool shot..

 

[Doylem]

Thanks, Doylem. I'm not sure what question you're asking me: the 'angle' of selling posters or the angle from which I took the shot?

No, I haven't considered selling posters directly myself (though maybe Alamy or 500px will make it happen for me...who knows...?).

It was posters I meant. Some pix are fine to look at for a while, and others you want to see on your wall every day. I'm not sure quite what the difference is; I just know it when I see it. Your most recent mountain shot, for example, would make a great poster, IMO.

I have a friend who keeps talking about marketing some of my pix as decor (he's an interior designer, and particularly likes canvas prints), but nothing has come of it... yet. In the meantime I've signed up to a website that offers print-on-demand for all kinds of art/photography... with the artist/photographer getting royalties on sales. Take a look: Artist Rising

I'm uploading 50 of my 'look nice on a wall' kind of pix, and see if I get any sales. I'm trying to put my own tastes to one side, when choosing, to pick the most saleable pix (so not necessarily the ones I like best).

Maybe MR folk can help me. I've got a few shots which might work with the orton effect, and wonder which seems more saleable.

This is the original version (actually HDR, to 'beef up' the contre-jour effect)...

...and this is the ortonised version...

 

[TheDrift-]

It was posters I meant. Some pix are fine to look at for a while, and others you want to see on your wall every day. I'm not sure quite what the difference is; I just know it when I see it. Your most recent mountain shot, for example, would make a great poster, IMO.

I have a friend who keeps talking about marketing some of my pix as decor (he's an interior designer, and particularly likes canvas prints), but nothing has come of it... yet. In the meantime I've signed up to a website that offers print-on-demand for all kinds of art/photography... with the artist/photographer getting royalties on sales. Take a look: Artist Rising

I'm uploading 50 of my 'look nice on a wall' kind of pix, and see if I get any sales. I'm trying to put my own tastes to one side, when choosing, to pick the most saleable pix (so not necessarily the ones I like best).

Maybe MR folk can help me. I've got a few shots which might work with the orton effect, and wonder which seems more saleable.

This is the original version (actually HDR, to 'beef up' the contre-jour effect)...

...and this is the ortonised version...

i always quite like the illustrated look of the orton effect, but maybe that just me...seen a cool variation of this using reduce noise rather than a blur...worth checking out

 

[stradale33]

Temple of Hercules, Amman, Jordan

from this morning...