Picture of the Day (November 2007)

[pcuser2]

A bubble in the backyard, taken with a EOS rebel XT.

Hey I like this picture ,you should got a fast camera to get the photo , just before the bubble broken .

 

[valdore]

That's not a photo, that's a freaking painting! What did you do to make it so beautiful?

(edit: I see where you say you did the HDR, but is that all you did?)



Also, Mattwe - that restaurant table is one of my favorites!

Thanks... Yes, it was almost entirely HDR in the Photomatix editor. After that though I do usually perform minor adjustments in Photoshop such as curve tweaking and whatnot.

In other news, I love taking pictures of moving buses...

 

[freebooter]

One Morning

One Morning
Near Chiang Mai, Thailand
Nikon D40x
Nikkor-H 28mm f3.5
20s@f5.6
Hoya 72R IR filter
November 12, 2007.​

 

[scotthayes]

perfect autumn sky

90mm 1/400 f/6.3.

And on the full size version you can read the identification number on the wing.

 

[srf4real]

Wow dude all i have to say is that all of these photos that you are posting are amazing

Thanks! It helps to have these pro surfers never miss a chance to lay out some spray...

Another one from Cocoa Beach, at the contest Saturday. I was using a monopod and sitting in the sand up the beach a ways- Baron Knowlton cutback here.

L1+zd70-300mm
1/1600 sec, f/5, ISO 400
226mm (552mm equiv)
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[gphoto]

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One Morning
Near Chiang Mai, Thailand
Nikon D40x
Nikkor-H 28mm f3.5
20s@f5.6
Hoya 72R IR filter
November 12, 2007.

This is an incredible pic! The water is eerily still and dark.

 

[andy5000]

ok i took these a while back but here is one of my favorites. Taken with a friends Fuji S5 Pro.
considering i have hardly any knowledge of dslr's and especially this one, my friend had only picked it up that week.
There are a few more on my .mac page

Comments appreciated, just dont be to harsh please
i am getting a Canon 400d for christmas, its no s5 Pro but its a start.

 

[pdxflint]

Early morning misty light, Willamette Valley, OR

Model: NIKON D50
ISO: 200
Exposure: 1/200 sec
Aperture: f/7.1
Focal Length: 18mm w/ 18-55 kit lens

 

[hankolerd]

No Filters. No Photoshop. Yes, Photography.

Sorry for the small pic, its a huge picture, but for some reason I got an error everytime I tried to upload it on here....so I had to send it to freaking myspace...

 

[Clix Pix]

Conowingo Dam (near Baltimore, MD)
November 4, 2007
D2Xs
300mm Nikkor with 1.7x TC
ISO 200
1/750 sec @ f/5

 

[gamerz]

Heres another one of mine, taken with a Sony Cybershot

 

[Silverbird0000]

HDR image made from 4 images in photomatix. Downtown Fort Myers, FL. I'm just getting into HDR, so any comments would be appreciated!

Camera: Nikon D40
Shutter: between 10s and 1.3s
Aperture: f/11
Lens: 18-55mm kit
Focal Length: 19mm

 

[Steamie]

Chaaaaarge !!!

Camera: Nikon D200
Exposure: 0.002 sec (1/500)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 120 mm
ISO Speed: 400

This is my first post in a while (panicked when I couldn't find the original thread). My K10d has been away getting repaired for the last 5 weeks (Pentax uk service dept suck) so Calumet gave me a loan of a D200 for the week. Anyway, i was on my way up to take some shots at Ardnamurchan which is the most westerly point of the British mainland, but going through Glencoe I came across a crew filming a tv commercial.

Great pictures here as per the norm, Honourable mentions though go to Freebooter(the ir stuff is awesome),Clix Pix(fantastic wildlife shots),silverbird000, Pdxflint, srf4real, m@ttlew, ibookg4user(the meercat pic)

 

[EssentialParado]

Is there an equivalent - but free - alternative to photomatix?

 

[pdxflint]

HDR image made from 4 images in photomatix. Downtown Fort Myers, FL. I'm just getting into HDR, so any comments would be appreciated!

It looks really nice - good job. The only thing that looks funny is the traffic lights, which show both green and red in each one... I realize it's because the exposures were at different times. It's actually kinda cool this way, though.

Chaaaaarge !!!Camera: Nikon D200
Exposure: 0.002 sec (1/500)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 120 mm
ISO Speed: 400

This is my first post in a while (panicked when I couldn't find the original thread). My K10d has been away getting repaired for the last 5 weeks (Pentax uk service dept suck) so Calumet gave me a loan of a D200 for the week. Anyway, i was on my way up to take some shots at Ardnamurchan which is the most westerly point of the British mainland, but going through Glencoe I came across a crew filming a tv commercial.

Great pictures here as per the norm, Honourable mentions though go to Freebooter(the ir stuff is awesome),Clix Pix(fantastic wildlife shots),silverbird000, Pdxflint, srf4real, m@ttlew, ibookg4user(the meercat pic)

Thanks for the honorable mention comment. Great shot of the knight in shining armor...looks like he's emerging from a battle.

One Morning
Near Chiang Mai, Thailand

Your new genre is quite striking. I prefer it to the macro bugs, but you seem to master whichever style you experiment with. Are you doing this IR stuff with just a filter, or have you had the camera modified?

 

[pdxflint]

Day's end, Siletz Bay, Taft, OR

Schooner Creek empties into Siletz Bay at low tide.

Model: NIKON D50
Exposure: 1/125 sec
Aperture: f/9.0
Focal Length: 55mm w/ 18-55 kit lens

 

[miranda.danny]

Skylight

I took this photo while waiting in the Providence train station to meet my girlfriend as she arrived from Boston. It was pitch black out and the skylight on the domed ceiling above looked quite interesting.

Camera: Canon EOS XTi
Lens: Canon 50mm f1.8 II
ISO: 400
Exposure: 1/80 @ f/1.8

 

[Clix Pix]

Getting a Mouthful....

Conowingo Dam (outside Baltimore, MD)
November 4, 2007
Nikon D2Xs
Nikkor 300mm with 1.7x Teleconverter
ISO 200
f/5 @ 1/640 sec

Steamie, thanks for the compliment about my images!

 

[shieldyoureyes]

Stabby

Uppsala, Sweden

Nikon D80, Nikkor 35mm f/2

 

[macgfxdesigner]

Tokyo JR Train

I held the camera on the floor of the train and pointed it down and never looked in the viewfinder and well this what came out

Camera: Canon EOS 40D
Exposure: 0.05 sec (1/20)
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 200 mm
ISO Speed: 320
Exposure Bias: 1 EV

 

[shieldyoureyes]

I held the camera on the floor of the train and pointed it down and never looked in the viewfinder and well this what came out

Camera: Canon EOS 40D
Exposure: 0.05 sec (1/20)
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 200 mm
ISO Speed: 320
Exposure Bias: 1 EV

Oh, I dig it. Just wish it had been more centered, but hey, what can you do?

 

[gamerz]

Another one of mine. Taken when I was backpacking through Strathcona Provincial Park a few weeks ago.

 

[EssentialParado]

[IMG ]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2313/1500389117_457b7dd8dc_b.jpg[/IMG]

I held the camera on the floor of the train and pointed it down and never looked in the viewfinder and well this what came out

Camera: Canon EOS 40D
Exposure: 0.05 sec (1/20)
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 200 mm
ISO Speed: 320
Exposure Bias: 1 EV

Oh that is superb! This'll probably come out sounding sarcastic, but taking photos of people's feet is really interesting!

 

[Silverbird0000]

Chaaaaarge !!!

Camera: Nikon D200
Exposure: 0.002 sec (1/500)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 120 mm
ISO Speed: 400​

This is my first post in a while (panicked when I couldn't find the original thread). My K10d has been away getting repaired for the last 5 weeks (Pentax uk service dept suck) so Calumet gave me a loan of a D200 for the week. Anyway, i was on my way up to take some shots at Ardnamurchan which is the most westerly point of the British mainland, but going through Glencoe I came across a crew filming a tv commercial.

Great pictures here as per the norm, Honourable mentions though go to Freebooter(the ir stuff is awesome),Clix Pix(fantastic wildlife shots),silverbird000, Pdxflint, srf4real, m@ttlew, ibookg4user(the meercat pic)

Thanks for the honorable mention! I really like the knight shot, it really looks like it was taken in the time of knights!

I held the camera on the floor of the train and pointed it down and never looked in the viewfinder and well this what came out

Camera: Canon EOS 40D
Exposure: 0.05 sec (1/20)
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 200 mm
ISO Speed: 320
Exposure Bias: 1 EV

I really love this! Was the train moving at the time?

It looks really nice - good job. The only thing that looks funny is the traffic lights, which show both green and red in each one... I realize it's because the exposures were at different times. It's actually kinda cool this way, though.



Thanks for the honorable mention comment. Great shot of the knight in shining armor...looks like he's emerging from a battle.


Your new genre is quite striking. I prefer it to the macro bugs, but you seem to master whichever style you experiment with. Are you doing this IR stuff with just a filter, or have you had the camera modified?

Thanks! I was gonna fix the traffic lights in photoshop, but I kinda liked the way they looked too!

Thanks... Yes, it was almost entirely HDR in the Photomatix editor. After that though I do usually perform minor adjustments in Photoshop such as curve tweaking and whatnot.

In other news, I love taking pictures of moving buses...

The bus looks like it is going to come out of my screen, it's so cool! What were your flash settings?

 

[valdore]

The bus looks like it is going to come out of my screen, it's so cool! What were your flash settings?

Thanks! No flash, but it was tripod mounted with my shutter trigger, as the sun was just coming up... something around 2 sec exposure in using shutter priority.