Picture of the day...

[Rickay726]

camera-digital rebel Xt
Lens- Efs 18-55
Picture was taken in a park near my house

 

[freebooter]

Evergreen and Not Evergreen

Mt. Yongji, South Korea
October 9, 2006
Canon A640
1/60@f4.1
4X tele
iso 80

This was taken just after the "Lichen Rock" picture I posted a couple of days ago.

 

[BudhaNl]

Snapped this earlier this year. It is a pic of my friends son in Himeji. This is my first post on MR, so please any
feedback is welcome.

5/15/2006
Casio EX-Z4
F-Stop f/3.9
Focal length 12.2mm
Natural Light

Hi,

Strange that noone has commented, or perhaps everybody just loves it !

I love the pic as well, the face against a dark background is great. And, him looking away really nails it for me. I would have liked to see his whole head, though, so tilting the camera might have been an option as well.

Disclaimer: I am the amateur in 'amateur photography'

 

[BudhaNl]

Mt. Yongji, South Korea
October 9, 2006
Canon A640
1/60@f4.1
4X tele
iso 80

This was taken just after the "Lichen Rock" picture I posted a couple of days ago.

Great (as always!), nice vibrant colours! Did you work on it afterwards?

I might have done with a little less DOF, so the great background coloured leaves would have been less visible. Now they distract a little from the needles in the front.

Disclaimer: I'm the amateur in 'amateur photography' (need to put this in my sig )

 

[BudhaNl]

Tommy Thompson Park, Toronto, Canada.
October 14, 2006

NIKON D70s
Nikkor 12-24mm f4 DX @ 12mm
1/250 sec @ f11 @ ISO 200
​

There was sporadic rain and hail falling in the distance (over downtown Toronto), and about 2 minutes after taking this photo, it hit my location. I ran for cover and eventually hid inside a port-o-potty until it passed

Wow. Great great picture.

 

[greenmac]

Awww He is adorable! I hear they are not as pleasant as you'd expect in real life... can I have him for my desktop?

sure

 

[BigMäc]

Honberg, Tuttlingen, D - 9/30/2006

Camera: Canon EOS 30D
ISO: 100
Shutter/Aperture: 1/125 @ f10
Lens: EF 50 mm f1.8 II

Edit: removed distracting parapet

 

[freebooter]

Great (as always!), nice vibrant colours! Did you work on it afterwards?

I might have done with a little less DOF, so the great background coloured leaves would have been less visible. Now they distract a little from the needles in the front.

Disclaimer: I'm the amateur in 'amateur photography' (need to put this in my sig )

Thanks. Yes, I increased contrast and decreased exposure. I had to decrease saturation too, but when I resized it for uploading it got washed out, so I had to bump up the saturation again.

As far as DOF goes. You may have a point; more blur might be good there, or just darker. I think I was at max. aperture, though, and these p&s cameras have notoriously high DOF. As it is I'm happy enough with it. I was kind of contrasting the two kinds of trees, coniferous and deciduous. I'm generally surprised by what turns out well, since those built-in screens are so small.

VictorM: nice storm shot--I love raging weather.

 

[freebooter]

Camera: Canon EOS 30D
ISO: 100
Shutter/Aperture: 1/125 @ f10
Lens: EF 50 mm f1.8 II

Good one. Very nice composition. I like the castle shots. I've never seen one in person, so they are kind of fictional in my mind. It's hard for me to fully grasp that real, living people actually built those things and used them for practical purposes.

Anyhow, if I can make a photographic suggestion, it might be to clone out the metal railing around the parapet. (too modern; spoils my fairytale )

 

[Yakamoto]

Hi,

Strange that noone has commented, or perhaps everybody just loves it !

I love the pic as well, the face against a dark background is great. And, him looking away really nails it for me. I would have liked to see his whole head, though, so tilting the camera might have been an option as well.

Disclaimer: I am the amateur in 'amateur photography'

Thanks, Yeah this kid has a really huge head,:, but I like your tip.
I'll try it next time.

 

[Yakamoto]

Tommy Thompson Park, Toronto, Canada.
October 14, 2006

NIKON D70s
Nikkor 12-24mm f4 DX @ 12mm
1/250 sec @ f11 @ ISO 200
​

There was sporadic rain and hail falling in the distance (over downtown Toronto), and about 2 minutes after taking this photo, it hit my location. I ran for cover and eventually hid inside a port-o-potty until it passed

Wow! Excellent shot, I really like the use of B&W in this one too.
But I'm curious to know what the original looked like.

 

[Yakamoto]

Sleepy Rider

Okay, my second pic. This was shot from inside a Taxi in India.
The little girl was fast asleep going down the road.

04/07/2006
Olympus P&S
f-stop f/4.4
iso 100
focal length 15.7

 

[BigMäc]

Good one. Very nice composition. I like the castle shots. I've never seen one in person, so they are kind of fictional in my mind. It's hard for me to fully grasp that real, living people actually built those things and used them for practical purposes.

Anyhow, if I can make a photographic suggestion, it might be to clone out the metal railing around the parapet. (too modern; spoils my fairytale )

Thanks! You are right, the parapet ruins the fairy tale look. Btw. the tower top was built in 1883, long after the original castle was destroyed.

 

[VictorM]

Wow! Excellent shot, I really like the use of B&W in this one too.
But I'm curious to know what the original looked like.

Thanks everyone for your kind words. Here's the (original) colour version:

 

[BudhaNl]

Autumn around the corner

Shot this today, this afternoon, in front of my house.

1/400th at F4.0
28mm
ISO 100
+0.3 EV

Worked quite a bit on it in iPhoto, trying to improve the colours while retaining the autumn light, and increasing the impression of DOF.

Do click on it btw, as the colours will come out much better than the thumbnail below

 

[BudhaNl]

Thanks everyone for your kind words. Here's the (original) colour version:

The B/W is so much better, great choice!

 

[AndyFM84]

Hi,

Boat trip in Gran Canaria (going to see dolphins, see post #2536)

70mm
F/9
1/160
Nikon D50

 

[Yakamoto]

The B/W is so much better, great choice!

Agreeded

 

[Chip NoVaMac]

Some great images while I was away in the Caribbean for a week. Came back with a very few that I will post later (going through emails right now).

The reason for few images, is that I spent my time in the sun, shopping, and just having a great time.

And now, for today's image:

A moving photograph. Thanks for sharing.

I really like the first row. The rest is some nice work;but not sure that it works for me.

Okay... that one worked. Now here's a shot with my point 'n shoot... A95.
View attachment 59535
Canon A95
focal length 7.8mm (35mm equivalent - 40mm)
1/25 sec
f/2.8
ISO 200
Aperature preferred
matrix metering

Well done IMO. Has an industrial look.

reaching for the void

canon d.rebel (300D) -> canon ef50mm/1.8

ISO 200
1/800@f1.8
50mm

almost exactly as-shot. reduced exposure slight, fixed white balance and reduced saturation, very slightly.

There is much that makes me love this shot. A great capture. Details perhaps?

 

[ksz]

Date: Arg?#!?. Niagara Falls. Ontario, Canada.

Minolta X-700
Lens: Either 28mm or 50mm.
Exposure: Unrecorded.
ISO: Probably 100.

Shot on Kodak Ektachrome slide film.

Birdseye view of the American Falls (left) and Horseshoe Falls.

 

[weazle1098]

Floating tree

it wont let me upload it…*growel…

 

[Abstract]

More Cog

 

[kondspi]

Apple Store 5th Avenue.

 

[freebooter]

The B/W is so much better, great choice!

I like the b/w better, too.

kondpsi: Interesting shot. Maybe resize the attachment, though. It's too big to see all at once on a browser (mine at least).

 

[freebooter]

Odd Man Out

Daegu, South Korea
Fuji F30
September 30, 2006.
f/2.8@1/160
-1.0 e.v.
iso 100

A gaggle of giggling girls gather to gawk outside a garage. One man stands alone, waiting to bow.