Picture of the day...

[iGary]

"Owl in Flight"
Yorkshire Dales 10 June 2006

Camera: Canon EOS 20D
ISO: 200
Focal Length: 200mm
Shutter / Aperture: 1/400 @ f9
Lens: Sigma 18-200mm F3.5-6.3 DC

Pretty awesome for 1/400.

 

[Obsidian6]

Here is a shot from my New zealand trip a couple months ago. one of my favorites.

Shot data:
Equipment Make: Canon
Camera Model: Canon EOS 5D
Camera Software: Adobe Photoshop CS2 Macintosh
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L
Exposure Time: 1/200 sec
F-Number: f/16.0
Exposure Program: Aperture Priority
ISO Speed Rating: 400
Lens Aperture: f/16.0
Exposure Bias: -1/3 EV
Metering Mode: Pattern
Flash: No Flash, Compulsory
Focal Length: 24.00 mm

 

[form]

Lightning in Las Vegas, NV - June 7, 2006

Camera: Canon Digital Rebel XT
ISO: 100
Focal Length: 10mm
Shutter/Aperture: 30secs @ f/9
Lens: Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6 EX DC HSM

 

[FleurDuMal]

Here is a shot from my New zealand trip a couple months ago. one of my favorites.

Shot data:
Equipment Make: Canon
Camera Model: Canon EOS 5D
Camera Software: Adobe Photoshop CS2 Macintosh
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L
Exposure Time: 1/200 sec
F-Number: f/16.0
Exposure Program: Aperture Priority
ISO Speed Rating: 400
Lens Aperture: f/16.0
Exposure Bias: -1/3 EV
Metering Mode: Pattern
Flash: No Flash, Compulsory
Focal Length: 24.00 mm

I love those clouds. Seems to create a very tense, spooky (for want of a better word) atmosphere. Reminds me of some Hitchcock films. There should be an old, dilapidated house in the distance or something

 

[Obsidian6]

thanks! yeah i wish there was an old house back there, but unfortuately its just a vineyard.

its kind of funny, when we arrived there, it was very bright and sunny, then just as we were about to leave ( when i shot this ) it became very dark and cloudy, and actually started to rain not 45 seconds after i took the picture!

this and a picture i will post tomorrow, are the two favorite shots i brought back from my trip. out of several, several hundred lol.

 

[raddsigns]

Photo

Lake Superior at Sunset
Herbster, WI 5/15/2006

Camera: Canon EOS 300D
ISO: 100
Focal Length: 34mm
Shutter/Aperture: 1/250 @ f13
Lens: Sigma AF 55-200mm f/4-5.6 DC

 

[tonyeck]

Save tonight.... (06/12/06)

Camera: Canon Digital Rebel XT
ISO: 800
Focal Length: 100mm
Shutter / Aperture: 1/20 @ f2.8
Lens: Canon 100mm Macro F/2.8

Would love some critique please

Thanks

 

[FritzTheWonderM]

Would love some critique please

Sure looks better in PS than on a browser. Try embedding a color profile, see my link in this thread. Move your crop to the right a bit (40-50 px or so) and edit out the earring, (it's too distracting).

 

[Josh]

How the hell did you get so close to it? 50mm? You must have been right ontop of it.

I was litterally inches from it lol.

It was too busy nibbling on flowers to pay any attention to me (it was most likely sick, too ).

Here's another close-up with the 50mm (Same D70 combo):

 

[Katharine]

Cancun, March 2004

 

[Obsidian6]

Here is today's contribution -

Data -
5D
70-200mm f/2.8L
30" @ f/8
ISO100

shot on my new zealand trip

 

[FrankieTDouglas]

"Who is this?" June/2005, somewhere on the road in Arkansas

I have the master away on an external drive, only working with the psd. Don't know how to pull the meta data off of that with this shot. But I took it with a Pentax Optio 30 digicam.

 

[pdpfilms]

"Who is this?" June/2005, somewhere on the road in Arkansas

I have the master away on an external drive, only working with the psd. Don't know how to pull the meta data off of that with this shot. But I took it with a Pentax Optio 30 digicam.

There is something extremely eerie about this shot.. is it an HDR? Those eyes, man... creepin' me out.

 

[wronski]

Almost seems like an HDR, probably just a flash, maybe something to reflect it with?

 

[FrankieTDouglas]

What's an HDR?

No flash was used. Just natural light shining through the windows in the backseat of a car.

 

[pdpfilms]

What's an HDR?

No flash was used. Just natural light shining through the windows in the backseat of a car.

Wow. HDR stands for High Dynamic Range. It's a type of photograph that uses multiple, various-exposure photographs to reveal detail in shadows and light spots that would otherwise be lost in a normal-range photo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging

 

[cookie1105]

@Josh, WOW!! I can see I am going to have to practise some more with my nifty fifty. I prefer it to the racoon.

@FrankieTDouglas, Amazing eyes and freckles. I caught myself just sitting and staring at her face, hypnotic!

Too tired to post anything myself. It's been a long day. Tomorrow definitely.

 

[FrankieTDouglas]

Ah, okay. Similar to bracketing? Or is it bracketing with just a different name?

 

[pdpfilms]

Ah, okay. Similar to bracketing? Or is it bracketing with just a different name?

It uses bracketing, but the final HDR image is the combination of all the exposures into one, rather than choosing the best single shot.

 

[FrankieTDouglas]

Ah, ok.

In the past, I've taken a single photo into photoshop and cut it into three fading images (top, middle, bottom). Use shadow/highlight and the curves tool, I'd make each section a certain range. An easy example of that technique is the image on the left found here.

What cameras do HDR in camera?

 

[wronski]

To make an HDR you would bracket your shots, darker, normal, lighter and then combine the three (sometimes more) in Photoshop or in an HDR program that will do it for you. You get a lot more into your photograph, especially at night. Looks really nice sometimes, though sometimes it can look ugly, you know... like the way things look when you use Shadow/Highlights in Photoshop.

I don't know of any regular camera that will do HDR on the fly. It required a lot of computing power.

 

[tonyeck]

A British Touch - Falls Church - 06/13/06

Camera: Canon Digital Rebel XT
ISO: 200
Focal Length: 50mm
Shutter / Aperture: 1/3200 @ f1.8
Lens: Canon 50mm F/2.8

 

[Tanglewood]

MacCaigs Tower, Oban, Scotland- 08/19/05

Camera: Canon PowerShot S330

 

[iGary]

Remember to put the location in your pics everyone.

 

[Katharine]

Lerwick, Shetland Islands, Scotland, July 2003