Picture of the day...

[freebooter]

Green Lion Gate, with Garden

May 19, 2007
Daegu, South Korea
Nikon D40
Nikkor 70-300mm
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Those would be kimchi pots and a well in the background, along with onions or garlic.

 

[xcalibre]

Rainy Day...

Nikon D40x
f/5.6
1/250s
ISO 200
Cropped

 

[baby duck monge]

Memphis, TN
Olympus E-500
Taken: 5/19/2007
Shutter Speed: 1/200
Aperture: f/14
Focal Length: 14mm
Flash: Off
ISO: 100 ​

 

[BigMäc]

very nice: a real beauty, elegant treatment

Thank you!

 

[oblomow]

My try at the orton effect. Veldhoven parrot shelter. This weekend.

Canon 350D, 1/750s f/1.8 ISO200 85mm ( yes, I could have used ISO100)

 

[IscariotJ]

May 19, 2007
Daegu, South Korea
Nikon D40
Nikkor 70-300mm
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Those would be kimchi pots and a well in the background, along with onions or garlic.

The colours, and textures are superb. Are you *sure* you don't do this for a living?

 

[Thistle]

Had an Itch

Mockingbird in mid-scratch.
Nikon D40
55-200 lens
Focal length 200
Exposure 0.002
Cropped

 

[Martin C]

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[VictorM]

stone tower

"stone tower"
Toronto, Canada
May 20, 2007
Nikon D70s, Nikkor 105mm/f2.8
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[terriyaki]

I figured I'd try to desaturate this since there weren't any interesting colors in the original shot and the main focus was the shadows and different textures of the wall. But which one do you guys think is better? Thoughts?

 

[freebooter]

Ajumas

May 19, 2007.
Daegu, South Korea.
Nikon D40
Nikkor 70-300mm VR​

A couple of older, Korean women (ajumas) yack away on a Saturday afternoon.

 

[IscariotJ]

Cascading

Very nice!

 

[IscariotJ]

Fern Garden.

Taken 19/52007 at Brodsworth Hall, UK
D80 + 18-135 @ 18mm
HDR - 1/80, 1/320, 1/1250 @ f/8

 

[Martin C]

Very nice!

Thanks Iscariot!

That's a sweet picture, so much green. Nice HDR.

 

[xfiftyfour]

I figured I'd try to desaturate this since there weren't any interesting colors in the original shot and the main focus was the shadows and different textures of the wall. But which one do you guys think is better? Thoughts?

Personally, I prefer the color version. Although there isn't any "interesting" colors, I think the yellow = sun = reiterates/emphasizes the casted shadows.

The BW version is kind of boring to me.

 

[bowens]

Thanks! I've "Orton-ised" it, something I found online. It's fairly easy to do with Photoshop ( and Elements ):

1. With an open image, select Image>Apply Image… change the bending mode to “Screen” and the Opacity to 100%. This will give you an appropriately overexposed image.

2. Duplicate this overexposed image (Image>Duplicate).

3. Blur this second image (Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur… and in the dialog box use a Radius setting of 20-30 pixles.

4. Now drag and drop the blurry image onto the sharp one.

5. In the layers palette will be a menu box of blending modes. Change the blending mode from “normal” to “multiply”.

6. Then select Image>Flatten Image.

Voila!

Thanks, I just gave it a quick try. I don't have all my photos here so it's not a real good one. This is some property that my friend owns. How did I do?

 

[bowens]

sorry, double post. Is there any way to delete this?

 

[epicwelshman]

D40x
1/160
f3.5
18-55mm @18mm

 

[D34th]

^^ is that a street hockey rink? If so, I envy the fact you have such a nice one (at least it looks nice). The closest one to me is not so pretty (there aren't many around here). Anyways, thats a cool perspective. I love the lighting also, seems to be taken at the perfect time of day for that shot...

 

[xcalibre]

Marina Alimou, Athens, Greece

I learned about the orton effect here, so i thought i'd post one of my experiments!

Taken with a Nikon D40x. "Ortonized" in Photoshop CS3.

 

[Jebaloo]

Terroyako, I'd definitely go for the colour version, he colours are beautiful don't you think? If you're gonna go b&w, maybe up the contrast.

Here's my photo of the day, I took it on the weekend.

 

[Martin C]

"stone tower"
Toronto, Canada
May 20, 2007
Nikon D70s, Nikkor 105mm/f2.8
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Cool shot, did you make that stone tower?

I spy the CN Tower on the right in the background.

Memphis, TN
Olympus E-500
Taken: 5/19/2007
Shutter Speed: 1/200
Aperture: f/14
Focal Length: 14mm
Flash: Off
ISO: 100 [/CENTER]

Nice shot, I love photographs of grafitti.

May 19, 2007.
Daegu, South Korea.
Nikon D40
Nikkor 70-300mm VR

Nice composition and textures freebooter.

Here's my photo of the day, I took it on the weekend.

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There's a lot of emotion in this shot and I love the contrast and dark shadows on his face.

Taken with a Nikon D40x. "Ortonized" in Photoshop CS3.

Nice reflections and depth; this photo takes me all the way down the marina. My only suggestion would be to crop out the folks on the far right.

I figured I'd try to desaturate this since there weren't any interesting colors in the original shot and the main focus was the shadows and different textures of the wall. But which one do you guys think is better? Thoughts?

I prefer black and white version, but like Jebaloo mentioned, increase the contrast so that the shadows are more defined.

 

[epicwelshman]

^^ is that a street hockey rink? If so, I envy the fact you have such a nice one (at least it looks nice). The closest one to me is not so pretty (there aren't many around here). Anyways, thats a cool perspective. I love the lighting also, seems to be taken at the perfect time of day for that shot...

Honestly, I don't know... I don't remember. I think it's a basketball court, though I may be wrong. It's in a school yard near my fiance's aunt's house. The light was perfect actually, I lucked out

 

[xcalibre]

Nice reflections and depth; this photo takes me all the way down the marina. My only suggestion would be to crop out the folks on the far right.

Thanks for the advice, i'd tend to agree - it kind of distracts a bit...

 

[VictorM]

Cool shot, did you make that stone tower?

I spy the CN Tower on the right in the background.

Thanks Martin, you're right that is the CN tower. Somebody else built the stone tower, I just found it. There are piles of brick and stone in the area, and people are always building interesting objects out of them.