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[freebooter]

Red Hot! Get Yer Red Hot!

The national spice of Korea: red pepper. It comes in a variety of grain sizes.

Seoul, South Korea
July 8, 2006
Sony DSC R1
iso 400
24 mm (ff equiv.)

 

[Cocobolo]

Wooden Chest

Kodak DCS ProSLR/c
Canon 50mm EF f2.5
4-8 sec @ f22
ISO 160
12 exposures, rendered as HDR image

Freebooter, you inspired me to try this out. About 5 hours of tinkering, and this is my first HDR image! Ye HAAAW! It turned out really weird, but I'm giving myself an B+ for effort (never was an "A" student).

This chest is hard carved from one piece of Mozambique (wood specie, not country)- It's about 2' tall. I just bought it for $100 bucks! I work with wood (specifically veneer) for a living so I'm a huge sucker for stuff like this.

 

[TheAnswer]

Underneath a railway bridge in Toronto:

Nikon D70s
Nikkor 12-24mm DX f4 @ 19mm
1/10 sec @ f11
ISO 1600

I like it, but I fear a couple of those may to too racy for a general audience.

 

[gauchogolfer]

<snip cool HDR trunk image>

I like the detail in this carving very much. Nice image.

For today, I have a picture from the Tour Eiffel last weekend. The view is from the tower north towards the Grand Palais and Pont Alexandre III.
Panasonic Lumix FX-01

 

[-hh]

For today, I have a picture from the Tour Eiffel last weekend.

Gee, what's that big shadow from in the picture?


Here's another texture shot: "In Need of Skin Creme"

-hh

 

[ksz]

Gee, what's that big shadow from in the picture?

Hey, that was my line.

That shadow totally makes the picture for me. What a great idea!

 

[VictorM]

I like it, but I fear a couple of those may to too racy for a general audience.

Yikes, you're right. I was so fascinated by the colours, that I didn't really clue-in on the subject

Sorry if I offended anyone.

 

[ksz]

18-Sept-06. Taipei Skyview.

Nikon D200 w/18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 VR
Focal Length: 36mm DX (54mm FF)
1/400s @ f/10
ISO 400

 

[freebooter]

Kodak DCS ProSLR/c
Canon 50mm EF f2.5
4-8 sec @ f22
ISO 160
12 exposures, rendered as HDR image

Freebooter, you inspired me to try this out. About 5 hours of tinkering, and this is my first HDR image! Ye HAAAW! It turned out really weird, but I'm giving myself an B+ for effort (never was an "A" student).

This chest is hard carved from one piece of Mozambique (wood specie, not country)- It's about 2' tall. I just bought it for $100 bucks! I work with wood (specifically veneer) for a living so I'm a huge sucker for stuff like this.

Nice one. It doesn't look weird to me, just well lit.

$100 is a huge bargain.

I took up carving as a hobby, and found it the most rewarding but challenging creative work. However, I haven't done any since I moved to Korea (left my tools at home). Maybe I'll be inspired to do some with the local wood. I may just look for a Dremel this weekend...

 

[cantthinkofone]

Whoa thats cool...I know jack about cars, but is that flames shooting out of the side there? Whats up with that?

A normal car no, it's not normal. but when you have 600+ horsepower and dual straight pipes coming from the engine, you might get a little back fire if you down shift real fast, or blip the throttle when downshifting. i see F1 cars do it all the time when they go into a turn, and downshift. they downshift so fast it amazes me they dont shoot 10 foot flames out the back, its usally about as large of a flame as that one is. I also remember a artical i read about a guy over in japan with a twin-turbo lambo diablo SV. He said he has about 1000+ horse coming out of it and it's fun to mess with the throttle at stop lights. Shoots blue flames out the pipes that go up at about a 45 degree angle . i love it.

 

[BigMäc]

Nice composition with the row of street lights, they really came out nice.

Thank you! It took a few shots to get one where no passing car messed the lights up.

 

[achie25]

Wow what a long thread. I enjoy looking at everyone's pictures. Very relaxing. Makes me jealous of everybody's photo skills.

 

[xper]

Flower, Blossomed late this summer - Sweden, Halmstad, 09/22/06 (mm,dd,yy)

Camera: Canon EOS 350D (Rebel XT)
ISO: 200
Focal Length: 55mm
Shutter/Aperture: 1/320 @ F/5.6
Lens: EF-S 18-55
​

Could not deside witch picture to choose.
http://jespera.apakossa.org/img_8501.jpg

 

[freebooter]

Flower, Blossomed late this summer - Sweden, Halmstad, 09/22/06 (mm,dd,yy)

Camera: Canon EOS 350D (Rebel XT)
ISO: 200
Focal Length: 55mm
Shutter/Aperture: 1/320 @ F/5.6
Lens: EF-S 18-55
​

Could not deside witch picture to choose.
http://jespera.apakossa.org/img_8501.jpg

I like the color and texture of this flower. The background is interesting, too.

 

[freebooter]

Weathered Temple Wall

Daegu, South Korea
September 17, 2006
Pentax Optio W10
f/3.3@1/5
6 mm
iso 64

An abandoned Buddhist temple in the forest I frequent is slowly wearing away.

 

[VictorM]

first flower

i was inspired by that lovely flower a few posts back by xper. I've not tried taking pictures of flowers before, so I went to the local cemetery and gave it a try

I found it can be really challenging getting them in focus with a nice background (especially if there's a slight wind and you're lazy like me and don't want to carry around a tripod).

Nikon D70s
Nikkor 85mm f1.4
1/80 sec @ f1.4
ISO 200

 

[VictorM]

Flower, Blossomed late this summer - Sweden, Halmstad, 09/22/06 (mm,dd,yy)

Could not deside witch picture to choose.
http://jespera.apakossa.org/img_8501.jpg​

I think you made a good choice. The one you posted has a much nicer composition (with the flower head off in the corner like that).​

 

[BigMäc]

Half a mirror, Rottweil, D - 9/22/2006

Camera: Canon EOS 30D
ISO: 100
Shutter/Aperture: 1.3s @ f4
Lens: EF 50 mm f1.8 II​

 

[dsharits]

Taken 9-22-06 at John Chestnut Park in Palm Harbor, Florida.
Canon PowerShot A610

 

[Clix Pix]

Mmmm....delicious!

Falls Church, VA
September 17, 2006
D200
70-180mm macro
f/5.6
640 ISO
Focal Length: 180mm

 

[Abstract]

Taken at Darling Harbour on Sept 22, 2006.

The photo was taken using my Tokina 12-24 mm at 12 mm focal length, f/11. My camera sensor sensitivity was set to ISO 400 for 10 seconds.

I find that I had used my Tokina 12-24 mm very rarely since I bought it, but I have used this lens during my favourite two shoots of the past 4 weeks, so the lens does pay off sometimes.

 

[VictorM]

Falls Church, VA
September 17, 2006
D200
70-180mm macro
f/5.6
640 ISO
Focal Length: 180mm

What? no IR bug? or maybe that would be too creepy

 

[Clix Pix]

What? no IR bug? or maybe that would be too creepy

LOL! This shot was taken before I'd gotten the IR camera back..... In fact, yes, I DO have some images I shot with the IR camera that have some bugs in them, too, but I haven't processed those yet. I imagine the insects will look rather ghostly!

 

[Clix Pix]

Falls Church, VA
08/24/06
Nikon D200
Lens: Lester A. Dine 105mm f/2.8 Macro
100 ISO
Focal Length: 105mm
Non-CPU lens, so data not recorded. Probably f/5.6 @ 1/125 sec


The Lester A. Dine lens is a line of Nikon/Kiron lenses made especially for the medical field: dentists and physicians valued them for their sharpness in doing clinical images. Mine is circa 1980's or early 1990's.

 

[DJMastaWes]

Name - Perfect Day
Date - August 21st 2006
Camera - Fuji Finepix S5000
ISO - 200
Aperture - F8.0
Shutter Speed - 1/800

This is another building that is directly in front of my house. It blocks a lot of the sun pointing towards my house, so it keeps us cool in the summer. Nelson and Cote-St-Cathrine.