Picture of the day...

[cookie1105]

Tak skal du ha' Annk.

Well you did say you liked it when men spoke Danish to you

840Quadra, I think this is a really good panning shot. The car is nice & sharp and the surroundings are blurred. You could have brought the shutter speed down even more to increase blurring and given the car space in the frame to move into. But those are minor details, it's a great capture.

Here is mine for today:

Kites; 08/09/06; Naxos, Greece

 

[VictorM]

inuksuk mushrooms

Toronto, Canada
September 2006

Nikon D70s
Tamron 28-75mm f2.8 @ 75mm
1/100 sec @ f2.8
ISO 1600

 

[freebooter]

Toronto, Canada
September 2006

Nikon D70s
Tamron 28-75mm f2.8 @ 75mm
1/100 sec @ f2.8
ISO 1600

1600 iso?! That's pretty fine. Nice one.

 

[VictorM]

1600 iso?! That's pretty fine. Nice one.

Thanks! I was in some very low light, and shooting handheld. I picked up a bit of noise, but fortunately the subject matter (textured as it is) was able to handle it.

 

[freebooter]

Daegu, South Korea
September 28, 2006
Fuji F30
f/2.8@1/280
iso 200
8.0 mm (~35mm f.f.)

Garlic is Korea's other national spice. In the late summer/fall large bundles of garlic can be purchased at any street market. The ones in the picture are small bundles. I'm not joking when I say that it is impossible to buy "a little garlic" here. This is good; I llove garlic.

 

[cookie1105]

The colours and composition in this image are fantastic freebooter. Have you desaturated?. I really like the way that the faded blues, browns and whites harmonize. Great image.

 

[840quadra]

Imo, your photo captures the aura of the event- focused enough to discern the movement of the subject in a fixed environment, clearly high speed. I like it.

Thank you,

That is a good point and didn't think about it in that way

Full Image

Exposure- 1/640 sec at f/4.0
Flash - did not fire
metering mode - pattern
focal length - 50.8125 mm
lens 7.2-50.8 mm
Date 8/7/06

Taken at a local motocross event in Minnesota. This was 2 days before the national series event at Spring Creek MX Park (Millville Minnesota). This is one of the pro riders that came to the local small fair race to get in a few practice laps!

 

[cookie1105]

How high; 18/09/06; Naxos, Greece

Rider: Xavier Roussos

 

[Dalriada]

Canon IXUS 40
1/200 sec @ f/4.9

- Dal

 

[Cocobolo]

How high; 18/09/06; Naxos, Greece

Now that's what I'm talking about! It makes my palms sweaty just looking at this photo. Dang it, now my mouse is all slippery!

Great shot! I can't image what a thrill that would be.

 

[Cocobolo]

Daegu, South Korea
September 28, 2006
Fuji F30
f/2.8@1/280
iso 200
8.0 mm (~35mm f.f.)

Garlic is Korea's other national spice. In the late summer/fall large bundles of garlic can be purchased at any street market. The ones in the picture are small bundles. I'm not joking when I say that it is impossible to buy "a little garlic" here. This is good; I llove garlic.

Mmm, garlic! I heard that if you consume large amounts of garlic, it keeps the mosquitoes away. Anyone know if that's true? Here in Minnesota it seems the only thing that makes those sneaky little critters disappear is snow.

Sweet shot! It almost seems like it could be tiled. That blue background complements the garlic perfectly.

 

[Lau]

Brora, Scotland, UK.
23 September, 2006


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I thought this was interesting, because I spent most of the day taking beautiful misty heathery hilly shots, but just as you go up these steps to the beach at Brora, this just stood out as almost science fictiony. The colours were so bright and saturated (it was a gorgeous day) it looked almost unreal.

 

[cookie1105]

It's beautiful Lau, amazing light. The house in the bottom left-hand corner is a really nice touch.

 

[skunk]

Brora, Scotland, UK.
23 September, 2006

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I thought this was interesting, because I spent most of the day taking beautiful misty heathery hilly shots, but just as you go up these steps to the beach at Brora, this just stood out as almost science fictiony. The colours were so bright and saturated (it was a gorgeous day) it looked almost unreal.

Is that Tellytubbyland? That lamppost in the middle of nowhere is a good touch.

 

[tonyeck]

Lucky! Grand Canyon NP. 19th August 2006

Canon Digital Rebel XT
12mm - Tokina 12-24mm
ISO-200
Shutter - 1/300
Aperture - f/5.6

 

[Clix Pix]

More of my playing around with IR

Falls Church, VA
September 27, 2006
Nikon D200
Lens: 10.5mm Fisheye
f/14 @ 1/90 sec
ISO 250
Focal length: 10.5mm

 

[freebooter]

The colours and composition in this image are fantastic freebooter. Have you desaturated?. I really like the way that the faded blues, browns and whites harmonize. Great image.

Thanks a "bunch". No desaturation was done.

Nice work with the action shots of late, by the way. Looks like fun.

 

[freebooter]

Lucky! Grand Canyon NP. 19th August 2006

Canon Digital Rebel XT
12mm - Tokina 12-24mm
ISO-200
Shutter - 1/300
Aperture - f/5.6

Superb!

 

[freebooter]

Brora, Scotland, UK.
23 September, 2006

I thought this was interesting, because I spent most of the day taking beautiful misty heathery hilly shots, but just as you go up these steps to the beach at Brora, this just stood out as almost science fictiony. The colours were so bright and saturated (it was a gorgeous day) it looked almost unreal.

That is a nice one. It reminds me of when I shot Kodachrome many moons ago.

Just by way of suggestion, not criticism, a little P.S. would make it even more unreal, i think. What I'm thinking about is cloning out that square metal plate in the grass at the base of the stairs and that bit of magenta cloud over by the blue roof at the left edge. I may be wrong but they don't seem to be needed for the composition, and serve to remind the viewer of the mundane.

 

[VictorM]

Brora, Scotland, UK.
23 September, 2006

Brora, this just stood out as almost science fictiony.

For me it invokes a "desolate land where all the inhabitants have died off from some infectious plague" kinda feeling.

 

[VictorM]

Canon IXUS 40
1/200 sec @ f/4.9

- Dal

nice reflections. does the water ever get really, really still there (or are there usually some ripples)?

 

[FrankieTDouglas]

9/27/06, Ruston, LA

Body: Nikon d70s
Lens: Nikon 50mm 1.8d
ISO: 400
Exposure: 1/160 @ f/2

 

[afields]

taxi

 

[annk]

Brora, Scotland, UK.
23 September, 2006

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I thought this was interesting, because I spent most of the day taking beautiful misty heathery hilly shots, but just as you go up these steps to the beach at Brora, this just stood out as almost science fictiony. The colours were so bright and saturated (it was a gorgeous day) it looked almost unreal.

OMG, it's Windoze.

 

[oblomow]

An oldie from last year. I just bought my DSLR and started playing.
Canon EOS350D, 17-40, f4, 1/50s. 11 dec. 2005.