Photo of the Day (March 2008)

[Doylem]

Nice 'tar, Doylem!

Thanks. It's showing a bit of 'respect' for Groucho Marx, one of the funniest men who ever lived. Not just the films, or stage shows and TV... but every letter he ever sent to family, friends and the other comedy luminaries of the time. His 'collected letters' are as funny as any script. This may be a lost art; 'collected emails' doesn't sound quite the same... and, anyway, how would we collect them?

I like the surfer shot. For a non-surfer like me, I guess I'm looking for shape and style.. the relationship between surfer and wave... the 'decisive moment', the wondering "what happened next?", etc. This guy looks in control, but the wave is breaking over him: an eternally fluid moment moment caught in time (whoops, forgot to take my anti-pretentious pilsl this morning)...

 

[Doylem]

Gonna have to disagree with Carlos on this... For me there's too much foreground and not enough bridge. Fair enough if the foreground was more interesting (are the rocks for flood defense?), but the rocks cut into the arches of the bridge. For a wide-angle shot it makes the pic look a bit 'cluttered'. And it would be good to see more of the river...

Agree with Carlos about the clouds, though. I always like these clouds - white on top, grey below - because they've got so much 'body' and 'depth'... plus they generally 'balance up' well without the need for a grey grad or post-production...

 

[SolracSelbor]

"Ripping The Surface"

"Ripping The Surface"

 

[higgz]

"Ripping The Surface"

thats so sick ::makes wp::

 

[anti-microsoft]

thats so sick ::makes wp::

Use

 

[Doylem]

 

[otter]

Great photo otter. Perfectly clear, nice composition, and digging the clouds. Also meant to comment on your, Paris picture which was also great.

Gonna have to disagree with Carlos on this... For me there's too much foreground and not enough bridge. Fair enough if the foreground was more interesting (are the rocks for flood defense?), but the rocks cut into the arches of the bridge. For a wide-angle shot it makes the pic look a bit 'cluttered'. And it would be good to see more of the river...

Agree with Carlos about the clouds, though. I always like these clouds - white on top, grey below - because they've got so much 'body' and 'depth'... plus they generally 'balance up' well without the need for a grey grad or post-production...

Thanks for the comments and critique. I appreciate your honest feedback, Doylem. It's nice getting praise and RA-RAs and all, but if that's all I ever get, then I'm never gonna learn and improve. There are things about this photo that I like (obviously, since I posted it) such as the clouds, but there's something that always bugged me too, and I think you were able to put your finger on it better than I was.

Great surf shot, SolracSelbor. Such a different perspective...

 

[pdxflint]

At the old Tugboat brewpub, Portland, OR

Chess boards available at the bar in this downtown neighborhood brewpub which only served its own fresh ales.

Canon Eos 630
Canon 28-80
Kodak T-max 400

Doylem: Very nice fire in the sky over that placid Lake Windermere moorage scene..

 

[M@lew]

Oh look at that smexy film grain.

 

[EssentialParado]

D40x
1/800
f 9
55mm

I pretty much missed out all of February's thread. Hopefully I'll stay on track with this one!

One of the best sunsets I've seen in a long time.

BTW, I missed all of February's thread too. If you wanna give it a go, it takes two and a half hours to read through from front to back.

Taken last spring from the Arc de Triomphe. Can't remember the precise settings. Going back this spring with my dSLR, so hopefully I'll get some better ones.

Olympus C-5050 P&S
HDR from one jpeg

de la Grand Armee

EDIT...the sky really was that colour, though the HDR helped bring it to life a bit more.

Wow, what's that in the middle of the road in the distance? Looks like a building with a giant hole cut out for the road to pass through!

 

[EssentialParado]

I was curious to try out a rapid shutter speed for once…

No post-processing. As is.

Nikon D40

 

[Plymouthbreezer]

I was curious to try out a rapid shutter speed for once…



No post-processing. As is.

Nikon D40[/QUOTE]
^ Very nice! ^

Mine for today is a shot taken at [URL="http://www.opacity.us/gallery90_silent_creatures.htm"]Worcester State Hospital[/URL], just a few miles from my house:

[IMG]http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/801/dsc0564mu1.jpg

Taken with my D70s and its kit 18-70mm Nikkor. Post processing done in Lightroom.

 

[EssentialParado]

I wonder where that door leads…

 

[Father Jack]

Personally, I'd rather not know ..

 

[valdore]

"The skyline sunrise scene"

One tripod mounted RAW // HDR // Shutter: 30 sec. // Aperture: f/18.2 // Focal Length: 100 mm // ISO 100

...downtown Kansas City, Missouri.

 

[Doylem]

One of your best, I reckon... with subject and technique in harmony (with HDR, on the whole, I want to be thinking "great pic" rather than "great HDR pic", if you see what I mean)...

 

[Kashchei]

Wow, what's that in the middle of the road in the distance? Looks like a building with a giant hole cut out for the road to pass through!

This is "la grande arche de la defense." La defense is a large business district on the western edge of Paris. The arch is more than just eye candy; there are offices located inside it. It was used recently in one of the Bourne movies (I didn't see it or I'd give more details).

 

[Lightglance.com]

"The skyline sunrise scene"

One tripod mounted RAW // HDR // Shutter: 30 sec. // Aperture: f/18.2 // Focal Length: 100 mm // ISO 100

...downtown Kansas City, Missouri.

My god, that was really beautifull, just stunning...

 

[thr33face]

Clouds over open fields:

Nikon D40 and Sigma 30mm lens

The Photo doesn't do the scene justice. Only a video camera could have captured the beauty of the scence, but I can try to describe how it looked:

There were 3 layers of clouds moving at different speeds.
The big clouds at the horizon were moving slowly towards the right, producing a soft moving pattern of light underneath them.
The carpet like clouds at the top were almost stationary, thus giving a nice lit backdrop.
The dark clouds were hanging very low and moving very fast towards me.

Everything combined was a very powerful 3 dimensional sensation that cannot be expressed by a single photograph.

have a nice day.

 

[Steamie]

Port Dundas

Camera: Pentax K10D
Exposure: 8 sec (8)
Aperture: f/8
Focal Length: 70 mm
ISO Speed: 200​

Nightshot of Port Dundas Glasgow, taken last week.

Epicwelshman welcome back, fantastic sunset. You are well travelled -(Wales,Canada, England, Bahamas.... where next)
Valdore as usual your shots amaze me, I love the Hydrant one especially.
Doylem the boats shot is awesome.
m@lew I always like your work especially the street photography.


Loads more great pictures already this month particularily pdxflint, fett, edge100, SolracSelbor, dllavaneras, otter

 

[HomeingPigeon]

That is my backround now. Amazing picture.

 

[Padraic]

Awesome pictures from everyone, almost makes me not want to post.

It was 78 degrees yesterday (36 today ). I was heading to the park with the kids and I stopped to follow this little bird around with the camera. I like it



As always, comments and criticism welcome!

 

[Edge100]

Very cool shot, love the colors!

Thanks. Everyone always takes the reverse shot (down the Champs-Elysees with Place de la Concorde and the Tuileries in the background), so this is a bit unusual.

The HDR worked fairly well with the single JPEG, though it's limited in how far you can push it, vs. even a single RAW.

Glad you liked it.

 

[fett]

 

[otter]

A different view: Yaquina Bridge, Newport Oregon