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Photo of the Day - July 2012

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At my cat's house
It's July on the International Dateline.


Welcome to Photo of the Day. The POTD thread was started by iGary in May, 2006 and converted to a monthly thread in November 2007 by Arn. POTD is one of the most popular picture groups on MacRumors, often exceeding 500 posts and 20,000 views per month.

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Starting the month with an appropriate theme :)

McWayWaterfallBeach_Small.jpg
 
Thursday night in Nelson, NV.

1000

Nikon D800, 24mm, f5.6, 20 sec, SB-700, 2 manual flashes, penlight
 
Home home on the road.....

SummerBreeze.jpg


Love those clouds! Do you use a "big stopper" ?

Mine for today.... My 1988 Westy... home on the road! Happy Canada day to fellow canuckians.

bjm8480.jpg
 


240 seconds, 70mm, F/13, ISO50. I'll leave this one on here.
 
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Interesting perspective of a beer pong game.

Shot in downtown Kansas City at the 2012 Beer Pong for Babies (March of Dimes) charity event. Those in attendance included two Sporting Kansas City soccer players, one of which is in the photo (Chance Myers).

chance2.jpg


17.0 mm - F/3.5 - ISO 200 - 1/2000
 
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Phrasikleia said:
Oh, hey, I took a photo...


SummerBreeze.jpg
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Nice shot. I thought the clouds looked unreal so checked the EXIF data and see it is a 2 minute 48 second auto exposure. WOW! I see a later post you mention using filters. BTW, you may want to update your copyright year which says 2011.

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avro707 said:


240 seconds, 70mm, F/13, ISO50. I'll leave this one on here.
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Avro, I'm curious, did you you ND filters on this shot?
 
Rowbear said:
Hi, lovely shot as usual :)

What brand of GND do you use? I'm still using a Cokin GND and it isn't blocking the color chanels equally, giving a color casts that a better quality filter would prevent I'm sure.

Thanks in advance ;)
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Thanks, Rowbear. Color casts are common with all of the brands, but they only tend to come out with very long exposures. For example, Lee filters are known for their blue cast and Cokin for their magenta cast...choose your poison. ;) My panel-type filters are Cokin Z-Pro, and I'm very happy with them. I don't know what the smaller Cokin filters are like (P size, etc.), but supposedly the Z-Pro series have better quality resins.

xStep said:
Nice shot. I thought the clouds looked unreal so checked the EXIF data and see it is a 2 minute 48 second auto exposure. WOW! I see a later post you mention using filters. BTW, you may want to update your copyright year which says 2011.
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Thanks, xStep. Yes, the exposure was that long, but I shot it in Bulb mode. I have no idea why any EXIF viewer would call that an "auto" exposure. :confused: Anyway, thanks for the note about my copyright--that's what I get for going six months without shooting. I was lucky to remember which end of the camera to look through! :eek:
 
xStep said:
Avro, I'm curious, did you you ND filters on this shot?
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No filters for this one. But I did some adjustments to highlights/shadows in Camera Raw. I've never used an ND at night, but I commonly use them in day-time to drop the shutter speeds without having to stop-down.

I do have ISO50 on the camera I used, that's quite handy.
 
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