Photo of the day (April 2008)

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"At Peace"

"At Peace"

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Outside Yankee Stadium, New York City
April 20th, 2008
D40 | 1/500 at ƒ/4.5 | 18 mm | ISO 200

An NYPD team take a bomb sniffing dog underground to the subway before Pope Benedict makes his highly-secured entrance into a mass of 60,000 people at Yankee Stadium.
 
PkennethV, where was that taken?

Here's one of my recent attempts at HDR. Sorry for the watermark, I can't afford Photomatix.. (And I REFUSE to use a pirated serial no matter what the temptation)


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Sun Run Vancouver BC April 20, 2008

First photos with my new Canon Rebel XSi. First DSLR I have owned. Lens is 70-300mm IS USM
 

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Courthouse in Nassau where all the Anna Nicole Smith cases were....sorry for the pole...couldn't get around it very well hahaha

Pretty in Pink Court
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I'm Back!

Actually I never went missing but just haven't been photographing as much over the winter and then we've had a rather damp and chilly spring, so only now am I beginning to have images to share again....

One of my true loves is macro. This spring I went a little further than just the basic macro lens, adding on an extension tube as well....

April 18, 2008
Falls Church, VA
Nikon D3
60mm f/2.8 lens with one of my Kenko extension tubes added
f/14 (DOF is still wickedly narrow and I should've stopped down even more)
1/80 sec
ISO 200
Hand-held. SHOULD have used a tripod for this!

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Sorry for this post but I have seen many HDR images produced by photomax, and I still have not found out where to download (or get the free trail) of it.
 
First photos with my new Canon Rebel XSi. First DSLR I have owned. Lens is 70-300mm IS USM

I looked at this shot and thought, "hey, that looks familiar, hey they had the vancouver Sun Run this past weekend, hey that's around the corner from my place!" At least I believe it's English Bay, correct me if I'm wrong.

If so, did you get any other shots of English Bay? I love going there for great sunset pics.
 
What is HDR? By the way I love coming to this post. All of the pics are just fantastic.
That apology about Pawleys Island. Don't be sorry. I live in Charleston area is it is quite nice up there. Loved the shells shot. ;):D
 
Windmill

Definitely not as good as some of the other ones in here, it wasn't that good of a picture in the first place, and i did a pretty quick photoshop job so yeah. Also, this was the first proper photograph that I've taken (apart from family photos of course). Another problem was that i took it through a fence, and the one big that didn't get taken (because it was so thin and i focused around it) was the bit over the windmill. So yeah, it's not really that good but i think it looks pretty cool. I took it with a Fujifilm S5000 bridge-slr camera.
 

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Definitely not as good as some of the other ones in here, it wasn't that good of a picture in the first place, and i did a pretty quick photoshop job so yeah. Also, this was the first proper photograph that I've taken (apart from family photos of course). Another problem was that i took it through a fence, and the one big that didn't get taken (because it was so thin and i focused around it) was the bit over the windmill. So yeah, it's not really that good but i think it looks pretty cool. I took it with a Fujifilm S5000 bridge-slr camera.

I'm intrigued that you took the time to 'Photoshop' bits of fence out of a pic, instead of spending perhaps a similar amount of time finding a suitable vantage point from which to shoot. Photoshop is a great tool, but, well, it can't take the place of what I might as well call 'pre-production': ie getting things right in the viewfinder before you press the shutter. ;)

If this is your first pic (beyond family snaps), you have a fun world of photography opening up for you. And if you rely on software to 'repair' pix that aren't very good, you'll be spending more time in front of a computer screen than taking pix. Good lighting, thoughtful composition, decisive moment, tone and colour are some of the aspects that lift a photo beyond a snapshot... and these are the result of seeing, rather than sending a shot on a round trip through an editing suite.

You can create pix... not merely repair them. Just my opinion, of course. Feel free to disregard it... :)
 
I'm intrigued that you took the time to 'Photoshop' bits of fence out of a pic, instead of spending perhaps a similar amount of time finding a suitable vantage point from which to shoot. Photoshop is a great tool, but, well, it can't take the place of what I might as well call 'pre-production': ie getting things right in the viewfinder before you press the shutter. ;)

If this is your first pic (beyond family snaps), you have a fun world of photography opening up for you. And if you rely on software to 'repair' pix that aren't very good, you'll be spending more time in front of a computer screen than taking pix. Good lighting, thoughtful composition, decisive moment, tone and colour are some of the aspects that lift a photo beyond a snapshot... and these are the result of seeing, rather than sending a shot on a round trip through an editing suite.

You can create pix... not merely repair them. Just my opinion, of course. Feel free to disregard it... :)

Thanks for the constructive criticism. Something I have a lot of trouble on is focus, I find it hard to see if something is right in the small viewfinder/lcd, as compared to a large computer screen. I also tend to look at something in real life/through my own eye's, thinking it will make for a great photo, then i just can't capture the moment on the camera. For example, at sunset today i was out taking some pictures and noticed the sun behind the clouds was producing a beautiful orange colour, then when i went to take a photo, it was all washed out and ugly. I also seem to be having a bit of trouble with the shutter speed where i will put the shutter speed just a little bit quick (not even in the hundreds) and it will pick up absolutely nothing. Anyway, not to plague this topic with my camera troubles, i will try to keep you're suggestions in my head the next time i go to take some more pics with the camera.

Thanks,
- Jaiden
 
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