NeGRit0
macrumors 6502a
That was my second guess, but i couldnt think of the name. I used to lifeguard at the pool there. Fun times. 🙂 Quite a scenic little area of town. Are the geese still out and about?
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That was my second guess, but i couldnt think of the name. I used to lifeguard at the pool there. Fun times. 🙂 Quite a scenic little area of town. Are the geese still out and about?
damn peacocks, i have peacocks on my property but... there caged and dont have beautiful tails 🙁 It would be an embarrassment to post mine lol
Sure, no problem, thanks. C&C always appreciated. I had the same problem with the background, but wanted to keep all the plumage in the pic. I cropped it and made some adjustments in "Picnik," and actually like it better:
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kallisti
macrumors 68000
Sure, no problem, thanks. C&C always appreciated. I had the same problem with the background, but wanted to keep all the plumage in the pic. I cropped it and made some adjustments in "Picnik," and actually like it better:
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I like it better too after the crop (for whatever that is worth). Very nice shot.
I'd play around with the cropping a bit more (not that there are any problems with what you have posted here)--maybe see how it looks by excluding the feet or maybe moving the body off-center. Or maybe cropping the body out totally and focusing on the plumage. I like the symmetry of your current crop and I think it works, but I'd consider some variations. Ultimately it's about what you end up liking. And it may very well be that you nailed it with your current crop/adjustments. But I've surprised myself in the past by playing with cropping. Non-intuitive crops have sometimes resulted in interesting compositions. Which has altered how I compose future scenes at the time of image capture. Not saying this is relevant to this image, but experimentation can help with the learning process.
pdxflint
macrumors 68020
7000 ft
Standing at the base of the Palmer glacier (7000 ft. level) looking toward the top of Mt. Hood. The lift on the left is the highest lift at Timberline, and is the only all-year skiing area in the U.S. Mt. Hood is 11, 249 ft. at the peak.
Camera: Nikon D300 w/ Nikkor 17-55 f/2.8
Exposure: 1/160
Aperture: f/8.0
Focal Length: 40mm
ISO Speed: 200
Exposure Bias: +1/3 EV
Standing at the base of the Palmer glacier (7000 ft. level) looking toward the top of Mt. Hood. The lift on the left is the highest lift at Timberline, and is the only all-year skiing area in the U.S. Mt. Hood is 11, 249 ft. at the peak.
Camera: Nikon D300 w/ Nikkor 17-55 f/2.8
Exposure: 1/160
Aperture: f/8.0
Focal Length: 40mm
ISO Speed: 200
Exposure Bias: +1/3 EV
puckhead193
macrumors G3
cosmokanga2
macrumors 6502a
The Garibaldi Mountain Range north of Whistler is revealed from behind a wall of morning fog.
EXIF:
Nikkor 70-200 2.8 VRII at f/8
Nikon D80
3 images fused and edited in Aperture 3. Love the brushes feature!
mcavjame
macrumors 65816
Great shot. Wonderful detail in the shadows.Standing at the base of the Palmer glacier (7000 ft. level) looking toward the top of Mt. Hood. The lift on the left is the highest lift at Timberline, and is the only all-year skiing area in the U.S. Mt. Hood is 11, 249 ft. at the peak.
Thanks for the feedback. I must admit that while I am normally a patient photographer, the mill shot was a case of right place at the right time. I have loads of pics from my Europe trip taken under drab conditions. It is nice to have a few keepers.
Schtumple
macrumors 601
One light, many reflections
Exposure: 2.5s
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 50 mm + 31mm extension tube
ISO Speed: 100
pdxflint
macrumors 68020
Thanks for the nice comments...🙂 It is a single image, cropped to eliminate too much foreground in bluish shadow... I think it works as a sort of panoramic shot.
I understand the geese show up but I have not seen any. Lots of ducks and pigeons though.
wheezy
macrumors 65816
A pair of lovely shots.
Mine for the day (still going through my cruise pics):
The cables are zip lines. You rig yourself into a harness and then ride them down, dangling underneath. 500 ft vertical drop, can't remember the total length. You travel down the cables...quickly. While it looks like the cables dive into the ocean it's an optical illusion. They stay above water and end on the distant beach. Total blast.
MAN, you made my heart skip a beat. I was on Labadee last year and had such a fantastic time on Royal Caribbean. What ship is that? I was on the Liberty of the Seas.
Almost got to ride that, it was windy and they wouldn't allow anyone over 200lbs to go down, and despite my best dieting I was still around 205... I was sad.
kallisti
macrumors 68000
Having read the previous posts I'm going to have to remember to start @ f/ 8 and go from there. Also, I found it's somewhat frustrating to shoot at a car show. Especially a big car show, because there are people every where, hence the framing on this one. Does this composition still work?
f8 is a golden rule of thumb, rules can be broken. I would suggest looking at MTF charts for your lens(es) to see where they're optically best - some are sharpest at f8, some f11. Then there's center and corner sharpness. As to your latest image, look a bit underexposed, and perhaps too close/tightly cropped. Shooting cars isn't easy.
Dave
I really like this shot, but it has 1 minor issue and 1 major issue (at least for me) - slight colour cast (minor issue) and blur/unsharp (if you look at the image closely). I presume you did not use a tripod for this shot? Next time, do so!!! and a cable release.
Nice landscape! Has a slight HDR feel to it as well.
And my peacock image (I have several but this is closest to some of the others). Not really happy with this, as I wasn't able to get the face/neck exposed properly without blowing out details in the delicate feather train. Not super sharp either. I really need to get my 70-200 f2.8 (non IS) calibrated, it's never performed well on the Mark IIn (was always sharper on my old 1D and film eos1n). Noise isn't great either. Not really a keeper image.
Dave
Standing at the base of the Palmer glacier (7000 ft. level) looking toward the top of Mt. Hood. The lift on the left is the highest lift at Timberline, and is the only all-year skiing area in the U.S. Mt. Hood is 11, 249 ft. at the peak.
Camera: Nikon D300 w/ Nikkor 17-55 f/2.8
Exposure: 1/160
Aperture: f/8.0
Focal Length: 40mm
ISO Speed: 200
Exposure Bias: +1/3 EV
Great Shot pdxflint!
Testing out my new 8mm fisheye lens.
Chef Jay
Digging the frame work, love how the branches of the tree come over the top and drops into the photo.
