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Photo of the Day: August 2010
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Golden YVR Terminal
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Concourse B at YVR Vancouver International is bathed in a golden glow from the setting sun. FYI, only the brightness and highlight sliders were touched in post!
Concourse B at YVR Vancouver International is bathed in a golden glow from the setting sun. FYI, only the brightness and highlight sliders were touched in post!
Thats no F1 Car!
It was taken at the Canadian Grand Prix during the Ferrari Challenge (the title to my post was Ferrari F430). Part of events for the weekend.
For proof: Fernando Alonso in the same corner:
Well bled Tuna...
Fresh catch offered directly off the boat, filleted and bagged.
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D300, Tokina 12-24f/4.0, 1/400, f/6.3, 12mm, ISO200
Fresh catch offered directly off the boat, filleted and bagged.
D300, Tokina 12-24f/4.0, 1/400, f/6.3, 12mm, ISO200
Whats the background/ancient usage of "The Guardian"? Did you paint it with light?
The Guardian
Ben, I really like this shot, it captivates me.
I'm contemplating the jewelery as primary image here vs her, still I just wish her face was slightly more in focus - just a tad, as is it's a little soft.
(overall great image, enough to overlook the legs coming from her belly)
I'm contemplating the jewelery as primary image here vs her, still I just wish her face was slightly more in focus - just a tad, as is it's a little soft.
(overall great image, enough to overlook the legs coming from her belly
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Canon EOS 1000D
0.001 sec (1/1250)
f/2.0
50 mm
ISO200
I'm really disappointed in this and myself. I somehow ruin every photo I take. Either too blurry or too much noise, theres always too much something. Everytime I look at my LCD display I say prefect this is going to be wicked. Then I upload it and I see all the detail and it sucks!! wth am I doing wrong. How do you guys have such awesome photos and I have such crap! Argh!
opinions?
You can "play around" with editing software, but, no matter what you do to it, a dull pic is still a dull pic. I'm not sure what it was that interested you enough to press the shutter. If you have to resort to selective colouring, then maybe you weren't sure either. If you try to get the pic more-or-less right 'in the camera' then you'll only need a slight tweak here and there in pp. Just my opinion... worth as much as you paid for it...
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I'm really disappointed in this and myself. I somehow ruin every photo I take. Either too blurry or too much noise, theres always too much something. Everytime I look at my LCD display I say prefect this is going to be wicked. Then I upload it and I see all the detail and it sucks!! wth am I doing wrong. How do you guys have such awesome photos and I have such crap! Argh!
Wow, you're being hard on yourself. That's our job!
You've got high standards, and you feel you're not taking the pix you ought to be taking; what you see in the viewfinder isn't being transferred to the finished image. Something gets lost 'in translation'.
One thing that helps me is something I call 'commit to the image'. It means that I'll do whatever I can to get a particular photograph: do my best, no compromise. So I'll walk a bit further, take a tripod, wait as long as is necessary for the light to do something interesting. That kind of committment doesn't guarantee a good pic... but even if it doesn't work out on that particular occasion, I kinda know I've done my best. If I come home without taking a single shot, at least I've got in the mindset of not compromising. And, IMO, that's a good state of mind for photography.
"Too blurry"? Do you need a tripod? "Too much noise"? High ISO... tripod would help with that too. Improvements come in small increments, I reckon, like tightening screws a little at a time...
I called it "The Guardian" because it's a World War I bunker built to guard this pass in the Alps.
Yes, I lit the bunker. I had a Speedlite with a red gel on a stand inside the bunker to get red showing through the windows. I used two more Speedlites and a flashlight (all gelled with CTO) to light the exterior.
Here's what the scene looked like in a preliminary shot I took while I was waiting for the ambient light to turn blue (and before firing my own lights):
This was one of the most difficult shoots I've done, mostly because of the location. Had to hike a lot of equipment up to that bunker and then back down in the dark. I had help, but it was still pretty crazy.
mikeschmeee: That's some excellent advice Doylem just imparted. And looking through your flickr photos, I think you are being quite hard on yourself. You do seem to be planning out and committing to your photos to some degree. Photography is very difficult, and nobody is immune to making mistakes and having bad luck. All you can do is try to put yourself in the right place at the right time with the right equipment; for me, this very often means doing a 'recon' mission to take a 'sketch' shot and then returning to the location or revising something at a later date to get the shot I really want. Don't feel bad about having taken a 'sketch' shot, even if that's not what you were intending; you can learn a lot from your 'bad' photos--they can often lead you to your very best work.
The Guardian
Nice and weird. My first impression when scrolling down was that it had to be some kind of under water photo. Nice colours though.
San Francisco reflected in the wing of a classic De Soto.
Canon EOS 1000D/0.008 sec (1/125)/f5.6/115 mm/ISO 250
Is there a reason this has some kind of photoshop filter on it? Do you have the original? It looks like it's got loads of noise in the photo, or were you trying to get rid of any imperfections in the car's reflections?
Ben, I really like this shot, it captivates me.
I'm contemplating the jewelery as primary image here vs her, still I just wish her face was slightly more in focus - just a tad, as is it's a little soft.
(overall great image, enough to overlook the legs coming from her belly
I was tempted to photoshop the legs out, but the point of these photos was they weren't staged, this was the only shot of that woman, people became very awkward if they realised I was taking photos of them. It's soft because of the wide aperture, it was incredibly dark in that alleyway and I didn't want motion blur to ruin a nice shot.
I was trying to liven up a dull original (here). The adjustments I made are attached below.
That introduced some noise (see uncropped version here), then I cropped it, which exaggerated the noise.
I'd appreciate any guidance you have on how to liven up the original without introducing the noise.
Cheers!
