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Photo of the day: December 2011

^^^Great book! :)

genshi said:
I'm shooting a short film on my iPhone 4S for Macworld and took a quick snap shot of my set and one of the lead actresses in the movie last night - Shot with the main camera in the iPhone 4S and edited with the Snapseed and Camera+ apps -

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Which one is the lead actress? I'm thinking maybe the one in the lower left corner? :p Interesting project. I hope you'll come back and post a link to the video at some point.
 
Phrasikleia said:
I'm running out of photos to share :eek:, so mine for today is a Doylem-inspired "lights on/lights off" comparison. Doylem posted a couple of these types of diptychs before, and I've always found them fascinating...how much light can utterly change a landscape.

So here we are: the last photo I posted preceded by a shot from a few minutes earlier when the clouds hadn't yet moved in to give the scene more depth and definition. What a difference a few minutes can make!

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Yes, it's a powerful reminder that light is what it's all about. You can say it in words, but the pix say it better. I've been asked to do a book about photographing in the Yorkshire Dales (my favourite landscape), which will mean that some text would be about where to go and what's there, plus stuff to interest photographers (though my usual advice - "tripod, f11 and wait while the light gets interesting" - might have to be expanded in some way... :p).

I've got a few of these 'before' and 'after' shots, with light and without, and they might make instructive 'double-page spreads', with one pic on left page, the other on the right: a simple comparison. It seems to work best when the pix are similar in every other way: ie identical composition (tripod sees to that) and exposure values.

I'm busy writing this winter, which is why photography is taking a 'back seat'. Come spring, with the projects finished, I'm looking forward to getting back into photography full-time. The plan is to sell my lakeside shack, buy a tiny camper van and take off for the wild places for maybe a couple of years. In the meantime I'm reduced to photographing reflection in ponds... ;)

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Doylem said:
Yes, it's a powerful reminder that light is what it's all about. You can say it in words, but the pix say it better. I've been asked to do a book about photographing in the Yorkshire Dales (my favourite landscape), which will mean that some text would be about where to go and what's there, plus stuff to interest photographers (though my usual advice - "tripod, f11 and wait while the light gets interesting" - might have to be expanded in some way... :p).

I've got a few of these 'before' and 'after' shots, with light and without, and they might make instructive 'double-page spreads', with one pic on left page, the other on the right: a simple comparison. It seems to work best when the pix are similar in every other way: ie identical composition (tripod sees to that) and exposure values.

I'm busy writing this winter, which is why photography is taking a 'back seat'. Come spring, with the projects finished, I'm looking forward to getting back into photography full-time. The plan is to sell my lakeside shack, buy a tiny camper van and take off for the wild places for maybe a couple of years. In the meantime I'm reduced to photographing reflection in ponds... ;)

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Good luck with your project. Let us know when you're finished and if the book is available. Even though many of us are on the far side of the Dales, it sounds like any interesting and educational read.
 
Foggy Day


Alaska Marine Highway Ferry Columbia tied up at City Float, Ketchikan, Alaska.
Shot from the porch of "Alaska Ink" last Saturday.
This is a two shot panorama.

shot at 32mm, F8, 1/250, ISO 250
 
Birds and crocodile ... took this last month from the walkway at Snake Bight in the Everglades . If you get there when the tide is near high there's all sorts of shore birds reasonabily close . Almost no one goes out there though , it's a mile and 3/4 on a semi maintained dirt road through a mangrove swamp filled with bugs . Anyway , was waiting for the croc to lunge at one of the birds , but he never did.

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5D2 , 100-400@380 , iso 800 , f13@1600
 
I made a black and white version of this one too, but I'm not sure which I like more. I'll just put the color version for today.

 
First ever post in FOTD

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This is a picture of a sea urchin.
It was taken in Florida (december 2009)
Camera: Canon PowerShot A590 IS (It is a point and shoot)
 
fcortese said:
Nice shot. I was in that same spot this past August but with about several hundred people walking in both directions. How did you get everyone to disappear? Was this shot real early in the AM or in the middle of the night?
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Neither, middle of the day just very cold and rainy, which is why the wood glistens in the shot. Was there to help a friend out on her short film.
 
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