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Photo of the Day: February 2011
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Fort Frederik, in Frederiksted, St. Croix, constructed to protect the town from pirate raids and attacks from rival imperialist nations...
Interesting shot, the red walls paint a different picture to that of what I'm use to situated by the ocean.
I've noticed you've been making good use of your new ND filters as of late
Keep them coming!
That's quite special.
Here is a photo I took the other night: (Hope you can see it properly)
Thanks! that's a nice sharp capture you've got there, in very low light
Picture taken in Low, Province of Québec, Canada. I find it a bit too tight at the top and back of the bird. I'll see if I can "decrop" it a bit. What are your taughts ? I love those eyes
Canon 40D, 400mm, ISO 800, 1/500sec, f/6.3
Great capture, perfect pose, the snow really empowers the shot.
I'm with compuwar and AxisOfBeagles on perhaps a portrait orientation or cropping out the right background as there isn't a lot there as Phrasikleia mentioned, but looks great, top stuff.
Thanks Phrasikleia
Please remember that the rule is only one photo per day, but I don't mind because that dog is so cute
Great shots.
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I've been thinking of starting a thread for tongue-in-cheek photos. This looks like a prime candidate!
Thanks. Your tutorial reads well. I'll give it a go, once I sort out my iMac, which has had to have a new hard drive fitted, with all the trauma that can bring.
Pix are all on external drives, and I think this might be a good opportunity to treat myself to Aperture 3, now it's cut-price on the app store. In the meantime, I'm trying to get my iMac back to how it was. It's like having a new computer, and not in a good way. Some day soon I may even get round to taking some pix...
A few pix that caught my eye...
Great pic, very atmospheriic... and those mesmerising eyes. I love the snowy feel, which kinda describes the owl and its habitat. And I'm fine with the space to the right, too; it gives the image 'space to breathe' (plus I'm doing some experiments, superimposing text on pix, and this would take some text very well).
I love your plane pix, and your skill at panning. From the view of a plane enthusiast, the pix look great, but from a purely photographic point of view, I kinda want to stretch the borders of the pic, to give the plane some 'space' (particularly in front... to move into)...
I'm not a great fan of 'bee & flower' shots, on the whole, but this is stunning... really dynamic and colourful.
Great shot, and great lighting... but it's almost like there's too much happening: visual overload...
Love it: just enough in the pic to hold my attention. I feel I'm there. I like the way you've composed the shot, with three or four lines leading in from the right... to the rock. I'm not sure whether I'd like the rock to be lit or not (picky, ain't I...).
Simple and atmospheric... the boat's almost like a toy...
I can't decide if I really like this one or not. I think if the sky had a bit more color to it it would be a lot better, but I can't help but feel that there is just too much coolness to it overall. What do you guys think?
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Ah, "can't decide" is always a thumbs-down, isn't it? When a pix 'works', you know right away...
Still, peaceful... with a 'presence', even though there's no-one in the frame...
Pretty cliche shot, but the sky had a painterly look to it. I wish there was a plane or maybe a flock of birds to add something of interest to all the empty space. Oh well
I don't think of sunsets as clichés... hell, when you get to my age, you don't know which one will be your last.
But, yes, I reckon these kind of shots always need more planning, and more than just the tops of a few trees in the foreground. Not always possible, I know, but that's the challenge, isn't it?
A candidate for the 'Doylem method", I reckon: ie hanging around for hours in the freezing cold, waiting for the light to do something special...
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Hi! Thanks for sharing wonderful photos here. This forum is an excellent place to share beautiful stuff like these photos. Nice sharing thanks.
Hi! Thanks for sharing wonderful photos here. This forum is an excellent place to share beautiful stuff like these photos. Nice sharing thanks.
Ah god what have I started..
I'm quite aware of that, I'm not some newbie photographer whos like 'd00d L glass wil maek me pro LOL'
I have a large technical understanding of photography and I know it doesnt.. hell, I've just bought an old film camera for £5, which is regarded soo poorly made.. yet cant wait to get some pictures out of it.
I meant that I wish I could've taken it with the 50mm 1.4 because
a) it was my brand new lens, this was the first test drive of it
b) In my experience, this lens does have it's drawbacks
I know, everyone knows, gear doesn't make a good shot. However, it certainly can factor into it. But I really don't want to get into that discussion, it was in another thread recently and it went haywire!
see above please
and again, I'm not focused on gear. I had a 1000D for my first year of photography and I got some cracking shots out of it. I didn't upgrade my camera for better pictures as such, It did more (especially the video.) I upgraded my 50mm 1.8 to a 1.4 because I knew, technically (reviews, test etc) it was a better lens and it's focus ring is much better for video. I'm not some fool who thinks having the best will make him the best. I'd like to make that quite clear as I like this place and don't want to be seen as your typical idiot. But thanks for your comment, I do understand lighting and composition.
I don't think my 50mm would have made the shot PHENOMENAL!!!11!!1 I just meant that I got some tack sharp photos that day and I wish I was able to frame a shot with it as I would've liked to see how that turned out also. Space around me meant I couldn't.
ANYWAY I didn't even really mean what I said, just rushed meaningless drabble really.
And yes, I'm sure Henri Cartier Bresson had much worse gear, thats besides the point I was trying to make.
What? That makes it a totally different lens. Thats like saying 'ha! the canon 50mm 1.8 is a great lens! And its not even canon, it's nikon!' hahaNot to mention the 18-55 is nothing nowhere near "crappy". I only have that lens, and it's not even Canon, it's Sony
Haha that's an awesome shot
Yes I know that lens has limitations next to your other one. Just to make clear I never meant to offend you, I was just saying that you could take stunning pictures with that 18-55 IS lens
Oi, don't be knocking "rushed meaningless drabble". Without "rushed meaningless drabble", there wouldn't be much to read here at all...
Excellent advice. That helps a lot. There happen to be some fairly new tree lined paths nearby that I can use next time, too.
Interesting shot, the red walls paint a different picture to that of what I'm use to situated by the ocean.
I've noticed you've been making good use of your new ND filters as of late
Thanks Reef... although most of the shots I've posted from the Caribbean benefited from a circular polarizer... not ND filters (although I gather a polarizer is also similar to a 2-stop ND filter in terms of light reduction). Although this shot of the same fort, could definitely have benefited from an ND grad to bring out the sky a bit more...
Still playing with the images I captured early one morning a few weeks back. This is only the second image I'm happy with (so far - still much work to be done).
Bridgeport CA, Jan 22 2001
Canon 40D
EF 15mm f/2.8 Fisheye
ISO 100
f/22 @ 1/30th
post-work in Aperture 3
Bridgeport CA, Jan 22 2001
Canon 40D
EF 15mm f/2.8 Fisheye
ISO 100
f/22 @ 1/30th
post-work in Aperture 3
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Camera Canon EOS REBEL T2i
Exposure 0.01 sec (1/100)
Aperture f/5.0
Focal Length 35 mm
ISO Speed 100
Exposure Bias +1/3 EV
I was at Bimmerfest last May and I wanted to get some panoramic photos of the event from high ground, which is the rim of the Rose Bowl. The event organizers are friends and they persuaded the boss of the guy guarding the entrance to the stadium to let us inside. It's not often you see a stadium like this one completely devoid of people.