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Photo of the Day: February 2011
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I use a PC at work with XP and IE 7 and I have an iMac using Safari at home and am having a hard time seeing some of the images AxisOfBeagles posts. I'm in suburbs of Chicago.
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I'll follow the thread rules and post a proper photo tomorrow. Whilst I am a TOTAL newbie I find this thread such an inspiration to learn. I am overwhelmed with how gorgeous most of these photos are. And Doylem makes me want to visit the Lake District so, so badly! 
Oh and I am really hoping some of you lucky ones up north and outside of city centers were able to get photos of the Aurora Borealis.
Oh and I am really hoping some of you lucky ones up north and outside of city centers were able to get photos of the Aurora Borealis.
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I took this near the corner of Bent and Macquarie a few years ago. LR3's lens correction tool does a nice job of removing the vertical perspective distortion created by my WA lens. EXIF info is in the image.
I'll throw in that I can't see them, either, and I use both a PC and a Mac. I use Firefox on the PC, and I've used Safari and Chrome on the Mac.
So I'm new to photography but I thought I would join in.
This was taken with my new Canon 60D.
Thanks
Welcome aboard!
So I'm new to photography but I thought I would join in.
This was taken with my new Canon 60D.
Thanks
Yay! Another 60D owner! And your picture looked pretty decent to me.
The Highlands in the morning
Took a quick picture from my front deck of the mountains to the south of us just after sunrise. I had to try to frame between several large pine trees and telephone pole lines (see lower right hand corner). It's below zero here and the mists always rise in the mountain valleys in the morning so I was hoping to capture some of that. Took it HH: ISO 100 135mm f/10 1/250
Took a quick picture from my front deck of the mountains to the south of us just after sunrise. I had to try to frame between several large pine trees and telephone pole lines (see lower right hand corner). It's below zero here and the mists always rise in the mountain valleys in the morning so I was hoping to capture some of that. Took it HH: ISO 100 135mm f/10 1/250
Interested in CC on this one... would you have even bothered to take this picture? Or would you have composed it or exposed it differently?
Still playing around with the new lens ...
Canon 40D
EF 24-70 f/2.8L USM
ISO 100
52mm - f 4 - 1/2000
Aperture 3
Canon 40D
EF 24-70 f/2.8L USM
ISO 100
52mm - f 4 - 1/2000
Aperture 3
Obviously the highlights are blown out and shadows are underexposed. It depends on how much motion there was, but I would have been inclined to use exposure bracketing to collect at least two exposures where the sky, the ocean, or the ship were correctly exposed in each of the exposures. I would then use layer masking to merge them in Photoshop.
Interested in CC on this one... would you have even bothered to take this picture? Or would you have composed it or exposed it differently?
I certainly wouldn't have included the sun in the shot. I also would have preferred for the boat to break the horizon line more than it is (so it would have to be closer and larger in the frame). The rim light around the boat is attractive, but the composition would have to be a lot stronger to show it off nicely. So, no, I would not have taken the shot, but I think I see what may have interested you, so that's something.
Interested in CC on this one... would you have even bothered to take this picture? Or would you have composed it or exposed it differently?
I'd probably have shot it vertically with a longer telephoto once more of the ferry was above the horizon line assuming it was moving quickly enough that the sun would have still been viable. Failing that (or while waiting around for it,) an auto-bracket to get the boat brighter in a merged shot would have been my second choice.
Paul
By "rim light", do you refer to the bright reflection on the starboard bow line?
Yes, it continues down the bow and along the waterline, which helps to delineate the shape of the boat against the dark color of the water.
Going for simple today.
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I really like this idea. The only issue I have with it is that the lego apple has a leaf, when the real one doesn't
I really like this idea. The only issue I have with it is that the lego apple has a leaf, when the real one doesn't
Yeah, well, they don't come from the stores with leaves on them anymore, and that one even came from a farmer's market.