I had the rare pleasure of photographing a little 'sun pillar' on Sunday. You can read the whole story on my website.
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Photo of the day: February 2013
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It's interesting how things can change from being there to getting home and loading your pictures! Whilst I was there, I played with various leading lines to get the eye into the image and kept conscious of the graduation of the sky from left to right. I thought this was the winner, but, not to be! It looks quite good large, then you can see all the missing detail from the ground. I'm still in the process of playing with others from this session, so may well have something better yet.
By the way, is anyone else really mourning the loss of our larger photo widths? It was bad enough when MacRumors took away quoted thumbnails (making us have to edit the code manually to get them back), but now the photos are all showing at the size that people were posting in, oh, I don't know...2002?? We Mac users mostly have screens that can show a 1000-pixel photo without any problems, and they are much easier to appreciate at that size. This site has become much less fun to browse and looks quite unimpressive in comparison with other websites. If any powers-that-be are reading this, I hope you will consider ditching the 780-pixel resizing.
Phrasikleia, you want to see what it looks like on a 27" iMac! Pathetic really, especially for a forum run by and for Mac aficionados!
I had the rare pleasure of photographing a little 'sun pillar' on Sunday. You can read the whole story on my website.
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Phrasikleia, for one who just doesn't do cold, at all, ever! You make it so beautifully enticing!
Thanks P, it was pretty rainy out there so there were a lot of reflections and people shifting quickly, I was on my toes and shooting worked a lot better without a tripod. Everything is so big and happens so fast in the USA
It was really quite funny to hear the occasional Australian accent from time to time as well.
You have such a way with words! I'm still thinking on a reply but I found your remarks insightful in the recent film thread.
By the way, is anyone else really mourning the loss of our larger photo widths? It was bad enough when MacRumors took away quoted thumbnails (making us have to edit the code manually to get them back), but now the photos are all showing at the size that people were posting in, oh, I don't know...2002?? We Mac users mostly have screens that can show a 1000-pixel photo without any problems, and they are much easier to appreciate at that size. This site has become much less fun to browse and looks quite unimpressive in comparison with other websites. If any powers-that-be are reading this, I hope you will consider ditching the 780-pixel resizing.
Yeah it's a real shame... the good news is I'm quite sure I can fix this with the next update to AutoTIMG... (it might need a rename
)... it's just getting around to doing it. I had the rare pleasure of photographing a little 'sun pillar' on Sunday. You can read the whole story on my website.
Terrific shot!
Happy Valentine's Day everyone! (Click for larger)
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Inductor on a first gen Xbox motherboard.
Sony NEX 5, 18-55mm, ISO 400, f/6.3, 55mm, 1/20sec, Polaroid 10x close-up filter.
Collapsed rainbow...
It looks as though the pot of gold is within walking distance!
I had the rare pleasure of photographing a little 'sun pillar' on Sunday. You can read the whole story on my website.
(Click to see it larger)
A very enticing picture. The warmth of the sun just invites you to walk over there except, of course, that would spoil the pristine snow field! Lovely contrast of warmth with coldness. One of my favourites.
By the way, is anyone else really mourning the loss of our larger photo widths? It was bad enough when MacRumors took away quoted thumbnails (making us have to edit the code manually to get them back), but now the photos are all showing at the size that people were posting in, oh, I don't know...2002?? We Mac users mostly have screens that can show a 1000-pixel photo without any problems, and they are much easier to appreciate at that size. This site has become much less fun to browse and looks quite unimpressive in comparison with other websites. If any powers-that-be are reading this, I hope you will consider ditching the 780-pixel resizing.
It has taken some of the fun away viewing the great images that are posted here. People take pride in their photos and hope to share that sense of accomplishment with others and sometimes these tiny pictures just don't work.
I put this shot up a couple days ago...
I thought it looked good at home on my iMac but here, at 780, I wondered…can anyone even see that the bump on the hill is actually a man standing?
There is no question in my mind that I'm not going to adjust composition for a small image display.
It has taken some of the fun away viewing the great images that are posted here. People take pride in their photos and hope to share that sense of accomplishment with others and sometimes these tiny pictures just don't work.
I put this shot up a couple days ago...
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I thought it looked good at home on my iMac but here, at 780, I wondered can anyone even see that the bump on the hill is actually a man standing?
There is no question in my mind that I'm not going to adjust composition for a small image display.
Great photo!
Forgive the ignorance, but exactly is a sun pillar? First time I hear the term.
PS: The photo is as gorgeous as usual...
Ah, yes. The old LA lights. Miles and miles and miles of concrete and light in all directions...
I never tire of your pics (or Phrasiklea's). It seems where you live, there's a lot of open space (or do you travel to these spots?). Who said England is this boring dull grey place?
Beautiful shot. Love the composition personally.
Is the sky really that color? Or is that post work?
Clipped for brevity..
By the way, is anyone else really mourning the loss of our larger photo widths? It was bad enough when MacRumors took away quoted thumbnails (making us have to edit the code manually to get them back), but now the photos are all showing at the size that people were posting in, oh, I don't know...2002?? We Mac users mostly have screens that can show a 1000-pixel photo without any problems, and they are much easier to appreciate at that size. This site has become much less fun to browse and looks quite unimpressive in comparison with other websites. If any powers-that-be are reading this, I hope you will consider ditching the 780-pixel resizing.
It might be a Safari thing. Here is a screenshot of a post from 2007 and one from today, and they look the same. The '07 image from PDXflint measures 800px in PhotoShop and Cheese&Apple posted at 1024. Could they retrospectively restrict posting sizes?
Edit: Never mind.. I measured screenshots of the 1024 posts and they are all around 800px, so it's a VBB software thing. beats thumbnails, though.
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It was enhanced just a tad in PS to exaggerate the yellow only.
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Yep, it's definitely a VBB thing, Firefox has exactly the same size appearance.
Phrasikleia and Ish, this is the best I had in regard of composition from those taken the other night. This is about 10 or 15 minutes later again, so the purples have turned blue now... I will revisit it and see how I can improve the composition, there is no more room left to go any further away from it at all, I was right up against a fence as it was. The flip around screen finally came in handy!
