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Photo of the day: February 2014

Photo of the day: February 2014

Alexander.Of.Oz said:
Cool toy! The XE1, that is, ohhh... and the robot! Enjoy!



You can double your odds of getting some captures of Mrs MacRy now, one camera in each hand! Just make sure you are out of reach of those knitting needles tho. ;)



Thanks for posting the more recent selfie, my visions of "Pennywise the Clown crossed with a Tellytubbie" have gone now...
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It is a lovely bit of kit. And this bad boy turned up about an hour ago which I'm super excited about trying out (it's a 43 year old Russian Jupiter 11 - 135mm). Unfortunately I'm waiting on an adapter to make it work on the XE1 and that's coming from the US in about a week :(

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Mrs MacRy is like a frickin ninja with those knitting needles whenever a camera comes out. I may have to set them up on some tripods and ambush her.

"They all float down......."
 
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I put my manual focus lenses to very little use, so decided to use the 55 2.8 Ais with a tube to photograph flowers this morning:


 
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Hey guys, here is another shot from a night out in Belgium, local DJ Matts.

And the actual picture appears lol!
 
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Just a quick shot at work while taking a coffee break.

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Racing last night, the madison event. I didn't enter this particular race (I'm not focusing on the madison) - so I took photos instead. One way to cool down after some very hard riding in the previous races. I was totally cooked.

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ISO8000, F/2.8, 1/100sec, 200mm.

This guy was really hammering along. The photo was taken at night in an outdoor velodrome.
 
Sleeping Beauty's Castle at Disneyland (CA) (shot during the Christmas break).

I augmented it slightly by stretching the castle vertically to give it a bit more height and added a starry background... what's the thinking here on making these kinds of mods to photos?

 
VirtualRain said:
Sleeping Beauty's Castle at Disneyland (CA) (shot during the Christmas break).

I augmented it slightly by stretching the castle vertically to give it a bit more height and added a starry background... what's the thinking here on making these kinds of mods to photos?

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Depends on the photo. On something like this it works well because the scene is unique looking anyway. I'm less keen on a more natural castle or whatever.
 
VirtualRain said:
Sleeping Beauty's Castle at Disneyland (CA) (shot during the Christmas break).

I augmented it slightly by stretching the castle vertically to give it a bit more height and added a starry background... what's the thinking here on making these kinds of mods to photos?
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IMO and personally, it's not for me VirtualRain however, I don't think that makes it wrong. Part of it depends on where the starry background came from.

This is the sort of thing that can spark an interesting debate in a thread of it's own.

~ Peter

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A Red-bellied Woodpecker for today

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Hey Jude said:
I put my manual focus lenses to very little use, so decided to use the 55 2.8 Ais with a tube to photograph flowers this morning:


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If you don't mind a critique, the water droplets and framing are a bit distracting, I'd have put the flower more to the right and given the blossom some room to "look" into some space on the right. I'd probably have done the droplets as a separate subject, as they compete to me with the flower as a whole and distract my eye on first contact, but the shading/lines don't lead me around the flower.

Paul
 
MacRy said:
Very nice.
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Thanks

Apple fanboy said:
Very nice.
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Thanks as well.

compuwar said:
If you don't mind a critique, the water droplets and framing are a bit distracting, I'd have put the flower more to the right and given the blossom some room to "look" into some space on the right. I'd probably have done the droplets as a separate subject, as they compete to me with the flower as a whole and distract my eye on first contact, but the shading/lines don't lead me around the flower.

Paul
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Paul:

Thanks for the crit, and will take them under advisement!

I had forgotten how relatively challenging shooting with tubes can be --- last attempt was 2012, however the following images were shot without it, and I liked the framing a bit better:



and this:

 
compuwar said:
If you don't mind a critique, the water droplets and framing are a bit distracting, I'd have put the flower more to the right and given the blossom some room to "look" into some space on the right. I'd probably have done the droplets as a separate subject, as they compete to me with the flower as a whole and distract my eye on first contact, but the shading/lines don't lead me around the flower.



Paul
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I think you should critique a little less and post pictures a bit more. I'm sure you're a great photographer but we don't see a lot of your photos up here Paul. I'd like to see some of your shots.
 
MacRy said:
I think you should critique a little less and post pictures a bit more. I'm sure you're a great photographer but we don't see a lot of your photos up here Paul. I'd like to see some of your shots.
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I'm much more critical of my work than anyone else's and I haven't shot anything I'd consider worth posting recently.

I try to reserve my POTD images to stuff I's shot within a few days, and since I don't have room for a studio since I relocated, I've been taking trips out to scout locations, check on sun position, etc., but most of the time, the view is "this will look a LOT better when Spring comes," or "I need to wait until Photographer's Ephemeris says the sun will be over that gap" and the camera doesn't even come out of the vehicle. In the last ten days, my camera's logged ~600mi in the back of my vehicle and I haven't taken it out once.

However, the site in my signature here has probably 150 or so images up, so there's plenty to look at there.

Paul
 
A three image panorama in vertical orientation, learning about the tilt-shift lens, still... Because I was using the tilt to focus throughout the scene and the shift to lift and lower the frame for the three images, I couldn't achieve the converging fixes one normally thinks of with tilt-shift usage. Going back here next week, so it will be interesting to have another go at this after some thunking about it.


UniSA 01 by playswithlight, on Flickr

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MacRy said:
It is a lovely bit of kit. And this bad boy turned up about an hour ago which I'm super excited about trying out (it's a 43 year old Russian Jupiter 11 - 135mm). Unfortunately I'm waiting on an adapter to make it work on the XE1 and that's coming from the US in about a week :(

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Very nice, or "nwoice" as we say downunder.
 
wedding photography session gone wrong, or not :D

better resolution photo on monday. plenty more where this came from..!
 

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RED BULL ILLUME VANCOUVER
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I'm loving your photography, and all the local stuff. Awesome! I find it so hard to get inspired to shoot what's around me every day, probably because I see it every day and it strikes me as boring or uninteresting, but you're really opening my eyes and inspiring me!

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Parkin Pig said:
Beautiful photograph, and as others have noted, great colours and juxtaposition. Hopefully you won't think me too ruthless with cropping, but this is how it would have ended up if I was fortunate enough to have that photo in my portfolio. I think it adds strength to the gazebo as the focal point.

Just my opinion of course.
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Thanks, I actually have a 40" 16:9 HD TV in my office that I use as a digital picture frame, so I did a similar version to what you posted, although not as radical (16:9) and it definitely works. However, the more you crop off the bottom the more you lose of the reflection and misty effect of the long exposure on the water. The way you've cropped it, it becomes more of a linear photo with your eyes only moving across. With the added height, your eye is also drawn to the lower part of the image as well which offers some pleasing aspects (IMHO). At any rate, I think the 16:9 offers a decent compromise between what you're proposing and what I posted. However, it seems to offer something interesting no matter how it's cropped. :)

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Ish said:
The colours are stunning in this photo and the exposure is spot on to my mind. I love the juxtaposition between old and new. Since you've asked specifically about the composition, do you think the colour reflection in the water is enough to balance the weight and detail in the top half? I don't know, I wrote that having seen the big picture but when I look at the thumbnail it looks more balanced. It's an interesting reflection though and I can see why you included it. I'd have been very pleased with myself if I'd taken it! :)
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Thanks... Yeah, interesting that this photo has created a bit of discussion - which is great. As I mentioned above, I can see value in both including more of the reflection and cropping some of it out. The cool thing is, you (I) can change it on a whim :)

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needfx said:
wedding photography session gone wrong, or not :D

better resolution photo on monday. plenty more where this came from..!
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:eek: That's one way to upstage the bride! :D
 
needfx said:
wedding photography session gone wrong, or not :D

better resolution photo on monday. plenty more where this came from..!
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I've seen female wedding guests all dressed up to try and upstage the bride before, but I think we have a clear winning strategy here.

Are we likely to see a photo of the bride hurling her shoes at the model in this series?
 
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