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Photo of the Day : January 2011
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^^^ Hauntingly beautiful, TheReef. Those ghostly bits at the center are hard to rationalize--very intriguing. I'm particularly stumped by what looks like an arching shadow at the center. Also, the long rock near the center with the large highlight of still water on top of it seems to have two left edges. I guess one edge must be another rock behind it. At any rate, I could get (happily) lost staring at these rocks for a good, long while. Love the colors too. 
^^^ Hauntingly beautiful, TheReef. Those ghostly bits at the center are hard to rationalize--very intriguing. I'm particularly stumped by what looks like an arching shadow at the center. Also, the long rock near the center with the large highlight of still water on top of it seems to have two left edges. I guess one edge must be another rock behind it. At any rate, I could get (happily) lost staring at these rocks for a good, long while. Love the colors too.
Thanks Phrasikleia
what you're seeing is the water at 2 different levels.I timed it to get the water flowing out, down a waterfall which explains the arc. Then the next wave would come in, at a higher level, so you can see both levels in the photo. The 2nd (incoming) wave would get to about the waterfall before the exposure ended (I did a few, much the same each time), so not much exposure time is devoted the 2nd wave, which lets you see through it to the level below.
If you delay the shutter by a few seconds you'll get a totally different pic (those underwater rocks won't be visible).
I think the double edged rock is either 2 rocks or one connected one.
Love the stump pic, nice layering, light and colour, very jealous of the snow... hopefully I'll get to see a small amount of it... very soon, fingers crossed.
Great lighting!
It has a prehistoric feel to it, as though a pterodactyl will soar down and land on the rock pile.
It looks as though there's some HDR or bracketing here... should I say it looks 'awesome'?
Nice colours and composition, HDR suits this scene well imo.
D300, 80-200f/2.8, 200mm, f/2.8, 1/1000, ISO200
This one really draws me in, the sharpness, colour and contrasting white fur really make him pop out.
The emotion created by the pose and expression on the face and in the reflective eye is really captivating, nice.
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and they're off...
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D300, 17-55f/2.8, 55mm, f/2.8, 1/2000, ISO100
Like the graphic quality of this, didn't notice the plane for a second or two, but it makes the shot much more interesting. Nice.
The dog's definitely a looker. Not mine, just one of the many dogs I encountered during the nutty cyclocross season... I'm going to post another one of him soon, he's that charismatic...
Something about the contrast between hard, flinty rocks and the promise of soft grasses in the summer to come... also, it's an interesting visual relationship between the stacked or layered rocks in the pillar and the layers of rock in the distant hill. One of my new favorites of yours.
This is a beautiful photograph. I love the suggestion of contemplation (to me, anyway,) as if she's sensing the weighty reality of commitment, and realizing she's saying goodbye to childhood forever. It's that brief moment between the past and the future, when everything changes. The great thing about this shot is how it opens up the mind and imagination to a human story.
Love your mountaineering shots. This is no exception.
The whole color palette and composition is beautiful.
D300, 17-55f/2.8, 55mm, f/2.8, 1/2000, ISO100
Like the graphic quality of this, didn't notice the plane for a second or two, but it makes the shot much more interesting. Nice.
The dog's definitely a looker. Not mine, just one of the many dogs I encountered during the nutty cyclocross season...
I'm going to post another one of him soon, he's that charismatic...Something about the contrast between hard, flinty rocks and the promise of soft grasses in the summer to come... also, it's an interesting visual relationship between the stacked or layered rocks in the pillar and the layers of rock in the distant hill. One of my new favorites of yours.
Promises.
This is a beautiful photograph. I love the suggestion of contemplation (to me, anyway,) as if she's sensing the weighty reality of commitment, and realizing she's saying goodbye to childhood forever. It's that brief moment between the past and the future, when everything changes. The great thing about this shot is how it opens up the mind and imagination to a human story.
Love your mountaineering shots. This is no exception.
Yeah... he's back! Super nice. I'm loving the tones and layers... and the long exposure making water look like misty clouds hanging over cliffs as seen from a plane... well, other than the trees and real clouds in the background.
K20D - 6s - f/13.0 - ISO100 - 31mm
The whole color palette and composition is beautiful.
Thanks, Oblomow. I had one 580EX II with 1/2 CTO gel camera left as key and one LumoPro LP160 as fill (with same gel) camera right.
Is that a turtle? Good job of capturing him right at his moment of emergence.
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The ravens are such perfect silhouettes... like you cut them out of black card...
Terrific capture...
The ravens are such perfect silhouettes... like you cut them out of black card...
Terrific capture...
I revisited an older photo with the current version of Lightroom. I don't especially need Photoshop with this photo any more - the functionality I wanted the first time around is part of LR now.
D700 with 14-24 f2.8 at 21mm, f9, 1/60 and ISO 400 (and jpeg instead of raw - I screwed up)
D700 with 14-24 f2.8 at 21mm, f9, 1/60 and ISO 400 (and jpeg instead of raw - I screwed up)
Thanks! It is a sea turtle on the east side of Cozumel. They have a conservation program on the island and we happened to be there as the nests we hatching and the little ones began their journey to the sea.
K200D
Sigma 18-50 @ 21mm
1/180
f9.5
ISO 200
Circular Polarizer
I don't usually go for landscapes, but this photo made my jaw drop. I agree with Doylem: the ravens are absolutely perfect.
Camera Canon EOS REBEL T2i
Exposure 0.002 sec (1/640)
Aperture f/4.5
Focal Length 35 mm
ISO Speed 100
Exposure Bias +2/3 EV
Sorda but not really off topic... but I've noticed a lot of people when they post there pictures they have downsized them... Whats the best way to go about doing this without losing quality?
I have a preset defined in Lightroom for forum posts that resizes the image and adds borders, title, and copyright information. Assuming you use iPhoto you could use it to resize your photos when you export them. Or you could get fancy and use a free iPhoto plug-in called BorderFX to add borders and other information during export.
Thanks. I do, but they are among the first I took with my D700 a couple of years ago and I made a couple of rookie mistakes (the worst of which was shooting jpegs instead of raws). I really need to go back for another visit. I visited Canepa Designs in Scotts Valley a couple of months ago, and I will post a few of those photos soon. They have a lot of very cool modern but vintage race cars and exotics there.
By downsized, do you mean reduced in resolution? Like saving a 240 dpi raw or tiff file as a 72 dpi jpg or reduced in size like changing a 4272 x 2848 file down to something like 1200 x 800?
I tried uploading a full sized image (4272x2848 @ 240 dpi - a 10 MB file) and changing the tags to TIMG to see how this would work. The thumbnail took a long time to load and I didn't really see any difference in quality. You are limited by screen resolution.
These are samples of how some of the better shooters here size for posting. Some reduce the dimensions and leave the dpi at 300 and some set the dpi to 72 and reduce the dimensions. They all look sharp to me.
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