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Photo of the Day - July 2012

where are your pics?


Pompiliu said:
There's nothing to edit. You should have deleted the image in the camera. ;)

Nice. Really love the wood texture and the editing.


Are you serious? That a cool snapshot to share with your family, not a photography to share on the forums.:roll eyes:
Next time think before you post and don't waste others peoples time with that pic. Remenber, photography isn't for everyone!


Strong image. You have a good eye. :D


Relax dude, it's a great photo. I like that you didn't cut the fireworks. Good job!:)
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Thanks P and avro!

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With the amount of DR there your shot took me as surprised, unfamiliarly clean for something from a K20D... then I checked the EXIF ;)
Nice to see another K-5 adopter, well done and welcome to the club :)


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TheReef said:
Thanks P and avro!
With the amount of DR there your shot took me as surprised, unfamiliarly clean for something from a K20D... then I checked the EXIF ;)
Nice to see another K-5 adopter, well done and welcome to the club :)
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Thanks! Yeah, it's amazing what you can pull out of the shadows with this camera :) Love the camera and its size and ergonomy, LiveView implementation with its great CD AF and so on. I think this was the first real shoot with the new camera. But I think the clarity has a lot to do with the weather that day, just beautiful and clean post storm sky, best sky of this year so far :)

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Very nice balance of light, how long did you wait for that boat? :)
 
gnd said:
Thanks! Yeah, it's amazing what you can pull out of the shadows with this camera :) Love the camera and its size and ergonomy, LiveView implementation with its great CD AF and so on. I think this was the first real shoot with the new camera. But I think the clarity has a lot to do with the weather that day, just beautiful and clean post storm sky, best sky of this year so far :)
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Love that time :) I think it's that the far mountains have a quality I also see in P's photographs where they have more DR than they normally would with a ND grad on it's own. Did you lift shadows or uniwb?

Yes I agree, I find with the DA 40mm Ltd you often forget it's a DSLR. I think everything about it knocks the socks of the K20D, the K20D did feel really great in the hand, especially with the grip but I'll need a K-5 grip to make a fair comparison. The shadow noise was the biggest killer on the K20D imho, the K-5 blows it away. My feeling is a shot like that on a K20D would exhibit more noise in the shadows on the mountains, I may be exaggerating this but it did bother me quite a bit. :eek:

I'm still keeping the K20D as a backup and for some events, it's prominent size with the grip attached portrays you as more "important" which is useful when you need corporation and people clear from the view of your lens :p

gnd said:
Very nice balance of light, how long did you wait for that boat? :)
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Thanks, there were many boats around busy Sydney, so not long at all :)
 
TheReef said:
Thanks P and avro!



With the amount of DR there your shot took me as surprised, unfamiliarly clean for something from a K20D... then I checked the EXIF ;)
Nice to see another K-5 adopter, well done and welcome to the club :)


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A redux, this time w/o the umbrellas open. Nice.:)
 
Japanese Water Iris

Nikon D700 w-Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8 @ f/11-70mm 1/200sec. ISO 200 - RAW
Levels and curves set in CS6.
The late afternoon light was so nice for about 2 min.
 

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TheReef said:
Thanks P and avro!



With the amount of DR there your shot took me as surprised, unfamiliarly clean for something from a K20D... then I checked the EXIF ;)
Nice to see another K-5 adopter, well done and welcome to the club :)


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Nice one! That eatery must be the most photographed one at Circular Quay. I remember being there myself once with cameras at the ready. :cool:

I'm going to head down there myself again - but not soon since I've torn a calf-muscle. My leg, ankle and foot is all taped up at the moment. Bl*#dy irritating.
 
Boulder, CO Fire

Here is a shot of the fire on the mountains behind Boulder, CO.

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D5100 - 30s - f5.6 - ISO 2000
 
I'm quite new to photography. Been browsing this thread for a while but this is my first contribution. Any comments and critique would definitely be appreciated.

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Canon T2i - 18-55mm @ 43mm - f/16 5.0s ISO 800
 
^^^ C & C? Well, in the best pix on the Pic of the Day you can see what it was that excited the photographer... why s/he decided to stop right there and then to press the shutter. But I don't get this feeling with your shot; I just don't know what made you pick this composition. If you want to show the light trails of cars, you might look for a composition that makes more of a feature of them. Similarly, with night photography, you might look for a scene that looks good at that time of day. A floodlit building, for example...

Everything's leaning to the right. Yes, that can be fixed in PP, but it suggests that you're not really looking hard enough about what you put into a pic and - just as importantly - what you leave out.

Oh, and welcome... :)
 
Last night I finally got to looking through my fireworks shots on the 4th. There wasn't a good background to show them against, so I just focused on the shapes they made in the sky. A few came out really interesting looking.

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Getting around to processing my July 4 photos. I've never seen a firework quite this color before. It was beautiful in person and came out well in a photo. :)

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My First Fireworks shoot. Obviously some Camera Shake, waited to long to order a Shutter Release.
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Doylem said:
^^^ C & C? Well, in the best pix on the Pic of the Day you can see what it was that excited the photographer... why s/he decided to stop right there and then to press the shutter. But I don't get this feeling with your shot; I just don't know what made you pick this composition. If you want to show the light trails of cars, you might look for a composition that makes more of a feature of them. Similarly, with night photography, you might look for a scene that looks good at that time of day. A floodlit building, for example...

Everything's leaning to the right. Yes, that can be fixed in PP, but it suggests that you're not really looking hard enough about what you put into a pic and - just as importantly - what you leave out.

Oh, and welcome... :)
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Thanks. I never really thought if it that way, but it's funny because you're exactly right. I took that pic in the back of my friends apartment while we were waiting for fireworks to start, pretty much just messing around trying to learn more about the exposure settings. I did some work with video in school so I have a basic understanding of it, but I've been trying to get more used to it. That was the only shot that I could take that wasn't of a brick wall.

I think I've got a better idea of what I actually need to do now when I go out shooting. I'll be back soon with something new.

Lots of great photos on here btw!
 
Just purchased my first DSLR (Canon 60D). Snapped this pic messing around with it around the house. Got a lot to learn, but its been fun so far.

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