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"Photo of the day" - June 2008
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Use an external hosting site (ImageShack for me), then cut and paste the link once you've clicked the yellow 'pic' icon above...
The colours are too vibrant and the over processed look to it. It's so glossy and shiny...argh my eyes!
Just got a new Nikon 50mm f/1.4. It was by far the best $100 i have ever spent! I have so many pictures...enough to last the rest of this month and then next month hahahahaha.
Coming In For a Landing.
NIkon D50
Shutter : 1/2000
Aperture : f/1.8
Focal Length : 50mm
ISO : 200
C&C is always welcome!
Coming In For a Landing.
NIkon D50
Shutter : 1/2000
Aperture : f/1.8
Focal Length : 50mm
ISO : 200
C&C is always welcome!
Vienna: (t)rain station
Nikon D40, 30mm
Incredible! Love it!
Nothing new here, so I guess I'll fall back on some of my "real" work.. (Sorry for the crude watermark but I usually don't upload valuable pics..)
In any case I leave tomorrow for France, so hopefully I'll have alot more to show you all soon.
It all depends on what you were used to -- that was one thing that drove me crazy in Maui, I spent several days trying to find out an actual temperature number, but all anyone would say was "bitterly cold" and suggest parkas.
Turns out for a Canuck it was cold enough to require a sweater, but that was it.
But is sure is a beautiful sight!
Sorry, I know this is a "Digital Photography" thread (no?) but, I'm going to bend the rules and post a digital scan of an actual film-based photo; shot with a Holga 120N. No photoshopping involved other than to save the scanned negative as a jpg:
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I think the rules for the picture-of-the-day topic allow non-digital work, as long as you don't post the same picture twice!
The Holgas look like a lot of fun but I've not had the chance to try one. Plus I don't have the right lens for 120 film for my enlarger!
Fantastic!Vienna: (t)rain station
Nikon D40, 30mm
This is really great! Awesome color, especially her eyes.
Try to remember to keep it to one photo per day, at least that way you can get more feedback, even if it's intention is to clean up the thread a bit.
Sorry, I know this is a "Digital Photography" thread (no?) but, I'm going to bend the rules and post a digital scan of an actual film-based photo; shot with a Holga 120N. No photoshopping involved other than to save the scanned negative as a jpg:
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Really nice work. I know how hard Holga negatives are to print in the darkroom, it must have been a pain to scan correctly, too.
Topiary anyone?
Doylem - I enjoy a lot of your images, but have you cranked up your saturation more than usual here? The green is very green and the sky has a similar effect for the blues. If there was one element that seemed too much between the two, I think it's the sky. A bit of a tone down there, a horizon level, and, well my eye would still probably go to the light area of the house - but it's a lovely building.
I've been out doing a shoot of a local public golf course. This is a view from the clubhouse deck, with the 1st hole on the left, 9th hole coming back in on the right. C&C welcomed.
Canon Rebel XTi
EF-S 18-55mm Lens
ISO 100
F/8.0
1/160
18mm
Lightroom 1.4.1
Canon Rebel XTi
EF-S 18-55mm Lens
ISO 100
F/8.0
1/160
18mm
Lightroom 1.4.1
Sometimes the jokes work...sometimes they don't.
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Camera: Nikon D300
Exposure: 0.017 sec (1/60)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 44 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Flash: Flash fired
Camera: Nikon D300
Exposure: 0.017 sec (1/60)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 44 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Flash: Flash fired
very, very cool. shame about the fringing, but it IS a fisheye, after all.
Sometimes the jokes work...sometimes they don't.
Camera: Nikon D300
Exposure: 0.017 sec (1/60)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 44 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Flash: Flash fired
great lighting, color, and composition. Love his expression, too.
I've been out doing a shoot of a local public golf course. This is a view from the clubhouse deck, with the 1st hole on the left, 9th hole coming back in on the right. C&C welcomed.
Judging by the shadows of the trees, you've shot this right in the middle of the day, with the sun almost directly overhead... which produces washed-out colours, an overall blue cast and little differentiation between foreground, middleground and background.
You can play around with adjustments in Photoshop... but it still won't look right. If you were to take the same shot early in the morning, or late afternoon/evening, you'd have directional side-lighting, more definition, and the colours would really 'sing'. Maybe a couple of golfers striding down the fairway too...
Colour saturation is a matter of taste; if you thinks it's too much, fair enough. But how could I level the horizon when it's level already?
There's no (visible) horizon at all, so I made sure the RH side of the building was vertical, 'cos that's where the eye is directed. If you slide the image over to the side of the screen, you can see it's spot-on. So I'm confused...
We agree... it's a lovely building... and some of the finest formal gardens in UK...
I agree with Doylem, the building is level. It's the fault of the hedge in the right foreground that makes the image look like it's not level. If you cover the hedge up the photo looks level. I hope you don't mind, I have taken the liberty of straightening up the hedge.Colour saturation is a matter of taste; if you thinks it's too much, fair enough. But how could I level the horizon when it's level already?
There's no (visible) horizon at all, so I made sure the RH side of the building was vertical, 'cos that's where the eye is directed. If you slide the image over to the side of the screen, you can see it's spot-on. So I'm confused...
We agree... it's a lovely building... and some of the finest formal gardens in UK...
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No, I don't mind, Father Jack, but the charm of these gardens is the combination of natural, organic shapes, and the rather severe pruning they've been getting these past 300 years. It's a job that needs scaffolding!
Cheers Doylem. The gardens look beautiful, but definitely wouldn't fancy the job of trimming all those hedges !!!