What places will you visit? Will you visit the cemeteries as well? If you're in the eastern parts of the netherlands (like here I can be your liaison...
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Photo of the Day - March 2010
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What places will you visit? Will you visit the cemeteries as well? If you're in the eastern parts of the netherlands (like here I can be your liaison...
We arrive in Amsterdam on Wednesday and settle into the hotel and give the students some free time after hours of airports and traveling time. On Thursday we have a guided tour of the city with a visit to Anne Frank House in the afternoon. Friday is the Madurodam and the Hague then to Brussels and the site of Battle of Waterloo. Saturday is Ypres including Paeschendale, Sunday is Vimy Ridge. Sunday is the Somme, Caen. Monday is Normandy including Juno Beach. Tuesday is Dieppe and Wednesday is more of a sight-seeing day in Paris. We fly home on the Thursday... whew. While the trip is a history lesson for students, I'm looking forward to the photo ops and European landscapes.
The intense blue is the result of a color polarizing filter (not the same as a standard circ polarizer). I only made a couple of minor tweaks in post (small levels adjustment, sharpening, etc. in Aperture).
D700
16-35mm Nikon lens @ 35mm
ISO 200
f/11
1/30 sec
Sydney
That photo of the Harbour Bridge (which was stunning and made any photos I'd taken of the thing seem pointless) made me want to put this up from a while back.
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That photo of the Harbour Bridge (which was stunning and made any photos I'd taken of the thing seem pointless) made me want to put this up from a while back.
Sounds like a great, but tiring, trip. I assume you will travel around by coach? You won't come closer to where I live, so I can't be of much assistance. ( but don't hesitate to ask) Have lots of fun and don't forget to show us the photo's when you get back.
Loch Fyne, Argyll, Scotland
After looking at that photo, I feel like climbing that mountain. I just have to climb it!
Love it
I love the color range in this! It feels delightfully eerie. Fantastic shot.
This is my cat Bill. I was outside, looking in at him through a house window.
Taken a while back, right before the lights went out...
I love the color range in this! It feels delightfully eerie. Fantastic shot.
This is my cat Bill. I was outside, looking in at him through a house window.
Loch Fyne, Argyll, Scotland
I know I've got a soft spot for scottisch mountains, but this is great. I agree, this photo makes me want to climb it.
Loch Fyne, Argyll, Scotland
I'd rather hang out at the cool castle than freeze my arse off on the mountain personally, but an absolutely beautiful photo all the same.
verry nicceee panning shot, i want to be able to get good like that. is the whole key to zoom in and focus, then to just pan with them to get that motion blur? or it doesn't matter about the focal length.
Thanks!
Focal length has nothing special to do with it really. That photo is a crop. The trick is to shoot shutter priority, pick a good shutter speed for your position and relative speeds of the cars, and practice. Slower shutter speeds get you better blur, but less chance of good focus. Pick a spot on the car and stay on it while panning, like the drivers helmet, or his mirror, etc.
It also helps to have equipment that provides excellent autofocus. I use a Nikon D200 with a Nikkor AFS 70-200/2.8 VR.
I'm working on getting my galleries moved, but what's done is at http://racetripper.smugmug.com
Great Blue Heron. Nisqually Delta Wildlife Refuge. Not real great, but an interesting bird. That thing you want out of there is a cat tail out in the marsh.
EXIF Summary: 1/60s f/6.3 ISO100 Tamron 28-300 VC@300mm
EXIF Summary: 1/60s f/6.3 ISO100 Tamron 28-300 VC@300mm
It's a first draft edit. Shot it tonight, with temperature around 40 degrees. Still debating on what I like and dislike about it.
Andy Bloxham Photography
It's a draft, so I'll think away the misalignment visible at the upper corner of the shelving. I get a sense of vulnerability/'childhood lost' from this one, but I had to work at it to come up with that reading--maybe because of the broken mirror(?) on the floor. I can't tell what it is, but its placement and lighting tell me it should be an important clue to decoding the concept here.
Settle Station...
Lovely photo! It has a very romantic quality about it. It looks like the perfect setting for a chapter in a great love story, which leaves me wishing there were a character or two in the foreground to flesh out the story.
It's a first draft edit. Shot it tonight, with temperature around 40 degrees. Still debating on what I like and dislike about it.
Andy Bloxham Photography
I very much like this shot. You were able to add a lot of different items to the scene, but your excellent control of lighting brings out what is important in the image. Nicely done.
Found these in my side yard today , thought the squirrels got them all .
iso100 f5.6@320 100mm macro , 5d mk2
iso100 f5.6@320 100mm macro , 5d mk2
^^^ Great colors and composition. This is one of the best mountain photos to come up lately. The castle is a wonderful touch. How long did it take you to move it in there?Loch Fyne, Argyll, Scotland
^^^ I find the composition intriguing. The lighting is nice and moody. I could critique it better if I knew the feeling you wanted to convey. I'm not distracted by the upper shelf plane. It's natural perspective and not too radical.
It's a first draft edit. Shot it tonight, with temperature around 40 degrees. Still debating on what I like and dislike about it.
Andy Bloxham Photography
^^^ Very nice colors in this. A sharp image, too. The only comment I have is that it is centered. It would be less static if the flowers were off to one side a bit.Found these in my side yard today , thought the squirrels got them all .
iso100 f5.6@320 100mm macro , 5d mk2
^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ Please observe the One Photo Per Day rule that has been in place here since 2006.
Dale
Just round the corner from where I live, wanted to capture all 3 lights on at the same time, that's about it.
iso400/ f13/ 30s/ Canon 1000D
iso400/ f13/ 30s/ Canon 1000D