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Photo of the Day - May 2009
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Nice. This might be too "busy" for some folks, but I really like the complexity. Not to mention the great reflections in a couple of the droplets.
I love how you made the eyes really pop on this little guy! Great composition too, especially considering it's not cropped.
Here's a little guy I caught on his way to a meal.
C&C appreciated!
what do you guys think of this one?
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I love blue. Cool shot...
Lol, good point. Guess I shall rephrase, a single post with a single IMG filePeople can still post the next one the following day
Don't forget to add the "t" in front of "img" to make it a thumbnail if you want to quote.
My scroll wheel's wearing out...
I love blue. Cool shot...
Thank you gkarris. I just wish i knew what i was trying to do when i edit the raws. Like is the histogram supposed to look a certain way, or what? Basically how do i know i editted correctly other than looking at the final product and going... "Yeah, i guess that's it".
There are 3 main things you need to know and do when editing your raws, unfortunately, nobody knows what they are...
(yeah, I guess that's it...)
Somehow I missed these shots at the bottom of the page from yesterday.
Looks a bit too soft overall (could be due to compression), but I love the reflections!
I had been planning to do an example like this myself for the photography club I joined. Most of the people in the club are just beginning and are still using point-and-shoot cameras without much concern for light or composition. So I was planning to do a good-vs-bad light comparison to include with my PowerPoint presentation on composition. I hope you wouldn't mind me sharing these photos with them.
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Haven't posted in probably a year.
No name, no photoshop except WB, and a slight adjustment to the colour yellow. I took these photos of my step-dad's flowers in my parents' bedroom. These were taken 3 weeks ago, maybe?
He asked me to take a few photos of the flowers so that he can show someone, and so I did. However, when I started to shoot, I went a bit nuts with the photos.
Looks a bit too soft overall (could be due to compression), but I love the reflections!
Two images today, but exactly the same subject, so I hope that's OK.
They kinda sum up what I feel about light: it's nature's Photoshop...
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I had been planning to do an example like this myself for the photography club I joined. Most of the people in the club are just beginning and are still using point-and-shoot cameras without much concern for light or composition. So I was planning to do a good-vs-bad light comparison to include with my PowerPoint presentation on composition. I hope you wouldn't mind me sharing these photos with them.
I'm really glad you liked my pic! Working with extension tubes is actually pretty hard, but nothing compared to getting a butterfly in midair. Congrats!
These are my babies: Kissing bugs, Panstrongylus geniculatus, vectors for Chagas disease (I'm studying their feeding behavior for my thesis).
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That's fine: just the usual fee...
Great.
Just put it on my tab. If you happen to have a comparison of harsh light versus vs. golden early morning/late afternoon light, I hope you'll post that one too!
If anyone is wondering what place lighting comparisons have in a presentation on composition, the answer is none, really. Nonetheless, I really want to include a preface and perhaps also an afterword on light to emphasize that no amount of good composition can make up for bad light. Light is of course a topic that really deserves a presentation of its own, and I may well do one in a subsequent meeting, even though that presentation would be better handled by a landscape photographer like Doylem. I'll gladly give it my best shot, though...fools rush in where angels fear to tread...
Nice photo (very unpleasant disease)! This is some of my thesis work...
A very talented microscopist (not me) took this for me on a scanning electron microscope. The subject is a Streptomyces coelicolor colony, and the diameter of the photo is about 0.009mm across!
Back to the 'proper' photos next time
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another flower shot with my 28mm f4 "prime". this reminds me of cake for some reason.
@weezy thanks and nice capture...
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@AlaskaMoose omg so sharp![Willow_2980b.jpg]()
