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Photo of the day: September 2011

Keleko said:
Nurse, could you... um... nevermind...

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Needles aside, I don't think I'd want to see a nurse coming at me with a wrench either...

"What are you planning to use that on?" :eek:

Keleko, this has been a really neat series you've been posting, although I can't even pretend to understand the point of the parade.
 
spitfirejd said:
Needles aside, I don't think I'd want to see a nurse coming at me with a wrench either...

"What are you planning to use that on?" :eek:

Keleko, this has been a really neat series you've been posting, although I can't even pretend to understand the point of the parade.
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I looked it up. DragonCon is/was a big comic/sifi convention. The parade was just what you see on the inside of these things but out on the street. These people love to play dress-up. Google DragonCon Parade and have a look at some of the costumes. They are amazing. I think Keleko has a link to a gallery of his photos in the first post of this.

Dale
 
mtbdudex said:
Looking at her left hand, gotta wonder is she related to Wolverine....
What time period in history is she supposed to represent?
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She's in a steampunk themed outfit, so there's not specific time in history. Steampunk is usually focused around the late 1800's to early 1900's, though.

spitfirejd said:
Needles aside, I don't think I'd want to see a nurse coming at me with a wrench either...

"What are you planning to use that on?" :eek:

Keleko, this has been a really neat series you've been posting, although I can't even pretend to understand the point of the parade.
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Designer Dale said:
I looked it up. DragonCon is/was a big comic/sifi convention. The parade was just what you see on the inside of these things but out on the street. These people love to play dress-up. Google DragonCon Parade and have a look at some of the costumes. They are amazing. I think Keleko has a link to a gallery of his photos in the first post of this.

Dale
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Dale has it right. Dragon*Con is an annual comic/fantasy/scifi convention every Labor Day weekend. Saturday morning of that weekend is the parade of costumes and vehicles. There's quite a wide variety of themes and outfits, and I'm trying to show off that variety in the photos I share here. The parade is quite popular, too. The sidewalks are pretty crowded for the 1/2 mile or so the parade routes through downtown Atlanta. I have actually been to the con several times in the past, but for some reason I was always busy the Saturday mornings of the parade. This year I was not attending the con itself, and I was able to go to the parade and take these photos.

I have almost 150 photos I uploaded from the parade that I'm picking from to share. If you want to see them all, they're available at this link.

http://gerg1967.smugmug.com/Street-Scenes/DragonCon-Parade-Sep-3-2011/18854226_7RV5BH#1461204124_KCMcWFK
 
mtbdudex said:
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Canidate for leading lines photos also....
Was this taken handheld or tripod on the bridge?
Somehow it seems just slightly soft, if focus then some portion still would be sharp, bridge vibration possibly?
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Thanks for the kind words (and a thanks to everyone for the replies to my other photos posted previously in this thread).

I was thinking about leading lines when I shot it. I also took a generic postcard photo from the same spot only including the Bay Bridge, but I thought the posted photo was a bit more interesting.

Taken handheld with a rangefinder camera and 35mm lens.

Both the foreground and background are actually sharp in the master, even when examined with a loupe. Any perceived softness is coming from the smaller file size of the web image or Aperture's conversion to a smaller file size. The focal point was the man in the foreground, but the aperture was small enough for the focal length of the lens that the Bay Bridge was also sharp.

Shooting with a rangefinder camera has been extremely helpful to me in learning photography. The biggest help has been in composition: since the viewfinder includes more of the scene that what the sensor sees, it is like shooting with a cropping tool active. It's easy to see what will be included and excluded in the final image.

Being forced to shoot in manual mode has also been helpful. This applies to both exposure (though aperture-priority is still an option) and more specifically to focus. I'm using the depth-of-field indicators on my lens for the first time, something I never did with my DSLR. It's made me really think about the applied physics of optics involved in shooting.

Wish someone would make an affordable digital rangefinder. Would be a great learning tool.

Here is a thumbnail of the postcard shot:

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Mt. Rainier Saturday morning from the company yard as I was loading my truck up for another trip to Montana.

(I hope this works, I've been having issues with Flickr lately)

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Japanese Tea Garden. Tomorrow's will be another pic from here (just to warn you). Beautiful and peaceful "tourist" spot in SF.
 
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Phrasikleia said:
Yes, very colorful and well seen. I might consider a crop at top, bottom, and right to trim out the less interesting areas and get us in closer to the row of spoons(?) and top blue glove. Nice one.
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More like this? The trolling spoons are used to catch salmon in the waters of SE Alaska :)



It has been a bit damp here lately....3.24 inches yesterday 2.3 so far today...
Hard on cameras...
 
Designer Dale said:
Interesting composition but it looks like a candidate for manual focus. I can't find enough crispness in the far field for it to be an effective visual center.

Dale
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Yes, after I got home I realized this. As a matter of fact we had started walking from this site and I looked in camera again and said to my wife that I needed to go back and re-shoot the scene with manual focus readjusted. She was not in favor of doing that at the moment so I deferred to her wishes. I was hoping it would come out OK when I uploaded it to my computer (wishful thinking!) I'll try to go back there tonight or tomorrow and try again.
 
Sadly, my vacation on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, is about to come to an end, but in the mean time, I thought I'd post a quick shot from yesterday morning. I used the Snapseed app that was recommended by others on here for a quick touch-up. Hopefully I'll have others worth sharing once I get home.

 
LumbermanSVO said:
Mt. Rainier Saturday morning from the company yard as I was loading my truck up for another trip to Montana.

(I hope this works, I've been having issues with Flickr lately)

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This is way cool, catching low lying fog is hard. Good capture.

kallisti said:
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Japanese Tea Garden. Tomorrow's will be another pic from here (just to warn you). Beautiful and peaceful "tourist" spot in SF.
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I work for a Japanese auto OE and have visited Japan many times, this hits home. I gotta wonder if that is a golf iron divot mark I see at the bottom 1/3 point or a tree root showing thru...Japanese love golf as much as their gardens....ok, it's in SF, not Japan, still I can sense the peace there.

Doylem said:
Dunnerdale...

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Love this wide open shot, and there are so many....shapes in the clouds my kids and I see 3 Disney characters!

Mine for today...
This guy lives under our deck in the huge boulders, have not seen him since we got Leia. Taken 4 weeks ago, he was about 75 feet from me in our backyard. I'm finally processing and filing them.
Got this from the deck, when I got at eye level he saw me and scooted back into his zone.
He was just munching away on the grass.
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Took this a while ago. Composition was so interesting u keep coming back to it!


It's a large image...

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Oh Noooo, Say It Ain't So...

I went out to re-shoot a picture I submitted yesterday to try to get the focus right (see thumbnail below). On the way home I walked past this tree and saw that the season change is already upon us out here in the Mountain West! Boy, what a short summer we just had. Temps at night are in the low 40's with a reading of 38 (degrees F for those on the metric system) two night ago.

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Dale, here's my re-do:
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