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Photo of the day: September 2013

BarryJ said:
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So, your post says you edited it to add the salmon. I reckon then that's a photoshop job and the one you caught was >this< big! :p :D
 
someoldguy said:
Yup ... I had a circular polarizer on the lens to bring out the clouds, darken the sky and cut glare off the windows of the buildings (they haven't been cleaned for 80 years or so in most cases)
The high iso is because I was wandering around looking into the buildings through the windows . ( Other people were doing it also , guess the cops were in the donut shop :rolleyes:)Needed a high iso to get a decent shutter speed for inside shots . Seeing as I was going from building to building on a self guided tour , I would have been bouncing the iso up and down all day .I had brought a small flash , but that wasn't gonna work as the crud was on the inside ,the light would have bounced back ; a tripod would have helped,except there wasn't a stable place to put one in many cases.Rather than let my gear get in the way and complicate things , the flash and tripod went back to the car and I kept the ISO high.
I know from having had the 5D2 for a couple of years , and many thousands of images , that an iso 800 image will print out just fine up to 18x24 , maybe bigger . There's not a whole lot of graininess , if any , in the printouts . With the 5D2 , I've found that I can go up to around iso 2500 or so without worrying about print quality , at least to my aging eyes .
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Thanks for the info. I wasn't criticising by the way, just curious about the workflow/thought pattern.

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Doylem said:
Being "in the right place at the right time" is an example of good timing.

When I'm out in the landscape, I'm always amazed how quickly (most) other photographers shoot. They get to a spot where things look nice, raise the camera up, press the shutter, and that’s that. They must think of taking a photo as a moment, and the landscape as unchanging... so that any one moment is as good as any other.

Another way of shooting is to think of it as an event, a process, with a start and a finish and an indeterminate amount of time between. The landscape does change... though the changes will be most obvious on a day with some clouds, rather than a sky of uninterrupted blue.

The ‘luck’ in capturing a pic at just the right moment comes from perseverance (“the harder I work, the luckier I get”, as golfer Gary Player used to say). It can also come from being patient. If you stay in one location for 2 minutes, with the hope of capturing a special play of light, the odds are stacked against you. If you are prepared to wait (ten minutes, half an hour, two hours, who knows), you are stacking the odds in your favour.

I used to rush around, trying to fit as many locations as possible into a day’s photography. But I realised - eventually - that if the light is poor in one place, it might be just as poor ten miles away. It’s possible to walk a long way, or use half a tank of petrol, and still not get acceptable pix. It’s also a stressful, ‘results driven’ way of taking pictures.

So now I stay longer in a location: taking time to explore, see things from different angles and relax into the landscape. I find I actually get more acceptable pix by slowing down, rather than being in a hurry. If there are ‘magic’ moments, I’ll be there to catch them: camera on tripod, exposure values set, cable release in hand. Of course, being patient doesn’t guarantee that nature will cooperate, and there are plenty of days when I go home empty-handed. But non-productive days are part of the process too: watching and waiting and being ready.

Somebody passed me a couple of days ago, as I was standing by my tripod, and said “What are you waiting for?” I said “I’m not sure... but I’ll know it when I see it”...
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Such wisdom. Being new, I'm still always wanting to come back with a shot. Sometimes in nature, if its not the right time, its not the right time.

I will try and apply this idea next time I get a day to go shooting.
 
Apple fanboy said:
Wow that takes me back. Had a few summer holidays in Nice when I was a kid. Nice (see what I did there?) shot btw!
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Thanks for saying its a nice Nice shot! You must have been rich if you stayed at the Negresco though! :) We stayed somewhere more modest about five minutes walk away. Dinner at a restaurant with tables outside then a stroll down to the promenade. Beautiful! I love Nice. Actually, this particular day I took photos before dinner. I have another one from the following week when it was darker which I'll post soon.
 
Ish said:
Thanks for saying its a nice Nice shot! You must have been rich if you stayed at the Negresco though! :) We stayed somewhere more modest about five minutes walk away. Dinner at a restaurant with tables outside then a stroll down to the promenade. Beautiful! I love Nice. Actually, this particular day I took photos before dinner. I have another one from the following week when it was darker which I'll post soon.
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Lol we didn't stay there!

Picture a caravan and about 40deg C with no AC!
 
fcortese said:
a) jealous
b) which city?
c) nice photo, looking for more!
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a) I understand. Was the trip of a lifetime :)
b) Rome for that photo, though we also went to Capri, Amalfi, and Naples.
c) Thanks :) Still sorting through "snapshots that had meaning because of the trip" and photos that are objectively interesting.

Throwing this out there for today. Pantheon in Rome.

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Many of the photos I took were taken during the day with sub-optimal lighting. Vacation trip foremost and not specifically intended for photography. Have some twilight/morning/night shots which I may end up posting though.
 
Naples

Posting a little bit early.

Naples is a cesspool. One of the few places I've visited in my life where I really felt uncomfortable.

Going to post a short series of photos that I feel summarize my feelings of Naples. Graffiti everywhere, trash everywhere. Overall sense of feeling unsafe.

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ijohn.8.80 said:
Beautiful colours and tones to this one Peter. The cloud formations are quite unusual with that wispiness and the boat is perfectly placed in the suns reflection.

Nicely timed! ;)
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Thanks John. We enjoyed several beautiful sunsets on our trip - something we don't see very often at home unless you consider the unusual colours created by the sun setting through the smog.

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Another view of the Lobster Cove lighthouse - at dusk:

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This one taken in Naples near the one from yesterday. Across from the archeology museum. The arches from the pic from yesterday opened into a lovely interior space on the left. Beautiful inside. Unfortunately it reeked of urine.

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Doylem said:
Beautiful... Love that bank of cloud and the way it 'sets off' the buildings...
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Thanks! That day was great for photography (less for humans). Here is another one. The water in the background is one of the fjords in Jutland, northern Denmark. I am standing on a 2500 yr old burial mound, perhaps not respectfully.
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Captured this handheld yesterday in the front yard. I have never seen a fly preparing its digestive juices before. Still no flash usage from me, so kept it at f/8 for this one.

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