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Tak skal du ha' Annk.

Well you did say you liked it when men spoke Danish to you:eek:

840Quadra, I think this is a really good panning shot. The car is nice & sharp and the surroundings are blurred. You could have brought the shutter speed down even more to increase blurring and given the car space in the frame to move into. But those are minor details, it's a great capture.

Here is mine for today:

Kites; 08/09/06; Naxos, Greece

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freebooter said:
1600 iso?! That's pretty fine. Nice one.
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Thanks! I was in some very low light, and shooting handheld. I picked up a bit of noise, but fortunately the subject matter (textured as it is) was able to handle it.
 
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Daegu, South Korea
September 28, 2006
Fuji F30
f/2.8@1/280
iso 200
8.0 mm (~35mm f.f.)

Garlic is Korea's other national spice. In the late summer/fall large bundles of garlic can be purchased at any street market. The ones in the picture are small bundles. I'm not joking when I say that it is impossible to buy "a little garlic" here. This is good; I llove garlic. :)
 
The colours and composition in this image are fantastic freebooter. Have you desaturated?. I really like the way that the faded blues, browns and whites harmonize. Great image.
 
srf4real said:
Imo, your photo captures the aura of the event- focused enough to discern the movement of the subject in a fixed environment, clearly high speed. I like it.:)
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Thank you,

That is a good point and didn't think about it in that way :)

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Exposure- 1/640 sec at f/4.0
Flash - did not fire
metering mode - pattern
focal length - 50.8125 mm
lens 7.2-50.8 mm
Date 8/7/06

Taken at a local motocross event in Minnesota. This was 2 days before the national series event at Spring Creek MX Park (Millville Minnesota). This is one of the pro riders that came to the local small fair race to get in a few practice laps!
 
cookie1105 said:
How high; 18/09/06; Naxos, Greece

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Now that's what I'm talking about! It makes my palms sweaty just looking at this photo. Dang it, now my mouse is all slippery!

Great shot! I can't image what a thrill that would be.
 
freebooter said:
Daegu, South Korea
September 28, 2006
Fuji F30
f/2.8@1/280
iso 200
8.0 mm (~35mm f.f.)

Garlic is Korea's other national spice. In the late summer/fall large bundles of garlic can be purchased at any street market. The ones in the picture are small bundles. I'm not joking when I say that it is impossible to buy "a little garlic" here. This is good; I llove garlic. :)
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Mmm, garlic! I heard that if you consume large amounts of garlic, it keeps the mosquitoes away. Anyone know if that's true? Here in Minnesota it seems the only thing that makes those sneaky little critters disappear is snow.

Sweet shot! It almost seems like it could be tiled. That blue background complements the garlic perfectly.
 
Brora, Scotland, UK.
23 September, 2006

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I thought this was interesting, because I spent most of the day taking beautiful misty heathery hilly shots, but just as you go up these steps to the beach at Brora, this just stood out as almost science fictiony. The colours were so bright and saturated (it was a gorgeous day) it looked almost unreal.
 
Lau said:
Brora, Scotland, UK.
23 September, 2006

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I thought this was interesting, because I spent most of the day taking beautiful misty heathery hilly shots, but just as you go up these steps to the beach at Brora, this just stood out as almost science fictiony. The colours were so bright and saturated (it was a gorgeous day) it looked almost unreal.
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Is that Tellytubbyland? That lamppost in the middle of nowhere is a good touch. :)
 
cookie1105 said:
The colours and composition in this image are fantastic freebooter. Have you desaturated?. I really like the way that the faded blues, browns and whites harmonize. Great image.
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Thanks a "bunch". No desaturation was done.

Nice work with the action shots of late, by the way. Looks like fun.
 
Lau said:
Brora, Scotland, UK.
23 September, 2006

I thought this was interesting, because I spent most of the day taking beautiful misty heathery hilly shots, but just as you go up these steps to the beach at Brora, this just stood out as almost science fictiony. The colours were so bright and saturated (it was a gorgeous day) it looked almost unreal.
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That is a nice one. It reminds me of when I shot Kodachrome many moons ago.

Just by way of suggestion, not criticism, a little P.S. would make it even more unreal, i think. What I'm thinking about is cloning out that square metal plate in the grass at the base of the stairs and that bit of magenta cloud over by the blue roof at the left edge. I may be wrong but they don't seem to be needed for the composition, and serve to remind the viewer of the mundane.
 
Lau said:
Brora, Scotland, UK.
23 September, 2006

Brora, this just stood out as almost science fictiony.
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For me it invokes a "desolate land where all the inhabitants have died off from some infectious plague" kinda feeling.
 
Lau said:
Brora, Scotland, UK.
23 September, 2006

View attachment 58676
Click for larger.

I thought this was interesting, because I spent most of the day taking beautiful misty heathery hilly shots, but just as you go up these steps to the beach at Brora, this just stood out as almost science fictiony. The colours were so bright and saturated (it was a gorgeous day) it looked almost unreal.
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OMG, it's Windoze. :eek: :eek:

:D
 
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