Through the Looking Glass [PHOTO THREAD]
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Just in case you have a Canon point and shoot:
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Just in case you have a Canon point and shoot:
http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Supercharge_Your_Camera_with_Open-Source_CHDK_Firmware#What_You.27ll_Need
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One of my first attempts at an HDR shot. This is a Playground in Port Moody, shot with a Sony Alpha 350k DSLR using the 18-70 kit lens at f/3.5 with 1/60 exposure. The raw was imported into Aperture, versioned to adjust the exposures, then exported to Photomatix. I played with the tone mapping until I came up with this, which felt more true to what I remembered in the shot. I like the result.
This made me chuckle. The government telling people to stay off Native land. Hiyo! It was a brighter day, I enjoyed the way the colours popped and the how the shadows fell. Sony A350k again, this time with a Minolta 50mm prime at f/2.2 with a 1/4000 exposure at ISO 400.
Canon XSi for this one, with an IS lens at 80mm. It's a little blown out - but I thought it looked sharp. f/13, 1/200.
This is such a nice photo. Feels right out of the 70s.
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I shot it at f/2.8 but it's on 6x6 medium format at 80mm so it's pretty shallow. That's also why there's dust and junk on it - I didn't clean the chrome completely when I scanned it. It's Provia 100F if anyone's interested.
This couple asked me to take engagement photos for them which I did as a gift. I was thrilled when they used them in their announcement, and even thrilleder to attend their reception tonight and find they had printed out enlargements -- which turned out gorgeous, in my biased opinion -- and displayed them in large vertical triptych frames all around the ballroom floor. I didn't stipulate that my name appear anywhere, so, no publicity, but I really enjoyed seeing that they enjoyed them. There were a lot I liked from their shoot but this one stands out to me.
Since doing more portrait photography lately, I've been bored with other subjects. I need to exercise my landscape/abstract/geometry skills more, I think.
The engagement shot is good but I would consider cropping in on the bottom about 1/6th of the way to get rid of the point of her blouse - it's distracting and draws your eyes outside of the frame.
Went hiking a few weeks ago and found a hollow river (frozen on the top and you know, hollow underneath)...
Some photos I took when out with my boy.
PS: Getting a 28mm F/2.8, from nikkor, is this awesome [Y/N]?
freeman: I stared at that picture for a long while before I gave up on trying to figure it out and just read it. That is one hell of a find.
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This is really, really cool. But there's a visual illusion and I can't figure out if I'm seeing it "right" or not. At first glance it looks like you took the picture from above the ice and rocks with the top of the frame being furthest away. But then, because the running water looks like it's dropping from a ceiling, I started seeing the top of the frame be closest to the camera as if you were shooting from between the rocks and ice. Either way, it's awesome.
Away from my PC, so these are older:
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As for the borders, I used this guide --
http://www.flickr.com/groups/adobe_lightroom/discuss/72157603747748847/?search=borders
Lightroom enabled, YES. Had to make a donation to get the Mogrify plugin, but it's worth it I think.
Thanks!
Also, your hollow river picture is blowing my mind just slightly, in a Jules Verne sort of way.
Anable - Can't say either do much for me. The 1st doesn't present the bending river (which I assume is the intended subject) in any interesting or primary way, and the second is rather boring except for maybe the contrast between the blacks and whites in the two mountains.
Placer - You can do that and just about any type of borders in Photoshop if you want, it's all just a matter of the canvas size option.
I like this quite a bit. Good flow and nice contrast. It works really well in black and white.
Yeah, that's pretty valid. I didn't like the first picture myself very much, but I had a lot of people comment on it saying they liked it. I never could figure out why. :P The second one is a personal favorite so you broke my heart with that one.
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Threepio - like the playground shot a lot. The saturation contrasts nicely with the stormy clouds. There's something about the composition that I don't love. Maybe it's the height of the camera? Like if you had crouched down perhaps that would be better? I'm not sure - just something to ponder I guess. Still - very nice!
Saltiness - I love the Golden Gate Portrait! That's all I can say - top notch!
Pilcrow - I love the tulips. Composition is fine! The quality of the light is spectacular! The portrait is very very good, too. There are many people on my other photo forum (texasphotoforum) who are professionals whose portraits are not that fine.
Freeman - Hollow River is way cool. I wish the "horizon" line weren't so close to being centered, but the colors and whatnot are great!
Flyingman - I agree on the parking garage shot. It's nice.
anable - I definitely prefer the prarie-dog shots, and of them the first is the most interesting. Very fine!!
This dude was about 4mm wide. It was windy and he was swaying in the wind, getting a good pic was tough!
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Indeed it is. The shots were at f/5.6 and f/6.3 respectively, but they are from my prime 200mmL.
Freeman- This picture blows my mind, I've never even heard of anything like that before. Very cool picture! I would love to see more like it. How thick was the ice? I"m assuming it wasn't thick enough to walk on.
flyingman- I really like the shades of the sky and clouds in contrast with the concrete.
Anable- I like the prairiedogs, but the blurriness at the top of the first picture, along with the way the grass is patterned makes my eyes cross. I really like the prairie dogs expressions and the detail of the shot. Where were those taken at?
Erisian- I like the detail on the spider, especially with the tiny hairs. How close did you have to get to it to take that? 4mm is pretty tiny, especially if its blowing in the wind. I'd be afraid the wind would blow it right onto my face.
I went camping this past weekend to Maquoketa Caves State Park, in Iowa. I was hoping to get pictures of the caves, but I had to decide if I wanted to take pictures, or go in the caves. I decided on spelunking rather than photography, I didn't want to do both since I didn't want my camera to get muddy or broken (you had to crawl through the caves). But I did get a bunch of shots at our campsite. I love taking pictures of people, which I don't get to do very often.
Here is our campsite. I really like taking pictures in the morning when the sun isn't too bright.
My friend Amy and I found a nice patch of ferns about 50 meters behind our campsite. They were very pretty.
On our way back home we decided to stop at an abandoned house to eat lunch inside of it. The floors looked too rotted and dangerous, so instead we ate outside on the side of the road. Here is my friend Cathy eating watermelon.
These next two are both of Cathy eating watermelon, but I cant decide which one is better (if either are good at all). Does the truck take away from the picture? I really like the bumper sticker in contrast with the watermelon.
And a windmill farm. Windmills are awesome pieces of machinery.
I always wonder, would these pictures be better people were not in them? Do I only like them because I have an emotional attachment to the people, like pet photos? I would love any crits on these pictures.
Just a local park here in Oklahoma. Nothing too special.
I'm glad you bring this up because in a lot of ways it's very easy to turn people photos into pet photos. I think the most important thing is to ask yourself: if this were a stranger in my picture, would it still be a good photo? I think some of your pictures work better than others. For the first one, it's a bit boring. It's just a campsite in the woods. There's nothing really that separates it from any other campsite. The ferns shot I think it cool. You don't see giant patches of ferns every day, so that's interesting and the person helps give it scale that it otherwise wouldn't have. The watermelon/truck shots are on the fence between the two: slightly interesting, but probably means more to you than most people.
Thanks for the feedback! I might mosey out there this weekend and see if I can capture it from a different angle. I was standing on a concrete flower box trying to capture the sense of being an adult looking in on a child's world, maybe I'll try to see it from the other viewpoint this time
Now that's an interesting perspective to try to capture. I wonder what else you could do to strengthen that interpretation? Maybe a wider lens to make it all a little further away and smaller? Hmm.
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EDIT:
Here's a link to the search results on B&H for macro, and filtered to only be Nikon film cameras:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=search&A=search&Q=&ci=0&sb=ps&sq=desc&ac=&bsi=&bhs=t&shs=nikon+macro&ci=8433&basicSubmit=Submit+Query
There's one result that says * Sigma* USA - Telephoto 105mm f/2.8 EX DG Macro Autofocus Lens for Nikon AF - That's the same basic lens that I am using for my shots, including the tiny spider.
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In general you will have a lens that is faster (smaller f-stop number) and sharper if you pick a "prime" lens (that's one that only has one focal length and no zoom, like the sigma I mentioned. That's a 105mm lens. Prime is the alternative to zoom lenses, like the 70-300. Usually a zoom is slower (larger f-stop numbers, like 70-300/3.5-5.6 versus 105/2.8 ... the /2.8 is faster) and less crisp than a prime. That's my $0.02 take it for what it's worth.
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This information, along with some basic photography tips, should be added to the OP from now on. I comes up quite a bit. The book that I recall being brought up a few times is Understanding Exposure.