Day 04: July 2010 Photo-a-Day Thread

[PopsPhotos]

High winds here, so the airial fireworks are cancelled. However, high winds give us nice sunsets:

From the camera

With ReDynaMix

My own PP version - selective PP on sky


Pops
http://tinypic.com/a/25x01/4

[Crovean]

"Gurgle, gurgle, wah, wah"... SPLATT!

(She looks as if she's about to enjoy smearing your expensive lens with baby-food!)

Not sure if a kit lens expensive enough lol :P but i was at a safe distance from her ^_^

[rick55]

Twist is interesting, Colin, but both sunset shots are great, especially the "cloud factory." There's so much there: silhouette, reflections, dynamic range. A great shot.

Cheers,
Rick

[rick55]

Nice image, Kit - I like the diagonals of the roof line and road. I'm curious, did you look at it in B&W? It has a fairly limited color range, so that might be something to try.

Cheers,
Rick

[Colin Southern]

Twist is interesting, Colin, but both sunset shots are great, especially the "cloud factory." There's so much there: silhouette, reflections, dynamic range. A great shot.

Cheers,
Rick

Thanks Rick,

Hopefully tomorrow night I'll get the ultimate "high tide" shot, although as luck would have it, it's only a 3.2 metre tide (in an area where you really need all you can get) (we get tides up to 4m).

[Klickit]

Nice image, Kit - I like the diagonals of the roof line and road. I'm curious, did you look at it in B&W? It has a fairly limited color range, so that might be something to try.

Cheers,
Rick

I'm planning on a b & w, as I thought it would come up nicely too. Thanks! I'll also post up one that was taken a couple of years back.

[Dave Humphries]

I haven't taken advantage of the close focusing capability of my 300mm f/4L IS lens. I tried this grab shot of a rose in my garden hand held. 1/640 second, f/6.3, ISO 400.

I would have normally used a tripod or monopod and stopped down to about f/11 or even f/16 for this type of shot but, I wanted to see how I could do hand holding. The image was moving a bit in the virewfinder (even with IS turned on but, I did see the difference when I turned it off) so I decided to shoot at a bit higher shutter speed. BTW: at my age (70) I need more help hand-holding than I did at 50 years old.

I have previously done OK hand holding this lens on more distant objects.

This looks fine to me sharpness-wise, Richard, but sadly I think the red channel was fairly well blown - whether anything could be improved in PP by reducing exposure, I am not sure and it may depend on your raw converter; ACR is quite good at putting a bit of detail into a blown channel from the other two - sounds impossible, but seems to work.

Cheers,

[rick55]

I really like the first one, Pops. It's a great photo, with the yellow and black on the earth and foliage colors, and it gives a great "shade tree mechanic" vibe just sittin' there.

Cheers,
Rick

[rick55]

Great image, Rob. Very dark feeling, and the silhouette really conveys a feeling of despair/apathy/depression.

Cheers,
Rick

[PopsPhotos]

Thank you, Rick. I took him the CD today and told him to notify me when he entered his next race. I'll try to get out to the track and shoot some of his antics.

Pops

[peterb533]

Wales through the windscreen.