Day 06: July 2010 Photo-a-Day Thread

[Crovean]

[PopsPhotos]

I spent most of the day shooting B&W film, which won't be available for a couple of weeks. I'll try for one with digital in a bit, when the sun gets in the right position.

Pops

[PopsPhotos]

Well, there is so much dust left in the air from the wind, I'm not going to get the picture I wanted. So ... lets stick this one so I can say I followed the rules of one a day.

I don't do macro oftem and had only the 18-55 with me, so it is not very good. Handheld, heavy shade, tight crop.

If they can find food here, so can I.



Pops

[carregwen]

View on Black

Excellent, Jeroen. You should enter it in the next mono comp. I think it also works with a 90deg CCW rotation and a slight tint to make it warmer. If you don't mind an edit...

[JK6065]

Thank you Rob, Kit and Rick,

Rob, Somehow the horizontal version draws me into the spiral much more than my version, and the warmer pp looks good. I'll have a thought about it and post it in the next competition.

[JK6065]

Chriss,
I really like the smooth pink reflection of the flower. It's different than the sharp detailed reflection you see more often on the forums but I like it very much. What did you use as a surface? I think it's worth experimenting with this surface/ set up.

[carregwen]

Rob, Somehow the horizontal version draws me into the spiral much more than my version...

Yes, I thought that too. It's exactly the same shot (no crop) yet the spiral seems much more prominent. Also, that light part of the ceiling (under the spiral in your version) looks a lot more angled in the rotated version. It must be something to do with how the brain perceives images in different orientations. Interesting.

[James G]

I went up to Shrewsbury to say goodbye to a colleague who is moving on after 24 yrs with the company. Came back through Ironbridge and stopped of to try my luck with 'The Ironbridge'.

Time was about 22:45 and there was still residual light in the sky and very little breeze.

Processed as a bracketed triplet and initially merged to create a 32 bit file. Tonemapped in Photomatix and then 'finished' with CS5.

James

[Crovean]

Chriss,
I really like the smooth pink reflection of the flower. It's different than the sharp detailed reflection you see more often on the forums but I like it very much. What did you use as a surface? I think it's worth experimenting with this surface/ set up.

I used our bedroom dresser as the surface Jeroen. It has a black satin finish on it then used an LED flashlight to have the spotlight effect to the flower and create that reflection.

PS. By the way, it was a good game yesterday VS Uruguay ^_^

[peterb533]

[rpcrowe]

I thought I should also title this "Rush Hour" but, decided the pups weren't exactly rushing anywhere. The puppy pile is growing in size and the runt of the litter (who is on the far right in this image) is slowly catching up to his siblings in size. Puppies are twelve days old...

[rick55]

Wonderful, James. I love Victorian bridges (I assume it's Victorian) because of details like the circle and the flattened helices in the members running between the arches. Engineering was still solidifying, and engineers were still allowed to include appearance as a design criterion.

Cheers,
Rick

[Antonio Correia]

I can see you have received your modified camera

Can we see more pictures of Canary Wharf please, near the water for example and if you can of course ...

[James G]

Rick,
It is actiually pre Victorian and was raised in 1779 for Abraham Darby, one of the Industrial Revolutions first Iron Masters. It crosses the River Severn at the Ironbridge Gorge, by the village of Ironbridge, (Shropshire), and was the first arch bridge in the world to be made out of cast iron.

Its about 50 miles from where I live and although I have been to Ironbridge many times (we have friends there), its the first time I've ever actually photographed it.

PAD is pushing me into taking a lot of shots I have previously kept putting on the back burner!

Really glad you like it. On a photographic note, I quite like HDR as a tool, but am somewhat cautious about when to use it In this instance it seemed ideally suited.

cheers,

James

[carregwen]

Rick,
It is actiually pre Victorian and was raised in 1779 for Abraham Darby, one of the Industrial Revolutions first Iron Masters. It crosses the River Severn at the Ironbridge Gorge, by the village of Ironbridge, (Shropshire), and was the first arch bridge in the world to be made out of cast iron.

Good shot, James. I've been to Ironbridge several times - it's a great location for photography, with a wide range of subjects to shoot.

[rick55]

It's a great shot of a wonderful bridge, James. I agree completely about HDR. I think it can easily turn into a case of, "When you have a great hammer, everything looks like a nail." But it can certainly let you capture an image in situations that would otherwise be impossible to reproduce.

Cheers,
Rick

[Colin Southern]

Well done, Colin: they look like perfect magazine images, sharp and perfectly defined against a neutral background. I take it the keypad is lit: it comes through that way, anyway. If it isn't, I'm suing for false advertising.

Thanks Rick

The keys are backlit in reality, but that's not showing here (they're have to be pretty bright to compete against about 1000 watt/seconds! of key and fill lights!) - the LED display is composed from a long-exposure of the real thing though.