Day 28: July 2010 Photo-a-Day Thread

[Radu Dinu Cordeanu]

Well, I had a chance to shot a beautiful '66 Corvette today. Unfortunately it was in a shop with an open door, and the light and reflections just ruined every shot.

So, I am celebrating the return of our Swallows.


Hi,
Both are very good
Radu Dinu



Pops

[Colin Southern]

Still running a day behind!

Whilst shooting a sunset scene earlier on in the month I met a photographer and young Mum by the name of Tosca - She was curious to see my studio at some stage, so I gave her my card and finally caught up with her again today. She was keen to learn how to get white backgrounds so I setup the lighting to show her, along with a few other shooting and processing techniques that I use - and she's kindly agreed to let me use one of the morning's test shots as my Photo of the Day.

It's not been fully retouched - just a bit of softening to demonstrate a few techniques, so be gentle with me!

[carregwen]

The shot of the castle is brilliant, Rob, absolutely brilliant. I love the low clouds that make the castle seem to touch the sky. And the way you've shown the huge rampart, which leads to the castle, dominating the entire countryside really shows how making the castle was a matter of working with the terrain as much as building in stone. An exceptional shot: you've got something really special here.

Cheers,
Rick

Thanks, Rick. It certainly helps to have a stunning location. I just stood there and took the shot!

[PopsPhotos]

Beautiful shot, Colin.

Pops

[PopsPhotos]

Thank you, Radu. They are rather tame, now. They lost the first clutch, so I was very pleased when they came back to raise the second clutch.

Pops

[Colin Southern]

Beautiful shot, Colin.

Pops

Thanks Pops

[rick55]

Those are some great colors, Pops! And cooperative models - I see what you mean about tame.

If that's a test shot, Colin, I'd like to see the finished product. I see what you mean about getting it right in the camera.

Cheers,
Rick

[Antonio Correia]

Still running a day behind! ...

You always will be ahead of me Unless you coming here or I go there. Than, we would be at the same time

This image is great again Colin. It deserves to be posted ... you know where don't you ?
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My image of the day. Poor picture I know but I couldn't - or was not capable of - doing something better.

[Colin Southern]

If that's a test shot, Colin, I'd like to see the finished product. I see what you mean about getting it right in the camera.

Hi Rick,

Thanks for that. In all honesty, it's just a throw-away shot (surprising as it might seem); I was showing Tosca how I build the lighting (background lights, key light, fill reflector etc), so I took a few shots with my camera so that I could show her the results on the 40" LED TV I use for tethered shooting. Tosca uses a Nikon and I only had the Canon EOS Utility loaded for tethering, so we couldn't display her shots ... so when I was happy with the lighting I put the skyport transmitter on her camera and she took a few dozen shots of her kids (jpeg) where it's very much "in camera"

[Colin Southern]

This image is great again Colin. It deserves to be posted ... you know where don't you ?

Done - just for you Antonio!

[Antonio Correia]

Done - just for you Antonio!

I knew you would do it ...
Thank you