Picture of the Day

[bentleya]

Cheers [XC] 2long4u , on a side note your avatar always makes me laugh

[inCore]

Great pictures on the last page! I went out and did some photography in Zürich with a friend of mine, he's teaching me many things. I got a couple of shots that I'm pleased with, here's the first one, a nice little view of the Limmat, one of the rivers flowing from the Lake of Zürich through the city itself.



Model = Nikon D60
Exposure Time = 30"
F Number = F10
ISO Speed Ratings = 100
Exposure Bias Value = ±0EV
Light Source = Cloudy weather
Flash = Off
Focal Length = 20mm

[monst0r]

Lol an ultralite:



Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi
Exposure: 0.001 sec (1/800)
Aperture: f/6.3
Focal Length: 250 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Off, Did not fire
Lens: Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS

[Chicken Patty]

incore


thats a heck of a shot there buddy

[hikaricloud]

incore


thats a heck of a shot there buddy

I have to agree, I really love that shot.

Any chance for a higher reso so I can use it as a background? :P

[Elisha]

Camera: Sony DSLR-A700
Exposure: 0.005 sec (1/200)
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 50 mm
Exposure: +0.70
ISO Speed: 200
Lens: Minolta 50mm F/1.4



YN-460 @ 1/4th @ rear blasting out the pink wall.
Sigma 530 Super @front right at 1/8th triggered with CT-301P.

[Jokester_wild]

Nikon D90 - Nikkor 18-200mm VR

[inCore]

I have to agree, I really love that shot.

Any chance for a higher reso so I can use it as a background? :P

Thanks guys, here are the desktop resolutions:

1280 x 1024:



1920 x 1200:




I love the shot Jokester! I always try getting similar silhouettes when I do sunsets, I love the effect.

Elisha, your child makes the most awesome faces. I like the pictures very much.

[bentleya]

Click On Image For More Info, As Well As Bigger Sizes

[Elisha]

Elisha, your child makes the most awesome faces. I like the pictures very much.

Thank you. Your cityscape is awesome too!

[Elisha]

Sony Alpha a700 + Minolta 28-135mm

[Chicken Patty]

thanks for the pics incore

[Xcel]

The jpg processing of the Canon 500D sucks. I constantly have to set -EV and the dynamic range is bad. Here's a comparison with one shot with camera processing and the other one in Photoshop. WB set to daylight, everything else auto (in PS raw convertion settings), +25 fill light. Took me 15s, basically no real tweaking, could have improved it a lot more if I wanted to. This is just to show the difference @ auto conversion

Let's just say I'm not using the camera to process jpgs anymore




Canon 500D
ISO 100
F/10
1/250s

[Fr3ak]

Can't decide, so here are 2 pics:

[FischOderAal]

Let's just say I'm not using the camera to process jpgs anymore

Hah My camera didn't shoot a single image in JPG Digital Photo Professional is quite alright for starters if you ask me. I used it up to now, although not being able to align the picture sucks (and that's why I installed Photoshop It's ing expensive though ).

[BeepBeep2]

What do you guys think? I just took this little photo (macro? The flower is only 4cm wide) about 30 minutes ago, did some post processing (chromatic aberration correction) and unsharp mask.

Model = Fujifilm S700/S5700
Exposure Time = 1/250" (1/125")
F Number = F3.5
ISO = 64
Exposure Bias = ±1EV
Focal Length = 63mm (35mm equiv. = 280mm)

[inCore]

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Sony Alpha a700 + Minolta 28-135mm

Elisha, those are some extremely vibrant colors, would you mind posting the EXIF for the image? I'd love to know a bit more about the settings used!

Xcel, you're right, that first shot is incredibly over exposed.

Fr3ak, both are nice, the green is perhaps the main interest of the image so I prefer the colored one. Still, the B&W isn't bad either, interesting subject. I'd love to shoot something similar with a wide-angle lens.

BeepBeep2, not bad at all. Your camera seems to be doing a good job with taking the pictures. I'm not really a flowers kind of person and I'm no expert anyways, but I think the picture would do better without the other flowers in the background, even though I like the depth of field that you've achieved.

Here's my picture for today:



Model = Nikon D60
Exposure Time = 6"
F Number = F9
ISO Speed Ratings = 100
Exposure Bias Value = ±0EV
Light Source = unknown
Flash = Off
Focal Length = 29mm

I can't decide if I should wish that I would have focused on either group of lights. It seems as though there are the three windows on the left grouped together in one group and the five on the right in another, but taking two pictures of the individual groups makes me seem like I'm missing out on the whole image. I'm also too far left and the image isn't quite straight, I'm having great trouble with this one. Thoughts?

[hikaricloud]

[Elisha]

Elisha, those are some extremely vibrant colors, would you mind posting the EXIF for the image? I'd love to know a bit more about the settings used!

that RAW file was processed in Capture One before sent to LightRoom. it was the first time i used C1 so i'm not sure what it did as it stripped the exif.

however here it is:
f5, 1/2000, ISO 200
the lens was Minolta 28-135mm f4-4.5

i'll reprocess the image again and upload so the exif is intact.

i exposed for the sky and used the onboard flash for fill.
then i used the adjustment brush in LR to under expose the sky a little more and plenty of fill light to lift the shadows off the horses body!
the combination of fill and recovery sliders make it look almost like a painting!

**edit**

tried to edit the original RAW as close as possible to the first version. straightened it a little as well. this one is a slightly brighter and a little more vibrant than the first one:

[paul_]

Wow, what a picture! I have some work to do yet in order to get pictures like that on my D300.

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Playing with 50mm @ 1.8

[yonton228]

I need some help finding a picture in this thread. I cannot find it so I am thinking its gone or its not loading for my computer. It was a picture of some U.S soldiers on a mountain top in Afghanistan IRC. Any help finding it again will be greatly appreciated. I have search this entire thread about 3 times and still cannot find it.




-yonton228/timmy

[tiro_uspsss]

wee bit of camera shake
taken with a Canon IXUS 100 IS

[Xcel]

I cannot find it so I am thinking its gone or its not loading for my computer. It was a picture of some U.S soldiers on a mountain top in Afghanistan IRC. Any help finding it again will be greatly appreciated. I have search this entire thread about 3 times and still cannot find it.

Maybe you mean the ones in "the best pictures you've ever taken" thread? http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...&postcount=153

[tiro_uspsss]

Maybe you mean the ones in "the best pictures you've ever taken" thread? http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...&postcount=153

now that'd be funny if he's been searching the wrong thread