Picture of the Day

[Weevil]

Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi
f/8
1/200s
iso-400
85mm

[inCore]

Nice profile photograph Weevil, she has a very particular expression. I like the width bentleya!

Here's what 3-5 minutes with MS Paint brought me today :



Model: MS Paint
Lens : Logitech MX500
Exposure time: 3-5 Minutes



Steve Jobs in all his glory. I drew it for an article on my website, Life's Replay. I'd appreciate it if somebody would have a look!

[Mescalamba]

Interesting thought about that girl and disease.. I didnt laugh. And I tought too that its bit wierd to be true..

[inCore]

Interesting thought about that girl and disease.. I didnt laugh. And I tought too that its bit wierd to be true..

Yeah, what I write is a little exaggerated at times and it shouldn't always be taken literally, but it's a style that I've decided to go with. I feel that it gets the point across better, and nobody should feel offended.

[Metric]

I'll just leave this here...




Click for original 8192x1538

[hale88]

Enjoys

[Soulburner]

Movies are not important for me.. Im kinda person which wants best per-pixel quality at low iso (100-400 cause more usually needs much better equip). Some DA* lens seem really interesting too.. I know that K20D is basicly same, just bit older. I can probably get GX20 which is same, just in Samsung package.. Wish Pentax made some full-frame.

And thanks for comment.

I'd really recommend Nikon if you want the best handling cameras with great ISO performance and Canon 2nd. Canon has slightly better lens selection (especially the 200mm f/4, come on Nikon!) but worse layout of controls and ergonomics.

[Marin]

I'd really recommend Nikon if you want the best handling cameras with great ISO performance and Canon 2nd. Canon has slightly better lens selection (especially the 200mm f/4, come on Nikon!) but worse layout of controls and ergonomics.

That's definitely preference.

[Tarowah]

My first shot with Lightroom (L3 Beta) to process the image and I have no clue what I am doing, but I did manage to clean this shot up a little just playing around.

[Mescalamba]

Nice shot I would say. Im using only LR3 beta since it started, pretty usefull.

Canon actually has more ergonomy for me as it simply fit my hands perfect.. but I dont like that company, neither their "design" or attitude towards customers. Nikon doesnt fit perfect, but I like them bit more.. but 12 mpix with less resolution than my old Panasonic G1 isnt exactly something I want. And I really dont have money for D3X.

Which leaves me Pentax and Sony. Sony is in consideration too, especially after A900 price went really down.. Plus layout is near perfect (perfect was on Minolta 7D, but its quite similar ). Pentax is made for photographers, at least seemed to me, some of their top lenses are easy comparable to everything else (at least if you think about APS-C, no FF yet and probably never again..).

Wish I bought M9, when I had money for that. Now Ill just wait and see.. maybe I will just get back to Panny and buy G2.

[Lestat]

tarowah, nice shot, i love the deep greens, white whites and the orange center of the flower.
some would say its too much but if you think about it, when you are looking at it with your eyes, those greens whites and oranges are probably not far off from your picture.

if you have the chance try it with slower fstop so that more of the picture comes out focused, and maybe get the camera lower to the ground so you have some background to the picture. unless the background is just yucky and doesnt make the picture look good.

another way would be to be above it so your looking down and just get the flower bed in the picture.
you caould even try being flower height and doing a faster fstop, maybe 2.8 or faster to get some nice DOF.

[Soulburner]

Nice shot I would say. Im using only LR3 beta since it started, pretty usefull.

Canon actually has more ergonomy for me as it simply fit my hands perfect.. but I dont like that company, neither their "design" or attitude towards customers. Nikon doesnt fit perfect, but I like them bit more.. but 12 mpix with less resolution than my old Panasonic G1 isnt exactly something I want. And I really dont have money for D3X.

Which leaves me Pentax and Sony. Sony is in consideration too, especially after A900 price went really down.. Plus layout is near perfect (perfect was on Minolta 7D, but its quite similar ). Pentax is made for photographers, at least seemed to me, some of their top lenses are easy comparable to everything else (at least if you think about APS-C, no FF yet and probably never again..).

Wish I bought M9, when I had money for that. Now Ill just wait and see.. maybe I will just get back to Panny and buy G2.

I'm sorry, but Sony's DSLRs just do not compare to current Canon and Nikon offerings.

[Weevil]

Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi
f/11
1/400s
iso-400
85mm

[Anemic]

Oooh, a little colibri, sweet picture!

[Lestat]

I'm sorry, but Sony's DSLRs just do not compare to current Canon and Nikon offerings.

i think Elisha has proven with his past pictures that your statement is not true.
i would agree they are not equals but "not comparable" is an exaggeration.

[Mescalamba]

Weevil thats really nice shot

Soulburner if you dont mind having only 6mpix and using old dSLR, even Konica-Minolta 7D is comparable to Canon/Nikon. Sony is bit harder on users, but if used correctly, you can get images similar to D3X from A900/850. And for example Zeiss 24-70 f/2.8 is easily comparable to Canon or Nikon lens (superior to Canon ones). Only build quality should be better (bit too much plastic).

Current Nikon offering consist of "We give you quite good 12mpix in every price range you want."

Current Canon offering is "We will give you nice range of mpix and cameras, which are crippled various ways to not harm our flagships."

Sony attitude is to having two flagships which dont cost leg or arm (and actually have very nice capabilities) and crazy numbers of cloned mid-low range dSLR.

Pentax would be "We will give you best available for that price. And designed with photographers in mind."

Yea and I suggest looking at heads of each company, I wouldnt give a penny to some of them.

Anyway, as long as it works decent in A or M mode and has some decent sensor and ability to use some quality glass, its good.

[hale88]

the sky appears to have some grain and IDK why?

[Elisha]

Hey now...don't be dissing the Sownee....They have some amazing lenses. CZ 85, 135, 16-35 and 24-70. And the older Minolta G's are still awesome compared to any older Nikkor or Canon.
The only thing Sony lacks is high ISO capability.
Their AF is awesome but could use more AF points than 11.

[Elisha]

Camera: Canon EOS 7D
Exposure: 0.003 sec (1/320)
Aperture: f/2.0
Focal Length: 30 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Exposure Bias: -2/3 EV
Flash: Off, Did not fire
Lens: Sigma 30mm f/1.4

[Mescalamba]

Elisha plus old KM lens have really nice colors.. at least your pictures made by Sony A700 have them. Now your pics have sometimes tiny bit of green tint. But I guess nobody with sRGB monitor will see that, which means most ppl. Btw. great portrait as usually..

hale88 Hard to say, what about some EXIF? It can be caused by camera, high ISO or out-of-camera JPEG.

[Weevil]

I notice a difference in displays when I edit a photo on my laptop, and then later look at it with my desktop, I tend to over-do the colors..

[Tarowah]

Thank you for the kind comments and advice guys, I still feel out of place showing my shots here because I am still learning.

Here is one that my wife and daughter said I must post because they like it.

[hale88]

Elisha plus old KM lens have really nice colors.. at least your pictures made by Sony A700 have them. Now your pics have sometimes tiny bit of green tint. But I guess nobody with sRGB monitor will see that, which means most ppl. Btw. great portrait as usually..

hale88 Hard to say, what about some EXIF? It can be caused by camera, high ISO or out-of-camera JPEG.

I edited with LR-2 but Original picture has grain too

Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XSi
Aperture: f/4.5
Exposure: -2
Flash: No
Focal Length: 105 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Shutter Speed: 1/4000 sec

[Kallenator]

Snip

Those flowers and that bird looks great!


Altera De2 development board at school.



Canon EOS 50D
F/1,8
1/250 sec
ISO-200
0 ev
Sigma 50mm f1,4

[Elisha]

Elisha plus old KM lens have really nice colors.. at least your pictures made by Sony A700 have them. Now your pics have sometimes tiny bit of green tint. But I guess nobody with sRGB monitor will see that, which means most ppl. Btw. great portrait as usually..

Yeah the Canon gives me a colour cast compared to the Sony for sure.
On the Sony I did not need to do colour correction, just enhancement.
On the Canon, I have to do correction first then enhancement and it sometimes just pisses me off!