Picture of the Day

[Sam_oslo]

Just found a ICC Profile for my new NEC EA231WMi, and WOW, all colors are so amazing now. I've been using TN-Panel for too long, but finally can see how my pictures really looks like. They look real, LOL.

Autumn colors, on Flickr

[Mescalamba]

Yup, good profiled monitor is pleasure to watch. I like my S-PVA Eizo too.

[Metric]

±4EV HDR bracket

[Planet]

DSC_0478 by Planet Photography, on Flickr

[Lestat]

i think the only reason i like this one is because the purple flowers in the background accent the yellow chewed up main flower.



here is one of the purple flower with the yellow blurred, unfortunately not the same position.
http://broveakphotography.zapto.org/...3630302e4a5047

[Weevil]

[Metric]

[Sam_oslo]

Distance rain, on Flickr

[labs23]

Unplugged



Exposure: 0.033 sec (1/30)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 55 mm
ISO Speed: 800

[Tarowah]

[kwscore]

[EagleRock]

Very nice jumper Metric, do you have a picture of his face ?

[Lestat]

damn it labs, now you are going to go make me yank my yamaha out of the garage.... ya just had to post that huh ?

[Sam_oslo]

Ducks on Flickr

[Mescalamba]

Ducks on Flickr

That was worth two shots, one to get sky, one to get rest and merging in PS. Still, good one, you seem to improve.

[Lestat]

no need for two shots just use PS burn tool and burn/darken the sky

[shazza]

Fall colors in Maine are slow in coming this year:

[Mescalamba]

no need for two shots just use PS burn tool and burn/darken the sky

He uses PnS and no matter how highly I value Panasonic PnS, it cant stand even -1eV. Plus I doubt it was RAW.

[Sam_oslo]

That was worth two shots, one to get sky, one to get rest and merging in PS. Still, good one, you seem to improve.

Yeah I'm still having fun and learning, but I looked trough other shots from the same spot, and they sky is white. There is small layer of white clouds over the area. I could lift the camera to get the blue which is higher up, but then I would miss those ducks.

EDIT:
Here you can see what I mean.

[lha]

[Weevil]

Fall colors in Maine are slow in coming this year:

Looks like a nice place to be.

[Lestat]

6:15, walk out of the office and the man in the moon says "take my picture"
was using my old 135mm f/2.8 Sears lens, so was very hard to get a clean shot as i was not using live view but it turned out ok
used photoshop burn tool on the upper sky and the dodge tool on the middle cloud and the mon to bring it out a little more.

jpeg compression is killing it though, too much color banding.
have a bunch sent to walgreens to print on cheap paper before i do some nice matte paper.

one for 8x10 (print will use the full size i have)



one uncropped (resized though)

[Mescalamba]

Just out of curiosity.. do you have some RAW for this lovely moon shot?

[Lestat]

mesca, wish i did man, sorry. i dont shoot raw very often because for some reason my PS will BSOD my PC when i mess with RAW files, and yes... i am lazy. i think all i need to do is reinstall it.

i will get you links to the originals, a couple of them to let you choose from and maybe blend together.

here is another one, since it is a new day.
it wasnt my intention to keep the tower when i took the shot but after some auto contrast/color/tone and some increase of the input level on auto levels i like it! burnt the sky a little, dodged the clouds a little and a tiny history brush too.

[Sam_oslo]

Double ray, on Flickr