A Picture I took - 2012

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Spring means bird nests. This one is sitting on top of a rotted spa cover we never got rid of from last year, which mean getting a decent angle on it is going to be tough.
Thoughts?
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I'm not a photographer in the least bit, but I thought this was cute, hehe.

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My Aussie Shep, Loki (bottom right) with his Aussie buddy Merlin (top right) and Merlin's 'brother' Shorty (my friend's dogs).


Edit: It looks a lot blurrier than it does on my screen... maybe it's Imageshack?
 
My youngest, on top of wanting to be a theater actor, has gotten the band bug...
This was their first night in public, after about 4 months total of practice together.

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Not perfect, but not bad.

Forgot my 85mm 1.8 so had to make do with the 24-105L F4 on my 50D. ISO 3200 sucks on my particular copy of the 50D, so I used ISO1600 and pushed the shutter speed as low as I dared, and sometimes lower. Not as many keepers as I'd like, but a few passable ones.

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A Jack-in-the-Pulpit flower that I found. These are the plants with the stock of red berries later in the year. I've actually never seen them early spring, so I thought they might be a type of picture plant, but they are not. Little disappointed that they are not the carnivorous picture plant :eek:.
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Nice lake with an old farm in the background.
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My first set of photos with my first camera ever:D I picked up a second hand Canon 400d and EF 50mm f1.8.

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Took these with my homemade pinhole lens, since it is worldwide pinhole day.
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Because it was so dark and dreary out today, I ended up using a flash for the first photo to get more contrast and definition. The second photo, I brightened the pinkish flowers on the tree like I was hoping the sun would do if it had been out.
 
ComputerGeek said:
This is a really neat photo, could you tell me how you got this shot? What you did in post? Thanks!
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I used a 50mm lens to ensure the black cloth in the back would blur. The lamp was used to light the smoke enough so I could focus manually. I setup an external off camera flash and turned out all the lights and took the picture.

In post I cleaned it up with Lightroom and followed with Photoshop creating a colored gradient on a separate layer and changed the layer blend so they smoke would only merge the underlying color.

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Here is a cake edited with the colored smoke for fun:

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That is really great it looks awesome I will have to try that sometime. Thanks!

It's really cool will the spiral in the center, did you blow the smoke to make it move? What Aperture did you use?
 
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ComputerGeek said:
That is really great it looks awesome I will have to try that sometime. Thanks!

It's really cool will the spiral in the center, did you blow the smoke to make it move? What Aperture did you use?
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I would wave my hand, blow on it, light the incense and immediately put it out. Some luck was involved but it was fun!
 
Nice and neat!

I haven't been around much here recently, but ha've been playing around with some new NEX gear:

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I love the size and IQ of the NEX system, which I can more easily throw in the briefcase and have anywhere...
 
Obligatory moon pic -

blended exposure:

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1:1 crop of the moon exposure:

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Moon:
ISO: 100
Exposure: 1/60 sec
Aperture: 9.0
Focal Length: 400mm

Clouds:
ISO: 100
Exposure: 1/2 sec
Aperture: 8.0
Focal Length: 400mm

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Empty Quarter, I especially like the last photo of the reflection of the skyline in the trailers.

Would have liked a stronger foreground subject and background subject in the 3rd photo. That tan maintenance building is uninteresting, and we are seeing the back of the freeway sign.

Cool industrial photo of the door. Nice coloring, and the falloff of the light on the edges is great.

1st photo. Like the stars on the lights. City-scapes are always a good example of different color temperatures for lights. This is a good location for a just after sunset shot, with a dynamic sky and interesting clouds.
 
Thank you for the critique MN. I agree with your assessment, even with the third shot. Unfortunately, It is one of the few interesting highway streaks that I could find.

The other side looked like this, which isn't as interesting:


Streak by Empty Quarter, on Flickr

Also, it's not a door, it's just an exterior metal-siding wall :p
 
Wow - tons of great shots here in the last few weeks! Makes me want to get back on the ball with my photography.
 
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