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[Fetzie]

I think I prefer the top one. With the glass being transparent (and the glass is overlayed on other glass) I find my eyes hunting for the subject in the bottom photo. That said, the colours are awesome!

 

 

I like pigeons, they are a bird that has a lot of character. This one caught the soft light when stretching on a roof opposite.

 

D500, Nikon 200-500 f/5.6 @500mm & f/5.6, 1/800s, ISO 160.

[pigspigs76]

On 12/27/2019 at 3:08 PM, Fetzie said:

 

D500, Nikon 200-500 f/5.6 @500mm & f/5.6, 1/800s, ISO 160.

I concur, Pigeons are a great subject!

 

I like how you captured a dynamic wing motion from a heroic angle, really elevates the Pigeons status and creates interest. The vertical nature of the wing makes me think it would work in a vertical composition which would also negate the distracting blur/dot in the bottom right. 

 

35mm @2.2 200 1/2000

 

[Fetzie]

38 minutes ago, pigspigs76 said:

I concur, Pigeons are a great subject!

 

I like how you captured a dynamic wing motion from a heroic angle, really elevates the Pigeons status and creates interest. The vertical nature of the wing makes me think it would work in a vertical composition which would also negate the distracting blur/dot in the bottom right. 

 

35mm @2.2 200 1/2000

 

Yeah, I might just go into Photoshop and blast that out of focus TV antenna out of existence

 

I like the colours, and there is enough definition in the background to break it up and not make it a load of mushy swirlies.

 

I took this on my phone (so it's going to be a bit grainy) a few weeks ago, walking back to the car after watching a movie. There's something about fog that makes churches spooky.

[atxcyclist]

On 1/2/2020 at 1:46 PM, Fetzie said:

Yeah, I might just go into Photoshop and blast that out of focus TV antenna out of existence

 

I like the colours, and there is enough definition in the background to break it up and not make it a load of mushy swirlies.

 

I took this on my phone (so it's going to be a bit grainy) a few weeks ago, walking back to the car after watching a movie. There's something about fog that makes churches spooky.

I like the vibe, the photo is a little flat but it feels like a 70's horror flick to me.

 

 

Just got a new Fuji X-T100 and have been messing around with it and the kit lens. My cat sat still long enough for me to catch a quick photo.

 

 

[D13H4RD]

On 1/5/2020 at 5:20 AM, atxcyclist said:

I like the vibe, the photo is a little flat but it feels like a 70's horror flick to me.

 

 

Just got a new Fuji X-T100 and have been messing around with it and the kit lens. My cat sat still long enough for me to catch a quick photo.

 

 

I saw what you were trying to do but I think the execution was a little flat. We can see the cat looking out at what appears to be a window but the trouble is that the rays of light aren't properly illuminating the cat as a whole, specifically its head. Had the rays been pointed towards its head, this would be much more powerful. I like the idea but I think it can be executed better.

 

Well, now it's my turn. Quite a lot has happened over the past few months and I've recently returned from a trip to Singapore. I stopped by Marina Bay to capture the nightly Spectra lightshow coming from the Marina Bay Sands hotel. This shot was a resuilt of merging multiple photos via layers and removing any major cloud, a process that took a good part of 4 hours. This is all captured on the Fujifilm X-T3.

 

[pigspigs76]

 

On 1/8/2020 at 1:43 PM, D13H4RD said:

This is all captured on the Fujifilm X-T3.

 

 

fujifilm is great! i love the colors they produce

 

the colors really pop with excitement and the water reflection is full of interest. i might have cropped the people on the dock out and perhaps the bridge. Also the black sky is appearing a bit noisy with banding details (perhaps compression? in which case maybe just resize and edit for the thread?) that could have maybe been smoothed out. there is also lots of interesting detail on the building itself that gets washed out by the light that i might have tried to recover for more structural contrast against the glowing light.

 

 

Overall a great image that really showcases the Marina Bay Sands hotel in a way I am sure they would appreciate and perhaps want to use. I am curious if you had been surrounded by shooters ala the dock?

 

I saw a pigeon the other day and thought of this thread

 

 

 

 

[Lenovich]

On 1/14/2020 at 2:59 AM, pigspigs76 said:

 

I saw a pigeon the other day and thought of this thread

 

This is some kind of atmospheric personal photo. It is good type of art, when artist have joy. 

 

My picture. Saint Petersburg park. Shoot on mobile.

[Tonberry]

On 1/27/2020 at 12:13 PM, Lenovich said:

This is some kind of atmospheric personal photo. It is good type of art, when artist have joy. 

 

My picture. Saint Petersburg park. Shoot on mobile.

 

Monochromatic photos always gives me strange good feeling, they brings me to the classic time frame when my parents were still at their youth. But when the objects are some modern ones in chromatic, they looks real good.

 

I'm still beginner, so I feel incompetent to rate others photos.

 

Anyway, I was sitting on my setup and starred outside my window. My eyes stumbled on my backyard Mango tree which lost so many branches by stormy rain couple months ago. I spotted some new branches sprouts on it. What made me stop there was they grows in two colors even they comes from a same spot, and I feel I'll just take quick shots to get those two colored young branches.

Taken RAW in manual mode from Sony A6000 with Sony E 35mm f/1.8 OSS lens.

 

Manual focus

f/3.5

1/100 sec

ISO-100

Edited in Lightroom

 

Taking manual focus in Sony A6000 is atrocious, but I'm up for it so challenge accepted just to get use to it.

[BakaPetra]

Just started photography with a Canon EOS 2000D + EF-S 18-55mm IS II lens

 

This is one of my first shots

 

You photo looks very natural  I like it 

 

[GDRRiley]

R2 @Megumin4317

I like the idea behind the photo but nothing seems in focus

I'd say grab a cheap prime or maybe some older used glass and you should be off to the races. Yonguno has some cheap clones of the canon 50mm for cheap.

 

T5 18-135 IS

F5.6

1/800

400 ISO

RAW in daylight WB.

It is slightly tweaked

 

I though this little spot was cool and though maybe with the right stuff added you could have made this look like an overview shot of some story.

[Teradore]

On 2/9/2020 at 2:58 AM, GDRRiley said:

R2 @Megumin4317

I like the idea behind the photo but nothing seems in focus

I'd say grab a cheap prime or maybe some older used glass and you should be off to the races. Yonguno has some cheap clones of the canon 50mm for cheap.

 

T5 18-135 IS

F5.6

1/800

400 ISO

RAW in daylight WB.

It is slightly tweaked

 

I though this little spot was cool and though maybe with the right stuff added you could have made this look like an overview shot of some story.

the picture is pretty high quality and you definitely have the technical ability down but... there isn't really a subject matter. It looks like a great setting for some sort of product photography, without the product you know? Like put a set of beef jerky in there or some dollar shave club stuff and it would be good but right now there is no purpose.  

[GDRRiley]

@Teradore I unfortunately I didn't have anything cool to put there that was small, I was backpacking. If I had a small lens or some figurines I would have put them in.

I like the picture but the shadows have a weird coloring to them. I like your framing and the choice to find one with snow/ice on them mad the photo less plain.

T5i

F3.5

1/60

800 ISO

18-55
 

I don't think  a single item seems in focus due to the slow shutter speed and being shot hand held.

This is a picture of the TV studio from my old high school.

[Radium_Angel]

I picked up another IR camera, converted to deep colour IR. A Nikon D7000, still dialing in the colours from the IR, it's much more sensitive than my old Canon 10d that was pure B/W IR.

 

Spoilered for being mildly racy

Spoiler

 

[Razor512]

Interesting look at a studio. I wonder are those black strips used for negative fill or is it just purely decoration on the set?

Also interesting IR image, I wonder for the D7000 if they di an IR conversion, do you lose the micro lens array over the sensor also, or did they separate them on that sensor. Might be interesting to see how it impacts low light performance

 

As for a photo, here is an image I took of a toad.

Nikon D5600

Lens: AF-P 18-55 f/3.5-f/5.6 VR at 55mm f/5.6

1/500s  (exposed to the right and lowered in post in order to minimize visible noise in the shadow by allowing me to get away with a little less shadow recovery.

Manual

Raw processed using Adobe camera raw.

(seems the forum software compresses the image)

 

Did not have much time to photograph since with a shorter focal length, Toads either don't like when you get too close, or they really hate the kit lens, and probably said this while hopping away "No, you are not getting a portrait of me with the kit lens, next time you better be using at least the Tamron SP 85mm F/1.8 Di VC lens"

 

 

[Radium_Angel]

On 2/26/2020 at 4:11 PM, Razor512 said:

do you lose the micro lens array over the sensor also

I believe this is an option. It was done at LifePixel, but I bought it used, so I am uncertain.

I use it in the wintertime strictly in the studio where I can control lighting.

Summer, where there is plenty of heat and natural light, I shoot at the beach (those shots are decidedly NSFW, so none posted here)

[Abhinav2003]

This took a long time to lock focus on. I really like how the green is contrasting with the purple here. 

This is my usual style, night time, blue-purple combo. 

As for the camera: 1D Mk iii 

                              RF 70-200mm

 

                              1\400s (had to bring up the exposure a bit in post tho)

 

[GDRRiley]

On 2/26/2020 at 1:11 PM, Razor512 said:

Interesting look at a studio. I wonder are those black strips used for negative fill or is it just purely decoration on the set?

in which part of the frame?

 

looks good, I maybe would have move the toad slightly closer to the 3rds.

 

shot on my old T5

iso 400

F5.6

1/2000

had some color grade

 

[craydawg]

Great Color and contrast I like the obscurity of looking through the grass in front.Subject is clear, but also doesn't pop off the background. Sharpness is a bit weird and looks a bit off in the eyes.

 

overall I'd say a 6/10

 

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Cropped and brushed out some power lines.

 

Little bit of a grade for some contrast.

 

GH5 - Jupiter 37A 135mm F/3.5

1/1000

F/11

 

[vf1000ride]

I have a couple cool sunrise/sunset shots but nothing to compare to yours.  One day I'll figure out how to get them just right.  Digging that the windmill ended up being the focal point yet having it be offset adds to the feel of calm of just looking off into the distance.

 

I'll throw a long exposure macro in for you guys.

Canon T1I

EF 24-105mm with macro extension rings

20 seconds at ISO 100

so you get the ghost image of each time the second hand pauses between ticks.

[GDRRiley]

On 3/20/2020 at 5:46 PM, craydawg said:

Great Color and contrast I like the obscurity of looking through the grass in front.Subject is clear, but also doesn't pop off the background. Sharpness is a bit weird and looks a bit off in the eyes.

overall I'd say a 6/10

I usually have it toned down now but that may have not been. eyes I think are just a weird sun reflection.

 

that is a really cool photo. I feel like the background doesn't make the watch pop. a darker color would have been better.

 

I find picture at some point.

[Jae Tee]

On 3/20/2020 at 10:40 PM, vf1000ride said:

I have a couple cool sunrise/sunset shots but nothing to compare to yours.  

*snip*

Looks a bit out of focus, but super cool.

 

Anyway here's one i took with my Galaxy S9. Spoiler...

It's of my windshield. 

[vf1000ride]

4 minutes ago, Jae Tee said:

Looks a bit out of focus, but super cool.

 

Anyway here's one i took with my Galaxy S9. Spoiler...

It's of my windshield. 

 

Was your shot from inside out or looking in?  I've never really tried it just due to never having a car with a clean enough windshield to not see all the dirt on it.

 

On mine It was out of focus only due to the very narrow depth of field and any wiggle caused by the shutter movement.  The front and back edge of the watch went blurry due to it's tilt relative to the camera lens.  I took the below picture of a penny the same day.  You can see that only maybe the middle 1/4 of the coin is in focus because of how narrow the depth of field is.

[Jae Tee]

@vf1000ride It was from the inside looking almost directly up.

[bANONYMOUS]

On 3/25/2020 at 11:14 PM, vf1000ride said:

 

Such a crispy shot, only thing I would try to fix is the fact that it's not straight across, but also shows it wasn't edited so I don't even know if I would consider that something to fix.

 

Some random ones from last summer, pretty much the last time I actually used my camera.

I shoot everything on a Panasonic GH4 with Lumix 12-35mm f2.8 II, everything is shoot at f2.8 but I don't remember the other settings I was using, it was a clear sunny day though so the photo's are heavy edited to give them a darker moody vibe, I can't find the RAWs to look at the EXIF, only the edited JPEG's I have as my wallpapers for the lockscreen and desktop lol

Lockscreen

 

Desktop

[pigspigs76]

On 3/27/2020 at 4:29 PM, bANONYMOUS said:

 

I shoot everything on a Panasonic GH4

Excellent low key vibes, storybook feel to these. I might have boosted whites in spots to increase the sense of  scene depth and element seperation