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Topic: Take a picture once a day, whether you need to or not (Read 1161435 times)
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Surlyboi
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Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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IainC
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I like the perspective, but why the tilted horizon?
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Surlyboi
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Took it with my phone and that cab was pulling out from the corner. Didn't have time to set it just right.
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Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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IainC
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More medium format. This time on Provia (slide film). Love the way it makes chrome pop.  Bentley by Iain Compton, on Flickr |
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Khaldun
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Great personality in that car shot. I find a lot of car photography just makes my eyes glaze over but that's really nice.
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Stewie
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Took this on Saturday. Sorry for the size, best viewed at 16x9 full screen. I edited at home and when I look at it at work it appears a touch too dark. I am assuming its just crappy work monitor. That being said my home monitor is getting a touch long in the tooth. Either way, let know what you think.  |
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« Last Edit: July 04, 2016, 11:45:56 AM by Stewie »
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Khaldun
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I like the light a lot and the dark bokeh is also great, but I think you have too much out-of-focus dead space on the left side of the shot. Shots where your major subject of interest is perfectly horizontal to the frame are tricky--it tends to give the eye nowhere else to wander up and down or across the diagonals.
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rattran
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Had a nice day at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, took a lot of pictures, most were crap. I liked this one though.  [edit] And this one.  |
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« Last Edit: July 07, 2016, 08:56:27 AM by rattran »
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IainC
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That's probably my favourite zoo. I was there once in January and we were the only people in the whole place. The guy selling giraffe crackers, let us have his whole stock for $5 and we had the undivided attention of all the giraffes for about an hour.
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rattran
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It was sadly filled with children shrieking, which kinda ruins the ambiance.
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IainC
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Surlyboi
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eat a bag of dicks
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Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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IainC
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RhyssaFireheart
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Oh wow, those are fantastic, Iain! I love the falcon pics!
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apocrypha
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Planes? Shit, I'm terrified to get in my car now!
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The moon was pretty spectacular last night. I'm itching for a telescope I can attach a camera too, but that turns into an expensive route very quickly.  |
"Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism" - Rosa Luxemburg, 1915.
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RhyssaFireheart
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That's still a damn nice photo, apoc. I love the golden color on the moon.
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apocrypha
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Planes? Shit, I'm terrified to get in my car now!
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Cheers, yeah it was gorgeous. I suspect a moon that colour is probably due to air pollution or something, but it still looked lovely :)
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"Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism" - Rosa Luxemburg, 1915.
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IainC
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Khaldun
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Great light on that last shot.
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IainC
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Great light on that last shot.
That one was through a dusty, foggy window. It took liberal amounts of the dehazing slider and fucking around with curves to make it even remotely acceptable. Edit: This was the original file. Praise be to Lightroom's Dehaze function.  |
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« Last Edit: July 25, 2016, 12:37:04 PM by IainC »
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Lightstalker
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How do you even follow-up that?! Sweet shots, really show off the drama of the venue. Time for a pallet cleanser. I've been spending time at home with a new baby, and that means I encounter the strange, colorful, and plastic on a daily basis. Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge. 
Yee-Haw, on Flickr 
Giddy Up, on Flickr 
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RhyssaFireheart
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Reminds of of Dinovember pics. Those would fit in well there.
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Khaldun
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Couple of recent macros.   NYC sunset  |
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Lightstalker
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Ok, back to the real camera and time to get back into practice again. Obviously not there yet. These are some flowers I planted with my kids last night in a bare patch of the lawn. 50mm prime lens means a lot of moving around to frame the shot - got soaked lying in the grass as the sun started baking the moisture out of the ground. With the depth of field and low point of view this one naturally looks like it's only a model. 
Flowers, on Flickr This one was backhanded with the camera near the ground aimed mostly up - hoping to get the focus on the flower instead of the trees behind. Never would have tried it with film, with digital I can throw away a dozen bad shots to get one in the neighborhood of handy. Needed to back out the f-stop though, only the top buds are in focus here. You can see the camera shake in the leaves at the bottom, and the white one in the background got trashed by the heat today so I can't go back tomorrow to get the shot right. 
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IainC
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Khaldun
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Interesting water in the first shot. Did you composite a longer exposure with a shorter one? I like the look of it.
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IainC
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Interesting water in the first shot. Did you composite a longer exposure with a shorter one? I like the look of it.
No, it's a single exposure. I was about to head down into a cave so I didn't have any extra gear with me. I was using my sunglasses as a tripod. |
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justdave
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Well, certainly can't compete with Iain's sense of composition or optics, but I'm finally starting to use the camera that I bought a couple years ago for astrophotography (which I hope to actually get out and *do* this year). Went to the zoo today, and unfortunately shot all these in JPEG, since I lost the S/N for Lightroom that came with the camera when I switched machines and can't work with RAW. Figured I'd post them somewhere that wasn't just my hard drive. It's a start!  Young lion. Even big cats would rather play with the box it came in. It pains me that I couldn't catch the part where he tugged this up the hill and fucked it into the pair of lionesses at the base of the rock, resulting in strife, since I'm not used to focusing this lens. They did *not* want to play.  While mum is not amused.  I'm going to claim that his wandering into shadow just as I got my focus was an experiment in chiaroscuro.  Except for the lions, today was apparently 'disdainfully show everyone your ass' day at the zoo. I think they were working on something in the main elephant area, so they were in this other paddock. I couldn't get around the wire, but the expression fits and I like the way the mottling pops.  Just a vegetation shot that I liked. I was taking pictures so I could post and find out what things were and see if I could add them to my yard. |
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« Last Edit: August 05, 2016, 07:59:35 PM by justdave »
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"They started to resist with a crust that was welded with human brain and willpower."
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IainC
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justdave
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Those had to be some hard-ass games of soviet basketball.
The layout on that shot is also awesome!
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"They started to resist with a crust that was welded with human brain and willpower."
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Mosesandstick
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Took these out at sea a few weeks ago. 
2016-07 London Array 001 by Aled Moses, on Flickr 
2016-07 London Array 002 by Aled Moses, on Flickr Took this on Saturday.
Sorry for the size, best viewed at 16x9 full screen.
I edited at home and when I look at it at work it appears a touch too dark. I am assuming its just crappy work monitor. That being said my home monitor is getting a touch long in the tooth.
Either way, let know what you think.
I really like it - I found the emptiness jarring at first but I think there's good contrast, both in lightness and darkness and between the in focus section and out of focus sections. |
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IainC
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Viin
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*That's* your apartment? Do you live in a brothel?
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