Photo-A-Day -- September 2013

donaldejose

This is an extreme crop (like about 1/10 the original image). The background is my interest here since I was just experimenting with the bokeh of the Nikon DC 105. Not sure I see anything "special" about this lens.

D600, Nikon DC 105, f2.

Witty_Nickname

D800 - Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 70mm and f/2.8 ISO 800

kanuck

Windmills on the Sorae Marine Ecology Park salt flats this weekend in Incheon, South Korea:

jimo

Saw these two young ladies laying on the beach and tried to get a picture of them but got caught. LOL

pippigurl

Rx4Photo

Great views from everyone. Enjoying the variety as always...
@ proudgeek, IMO that's a really nice photo. Love the colors in the background while maintaining good exposure of her face. Obviously would have been better without the shadow across her face but overall, a good looking photo.
This is the type of scenario where I probably would have taken the chance to introduce myself and say something like..." I see the potential for a really nice portrait...would you mind if I photographed you against this background?" You'd be surprised how many people will say "sure!" and even go into a slight pose for you or simply ask "how do you want me?" Awkward question, but I've gotten it.

I recently read a street photographer's bio where he stated that "your camera is your passport." I do believe that. I recently did a portrait shoot where I parked on some not-so-public property and was approached by a questioning property manager. I had a big camera, as you do, and a pretty girl. By the end of conversation he was telling me of other properties he manages and the photographers he's allowed inside of mansions.
Good work.

adamz

Nikon V1 + FT1 + N70-200/2.8VRII

SquamishPhoto

I rarely take pictures of people, but this one stood out for me. I was shooting boats against a sunset and surrounded by people shooting the same scene with their phones. On a whim, I turned the camera in a different direction. I was/am really pleased with how this turned out, right down to the way the light caught the stray strand of hair over her eyes to the reflection of the horizon in her glasses.
Critiques always welcome, particularly from those of you who do such great portrait work.

D800 | 70-200 | 70mm | f/6.3 | 1/125s | ISO 250 | -1/3 EV

You nailed it. If you could have offered her a bit of direction I would've asked her to move her phone a bit so that she wouldn't have shadows cast across her face. Everything else about it is perfect, and since it was candid it might have proven unsuccessful to attempt any subject direction. :]

EDIT: What Rx4Photo said. Missed that when I posted.

DavidJaan

Took a different approach the past couple weddings to the first dance. Instead of shooting it all wide I'm using the 70-200 to capture moments like this.

donaldejose

proudgeek: I would have moved the horizon line up a bit so it was one third down the frame which would also have allowed you to not cut off her elbow. What you lost in clouds at the top by framing a bit lower to include the elbow would not have been missed. There is nothing important in that top thin band of clouds which would have been cut off with the framing I suggest. Of course, we look at the main subject when we compose and usually don't run our eyes around the outside of the frame to see if anything there could be improved. However, in cases where there is time it can be helpful to train ourselves to check the edge of the frame. Perhaps, on can get that first exposure in to make sure you have captured the event and then take a second to check the edges, reframe and reshoot if the subject has not yet moved.

Pickerel

Sorta-self-portrait on Katahdin - I put my memory card in someone else's OM-D and asked them to take a shot with a certain composition. They shot much wider and at strange settings (ISO 2000 in daylight?) but I changed it from landscape to portrait in post, and changed it to B&W due to all the noise / poor colours in the original shot. The settings aren't so important though. I was here on August 20th, after starting the Trail in Georgia on March 2nd. I'm still hiking - 204 days since I set foot on Springer Mountain and started this journey, and it isn't over for a little while yet. Climbing Mt. Washington in a couple days, going southbound with another hiker, before hiking the section I skipped in that area so I could finish on Katahdin with friends.

Capt_Bane

@TheGipper: Hilarious !
@Kanuck: Brilliant! ......

Mine for today is a Richard's Pipit -- accidental finding amongst the usual Paddyfield Pipits .... which means the winter is coming




It's a bit easy to lose focus on these little fellas as they dart about ..

dissent

Wonderful stuff of late!

mine for today -

henrik1963

Right side of this waterfall is Sweden - left side is Norway. D800 14-24 2.8G at 14mm.

Rx4Photo

"The Lost Sole" ...... LOL


D800; 70-200mmVR2 at 70 ; f/3.5 ; ISO 200 ; 1/250

Pierre

There is a cross at the summit.

Juergen

Germany has general elections today. That has nothing to do with the photo above. I'm just saying.....
Jürgen

ttsisgood

Jürgen: I elect to like your picture :-)

ttsisgood

Some people think this is a "powerful" picture. Canadian side of the Niagara Falls.

TheGipper

ttsisgood

@TheGipper: "Meow!"

Rifqi

Did a couple of portraits in the forest as well. Not as good as the lake ones though.

Msmoto

Driving along and I.see this:

ttsisgood

@Msmoto: ... and you had to stop. I would have done the same.

kanuck

The wetlands of Sorae Marine Ecology Park in Incheon: