Photo-A-DAY: February 2015

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  • kanuckkanuck Posts: 1,300Member
    Wide, cold view of Jiktang Falls in Cheorwon, Gangwon-do Province.

    Jiktang Falls Giving Way to the Hantang River
  • Golf007sdGolf007sd Posts: 2,840Moderator
    ARN_1090.jpg

    D4 24 1.4G 1/160 ISO 3200 @ f/1.8
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  • henrik1963henrik1963 Posts: 567Member
    Test 2 with Elinchrom RX One set: Background no longer has a blue cast - got a canvas from an artstore.
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  • HammieHammie Posts: 258Member
    Out of the blue last night, my youngest son (age 11) asked if he could start learning photography.

    I don't want to just throw a book at him and tell him to read about exposure, etc., so I am trying to take baby steps with him. He will be using my old D300 with a prime lens just to start (although he asked me already why he cannot zoom. :-) ) Last night, we started with aperture mode and played around with how it changed the background focus. Also, to see how the shutter speed changed. I cannot remember if I had Auto ISO or not, but we did not get into ISO yet.

    Anyway, here he is shooting me while I shoot him...

    Shooting the shooter

    D750 w/ Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8

    1/80 sec, f/2.8, 70mm, ISO 3200
  • Vipmediastar_JZVipmediastar_JZ Posts: 1,708Member
    @Hammie my two year old is just like that. I bought her a toy camera but she wants my camera. She presses the shutter and "assists" me. I think I'll buy her a holga next and use all my expired film with it.
  • Rx4PhotoRx4Photo Posts: 1,200Member
    Cathedral Door - St. Augustine, Florida.
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  • slh1234slh1234 Posts: 21Member
    edited February 2015
    Lunch Spot 1

    The view from our lunch spot along the highway somewhere in British Columbia, Canada in August, 2012. We were driving back to Seattle from Banff, and the ladies just wanted to find a picnic spot where they could heat up lunch for all of us. We turned into this little park. What a spot for lunch.

    I have a question if someone feels they want to answer it. This picture illustrates a frustration I sometimes have with perspective. This scene is huge, but when I look at the picture, it doesn't look "Huge" to me. If I point out to you that there is a railroad along the far edge of the lake you can probably see it, and that is probably the first thing that gives an idea of how far it is across that lake. Do others have the same frustration capturing big scenes and having them just not look big in the photo?
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  • itsnotmeyouknowitsnotmeyouknow Posts: 481Member
    It's amazing how much light hangs around after sunset, especially when there is great light. This was taken nearly an hour after sunset, I'd suspected that there would be good light as there was good colour in the sky way before sunset, and the forecast is good for the next few days.

    Penrax 645Z, DA 28 - 45, 0.6+ 0.9 GNDsoft Lee 13 minutes, f/8 ISO 200

    Last-Light-at-Waterhead-2
  • PhotobugPhotobug Posts: 5,751Member
    DSC_1703
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  • NSXTypeRNSXTypeR Posts: 2,293Member


    I have a question if someone feels they want to answer it. This picture illustrates a frustration I sometimes have with perspective. This scene is huge, but when I look at the picture, it doesn't look "Huge" to me. If I point out to you that there is a railroad along the far edge of the lake you can probably see it, and that is probably the first thing that gives an idea of how far it is across that lake. Do others have the same frustration capturing big scenes and having them just not look big in the photo?
    Maybe you want to look into doing a panorama if you want to give it a "vast" look. Look it up in the forum, I think there's an old thread on panoramas there. I looked at the photo you posted, I'm not sure what 5.1mm translates to in "normal" focal lengths.
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  • calengorcalengor Posts: 277Member
    edited February 2015
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    D750 | Sigma 24-105mm f/4 | 105 mm | f/4.0 | 1/125 sec | ISO 1400

    @slh1234 it's a matter of having something visible that will help give a sense of scale. I'll post a picture tomorrow which may illustrate it.

    For what it's worth, the camera used has a 1/3" sensor, which has a crop factor of 7.21, so 5.1mm x 7.21 = 36.771mm equivalent focal length, which may not be wide enough to convey the sense of largeness you're desiring.
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  • donaldejosedonaldejose Posts: 3,865Member
    edited February 2015
    slh1234: Two things help: 1. use of a wide angle lens with something interesting in the foreground and the horizon about 1/3 of the way down from the top or conversely interesting clouds with the horizon about 1/3rd the way up from the bottom. and 2. some items of known scale such as people, cars, houses, etc. so one can see them large in the foreground and small in the background. Basicaly, the eye needs some reference points. You cannot just put the horizon line in the middle of the photo with nothing to provide scale.

    Here are two examples: The first using rocks in a rock fence to show distance as they get smaller and smaller and the second using people to show distance and height of waves.

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    When you have no easily recognizable objects to present scale in the photo the viewer's eye has a hard time seeing the distance.

    Moderators: please excuse me posting two photos on one day. Just trying to answer a question with some illustrations.
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  • ggbutcherggbutcher Posts: 397Member
    If anyone is interested, Tamron wrote a nice article about me...
    http://www.tamron-usa.com/enews/archives/2015/jan_rowe.php
    +1
  • donaldejosedonaldejose Posts: 3,865Member
    Nice Article Kristofer. Congratulations.
  • gene_mcgillgene_mcgill Posts: 430Member
    Black Spruce covered with white snow.

    Black Spruce covered with white snow.

    D800E, 24-120 f/4, 110mm, ISO 500, 1/640 sec., f/7.1
  • WestEndFotoWestEndFoto Posts: 3,745Member
    Do you see Polina's soul through the windows?
    Vancouver, 2015


    Do you see Polina's soul through the windows?

    slh1234, your lunch spot is Three Valley Lake just west of Revelstoke, British Columbia. Have a look here:

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeff_pj/sets/72157639196264144/

    If you scroll down to the bottom of this album, you will see three images taken about 300 metres to the right of your image. Two are of your scene. One is a 3 by 2 in portrait mode and the other is a 5 by 4 in landscape mode. Both are with my 18mm Coolpix A which is a 28mm FX equivalent.

    I am not really sure that you could have done anything to really obtain what you were seeking in terms of everything looking big. There was nothing there that would have lent scene the perspective to provide the scale. The red buildings in the scene are part of a massive resort, but I cannot think of a way where the shot could have been taken differently to convey the sense of scale. Sometimes, you just can't do it.

    If you have a look at the third image, there is a house to the left on the shoreline that helps.
  • CoastalconnCoastalconn Posts: 527Member
    Thank you!
    This one makes me laugh. I bored this wild Juvi Cooper's Hawk and it actually yawned a few times...
    Juvi Cooper's Yawning
    D800, Tamron 150-600 at 600mm, F11(it was bright out), ISO 280, 1/500th..
  • slh1234slh1234 Posts: 21Member
    edited February 2015
    Thanks for the replies, folks, and WestEndFoto, thank you for clueing me in on where we were. It's the only time I had driven that stretch of road. It was a beautiful drive, and the end of a beautiful week in the parks around Banff. I looked at your shots, and I definitely recognized the shots of the lake - beautifully done. :) (I also see your Banff shots. I don't think I'll post another of my shots from Banff. :) )
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  • adamzadamz Posts: 842Moderator
    Arui
    Nikon V1 + FT1 + TC14 + N200/2 - monopod - from our small reunion with golf007sd and Tibor
  • MsmotoMsmoto Posts: 5,398Moderator
    Adamz and golf007sd.....hope you guys had a great time at the EuroNRF Getogether..... LOL
    Msmoto, mod
  • adamzadamz Posts: 842Moderator
    edited February 2015
    hell yeah, had a lot of fun with Ali & Tibor. took a lot of pictures. once I'll connect my NAS I'll go through them and post them.
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