Photo-A-DAY: February 2015

kanuck

Wide, cold view of Jiktang Falls in Cheorwon, Gangwon-do Province.

Golf007sd

D4 24 1.4G 1/160 ISO 3200 @ f/1.8

henrik1963

Test 2 with Elinchrom RX One set: Background no longer has a blue cast - got a canvas from an artstore.

Vipmediastar_JZ

jimo

hoodoo

Hammie

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...



D750 w/ Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8

1/80 sec, f/2.8, 70mm, ISO 3200

Vipmediastar_JZ

@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.

Rx4Photo

Cathedral Door - St. Augustine, Florida.

D800 | Nikon 24-70mm @ 24mm f/4.5 | ISO 160 | Shutter 1/50

[Deleted User]

Love the detail


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slh1234

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?

itsnotmeyouknow

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

Photobug

|D7100|70-200 +1.7TC @ 120mm|1/400 F7.1|ISO 400|

NSXTypeR

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.

calengor

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.

donaldejose

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.





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.

ggbutcher

If anyone is interested, Tamron wrote a nice article about me...
http://www.tamron-usa.com/enews/archives/2015/jan_rowe.php

+1

donaldejose

Nice Article Kristofer. Congratulations.

gene_mcgill

Black Spruce covered with white snow.



D800E, 24-120 f/4, 110mm, ISO 500, 1/640 sec., f/7.1

WestEndFoto

Do you see Polina's soul through the windows?
Vancouver, 2015



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.

Coastalconn

Thank you!
This one makes me laugh. I bored this wild Juvi Cooper's Hawk and it actually yawned a few times...

D800, Tamron 150-600 at 600mm, F11(it was bright out), ISO 280, 1/500th..

slh1234

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. )

adamz

Nikon V1 + FT1 + TC14 + N200/2 - monopod - from our small reunion with golf007sd and Tibor

Msmoto

Adamz and golf007sd.....hope you guys had a great time at the EuroNRF Getogether..... LOL

adamz

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.