PHOTO-A-DAY: February 2013

vinopaul22

Okay, I thought I heard something up there. This darn critter has been living here for at least a month. Tomorrow he goes!

D90 N105 f2 dc through the window.

ZSChow

"suggest not cutting off any body parts in a portrait" Agreed, this is what I always thought. BUT then why am I seeing so many tops of heads cut off in headshots? Is't that cutting off a body part? I notice even Peter Hurley does this.

Hurley seems to do it a lot...I understand that there's no real hard and fast rule to anything, but what comes under the exceptions?

Hi all,

Very good stuff!

Body parts are general cropped somewhere other than at joints - but then there's always exceptions.

Thanks Mike for the advice. When you come to the exceptions, whats a good exception? (Fascinating photo btw)

I can open a new thread for this if we keep the discussion up

rschnaible

My first contribution for February....

BlueRidge

@Msmoto .. that photo is from one of the tunnels on the Blue Ridge Parkway near my house.. I have been to Bryson City and the Road to Nowhere that leads to a dead end with the tunnel you can walk through.. such a shame they never finished that road over to Fontana Dam..

Msmoto

@ donaldejose
I have spoken with Peter about this as I did this in the 1960's when Peter was very, very young..LOL. I did a series last year with the tops cropped as well. The effect of a head crop is to give a feeling of going beyond the frame. Cutting off one arm does not do this. Here is one I did today from my Family of man set on Flickr.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fantinesfotos/8436653100/in/photostream

And one which is one the Nikon website

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fantinesfotos/7115248369/in/photostream

hammers71

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Rx4Photo

February's starting off with lots of variety.

@ ZSChow, Trust me, I'm as much of a portrait and lighting "student" as the next guy. Your portrait is nice. The one thing that I might point out is to notice the catchlights in the eyes of your subject. I noticed in your portrait that the catchlights are on opposite sides of each eyeball which could indicate a needed adjustment in the placement of your lights. I've gotten to where whenever I look at a photo in a magazine I look at the eyes to see where the "professional" had his/her lights placed.

Here's one I did last year using one SB-900 in a small Lumiquest Softbox III. The flash was supported on a tripod, connected to the camera via a SC-28 cord to the left of me above my shoulder.


D800, 100mm Zeiss Makro-Planar *T ZF.2

dissent

seemed like it might make a fun HDR.

Rx4Photo

delete-

Meinrad

My favorite fence; one more winter shot:

PB_PM

Very nice image Meinrad! Looks like you've got some dust on the sensor though.

Beso

This isn't what I set out to shoot today but ...

spraynpray

Another London shot:

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Zola



Studio, Softbox (key), hair light (grid).

DanPhoto

Shanghai at dawn

Msmoto

Bezo, Spraynpray, Ton, DanPhoto...Nice work...
Actually I like all the posts lately...some good photos on NRF.

And now a break from the Detroit stuff, another from my Family of Man set:



And, if you want to look him in the eye..http://www.flickr.com/photos/fantinesfotos/8435562427/sizes/o/in/photostream/

ErikssonRobin

Went out looking for new shooting locations in the cold.

Benji2505

Snow has the disadvantage that does not provide a lot of colors and light is reflected harshly. So I started to look for some backlit situations.

Yetibuddha

Beso and Meinrad, really neat images--of course other images are powerful as well.

This will be the last posting in the Death Valley series. More images are on the Flickr page. This was a difficult image to capture, the light was changing very fast, and it was difficult to focus--it was actually fairly dark, and I was unsure of the actual infinity focus point on the lens. Warning: their may be noise

The mountains in the distance are nearly 20 miles away. Morning at Death Valley:

dissent

@ Yetibuddha - A really nice series.

Witty_Nickname

D800 - Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8 @ 14mm and f/7.1
3 second exposure.

MikeGunter

Hi all,

Nice photos all.



Nikon D7000 ISO 100, 1/160 105mm Micro Nikkor f9.0

My best,

Mike

rschnaible

Cave Rock Area - Lake Tahoe.... Best Viewed in Light Box

pippigurl

Beautiful works! Mine for the day...


Nikon D800 | Nikkor 105mm f/2.8 | 1/80 f/8 | ISO 100

bland

I had to really slap the deniose to it but for not having enough light to shoot I was surprised my D800 was able to capture anything. I almost left once I got there and saw how poor the light was but decided to give my D800 it's hardest test yet. Yee Haw!!! lol