08-17-2010, 05:28 PM
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#1001
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Calgary
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08-17-2010, 06:46 PM
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#1002
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CP Pontiff
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: A pasture out by Millarville
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Originally Posted by GreenLantern
Hrmm won't let me thank CP's post, must be because its a few weeks old... but great pics man.
Glad to hear the puppy is doing ok.
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Thanks. . . . . she's back to normal for sure. Abby, coincidentally, is 12 years old today and, in the words of her surgeon, a "remarkable physical specimen" for her age. Hopefully she's with us many more years. Abby, nosing through the grass of her prairie home, after the storm . . .
Her sister Keeper, also 12, has been slowing noticeably after surving cancer two years ago.
Below, Abby lazing her way through tall grass along the northwestern shore of Chain Lake, a favourite walk in all seasons . . . . sort of a private dog park as I've only seen one other person out for a stroll here. The fisherman type tend to hang out at the dam.
As we were walking along, we saw this unlikely sight, one of a nesting pair of Bald Eagles, disturbed by our presence (a pair of Osprey's had been dive-bombing us earlier) . . . .
. . . . which seconds later turned into this even more unlikely spectacle, travelling west to east over the lake at about 500 feet and roughly 350-400 knots. The challenge for the board is to identify markings and aircraft type . . .
and, for amusement, in the darkest part of Brown Lowery park, a weird photo . . . .
Below, the Millarville Rodeo Wild Horse Race . . . .
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08-17-2010, 07:38 PM
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#1004
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Behind Nikkor Glass
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Originally Posted by wooohooo
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Being Watched by Witty nickname, on Flickr
No filters on this lens. The position of the sun really helped.
The light metering was thrown off a bit by the entire scene being so dark except for the beaming Sun.
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08-17-2010, 08:47 PM
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#1005
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Cowperson
. . . . which seconds later turned into this even more unlikely spectacle, travelling west to east over the lake at about 500 feet and roughly 350-400 knots. The challenge for the board is to identify markings and aircraft type . . .
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That's a Czech built L-39, based here in YYC:
My shot of it:
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08-18-2010, 07:11 AM
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#1006
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First Line Centre
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Hey Jayems how did you get the shot on the bridge?
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08-18-2010, 10:16 AM
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#1008
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by Titan
Hey Jayems how did you get the shot on the bridge?
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Lol... I creeped her out real good.
Slow shutter and an aperture in the f20 range or so... (you can tell by how dirty my sensor was that day).
Anyway, I just focused on her with my 70-200. As i took my shot with the slow shutter, I rolled my 'zoom' back. So the slow shutter allows the 'blur' as you roll back.
Anyway, as she walked past, she had headphones in and was texting. I tried to tell her who I was and why I was taking her picture, but she didn't make eye contact and just scurried off.
Last edited by Jayems; 08-18-2010 at 10:35 AM.
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08-18-2010, 10:42 AM
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#1009
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Behind Nikkor Glass
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Originally Posted by wooohooo
I was bored yesterday and tried to take a panoramic shot of Downtown. I had no tripod so I was hand holding it so it is a little shakey. And I had no idea on how long I should do the settings for so please tell me what I should change.
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It's too hard to tell from such a small image and no EXIF data, though it looks blurry, dull and possibly taken with a cell phone?
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08-18-2010, 10:46 AM
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#1010
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Calgary
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Is that one of those fancy new digitals that have a "pano" mode, and you simply hold down the button and pan the direction you want?
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08-18-2010, 10:57 AM
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#1011
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God of Hating Twitter
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Seyðisfjörður, Iceland by ThorJonsson, on Flickr
Here´s my touch up one, and cropped a bit. Curious what you awesome photographers can tell me which you prefer or if there is anything I´m messing up. Keep in mind I took this at about 2am when I was pretty liquored and without a tripod.
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08-18-2010, 11:21 AM
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#1012
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Crash and Bang Winger
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Calgary
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Went to a UPick farm this weekend for some cherries . . . yum!
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08-18-2010, 11:48 AM
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#1013
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Originally Posted by Thor
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I personally like the original better than your edited version... the edited one looks, well edited. The only think I would change about this photo is removing the little piece of earth in the bottom right corner. Other than that it's an amazing photo!
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08-18-2010, 12:20 PM
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#1014
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God of Hating Twitter
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08-18-2010, 12:38 PM
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#1015
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First Line Centre
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Thor
Seyðisfjörður, Iceland by ThorJonsson, on Flickr
Here´s my touch up one, and cropped a bit. Curious what you awesome photographers can tell me which you prefer or if there is anything I´m messing up. Keep in mind I took this at about 2am when I was pretty liquored and without a tripod.
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I much prefer the untouched one. WHen I saw my first reaction was "now that's a good picture"
Last edited by Titan; 08-18-2010 at 12:49 PM.
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08-18-2010, 12:39 PM
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#1016
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First Line Centre
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Originally Posted by Jayems
Lol... I creeped her out real good.
Slow shutter and an aperture in the f20 range or so... (you can tell by how dirty my sensor was that day).
Anyway, I just focused on her with my 70-200. As i took my shot with the slow shutter, I rolled my 'zoom' back. So the slow shutter allows the 'blur' as you roll back.
Anyway, as she walked past, she had headphones in and was texting. I tried to tell her who I was and why I was taking her picture, but she didn't make eye contact and just scurried off.
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I have seen this effect before but the way both the foreground and background are blurred but the person is still in focus is cool.
Thanks.
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08-18-2010, 01:06 PM
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#1017
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Calgary
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Yeah, the f20 (estimating) is just to compensate because if you drop your shutter to 1/60th or lower on a bright sunny day, obviously it'll blow out your exposure.
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08-18-2010, 01:48 PM
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#1018
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Redundant Minister of Redundancy
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Montreal
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Quote:
Originally Posted by COGENT
I personally like the original better than your edited version... the edited one looks, well edited. The only think I would change about this photo is removing the little piece of earth in the bottom right corner. Other than that it's an amazing photo!
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Agreed. The original one is much nicer. The edited one has too much of a green tint for my taste.
If you want to edit it, I think the only thing I'd try to do is reduce some of the noise in the sky/water.
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08-18-2010, 02:50 PM
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#1019
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God of Hating Twitter
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Yeah when I originally did that crop/edit on that photo I had been a little keen on strong saturation. I was only 1 month into using a DSLR and post editing was new to me.
Anyhow trying again with the photo, was able to clean up a lot of noise with PS Lightroom, cut it as well to remove the bottom right junk.
I love the wide images, but maybe for this image the whole image works better if I can photoshop out the bottom right rocks.
test1 by ThorJonsson, on Flickr
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08-18-2010, 03:23 PM
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#1020
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Backup Goalie
Join Date: Oct 2002
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Just wanna say I really enjoy looking at all the pictures in this thread. There is a lot of talent amongst the CP community!
I've always liked taking pictures myself, and recently decided to try and take it up a notch. I bought my first DSLR just over a week ago and hope to some day be half as good as you guys and gals.
Keep the pics coming!
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