Photo showoff thread

[joeold]

This is one that I took a while back:


[edit] so as not to double post
most recent one of my cat:

[Eltimas]

Just for fun, not nearly my best or anything, but I enjoy these ones...

Stunning pictures i must say! so magical yet natural.

I would like to ask what kind of camera did you use? Is there a website where i can look up your camera's specifications?

[REFLEX]

Hmm those are from my old camera, the Canon XTi (400D).

My new camera is the EOS 5D MARK II.

[Eltimas]

I see those look good and i bet they're expensive cameras.

I'm a casual and not a professional photographer. I like to take pictures of events/friends/nice weather/the sea/special things.

So a decent camera with high pixel would do the job and of course a strong anti-shake feature.

[REFLEX]

Well Sony has an anti shake feature in the camera body, but most of the time some lenses do, it's not always needed either, just as a safety net for low light photography.

High pixel count doesn't mean anything in terms of picture quality, it helps a lot if you like to crop pictures.

[V3nom]

Edinburgh, Scotland - November 2008

[Sparc]

Love the tree shot!

[-Deadpool-]

One of my favourites from the F1 this weekend.

[REFLEX]

Nice pan shot there, we got the Indy here in the summers now, never been a fan of racing but I love driving so I get it...

[Eltimas]

Well Sony has an anti shake feature in the camera body, but most of the time some lenses do, it's not always needed either, just as a safety net for low light photography.

High pixel count doesn't mean anything in terms of picture quality, it helps a lot if you like to crop pictures.

So what specifications should i look for when i ask around the store? For an amateur like me.

[SpyroViper]

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From my Flickr album.

[REFLEX]

So what specifications should i look for when i ask around the store? For an amateur like me.

Depends really, but mostly you're going to want full manual control so you can understand and learn the basics of aperture, shutter speed and ISO, and how those three things work with or against each other to achieve the results you want from your camera. Sony, Pentax, Olympus, Canon, Nikon, they all offer DSLRs in the lower range that can do this.

Make sure you get one that has detachable lens, so you can eventually get something else, or at least get the feel for all that, DOF (Depth of Field) and all the good stuff that cameras can do.

It doesn't have to be expensive either. Full Manual control is what you need in order to learn the basics.

[Sparc]

One of my favourites from the F1 this weekend.

Absolutely bloody excellent. Did you take this?? Well impressed.

[V3nom]

Absolutely bloody excellent. Did you take this?? Well impressed.

if he did then i'm also impressed! don't think he did though...

[GhostFox61]

One of my favourites from the F1 this weekend.

Very nice shot, excellent use of panning.

If you'd like a bit of advice, try to shoot from a slightly higher angle next time (which can be extremely difficult depending on where you are shooting from) and leave some negative space in front of the car, further reinforcing the impression of speed. When an object appears to be traveling into the frame, your brain implies motion. Also, if you are going to do a tight crop to the rear of the car like you have done above, try cropping it so that about 75% of the near rear tire is in frame. Your mind automatically completes common shapes, adding interest to the image and resulting in a smoother transition at the edge.

It looks like you have a very good eye for photography. Nice work.

[GOA510]

Wish the lighting was reversed, but hey can't control everything.



Took a ton of pics of the local Good Guys Hot Rod show, so I'll have to load them and post em.

Here's one I took of my car one night. Wish I would have washed my car before hand though

[REFLEX]

You doing strobes or what is the lighting set up?

[-Deadpool-]

Absolutely bloody excellent. Did you take this?? Well impressed.

if he did then i'm also impressed! don't think he did though...

Yup, that's one of mine. Sparc has probably seen it in my GP thread now anyway

Very nice shot, excellent use of panning.

If you'd like a bit of advice, try to shoot from a slightly higher angle next time (which can be extremely difficult depending on where you are shooting from) and leave some negative space in front of the car, further reinforcing the impression of speed. When an object appears to be traveling into the frame, your brain implies motion. Also, if you are going to do a tight crop to the rear of the car like you have done above, try cropping it so that about 75% of the near rear tire is in frame. Your mind automatically completes common shapes, adding interest to the image and resulting in a smoother transition at the edge.

It looks like you have a very good eye for photography. Nice work.

Thanks for the comments, unfortunately not possible to implement as there was nowhere to get elevated and still shoot close enough to minimise the fences around Albert Park

[GOA510]

You doing strobes or what is the lighting set up?

No strobes or extra lighting setup, just the natural over head lighting. I did darken the edges up in Lightroom 2 to make the car's highlights "pop" more.

Picture was taken at the following settings:
f/6.3
ISO 200
1/6 sec
-2 exposure

[Wrath]

That's what I call impressive:

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[REFLEX]

It won't even open your hide/show thing...

[Sektor]

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[UberNerD20]

Some pics from my last campin trip with my friends, we found a lil island and want to get to it, and also we had no boat but didnt just want to fish off the shore, so we did what any other group of wilderness drunks would do...

we made a raft.

in hopes this would work

Victory!!!!!

and we made it to the island

though when we took it fishin my friend had his pole sittin on a log and it shifted and we lost his pole and the bait

[Wrath]

It won't even open your hide/show thing...

I don't know what happened with the pictures...

[TraceBusta]

Here are a couple of my favorite pictures. I'm no professional, just a hobbyist. These were all taken with my cybershot dsc-w80.

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