Picture Of The Day

gfroman · « **Reply #5220 on:** 15 May 2020, 03:45 am »

Lighting the yak butter candles in Katmandu - Nepal.

gfroman · « **Reply #5221 on:** 15 May 2020, 08:15 pm »

Continuing my Series, "People of Earth"
The Blind Woman who sees all.....
Katmandu, Nepal

stlrman · « **Reply #5222 on:** 15 May 2020, 09:38 pm »

Love this shot !! The blue of her cape, her expression , the man and colors in the background!!

gfroman · « **Reply #5223 on:** 18 May 2020, 12:14 am »

Thanks!!

After the storm.....
Arches National Park - Utah

gfroman · « **Reply #5224 on:** 18 May 2020, 01:38 am »

Remembering our camping trip to Lake Moraine and Mount Robson.

gfroman · « **Reply #5225 on:** 20 May 2020, 02:05 am »

Carminito Del Rey - "The Death Hike"
Southern Spain

gfroman · « **Reply #5226 on:** 20 May 2020, 12:47 pm »

A lot of the trail was eroded away, so a little tight-rope walking was required - LOL!

gfroman · « **Reply #5227 on:** 20 May 2020, 08:17 pm »

I truly had a blast.
Since then, I've heard they went in and completed "homogenized" the path with guard rails, etc.
Completely ruined the sense of danger - crap!
This is part of the trail, with no trail left to walk on - LOL!!
My wife and her friend went with me.

gfroman · « **Reply #5228 on:** 21 May 2020, 06:38 pm »

gfroman · « **Reply #5229 on:** 22 May 2020, 10:56 pm »

Another from my Series, "People of Earth"

Returning from the Market - Chefchaouen, Morocco.

gfroman · « **Reply #5230 on:** 23 May 2020, 07:00 pm »

Turret Arch through the North Window - Arches National Park

gfroman · « **Reply #5231 on:** 23 May 2020, 10:48 pm »

Paris - 1995.

gfroman · « **Reply #5232 on:** 23 May 2020, 11:57 pm »

Here's an oldie.
Nanc & I hiked up to Lake Anne on a 3-day hiking/camping trip on Mount Baker, WA.
This is one of several snow caves we explored on the hike up.

Emil · « **Reply #5233 on:** 24 May 2020, 12:08 pm »

Thank you

gfroman · « **Reply #5234 on:** 24 May 2020, 08:09 pm »

Another from my Series, "People of Earth"
Tribesman having tea at the Pushkar Camel Festival - India

gfroman · « **Reply #5235 on:** 2 Jun 2020, 01:43 am »

Milky Way at Monument Valley - Utah.

gfroman · « **Reply #5236 on:** 3 Jun 2020, 03:44 am »

A couple of hours out of Bangkok, Thailand is a small village called Petburi.
It is the site of this wondrous underground cave that was turned into a Buddhist temple with hundreds of Buddhist statues. Wild monkeys run everywhere!

tabrink · « **Reply #5237 on:** 3 Jun 2020, 04:30 am »

OK 40 year studio owner here.
How is high saturation HDR even photography. It is not what was captured when the finger hit the shutter release. Just tweaked in post.
HDR is not real and those who think it is are simply applauding there wanna be poor choices.
Just my old opinion after looking looking looking.

gfroman · « **Reply #5238 on:** 3 Jun 2020, 12:17 pm »

Everyone has their own taste in photography.
I'm sure you are aware that the human eye sees differenty than what your camera sees.
Looking at a scene, the eye is continuously adjusting to light and dark situations over several minutes, whereas your camera can only see one exposure in less than a second - either the dark or the light exposure.
Taking multiple exposures of a high contrast scene and combining them into one exposure, is an attempt to try and simulate what your eye sees in real life.
To me this translates to what I saw over a given amount of time that day, which is exactly what I wanted to recreate.
Photography allows me to do that.
Thanks!

tabrink · « **Reply #5239 on:** 3 Jun 2020, 12:36 pm »

Nice reply.. And happy when folks do not get provoked or panties in a knot over a post meant to promote lively discussion. Provocative for sure but I love well thought out banter and tongue in cheek clever conversations. Photography is such an amazing art and I liken the the days of film to the days of vinyl music reproduction with one exception vinyl is coming back and film is only found in the back pages of magazines. I think I probably still see in B&W with extreme shallow DOF due to my age and all the years of getting the shot, exposing the background and rule of thirds.
Best and thanks for chiming in.
Full disclosure: I really do not see an image in over saturated colors and light today which might be that I did not grow up in the days of high resolution, 256M colors on a screen but in only choices of film speed, color or B&W.
All the best.