Picture Of The Day

jcrane · « **Reply #200 on:** 1 Sep 2007, 01:06 pm »

Quote from: navi on 25 Aug 2007, 02:12 am

Love the bushfire shot! that's cool....I mean hot......... how long was the exposure?

Exif data says 30" @F13 and ISO 800....

Jamie

SET Man · « **Reply #201 on:** 11 Sep 2007, 02:05 am »

Hey!

View from Long Island City (LIC), Queens, NYC of "Queensborough bridge"... aka 59th Street bridge as in Simon and Garfunkel's "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)"

Take care,
Buddy

Levi · « **Reply #202 on:** 19 Sep 2007, 03:50 am »

mjosef · « **Reply #203 on:** 19 Sep 2007, 03:58 am »

Come on Levi...turn up the volume

Levi · « **Reply #204 on:** 19 Sep 2007, 04:02 am »

I have to get it installed in my car first.

JP78 · « **Reply #205 on:** 19 Sep 2007, 04:27 pm »

i've been viewing these on an my workstation which has a colormatch calibrated sony gdm-fw900...these photos are absolutely stunning! thanks guys

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SET Man · « **Reply #206 on:** 22 Sep 2007, 05:29 am »

Quote from: mjosef on 19 Sep 2007, 03:58 am

Come on Levi...turn up the volume

Hey!

This should work for you Martin... well until Levi get those Mc meters running.

BTW... I took this photo for my mixed CD cover.

Take care,
Buddy

AdamM · « **Reply #207 on:** 8 Oct 2007, 12:11 pm »

Sunset gradients

Stars are big and bright in Noosa

30mm f/1.4, 2 or 3 seconds

rajacat · « **Reply #208 on:** 8 Oct 2007, 04:04 pm »

Imperial · « **Reply #209 on:** 24 Oct 2007, 08:22 pm »

Uhm... I dont know what happened really... I was doing a mouse over, and there it was!
Uhm... I'll tell the cat! ... It's not eaten all day... I'll have you know!!!

Still not scared?

Nice tie!

Well, It's my picture of the day...

Imperial

mcullinan · « **Reply #210 on:** 24 Oct 2007, 08:24 pm »

Is that a real mouse! Jesus what did it just eat! So lifelike.. Hes poised for an attack.
Mike

Imperial · « **Reply #211 on:** 24 Oct 2007, 09:06 pm »

His name is Audiotatoulie.
He eats vibrations...
Only the bad one's
Then he dishes out lovely stuff!

So what ever get "the shakes" better watch out...

Ps: The midiclorian count is over 20 thousand in this one! *Jedimove*

Imperial

inrank · « **Reply #212 on:** 29 Oct 2007, 09:12 pm »

here we go

http://www.flickr.com/photos/16900818@N06/

nathanm · « **Reply #213 on:** 5 Nov 2007, 10:59 pm »

It's a picture of the day all right. Look, you can even see the sun. A shame, considering this is where I think I lost my sunglasses last time at this location. I could've used 'em too.

My hope is that sometime in the future our grandchildren will be able to achieve this same "lens flare" effect using computer machines without having to haul 30lbs. of antiquated analog equipment out into the field. I know, it sounds far-fetched now but I think it can be done. We just have to have the strength to dream.

drphoto · « **Reply #214 on:** 6 Nov 2007, 12:22 am »

Nice pic Nathan.

Certain things cannot be computer emulated. Shallow focus for one. Yeah, you can copy a layer, apply a blur to the top one and use a layer mask. But the problem, of course, is where they blend, you get a diffusion effect. At least for now if you want shallow focus, you got to shoot it. (assuming the foreground and background tie together somehow)

The other thing is sharp focus. It's another thing you cannot fix. Yeah, there's unsharp mask and such, but if its out.....it's out.

I always say on a job, "I can fix anything, but out of focus". Now that I'm getting up in years and don't trust my eyes, I try to make sure someone opens the image in Pshop to check focus.

Hope you're having fun w/ the 210. Man, I miss shooting view cam.

doc

nathanm · « **Reply #215 on:** 6 Nov 2007, 01:24 am »

I've tried doing the focus blur on some of my images and it can look okay, but it's an effect more than a realistic thing. It's impossible to fake what the lens is doing. Well, impossible in that nobody in their right mind would want to spend the time trying to fake it. Photoshop's Lens Blur filter does have the right idea in that it blurs progressively based on the layer mask. A step up from using blur on a gradient selection which never looks quite right. I kind of think Lens Blur might've been able to fake inrank's "HERE" photo mainly because the blurred area is more or less a flat plane. But more often than not Lens Blur is mostly used for the 'ol make-stuff-look-like-a-miniature thing.

Out of focus CAN be fixed, but you have to have access to secret Hollywood movie technology. Part of it involves zooming into a horribly pixelated image and saying the magic words "Enhance That!". I've tried this numerous times myself but it never works. They must have some special software.

The only way you can really fix out of focus (and just a bit out of focus at that) is to dramatically reduce size and sharpen. But at 1:1 forget it, you can only get sharp lumps.

ipy · « **Reply #216 on:** 7 Nov 2007, 06:42 pm »

Sunset at Rio-Niterói Bridge.

AdamM · « **Reply #217 on:** 9 Nov 2007, 01:27 pm »

'lil shootin in the shower:

RooX · « **Reply #218 on:** 9 Nov 2007, 02:57 pm »

very sensual adam. love it.

JohnR · « **Reply #219 on:** 9 Nov 2007, 11:22 pm »

What kind of project are you doing there, Adam?