Oh yeah, let's take the easy route.

hey, it works until you has $$.

I'll play. From Rhyolite Ghost Town this morning:

edit: I don't feel like resizing them tonight. Clicky, prs.

Very cool. 6a is my fav.
Reflection from a window?

Yeah. It's a little 10x10ft house, the only family home left standing from the bust in 1909. The BLM renovated it and added plate glass replicas of the original windows.

I only brought one lens, a 70-300. That definitely made compositions more difficult, but I was happy for the challenge.

Another:

great shots jer! 6a for me too, and the doors



so whats with the bike statue thing in that last one?

My guess is it has something to do with the "Ghost Town" part?

Nice shots jer.

Looks like the single lens worked pretty well for you. I use only the 28-135mm when doing general stuff.
That bike statue is kinda funky.

I noticed recently that maybe 80-90% of the photos I take are vertical.... Have you guys noticed what orientation you favor?

landscape:portrait = 95:5 for me, but IM really trying to change that because I have a lot of pics that would have been way better in portrait...the vertical grip is helping a lot with that for me

Thanks guys. Yeah, it's an art installation from the 80s. The artist had a friend hold the pose while he draped him in plaster-soaked burlap. When the plaster dried the friend was removed and the result is what you see. There is also a replica of the Last Supper using the same technique behind where I was standing when I took that photo. I have more non-HDR shots of the ghost town and the gallery, I'll get them posted to my blog sometime today.


I'd say I'm 50/50 or close to it. So many people shoot landscape, I guess I want something unique. Although I'll tell you, in every shot I took yesterday (except those of the doors) I did two exposures, one landscape and one portrait. Just to be safe.

lat - Yeah, I'm loving the vertical grip on mine. Makes it so much easier!

Jer - Hmm, good idea on taking two shots for each subject, but I'm such a spaz when it comes to taking photos. Kinda just do things on a whim and don't really think about it.

Well, I just got a new 4gb Kingston card, I wanted to see if I could fill it up with 400 photos in an hour.

A few more posted to my blog, btw.

11a and 14a =

Well, we all know how jer will answer.....

prz no ban.

*zing

18-55mm for me. But the G9 is always in my back pocket if I need something a bit closer

50/50 for me apparently - 45 landscape/45 portrait from the asylum photos that I kept.



Interesting...lol, enormous cinder block woman.

you really do have a thing for doors




I didn't think it was that hard without a vertical grip *shrugs*

She's my favorite!

Well it's not difficult without the grip, but the grip makes it easier to brace for shots because both arms are down. And it's more comfortable for me, since I shoot mainly verticals.

And ya, cinder block woman has a little badunkadunk, hehe.

meh, tripod imo.

assuming i stop breaking them

Lol, my tripod stays at home.

^ mine, too. Actually, I brought it yesterday and made my best friend lug it around all day but I never actually used it, lol. Even at ISO100 and a 300mm focal length I was still getting shutter speeds close to or surpassing 1/500sec. I love the desert.

it isn't hard, but its more comfortable and easier on your arm/shoulders

probably not an issue for us twenty somethings, but is for older shooters

I thought you were going to have more shots to show us, lat. *taps foot*

suppose this responds to both posts...

meh, after packing rocks around for the last 4 years of research, tripods and cameras are nothing.

to be honest, portraits are more comfortable to shoot than landscapes to me - wrist position on the right hand is more relaxed.

had seminar all weekend, if you want to know anything about head and neck anatomy and trauma, I can answer that, but nothing about photography until tomorrow afternoon



I was thinking more about the shoulder, but let's not distract from the thread I suppose

alright, I finally got some new pics done, even though none are newly taken pics

overdone for fun:


my brother's dog:


tree at the pond at school


hilarious statue downtown


sunrise at pond at school


xmas tree

Cool beans, I love the bunny statue!

Beagle!



btw, I think there's a way to remove the watermark. Daniel?

the way to remove it is to buy the full version or to use the less cool merging version that it comes with

beagle is awesome.

and funky rabbit...don't recall having seen that before...surprising as much as i've been there.


and hdr christmas trees are always good





ummm...legally? buy full version, use tone compression setting, or cloning tool

not so legally?

It's only $100, and you can get 10% discounts with a simple google search

Yeah, no ######.


^^

isnt the illegal question just as obvious?

Apparently not, your images are watermaked. Forgive me, I had no idea it was just laziness.

oh sweat, I wasn't trying to get watermark free images

BUMP

I guess I never posted anything in this thread. Sorry they're all probably reposts

Landscape:








Automotive:

wow! Some HDR that I actually like! Nice work for sure.

Most of my recent stuff is HDR.

Is that a reference to what I said?

Your stuff is awesome too for sure.

But I definitely like the subtlety of this HDR.

Well...As much as it's in my blood to purchase a DSLR, it's just not in the budget. So, I've been really wanting to play around with some HDR to see what it's all about. So, I hacked my Canon A540 with the CHDK and have been experimenting with shooting RAW for the first time and using the demo of Photomatix. I don't really understand all the settings yet. Here's my first attempt. Critique welcome.

Used "painterly" preset, did not have tri-pod so there is some ghosting.

Oh hey, that does look a painting.

I need to mess around some more because so far, if I use the "natural" preset, the HDR doesn't come out discernibly different than than just shooting in JPEG.

wut?

You bumped his noob thread.

and I lol'd all over again.

Oh, sorry 'bout that (or not). It was just that I asked some questions earlier in the thread.