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Re: General photography thread [img heavy]

Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 8:12 pm
by ludi
Hmmm, that gets me thinking...I wonder if I could replicate that effect using an aimed mirror to substitute for the remote flash unit?

You may have just ruined my weekend :lol:

Re: General photography thread [img heavy]

Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 8:24 pm
by jobodaho
ludi wrote:
Hmmm, that gets me thinking...I wonder if I could replicate that effect using an aimed mirror to substitute for the remote flash unit?

You may have just ruined my weekend :lol:


Ruined...or made awesome?

Re: General photography thread [img heavy]

Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 8:38 pm
by Captain Ned
Paging Doc Edgerton, Doc Edgerton to high-speed shutters STAT.

Never mind me, that's good work. Doc Edgerton would be proud. All you have to do now is catch a bullet blowing up an apple or a balloon.

Re: General photography thread [img heavy]

Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 11:34 pm
by SecretSquirrel
Captain Ned wrote:
Paging Doc Edgerton, Doc Edgerton to high-speed shutters STAT.

Never mind me, that's good work. Doc Edgerton would be proud. All you have to do now is catch a bullet blowing up an apple or a balloon.


No need for a high speed shutter. Just a powerful, high speed flash. Almost all the high speed work you see, with exception of some really exotic stuff is done in a black room with an open shutter. The lens flare off the refracted light in the first "orange" shot is really cool. Actually, all of them are really cool. :D

--SS

Re: General photography thread [img heavy]

Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 2:54 pm
by jobodaho
OK, attempt number two...seemed to go much better with a different basin for the water (deeper, black).

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Re: General photography thread [img heavy]

Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 11:34 pm
by ludi
Them's came out really nice. How did you set up the lighting to get the color effects? Also, what lens and shooting distance gave the best results?

Re: General photography thread [img heavy]

Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 11:43 pm
by jobodaho
ludi wrote:
Them's came out really nice. How did you set up the lighting to get the color effects? Also, what lens and shooting distance gave the best results?


I used my Canon 5D mk II with the 100mm IS macro at roughly 8"-12" from the front of the lens to the drop location. For the colors, it is a combination of bouncing the flash from behind the drop against a variety of different backdrops. I some of the backdrops from a Google search, some are just blurred versions of images I have taken myself.

Thanks for the complements!!!

Re: General photography thread [img heavy]

Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 11:52 pm
by jobodaho
Sorry to overload this thread with these pictures, but a few more from tonight:

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Re: General photography thread [img heavy]

Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 11:42 pm
by jobodaho
Finally...no more water drops...for now...

My wife and I visited Chicago this weekend to see some old friends and had a great time...we were also glad to see some decent weather while we were there.

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Re: General photography thread [img heavy]

Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 5:16 pm
by SPOOFE
I love the contrast going from the fluid, round lines of the water droplets to the straight lines and angles of the architecture pics. Fun stuff, Jo.

Re: General photography thread [img heavy]

Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 9:00 pm
by jobodaho
SPOOFE wrote:
I love the contrast going from the fluid, round lines of the water droplets to the straight lines and angles of the architecture pics. Fun stuff, Jo.


Thanks SPOOFE!!! Just wait 'til wedding season starts and I'm posting even more types of photos...at some point I may just stick to one genre...

Re: General photography thread [img heavy]

Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2011 12:49 pm
by grantmeaname
I've decided I'm gong to post in here. I don't have a camera this time of year (I bum one off of my brother, forum name Chun¢, in the summer), so I'm doing a bit of post before I upload anything.
There won't be any picture-taking until spring break, at least.

Re: General photography thread [img heavy]

Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 10:54 am
by grantmeaname
All photos taken last summer on my brother Chun¢'s EOS Digital Rebel XS.
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F/5.6, ISO 200, 1/200s, Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS (kit lens) at 18mm

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F/5.6, ISO 400, 1/1600s, Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 at 300mm

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F/1.8, ISO 400, 1/60s, Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 MkII

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F/1.8, ISO 400, 1/60s, Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 MkII

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F/1.8, ISO 400, 1/2000s, Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 MkII
More to come from the archives, but no new pictures for a long time I think.

Re: General photography thread [img heavy]

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 11:51 am
by jobodaho
A few from yesterday:

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Re: General photography thread [img heavy]

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 2:57 am
by ludi
If there's a reason to dislike the EF-S 60mm Macro, I haven't found it yet:

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The sky was gray all day and a borderline fog was producing these ice crystals (some more than 1/2 inch long by late afternoon). Hence, several of these images were shot with flash assist from my 550EX, using a tophat diffuser. The first image was shot at approximately 1/2 lifesize.

Re: General photography thread [img heavy]

Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 5:07 pm
by Corrado
I've been wanting to take some photos here for a few weeks now, and finally had some time on my way home from work along with cooperating weather.
All photos with an E-PL1 and PP done in Aperture.

This one is my favorite.
Oly 40-150 @ 40mm f5.6 1/250sec exposure
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This is a passenger regional rail bridge:
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This is an HDR merge of 3 exposures using Light Compressor.
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Love the clouds in this:
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Re: General photography thread [img heavy]

Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 5:46 pm
by ludi
If you want a really interesting geometric effect and intense colors, get directly under the center of one of those lattice towers on a sunny day with light clouds, and shoot straight upward with a circular polarizer.

Re: General photography thread [img heavy]

Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 5:53 pm
by Captain Ned
ludi wrote:
If you want a really interesting geometric effect and intense colors, get directly under the center of one of those lattice towers on a sunny day with light clouds, and shoot straight upward with a circular polarizer.

Hmm, minimal aperture, a slow shutter speed, and maybe a few stops of ND filter, then gently turn the polarizer as the shot is taken. Definitely need a tripod & remote for that experiment.

Re: General photography thread [img heavy]

Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 5:59 pm
by Corrado
Captain Ned wrote:
Hmm, minimal aperture, a slow shutter speed, and maybe a few stops of ND filter, then gently turn the polarizer as the shot is taken. Definitely need a tripod & remote for that experiment.


I do have a circular polarizer, tripod and remote.

Re: General photography thread [img heavy]

Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 2:04 am
by ludi
It's not every day you get a wildfire near your hometown which, fortunately, moves in the correct direction (across open space lands and away from you). Started Sunday around 10am, but I wasn't back in town until the evening. All of these were variously shot from Lookout Mountain and Mount Zion, looking across Clear Creek Canyon towards Mount Galbraith and the general direction of Golden Gate Canyon:

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Moday around lunchtime. That 250 gallon bucket looks mighty small:

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Late that evening:

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Tuesday, around noon. An attempt at a firebreak has been painted with slury:

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By 4pm, winds had picked up to 70+ mph ground gusts, with windspeeds exceeding 110mph just above the peaks. One of the hotspots jumps the firebreak and enters the trees:

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The local NBC affiliate discovers that Live At Five can be a bit difficult in 70mph wind:

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The winds continued into the night, so I couldn't get a stable tripod shot of the day's aftermath. So I ended up with spotfire "florets" instead:

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On a related note, the Tokina 80-200mm f/2.8 did very good work for most of these shots.

Re: General photography thread [img heavy]

Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 2:21 am
by ludi
The fire managed to continue into Thursday, at which point the winds blew it back around into itself, aiding the containment process.

Wednesday around noon:

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Wednesday evening, a smattering of grassfires persist inside an inaccessible hollow:

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Finally on Thursday, a lingering hotspot burns itself out far back in the canyon:

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That pretty well finished it. By Thursday night there wasn't anything else to see. Total burn area, 1600 acres, zero structures.

Re: General photography thread [img heavy]

Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 11:24 pm
by JustAnEngineer

Re: General photography thread [img heavy]

Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2011 9:42 pm
by ludi
That's a funny looking bird. What kind is it?

Re: General photography thread [img heavy]

Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2011 10:01 pm
by JustAnEngineer
Wasn't it a blue-jay?

Here's a Peacock for you:
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Re: General photography thread [img heavy]

Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 1:00 pm
by Alex
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Red vs. White by DigitAl3x, on Flickr

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Sea of orange by DigitAl3x, on Flickr

Re: General photography thread [img heavy]

Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 1:15 pm
by Captain Ned
JustAnEngineer wrote:
Wasn't it a blue-jay?

Too small and is missing the head crest.

Re: General photography thread [img heavy]

Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 2:34 pm
by SonicSilicon
It's a blue jay. You can see peanuts in the chutes for a sense of scale. (That feeder must be very wide)
As for the crest, it can be a reduced size. I'm not sure if it's from molting, sex of the bird, or what.

Re: General photography thread [img heavy]

Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 8:46 pm
by JustAnEngineer
The feeder is a Squirrel Buster Plus from Brome.

Here's a cardinal for scale comparison:
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Another of the Blue jay:
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I'll give you a couple of woodpeckers, too:
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There was also this little guy:
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Re: General photography thread [img heavy]

Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 11:02 pm
by Captain Ned
I was wrong; that's a blue jay.

Here in VT I've never seen a jay without a crest. Never knew it was possible.

Re: General photography thread [img heavy]

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 3:11 am
by quock
I bought a reasonably cheap second-hand film SLR some time ago to play with. Here are some of the results:

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