General photography thread [img heavy]

[jobodaho]

I had not seen Alex's post until now...it's crazy we both have spider shots to share! This guy has had a prime location all summer next to our flood light on the deck, and he has gotten huge!

[jobodaho]

This thread seems to be slowing down...



Edit: Here's another from last night...I was driving home from shooting a wedding during a lightning storm, I probably missed the ideal shooting time by about 10 minutes and when I was finally able to stop I had about 2 minutes to get a shot.

[ludi]

This thread seems to be slowing down...

Still here Sweet barn shot, that oversaturated "oil film" rainbow in the clouds is an interesting effect.

I simply haven't gotten outside much to do any real shooting, but hopefully in the next couple weeks I'll get in a short day hike somewhere. Meanwhile, here are some funnel cloud shots from July 14. Storm was moving fast and it was too late in the season for a tornado to stabilize, but sure did look impressive, especially for throwing this kind of show right over downtown Denver:







All shot with the Tokina ATX 80-200mm f/2.8. Unfortunately the tint on the office windows did awful things to my contrast and sharpness, necessitating heavy post processsing, which further degraded the sharpness...

[deb0]

Shot this while at Destin this year on vacation with family:

Shot with Canon 5DMarkII with EF 16-35 F2.8L II

[JustAnEngineer]

Straight out of the camera, small (2½ MP) JPEG:

Denali

[jobodaho]

Cool shot of Denali JAE! Where you in a plane when you took this?

I have been trying to get outside lately to actually start relaxing a bit as this summer finally winds down...I have one more wedding to edit and a bit more work on my commissioned work from around Nebraska and then I may actually slow down a bit...

Here are some from yesterday:

[ludi]

That frog shot has some excellent depth-of-field control.

[JustAnEngineer]

I was at Stony Dome, 62 miles into the narrow 92-mile long dead-end gravel road in Denali National Park (still more than 40 miles from the base of the "Big One"). The weather was exceptionally clear on the mountain at mid-day. Fewer than 17% of park visitors get to see the view that we did almost completely free of clouds. This is what it looked like an hour earlier from about 20 miles further away.

The EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM lens served me well in the park. Besides the shots of the mountain, I managed to capture some wildlife, like this relatively-rare wolf sighting.

[jobodaho]

We had a pretty cool lightning show tonight...had to dodge some rain to get these...

[lonleyppl]

Those latest lightning ones are absolutely stunning jobodaho. Not sure what protocol is on this, but anyway I can obtain those images? I need a new phone background and I think those would be perfect.

Edit: It'd only be for my personal use and all, but I didn't want to just download the image off of the TR server and use it without asking.

[ludi]

Finally got a couple interesting shots on Saturday, one with my narrowest lens and one with my widest:



Tokina 80-200mm f/2.8 at 190mm and f/3.2, at a shooting distance of about 10-15 feet from the neighbor's bird feeer. Ordinarily the two neighborhood squirrels would be raiding it at that time of morning, but apparently the migrating larks had chased them away.



Tokina 12-24mm f/4.0 at 12mm and f/7.1, at a shooting distance of about 3 feet from the corner of the car. This was about 2pm in the afternoon and the owner of the bar behind the Nova SS came out in a chatty mood, having nothing better to do. Apparently his BIL is the original owner of the vehicle and although the paint and chrome have been redone, the sheet metal underneath is original and unrestored. The bar itself is 77 years old and still in the same family, having acquired the second liquor license in Jefferson County after prohibition was repealed.

[JustAnEngineer]

Vancouver, British Columbia:
http://s230.photobucket.com/albums/ee12 ... =slideshow

[JustAnEngineer]

Fairbanks, Alaska:
http://s230.photobucket.com/albums/ee12 ... =slideshow

[JustAnEngineer]

Ketchikan, Alaska:
http://s230.photobucket.com/albums/ee12 ... =slideshow

[Heiwashin]

Damn jae, are you touring the world or something.

[ludi]

Ketchikan, eh? My sis and BIL lived up there for a few years. He had hoped to get more flying time for his pilot interests but the market is crowded, and as their family grew, they finally moved back to Colorado to be closer to family on both sides.

They got some amazing photos, though. If you get farther away from town up into the island's core, there are evidently some incredible hiking areas.

[JustAnEngineer]

Damn jae, are you touring the world or something.

I'm just still sorting the photos from my vacation. No-one noticed that I wasn't around for two weeks.

I like the water and mountain shots (like this one from Glacier Bay or this other one from Prince William Sound) artistically, but from a technical standpoint, this photo is impressive:
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee12 ... G_8091.jpg

It's one of the columns holding up the Tlingit lodge house. It's carved like the totem poles, depicting the myth of Black-skin tearing the killer sea lion in half with his amazingly-strong hands. What's neat about this shot is that it was dim in there and I didn't use a flash. ISO 1600, f/2.8, 1/8 second... hand-held. Those photos are small (2½ megapixel vs. 10 MP full-size) JPEGs, straight out of the camera.

[JustAnEngineer]

Juneau, Alaska:
http://s230.photobucket.com/albums/ee12 ... =slideshow

[JustAnEngineer]

Skagway and Haines, Alaska:
http://s230.photobucket.com/albums/ee12 ... =slideshow

[JustAnEngineer]

Glacier Bay, Alaska:
http://s230.photobucket.com/albums/ee12 ... =slideshow

It was 33 °F and raining.

[jobodaho]

A nice little storm blew by tonight...this was taken from my parent's deck right after dinner

[Alex]

Hello evening sky... by DigitAl3x, on Flickr

I picked up an Olympus EP-2 a while back. So far I'm having a lot of fun with micro 4/3. It won't replace my Nikon system any time soon, but it's small enough that I carry it more, use it more, and so far I've been happy.

[liquidsquid]

Yeah, that is the whole theory with u4/3 is the best camera is the one you have with you. I have my fingers crossed that a u4/3 comes along with Pentax K5 - type dynamic range and noise control. Soon. I would never look back.

Oh, big album from a week in the Adirondacks.
https://picasaweb.google.com/wymanfamil ... directlink
All u4/3, most shot at -1/3EV to avoid sky problems.

[liquidsquid]

Damn jae, are you touring the world or something.

I'm just still sorting the photos from my vacation. No-one noticed that I wasn't around for two weeks.

I like the water and mountain shots (like this one from Glacier Bay or this other one from Prince William Sound) artistically, but from a technical standpoint, this photo is impressive:
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee12 ... G_8091.jpg

It's one of the columns holding up the Tlingit lodge house. It's carved like the totem poles, depicting the myth of Black-skin tearing the killer sea lion in half with his amazingly-strong hands. What's neat about this shot is that it was dim in there and I didn't use a flash. ISO 1600, f/2.8, 1/8 second... hand-held. Those photos are small (2½ megapixel vs. 10 MP full-size) JPEGs, straight out of the camera.

Man, I must get the family out west one of these days to see that. Impressive stuff.

[JustAnEngineer]

Prince William Sound, Alaska:
http://s230.photobucket.com/albums/ee12 ... =slideshow

[JustAnEngineer]

College Fjord, Alaska:
http://s230.photobucket.com/albums/ee12 ... =slideshow

[JustAnEngineer]

Bus tour along the Seward, Glenn and Parks Highways from Whittier to Talkeetna, Alaska:
http://s230.photobucket.com/albums/ee12 ... =slideshow

[JustAnEngineer]

Alaska Railroad from Talkeetna to Denali Village:
http://s230.photobucket.com/albums/ee12 ... =slideshow




In hindsight, I wish that I had skipped lunch and continued to brave the cold wind on the observation platform for more of the trip. Photos (like the one linked in the thumbnail above) shot through the rain-covered windows and canopy didn't come out as well as I would have liked.

[JustAnEngineer]

Mt. McKinley / Denali National Park:
http://s230.photobucket.com/albums/ee12 ... =slideshow



... and I'm finally done sorting and uploading photos from my vacation.

[jobodaho]

Finally I can post a few of the images from my tour of Nebraska. I was commissioned to photograph 35 different cities in Nebraska for a local business who has conference rooms named after each of the cities, with the end result being 2-4 prints per room. It was so much fun road-tripping (3,200+ miles driven in 11 days) and seeing all the different land/cityscapes that Nebraska has to offer. I will only post a few here, but I am in the works getting this all published, and I'm hopeful more can be shared at that time. Hope you like these!