Photo-a-day

[Bobster]

walkman for 18

[Bobster]

a shot from Sunday

[Blastuk]

From Saturday.. I dropped and broke my flash's zoom motor about 1 minute before this.

[Syd]

gotta love the snow for providing soft light

another squirrel from yesterday..

Love it - his whiskers look like a chimney brush

P&S shot that I fiddled around with a few years ago. Not great by any standards but the missus loves it and looks quite funky in a frame.

Awesome shot - looks like it should be on a billboard promoting snowoarding or a n other 'cool' sport.

[Evildeeva]

Some more photos of my recent trip away....

Wellington Harbour....


Queenstown......Some of the scenery here was breath taking!


This was something that just amused me with the sign and people walking past - I had to get a shot!

[j.o.s.h.1408]

2nd shot is great but the 1st and 3rd needs to be a tad sharper

[KidChameleon]

Some more photos of my recent trip away....

Wellington Harbour....
http://i651.photobucket.com/albums/u...on_harbour.jpg

Looks like a shot of Mt. Victoria/Oriental Parade.

Here are some I took from Oriental Parade in 2008.






And one from the top of Mount Victoria. It didn't quite stitch properly because of the positions of the original photos, but it still turned out ok.

[Evildeeva]

Looks like a shot of Mt. Victoria/Oriental Parade.

Here are some I took from Oriental Parade in 2008.

I really like the 2nd photo - night time photography is something I want to do a bit more of. If you don't mind me asking, has it had anything done to it in Photo Shop....and if so what?

[Evildeeva]

2nd shot is great but the 1st and 3rd needs to be a tad sharper

Thanks, I can see what you mean. It was foggy as well on the first one, and I wasn't too sure how to handle the fog within the photo as regards to settings etc! Any tips??

[KidChameleon]

has it had anything done to it in Photo Shop....and if so what?

I cut off the top and bottom, which were just empty black bits. I might have also changed saturation in Canon Digital Photo Professional, but I'm not sure. I don't often do any editing at all apart from crop/contrast.

[Evildeeva]

I cut off the top and bottom, which were just empty black bits. I might have also changed saturation in Canon Digital Photo Professional, but I'm not sure. I don't often do any editing at all apart from crop/contrast.

Thanks for that - I'm trying to learn a bit more on Paint Shop Pro at the moment but I'm never quite sure what to mess around with and change on my photos - I think its good to find out what other people do! Cheers.

[j.o.s.h.1408]

Use a tripod for night time landscape pictures.

[KidChameleon]

Use a tripod for night time landscape pictures.

Or a rock in the case of my photo above.

[Evildeeva]

Use a tripod for night time landscape pictures.

......I always use a tripod for night time shots.....also for most of my daytime landscape stuff as well.

[tfboy]

For night time shots, I tend to overexpose a little bit. You pick up the colourful "light pollution" in the sky. If in front of some water, with the long exposure, you get that velvety quality too. IMO, it's not a big deal having lots of blown out white bits from lights if you get the colourful atmosphere.

Here's one I took, leaning camera on a pillar or something so the exposure wasn't long enough for the silky water

Hong Kong Opera House IIRC

[Blastuk]

Some more photos of my recent trip away....

Wellington Harbour....

I would say the fog has lowered the overall contrast of your image, which is why it looks "dull".
Increasing the contrast slightly in post may help a bit there.

Looking at the exif, 30sec at f/14; I personally wouldn't have shot it at f/14.. f/8 - f/11 probably would be enough unless you needed the slower shutter to catch motion blur.

Also, long exposures are usually done at 100 iso. If you have a tripod, there's no excuse not to use 100 iso

(I was trying to see what it would look like at a cooler colour temp. Gah, blasted jpgs.)