Photo-a-day

[neonplanet40]

One more :

Lovely picture mate Looks gothic and I like gothic

[tfboy]

Yeah they are, not sure if there's a way to tell how much but (and this may also be useless info as it may depend on screen resolution!) if I have it open in photoshop, it's about 50% zoom level.

Yes it does and I've been wondering about that to be honest because look at this picture (this is just a screen shot from the Nikon software, zoomed in quite a lot). Focus point is right on yet it was totally OOF. To get it in focus I had to keep aiming at the post below (probably about 30cm down it) then keep the shutter held and move back up, which should just refocus to the kingfisher in the same way as if I'd originally aimed there, and it would be in focus!? I have no idea what that means, but it was annoying!

Are you a member on NikonCafe? There's a fantastic post explaining the focus options and how you can use them. I'll have a ready and see if their rules allow me to post here. edit: http://www.nikoncafe.com/vforums/sho...d.php?t=196906

[Garrick]

Hi TheAnimus,
Lovely photo of Kingfisher. I like the idea.
What camera did you use and what technique you used to shot this photo?

[htid]

Are you a member on NikonCafe? There's a fantastic post explaining the focus options and how you can use them. I'll have a ready and see if their rules allow me to post here. edit: http://www.nikoncafe.com/vforums/sho...d.php?t=196906

I'm not, but thanks for the info, I'll definitely give it a read!

A portrait of my girlfriend from our recent trip to Wales. I have no idea about the "rules" of portrait photography so there may be some improvements I could make.

[tfboy]

I'm not, but thanks for the info, I'll definitely give it a read!

A portrait of my girlfriend from our recent trip to Wales. I have no idea about the "rules" of portrait photography so there may be some improvements I could make.

I find the nice daffodils a little distracting in the background and would probably have gone for more bokeh. What lens did you take it with and at what settings?

However I do like the pose and composition

[Bobster]

I'm not, but thanks for the info, I'll definitely give it a read!

A portrait of my girlfriend from our recent trip to Wales. I have no idea about the "rules" of portrait photography so there may be some improvements I could make.

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5258/...6d9bc4d0_b.jpg

its ok, but whatever skin smoothing technique you used, isn't working..

[htid]

its ok, but whatever skin smoothing technique you used, isn't working..

That's been said a lot over at talkphotography where I've also posted it. I'm not sure if it's my eyes or what, but it looks fine to me, but if you plus quite a few others say it doesn't look right, then I must be doing something wrong! I had no idea about smoothing so I just googled it and used the first result, which was a surface blur.

tfboy, just a nikon nifty 1.8, f2.5, 1/5000th, spot metering

[g8ina]

Hi TheAnimus,
Lovely photo of Kingfisher. I like the idea.
What camera did you use and what technique you used to shot this photo?

Ask htid not the animus, after all htid took the photo in the first place.

[htid]

Ask htid not the animus, after all htid took the photo in the first place.

I think it might be a spammer, hence I ignored it

[Bobster]

That's been said a lot over at talkphotography where I've also posted it. I'm not sure if it's my eyes or what, but it looks fine to me, but if you plus quite a few others say it doesn't look right, then I must be doing something wrong! I had no idea about smoothing so I just googled it and used the first result, which was a surface blur.

how about posting without?

[Ruggerbugger]

and a good weekends shooting here with the D70iR, I really love the Brixworth one -



I managed to get 8 reasonable (IMHO) shots from 5 days shooting , that's 1 in 60 !

That's a stunning shot, the sharpness really adds to the eeriness of the churchyard. The cross is an interesting shot, but doesn't really "do it" for me, although I can't put my finger on why

Meanwhile at Sywell:

[htid]

how about posting without?

Here you go, out of cam (full version on flickr if you prefer). People provided edits on tp but I'm not really convinced with any of them

[g8ina]

You bugger rugger !! You came to Sywell and didnt invite me ??

We're away for the next few days so will miss the Blades practise in case you were thinking of popping over... Catch ya next time.

[Bobster]

I'm not, but thanks for the info, I'll definitely give it a read!

A portrait of my girlfriend from our recent trip to Wales. I have no idea about the "rules" of portrait photography so there may be some improvements I could make.

Here you go, out of cam (full version on flickr if you prefer). People provided edits on tp but I'm not really convinced with any of them
http://www.flickr.com/photos/htid/5585623376

cheers - ok her skin istn't all that bad, a little acne removal and some dodging and burning
your original crop

and some creative crops




better or worse for you?

[htid]

The crops I like, but the skin looks a little too bright to me, but then my monitor is a cheap 'never been calibrated in its life' dell that's about 8 years old so it probably looks good if I was able to view it as it's meant to be

[redddraggon]

TBH I quite liked your original version, but I don't seem to see colours that well.