The *Official Photography Thread*

Kevin, I think the last 3 photos would be killer B&W.

 

Hmmm, I'll have to check it out! I'm in the middle of going through like 350 waterfowl pictures from last week...

 

Just something I would personally try

Get to posting some of them birdies up!

 

x2

Idk why that wasn't your entry this week! Damn thats a good shot.

 

Yeah I'll definitely try it and post up the result.
Gotta pause going through them to eat, just got off of facebook talking with my girlfriend who's in Ecuador, so it'll be a bit before these new ones are up.
In the meantime, I posted this like a week or so ago in the birding thread but I never ended up posting this here, but I'm really proud of it:

Fox Sparrow by 92shawman, on Flickr

x2. Fantastic picture!

 

I had a different edit of my challenge shot this week. I couldn't decide which one to enter so I put the one that was a little heavier processed than I normally do. This was my normal HDR processing that I didn't enter. Same shot though.



Untitled_HDR2 by medic2230, on Flickr

As I was leaving I saw this excavator sitting there and couldn't help myself. Well actually I was eyeballing it the whole time I was there. lol


DSC_4792_HDR by medic2230, on Flickr

 

here are my other two for the challenge.


Rock gym.jpg by Monte Nickles Photos, on Flickr

Rock gym2.jpg by Monte Nickles Photos, on Flickr

really wanted to get the Arch in St louis with the city scape..just could not find time to drive out that way.

 

thats what I was expecting.... part of me wanted hit the government building here.... but with the PM being in town all week, security was high, so i opted for Pyramids in canada hahaha

wind would cooperate at all this week

 

Great stuff..

Here are some of my others from the Architecture challenge..











This challenge certainly got me scoping out other cool buildings in town, so I've still got some on my list I haven't had a chance to shoot yet..

 

There are some I've seen in here that could have won

 

Can y'all explain the HDR stuff to me. And the building shot is amazing man.

 

You basically take 3 shots that are bracketed or -2, 0, and +2. You then use Photoshop, HDR Efex Pro, Photomatix, or Oloneo to combine the 3 shots and edit them. There is also a plugin for Lightroom for it. Try googling HDR and read some on it. You'll find plenty of info. You scan make the picture anywhere from realistic to surreal looking. A lot of people go to far for my taste and kind of over cook the image. If you have any other questions feel free to ask.

 

Awesome ill do some research. Also how do u decide how much doctoring to do to your photos. Just personal preference?

 

Pretty much. I'll start with presets in the program first. I use HRD Efex Pro for mine. I don't like the over cooked look that a bunch of people use. Usually when I start to see a halo around the objects in the pic I back off. Most of the time I don't even go far enough to get the halo. You can see in the pic I used for the challenge below there is a little glow around the building, that's further than I like to go. I kinda liked how the blue colors popped in it though. It made it more like what I saw. Had it been morning it would have probably had a glow around the building anyway in a regular shot due to the sun coming up. This is a shot I had been wanting to do for months.


DSC_4789_HDR by medic2230, on Flickr

The mill on the left of the photo was built in 1851 and was one of the largest mills in the south up till it's closing in 2003 which was when the Synovus building on the right was built. Funny thing is Synovus was started by a worker at the mill that offered to put a lady's (worker) money in the company safe and pay her interest on it.

 

Anyone know why Flickr was showing my pics were taken 14 hours before I uploaded them when it had only been about 5 or so hours? The time and date on my camera are set correctly.

 

check timezone settings on your flickr account?

 

it reads the meta data on the photo. So its actually the time you shot it.

 

I shot it 5 hours before I uploaded it and had checked the time and date before I shot the pictures. The pictures hadn't been made 14 before I uploaded them.

 

hmm..odd.

No idea then! haha could be your time zone is wrong.

 

Thanks guys!
I thought the sun took away from the architecture of the arch, IDK...