Photographed TODAY (or Processed today)

[palms]

Thank you CJ and AFrazier for your help and advice I was still in happy snapper mode mainly to try out the camera I have made some other mistakes as well on other photo's but i will slow down and think more soon (honest ) Thanks again i have read your advice and i will re read it as well

Palms

[CJ Swartz]

Palms, you captured a better bee than I have, with a lovely flower to boot - that is more than "happy snapper" mode!

[Blindv]

I shot these last night, good 'ole Nebraska sunsets.

thoughts?

Indelible Indigo
Fading Glory

[palms]

I think they are beautiful Blindv

Palms

[AFrazier]

If anyone is interested, Jupiter is in the southern sky during the wee hours of the morning. It sits above my house at about 2:00 am. Considering its progression across the sky (it was over my house at about 5:00 am less than a month ago), I would guess that it will be an evening star within a month (i.e. you'll be able to see it at sunset while the sky is still all sorts of beautiful colors). So if anyone wants to capture a nice shot, start figuring out a nice place to photograph the sunset horizon so you can catch Jupiter in the shot when the time comes.

On another note, I was having some middle of the night fun tonight. I fell asleep way too early in the evening yesterday, so I was up at 1:00 am with nothing to do. Soooooo, I grabbed the tripod to see what I could photograph at night around the house (admittedly, there aren't a lot of options).
This little creepy gave me an hour of entertainment trying to get just the right shot.

Edit:
Let me amend this by saying, 'around the outside of the house,' not the inside. No spiders inside my house that I know of.

[AFrazier]

Let me be more specific about Jupiter ...

It will be visible at sunset on the eastern horizon, not the western ... however, it will still be an interesting night. On 7-10-08, Jupiter will be on the eastern horizon at sunset, and Venus will be on the western horizon at sunset.
Additionally, there will be a conjunction of Mercury, Saturn, and Venus, with Mars very close by the other three, on 8-15-08, and there is a conjunction of Jupiter and Venus with the new crescent moon on 12-1-08. All of these are at sunset.

Enjoy.

[AFrazier]

I caught this one for my wife. She wanted some "beams of sunlight" coming through the clouds.
I thought the palladium toning might look nice. Any thoughts?

[skauskas]

This one is great AFrazier! I took similar yesterday

[AFrazier]

Wow. Your shot is like raining sunbeams. Good catch. Was that a wide angle lens?

[skauskas]

Thank you!
yeah it's wide angle .. it's actually kit lens of my Canon 400D I still didn't change them

[AFrazier]

Bahh, I'm still stuck with my kit lenses. They're impossible to sell, or give away. Anyone with the same camera or camera brand gets the same lenses out of the box. One of these days I'll just retire them to the closet. Not much else I can do with them.
Ultimately, I intend to replace them all with 2.8 fixed or better. I shoot in full manual, so the variable aperture makes them more difficult to use when I'm shooting a wedding or some other fast paced event (I have to adjust both instead of leaving the aperture set to something specific), and the 4.0 and higher F-stops are terrible in low lighting. If you don't have a tripod set up and ready, you can count on motion blur in 60% of the shots you take, because the best shutter speed you can get (in low lighting that is) is about 1/10th of a second if you crank up the ISO ... which, of course, gives you noise (despite the books that say you can get away with 1600 ISO).
My overhead flash fixes the problem nicely ... but churches don't usually allow flash photography or tripods. So it's a monopod and a steady hand more often than not.

Alex

[skauskas]

don't even get me started about poor lighting and noise!!! I hate it! I manage to avoid it completely only with nice strong light or flash!

[AFrazier]

Again ... if you're shooting a wedding inside a church with low lighting and no flash photography allowed, there's not much you can do. The best solution is a 2.8 fixed aperture or better.
But then you still have problems with certain shots if you're not careful. If you set the aperture to 2.8 and leave it there, every shot you take is going to have a shallow depth of field, and you may get the bride and groom, but the minister is going to be out of focus. So you end up having to turn the F-stop back up anyway.
It can be really frustrating.

[Martin K]

Shot this on Monday and processed it this morning. Used a Leaf back on a Cambo. Output from raw with Lightroom and processed in CS3. Not much processing really. Hiraloam sharpening and curves in Lab. A little dust and there it is.

[skauskas]

This looks so beautifull! like a postcard! where is this place?

[Martin K]

It is in the province of KwaZulu Natal in South Africa close to the border with Lesotho. A world heritage site partly due to the large amount of rock art in the area but also due to the spectacular natural beauty.

[skauskas]

you are living in the great place to practice your photography

[Frank Lopes]

I would love to see a panorama shot of this place.. hint... hint...

Originally Posted by Martin K

Shot this on Monday and processed it this morning. Used a Leaf back on a Cambo. Output from raw with Lightroom and processed in CS3. Not much processing really. Hiraloam sharpening and curves in Lab. A little dust and there it is.

[dodezaine]

hello, I photographed the model days ago and today I treated and I set up that newsletter for my customers. http://www.zero3design.com/news/29/

[TreesOfMyTime]

Originally Posted by dodezaine

hello, I photographed the model days ago and today I treated and I set up that newsletter for my customers. http://www.zero3design.com/news/29/

Wonderfully intense eye contact through the glasses!

[dodezaine]

Originally Posted by TreesOfMyTime

Wonderfully intense eye contact through the glasses!

Hello, thanks. I see this contact only after i take the photo. Was not proposital.

[hawkeye60]

I took this last week outside the Esna Locks on the Nile in Egypt. As ships approach the locks they have to slow down or stop, the vendors pull along side in row boats to display their wares. Most simply throw them onto the ship in plastic bags and then haggle over price. Once agreed upon the buyers put their money in the bag and throw it back down to the boats below.

[fpellerin]

Just a bug I came across while walking in the gardens.

[fpellerin]

...and yet another from the same walk about.

[Janet Petty]

Very nice bug pictures Frank. What lens did you use?

Janet

[Frank Lopes]

Lake Aziscohos, Maine US
N44 57.105 W70 58.944

[philbach]

Frank, wonderful panoramic photo. Thanks

[fpellerin]

Originally Posted by Janet Petty

Very nice bug pictures Frank. What lens did you use?

Janet

Thanks Janet,

if I remember correctly I used my Sigma 70-200 with an extension tube.

[Frank Lopes]

Androscogin River branch, Town of Mexico, Maine, US
N44 34.726 W70 33.842

[Janet Petty]

Frank, you do the loveliest panos. Gorgeous scenery. Thank you for sharing.

Janet