Photography thread.

[EvilDuckie]

Awwww, duckies! Nice shots, looks like an interesting walk.

Went to Sardinia on a cycling holiday, unfortunately had to cut the cycling part short due to sustaining an injury (dislocated shoulder, happened in bed...) but I really enjoyed the landscape. This scene in Bosa struck me as a very nice one:



(just cellphone and an instagram filter, nothing fancy)

[Jacque]

Here's a selection from Point Reyes, which is just north of San Francisco. Two different trips represented here, photos shot on either Hasselblad 500 C/M or Canon AE-1 Program.

[Sableagle]

France-Italy-Switzerland-France in a week and a half: http://s300.photobucket.com/user/Sablea ... t=9&page=1

Well, a tiny part of France, a tiny part of Italy and a tiny part of Switzerland, but the views were pretty good sometimes and even when they're not you can get good moody scenes.

























... and here's a tiny detail of that view:









Look UP:



... and look DOWN:







Sometimes I took action shots, but most of my pictures of people were for their sakes, not mine or the world's. This one works, though:









Six lunatics:



Our guide said those five must have annoyed their guide, because he seemed to be trying to get them killed.

[F117Landers]

Those photos are amazing!

Quick note: Japan National Travel, Nat Geo, and instagram are having a contest if y'all want to try and compete. Details: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/discoverjapancontest/

I entered with the following: https://www.instagram.com/p/BIlx0bwBCQh ... 117landers

Anyway, some photos:

Spoiler:

Cat on the Table by F117Landers, on Flickr


Alaskan Brush and stream by F117Landers, on Flickr


Observing Air Superiority by F117Landers, on Flickr


F22 Air Superiority by F117Landers, on Flickr

[Sableagle]

Those photos are amazing!

Thank you, although a lot of the credit has to go to "physics slowed with trees on top."

Quick note: Japan National Travel, Nat Geo, and instagram are having a contest if y'all want to try and compete. Details: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/discoverjapancontest/

Thanks again ... although ... posting your own photographs of Japan to win a trip to discover Japan seems a little off, somehow.

I've got a link to another contest. It's one of those vast links you get in emails, with a huge tracker key in it, but it seems to work without the tracker key.

https://www.gadventures.com/next-escape ... st_Push_EN

I don't know what they actually do with the tracker info if you use the full one or whether it works without it. It seems to. Maybe they like to know how many friends their customers have or something. Anyway, answer 5 questions (and they say it doesn't matter whether you get them right) then give them an email address and a name.

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I still don't know how people are getting 3 out of 4 and 2 out of 4 or 1 out of 2, but apparently 5 people did (and there could be a few on 2 out of 3 or 1 out of 4 in there too).

[F117Landers]

Agreed, athough JNTO runs different sweepstakes as well that don't require you to have ever set foot in Japan. Still kind of scheisty.

I'm more put off by Instagram's user interface. They purposely cripple the desktop portal, forcing you to use the app.

[Sableagle]

I just spotted that, even with the tracking info in the URL, there's a pop-up in the bottom right inviting me to sign up for emails or request a brochure and the example brochure shown has an upper age limit that's younger than they know I am. If they're stalking me with that tracking info, they're not doing it very well.

[Sableagle]

Lilium 'Black Beauty' in flower.

[Sableagle]

Castle Howard, NE of York, S of the North Yorkshire Moors:



(Extreme wide angle courtesy of autostitch.exe)

[Sableagle]

A side of my avatar you don't usually see:



Varmint:



I live somewhere kind of dull. To get good pictures you have to go somewhere else or take picture of something very big ...

Approaching warm front:



... or very small.

Horse chestnuts, a tiny wasp on a horse chestnut leaf, a tiny snail on a Himalayan balsam leaf and honeybees in Himalayan balsam flowers:










This would be easier if the camera would focus at the actual centre of the viewfinder image rather than just somewhere in the central ninth of it.

[MotorToad]

I got a macro lens and a pin at about the same time.

[poxic]

Nice?

[Sableagle]

[Sableagle]

Fishing lesson in progress:

[Sableagle]

[Sableagle]

Pretty big for a garden cross orb weaver, meaning almost as big as my thumbnail if you include the legs.

Harmless ... to humans, at least.

[Sableagle]

Qui custodiet:

[F117Landers]

Those panoramas are pretty awesome.

I've been messing with my set 50mm, but not really much worth sharing. I should get out more, and pick up a set 35mm.


BBQ Time by F117Landers, on Flickr

Edit: Went up to Eagle River and snapped a photo:

Mat-Su Valley by F117Landers, on Flickr

[Sableagle]

Meet my other half:

[Sungura]

Because if I am not shooting nature or caves, it's my dog in nature or caves

SOTC - love the magical look
Woodland Forest by Amy Hinkle, on Flickr

Almost SOTC - the intensity shows her herding streak. Edits were the vignette and dodge on the eyes since they were in shadow
Stalking by Amy Hinkle, on Flickr

SOTC - it is so hard to get rebound photos, it happens so fast that I need a super fast shutter speed and good sun on a cloudy day to capture well. Three times the charm! (this is my third attempt, each was better than the last but this one nails it!)
Rebound by Amy Hinkle, on Flickr

Obligatory yearly photo at these same falls in a cave we like to visit. SOTC except obvious flip to b&w
B&W at the Falls by Amy Hinkle, on Flickr

[Giant Speck]

Captured some pretty unreal colors a few mornings ago.

[pogrmman]

I think this photo isn't bad.

It is the interior of a Camponotus sansabeanus nest.
I was playing around with a macro lens I was given for my iPhone.

I also got this other photo, which isn't particularly great. It is pretty neat once you realize that the sand like things are really the fungus gardens of these ants (Cyphomyrmex rimosus -- they grow yeast instead of mushroom-like fungi like most other fungus growers). It's the first time I've seen their fungus gardens in person. The ants themselves are like 2mm long.

[Sableagle]

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[Sableagle]

I stood somewhere slightly silly to take this:

Not the best picture of the royal tombs, but there's something about it. Whenever I'm focusing near them but not on them, those stalactite sculptures morph into a choir of ghosts.

Very strong direct sunlight can be really challenging, but sometimes the way it messes up the photograph can be interesting in its own way:

A water lily:

[poxic]

Cool.

[Sungura]

Guess I outta post this here. Pentax K50, 50mm lens, homemade solar filter out of the glasses because I dont have $200 lying around.
Really happy I got solar prominances and the "diamond ring" - little blown out on the start-of-totality one but correct exposure on the end one! Also happy with the one that showed the corona pretty well. Easier to see these details on the full size version.
Timelapse of Totality 2017

Also started to play with some tiny photog...cute harvestman of some kind in a cave (unidentified.) About the size of a dime (legs included).
Harvestman-front

[Sableagle]

Yes. Posting that here was the right thing to do. I love that corona.

It's kind of freaky that it's at millions of Kelvin and we don't know why, but that doesn't make it less awesome.

[MotorToad]

Went to the IMSA race at Laguna Seca this weekend. Trying to get that actiony blur to the wheels at 1/250. I have a few (thousand) more like this.

[Sableagle]

Some of my newest pics:

... and someone else's pic of me:

[somitomi]

Recently I took part in a little tour of a cogwheel railway (railfans amirite) and took some terrible photos too, so here are some nicer ones:

Spoiler:

While I'm at it, here are some of the less blurry pictures from a model railroad show I visited:

Spoiler:

And some random pictures:

Spoiler:

Camera self-portrait using a mirror

this is my own little layout

The track might not be in the best condition.

I took this with a crappy phone camrea from a moving car, but I like the contrast bewteen the monocrome-ish background and the bright-coloured car

If only that lens flare wasn't there

[Sableagle]

It snowed. I took a half-day holiday, got the bike and camera out and went off up the Dales. I didn't go far, but I did get some pictures. These are 1080p high and represent the good results:

I'd have liked to get to Tan Hill, but that's one heck of a ride from here.

[Ginger]

Wow Sableagle you are... the best. Shutter bug boy/man I ever. Ever seen. ALL OF THOSE were... beautiful and lovely pics. Good jobs and keep up the nice works~! <3

[Sableagle]

Unfortunately, they've changed their rules so this account's got third party hosting disabled, but the direct links should still work.

Sunset over the desert.

Also sunset over the desert.

Flower, tree and desert sky. Harsh lighting makes things look superimposed, but it's a real photo.

The fire temple. Pillars reflected in a pool are a theme.

White rose. Roses are also a theme. Getting a good picture of one requires finding one in the shade, because the direct sunlight is far too harsh.

An old man having a cup of tea.

Blue glass, clear glass and white plaster.

Persepolis.

One lone crocus.

Character study: Father and son.

Character study: Little girl checking that her mother's photo of her is acceptable. She was very serious about it.

Distant mountains and dusty air.

Character study: The student.

Rich greens and blues.

Scene: Picnic in the park.

Scene: Girl with kite.

[Sableagle]

Handheld macro. I took the camera off the tripod to do this. I should have taken the tripod with me and used it.

Pyracantha. Kind of pretty, as long as you don't try to grab it. That thing has thorns. I've one more pic but I'm going to play around with it.

[Sableagle]

Let me try that again.

Right. It worked that time.

[poxic]

Thank you for my new desktop!

[Sableagle]

[Sableagle]

In Soviet Russia, товарищ фотографирует вас.

Sized at 3840x1080 so anyone in the CIA, MI5 or MI6 reading this thread can use it as a double desktop background.

Also: hello to all the people in the CIA, MI5 or MI6 reading this thread just because I mentioned them in this post.

[Sableagle]

More desktops, a single and a double:





Bloody holiday phoographs. It takes almost as long to sort, scale and upload them as it did to go round taking them.

[Sableagle]

Playing with lighting ... by which I mean playing with where I hold the camera, when I take the picture and what I use to get the light levels, rather than actually pushing great bit gold lamé reflector screens around the landscape:

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