PF Photography: Tips, Tricks, & Photo Sharing

[Enigman]

Pardon my intrusion.

The Lofty Diamond

The Last Flash

An afternoon in the Middle East

Or perhaps the third could be called 'The Eye Of Egypt'

 

[Andy Resnick]

Beautiful, Andy - I especially like the second one, it's so sparkly.

Afraid I don't have enough imagination to see the goose though .

Nice, Andy.

Thanks, guys. You can't see the constellation because it greatly overfills the frame using either the 85mm or 400mm; the brightest star in the 15mm is Deneb. The 400mm shows NGC 6910 while the 85mm is near HD 193702.

 

[ABD EL HAMEED]

Pardon my intrusion.Or perhaps the third could be called 'The Eye Of Egypt'

Ya you're right it would be awesome
Here's another one I took in a road trip I just came back from

 

[drizzle]

*inhales the air of that place*

 

[ABD EL HAMEED]

*inhales the air of that place*

Ya nothing's better than clean,fresh and cool sunset air
If only I had a better camera than my galaxy s2's...
I feel like there's lots of noise in the picture when I zoom in

 

[Borek]

Looking for a sunset?

 

[drizzle]

It's humid and smells fishy out there, Borek.

Nonetheless, it's eye pleasant. :)

 

[ABD EL HAMEED]

Looking for a sunset?

It looks beautiful

It's humid and smells fishy out there, Borek.

Nonetheless, it's eye pleasant. :)

Where was it taken?

 

[drizzle]

Where was it taken?

I don't know, close by the sea?

 

[ABD EL HAMEED]

I don't know, close by the sea?

Kinda figured that part out

 

[Borek]

Check the file name.

 

[Borg]

Another view of the ocean. Life was tough for me last week.

 

[davenn]

Dang, I would far sooner be there than here at the " salt mine"

turn off the phone and the computer ... pass me a Pina Colada and let me relax Dave

 

[lendav_rott]

Return to the Blue Lagoon xD

 

[ABD EL HAMEED]

Another view of the ocean. Life was tough for me last week.

Lol I'm sure it was...:p

 

[Andy Resnick]

Another view of the ocean. Life was tough for me last week.

Nice! jealous = me.

 

[Andy Resnick]

Beautiful, Andy - I especially like the second one, it's so sparkly.

Afraid I don't have enough imagination to see the goose though .

<honk, honk>
http://imageshack.us/a/img18/3011/ycrf.jpg

 

[Borg]

<honk, honk>
http://imageshack.us/a/img18/3011/ycrf.jpg

Taking pictures like this makes me jealous. Another fine shot Andy.

 

[Andy Resnick]

Thanks!

 

[Borek]

On Saturday I went biking - and saw these people:

Nothing extraordinary, but berkeman was on the EMT shift during SWAT competition, or he was training as a part of this competition, or he was doing both at the same time - so it was hard to not think about him

 

[dlgoff]

On Saturday I went biking - and saw these people:

Nothing extraordinary, but berkeman was on the EMT shift during SWAT competition, or he was training as a part of this competition, or he was doing both at the same time - so it was hard to not think about him

Very cool photos. I can just visualize berkeman there. He'd probably have a hand-held radio in his hand.

 

[Andy Resnick]

Check it out- a microscope that looks sideways:

http://imageshack.us/a/img845/5889/jqzo.jpg

Last week I happened to see this odd item offered on ebay:

http://imageshack.us/a/img46/153/73ci.jpg

It's not clear what this is- the left is an undersized (for Zeiss) ring dovetail and the triangle on the right is a prism housing. The slider adjusts an internal diaphragm, so the numbers most likely correspond to an f-stop.

 

[Borek]

The slider adjusts an internal diaphragm, so the numbers most likely correspond to an f-stop.

22 32 45 64 are even part of a standard series, so it would be my idea as well.

 

[ABD EL HAMEED]

Pics of school

 

[Andy Resnick]

4 ZapperZ: thanks for the hints and tips!

http://imageshack.us/a/img34/5444/5irq.jpg

 

[Borek]

Fireworkageddon:

 

[KrisOhn]

I was just reminiscing about my early days of photography and thought I would share a comparison I was looking at, my first astrophoto, to my most recent.

http://i.imgur.com/cfw2FHP.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/krisohnander/11678558446/

It's amazing what 3 years can do.

 

[drizzle]

Nice photos Kris! I enjoyed the whole album. :D

And you're right, such improvement.. Which gives me hope that I'll master it one day.

 

[lisab]

I was just reminiscing about my early days of photography and thought I would share a comparison I was looking at, my first astrophoto, to my most recent.

http://i.imgur.com/cfw2FHP.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/krisohnander/11678558446/

It's amazing what 3 years can do.

That's fantastic .

 

[KrisOhn]

Nice photos Kris! I enjoyed the whole album. :D

And you're right, such improvement.. Which gives me hope that I'll master it one day.

Thank you! It happens so slowly that you don't really notice it until you have a sudden urge to look back. Making small improvements every day goes a long way over the time of a few years.

That's fantastic .

Thanks!

 

[KrisOhn]

I tried my hand at something called the Brenizer Method today, for the first time. Its when you use panoramic stitching and a long focal length lens to create a wide angle shot with a shallow depth of field. It took me 3 hours, several hundred shots, and more frustration than necessary to get this shot, and even then, I can see lots of imperfections with it. Very cool end result when it does work though and that is enough to keep me motivated to experiment more with these. I shot this with a 50mm prime f/1.8 lens, which I think is probably the shortest focal length you can use to make a Brenizer easily, I would really prefer to be shooting at 150mm+ but I don't have that kind of glass. Still cool though.

 

[drizzle]

Such a rich picture, Kris. I like it.

 

[Andy Resnick]

I tried my hand at something called the Brenizer Method today, for the first time. <snip>

Interesting... thanks for the info!

 

[KrisOhn]

Interesting... thanks for the info!

I know you have some long lenses, I would love to see what you can do with this technique!

Here's another shot using the Brenizer Method, this one came together a lot better than the last one, but I think the background is a little too busy and distracting.

Here is a higher resolution version.

 

[KrisOhn]

Played around with an old, old flash and the bathroom sink today. I noticed in shots where the water was less stationary than this one that even though I was using strobist techniques, in a dark room with a flash, to get extremely fast apparent shutter speeds, there was still motion blur. I think this must be from how old my flash is and maybe how low the batteries were on charge. I would really like to get a newer flash that could be synced with my camera, but they can easily run $500 or more, so I'll stick with this for now.