Day 03: July 2010 Photo-a-Day Thread

[Colin Southern]

Day three - here we go!

[Klickit]

#checks watch#

You're early.

[Colin Southern]

#checks watch#

You're early.

By about 2 1/2 hours ... but I've got better things planned than to stay up until midnight each night for a month (like sleep)

[Klickit]

Ah, come on - you could boogie while you wait...

[Colin Southern]

Ah, come on - you could boogie while you wait...

Yeah -- my dancing is often compared to Michael Jackson! (or more specifically Michael Jackson's alarm clock as the main spring breaks)!

[rick55]

EXIF here.

Wildlife for me today. Once nice thing about this PAD stuff is that I have my camera with me a lot. I saw this guy/gal from the road, but no place to pull off, so I just stopped and shot out the window. It isn't a great shot: it had some motion blur that I used Focus Magic on, and I had to fix some lighting. But it's a lot more interesting than anything else I did today, and I have to put up a shot I got sticking my camera out the window of the car.

I'm also switching to Flickr, to have a little more scope for image size. See my PAD slideshow. Assuming this all works today, I'll edit the image links in day 1 and 2, just to be consistent.

C&C greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Rick

[Colin Southern]

Studio shoot for a client today -- so a bit of a PAD "Rest Day"







Click here to visit my July 2010 PAD Gallery

[rpcrowe]

I love the way Sophie's hair is blowing... Did you use a fan? Great shots of Jaden also. He looks a bit older in the full face image than in the profile. That's just my imagination I guess... Are Jaden and Sophie siblings? I'd guess that they are...

[Colin Southern]

I love the way Sophie's hair is blowing... Did you use a fan? Great shots of Jaden also. He looks a bit older in the full face image than in the profile. That's just my imagination I guess... Are Jaden and Sophie siblings? I'd guess that they are...

Thanks Richard,

Yes - we had her Dad on fan duties, and yes, they're brother and sister. I shot around 350 frames ... and just quickly grabbed these 3 that I thought were interesting; not sure which ones the customer will go with.

[Klickit]

Do you ever have those days where the camera feels dead in your hand? And that whatever you shoot comes out blah? Today was one of those days, but I knew I had to get out, or Colin would be after me. So, here are the results:

No 1.



Just to make it a little more interesting, you have to guess what this is.

Creation date: 3/07/2010 15:59
Camera: NIKON D80
Focal length: 90*mm*(equiv. 135*mm) (Tamron 90mm Macro)
Aperture: F18
Exposure time: 1/60"
ISO speed rating: 200/24°
Program: Aperture priority
Metering Mode: Center-weighted average
White Balance: Manual
Flash: Flash fired, auto mode, return light detected, red-eye reduction mode

No 2.



This is a close-up of our corgi's eye. She wasn't that keen on me looming at her with a lens and refused to look me in the eye, so to speak. If you look carefully, you can get a sneak peek at the inside of our bus.

Creation date: 3/07/2010 16:49
Camera: NIKON D80
Focal length: 90*mm*(equiv. 135*mm)(Tamron 90mm Macro)
Aperture: F4.5
Exposure time: 1/8"
ISO speed rating: 200/24°
Program: Aperture priority
Metering Mode: Center-weighted average
White Balance: Manual
Flash: Flash did not fire

[Colin Southern]

Do you ever have those days where the camera feels dead in your hand? And that whatever you shoot comes out blah?

Most days!

Just to make it a little more interesting, you have to guess what this is.

It's a inductor / choke (copper wire wound on a ferrite core)

[Colin Southern]

Click here to visit my July 2010 PAD Gallery

[Dave Humphries]

My first of day 3, possibly more later ...



Nikon D5000 + Nikon 105mm VR2 Macro: 1/125s, f/11 at iso800, no flash (700 x 521)

Link to larger version (1,411px × 1,050px) in PAD gallery

[Klickit]

Rick, that was luck indeed. If you had stepped out of the car, varoom... I like the shadow of her turned back head.

Great portraits, Colin. I especially like the second b & w set.

And that fly again, Dave. Even closer.

[rick55]

I love the eye, Kit! Great concept, brilliant image.

Cheers,
Rick

[Wirefox]

No 2.

Kit I really like the Corgi's eye. Very nice use of DoF.

Steve

[Wirefox]

Playing around with the refections in my eldest daughter's car..

[James G]

Day 3 and another idea resolved.

This has an element of cheat which I'll own up to... last Saturday I was in Market Harborough, and took a single shot of a sundial on the tower of the town church.
At the time I had a thought that not so long ago, about the only way to get the time was from public clocks.
This morning I was in the jewelry quarter of Birmingham and there it was, Aston Cross Clock, and about a mile away, and then I remembered another one, the Clock at Hockley Cross, and finally just 500 yards from where I live Marston Green clock. So now they are fashionable and decorative, but its good to still see them.
Thats Day 3 done! 28 to go .......

James

[arith]

Day 3 and another idea resolved.

This has an element of cheat which I'll own up to... last Saturday I was in Market Harborough, and took a single shot of a sundial on the tower of the town church.
At the time I had a thought that not so long ago, about the only way to get the time was from public clocks.
This morning I was in the jewelry quarter of Birmingham and there it was, Aston Cross Clock, and about a mile away, and then I remembered another one, the Clock at Hockley Cross, and finally just 500 yards from where I live Marston Green clock. So now they are fashionable and decorative, but its good to still see them.
Thats Day 3 done! 28 to go .......

James

Lots of clocks, the middle one is alright. Try to get a pic of the Burton clock, it is crap and if you got it I would be very worried.....

[Colin Southern]

Playing around with the refections in my eldest daughter's car..

Is that a Bugatti Veyron?