Day 07: July 2010 Photo-a-Day Thread

[Colin Southern]

Who's feeling the pain?

[carregwen]

Who's feeling the pain?

I've just taken some paracetamol. Not the pressure of doing a shot a day, but the pressure of trying to work out how to use my new Panasonic G1 4/3 camera!

[Klickit]

So what colour did you get? Pretty pink, boys' own blue or bruiser's black? And more importantly, does it fit in your pocket?

[carregwen]

So what colour did you get? Pretty pink, boys' own blue or bruiser's black? And more importantly, does it fit in your pocket?

Silly question. Pretty pink of course - to match the used underwear... continue here

[Dave Humphries]

Who's feeling the pain?

Not yet, but we may soon regret getting carried away posting several subjects per day early on (and running out of ideas before long)

[rick55]

Canon 500D, Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L IF USM Macro lens, detailed EXIF here. PAD slideshow here. It was dusk, and I added some fill flash.

This is our Golden, Dakota, asking for one more throw of the ball. At the beginning, she's romping back with her head and tail high, but after a while, she's like a marathoner at mile 25. But I think she'd chase it until she collapses: she never wants to stop.

I'm certainly noticing the need to get some shots every day: I organize by date, so it was easy to look back, and for the first six months this year, I took pictures on 1/2 to 2/3 of the days each month. This was a great idea.

C&C always appreciated.

Cheers,
Rick

[Klickit]

Walking with Grand-dad.



Creation date: 7/07/2010 17:48
Camera: NIKON D80
Lens: Tamron SP AF 28-75mm F2.8 XR Di LD Aspherical [IF] Macro
Focal length: 75*mm*(equiv. 112*mm)
Aperture: F2.8
Exposure time: 1/40"
ISO speed rating: 200/24°
Program: Aperture priority
Metering Mode: Center-weighted average
White Balance: Auto
Focus Mode: AF-C
Noise Reduction: Off
Flash: Flash did not fire

[Colin Southern]

Today was supposed to be the day when high tide co-incided with sunset. I was hoping for some co-operative clouds, but I ended up with what I call a double-cheese sandwich due to a layer of stratiform cloud above the mountains that lets in a bright band of light, which is then reflected in the water. It looks quite spectacular when the sun hooks up under the clouds, but it's quite hard to do a lot with when shooting wide angle as you and up with 2 bright thin strips, and not a lot else ... so the best I could come up with was this ...



Since I've shot the bench a few times now, I thought I'd follow my own rule and "check my 6 o'clock" whilst there - and thought that a shot in the reverse direction might work (although I did have to clone out a little "engraving" on the bench to stop the image becoming R18 only!). I deliberately chose a shutterspeed to capture a portion of car headlights - and the track you can see just behind the bench is a cycleway (I had to be a little careful as the tripod was on the cycleway for some of the shots ... and it's quite dark when I shoot these - and some of the cyclists are fair "peddling" along that stretch.



The final image is one that I've shot before. It was looking quite nice so I thought I'd take another shot to see it it's any better than the one I took a few days ago -- I'll let you decide if it is or isn't

[Colin Southern]

That's some interesting processing that you've done there Kit - how did you do that?

[peterb533]

Balancing act. Isn't it peachey!

[rick55]

Very nice, Peter. Having the stem toward the camera and the whole thing rotated a quarter turn gives new life to an "ordinary" still life.

Cheers,
Rick

[rick55]

I like the reverse shot, Colin, but I'd prefer it without the bench, I think. Maybe I just have a deep-seated aversion to benches.

I like the sky much better in this shot of the "cloud factory," but the mist or bokeh-fuzzed stuff in the foreground is distracting, and the smoke from the stacks isn't as pleasing. Overall, I prefer the first one, but if you could transplant this sky onto the other one...

Cheers,
Rick

[carregwen]

Swansea marina - an old light-ship moored outside the Maritime Museum. Panasonic G1, with 14-45 lens. I can't understand how I keep spotting shots like this one!

EXIF

PAD slideshow

[Antonio Correia]

[James G]

Nearly didn't make it again today. Going to have to stop relying on finding inspiration and go back to perspiration!

But, I was at my local rail station which, conveniantly is next to an airport. So just as I'm looking for an interesting angle on the track along comes the London express travelling South and off goes a scheduled flight North, and I've got two shots.

Tomorrow is going to be interesting... have to do an audit in Sheffield there's got to be a shot in that?


James

[Dave Humphries]

Oops, sorry, busy day yesterday, hence I am:

[PopsPhotos]

I did a little better today:

Porchlight Tenants

Where's my bug?


What are you doing with my chicks?


The big white blob in front of the nest is the porchlight bulb. I didn't want to reach up and move it, as the parents were pretty insistent that I needed to GET OUTTA THERE!

Pops

[PopsPhotos]

Who's feeling the pain?

[rpcrowe]

My house in infrared. Taken with older Canon D60 camera modified for full-time infrared and 12-24mm f/4 Tokina. 1/125 second @ f/11 hand-held using AV mode.

[Crovean]

Just got my new phone so i got to show it off and dang that's alot of post Colin :P