Picture of the Day

[SchralphMacchio]

love that shot Lonnie, next time ask your wife to put you on the right (or left) of the frame depending on what your camera is looking at and she'll have a winner of a shot!

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[Lonnie]

love that shot Lonnie, next time ask your wife to put you on the right (or left) of the frame depending on what your camera is looking at and she'll have a winner of a shot!

Like this?

[SchralphMacchio]

I see your wife has lots of appreciation for her photographic subject

[outabounds]

All yours, Lonnie. Thanks, Shralph.

Another view with a slightly different feel. Not sure about the crop, though.

[DeutschBag]

Messing around with some tilt shift effects on some ski photos. Not sure if I like it or not yet. Both taken this weekend at Hintertux Ski Area, Austria.





By the way - great pics outabounds and Lonnie! Excellent stuff!

[gholman12]

Here's a pic of me getting that shot taken by my lovely assistant (my wife)...

For some reason I always assumed you looked more like Homer Simpson...

[Lonnie]

For some reason I always assumed you looked more like Homer Simpson...

Nah. I am just smrt like him...

[SchralphMacchio]

Messing around with some tilt shift effects

I know this sounds like I'm a hater, but I've never learned to process the tilt shift effect so take the criticism with some salt. With those backgrounds it doesn't really look to me like a lens tilted image because there are no objects of relative scale to put the subject in context. Instead it looks like an out of focus photo with a skier photoshopped in place. (The white balance doesn't look great either,at least not on this crappy work monitor.) I'd think that a tilt shift effect on a person would be more effective when there are objects of similar size in the foreground and background, or things like perspective lines (street, creek etc.), allowing you to create a better sense of dramatized, and of transitional focus, depth.

[Fuzz]

With those backgrounds it doesn't really look to me like a lens tilted image because there are no objects of relative scale to put the subject in context. Instead it looks like an out of focus photo with a skier photoshopped in place. (The white balance doesn't look great either,at least not on this crappy work monitor.) I'd think that a tilt shift effect on a person would be more effective when there are objects of similar size in the foreground and background, or things like perspective lines (street, creek etc.), allowing you to create a better sense of dramatized, and of transitional focus, depth.

I've only dabbled in tilt-shift, but I agree -- I think it works best when there are objects in the scene that we recognize and know how big they are.

[pointedem]

Alta this AM

[Mathematics]

^ awesome.

I dig it, the flow of the water pretty much takes you through the frame.

[DeutschBag]

I've only dabbled in tilt-shift, but I agree -- I think it works best when there are objects in the scene that we recognize and know how big they are.

I pretty much agree. As I was editing my pictures from the weekend, Tilt Shift popped in to my brain so I gave it a go for the first time. Probably not something I'll be doing too much unless I have a picture that it would really work for (town or scene from above). It does look like the skiers are PS'd in. Thanks for the feedback.

Hopefully this picture will make up for those monstrosities....

[strawjack]

love that shot Lonnie, next time put your wife in the frame and no one will care what the camera is looking at! You'll have a winner of a shot!

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fixed it for ya

[Lonnie]

love that shot Lonnie, next time put your wife in the frame and no one will care what the camera is looking at! You'll have a winner of a shot!

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fixed it for ya

We can to that too!

[outabounds]

We can to that too!

Now get rid of that guy on the right.

[Lonnie]

Now get rid of that guy on the right.

I can't do EVERYTHING!

[outabounds]

Oh, let me annoy you with another baby picture.

[Lonnie]

^^ Man that kid has some RED hair! What a cuttie!

Edit: Scottie wants to schmooch yer kid!

[Lonnie]

Giddy Up!

[outabounds]

[uglymoney]

Oh, let me annoy you with another baby picture.

A see your red baby and raise you a blue baby.



Lost handle. A friend catches some after work turns on a cloudy November evening this past week. ISO 1600 @ F4



Mini-Aussie



All shots with the 70-200F4L.

[Chainsaw_Willie]

Friend's band played a small bar last week and I played photographer. Taking pics of a band when they're playing is hard, and I really need to figure out how to use the flash better...

[outabounds]

Friend's band played a small bar last week and I played photographer. Taking pics of a band when they're playing is hard, and I really need to figure out how to use the flash better...

Try not using the flash. There's a rule for pros in that field where they get to shoot for the first three songs, and no flash allowed. High ISO and a fast prime works great and looks better.

[splitter]

today's dog walk...

[Fuzz]

Out for a walk this morning...