Picture of the Day

**HotDiggity** · 11-08-2011, 06:29 PM

Shell by beezskis, on Flickr

**JayPowHound** · 11-08-2011, 07:12 PM

^^ How much of that smooth, soft looking blur (especially in the foreground) is from post and how much is from the lens? I recently picked up a 50 1.4 and am still playing around with what it can do, mind sharing your info from this one?

Love the shot btw.

**Fuzz** · 11-08-2011, 07:22 PM

While waiting for UPS to deliver my Canon 50mm f/1.4 tonight, I'm looking back through the shots I got with the rented 50/1.4 a few weeks ago...

**HotDiggity** · 11-09-2011, 11:43 AM

Originally Posted by JayPowHound

^^ How much of that smooth, soft looking blur (especially in the foreground) is from post and how much is from the lens? I recently picked up a 50 1.4 and am still playing around with what it can do, mind sharing your info from this one?

Love the shot btw.

Thanks. If you click on the photo you can see all the EXIF data in Flickr. The key was getting the camera down on the ground to take advantage of the DOF of the scene. All I did in post was play a bit with the colors. All the blur was from the lens.

Walkway (1) by beezskis, on Flickr

**splitter** · 11-09-2011, 12:55 PM

**Fuzz** · 11-09-2011, 02:28 PM

^^ Cool shot (Reno)!

**splitter** · 11-09-2011, 04:47 PM

Originally Posted by Fuzz

^^ Cool shot (Reno)!

Thanks man, love me some fuzz love (and for the MPC comment)

Since most of the folks on this forum probably don't frequent the Tahoe conditions thread much, here's the highest climbing wall in the world reaching above the arch

**splitter** · 11-10-2011, 08:52 AM

installing a new installation at the museum

**mtcham** · 11-10-2011, 11:53 AM

On the way to work this am.

Bald Eagle-6659 by jrmorris-mt, on Flickr

Bald Eagle-6662 by jrmorris-mt, on Flickr

**HotDiggity** · 11-10-2011, 03:39 PM

^^^ Nice!!

**wendigo** · 11-10-2011, 07:01 PM

Wishing I was across the water (Haines)

**smmokan** · 11-11-2011, 09:25 AM

Moonset this morning over Longs Peak in RMNP. Thanks to Powtron for sending me a text to let me know it was there... I was otherwise still in bed.

**Fuzz** · 11-12-2011, 06:38 PM

In anticipation of this weekend's storm, I was going through some of my shots from last winter...

Vail, Jan. 20, 2011 by FuzzSummit, on Flickr

**OverTurn** · 11-12-2011, 10:03 PM

^that moonset is sweeet

went to Yellowstone Friday morning

Horizon is a little crooked I know...I have a corrected version but it's not uploaded yet.

Bighorns along the Gardner River

Sunrise over Mammoth Hot Springs

**Chainsaw_Willie** · 11-12-2011, 11:29 PM

Playing with Fire

**Fuzz** · 11-13-2011, 02:01 PM

Originally Posted by smmokan

Moonset this morning over Longs Peak in RMNP.

Maybe it's just the dark TGR background, but the picture looks more saturated on FB than on here. You do have a great view. Tried any full-moon or moonset shots in the middle of the night?

**Fuzz** · 11-13-2011, 02:01 PM

Started a 365 project. Good excuse to try out something different, like collages...

3 | 365 | Food for thought by FuzzSummit, on Flickr

**SchralphMacchio** · 11-14-2011, 01:16 AM

nice night for a walk last night ... probably a good candidate for focus tilt effect processing?

**Fuzz** · 11-14-2011, 07:32 AM

Originally Posted by SchralphMacchio

nice night for a walk last night ... probably a good candidate for focus tilt effect processing?

That is stunning!

**skifishbum** · 11-14-2011, 07:51 AM

demon puppies came by to visit and get newffy with it
attack mode

chomp

**splitter** · 11-14-2011, 09:09 AM

Originally Posted by SchralphMacchio

nice night for a walk last night ... probably a good candidate for focus tilt effect processing?

diggin' it Alex,

maybe a crop from the right as that big, black portion doesn't add much, though I can appreciate including as much fog as possible. That way half dome is a little less centered and there'll be plenty of fog to appreciate.

YMMV.

As far as fake tilt-shifting, I like her how she stands. It'd be neat to see it.

**smmokan** · 11-14-2011, 10:36 AM

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Maybe it's just the dark TGR background, but the picture looks more saturated on FB than on here. You do have a great view. Tried any full-moon or moonset shots in the middle of the night?

I'm guessing it's just FB's photo algorithms at work. The FB pics I post are sized for 1000px, and the ones on Photobucket are uploaded at "full res" (this one was cropped a decent amount). You never know what you're going to get on Facebook when you post pictures.

**SchralphMacchio** · 11-14-2011, 11:47 AM

Originally Posted by splitter

big, black portion

thanks for the comments C. Just a quick clarification: "big black" because it's really dark, or because you can't see any shadow detail in there at all? There is actually a little bit of color and shadow detail in the rocks on the right, just not that much at all.

Unfortunately my camera ran out of batteries after this exposure, so I couldn't capture a sharper version! Pulling focus in the middle of the night is damn hard. LiveView doesn't work for beans and the camera viewfinder can't see anything - even the bright lights in the background weren't really showing up in LiveView. I had to manually focus on a car-headlight as it was driving through via LiveView, but then the temperature dropped and I wasn't even sure what I was focusing on at f/5.