Picture of the Day

[From_the_NEK]

"No Pain, No Gain" - I never thought that shooting a road bike race could be very interesting, but boy, was I wrong...
12°C and heavy rain made for some spectacular shots!

You should enter that in the current MPC. http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/s...ld-(9-12-9-29)
I do realize this increases the chances of not getting one of my own shots selected for the voting

[butterscotch]

Love the fall foliage shots! God, I miss New England in fall.

[joedesperado]

You should enter that in the current MPC. http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/s...ld-(9-12-9-29)
I do realize this increases the chances of not getting one of my own shots selected for the voting

thanks for showing me the MPC section, didn't even realize it existed!

[From_the_NEK]

It just keeps getting better:

[grskier]

Aspen in Aspen.

[geomorph]

It just keeps getting better:

A little c&c if I may: the saturation on number two is a bit strong. Otherwise nice foliage pics.

[HotDiggity]

Sunset - Pemaquid Point, Maine

Pemaquid Sunset Final by beezskis, on Flickr

[splitter]

[bgrayvy]

No filter phone shot.

[From_the_NEK]

A little c&c if I may: the saturation on number two is a bit strong. Otherwise nice foliage pics.

#1 (looking up into the trees) I'll give you. I did crank the saturation on that one.
The one with the red leaves reflected in the pond was only some contrast adjustment and turning up the color in the shadows. The leaves were backlit which overexposed them a little. The reds have been ridiculous around here this year and don't need much saturation adjustment.

On that note... from this weekend:
The foliage has been out-fucking-standing this year here in the NEK. Driving around with polarized sunglasses on yesterday almost resulted in me driving off the road on several occasions as I rubbernecked at the leaves .
Blue sky with light whispy clouds added nicely to the scene.

[systemoverblow'd]

Work has been crushing me and I was looking for a reason NOT to be messing with a camera. That got me into a funk I didn't enjoy being in. Trying to pick it back up.

[Fuzz]

The one with the red leaves reflected in the pond was only some contrast adjustment and turning up the color in the shadows. The leaves were backlit which overexposed them a little. The reds have been ridiculous around here this year and don't need much saturation adjustment.

I don't bump saturation for most my shots these days, but when I use a polarizer, it almost looks fake.

[geomorph]

#1 (looking up into the trees) I'll give you. I did crank the saturation on that one.
The one with the red leaves reflected in the pond was only some contrast adjustment and turning up the color in the shadows. The leaves were backlit which overexposed them a little. The reds have been ridiculous around here this year and don't need much saturation adjustment.

On that note... from this weekend:
The foliage has been out-fucking-standing this year here in the NEK. Driving around with polarized sunglasses on yesterday almost resulted in me driving off the road on several occasions as I rubbernecked at the leaves .
Blue sky with light whispy clouds added nicely to the scene.

Fair enough, just something that struck me and figured I'd give my hack's opinion. And just so that I post something other than words:

Colorful leaves, colorful graffiti and colorful language:

[splitter]

and the mono version with a little bit closer focal length

[zartagen]

#1 (looking up into the trees) I'll give you. I did crank the saturation on that one.
The one with the red leaves reflected in the pond was only some contrast adjustment and turning up the color in the shadows. The leaves were backlit which overexposed them a little. The reds have been ridiculous around here this year and don't need much saturation adjustment.

On that note... from this weekend:
The foliage has been out-fucking-standing this year here in the NEK. Driving around with polarized sunglasses on yesterday almost resulted in me driving off the road on several occasions as I rubbernecked at the leaves .
Blue sky with light whispy clouds added nicely to the scene.

I jumped over to your flickr page to look at a bigger version of that one and noticed you have a t3i like me. How did you get the photo to look so sharp, and with minimal noise, with the ISO at 1600? I can't stand the noise I get with the ISO even at 800.

Oh yeah, and I love that shot.

[Fuzz]

and the mono version with a little bit closer focal length

Like the colour version much better -- I can make out the stream easily and it leads my eyes to the bright and colourful clouds. Most of that is lost in the mono version. The bright water is now competing with the bright clouds, but it's hard to make out what they all are easily. The bottom half of the picture is too mid-tone grey. Just my 0.02.

[From_the_NEK]

I jumped over to your flickr page to look at a bigger version of that one and noticed you have a t3i like me. How did you get the photo to look so sharp, and with minimal noise, with the ISO at 1600? I can't stand the noise I get with the ISO even at 800.

Oh yeah, and I love that shot.

I bit the bullet and bought Lightroom. I now take pretty much all of my pictures in RAW (CR2) format which allows for a lot more control over the picture (My old Sony P&S didn't have RAW). In Lightroom, under the Detail tab, I discovered that bumping the Luminance up to between 15 and 20 takes out a lot of the noise without blurring the detail in the pictures too much.

I'm still pretty much a hack at this but I feel like I'm getting better. I've never taken any classes in photography or editing. I've learned a lot just trying to capture quality pictures I see guys on here putting up.

And on that note...
Peak foliage is almost done here...
HubbardHill-Burke1 by Tim_NEK, on Flickr

PuddingHill1 by Tim_NEK, on Flickr

[uglymoney]

Nice man^^^ Thanks for all the Vermont color shots this year.

Lightroom - is the bomb...you will really notice a difference in your shots. As far as ISO the T2i/T3i are really not good at high ISO compared to the newer sensors like on the 6D. After having my 6D for a while I actually started using auto ISO again because a lot of the pictures I get at ISO 6400 are absolutely brilliant with very little noise. That said dealing with the T2i sensor for so long definitely made me a better shooter because figuring out how to get a shot at the lowest possible ISO makes you think things through a lot more. The 6D is much more forgiving and gives the shooter much more love.

[BeardedClam]

[dfinn]

a view at TSV that people see in the winter but rarely in the summer

[Lonnie]

Family trip to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon...

[The AD]

Very nice, Lonnie. The Grand Canyon is a place I need to get to sometime.

[Lonnie]

Very nice, Lonnie. The Grand Canyon is a place I need to get to sometime.

Thanks a bunch. To be 100% honest, I wasn't overly happy with my shots from there. Until I looked at a bunch of other Grand Canyon shots on 500px and elsewhere. Despite being gorgeous (no pun (gorge) intended), that place isn't as easy to photograph as one might expect. Foregrounds are pretty difficult to come by, but my general impressions based on one trip there was the canyon is soooo vast, you get a lot of natural "haze" in your shots and that causes a loss of contrast. In this case, I don't like loss of contrast. I struggled with the processing because of that. Then, upon looking at a bunch of other shots from there, they all show the same thing. So I guess it's just a "nature of the beast" sort of thing, and I'm OK with it.

Thanks again for the compliment. Cheers, L.

[The AD]

Seattle in a Nutshell by kirknelson, on Flickr

[BaNosser]