SDN Photo-a-Day (Rules updates - read the OP)

[aerius]

Ninjas are real. They flip out and chop peoples' heads off with their bare hands.

[The Grim Squeaker]

3 Pics. Out of a bunch .
The Sigma 30mm 1.4F's autofocus SUCKS. But it's a fun prime lens, although it's too damn wide, people look too wide .

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Low light. A stone shelf for a long shutter time .
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Dorm neighbour
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[The Grim Squeaker]

3 more shots from yesterday:
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[J]

Some ivy growing up an old drainpipe




A couple pictures of the Canada Permanent Building. The second one was inspired by phongn's amazing light fixture photo, his is a lot better than mine though. I can't really get the angle I want without being shooed away by security, I'll definitely try again if I'm ever there on official business or at next year's Doors Open event if they open the building to the public.

[The Grim Squeaker]

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[Dalton]

This can't possibly be safe.

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[The Grim Squeaker]

Depends if she's picking her teeth or using a toothpick .
(Should this comment be in the phototalk thread?)

[The Grim Squeaker]

3 pictures from the past day and a half photographing down south.
I'll be making a dedicated thread after I have time to properly filter the masses of photos.


Can I just say, for the record, how much the Canon 70-300 lens SUCKS epicly on the 300 end?


High in the sky. Very simple, and I like it.


Wax painting anyone?

[The Grim Squeaker]

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Taken with someone else's 300mm prime. What a GORGEOUS lens. (My own 70-300 worked like the devil's own hairy balls. Badly in other words )

[The Grim Squeaker]

3 more shots from the Desert:

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Canyons near the Sde Boker midrasha and town, by Ben Gurion's gravesite. I liked the early morning shadows, I have a lot of variants of this kind of shot.

Triangles. (What's better in terms of triangular slices, this or THIS?
From the Ein Ovdat (eye of Ovda) canyon/stream, upper end:
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Near the Ramon crater:
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[The Grim Squeaker]

3 more desert shots:
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And that's that.

[Bounty]

[Simplicius]

High in the sky

You've got some dust on your sensor, there.

[Bounty]

[Simplicius]

Going through the baaaaack catalogue. These are digital shots from 2006.



1953 Ford, Saratoga Springs (re-edit)



Fishing dory, Monhegan Island



Planter and petunias, Spruce Head

After failing to beat the clock, here's the scoop: back in '03 I got my first digicam, a 3.1 MP Hewlett-Packard 435. It was a double hand-me-down, to give you an idea of what a crap camera it was. I have no idea how many photos I took with it between 2003 and 2006, because every time the card/battery door was opened the circuit broke and the camera's memory was wiped. I know I kept about 1,270, most of which are just snaps, or would be just snaps if the camera had been better. After nearly three years of not paying much attention to these photos, I went back though them and found a grand total of 16 that I liked enough to put through the wringer of post-process. That's a 1 percent hit rate for the period*, and only of pictures that are good enough.

I'm going to start charting percentages of 'keepers' as I go through my back catalogue. It'll be interesting to see what develops.

*technically 1.2 percent for 2003-2006 and 1.3 percent for 2006 alone, because nothing good enough came out of what little I saved from the first two years.

[Simplicius]

Still going back; still in 2006.



Storm front, Saratoga Springs (re-edit). This one is fun - if you keep an eye on the image while dragging the midpoint slider to the right, it looks like a nuclear blast goes off just to the west.



Raquette River, Potsdam



Market and Main, Postdam

[The Grim Squeaker]

The colours of the second image are just fantastic (well, colour ).
The third shot is also really great, a patchwork of crazybroken lighting. . (early morning light and large glass pane windows I'd guess?)

[Simplicius]

The theme of this post is "things that stick up in the air."



Battle Monument, USMA, West Point (re-edit)



P-p-p-power pylon, Saratoga Springs



Grain silo, Rockland

The third shot is also really great, a patchwork of crazybroken lighting. . (early morning light and large glass pane windows I'd guess?)

The lighting is actually from streetlamps at night. It looks a lot like early light, I'll grant, but the fact that it's obviously coming from three directions at once reveals that it is artificial.

[Simplicius]

The theme of this post is abandoned buildings.

Urban:



Virginia Ave interlocking tower, Washington, D.C. And rural:



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Also: fuck you, dust and Newton rings! A plague upon you, inadequate flatbed scanning!

[Bounty]

Took the Argus for a walk.

[The Grim Squeaker]

3 photos of an indy metal band performing at a local club:
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I'm very dissapointed by my shots. The 30mm prime gets the low light, but I couldn't get good framing. Being in the mosh pit, and having 5 guys start brawling then booting at me didn't help either, so I vacated to atop a table. (not the best place for framing ).

[The Grim Squeaker]

Eye of the singer.
Abstract framing (I was aiming for a guitar):


Local cafe.

[Simplicius]

Eye of the singer.
Abstract framing (I was aiming for a guitar):

The problem with both of these is that they mostly look like a photo of a hand and a mike. The first one, after several minutes, is "Oh okay so there are some parts of the singer's face that are still unhidden," and the second one is just "Bam! Microphone! Bullseye!"

I am of the opinion that gig photos are basically shit unless they manage to convey the feeling of the gig to someone who wasn't there, didn't hear the music, and doesn't know who the band is. These two don't do that for me, and to be honest they don't manage to do anything else either.

Local cafe.

The bottom third of the frame IMO does not add anything to the picture. The lighting, the color, and the big, heavy, in-focus masses are all contrary to the top two-thirds.

[aerius]

Part of the Parliament buildings in Ottawa. I'm guessing this one's from about 10-11 years ago. I'm also pretty sure it was shot on no-name supermarket film given the weird colours which I couldn't correct in Photoshop.

[Bounty]

I was so, so happy today to finally see a sky that wasn't completely overcast. We've been having nothing but rain and wind, and I don't think I've ever been happier seeing colour in the sky. It's a cellphone pic.