goFigure, I really like that last shot. My only suggestion would be to crop off the bottom portion of the shot, at least the bottom right. Clone out the power lines too, or crop just above them.

Too bad you can't reshoot...a pano with the clouds and blue sky would have been pretty cool.

1/19/2009 11:30:11 AM

hue4y-calibrates monitors, about 100 bucks

1/19/2009 11:31:21 AM

^^ we were in Utah for a week... we say Zion NP, Bryce canyons NP, Arches NP, Canyonlands,

I have 1k+ pictures after deleting ~500 and my dad has just as many for a P&S...
this includes shots of Just the sky...

if you have days of time... I'm currently handpicking and going to make a much more focused set of pictures... All are as they were shot without any correction yet.
http://community.webshots.com/user/bholford_west

day1 = boring (NC-Mo)
day2 = StL Arch + some pretty parts of Mo and Iowa when I was shooting with the ultrawide and ruined a lot of shots shooting through the car window
day3 = SD, Badlands
day4 = mt rushmore, wyoming (once again ruined a lot of REALLY awesome shots shooting through the car window where the dash is being reflected)
day5 = Montana and Yellowstone (I think I learned by this point to stop using the ultrawide in the car and was using a polarizer to get rid of the window reflection)
day6 = SNOWMOBILING IN YELLOWSTONE!!!
day7 = Idaho, Utah
day8 = Utah, arches1
day9 = Utah, Arches2, Canyonlands (Really REALLY awesome)
day10 = Utah, Bryce NP,
day11 = Utah, Zion NP, Grand Canyon (was hazing and kinda sucked)

1/19/2009 11:39:46 AM

You really have no idea how jealous I am of you.

This May, my fiance and I took a western road trip, and this year, we're taking another

1/19/2009 11:41:34 AM

Go to Moab Utah... ABSOLUTELY awesome... that's where I would like to go back to and hike and camp and 4wheel and just go nuts for a week...

The rest was pretty cool, but Moab is the one that I was consistently awed by.

1/19/2009 11:48:08 AM

already been

1/19/2009 11:52:52 AM

Snow!



[Edited on January 19, 2009 at 12:37 PM. Reason : frew]

1/19/2009 12:32:44 PM

Kiwi, do you work at crabtree?

1/19/2009 2:04:39 PM

No, I'm in Knoxville, TN why?

1/19/2009 2:05:28 PM

FYI, Lauren Greenfield will be in NC next month. She's a really cool photojournalist and very well known internationally. She's having a lecture at Meredith and RCC. I'm not sure if the lecture at Meredith is open outside of that school. The one at RCC is completely free and open to the public so come if you want and bring a friend, hang out with the RCC photog's and see our studio. I'll give anyone here a tour of the place.

LAUREN GREENFIELD LECTURE
February 17, 2009, 7pm
Meredith College (Jones Auditorium)
Raleigh, NC

Lauren will present her work and talk about photography, film making, women's bodies, kids and money.
***********************
LAUREN GREENFIELD LECTURE
February 18, 2009 at 8pm
Randolph Community College
Asheboro, NC

Randolph Community College will host Lauren Greenfield. This event is free to the public and is part of their on-going Jerry Howell Lecture Series. For more information, call (336) 633-0237

1/19/2009 3:43:31 PM

Some pics of the school.

1/19/2009 5:13:05 PM

i'm going to the inauguration tomorrow, non ticketed so i won't be super close to any ceremonies. i have only a 18-55 and a 55-200VR. rules say no camera bags so i gotta carry the camera around my neck and the extra lense in a pocket which is prett shitty. thoughts on which lense or both to bring? Im leaning toward the 55-200,b ut the wide would def be nice for crowd shots. and i'm sure i'll see crowds... 200mm might still be too short to see anything significant from where i'll likely be. hrm

1/19/2009 11:00:04 PM

nothin special, but since it's been so cold i havent had any other snakes to photograph. so my new pet northern pine snake had to do.



hopefully ill get a flash for my birthday...i need one pretty bad.

1/19/2009 11:46:22 PM

i'm waiting for this thread to blow up

1/20/2009 10:05:04 AM

What are the best settings to take pix of the snow under? I searched a bit on google, just finding random answers. I know my D40 isn't going to have the clearest pictures, but I'd like to at least try.

[Edited on January 20, 2009 at 10:33 AM. Reason : ]

1/20/2009 10:30:53 AM

Where's the snow? We need coverage.

1/20/2009 10:36:43 AM

sunny 16 rule + 1 stop. The reflection will bounce up 1 more stop than normal, just like sand. If you use on board metering, just use the +1 compensation.

1/20/2009 1:15:18 PM

1/20/2009 2:35:31 PM

Hey i know its not an SLR but i just bought a canon G9

http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelInfoAct&fcategoryid=144&modelid=15669

any thoughts?

1/20/2009 5:10:07 PM

it's a very capable camera and does capture pretty good images. My roommate and professors have them for when they don't want to carry large camera's around.

1/20/2009 5:20:31 PM

I had the G2 for many years before I upgraded. I was impressed until I grew out of its capabilities.

Here's my contribution to the page. It CAN snow at the beach

1/20/2009 5:58:24 PM

I LOVE your pictures Jsnail. And your dog, can I have her?

Awesome pics, awesome camera!!

1/20/2009 5:59:37 PM

haha that dog's all DURRRRRRR SNOW!

1/20/2009 6:20:21 PM

hehe thanks Kiwi but no, flattery won't get you my dog


lmao Bigman she looooves the snow

1/20/2009 7:10:51 PM

About Jsnail's question on modifying an on-camera speedlight... check out Gary Fong or Sto-Fen products.

[polite constructive criticism] Kiwi, the snow pic you posted has got a major blue/green hue to it. It's seriously the only thing I see when I look at it [/polite constructive criticism] I'll try not to call you on the extreme angled crop anymore because I like to use it...selectively...too.

1/20/2009 9:58:22 PM

extreme crop angles are only bad when it doesn't help the composition or design elements of a photo. If it adds value to the photo, then it's ok. If not, then you have to ask yourself, "why did I crop it this way? and what could work better?".

Some stuff from my photo expedition today.

1/20/2009 10:30:48 PM

is that your tactical photography suit?

1/20/2009 10:35:35 PM

hahaha

and I like the Statue and tree pics a lot

[Edited on January 20, 2009 at 10:39 PM. Reason : .]

1/20/2009 10:39:04 PM

1/20/2009 10:40:13 PM

lol, yes... It's my motogear, but it's the only heavy winter clothes I have at the moment. We exactly haven't had snow in a while. I was very warm the whole time and hiked about 5 miles, even jogged about a mile.

More funny portraits and other shit here:
http://pics.jbaz.net/thumbnails.php?album=157

1/20/2009 10:43:00 PM

my fiancee' Dad gave me his trusty ol' Pentax MG 35mm SLR today. its pretty sweet, but i think its broken. It won't snap a pic. the shutter button does nothing and something is loose inside the body. It makes sort of a slapping/clunking noise when i shake it front to back. Its not battery dependent (at least in fixed shutter speed and bulb modes) so its not that. Its in excellent cosmetic condition and it worked the last time he used it, about 7 years ago.

Any random ideas?

1/21/2009 12:00:28 AM

Took some airplane pictures on the way back from Florida over break:





the little man never ceases to be a good subject:



obligatory snow day shot:

1/21/2009 12:00:43 AM

PhotogRob I did the blue hue on purpose, give it that cold feel and contrast the reds, too much?

I like your tree pic Jbaz

My tree pic!

1/21/2009 12:06:17 AM

^^^ I have an old Minolta SRT101 that has some kind of foam gasket on the back of the mirror plate (it's either there for light tightness or damping). It's old enough that the foam has dryrotted and the mirror sticks in the up position from the adhesive that's left under the foam.

after that happened, it pulled part of the mirror linkage out of alignment. So it could be there's something that's gotten disconnected. does the mirror move?


^ I get more of an old-picture vibe from the color cast in the first one.

[Edited on January 21, 2009 at 12:10 AM. Reason : .,.]

1/21/2009 12:07:29 AM

^^Too much? Yes. I like snow to be white (SLIGHT blue is okay too for a cold feeling). But green or yellow snow? Didn't mama ever tell you not to eat the yellow snow? Just my opinion.

1/21/2009 12:53:56 AM

I think I'm about to pull the trigga on the 11-16....... been eyeing it for a whiiiiiiiiile.

[Edited on January 21, 2009 at 1:30 AM. Reason : 11]

1/21/2009 1:25:49 AM

too green imho too kiwi. maybe your monitor is off colorwise making it appear less green to you than to us.

hrmm ok i'll look into that. No, the mirror doesnt move. Its like the button is disconnected from anything. I also tried the little self timer lever and it doesnt activate anything either. :/

[Edited on January 21, 2009 at 1:28 AM. Reason : fdfd]

1/21/2009 1:27:38 AM

Quote :

"that being said... flickr has its upload limit... facebook I haven't been able to hotlink to... as with webshots... I know this question has been asked countless times but "search" sucks and there are 100 pages... so other than hosting your own stuff, IS there a good site to hotlink from?"

you're welcome to use the image hosting thing i put up

http://tww.e00.us/

i'll up the filesize limit if you'd like

1/21/2009 1:29:31 AM

also i plan on reading this entire thread during downtime at work i have a lot to learn, and from the bits and pieces i've seen, this thread contains a lot of very useful knowledge

1/21/2009 1:40:10 AM

the old SLR came to life today and now shoots about 1/3rd of the time. interesting.

1/21/2009 11:51:48 AM

Quote :

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i have this exact same picture on my flickr site...looks like we were sitting in the same area of the plane & it was South West too.... neat

1/21/2009 12:21:26 PM

HAHAH, best caption to my picture

Quote :

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"Don't worry guys, I'm from the internet."

1/21/2009 3:06:31 PM

shit, thats funny.

1/21/2009 3:16:18 PM

meh, not a lot to be stoked about in this batch...it was my dog's first experience with snow and most of this is just cliché winter pics

the biggest problem is that my dog is so dark while the snow was so white...the shots without any editing were okay, i guess, but she always looked like a dark blob without definition...if i reduce the contrast to pull out her lines, everything becomes flat...if i increase the exposure or brightness, the snow loses definition...bah

suggestions?

1/21/2009 3:41:41 PM

^shooting raw? if so there is probably still some detail in the dark spots. what software are you using? most have a "Fill Light" parameter that lightens in the shadows a little. works pretty darn well.

1/21/2009 4:05:24 PM

^ yeah, shooting RAW on a panasonic fz30 (so not really a DSLR)...using photoshop CS4 at work

i have very little experience in photoshop past the VERY basics

1/21/2009 4:06:36 PM

Quote :

"if i reduce the contrast to pull out her lines, everything becomes flat...if i increase the exposure or brightness, the snow loses definition...bah"

Why not highlight the dog and reduce contrast in that area only?

[Edited on January 21, 2009 at 4:42 PM. Reason : l]

1/21/2009 4:42:21 PM

using the Fill Light scroll option on the main/exposure tab is very useful, you can also gain similar effect with the level adjustment and just play around with the mid tones/shadow values. Even shooting raw on a p&s yields a lot of info that you can use to manipulate it a lot. IQ suffers a bit if you are just compensating for technical errors, but sometimes, you can't predict everything.

1/21/2009 6:16:29 PM

holy fuck i just updated to LR 2.2 with the new Adobe camera 'Camera' profiles. What a huge difference. My Nikon conversions look MUCH better with the new profiles. Supposedly the 'Camera' profiles are intended to match the camera manufacturer's conversion software more closely. I've been reading up and the new profiles are pretty dead on compared to the Nikon Capture NX software. This is really great.

So yeh, make sure you pay attention to your camera profiles...

1/22/2009 12:14:19 PM

FILM AND PAPER IS SO EXPENSIVE,

gotta get tons of it for class

ugh.

1/22/2009 1:25:46 PM