[something_else]

@Mick I'll admit when I first saw the shot I thought it was really nice capture and I wasn't entirely sure it was shopped until I noticed the shadows. For me though, you'd have to go the whole hog with it. Not just removing shadows, but adding new ones (e.g. the bike in the background needs one) and changing various other shadows as well, but then I'm such a massive perfectionist that I annoy myself with it. Maybe I'm nitpicking.

@Alex The blur might be partly to do with resizing. Do you sharpen your shots after resizing them? It's a vital step, especially when you're scaling down to web size.

[Nah Tso Gud]

A couple of my buddies who play in a band together:
The singer/guitar player.... whos absolutely amazing on the strings I must add... Very Stevie Ray Vaughn like.


and the bassist... love the lighting in this one

[LCstuntman]

QUOTE (Nah Tso Gud @ Monday, Jun 11 2012, 03:34)

Bored / trying to get back into the hobby.. anyone down for a photo theme, kinda thing?

Not sure what you mean, like a contest type of deal? That would be cool, like the SOTW topic but Picture of the Week(/month?) and have a different theme everytime, such as cars, nature, animals, abstract, etc, etc. I'd be down.

[Nah Tso Gud]

QUOTE (LCstuntman @ Tuesday, Jun 12 2012, 19:20)

QUOTE (Nah Tso Gud @ Monday, Jun 11 2012, 03:34) Bored / trying to get back into the hobby.. anyone down for a photo theme, kinda thing? Not sure what you mean, like a contest type of deal? That would be cool, like the SOTW topic but Picture of the Week(/month?) and have a different theme everytime, such as cars, nature, animals, abstract, etc, etc. I'd be down.

Yep, except just not a contest.. Just sharing contributions without competition

[FiS!!HeR]

Various sceneries taken two years ago:









Your reporter from a south western village in the Arabian Peninsula.

[ThePinkFloydSound]

QUOTE (something_else @ Monday, Jun 11 2012, 23:42)

@Mick I'll admit when I first saw the shot I thought it was really nice capture and I wasn't entirely sure it was shopped until I noticed the shadows. For me though, you'd have to go the whole hog with it. Not just removing shadows, but adding new ones (e.g. the bike in the background needs one) and changing various other shadows as well, but then I'm such a massive perfectionist that I annoy myself with it. Maybe I'm nitpicking. @Alex The blur might be partly to do with resizing. Do you sharpen your shots after resizing them? It's a vital step, especially when you're scaling down to web size.

Not nit-picking at all buddy. I think it's great feedback, I appreciate it. You know, I think that's what I'll do. I don't normally photoshop that much but I like this one as a sort of poster-style photo, a little bit unrealistic, stylish and fun. I'm going to borrow Narcis' idea of adding in more dramatic clouds.

Narcis, I have some photos of clouds like that but I'm curious to see the one you added.

[Narcis_speed6]

QUOTE (ThePinkFloydSound @ Thursday, Jun 14 2012, 21:56)

Narcis, I have some photos of clouds like that but I'm curious to see the one you added.

I used this one with a 35% opacity.

[Whiskey]

Liffey Valley shopping center from my room on a very, very warm day. Very rare that you see the sun like that in Ireland.




This post has been edited by Whiskey on Thursday, Jun 14 2012, 23:13

[kmlwin.1996]

Time for B&W.

[4 Bagger]

@Whiskey: That second photo is stunning. I love purple/pink sunrises. I didn't think that photo was taken in Ireland.

[Whiskey]

QUOTE (4 Bagger @ Saturday, Jun 16 2012, 23:52)

@Whiskey: That second photo is stunning. I love purple/pink sunrises. I didn't think that photo was taken in Ireland.

One of the rare times we get skies like that. I always catch a few snaps when it's nice out!

[LCstuntman]

QUOTE (kmlwin.1996 @ Saturday, Jun 16 2012, 00:30)

Time for B&W.

Indeed it is (Btw I absolutely love that shot, not because I like crying kids or anything )











I also bought a fisheye, If you need an extremely wide angle for cheap, get this (wow, they raised the price from $250 ); I was literally about 2 feet away from that ramp:






And some other random shots:










I like how everybody behind him is looking at him, especially the one on the right.




I'm using this as my sig






Messing around with some bulb:


This post has been edited by LCstuntman on Sunday, Jun 17 2012, 23:52

[Nah Tso Gud]

Nice stuff LC, love that first one and the fisheye shot, at first I wish it had flash but I think like the near silhouette I think the hair makes it

Anyhow, my friend just got into photography, what inspired him was water drops.. so I was showing him a little bit about it.. I sortve think its a hassle and pretty boring.. but it is cool when you get a unique one.. this one isnt anything special.. didnt really get too many keepers in my opinion.

[Kajun]

Finally got my ass out to take some photos today. Had to show one of my buddies how to use the D5100 he just bought, so I took him on a field trip to my old backyard because there's tons of stuff to shoot there. I ended up running around with my extension tubes stacked on my 55-200 taking photos of all the bugs I could find. Got a few solid shots, pretty sure my friend is going to grab some extension tubes now. Anyways, pics.





















There was a sh*t ton of those moths (I think, could be butterflies) around. The underside of their wings looked leafy, but the backside was almost like a monarch butterfly.

[Nah Tso Gud]

Nice macro stuff, you got a nice variety of subjects there. I remember seeing those butterflies / moths as a kid in a tree outside my house ( in Minnesota ).. it mustve been during some sort of migration, because the whoooole tree was damn near full of them. They were so well camoflouged that couldnt really tell until one of us threw a rock. Mean I know hah..

Ill be off to the North Shore of Lake Superior this Thursday for a mini hiking / camping trip. Hope to get some nice landscapes, water falls shots and hopefully some Milky Way photos as well.. maybe lightning if the weathers bad. I think you just inspired me to bring my macro lens Kajun maybe catch a few critters out in the wild.

[OverTheBelow]

All taken with my Sony Ericsson X10. Unedited, merely resized.

Love the bokeh I can get with this phone on macro, but I'm planning on getting a Canon PowerShot S100 soon for a closer focus distance amongst many other benefits vs phone camera.

This post has been edited by OverTheBelow on Thursday, Jun 21 2012, 16:56

[death783]

I've got a few shots on deviantART.

My DeviantART (Click)

[4 Bagger]

Got quite a few from my phone that I forgot I had, there of the sky at different times in my hometown.

Taken about 18months ago



Taken about a year ago or so. Really like the colour on this one.



Taken roughly over a year ago..



This was about 6-9 months [ish] ago. Love the colour of the sky. Looks like a fire.



And this is most recent, must have been only about a month ago? I caught it at just the right time.



Not usually a photography person, but like I said, I found a couple on my old phone before selling it and I've just been in the right place at the right time really.

[Mockage]

The color on the first 3 look amazing Kajun! Same goes for you 4bagger (the first one)!

[kmlwin.1996]

Religion thing in Burma.