Real Life Photography/Photo Editing II - NO IMAGES >100kb

[sniperuk02 0]

I was down abit from the grandstand on the right. Some of the things didnt come near us (Su-30, Hind)

Anyway, I'm looking for a wide angle lens for a decent price, anyone know one?

[USMC NEEDER 0]

Were you at an airshow?

[sniperuk02 0]

I dont think I was..maybe.

[DaSquade 0]

My favorite of the serie of airshow pics must be the bomber (slap me if wrong) on the runway with the undergoing sun...Greet work imho.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v128/chrisgee/OFP%20Resize/_GEE6267-copy.jpg).

Had some time to shoot today, although the belgian wheter wasn't on my side .

One of the reasons of my camera purchase was to finally take some snaps of my fish. I learned it is much harder to capture them in a good pose and have a clear, non relecting image. Thank god for the memorycard invention and the delete button . Only had one decent enough pic...

and not the most ideal pose for a fish, but had something i guess...Picture taken through the pond window (window in the sidewall of the pond), so didn't suffer any reflection...

I read polarisation-filters are good against reflections (in water) and add a nice effect to the water. Unless someone don't advice me to buy one, i should be getting one one of these days.

Some other random pics:

All taken with my Nikon AF-S DX VR 55-200/4-5.6G IF-ED lens at full zoom as they were to far to be taken with the 18-55.

[BlackScorpion 0]

Awwwwww, I was supposed to go there but my friend had other plans and dull to go alone... oh, he's so dead now.

Great pics Killagee... love that Tornado one. Other... aren't bad either.

DaSquade, it's a B-1B and well, I doubt they let killa on the runway. Anyways, nice pics you got - <s>kit lense and good eye or something more special?</s>

Arrrrrrrrrr, really need a new lense.

[Supah 0]

Ah yes airshows ... I remember those! Vaguely :|

[Supah 0]

[Supah 0]

[Tovarish 0]

Quite the collection of Antonov-2's Supah

Had to dig out one of my old Soviet pins after that:

[Supah 0]

First Cessna 172 I ever touched that was not atleast 5 years older then me! (and that pbb says more about the planes I get to fly in NW europe then about my age ) Very cool pin Tovarish!

"Oh that thing AGAIN"

Getting a bit bored with certain warbirds around the european circuit.

[smiley nick 51]

Great Photos everyone.

He is my contribution for today

Still learning the trade, but I am starting to see things in a whole new light

[DaSquade 0]

@Smiley: Nice pic. Noob all the way here, but unless it was meant this way i miss some sharp (focussed) point in the pic. Again not sure if it was meant this way, but the first angel (on the left) could of come better out of it with some extra sharpness (originally or photoshopped).

But feel free to shoot me .

Keep it up...

EDIT: Added some pics of the fish.

Not sure if we got some fishlovers on the boards, and i don't mean for dinner. But here some of my 'pets'. All taken through window in the pondwall as i don't have my pola filter yet.

Might post some more pondhabitants, but sofar the rest wasn't so good .

[Supah 0]

Wow! Well even with a pola filter I doubt you'd get as nice results as these! Outstanding

[wex-q 0]

@daSquade: Looking very good!

I think darkening the background would make the image look so cool, like a pitchblack background, with a lit fish in the middle.

You can trick around with Photoshop to get the effect and if you feel like it, intensify the colors of the fishes. Retouch ftw! hehe

wex

[DaSquade 0]

@Supah: Thanks. Well like i said, all fish pics are taken through the pond window (->like aquarium view, if it helps explain the situation). So this gives me by default a non-deformed and crips picture. But hard to make decent top body shot like that. So i hope the pola filter will help when i try to make pics 'through' the water surface. From the examples i have seen it helps in a certain degree, plus it should benefit the contract aswell. Time will tell...

@wex-q: Hm, not sure if i understood your point, but..uhu..that is what i did :d. You don't want to see the orginals i think (damn flowing algees and crossing fishes all over the place :d). Anyway, beside cleaning the background and algee spots before-over the fish, pics are almost originally (slightly auto contrast and auto levels + smart sharpen).

Anyway, thanks for the comments. Although i'm very noob and had no photoshooting experience before four days ago, but i think the D40x and lenses are doing all the work for me :d.

[wex-q 0]

Hehe, well, I shouldn't be the one to critisize, I don't even have a camera (yet)!

But I meant that the black background is a bit greyish, I think it would look cool if you just made it totally pitchblack.

Would bring the fish out more.

[Supah 0]

@Supah: Thanks. Well like i said, all fish pics are taken through the pond window (->like aquarium view, if it helps explain the situation). So this gives me by default a non-deformed and crips picture. But hard to make decent top body shot like that. So i hope the pola filter will help when i try to make pics 'through' the water surface. From the examples i have seen it helps in a certain degree, plus it should benefit the contract aswell. Time will tell...

@wex-q: Hm, not sure if i understood your point, but..uhu..that is what i did :d. You don't want to see the orginals i think (damn flowing algees and crossing fishes all over the place :d). Anyway, beside cleaning the background and algee spots before-over the fish, pics are almost originally (slightly auto contrast and auto levels + smart sharpen).

Anyway, thanks for the comments. Although i'm very noob and had no photoshooting experience before four days ago, but i think the D40x and lenses are doing all the work for me :d.

Well it should make the colours look better thats true also it will reduce reflection but it will never be 100%. Depending on how big your fishtank is you could buy scuba gear, one of those underwater cases for your camera and try that approach Nah just kidding with you!

A picture of mine! Curtiss Hawk 75 at flying legends (the fifth time I saw this one)

[wex-q 0]

Well it should make the colours look better thats true also it will reduce reflection but it will never be 100%. Depending on how big your fishtank is you could buy scuba gear, one of those underwater cases for your camera and try that approach Nah just kidding with you!

Well, if he had a underwater housing, he could just submerge a large black hollow box, put the fishes one by one in it, and snap away, so it would become like a photography studio where you put a black (or any other color) wall all the way down to the floor and out of the image, so it looks like it's nothing there at all but black (or any other color).

Maybe I'm a bit unclear, late hours

[Supah 0]

And a vietnam classic! A A-1 Skyraider! I have been seeing this exact same aircraft since I was 15 or something at various airshows, must be more then thirty times by now!

[DaSquade 0]

Without going too offtopic or on the topic of fishsnapping:

Well like i said, i snapped them from behind my pondwindow witch is a normal window (but 1cm 'armored...lol...window) witch is build in one of the side walls of the pond, as the pond is 1.5m deep and 50cm is above the outerfloor. Pro of that is you have a crisp clear and non watersurface deformation and no reflections. Cons is that a 'perfect' koi presentation pic needs to be a top body pic, with extra points if the fish lays streched out with fins symmetric and width open. But that is almost impossible to get as the fish will never flow vertical (should learn them that one day ).

Anyway, almost all koi presentation pics are taken in exhibition tanks (low amount of water tanks with small room). I met this guy who made it to get 4 koi magazine covers here in Belgium-Netherlands, but he also told even under that situation it is still very hard. As the fish are stressed and the amount of water is low (->any movement gets translated into water movement and a non clear shot). Other con is you need to capture the fish and the stress that bring this with them, can turn the white parts of the body slightly pink (blood in the veins), but depends on fish. So it is a mather of patient, time and the right moment. Won't post any pics of him (not allowed afaik), but he made some golden ones.

Anyway, i received a 'very nice shots for a noob, keep it up' comment of him.

Enough of the fishchat now..carry on!

[Sgt_Eversmann 1]

Friday, July 20th. Tuttlingen - Honberg, Germany, Schandmaul concert:

I have some more on my dev-art profil: Click me my friend

Still messing around with my crappy digicam

Actually the first band was "Letzte Instanz" and after them it was "Schandmaul"'s turn. Messed the naming of the pictures.

Anyway, hope you like at least one or two of 'em

Offical Schandmaul page

[Ranger Bob 0]

Cool!

I went to a friend's gig last night as their "photographer", I'm getting practice and they're getting pics! :P Not many were amazing (small venue) but I got a couple of shots I'm pleased with, this one in particular:

For a bigger version go here.

I like these ones too:

Flickr Page

Flickr Page

[Spokesperson 0]

I've got a Sony DSC-H2. It's great for people with limited pockets. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Cyber-shot_DSC-H5

Copyleft Spokesperson 2007.

However, it's easy to tell that a Sony camera has been used in the lighthouse picture. Sony uses some special color scheme "sony dark/blue" that I don't like. It doesn't resemble reality.

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Howdy folks! Not sure if anyone remembers me But anyways.....

Last Sunday was Nataska and my one year wedding anniversary, can you believe we've been married 1 whole year already? Well to celebrate we went to a place called Pulau Ubin for a long weekend, was pretty nice It's an island to the North of Singapore, still Singapore territory but it's a bit like going to another country

Couple of links about Pulau Iban http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulau_Ubin & http://www.wildsingapore.com/ubin/index.html

Unfortunately as we're shockingly bad at remembering to get the camera out we didn't take many pics, but here's a couple......

First four are the view from the "bumboat" (cheap local ferry boat which takes you from the mainland to the island for $2 each ($3 = 1GBP), so technically they're of the Changi Beach area of Singapore and not Pulau Iban

Next photo is one of "er indoors" (for fans of Minder ) and I on the bumboat, as taken by a friendly chap who kindly offered after we took one of him and his friends.....

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6 and 7 are just of a random view we saw as we biked around Pulau Ubin on a rented tandem bicycle (great fun!

Then the last 5 are of a very large Arapaima (or pirarucu, or paiche) which lived in the ornamental lagoon next to the restaurant of the resort we stayed at, this one was about 1.5m long but they grow in excess of 3 m (9.8 ft.) and weight up to 200 kg (440 lb.)*

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arapaima" target="_blank">

*stolen from wiki </a>

This one was a right attention whore, as soon as the auto flash kicked in on a dark shot it started jumping around and poking its head out of the water!

Here you can see part of its back sticking out of the water with a view of about 2/3 of the ornamental lagoon and climbing wall and stuff in the background