Your BEST shot

rajagra said:

Reminds me of a picture I took of Canary Wharf tower in the fog.

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Thanks Ray but yours looks much better. I shot mine in Murree, June I think. It gets very foggy there even in summers. I believe I snapped the tower too at Canary Wharf, but it was in August, clear weather, just jumped off the cruise and took some clumsy photos.

One of my Daughter

dakotaev said:

One of my Daughter

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Best picture yet. She is beautiful, made me smile

Band of Gypsies

Gypsies tilt-shifted

Hi all,

New here at B&B and enjoy photography as a hobby. Here are a couple shots I've taken over the years:





Looking forward to spending some time here in the darkroom.

Nice gritty feel to the 2nd photo, Nic.

Thanks Oblique,

I love you TS shot above - looks almost model like. Did you up the saturation on this shot, as the colours look much more vibrant?

I'm really glad you like it, Nic. Yes, I upped the saturation quite a bit and the contrast too. Both of these steps are necessary to create a decent tilt-shift.

This is in my top 5 for sure.



Hope you enjoy it.

Rob

I am a casual cel phone camera photographer, but I did manage a good pic here, its my younger daughter and her Grandpa's dog Odin. This thread makes me want to learn how to use an actual camera, you guys are talented!

Surfingrob, that is one helluva photograph.

scottish steve said:

Surfingrob, that is one helluva photograph.

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+1 - the star trails in the reflection in the water really put this one over he top.

Oblique Human said:

Gypsies tilt-shifted

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This is cool. Could you tell us please which plug-in you used to create the tilt/shift effect?

Hi, I'm reasonably new to both B&B and decent photography.
Here's a picture that I think ended up looking pretty nice.

That Ranier shot is killer! Reminds me of a few startrails that I've taken:
Out our backdoor:

Colorado Star Trails by jrmelot, on Flickr

BEaver Creek Ski area, with star trails and snow cats:

Beaver Creek at Night with Star Trails by jrmelot, on Flickr

Haystack Rock with a beach campfire:

Sunset, Stars and Campfires at Cannon Beach by jrmelot, on Flickr

Great shots on here guys!

scottish steve said:

Surfingrob, that is one helluva photograph.

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NicFreeman said:

+1 - the star trails in the reflection in the water really put this one over he top.

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Thanks Steve and Nic! Had a very detailed shot in my mind visualized, and lucked out the weather cooperated. A bit over an hour total (stitched from multiple shorter exposures). Left side light pollution from Seattle, and the moon coming up in the last few frames i cut out (light pollution on the right). Ranier has it's own weather and hard to plan, but lucked out with no clouds.

Appreciate the feedback!

Rob

djh said:

This is cool. Could you tell us please which plug-in you used to create the tilt/shift effect?

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Thanks David for the compliment, I didn't use a plug-in, I mostly do tilt-shifts manually in photoshop but used an action for this one. If you like, I can email you the tutorials.

JRM - those are some great shots!

playing around with settings a bit more i did another i like a lot.

Colville (NE Corner of WA) - buddy has some property we camped on and got this one:


a fun part of doing long exposure... what to do w/ your spare time! While taking the Ranier shot, playing w/ my GF's d80 we did this:


Silly fun. about 2 minutes of me running around with a Red LED headlamp drawing squiggly lines on the Element.

Thanks all for the positive feedback and response! I do enjoy photography and need to shoot more...

Some great shots here!!

Rob

surfingrob said:

This is in my top 5 for sure.

Hope you enjoy it.

Rob

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Beautiful. Well done, well done indeed.