I like this.

I like this as well.

Nice work.

x2

That shot would look badass taken from further away and stitched wide!

Actually the shot itself is dead on, I verified it in photoshop with the grid lines. It's the line on the road that's throwing the whole perspective off. I wanted to get off of it but I wasn't able to since the road was pretty busy. Maybe I can just photoshop it out lol. Thanks for the advice!

haha, it was concrete and I was nowhere near the lightening. It was roughly 5 or 6 miles away :)

The cop basically pulls up and gets out of the car. He asks what I'm doing out here in the middle of the night. I answer "I'm taking nighttime pictures." He wants to know what of. I tell him I'm taking pics of the sky and the lightening. He shakes his head and mutters something about "fukking dumbarse" then ignores me and walks to the back of my car. TRIES TO OPEN THE HATCH. I'm like wtf are you doing? You can't search my car, I haven't done anything wrong. He calls my plate in to dispatch and then starts lecturing me "you can't be out here in the middle of the night, it's not allowed". I'm like ok, if nobody's allowed to be on the bridge them why did the county just spend thousands of dollars building the sidewalk I'm standing on? He's like "you could get hit by a drunk driver" to which I reply that that should by my concern, not really his. He looks at me and says get the fukk out before I arrest you. Right then my camera died, so I told him the only reason I was leaving was that my camera had just died, and that he might want to go read the law about pedestrian access to public bridges lol. He followed me all the way home till I pulled in my driveway then turned around and left. Fun night!

What lens and camera setup did you use on this, Luna? Lots of nice detail there.

http://i1313.photobucket.com/albums/...pse7361401.jpg

My attempt was shot with a Canon 60D with the 18-200mm kit lens at 60mm zoom and f32. There's not nearly the detail as Luna's shot.

I'm looking for a quality macro lens. I saw a Tamron 60mm 1:1 f2 lens the other day that put the Canon 1:4 f2.8 to shame. And it cost 1/2 as much. I may have to do it. I love shooting pics of little things like bugs and flowers.

If you don't want to spend $$$$ on a macro lens, I'd head out and buy a set of extension tubes. About $50-$100 and worth every penny if you're still just experimenting.

Now here's a tree fungus I shot handheld with the same camera and lens at f5.6 ISO500 and 60mm. It's not as sharp as LunaZ's sunflower but still it's pretty sharp. Lots of detail. My sunflowers were shot handheld while sitting in the car looking out the window, I think. I had the tripod out that day but I don't think I used it on the sunflowers now that I think about it.

I think maybe the high f-stop on the sunflowers and the fact that they're backlighted took away some detail. Anybody else have an idea what's going on?

http://i1313.photobucket.com/albums/...psaf2d9504.jpg

I'm kinda new to photography, going beyond snapshots, if you know what I mean. I know an extension tube will give me a closer image but will it affect the sharpness? I'm seeing fuzziness in my closeups.

What shutter speed is the sunflower shot? Either a too long shutter speed or shooting out glass can cause sharpness issues..

Behind the scenes, goofing on Terry Richardson: Censored image, but might still be NSFW

Thanks! It looks pretty good at that size and resolution, but at full size you can see some focus and sharpness issues. I do not have a macro lens. I really need to add one to my kit for these kind of shots.

I'm using a Canon 5D MkII. This shot was with a 70-200 f/4L at 200mm, 1/800s, ISO 100, f/8.
I used Lightroom to make a few tweaks to the sharpness of the bee and tweaked the colour a little bit with a VSCO filter that mimics Fujifilm.

One of the problems with this shot is where your light is. Looking at the shadows, the sun is behind the sunflowers which is making it hard to expose the dark centers.
You could change your metering to spot and expose for the dark centers of the sunflowers, but that might blow everything else out.
You could add flash or use a reflector to add fill light the shadowed centers of the flowers.
It would probably be easiest to move and find a different sunflower that's facing the right way. ;)

well that's more than I can say for myself, since I have no idea what I'm trying to do lol. I just play with the settings until something I like comes out. I'm always down for constructive criticism though, that's the only way I'll ever learn anything, so keep it coming :tup:

Your paint looks like space! How fitting. ;)

Ha!!!

It's the Enterprise!!!

Huck, you and I are alike. When I take night shots, I just sit there and change ISO settings, etc til i find the right shot that I like thru the on camera screen.

It's such a newb move, but I have to learn somehow!

I usually stay in manual mode on 100ISO, and play with the exposure times, usually 20-25 seconds. I was actually referring to the settings in lightroom hahaha, but I do that with the camera too sometimes. I need to learn more about metering and stuff like that now.

A few shots from the Battle Lake, MN Airshow:

http://sphotos-a-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hp...11027329_n.jpg

saw these on facebook, very nice!

:tup:

Are we FB friends? I lose track of real names and forum names.

Nice shots all of them! What kind of lens you got?

Thanks. I shot the aerial ones with a Canon 70-200 2.8 L and the ground shots with a Canon 16-35 2.8 L.

i could look at these all day... i love old airplanes!

Left San Antonio en rout to Vegas
 

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In two or three days, I'll be in Vegas with the "Z" ... no better place for either.