Canon Thursday Photo 2011: #34

<p>James D - fire<br>

Belinda, very nice portrait<br>

My shot this week was taken yesterday in Chester Co., PA. It's horse country and I captured these two guys running around just as the sun was coming up. The tiny horse to the right is actually a weather vane that sits atop the stable at the bottom of the hill. I didn't notice it until I saw it on my computer. Should I PS it out?</p>

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<p>Brad, yours is my favourite image so far: a congregation of robots in the countryside!<br>

Surreal and well-spotted!</p>

<p>A friend of mine captured on a quick coffee break. Used a Canon 60D, 24-70/2.8L at 2.8. ISO2000ish. A little PP to remove some skin imperfections.</p>

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<p>This Tuesday, we were out prowling the back roads around our town and found this abandoned, 150-year old house. While I was shooting, an older lady (but younger than me) from across the road came out and told me some of the history of the place, and how her grandmother had been born there and died there at age 93. It fell into disrepair afterwards. The lady sighed and said, "It used to be beautiful." I told her that the beauty was still in there. I think she was happy with that.</p>

<p>Sometimes, it's about more than just getting the shot...</p><div></div>

<p>Great shots again this week. Once again, I shot mostly Great Blue Herons, but I did manage to get a couple of Great Egrets, two Sandhill Cranes (which are pretty unusual here in Central Ohio) and a Bald Eagle, none of which were from a close enough position to get anything other than documentation that I had seen them. However, this guy stayed in one place long enough for me to get my 100mm f2.8 macro on my 50D, set up the Gitzo Explorer, and snap off a few shots. This one is at ISO 400, f4.5, 1/800 second. I always have this debate with myself when shooting macro between shallow depth of field, with the subject not always being entirely in focus, and stopping down and getting some distracting elements in the background. I usually prefer opening the lens up and hoping that I select a good compromise for my point of focus, as I tried here.</p><div></div>

Been so long since I've been here. I've been busy cleaning up a couple of large trees that fell in my back yard from a

storm. This made it go alot faster.

 

<a href=" title="The Boss by DL Rohrer, on Flickr"><img

src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6074/6067956975_b834d56e93_z.jpg" width="640" height="426" alt="The Boss"></a>

<p>Festival in Boston's North End. 5D2 and a 24-70L with perspective correction in Photoshop.</p><div></div>

<p>Another image from my trip to Mendocino. I have not been out either, as school has started, and both teens are needy at this time. I really like the Red-headed Woodpecker Nathan. Brad's gas pump robots are too much! James Dean's fire image is way cool. Bruce you were way gifted by your walk; lovely stream capture. Robert, I think I would leave the weather vane horse, he seems to belong. Those are just some highlights, too many great images!<br>

-Dave</p><div></div>

<p>In my moms garden</p><div></div>

Thunderbirds two weeks ago. Extremely low contrast.<div></div>

<p><img src="http://cetan.org/images/20110813122807_img_1506-lightroom-flickr-sm.jpg" alt="" /><br>

Interior of a stargazer lily and its copious amounts of nectar. <br>

350D, 100mm f/2.8 @ f/10. </p>

<p>Great Pictures guys! I haven't shot much lately...this is a picture I took in Houston Museum of Natural Science last year with my 17-55. Hope you like it :)<br>

@Lupo- Your pictures are always delicious! I'm hungry already :)<br>

Cheers!<br>

-RM</p><div></div>

<p>sunrise tuesday morning</p><div></div>

<p>Toronto, August 24th, 2011</p>

<p><a href=" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6089/6078524300_0ff78a70b7_z.jpg" alt="Eerie Sky" width="640" height="427" /></a></p>

<p><strong>Eerie Sky</strong></p>

<p>The odd thing is, my camera was pointing east into the evening sky... not west, so where the orange is coming from is a mystery to me.<strong> </strong></p>

<p>Camera: Canon EOS 7D<br />Lens: Canon EF-S17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM<br />Exposure Program: Aperture-priority AE<br />Exposure: 0.125 sec (1/8)<br />Aperture: f/2.8<br />Focal Length: 17 mm<br />ISO Speed: 100<br />Exposure Bias: -1/3 EV<br />Flash: Off, Did not fire<br /><br />A polarizing filter was attached to the lens to help saturate the colors. Then in Photoshop I boosted the contrast a little, the saturation a little more and tweaked the curves some.</p>

<p>adding a smaller photo</p><div></div>

<p>Some of those dragonfly photos really ARE something else!<br /> The Thunderbirds shot just above by Dick is excellent. <br>

Lightening in Toronto -- must have taken a little prep for that one.<br>

<br /> Simple setup shot here: <em>EOS 7D, 24-70 at 62mm, ISO 400, 1/6th, f/6.3</em>... food for thought.</p><div></div>

<p>double-post. Ignore.</p>

<p>This is quickly becoming a forum for artists. Me like.</p>

<p>For this week I submit "I'm flying!". My Son, Jaeden, in the Paratrooper at Knoebels, Elysberg, Pa.</p>

<p>Shot with a Canon 7D, through an 1978 Soligor 35-140mm f3.5 zoom. Wide open this lens is a mess and renders nothing sharp. But that's where the fun begins. </p>

<p>Shot at f3.5, and 1/60s with follow to add motion, it took a few passes to nail it. You have to prefocus these manual lenses, then follow and predict when the subject crosses the target zone. Wide open leaves little room for error. Obviously f8, 1/400s and higher iso would have yielded a much sharper image. But that would have looked normal. Who want's that?</p>

<p>I added a Kodachrome like curve and slight grain in LR for effect.</p><div></div>

<p>Last Sunday was the first-ever joint gathering of Puget Sound area classic Corvette and classic Thunderbird collectors. The rivalry between makes is about as old as I am. And so were some of the jokes they kept trading.</p>

<p>They chose to ride around my hometown island. My shooting partner invited me to ride shotgun in his 'Vette--which terminated the line due to its being a 2009 model. The tour ended at our local lighthouse, atop which this photo was taken. A real fun day.</p>

<p><strong>'Vettes & 'Birds</strong></p>

<p><img src="http://www.smugmug.com/photos/i-nkkDJgG/0/L/i-nkkDJgG-L.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<p>7D, Tokina 50-135mm @ 53mm, f9.5 @ 1/250, ISO 200</p>

<p>ME</p>

<p>It's whale watching season in Santa Catarina, Brazil. I went this week and tried to get some pictures. I must say, it is harder to shoot from a boat in the swell than I imagined. It's also a little unnerving knowing you're in a 45 foot boat taking pictures of 50+ foot long whales. Anyway, here's a Southern Right Whale.</p><div></div>

<p>I took this last evening about an hour from where I live in the Rockies.</p>

<p>Canon 40D<br />Canon 70-200 f/4 L<br />Canon 1.4 teleconverter<br />1/160 second, f/5.6, ISO 400, 280mm</p>

<p>It's a little soft, which really irritates me.</p>

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<p>With the drought we have had and the extreme high heat I have had little to work with for garden pictures this year. I looked out and saw the sun on this one cosmos and rushed out to get a few shots.</p><div></div>

<p>Great shots this week. A few favorites:<br>

Brad, those gas pumps are wonderful. Love the colors and the sky, everything just works, and then the subject puts it over the top.<br>

JDM - I like your ferris wheel shot.<br>

Randal's race shot is cool - the polarizing filter makes it look like a computer rendered shot from a video game.<br>

John's air show shot - great colors, love the deep blue.<br>

Brian's swamp ball was a fun shot that took a bit to figure out - the spray really flattens it out, it looked like a photo of a dirty photo at first.<br>

Robert, definitely leave the tiny horse! Maybe crop a bit of that black area at the bottom.<br>

Pete's tilt-a-whirl shot (I guess the end of August is a good time for carnivals and air-shows!). The motion, lack of sharpness, and kodachrome effect all work. Timeless shot.</p>

 

<p>I did a Google images search on one of my more stolen images. This version seems to have gone viral.<br>

<a title="The Horror by Peter Meade, on Flickr" href=" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6068/6078584165_685edffb47_z.jpg" alt="The Horror" width="640" height="312" /></a></p>