*OFFICIAL* Snapshot of the Day (one image per post please) #1

[Weebl]

Originally Posted by The1

.... almost always trying to get lower because of my height, i've had people complain about my perspective from being so high up

so usually i'll have a super wide stance and a slight slouch, or i'll really be slouching a lot to get a shot that looks like someone of average height took it.

I'm just going to have to start leaving the IS on all the time, or drop to one knee.

Screw them.
One thing about some really good photos is that they are not "average". Unusual perspective or angles. I'll try to fall into a canyon to get somewhere that every passerby cannot just pull out their cell phone and snap a shot.
Everyone takes pictures of their car standing up and you can tell. The ads will show either lower at bumper level or from above ( you have an advantage here, I don't)
For those turtles, if anything I would get as close as I can to the level of the water and try and shoot parallel to it. I am always trying to hunch over if I happen to be trying to take a picture of a person, getting the camera at chest level.
Especially women

[The1]

Originally Posted by Weebl

Screw them.
One thing about some really good photos is that they are not "average". Unusual perspective or angles. I'll try to fall into a canyon to get somewhere that every passerby cannot just pull out their cell phone and snap a shot.
Everyone takes pictures of their car standing up and you can tell. The ads will show either lower at bumper level or from above ( you have an advantage here, I don't)
For those turtles, if anything I would get as close as I can to the level of the water and try and shoot parallel to it. I am always trying to hunch over if I happen to be trying to take a picture of a person, getting the camera at chest level.
Especially women

sadly, i couldn't get much closer to the turtles without getting a soaker, I was already on wet ground which is why i didn't lay down to get the shot, otherwise i would have been more then happy to.

Chest level is a great level to shoot from

depending on the situation, being tall does help. For example, having the wide angle lens on, i can just hold the camera up to the ceiling and take a shot downwards, and get a pretty neat perspective of a room.

[Weebl]

Originally Posted by The1

For example, having the wide angle lens on, i can just hold the camera up to the ceiling and take a shot downwards, and get a pretty neat perspective of a room.

I was going to add that to my pictures of cars comment. I'll just use my 8' ladder.
Hmmmm wheels start turning.

[MATT0404]

Old battery by mkrepp, on Flickr

[The1]

nicely aged...

[MATT0404]

Originally Posted by The1

nicely aged...

Haha, it was part of some contraption that I found along the trail. Here's another pic:


IMG_1 by mkrepp, on Flickr

It had some type of boom on the top and chain-driven cable spool on the back.

[The1]

that's pretty interesting, wonder what it's use was...

[Litos]

"...he has an owner..."

[The1]

hahaha, you would!

[Litos]

yeah, my boring shots, HAHA !!!!

Carlitos is my son's name - little Carlos

hence the SN

[Litos]

i really like what my wife did with this picture.

[The1]

very cute, the tutu frames the baby well

[The1]

sorry, probably a bit fuzzy, hard to do a macro shot while sitting in a kayak in a moving river

[MATT0404]

Originally Posted by The1

sorry, probably a bit fuzzy, hard to do a macro shot while sitting in a kayak in a moving river

A tripod can't even help you there! Good shot, nonetheless. I snapped a few shots of these earlier today, but haven't gotten around to seeing if they are keepable.

[The1]

i'm pretty happy how it turned out considering i was using a point and shoot as well

that is a slight crop however, i was drifting backwards away while shooting it and trying to keep my arm the same distance from it the whole time

I wonder if i could put Styrofoam on the bottom of a tripod and get a stabilizing effect on calm water with a remote trigger

I somehow doubt it, and don't think i'd trust enough to put a camera over the water to find out...

[The1]

7D
200mm
F4
100ISO
1/800th

thought these were kind of cool, took this picture a couple weeks back, only just got them off the 7D the other day along with the turtles picture a page ago

[dcstep]

Originally Posted by The1

7D
200mm
F4
100ISO
1/800th

thought these were kind of cool, took this picture a couple weeks back, only just got them off the 7D the other day along with the turtles picture a page ago

Nice. These shots of brown things always tempt me also.

[The1]

there seemed to be a warmth to the brown colour, i have a few other shots like it, but they are all single plants, i just liked how there was DoF and a full frame of plants in this one, and i think almost every plant has been cut off by an edge of the pictures somewhere

[dcstep]

Originally Posted by The1

there seemed to be a warmth to the brown colour, i have a few other shots like it, but they are all single plants, i just liked how there was DoF and a full frame of plants in this one, and i think almost every plant has been cut off by an edge of the pictures somewhere

Here's the last time I got the urge:


Cattails up close by dcstep, on Flickr

Shot with the 500mm at close range, giving a really compressed perspective.

[The1]

nice! passed a bunch of those today, they were left over from last year though and looked mumified. so i let them be

[gary88]

[BillLee]

I need more practice. :/