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

[M_Six]

Originally Posted by gary88

Nice shot, Gary. Love the parallels. What lens was that?

[rodi]

Originally Posted by BillLee

C&C please.

i know it's called "portrait orientation," but try shooting it in "landscape" to keep from allowing too much head room. you've centered the girl's face and it just looks like there's so much going on above her head that doesn't lend itself to the image. and try not to cut off fingers if you're already showing that much of the hands. mind your edges.

[M_Six]

Originally Posted by rodi

i know it's called "portrait orientation," but try shooting it in "landscape" to keep from allowing too much head room. you've centered the girl's face and it just looks like there's so much going on above her head that doesn't lend itself to the image. and try not to cut off fingers if you're already showing that much of the hands. mind your edges.

Good advice and an easy and common slip-up for any photographer. When I got my first SLR in Korea waaaaaaay back in '77, I took a shot of my Squadron CO with the Division Commander (a two-star general). The shot was almost perfect with both of them smiling and spot-on exposure. But I did what came natural and centered their faces in a portrait mode shot, so they had a lot of nothing above their heads and were cut off at the knees. To this day when I turn my camera sideways, I think of that shot and remember to adjust the centering.

[MATT0404]

Here's a shot from today. I've really been enjoying the beautiful weather we've been having.


Summer Evening by mkrepp, on Flickr

[rodi]

Originally Posted by MATT0404

Here's a shot from today. I've really been enjoying the beautiful weather we've been having.


Summer Evening by mkrepp, on Flickr

nice!

[gary88]

Originally Posted by M_Six

Nice shot, Gary. Love the parallels. What lens was that?

Thanks, Canon 50mm f/1.4

[The1]

Originally Posted by M_Six

Wow, that's a lotta booze. Where was that?

haha, that was just the the chanpagne that was fermenting. there were barrel rooms and big vats of the stuff in other rooms too, all in different stages.

It was a wine tour some friends and myself did in some spare time before one of them had to catch a flight.

Very enjoyable and informative.

It was just outside of Niagra Falls on the Ontario side. I finally tasted an icewine. Very interesting stuff, but i think a little too sweet for me.

[BillLee]

Originally Posted by rodi

i know it's called "portrait orientation," but try shooting it in "landscape" to keep from allowing too much head room. you've centered the girl's face and it just looks like there's so much going on above her head that doesn't lend itself to the image. and try not to cut off fingers if you're already showing that much of the hands. mind your edges.

thanks! all these simple things always slip my mind when I'm out shooting portraits. Guess i should shoot more to get it stuck in my head!

[BillLee]

Originally Posted by rodi

Not bad for HDR. i think because it's so close to monotone.

One hell of a beard, wish i could grow something like that.

[The1]

Niagara Falls by Reed Jackson, on Flickr

[rodi]

Originally Posted by BillLee

One hell of a beard, wish i could grow something like that.

thanks! think i've shaved it once in the past 6 years. then grew it right back.

[cooh23]

Mayon Volcano|Albay, Philippines
"World's Most Perfect Cone Volcano"

[Chewy734]

beautiful shots Matt & cooh.

[The1]

it is pretty stunning, except the telephone wires

I really like it

[M_Six]

Originally Posted by The1

haha, that was just the the chanpagne that was fermenting. there were barrel rooms and big vats of the stuff in other rooms too, all in different stages.

It was a wine tour some friends and myself did in some spare time before one of them had to catch a flight.

Very enjoyable and informative.

It was just outside of Niagra Falls on the Ontario side. I finally tasted an icewine. Very interesting stuff, but i think a little too sweet for me.

Ah, we stopped at one of those. Inniskillin vineyard. We didn't take a tour, but we bought some ice wine. Ice wine is good stuff, but definitely a dessert wine that you have once in a blue moon.

[ShopVac]

Originally Posted by MATT0404

Here's a shot from today. I've really been enjoying the beautiful weather we've been having.


Summer Evening by mkrepp, on Flickr

Taken just outside Meadville? I like the picture...

[MATT0404]

Thanks, guys.

Originally Posted by ShopVac

Taken just outside Meadville? I like the picture...

I took this outside of Cranberry (Franklin/Oil City area, not Cranberry Twp.). I just noticed you were from Pittsburgh.

[ShopVac]

Originally Posted by MATT0404

I took this outside of Cranberry (Franklin/Oil City area, not Cranberry Twp.). I just noticed you were from Pittsburgh.

I work in Cranberry... Weather has been nice to say the least.

[ShopVac]

Originally Posted by The1

Niagara Falls by Reed Jackson, on Flickr

I'm thinking one of three things...helicopter ride, that restaurant at the top of that mini tower...or top of the ferris wheel. My bet's on the last one. Awesome shot of a scenic view

[The1]

nope, the tower with the revolving restaurant. Good job though we went to the observation deck. It's nice to be in an observation area where they actually make the screen wide enough for a camera lens to fit though.

Thank for the compliment, wish it were a little lower crop however, but there was a really ugly building that i didn't want in the picture, so i sacrificed for more land above the falls then below.

[cooh23]

Originally Posted by Chewy734

beautiful shots Matt & cooh.

Thank you!

Originally Posted by The1

it is pretty stunning, except the telephone wires

I really like it

Haha, yeah it kinda ruins it. Those are actually ziplines. I would have taken it from a different angle without the lines but the clouds around the volcano are so fast that the cone disappears in a few seconds.

[The1]

Originally Posted by cooh23

Haha, yeah it kinda ruins it. Those are actually ziplines. I would have taken it from a different angle without the lines but the clouds around the volcano are so fast that the cone disappears in a few seconds.

did you at least go on the zip lines? i've always wanted to do that!