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

[The1]

I for some reason like how this turned out.

shot at ISO 50
Shutter : 30sec
aperture: F14
Lens: 100mm F2.8 macro

[Litos]

Originally Posted by The1

is your house full of gadgets and toys?

looks like a fun place to hang out.

the living room looks like a freakin Toys R Us exploded in it.

wife has to do some serious cleaning when people come over, but for the most part, the living room has toys, gadgets, LED flashlights, Toy Story 3 shit scattered about and a whole freakin kitchen set......

uuuughgh.

[dcstep]

Originally Posted by The1

I for some reason like how this turned out.

shot at ISO 50
Shutter : 30sec
aperture: F14
Lens: 100mm F2.8 macro

Good DOF. That leaf coming in from the top really annoys me. I like the composition otherwise. I'd tend not to cut off the pistol, but it works here for some reason and I like your composition choice, but I would have pulled that one leaf out of the way.

Your focal point is a little ambiguous, but I think that you may have intended that. It seems to be somewhere in the middle of the flower, best I can tell in this small size. Great colors and detail in the in-focus areas.

[The1]

Originally Posted by dcstep

Good DOF. That leaf coming in from the top really annoys me. I like the composition otherwise. I'd tend not to cut off the pistol, but it works here for some reason and I like your composition choice, but I would have pulled that one leaf out of the way.

Your focal point is a little ambiguous, but I think that you may have intended that. It seems to be somewhere in the middle of the flower, best I can tell in this small size. Great colors and detail in the in-focus areas.

thanks! actually the focal point was the stamen. it was focused on 2 individuals. I was having fun playing with the plant. Sadly it didn't winter too well, so i'm trying to nurse it back to health.

I'll see if there's another one of it so you can really see where my focal point was. If i do find one, it was not intended to be a good shot, just me playing.

And yes, i hate that leaf to, but i felt it added something to the photo somehow, never decided what it added though. I was mostly just playing with DoF just to see how in or out of focus i could make the leaf and the flower.

[The1]

same shot, different DoF

aperture: F2.8
zoom: 100mm
shutter speed: 1.3 seconds
exposure bias: +0.3
ISO: 50

reason for shot? i wanted to see the little purple spots on the stamen at 100% crop as well as see how narrow i could make the DoF

[adrean8j]

Reading about your DOF "study" makes me feel better as yesterday I was trying to get my head around how DOF relates to F-stop as relates to the distance from your subject or focal point. I think my problem is that I WANT to know instinctively what settings to enter instead of taking a bunch of shots and getting a good one on "accident". That irritates the technician in me...LOL...anyway here is a shot I took a few weeks ago:

Probably should have shot closer to 180-200mm because the IQ drops a bit at 300mm. What do you guys think?

Tamron 70-300mm
300m
f/5.6
1/600
ISO400


Lady in Red by Adrean8j, on Flickr

[The1]

good looking shot.

it's not an easy mix to get.

as you saw with mine, I had to use a tripod. mostly because i was so close to the subject with the macro lens witch limited the amount of light i was able to get in. Didn't really help that i was shooting at ISO 50 either...

[adrean8j]

^^^Yeah I was wondering at the 25sec. shutter speed and then I noticed the ISO...daaamn son! LOL.....in my shot I was in the middle of a motorpool yard with shipping containers all around and this one little bush in the middle...I think the people around would have been looking at me like WTF is his problem if I had a tripod out there? (even more so than they already were...LOL)

[Litos]

here's my DOF junk.

[gary88]

[dcstep]

Originally Posted by Litos

here's my DOF junk.

Nice bokeh, shallow DOF.

[fluidkaos]

Here's one for you.


Model: NIKON D90
Lens: 80-400 1:4.5-5.6
ISO: 400
Exposure: 1/4000 sec
Aperture: f/5.3
Focal Length: 210mm

[adrean8j]

All this bokeh is gonna make me jizz in my pants...

[dcstep]

Originally Posted by adrean8j

All this bokeh is gonna make me jizz in my pants...

You've been away from home too long...

[adrean8j]

Originally Posted by dcstep

You've been away from home too long...

LOL...I will take care of that next week when I get to Deutschland

[bosstones]

Originally Posted by The1

pretty sad.... just shows you the quality they put into the first cameras back in the day.

it's a powershot style of camera he got in maybe 2000 or 2001 somewhere around there, about 700$ (which was a fortune compared to today...)

This fall he bought a 12megapixel point and shoot to replace it. took make 50 shots with it and handed it to his wife and picked his old camera back up again just because he liked the shots better.

I don't blame him. sadly there isn't much control on it, there is an Automatic mode, a Program mode, and some simple video capture. But the manual mode is only ISO adjustment (minimal at best) and a slight bit of + or - EV

very simple. but effective i guess.

I was thinking about picking him up a used 6megapixel Nikon DSLR i saw a few weeks back, but i'm not sure he'd appreciate it.

Hell yeah. My old 2001-ish A80 @ ISO800 takes pictures better than my 2006-ish S3 IS does @ ISO400. The latter camera sucks in the low light/dark. If it wasn't for the optical zoom, I'd chuck it.

[Chewy734]

beautiful flowers.

[remmib]

Originally Posted by adrean8j

All this bokeh is gonna make me jizz in my pants...

More sweet bokeh.

[scollins]

Not sure I did the "100% crop" right, but here is a crop of a picture I snapped quickly while walking around the San Diego Zoo. Just happened to look down, saw the cool flowers and tripped the shutter before running to catch up with the family. Not sure what kind they are, but I like them....

Nikon D3 + 70-200 at 116mm
f5.6 @ 1/250 sec (ISO 200)


SD Flower 100% crop by scollins1868, on Flickr

[scollins]

Original full frame where the crop came from:


SD Flowers full frame by scollins1868, on Flickr

[adrean8j]

Scott that is a sick shot...no wonder you stopped to take that photo...Looks like something out of "Avatar". On a side note I have been wondering for a while now what 100% crop meant so I finally looked it up today: Basically just means cropping a section of the original image without resizing the original image. I learn something new everday. My photographic lesson of the day!

[adrean8j]

Originally Posted by remmib

More sweet bokeh.

Don't know why I love bokeh so much...I think it is such a cool aspect of a photograph. From drawing your attention to the subject to the way it appears in your photo as geometric circles....