Share your Digital Photography shots here

Double Espresso · 28 Feb 2009, 02:36

wow its really nice to see diiferent parts of the world with your shots.. imagine Malta... thnaks david H. DE is that your HDRI try and using tone mapping? i bet you are using cool temperature right. ///

nomeradona,
There is actually a lot of blue in the shot. I created a quasi-HDR/Tone Map from a single JPEG converted to TIF 16bit and then played with it in PS. I have absolutely no idea what I am doing yet or if the conversion to TIF 16 bit made any difference. It turned out okay since I wanted a Painterly/Photo Realistic look.

I'm getting close to buying a new camera and leaning towards a Panasonic DMC FZ 28. What do you think?
http://www.steves-digicams.com/2008_reviews/panasonic_fz28.html

EDIT:
So, here is a version of the Havana rooftop pano as a pseudo HDR Tonemap. I took the image and created five exposures in PS then rendered it in Photomatix. There are still issues that are a result of the original photo being a JPEG and not having enough information to work with, however, this is pretty cool and once I get my new camera all will be good.

click for larger image

nomeradona · 2 Mar 2009, 02:09

very nice DE, you seem getting the hang of HDRI.. love it.. more please.

hebrides · 2 Mar 2009, 20:33

@unknownuser said:

I'm getting close to buying a new camera and leaning towards a Panasonic DMC FZ 28. What do you think?

Nice camera although for another 100 you can buy a real reflex...i.e. nikon d-40 or equiv. canon.
The panasonic doesn't have manual (mechanical) stops. Or at least there is no mention of it in the specs. As it is not a reflex camera I would assume that there are no stops. This would not be suitable for your HDRI work.

ps: great shot of the boat!

david_h · 2 Mar 2009, 21:55

A trip to Manhattan a few years ago. . .

Double Espresso · 2 Mar 2009, 23:54

Took a little trip down to the marina today.
Still needs a little tweaking in places like the sky.

Second version with sky.

Double Espresso · 2 Mar 2009, 23:57

@hebrides said:

@unknownuser said:

I'm getting close to buying a new camera and leaning towards a Panasonic DMC FZ 28. What do you think?

Nice camera although for another 100 you can buy a real reflex...i.e. nikon d-40 or equiv. canon.
The panasonic doesn't have manual (mechanical) stops. Or at least there is no mention of it in the specs. As it is not a reflex camera I would assume that there are no stops. This would not be suitable for your HDRI work.

ps: great shot of the boat!

Thanks.
As I get into this camera/HDRI thing more I can see that my original thoughts have been dashed.

EddyNL · 3 Mar 2009, 00:35

Hey guys,

I want to share some pictures of the city I love:
NEW YORK.

Going back in May 2009 (forth and final time... for now)

By eduardonl at 2009-03-02

Hope you like them.

Regards,
Ward

Double Espresso · 3 Mar 2009, 02:22

Great shots David and Eduardo.
Thanks for sharing...
David the first shot is amazing and your choice of a washed out tone is perfect.
Eduardo, clean and sharp...beautiful colour. Love the first one, the butterfly and the intersection.
DE

jeff hammond · 3 Mar 2009, 03:00

Double Espresso · 3 Mar 2009, 04:46

These are incredible Jeff.
Are they long lens shots or are you actually in the crowds using something like a cellphone camera?
Very Jim Jarmusch...

jeff hammond · 3 Mar 2009, 04:56

@double espresso said:

These are incredible Jeff.
Are they long lens shots or are you actually in the crowds using something like a cellphone camera?
Very Jim Jarmusch...

no long lens.. ultrawides..

12mm on a d2x which = ~18mm equiv. on a 35..

handheld flash in there as well.

nomeradona · 3 Mar 2009, 10:12

@double espresso said:

Took a little trip down to the marina today.
Still needs a little tweaking in places like the sky.
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Second version with sky.
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i love the boat DE.. indeed need to tweak some part of the sky... nevertheless. i love your subject.. it seems your main subject is CUba and mine is vietnam.. two countries bind togeher by the communist leaders until now.

nomeradona · 3 Mar 2009, 10:18

thanks Eduardo and David for those Mnahattan/new york shots.. i long to be there.. to take pictures of those grand buildings. but dont know now especially with this crisis.... nevertheless thanks again, atleast can still see some glimpse through your pics..

Jeff, i always love your street scenes..

Double Espresso · 3 Mar 2009, 16:39

@unknownuser said:

@double espresso said:

These are incredible Jeff.
Are they long lens shots or are you actually in the crowds using something like a cellphone camera?
Very Jim Jarmusch...

no long lens.. ultrawides..

12mm on a d2x which = ~18mm equiv. on a 35..

handheld flash in there as well.

Thanks Jeff... you have a great eye. I take it you just move through the crowd.

Double Espresso · 5 Mar 2009, 02:28

nomeradona · 7 Mar 2009, 16:37

always like your lighting DE

nomeradona · 7 Mar 2009, 16:43

Panning is a shooting technique were you put your shutterspeed to a a bit slow shutters speed and following your moving subject. The subject would be sharp while the background introduce some streaks of movement. In these shots, I used a simple mode called "burst mode" so I could take at least 3 quick shots while following my subject. With this the degree of success is high, because i have some three choices. I love to share my panning shots in this thread and hope you like them...

Vietnam has so many motorbikes on the road, and they are really the main mode of transport..

Here are some of my tries.