Still has a beautiful dreamy abstract feel that would make a good print on someone's wall. Good capture.
Inspired by @dunkoid and many others on this great thread I have been playing around my camera, a secondhand Canon EOS 50D with for these a Canon EF-S 18-55mm ƒ3.5-5.6 IS II. Trying to master aperture priority and depth of field, I am not totally satisfied with the results, but it's fun. ISO 125, f5.6, 1/100 s ISO 100, f27, 1/4 s
Last batch from the 2013 visit to Bermuda Another from Horseshoe Bay posted back on page 1. By the way, the sand really is that pink color. One of the few places on earth that happens. I took this so I know the color isn't false. I didn't see or hear an explosion moments later so I can safely assume this was just the setting sun painting the vapor trail. It's hard to screw up a sailboat photo Blindly fumbling around with dusk shots. One of the few that didn't turn out horribly grainy. Don't know if that's Venus or Jupiter up there with the moon.
I'm glad this thread is continuing, there are a lot of terrific photographs that have been shared here, by all. Even those pictures that are not technically terrific show a lot of heart and insight. Bravo all around! And I have a few more to intersperse... Picture twenty three
Great picture, and great thoughts on the thread. I think that's what @dunkoid intended. Room for anyone, between photography, and simply "I too this pic of my cat". I love them all.
Those dandelions make for a tough capture especially in soft overcast light that challenge auto focus metering. And their delicate structure are extremely sensitive to even the slightest wind causing motion blur that's hard to see though a camera's viewfinder. And the tiny fronds are in a tightly spaced conical arrangement that go in and out of the field of focus that's also hard to see through the lens under such soft light. If possible shoot at ISO 800, adjust wide angle (while adjusting distance to get the deepest DOF with viewfinder) aperture at f/8, manual focus. Letting your camera automatically choose aperture in that soft low light provides the same metering challenges that make it hard for human eyes to see through the viewfinder as described above. Also under that kind of light always shoot manual everything. Take your time. The flower's not going anywhere. Hope that helps or makes it easier to capture a sharper in focus dandelion. Or just shoot with flash set to Auto everything/Program mode, but then it doesn't look natural.
Hardest flower to shoot sharp, the dandelion. I shot Raw and processed the image that looked so dark and fuzzy I was going to toss it. ISO 800, 1/80's, f16, 300mm lens on macro setting.
About 9 photos stitched together from the Charlotte Amalie overlook on St. Thomas. The city of Charlotte Amalie is below looking south into Long Bay with Hassel Island and Water Island right out there. Further out is little Saba Island. Way on the horizon and faintly on the far right is Vieques and Culebra, parts of Puerto Rico. On the horizon towards the left by the mountain is St. Croix.
Today's 2012 offerings... A palm tree in the Bahamas, the Apollo 13 LEM and a fishing boat somewhere on St. Martin. West coast French side of the island, just don't recall which Baie.
It looks like the links have become broken, unfortunately. I'm not seeing anything on my computer or on my mobile.