Skywalker Posted October 11, 2004 Share Posted October 11, 2004 How did you name it? "The genesis"? "The Birth"? Nice pic, congrats for your win! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Beverley Posted October 11, 2004 Share Posted October 11, 2004 SiG Lady Nice! This is building into a really good collection. More please, folks, they're all good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJPoLo Posted October 11, 2004 Share Posted October 11, 2004 Somewhere in Nebraska, 17 August 2003. -Chet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 I entitled it "Volcano Sunset" at the time. I took about four frames in about five minutes. This one just seemed like the most intense of the set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shred Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 One of my favorites. Bonaire in the Netherlands Antillies, mid 90's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shred Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 Another Bonaire sunset a few a hundred yards south and west of the previous shot (yes, I know the horizon isn't straight. Both me and it were washing up and down at the time) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Beverley Posted October 28, 2004 Share Posted October 28, 2004 What will you do with the chance you are getting? What will you feel when the sun is setting? Will you be satisfied with the way that you have spent this God-sent day? Patience Strong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skywalker Posted October 28, 2004 Share Posted October 28, 2004 I always try not to go sleeping without having manually done something like building or repairing things. Be it repairing one of my son's toys, or tweaking my gear, or building something useful for the house... ...for some reasons, I feel most gratified if I'm able to do something like that each day: I definitely sleep better because I feel I haven't wasted my day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcoliver Posted October 29, 2004 Share Posted October 29, 2004 (yes, I know the horizon isn't straight. Both me and it were washing up and down at the time) But...but...at this lighting condition my cam defaults to very slow shutter speeds. How do you still get it to be this detailed? Fast shutter, higher ISO and meter on the brightest spot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Beverley Posted October 29, 2004 Share Posted October 29, 2004 (yes, I know the horizon isn't straight. Both me and it were washing up and down at the time) But...but...at this lighting condition my cam defaults to very slow shutter speeds. How do you still get it to be this detailed? Fast shutter, higher ISO and meter on the brightest spot? In my case I'm an enthusiastic amateur so the really good guys will tell you the proper "tricks". I set my camera to manual. Then because you taking a landscape picture the setting you need to worry about least is the aperture because everything in the distance will be in focus anyway so set up the camera to give yourself a reasonable shutter speed. Blur in pictures like this is often camera movement rather than focus. Note that in shred's photograph the water close up is blurred but despite the effect of movement on shred and the camera the distance is sharp. With these considerations in mind find the true readings for the light conditions then overide them by opening the aperture 1 f-stop to "burn" the image. I've usually found that this works towards making a good picture. However, in the end, one of the best pieces of advice I was ever given was to take lots of pictures of the same thing if it's important enough. Experiment with the settings as you go. I only show the one good shot and not the 10 disasters! I once took around 20 frames of a rock trying to capture a wave crashing over it because I couldn't predict the exact moment or wave effect. I got a couple of OK shots and one that I was really pleased with. I was in Sri Lanka on holiday and the cost of the film I used was a lot less than a return trip to try the shot again because I hadn't got it. Another good sentiment from someone I Know: "I've never regretted any picture I have taken, but I have regretted some pictures I haven't taken." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcoliver Posted October 29, 2004 Share Posted October 29, 2004 Ok, I'll try that. Thanks Neil. "I've never regretted any picture I have taken, but I have regretted some pictures I haven't taken." So true. And it's just very recently that I realized how fast the sun actually sets and rises... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shred Posted October 29, 2004 Share Posted October 29, 2004 That shot was taken with an underwater camera (Sea&Sea MMIIex) as we were going on a night dive (sunset dives are great because big changes are going on underwater as the day-fish shift switches to the night-fish shift). Like most underwater cameras, it's manual. As in manual focus, manual exposure, manual aperture, but with priority modes and a light meter. I don't remember the details, but I probably set it to the smallest F-stop I could and still have a reasonable shutter speed, and cranked the focus to infinity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Beverley Posted October 29, 2004 Share Posted October 29, 2004 Shred Whatever the details it's a great picture although the odd shaped rock in the foreground took a while to sink in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Beverley Posted October 29, 2004 Share Posted October 29, 2004 Another from Sri Lanka. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
infinity Posted November 1, 2004 Share Posted November 1, 2004 this is from Manila Bay, Manila, Philippines Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shred Posted November 1, 2004 Share Posted November 1, 2004 ShredWhatever the details it's a great picture although the odd shaped rock in the foreground took a while to sink in. Think I should have fill-flashed them? I just re-read some of this and your "take lots of shots" advice is spot-on. I feel like I'm doing well to get 1 or 2 good shots per roll of film when I'm underwater. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merlin Orr Posted December 24, 2004 Share Posted December 24, 2004 Key West Florida last month Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jayson@IGF Posted December 25, 2004 Share Posted December 25, 2004 nice pics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AikiDale Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 Time to bring this thread back: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Nesbitt Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 Off the front porch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjbine Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 Thanks for the pics. They are sweet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Nesbitt Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 The one with the house is actually a sunrise. The other one I got on the way home from work. I love my little digital camera. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EZ Bagger Posted August 9, 2008 Share Posted August 9, 2008 One glorious evening. Almost hurts to post a picture with less than 1% of the image data, but you get the picture.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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