PF Photography: Tips, Tricks, & Photo Sharing

[Borek]

When I was a kid we had a drawer with sewing utensils. After sewing we never threw away thread that was left, it was always left attached to the needle and pinned into the spool (you know, it may save you some time next time). After many years all these threads created a large ball.

It looked similar.

 

[Andre]

The pic is a close up shot from that right framed work over the little hamlet that I showed in the other thread. But for that pic I removed it and got the idea to shoot some close ups from it. Yes it's produced locally.

The blouse idea is worth thinking about.

 

[Andre]

Anyway, there was another photo contest with the title "deadline", in whatever way you wanted to interpret that. Obviously there were several cemetaries with rows of graves but I entered this:

An old abondoned mine line somewhere in the pyrenees not too far from Andorra and Montcru.

 

[Andre]

Todays loot, gutter stalactites

The full shot uncropped on 15% size

The EXIF (may be interesting for Dembadon)

File Name IMG_5807.CR2
Camera Model Canon EOS 550D
Firmware Firmware Version 1.0.9
Shooting Date/Time 24-12-2010 15:10:09
Author Andre
Copyright Notice Andre 2010
Shooting Mode Aperture-Priority AE
Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/80
Av( Aperture Value ) 8.0
Metering Mode Evaluative Metering
Exposure Compensation 0
ISO Speed 200
Auto ISO Speed OFF
Lens EF70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
Focal Length 210.0mm
Image Size 5184x3456
Image Quality RAW
Flash Off
FE lock OFF
White Balance Mode Auto
AF Mode One-Shot AF
AF area select mode Manual selection
File Size 23121KB
...

 

[Dembadon]

Todays loot, gutter stalactites

The full shot uncropped on 15% size

The EXIF (may be interesting for Dembadon)

Nice gear!

Thanks for showing the EXIF data. I've been taking more pictures in aperture priority mode lately. In fact, I'll probably use Av mode more often than not from now on.

 

[dimensional]

I've got some pics I took from my 2009 spring break trip out west.

Here's a sunset in the Arizona desert. Looks like a painted sky.

[PLAIN]http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v2577/85/13/635517292/n635517292_1608773_6209723.jpg

Here's the Valley of Fire in Nevada.

[PLAIN]http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v2577/85/13/635517292/n635517292_1608781_1988483.jpg

 

[Andre]

Looks nice Dimensional.

So today I walked to the city to make piX of a silly sculpture for the photonbcontest "Is this really art". I shot this thing:

... known as aardappelmannetje (potato man).

But I past along this... gutter

Actually I waited about 20 minutes to get a little bit of sun shining on it like on the pic, and these are some of the results:

 

[Borek]

It can be still visible here:

 

[Andre]

You're lucky, dense clouds here.

 

[Borek]

Slightly to the right, and a little bit up:

And yes, that was sheer luck - clouds are dense here as well, it was a short moment when they were not as thick.

Edit: I forgot to add it was more luck than just the weather. I knew there will be an eclipse today, but for some reason I was sure it will be not visible in Poland. If not for the Junior's call ("Hey, look up!") I would miss the event completely.

 

[Andre]

So instead I made a first 7D entry in a challenge here.

 

[Andy Resnick]

So instead I made a first 7D entry in a challenge here.

That's a nice one- I really like it. Good luck!

 

[Andre]

Thanks Andy, oh the zippers came in 7th of 43.

 

[Borek]

Quoting from another thread:

Got the heck of a deal too, with the 7D this morning.

I have a question about 7D (and to some extent 550D). What is a size (in MB or GB) of a 1 minute HD movie shot with the camera?

 

[Andre]

That's huge indeed. Get a shot of 14 sec doing 76Mb and one of 19 sec being 108Mb. The format is MOV The files are so huge that normal PC software is unable to give a smooth replay. Still searching for the right software for that. Of course you can convert to WMV or anything. Replay from camera to TV directly is no problem.

But have a few 8 or 16 GB cards for a lot of filming. Also notice that the card used in the 7D is compact flash, not SD format

 

[Borek]

Size of the file is not a matter of format, but of the codec used. But it doesn't matter much, I already know what I wanted. Thanks.

 

[Andy Resnick]

Thanks Andy, oh the zippers came in 7th of 43.

Congrats- that was some stiff competition.

 

[Andre]

Congrats- that was some stiff competition.

Thanks Andy

Anyway I wondered indeed about that "competition" in that challenge.

You can see the voting distribution for instance here (below right of the pic), and I wondered about sock puppet votes (you can't vote for your own entries). So I did some duplication of the voting in the spreadsheet that I uploaded here.

I see that my averages are different form that of the site itself, except for #1. So I wonder where the bug is. But I also see several votes aprroximately outside the two sigma range (highlighted yellow) and even three sigma range (highlighted red). I have shared my concern with the staff of the site, but no reaction so far. Obviously obnoxious vote behavior can be tracked and identified easily this way.

 

[Borek]

I guess this picture will not qualify for the contest, even if editing was minimal:

 

[Andre]

Actually my voteless entry in that contest ended up as #6 of 119 here.

Anyway, we happened to have a good vase of roses this week. Nice to practice.

The uncropped image at 15%

From the EXIF:

Type: Canon EOS 7D
Aperture: F/11
Shutter:4 sec
ISO-100
F: 100mm
No flash

 

[Andre]

Anybody recognizes this?

 

[Borek]

DVD?

forum software doesn't allow short and correct answer.

 

[Andre]

Right, Borek, CD actaully but No doubt you all saw it, it's a life size crop of this picture:

You can have a lot of fun with CD's.

Actually notice the difference in focus between these two :

Anybody care to explain?

 

[drizzle]

CDs! I knew it!

Btw Andre, love the color of that rose, just like like watermelon's color, what's it called?

 

[Andre]

CDs! I knew it!

Btw Andre, love the color of that rose, just like like watermelon's color, what's it called?

The rose was bought in one of the abundant flowershops here and unfortunately they don't tag the name on it and I don't know the name of that variety.

 

[drizzle]

Beautiful, I set it as my desktop's background.

 

[Andy Resnick]

Actually notice the difference in focus between these two :

<snip>

Anybody care to explain?

Nice photos, Andre! (The rose, too- really well done!)

I'm guessing one photo was off the top (plastic) surface while the other was of the metallized layer?

 

[Andre]

Beautiful, I set it as my desktop's background.

You're welcome. I just uploaded the original to my gallery -link below- If you visit that or follow this link, you can download it in several sizes for better quality and detail.

 

[drizzle]

Oh, I see my name there, thanks.

 

[Andre]

Nice photos, Andre! (The rose, too- really well done!)

I'm guessing one photo was off the top (plastic) surface while the other was of the metallized layer?

Thanks Andy, not sure, the differnce in focus seemed to be more. I'll try again and notice the distance.