PF Photography: Tips, Tricks, & Photo Sharing

[danago]

I never noticed this thread previously! I have only just recently gotten into photography. I use just a Sony Nex 6, so nothing too fancy, but for a first camera it is quite nice :) Here is one of my latest shots from Pisa:

http://i42.tinypic.com/1znool5.jpg

 

[lisab]

I didn't take this pic, but it's really interesting and I'd like to talk about what's going on here:

http://boingboing.net/filesroot/299792458mps.jpg

So the kid is blinking. The shutter is going left-right or right-left (depending on if the kid is opening or closing his eyes), "scanning" the field. The reflection part of the photo is taken a slit-second after (or before) the kid part of the photo. Is this correct?

Is there a way to know if the kid is opening or closing his eyes? (Besides knowing how the camera works.)

Do high-end cameras have this "feature", or do they compensate for it somehow?

Has anyone else seen or taken a photo showing this effect?

Edit: my husband just came home, he knows quite a lot about photography (majored in it in college). He immediately called BS. He thinks the photographer took a quick series of shots and photoshopped two of them together.

Thoughts?

 

[Enigman]

May be a rolling shutter:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_shutter
(based on a google search of the image)
But I think photoshop based on rainbowing of the ELA in fotoforensics:
http://fotoforensics.com/analysis.php?id=5b23eca8d3c270bd7b1d279a4705254b8471a51f.283427

 

[Andy Resnick]

I didn't take this pic, but it's really interesting and I'd like to talk about what's going on here:

http://boingboing.net/filesroot/299792458mps.jpg

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Interesting... my vote is a (horizontal) rolling shutter- that is, the exposure was scanned horizontally across the frame. Although, as is evident on boingboing, people have a lot of spare time...

 

[drizzle]

Some pictures from my recent hike.

http://imageshack.com/a/img43/8843/stfq.jpg

http://imageshack.com/a/img593/8709/bqs4.jpg

http://imageshack.com/a/img839/9327/78yh.jpg

 

[Borek]

I like the first one most

 

[drizzle]

I'll try to get pics from higher altitudes next time.

And yes I like it too, somehow observing your surroundings from that angle helps in minimizing life's challenges. :)

 

[sourlemon]

Wow, it's beautiful Gad! They make me feel relax and at peace. Was it difficult to breath?

 

[drizzle]

http://imageshack.com/a/img18/7084/rg52.jpg

http://imageshack.com/a/img27/3585/c0bi.jpg

 

[Enigman]

http://imageshack.com/a/img18/7084/rg52.jpg

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[Borek]

 

[drizzle]

Beautiful Borek. Thanks for sharing. :)

 

[Andy Resnick]

Some pictures from my recent hike. <snip>

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Y'alls live where it's pretty. jealous = me.

 

[Borek]

400 km from here, so hardly "where I live"

 

[Andy Resnick]

Fireworks in the sky tonight:

And a detail (200%, no interpolation) showing the individual 'bolts' that occur as the spark propagates back and forth:

Details: 85/7.1, ISO 100, 'bulb' shutter setting.

 

[drizzle]

Wow! That is beautiful Andy, good capture. Thanks for sharing. :)

 

[Borek]

Nice ones.

Somehow the last few years we had no photogenic thunderstorm close by (or I was away, or it was during a day, or it was raining too heavily, or whatever).

 

[Andy Resnick]

Rainbow today:

I can't tell for sure, but some of the images (like this one) seem to show the supernumeraries (http://www.atoptics.co.uk/rainbows/supers.htm)

 

[dlgoff]

Dang. I didn't realize how many "flavors" of Rainbows there are.

 

[Beelzebub]

I posted this in the wrong forum a min ago:

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Compliments of @chroot in Iceland!

 

[davenn]

beautiful aurora pic

 

[davenn]

Thanks @Greg Bernhardt for giving this thread a new lease of life yesterday, it had disappeared into obscurity

a couple of scenic pic's ...
first is the Church of the Good Shepherd, Lake Tekapo, South Island, NZ (taken Jan 2007)

This second one, a portion of the south coast of Australia ~ 200 km west of Melbourne city (taken Dec 2015)

cheers
Dave

 

[davenn]

Event photography is another style I am very involved in
a couple of examples ...

cheers
Dave

 

[Borek]

 

[davenn]

@Borek

brilliant !

 

[Borek]

@davenn - thanks!

There is an "airstrip" (actually just a piece of land) used by RC folk half mile from here. I was there flying my model, but I took my camera with me as well. Once I landed I started to take pictures, and there was a guy with a glider with LEDs mounted in the wings, so I asked him if he can make an approach from the Sun. He said "yes" and now we are both happy

 

[Mariana S Ferreira]

Hello!
I'm new here and I'm a big fan of photography. Here is my cat:

 

[davenn]

A special moment in time I captured whilst in Uganda

cheers
Dave

 

[Ssnow]

Good morning,
a Star trail in Italy

Ssnow