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

And yes I like it too, somehow observing your surroundings from that angle helps in minimizing life's challenges. :)
 
Wow, it's beautiful Gad! They make me feel relax and at peace. Was it difficult to breath?
 
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Gad said:
http://imageshack.com/a/img18/7084/rg52.jpg

:bugeye:​
 
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Beautiful Borek. Thanks for sharing. :)
 
Gad said:
Some pictures from my recent hike. <snip>

Borek said:
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Y'alls live where it's pretty. jealous = me.
 
400 km from here, so hardly "where I live" :smile:
 
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Fireworks in the sky tonight:

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

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Details: 85/7.1, ISO 100, 'bulb' shutter setting.
 
Wow! That is beautiful Andy, good capture. Thanks for sharing. :)
 
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).
 
I posted this in the wrong forum a min ago:

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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)

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

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

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

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A special moment in time I captured whilst in Uganda

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cheers
Dave
 
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Good morning,
a Star trail in Italy

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Ssnow
 
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