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There were a few skaters on the ice track at Glenmore Park on a cold afternoon. I tried a slower shutter speed and some camera motion to show motion.
1/50s, f22.0, ISO100
Edited in LR
35mm prime on full frame
2025-02-16
Nice example of ICM. I like the blurring as it takes the attention away from the distractions in the environment and focuses more on the moving subject while leaving just enough detail elsewhere
On the weekend I volunteered for the Folk Festival Blockheater Concerts. This picture of Jeremy Dutcher, was taken inside Central United Church, a very dark venue. This image was shot with high ISO.
1/80s, f2.8, ISO 6400
Edited in Lightroom (denoised in LR)
200mm with 70-200 lens on Full Frame
2025-02-15
I like how you framed the artist with just enough detail of the piano innards. Love the colour contrast between the blue jacket and the complimentary red-orange background. Great example of using high ISO without worry about grain, which can be fixed with denoise.
ON Monday Feb 17th, Diana and I had enough of being cooped up with the cold and ventured to Fish Creek Park to search for wildlife.
No owls of woodpeckers near Sikome Lake, but a Bankhead lots of activity in the misty waters of the Bow
Fuji XT-5. hand held 70-300mm lens, F5.6. ISO 250. SS@1/1000.
I like the mist and the geese silhouettes with just enough detail to identify them as Canada geese.
And a second image. The mist coming off the water give the scene a surreal effect.
went out on the first warmer afternoon to Winsport for the snow rodeo. The official run was very difficult to photograph but got a few photos at the training slope.
ISO 400 195mm f5.3 1/5000
I sky has been replaced
same afternoon ISO 400 f5.6 310mm 1/4000
Sky has been replaced by one of my own
I really like the colour contrast between the yellow board and the red jacket. Also the green reflection in the visor adds to the composition.
After our discussion on studio portrait lighting and rim lighting I thought I would try this on an old kodak camera I have. Taken with three floodlights dialed down to minimum and lighting the subject from the top and both sides I got this stark result. I post processed it in Photoshop to darken the background to pure black.
Lensing effect of glycerine drops on a clear translucent plastic sheet. Played around with different bowls to hold the skittles and different backgrounds. Finally decided to use a red sheet of bristol board as background. The clear plastic sheet was held up by four tall glasses and the skittles were arranged directly on the red bristol board. Post processed in Photoshop and de-noised with Topaz.
Chinook run-off in Confederation Park – taken with cell phone.
I was in Punta Mita on Mexico’s Pacific Coast earlier in February. The full moon was setting over the ocean at arount 6 am, just before sunrise. I tried some different settings to see what kind of lighting and colour effect I could capture.
The first photo was shot with Aperture Priority, spot metering, Auto WB.
f/5.6, ISO 100, shutter speed 1/125, 600mm
Moon colour is almost white.
Second photo shot with Aperture Priority, spot metering, WB – Daylight,
f/5.6, ISO 200, shutter speed 1/500, fl 600 mm
Third photo: Aperture Priority, spot metering, WB – Shade,
f/5.6, ISO 200, shutter speed 1/400, fl 600 mm
A couple of puma / cougar pictures from Torres del Paine Chile.
Petaka with her two cubs, one male and one female. Petaka is 6 years old and the cubs are about 1 1/2 years old.
Wow Sue! Love this shot. What an opportunity you had. The portrait is really nice too but I like the environmental aspect of this image.
Great shot – perfect framing.
LR Classic users………..have you tried out the new HDR? It is not the HDR merge that we are all familiar with, but it actually increases the dynamic range for processing images. I am finding it quite confusing but sometimes it works; sometimes it makes the images too dark. I am submitting two images here. One is of geese in flight; I used HDR to process (take note of the histogram and how it is split between SDR and HDR) and it worked just fine. The second image I had to process the normal way (example, using auto and then tweaking) instead of choosing HDR. I could not get this image bright enough using HDR.
Second image, related to previous submission.
I chose it specifically because it is about subtle variation but some darkness and highlight. I could not get this adjusted to be suitable bright without blowing out the right side of the big chunk of ice when I used HDR. The overall image had to be too dark to avoid clipping.
I tend to shoot by exposing to the right……maybe that method needs to change?
If anyone has tried this out, I would be interested in comments on the results.
Panorama Ridge from Taylor lk area
f/4, 1/400, iso80
Krizerstraat in The Hague. The street was decorated for Valentine’s Day and called Heart Steet. f4.5, @ 5 sec. iso 160. post processing in coral photo with painter program.
I remember this tree when it was essentially a young sapling just starting out in life…like me
A different view of one of the towns of Cinque Terre (Italy).
PSSSSS! Don’t tell. I cheated. I used LR AI to get rid of some ugly railing marring the view of the town 🙂
…and the fake photo
English robin in Streatham Common
ISO 1600, 40 mm, f/4.51/320
iPhone portrait mode of the same robin. He’s lost his legs and beak tip!