Photos

Post by **volvosneverdie** » 10 Dec 2008 10:32 am

Simply amazing.

Post by **jtbo** » 10 Dec 2008 12:52 pm

Chris_C wrote:Top M3 and the landscape HDR look awesome Cloud.

I wonder why so many of us are into photography, something to do with the type of mindset that likes slightly strange cars?

Us oddballs like to share our view of world so 'normal' people would see the light too ?

Post by **jtbo** » 11 Dec 2008 06:28 pm

Snow anyone?

Post by **Cloud** » 12 Dec 2008 12:03 am

jtbo wrote:
Chris_C wrote:Top M3 and the landscape HDR look awesome Cloud.

I wonder why so many of us are into photography, something to do with the type of mindset that likes slightly strange cars?
Us oddballs like to share our view of world so 'normal' people would see the light too ?

lol could be

Post by **Cloud** » 12 Dec 2008 12:05 am

love the snow shots JT that a sepia tone or was it the lighting?

Post by **jtbo** » 12 Dec 2008 06:40 pm

Cloud wrote:love the snow shots JT that a sepia tone or was it the lighting?

There was some of those annoying street lamps that casts such ugly shade of light, thus making photo all yellow.

This is rather large file, but tiny size does not show it well, so I add thumbnail of it here and link to pic so it won't block the pipes

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa3/jtbo/snow.jpg

It is blue because it was all blue at outside too, all that snow did come down on one day, very little came after that.

Post by MJ » 14 Dec 2008 01:25 am

Awesome HDR Cloud, make sure you enter some of the photo comps

Post by **jtbo** » 16 Dec 2008 04:13 am

Second one is quite bad, trough telescope non supported and with compact camera

Still can't quite make out if it is cheese or not

Oh, my telescope did cost 50 euros and it is quite crap quality, but moon looks quite ok when you look trough it with your eyes

Post by **jtbo** » 25 Dec 2008 09:02 pm

Earth's twin suns spotted:

Actually there was one each side of our sun, see more of it:
http://jtbo.pp.fi/images/album/Astro/si ... 4_12_2008/

I had been awake over 24 hours by time of taking those photos, also I was driving car and taking photos without looking to camera, so that explains lack of quality a bit.

Canon Ixus 75 was camera used, automatic little camera that does not allow lot of adjustments.

It was very pretty sunrise
http://jtbo.pp.fi/images/road_pics/IMG_8190.JPG

http://jtbo.pp.fi/images/road_pics/IMG_8193.JPG

Post by **trabitom99** » 25 Dec 2008 10:20 pm

Finland in the winter: beautiful

I hope I get to visit your country some day.

Tom

Post by **jtbo** » 30 Dec 2008 12:49 pm

Tom, you should make a trip at some winter holiday, but avoid west coast and southern parts of this country, not much of snow there.

I got today circular polarizing filter from dealextreme.com Hong Kong, I know some basics as it is best used 90 degree angle to light source and that I need to rotate filter to get best out from it, but I don't really know if there is some starting point, like is there default setting of text at top or is it only to be adjusted by how one feels?

I also noticed that between 90 degrees it changes how world looks, but turning 180 degrees seem to be same, not sure if it is.

When I took photos I could not see big difference if any, at least from camera's lcd screen, change was much greater in viewfinder.

Post by **jtbo** » 31 Dec 2008 04:05 pm

It's too damn cloudy:

Post by **jtbo** » 31 Dec 2008 06:00 pm

I look outside of window and see stars shining, so I put on warm clothes as it has been windy whole day, also change lens to camera and grab my gear, when I got outside this is what I saw:

Global warming in my arse, that storm did come top of this place in less than 10 minutes and it already had made snow cover so that tire tracks and such had disappeared from ground, all that in time I managed to get outside and that was no more than 10 minutes.

Like in my previous pic, I did see that sky is clear, I get outside and boom clouds come on that time when I deploy my tripod and attach camera.

Should I run outside naked armed only with camera and my personal joystick to beat those clouds?

Oh, sorry for lack of composition in this shot, it was next to impossible to see anything out there as wind did blow all snow to eyes, it is not nice when you get eyes full of ice cold snow...

Post by **jtbo** » 01 Jan 2009 12:23 pm

So here is small example of how to use CPL filter with car photos.

Wax on:

Wax off:

Much easier than kiddo's way?

Idea is to rotate filter and then it lets different kind of light in, I believe it was horizontal or vertical light waves that it blocks depending what position it is turned up to.

Effect is more notable on shiny surfaces and it is strongest when you keep sun 90 degrees angle towards target you shoot at, if sun is low behind you and you take pic of wall that is directly front of you, there is almost no effect, but if sun is more like straight above there is the effect in similar situation, same if sun is 90 degrees right or left from target.

It makes deeper shadows and darker sky in addition of that little tricks with reflections.

Bad part with this filter is that you loose something like 1.5 apertures of light as it is like sunglasses for the camera, so I can use it almost solely at bright sunny days and still it could be hard to get details from shadows if I'm using 300mm end of my tele objective, that is mainly because that lens is F5.6 at far end so it needs lot of light.

I would believe that it would be more useful in my kit lens that is 18-55mm, but it is not possible to use same filters without some adapters in these lenses so it is bit difficult to test.

Next I will buy perhaps UV/IR-blocker, it should do something interesting for my star photos.

Post by MJ » 01 Jan 2009 05:05 pm

Oh, I get it now. Very clever