February Photo Thread

[siddr20]

^ love the 4th one

[R32Big_boy]

JAGR33's car on a drive over to Phillip Island.

[FullySick26]

JAGR33's car on a drive over to Phillip Island.

That best looking R33 GTR i've seen! Super clean and super tuff!

[siddr20]

yea love that 1st shot of the gtr Looks mean!!

Love taking natural pics and esp of portraits of people when smiling. Best part is that she didnt even know i took it.

Natural sun light coming in from behind and overexposed the background.

[ZENNON]

Nice shot Sid

And yeah - with portraits background can be under or overexposed.

Important thing is that the person is correctly exposed (good place to use that centre weighted setting!)

So you've done well

[GoldZilla]

[floydrose]

some wicked photos

[datofj]

nice!

[siddr20]

Thanks MR.Zennon

Really happy with that shot. Just realized i accidentally cropped the top of the head wrong. Will fix it up soon.

GoldZilla - Was it intentionally taken like that? Looks like tripod shake.

[GoldZilla]

GoldZilla - Was it intentionally taken like that? Looks like tripod shake.

Nah, wasn't intentional - it was one of those quick shots where all I really did was set the shutter to 30sec, attached a suction-cap mount to the camera, and attached it to the windscreen of my mate's van which was parked in the driveway. I couldn't get a reading for the autofocus to zoom on, and because of where and how the camera was mounted, I couldn't manually focus either...

It was a bit of a rushed experimental photo, as we were about to jump in the van to head home, so I didn't really make the time to set a manual focus/exposure point, and I used the flash simply to help the camera get somewhere to focus on. Next time I'll either set the focus point (or manually focus if possible) and spend a bit more time on it.

I mainly just took the shot because of the clouds in the sky, shame they weren't in a more interesting pattern...

[ZENNON]

Nah, wasn't intentional - it was one of those quick shots where all I really did was set the shutter to 30sec, attached a suction-cap mount to the camera, and attached it to the windscreen of my mate's van which was parked in the driveway. I couldn't get a reading for the autofocus to zoom on, and because of where and how the camera was mounted, I couldn't manually focus either...

It was a bit of a rushed experimental photo, as we were about to jump in the van to head home, so I didn't really make the time to set a manual focus/exposure point, and I used the flash simply to help the camera get somewhere to focus on. Next time I'll either set the focus point (or manually focus if possible) and spend a bit more time on it.

I mainly just took the shot because of the clouds in the sky, shame they weren't in a more interesting pattern...

For next time:

Using the car lights to help auto focus is one option.

Another handy thing is to have a small LED torch in the camera bag for such occasions.

If all else fails (ie its too dark to even see if its in focus or not - like it did for me when I took the photo below)

just turn auto focus off and then manually set the focus to just before infinity

This reminds me - I did a couple of 30seccond photos the other night actually (during that lightning storm) - I should really see how they came out!

[GoldZilla]

For next time:

Using the car lights to help auto focus is one option.

Another handy thing is to have a small LED torch in the camera bag for such occasions.

If all else fails (ie its too dark to even see if its in focus or not - like it did for me when I took the photo below)

just turn auto focus off and then manually set the focus to just before infinity

This reminds me - I did a couple of 30seccond photos the other night actually (during that lightning storm) - I should really see how they came out!

Hmmm, thanks for that, Zennon, I'll keep those in mind.

I'm pretty sure there are some spare LED torches around the house here, so I'll have to keep one in my bag. Didn't even think of using the headlights, meh.. Such a simple idea that I overlooked.

Thinking about that photo again, maybe I should have used the 50mm lens and seen what aperture the camera would have set for the 30sec exposure.

[ZENNON]

That's how we learn though! Practice

Yeah I should remember to put my LED torch BACK into my camera back lol

[Jay019]

oh nice!!! ive wanted to take some long exposures at the airport for ages but never got around to it. want to do it just on dusk/dawn also. one day, lol.

Couple of pics from a shoot today...

any CC? ive started trying to use flash a bit and not sure if im getting it right yet, i'll keep trying tho, lol.

[Sl!m]

Took this one yesterday

[33driver]

Couple of shots from a trip to springbrook today, waiting on ND filter to arrive so struggled with the overcast lighting and exposure settings to get the water right, these were the best shots of the day

Messing with HDR:

Random log:

[wagzilla]

Here is a shot I took at the at the peer in California

[Jay019]

took a pic of a hot bird today...

haha, sorry its not the kind you would have preffered to see

[ZENNON]

any CC? ive started trying to use flash a bit and not sure if im getting it right yet, i'll keep trying tho, lol.

both look pretty good to me mate

took a pic of a hot bird today...

boooo!

ps good shot none-the-less

[islander_s13]

some awesome looking shots in here,the one that sl!m posted looks pretty good

might need to invest in a better camera soon after seeing these