Taken on a recent skip through Carcassonne, France.

This fell off the Polaroid wall a couple days ago.

Self portrait on...what was the black and white Polaroid film for the Hassey then...668?

Circa 1995

Presented here larger than life

took it some days ago, not a planned shoot but I had the gear with me:

300 megapixel pano from d3x shot after sunset from an island in Southern Japan.

Cheers,
Bernard

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Siena Italy whilst i was there last month shooting the Palio horserace.

Gary, if you could swap the big lightning cluster to where you have the little lightning cluster you´d achieve a better balance: too much height on the left side of the pic.

Only winding us both up: the shot is lovely and the buildings look fabulous in that light.

Rob C

Actually not so crazy an idea, i actually have other versions where the lightning was more on the right as you say, trouble is i liked the one where it hit the tower, i did/may consider putting both together however not sure how easy it will be and i don't want to overdo it.

Gary.

Gary - easy doesn´t count; if the end result is worth it, then you have to go for it. I hadn´t realised it was actually a real strike on the tower; trouble with that sort of thing is that it confuses the issue: you start to think about the event rather than the effect you could have. The viewer need know nothing beyond what his eyes show him. Ask any ad agecy. Still a great shot.

Rob C

A bit of location work this week, for a Pontoon boat company. Canon 1DsMKIII, 24-105. Mole Richardson 650w Spot through a diffusion panel and a 650 redhead bounced off the ceiling. Added a few white cards for good measure.

Superb!

Very impressive!

Very pleasing textures; I don´t want the control console bcause I don´t want to take the office anywhere, but the chair would be a damn sight more comfortable than this stinking swivel torture machine that I have been using since Noah moored his Ark.

Nice work.

Rob C

LOL!

Years ago I was the in-house guy for a company that made, among other things, luxury conversion vans. We built seats that looked quite like the one pictured and they do indeed make damn fine office chairs. We kept the guys in R&D busy taking rejected seat prototypes and converting them to office chair bases.

I wish I still had one.

Some impromptu, handheld, iso1600 architectural shots I took while on my way to visiting my friend in Los Angeles. A bit of a ruin/old feel was what I was going for.

From Levitation series

Ok here's the finished (except spotting) colour tweeked file with the rest of the lightning added.

Success, or better before?

Gary

Like it as I did first time around, but for my eye, there´s still too much weight up in the left section of the sky; perhaps taking out the extra lightning beyond the flash in the cloud up there would help? I get the sensation that the sky is too balanced within itself, that you need something to reduce the weight of the tower wich still fights for an unsettling dominance.

Sounds nuts, but I feel that way about it. It is a great shot with a lot of possibilities - maybe the best answer is to forget it for a month or so and then look again; an old trick, but it works for me with surprising results!

Rob C

EDIT: Looking again, I think the problem I feel is that the tower and the flash cloud above it are too much for one side of the shot; one distracts from the other. Perhaps if you toned down the tower a bit and moved the flash cloud further right you´d get a better balance; it might even be better without any of that lightning over the tower; now you know the problems that God faced!

Thanks for your reply, i know what you mean, and i'm still not completely sure myself. The idea of leaving the flash to the right is the easiest solution as this image is made of only two frames, one has the flash to the left and the other has the flash to the right.

Cheers,

Gary.

Well it has been some time since I posted any work in this forum. Mainly out of time reasons. I wanted to do that more frequently, but editing and processing is not going as smoothly as I hoped while traveling around the world. So here is something I wanted to post a while back.

Images from the Firework in New York on the 4th of July. The other images from this series can be found here: 4th July


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Hi all,
took the 5d2 for a spin and shot a music video with it. You can see it here:

Bushbayer Komm Rap Official Video

(anybody knows if it is possible to embed videos in this forum, I didn't get it to work)

cheers,
martin

btw: it is german...

Hello,

Took this shot as part of a 3 day shoot I am on this week on location.

Have to say my Nikon D3X is performing beautifully in the low light.

Stats:

Nikon D3X camera
Nikon AF 85mm F1.8 lens
F8.0, 15th Sec, 800ISO
Bowens flash
Processed in Adobe CS4

Regards

Simon

Last Saturday. All of a sudden, there were clouds in Beijing.
But the sun was already up. Can't make my usual photos.
Gotta try something new. Grabbed my pack and head out. Got two shots from 6 and a free stiff neck.





Today, Beijing is back to it's foggy/smoggy self.

shot from a recent trip to Bayanbulak, Xinjiang, north western China.
This one taken with Nikon D3, with AF-S VR 70-200/2.8G IF-ED, setting at 125mm f/8, 1/500s ISO 200.

Regards, K

I always like your pano(s). They all look awesome mate!

My last interesting job a week ago, if you click the link and go to the last page you can see the results plus some from earlier similar jobs
http://web.mac.com/kevin_allen/iWeb/Site%203/Welcome.html

Kevin.

Regardless of where you place the lightning ( ! ), I feel this shot really captures the character and the organic feel of the place. Nice.

Wow, there is some fantastic work being posted in this thread. It's a real motivation to see the stuff you guys are shooting! Keep it coming!

Chris

Edit - Fallacious statement removed.

Fill in the blank with the appropriate answer:

Tiffany is about to:
A. Kick some ass
B. Have an emotional breakdown
C. Reveal that she is actually a he
D. A and C
E. All of the above

That is the type of obnoxious comment one sees all over forums like Fred Miranda which is why many people no longer participate there. Would you like to explain what value your remark has to anything, does it make anything better or provide some insight?

The anonymity of the Internet often provides people with an opportunity to show their more ignorant side. In the future I suggest your efforts at cute humor be more limited to drunken moments on bar stools. It is not cute here.

Very nice. Love the sheep, the symmetry and the snow-capped mountains. Makes me wish I were there.

Oh, boy... aren't we touchy, huh?



Hey, it made me lough and therefore made my day better...

Ok... ready now for the deluge of your high-horse, condescending, and best (worst?) of all, humor-chalenged lecturing (let me guess: what kind of a miserable looser I must be to laugh at such "cute humor" best suited for "drunken moments on bar stools")

Slobodan

P.S. It was a powerful photograph, by the way... all joking aside

Ian Sitren:

Perhaps you mischaracterized the nature of my motives for posing said rhetorical dilemma. Insinuating that all observer reactions should exclusively necessitate the showering of praises upon the image maker is problematic. The subjective ability of the observer to pose such hypotheticals should not to be rejected. Demanding submission of only positive affirmation contradicts Article 19 of the UDHR.

I will say that I find your use of 160VC refreshing.

Best,

MS

Please moderate your tones - or I will.

[quote name='marcs' date='Sep 3 2009, 04:36 AM' post='307748']
Ah, the slot machine narrative. What a lie.

Edit: No offense to the photographer, who made ideal use of the D3X's ISO capabilities.
Edit 2: Please don't probe here as it is a painful topic, but I am quite qualified to comment on the philosophy of gambling.


Hello Marc,

I think you need to take a closer look at my image.

The two models in my shot are not gambling by purchasing movie tickets on a automated ticketing machine

Cheers

Simon

Alas, you are quite right!

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Hello Marc,

I think you need to take a closer look at my image.

The two models in my shot are not gambling by purchasing movie tickets on a automated ticketing machine

Cheers

Simon
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Couple of images from a recent trip...

Aha, a shoot for Yale, then?

Rob C

You certainly made sure no one would "steal" your images.

sorry, are they too small?...

Maybe you can't see it because they're your images, but everyone else gets a box with 'Content Protected by Owner' inside.

Mike.

As said above, you apparently used some kind of hotlink prevention which means we can't see the photos.

ok, thanks for the explanation...I'm seeing them as i put them up...I'll see about unlocking them...maybe i have 'em as private or something...


alright...they should be visible now...I did have original upload file locked and didn't know it...a thousand pardons...

M

Last Sunday, behind the Forbidden City. It drizzled in the middle of my exposure. Good thing I had a handkerchief.
Handkerchief - don't leave home without it, hehe

Well done... has a timeless feel to it.

Mike.

You know my only thought yesterday, when reading this was if it was addressed to me and my images, what Yale university had to do with anything...I mean I thought maybe recent yale catalogs had landscape images similar to mine on them or something...far fetched, but honest Rob, I saw my images fine, so I just didn't get it...

;-)

As this is the web, I can't be sure, but you did get the joke about Yale Locks, then? I hope!

Best wishes - Rob C

Yes, but only after being told about my images being 'locked'...I saw them fine here and had no idea there was a problem...

I love this! Beautiful

Saturday was National Bacon Day here in the USA...

this was my lunch