Show us your Best Photos

[ShultzCity]

This thread is here to show us your best photos.

Rules:
Limit of 3 per post.
No double posting.

It's always nice to comment on other peoples pictures. Feel free to post a link to your photo page (i.e. Flickr, RedBubble) as well.

Here are three of mine:







And this is my Flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jshultzphotography/

The watermarks on the first two images are due to the software I was using to create a HDR image being in trial mode.

Hopefully this is in the right place and won't be stomped on by moderators 

[thingfishs]

So these are your personally taken/created photos? Very nice work then, I am particularly taken with the last one

It could well be the BG of a high end advertisement, all it needs is the product and slogan & voila! (soothe a hectic day away with Fukitol®)

[ShultzCity]

Thanks Ryan - these are mine 

I am quite proud of the alst one myself, it turned out better than I expected. It was actually taken donw at Melbourne opn New Years Eve - there was a big storm so I couldn't take photos of the fireworks, so instead tried some street photography

[thingfishs]

So what level of photoshopping has gone on with it? or is it just a long exposure and filters? Either way it's fantastic. The trees are becoming more prominent while the traffic fades away...

[ShultzCity]

It's two exposures -one is darker one is lighter. They are quite long, and the wind was blowing a gale so thats why the trees are blurred. The two exposures are mixed together in whats called an 'HDR' - search for it on google, you'll see what I mean. The only photoshopping was slight saturation boost.

[io_bg]

Very nice pics, Shultzcity. What is your camera? A DLSR I guess?
Some of my best, taken with Sony DSC-W150 (8.1 MPx, 5x optical zoom).

Non-photoshopped



Photoshopped




Click on the thumbnails to enlarge, in case you want to see the full resolution of the photo - scroll and find the line called "Размер на оригинала: 3264 x 2448" (size of the original). Click on the numbers and enjoy

[ShultzCity]

Love the second photoshopped pic Ioan

I use a Nikon D90, usually with a polariser

[teddyrised]

Sorry if I'm bumping a somewhat old thread but it's just too heartening to know that there are photographers among SC4 fans out there, yay!

I use a Sony A200, one of the earlier (and not so good) entry-level dSLR. Have been using it for two years, still not quite a good photographer yet. I generally do landscape, panorama, HDR and infrared. I suck at portrait, sadly

[thingfishs]

Don't worry about bumping, showing your best photos is what this thread is for. And I love this one...



There is the interesting form & contrast of the seed heads, which are balanced well in the shot; but it's the brilliant bed of colour underneath that ties it all together for me. Those touches of purple are nice. 

[adroman]

Wow, I like that shot of the hillside, teddyrised!

I'm hardly a photographer, infact I had to go looking for my Camera... Anyway, I went on a school trip, and as we were passing through Brisbane Domestic Airport, I snapped this particular shot...


Click for full res.

So yeah, I was pretty happy with it. It barely compares with the likes of Ioan's, Jacob's and teddyrised's photos, but it fits my desktop perfectly 

Great photos all!
Adrian.

[ShultzCity]

Good stuff everyone! Loving your photos teddyrised!!

Here is some from a recent trip to a couple of places on the South Coast and into Sydney:

[teddyrised]

Don't worry about bumping, showing your best photos is what this thread is for. And I love this one...

There is the interesting form & contrast of the seed heads, which are balanced well in the shot; but it's the brilliant bed of colour underneath that ties it all together for me. Those touches of purple are nice. 

Thanks for the compliments! Actually the purple colour shade wasn't really what I wanted but when I played around with some sliders in adobe RAW then it turned out that the purple cast actually worked better it's a pseudo-HDR image (but I've reduced the HDR effect as much as possible) processed from a single RAW file, using Photomatix.

Thank you, too! And I really love the first and the last photo I'm a big fan of light trails (too bad in my country the cities aren't too safe to hang out after nightfall) and I just starting doing infrared too. Are you using a modified IR camera or an unmodified one (i.e. with IR filter only)?

p/s: Just added you on Flickr, I'm with the same username on that site as well

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Anyway, here are some of my still life shots:

[ShultzCity]

Actually, I forgot to mention that the last 'night' shot was actually taken at 11:30am. The IR made the sky dark enough for me to add some stars

I have an unmodified D90, with an IR filter.

p.s. I added you back

[teddyrised]

I guess we share quite a bit in common.

Well, for starters, we're both in love with infrared photography. But I haven't got a decent picture for a long time, haha *smacks head*

Looked up the sites you linked in your signature, and read that you're into web design too well I'm currently working as one too.

And thanks a lot for adding do you do panoramas?

[ShultzCity]

It seems we do! Yes, I want to be a web designer when I am old enough. I'll be starting a degree in web design next year. Unfortunately, the sites in my signature are rather outdated, and I'm quite sure I could do much better now. I'm currently doing a site for a friend of mine, so that is taking a fair bit of time.

I did a few panoramas a while back, but haven't lately. I'll have to make more of an effort to do a couple. I'm pretty sure I took a HDR panorama a while back, but haven't got around to processing it. *goes and checks his photography folder*

[CraigKingOfIreland]

Some excellent photos there teddyrised, particularly like the railway (:

Some recent shots with my Canon 350D/Rebel XT

[teddyrised]

It seems we do! Yes, I want to be a web designer when I am old enough. I'll be starting a degree in web design next year. Unfortunately, the sites in my signature are rather outdated, and I'm quite sure I could do much better now. I'm currently doing a site for a friend of mine, so that is taking a fair bit of time.

I did a few panoramas a while back, but haven't lately. I'll have to make more of an effort to do a couple. I'm pretty sure I took a HDR panorama a while back, but haven't got around to processing it. *goes and checks his photography folder*

Ah, I did give HDR (not pseudo-HDR) panoramas a try before but realized that they were too tedious. So I stuck with processed RAWs that are then stitched together using Hugin. I'd recommend Hugin if you haven't used it before. Most importantly it's free and released under the GNU license (or GPL? I can't remember).

Some excellent photos there teddyrised, particularly like the railway (:

Some recent shots with my Canon 350D/Rebel XT

Thanks bud! And I really adore your last photo. It reminds me of one photo I took in my neighbourhood before, quite a few years back (and I shamelessly processed it in photoshop, it went a little overboard, I'm sorry). My composition wasn't as good as yours



*Note: I apologize for the watermark (now I don't use them because they ruin the aesthetics of the photo), it was a photo I've taken quite long ago haha! If any moderator feels that I'm promoting my site feel free to take it off

[ShultzCity]

How does Hugin compare to PS Ted?

[teddyrised]

How does Hugin compare to PS Ted?

What distinguishes Hugin from PS is that you get to choose how you would want to project your panoramas. For example, fisheye projections and many others are actually not available on PS CS5 (as far as I know). Plus, Hugin is free and it outputs the approximate panorama mapping faster than PS does - afterall Hugin is a dedicated panorama stitcher while PS is more for general photo editing and image manipulation purposes.

I'd export my panorama from Hugin as jpg or tiff, and then import it into PS for post processing.

p/s: I just saw your Flickr mail, no worries! I apologize for the late reply and will get back to you once I'm free tonight. See you around!

[Jmouse]

Jacob, do you have larger copies of the last two photos (above)? I'd love to use them as desktops on my new laptop.

Later...
Joan