The coolest picture you have ever taken.

[thecoalman]

Show Low, AZ

[Ripper2860]

Pretty damn impressive !!

[thayne]

Isn't it spectacular... 8)

[thecoalman]

Isn't it spectacular... 8)

Your's looks better I must admit. I love dark beer. You might want to get around those corners of the fridge with some cleaner.

[thayne]

You might want to get around those corners of the fridge with some cleaner.

[thayne]

Did you really take that picture? It's awesome!

[Conquest10]

Here's mine:

[lordsmurf]

I apologize in advance: my "******* badge" is on when it comes to critiquing photos...

coalman, it's blurry. Sorry, man, not impressed. They're "photos" too, not pictures. You draw pictures.

thayne, that's just a snapshot. With a wide angle lens, a macro focus, and a lighting setup that killed the fridge into pure white, that could very well quite an interesting photo. More than the sunset even. Everybody does sunsets, so boring.

Conquest, kid in water is nice.

I wish I could post some of mine. Unfortunately, the model releases do not cover this, and on others I'm not the copyright holder (works for hire).

Here's one I shot recently, was outside testing the new camera battery. I actually had not expected the little sucker to fly away on this shot, so it's cropped too tight, clipping off the wing. Oh well. I don't really shoot much "for fun" to be honest. To me, cameras are work (enjoyable work!). The depth of field is also a bit shallow. Again, he was on the flower when I set up, focus tracking locked him at movement, flower suffered from it.

[Conquest10]

^ That's why I don't shoot wildlife. I tried getting a bee the other day and it impossible with the shallow DOF and the speed of it flying around. Babies are another that are almost impossible.

[lordsmurf]

I love to shoot everything at f/2.8. But it can be a real pain on wildlife! I've got a good bumblebee picture somewhere. Almost got stung too. I remember that one well.

For more good photos, go here: http://www.apme.com
I admire this shooter in particular: http://www.apme.com/showcase/june_2004.html
I think he has a Pulitzer, but I cannot remember.

[thayne]

damn, you guys are pretty good!

[lordsmurf]

Here's that bee. I had to search several drives:





Forgive the scan quality. This was done quite a few years ago. For a cleaner image, and better dark shades, I'd have to rescan the negative. This is not really that great of an image. It's decent maybe. Interesting probably. Bees stay on a flower for about 1 second max, so the sheer difficulty of these kinds of images is really all that is impressive, to be quite honest. I could probably do much better with a bee situation today.

These were f/3.5, 50mm, macro filter +5 to +7 range, 400 ISO (accounts for the grain, enhanced by the old scanner)

[hech54]

I wonder if Baldrick rolls his eyes or just sighs when he sees thread topics like this one..


Yea...bees are tough.
This bee WAS perfectly centered and focused....now all you see is his ass.
ISO 50 with forced flash on a little Canon digital.

[vitualis]

@ Conquest10: That's a great photo!

Some of my favourites:

Twilight at Huskinson, NSW


At Barrington Tops National Park, NSW


At Marakoopa Caves, TAS


At Westbury Maze and Tea Room, TAS


Fire jugglers at City Beach Wollongong, NSW

Regards.

[Cobra]

This is one that I took of an emu at the Cotswold Wildlife Park.

[flaninacupboard]

Won't mean much to our american cousins, but i was pleased with the detail on this shot.



Please excuse the crappy resize, it seems i only have paintbrush on this machine....

[Dr. DOS]

This is one that I took of an emu at the Cotswold Wildlife Park.

Looks like Schoozle has a new pic when needed

[yoda313]

Hello,

Cool thread!! I'll have to dig up some of my jpgs this week and post em. GOOD JOB everybody!

Kevin

[hech54]

Anything with contrast in my viewfinder intrigues me.
This stretch of coastline is not too far from the 12 Apostles.

[Capmaster]

Three-way tie. I like each of these equally for different reasons:

Taos Indian Pueblo - Taos, New Mexico (note mica windows):




Old Egyptian man in alley in Old Coptic Cairo, Egypt (those walls predate Christ):




Great Sphinx and Khufu's Pyramid - Giza, Cairo, Egypt:

[ViRaL1]

Is that a gun?

[Cobra]

I don't know, looks like something unusual anyway:

[ViRaL1]

That would make a great DVD cover for some revenge movie.

[hech54]

The "Man In The Alley" is awesome. I live for photo-Ops like those.

[Capmaster]

Is that a gun?

In Egypt? No. Only law enforcement are legally allowed to own guns.

That's a briefcase, I believe. He was apparently making his way to work and took a shortcut through the alley in front of us. That alley is alongside the St. Sergius Church - where the holy family had fled to from King Herod's decree. They ended up living in Egypt until the "all clear" was relayed to them a couple of years later.

[ViRaL1]

They took his wife...

They took his children...

But they never took his Desert Eagle...



DEATH
COMES
SLOWLY

Rated R

In Theaters October 1

[shoozleboy]

This is one that I took of an emu at the Cotswold Wildlife Park.

Looks like Schoozle has a new pic when needed

Cobra already sent me that one months ago!!!

Nice to know that my avatar has had an impact on someone! :P

[Capmaster]

The "Man In The Alley" is awesome. I live for photo-Ops like those.

Thanks hech. We had just come through a couple of ancient doors into the alley, and were in a sort of tunnel, and all of a sudden that scene appeared and I thought "Whoooaaaaa!" Since I already had my handy Canon Powershot on my belt for a day's worth of shooting, it only took about 2 seconds to grab it before it got away.

I think it was the wall texture, the contrast of an old guy wearing a fairly modern suit, and the lighting that struck me. The pic still doesn't do the scene justice, but at least I got it

This is a waaaay shrunk down copy to fit here. The full sized one has all the textures intact.

[888888]

I have a pretty shitty 640x480 digital camera. Also, I am a pretty bad photographer. Here is a picture from a series I did before I changed around the furniture that I made to remember how the room looked originally. This is NOT the nicest picture I ever took but it probably is the nicest one I have available that doesn't also include faces of loved ones who I would not want to be posted on the internet.



And here's another for an eBay auction from a while ago.

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[thayne]

Here is one of my favorites. It's two pictures combined. The shot of Max was in my bedroom, and the beach is Marina Beach near Monterey.