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[dwdallam]

Took this while out walking the dog this morning:



Camera:   Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III
Exposure:   2 sec (2)
Aperture:   f/22
Focal Length:   17 mm
ISO Speed:   100
Exposure Bias:   2 EV

I like it too. I rolled up my browser screen and cropped the blue sky out and liked it even better. I cropped it down to about an inch off the horizon line, since the sky is definitely not the subject here.

[dwdallam]

A parking garage that caught my interest.
5d2, 50L.

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Damn I like that shot and perspective plus the use of Shallow DOF. Very much appeals to me.

[sean mills]

Damn I like that shot and perspective plus the use of Shallow DOF. Very much appeals to me.

Thanks man! There's so much good stuff in this thread.

[elitegroup]

Hi!

Long time lurker, first time poster. I'm an new/emerging Australian-based photographer focusing on cars.

There are a lot of big names on this forum who I greatly admire.

My recently purchased Mamiya AFDIII/ZD system has been way too unreliable to use so unfortunately i've resorted going back to my Canon. Looking forward to the 5D2

 

Great work, I like your style

I'm also an emerging photographer based in Perth but moving to Sydney soon.

[Alexandre Buisse]

Our plane leaving us on Little Switzerland, in the Alaska Range. Mt Foraker is just out of the frame on the right, and Denali a few kilometers up glacier.

[Mark F]

I agree, it's even better with the sky cropped. Anywhere from an inch to two inches above the horizon but I think that about an inch is best.


quote name='dwdallam' date='Dec 8 2008, 04:50 AM' post='242693']
I like it too. I rolled up my browser screen and cropped the blue sky out and liked it even better. I cropped it down to about an inch off the horizon line, since the sky is definitely not the subject here.
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[Hoang]

No one has yet replied to this image, but I think it's fantastic. Good work.

Thank you, dwadallam. I really like the location, I hope to be able to visit it more, after finals week  .
Here's a photo I just re-edited. I'm looking through and editing a few old photos before I get back to studying, lol  




canon 20d . tokina 12-24 f/4 . 12mm
iso 400 . f/9.0 . 1/125s
It's my attempt at emulating the high key futuristic looking architectural photographs.

[wolfnowl]

Our plane leaving us on Little Switzerland, in the Alaska Range. Mt Foraker is just out of the frame on the right, and Denali a few kilometers up glacier.

It's be nice if there was a little more detail in the bottom, especially on the right, but all in all that's a great image.  Bet you felt rather 'alone' after you saw the end of the tail flying away!

Mike.

[Andy M]

I like it too. I rolled up my browser screen and cropped the blue sky out and liked it even better. I cropped it down to about an inch off the horizon line, since the sky is definitely not the subject here.

I agree, it's even better with the sky cropped. Anywhere from an inch to two inches above the horizon but I think that about an inch is best.

Food for thought, thanks!

[jjj]

Our plane leaving us on Little Switzerland, in the Alaska Range. Mt Foraker is just out of the frame on the right, and Denali a few kilometers up glacier.

Really lovely atmosphere, great shot, but plane is a little too central and small to make image perfect.
That's a heck of a walk home!

[Alexandre Buisse]

@wolfnowl: alone for a little while, but enthusiasm at the prospect of spending two weeks in this amazing place quickly kicked in!

@jjj: size is on purpose, I wanted to emphasize the difference between the tiny man-made thing and the huge mountain environment. But you're right for the centred composition, with fast moving subjects my Nikon D50 AF tracking just isn't reliable enough so I leave on the central zone. And with 6MP, I can't really make significant crops...
And if you want to walk home, Talkeetna is the closest town and only 70 miles away or so. And everyone has about 80lbs of gear to haul. Somehow, I prefer the plane solution

[BernardLanguillier]

Walking Tokyo.



Cheers,
Bernard

[jjj]

@jjj: size is on purpose, I wanted to emphasize the difference between the tiny man-made thing and the huge mountain environment. But you're right for the centred composition, with fast moving subjects my Nikon D50 AF tracking just isn't reliable enough so I leave on the central zone. And with 6MP, I can't really make significant crops...

I think if plane had been a little higher [not that you could have affected that] and against the clouds it's small size would have mattered less as it would have stood out more.
Also AF is overrated. You don't need really it at that distance as everything is at infinity, plus as you said there's that danger of centering everything.

And if you want to walk home, Talkeetna is the closest town and only 70 miles away or so. And everyone has about 80lbs of gear to haul. Somehow, I prefer the plane solution

How do you charge batteries, store data in those circumstances. I used to be able to travel fairly light in the days of film, but now with digital....   No chance. I remember spending two weeks photographing China and Hong Kong and used only 1 spare battery. Batteries lasted almost exactly 40 rolls of film in those days.  Didn't need a wretched laptop to stote data and I could enjoy also my evenings, rather than have to download and organize images.

[feppe]

How do you charge batteries, store data in those circumstances. I used to be able to travel fairly light in the days of film, but now with digital....   No chance. I remember spending two weeks photographing China and Hong Kong and used only 1 spare battery. Batteries lasted almost exactly 40 rolls of film in those days.  Didn't need a wretched laptop to stote data and I could enjoy also my evenings, rather than have to download and organize images.

My solution is an iGo adapter for electricity and 2 HyperDrive SPACEs for storage.

[Alexandre Buisse]

I shot on film (a Nikon FA with a 24 f/2. most of the time, and that's what I took out of camp, I actually attached it to my climbing harness. I used digital only in camp, and the two batteries lasted for two weeks and ~600 shots (I slept with them in the sleeping bag, and tried to keep them out of the cold as much as possible). For memory, I'm using a hyperdrive space portable hard drive, which has roughly 20GB of storage capacity on one charge. On a 6MP camera, it's more than ok for backpacking.
I know some people who use solar panels for ipods and the such, I don't know how well they would charge a DSLR battery. But really, film is way more convenient in this kind of environment. Maybe next time, I'll take my 4x5.

[dwdallam]

Bay fog.

[jjj]

<Snip> But really, film is way more convenient in this kind of environment.

That's what I've often thought.

Always wondered how filmmakers shooting video in supposedly remote locations managed as that really sucks batteries.

[dwdallam]

I shot on film (a Nikon FA with a 24 f/2. most of the time, and that's what I took out of camp, I actually attached it to my climbing harness. I used digital only in camp, and the two batteries lasted for two weeks and ~600 shots (I slept with them in the sleeping bag, and tried to keep them out of the cold as much as possible). For memory, I'm using a hyperdrive space portable hard drive, which has roughly 20GB of storage capacity on one charge. On a 6MP camera, it's more than ok for backpacking.
I know some people who use solar panels for ipods and the such, I don't know how well they would charge a DSLR battery. But really, film is way more convenient in this kind of environment. Maybe next time, I'll take my 4x5.

Those solar panels are getting better and better all of the time, and cheaper. They now have roll up film types that weight almost nothing. You can charge anything with them, but it takes longer than a wall socket. I just saw one that puts out 45watts. If you were in the wild more than a few days, that would be a necessity to save weight for sure. They also have hand crank generators now. You crank on them for a minute, then plug in you cell, battery, etc. When the power gets low, you just crank it again. I don't want to be carrying more than two 1DS3 batteries on a back packing trip, that's for sure, or even more than one. Those things feel like car batteries.

[wilburdl]

nice composite. the two subjects come together well. what did you use for cutting out the model? also was the puprle-ish fade on the left side of the model done with a gel, or done in post?

Hey, thanks. I used the lasso for cutting out the model, blurring the edges by a small percentage to keep with the sharpness of the overall image. The purple gradient (and less vibrant orange gradient) was done in post.

[Mark F]

I like this picture and keep coming back to it, although I do wonder what it would look like not quite so high key. Also, was it cropped? The lines are very straight for a 12mm.

canon 20d . tokina 12-24 f/4 . 12mm
iso 400 . f/9.0 . 1/125s
It's my attempt at emulating the high key futuristic looking architectural photographs.