November Photo Thread

[siddr20]

Did you visit lisbon? Another amazing city. So many lovely people and even the chicks talk to you in the clubs (un like here).

I went back in 2008 backpacking for 2 months. been itching to go back since!!

[God_speed]

Did actually! But I did a different sort of trip - didn't get to stay nights unfortunately. But I did get to see a large number of places in a short space of time. The food I had in Lisbon was awesome, some seafood-stew type of dish which they're meant to be famous for. That arch / gate at the end of the main road is pretty amazing. Got some photos of it somewhere.

Backpacking would have been interesting, bet you would've got some good pics that way. Wished I could get more of a feel for each place, which you'd definitely get by doing what you did.

[Jay019]

Jay, I've found a new respect for your pan shots. They really are, much harder to complete than they appear.

cheers. once you know the trick (pivot around the nodal point as much as you can) it gets a bit easier. not sure if it makes a huge difference or not, but ive been taking them in portrait instead of regular lanscape. gives more room to crop from. love your shot! where is that? thing i have found that makes beach shots hard is the waves. yours worked out awesome tho as there are no waves that just suddenly vanish. something else i find hard is working out framing for a huge pano.

DSC_1753_4_5_tonemapped by Joshua Fitt, on Flickr

Thoughts??

i think this needs to be quoted so its on this page too. awesome man, love it!

took the kite out again. really need to work out a low cost/tech answer to the stability issues. turned the camera around this time.

something you get used to seeing a bit

lift off!

cruisin

would love to take it over water, but i dont have a waterproof case for the gopro so not real keen on risking it. my flying is getting a bit better too, was practicing walking the kite around and dodging obstacles. wish i had a second gopro to film the flying of the kite. saw some awesome shots but had my hands full with the kite strings, lol.

[siddr20]

Hectic stuff jay

Beautiful moment:

Awesome house:

[Pezhead]

I meant to post these in here (already put them up in the SAU Nats wrap up thread).

[Jay019]

mix kite flying with light painting. yer ok, lol.

[GTR32X]

I meant to post these in here (already put them up in the SAU Nats wrap up thread).

Is that SS8 Cohan R34 GT-R?

Man that car is extremely sexy. Never thought I would like Craft Square Mirrors but they look tasty.

[siddr20]

AWesome stuff Jay Love your thinking!!

Cant wait to see more from the light painting.

[wilorichie]

Ditto to the above, very cool Jay.

Nice pics of the cars by the way.

[Jay019]

cheers guys. might be a little while tho, cause a couple of the lights broke and i cant afford to replace them yet. start my new job on sunday night tho so hopefully i can work out a way to save a couple of bucks from that

[MaTBoY]

you crazy f**k Jay! hahaha nice idea man! brilliant agaiN!

Clean detail shots MrPezman.... Is that old GTR genuine or just a replica? Either way, Me rikey.

[FST513]

Yeah Jay.... Your crazy lol. For a minute i was like... uhhhmmm...... is he serious? But then i figured it out haha.

[luke gtr]

Jay, for a possibly cheaper idea, could you use various colour glow sticks?

Would probably also take a hard landing better....

But only last the one night

[Jay019]

i dont see why not, and i do have a tube of them in my drawer. just means working out how to attach them. the LED's were a bit easier using split rings, might have to tie or sticky tape them on

[wilorichie]

Thought I'd try to get some practice in the 'spooky' photos range...

So went out the backyard and found something not spooky at all and tried away...

[oweban]

so here's some from the last few days, none with post processing cause haven't been farked, all scaled down to 1024 max dimension per side (fullsize avail):

and my favourite (now desktop on laptop/screen at work)

[wilorichie]

Nice photos man.

Love your first photo where it shows the moon at the top.

Your bottom photo is also really nice - Just seen it plenty of times so I liked your first photo best.

[oweban]

I was pretty happy with it too, I tried for longer exposures on F22 and above, but still getting too much bloom Stupid kit lenses.

[Jay019]

i think the higher the fstop the more flaring you get from light points? not 100% on that tho

EDIT: did some research...

http://blog.starcircleacademy.com/2011/04/starbursts/

"To make spikes more prominent increase the f/stop to f/11 or higher"

Edited November 7, 2011 by Jay019

[oweban]

Oh, I meant that it was just still coming in waaaaayy too bright/overexposed. I should probably wait until the sun has gone down more from now on to see what I can do Nice to set up the camera on the tripod on the balcony... Mental note, don't point it at the hot neighbours