Bad Wolf

A very overexposed and blurry photo... looks buzzy though

link removed

Oh, yes...thanks - it worked this time. Thank you very much!

np!

.....

Hey, light did PS work?

image removed

 

This pool under a small waterfall (though when it rains, the watefall can be thunderous) is quite shallow. However, the green emitting from the growing algae and moss gives it depth and enchantment.

I love how the algae came out all blurred from the slow shutter and the water, it looks really nice. Again... beautiful photo!

Thanks.

 

What happened to your camera? I need to get mine cleaned. I have a sensor dust that is annoying the heck out of me.

I left it at a mates house and I've been to lazy to go pick it up lol.

Let me resurrect this thread.

 

image removed

 

A peacock at the local zoo.

Amazing as always Light... I'm so jealous I need to get my camera back to I can take pics again =/

It kinda looks like a European Starling. But I'm not sure.

ooh you might be right!

Weird, that flower doesn't look out of focus on photoshop

oh lame, I just realized it's a lil out of focus

link removed

I took this yesterday but I can't figure out what kind of bird it is =/ any ideas?

link removed

image removed

 

I thought I was too late for the season, but there were still a few trees left with these beautiful cherry blossoms.

Amazing as usual, light. I keep forgetting about Photoshop

wolf, if you stop dancing in the mirror with a flashlight, this will stop.

 

but where's the fun in that?

Wolf,

 

Can't tell you. But I'm thinking if you have a filter on your lens, the green is probably a reflection of the moon. I have had something like that happened to me casting a green glow when I shot the moon with my filter on.

The only filter I had on was a UV filter... It was prolly just lense flare like blade said.

Anyone mind telling me what's up with these photos? I took them with 1/4 shutter speed yet I can see 1 bright moon + another darker moon showing how far its moved in that 1/4 of a second. I can understand the the darker moon and showing how far its moved but what's with the brighter moon? It's quite far away from the darker moon and has no movement trail.

Now it's in the right thread... ;p

link removed

link removed

link removed

link removed

^ that's pretty cool, you could go swimming in it!

image removed

I have one of the moon too cept mine was taken through a telescope with my camera so it looks a lil weird.

image removed

image removed

heh, we chose a very expensive hobby/career Did your camera come with any editing software? You'll need one that can convert RAW files like photoshop. My camera came with an editing program that can convert RAW files but photoshop is by far the best.

image removed

 

One more refraction (kind of abstract), a palm leaf inside a droplet riding on the tail of a scraggy rose leaf.

I need to get myself a macro lense or macro filter Even with the 300mm (480mm on my DSLR) I can't get close enough to really small things like insects and petals since I have to stand 1.5m away from the object with the 300mm lense.

RAW format is like the negatives in film cameras so you have to process/develop the photo at home. Which mean, you can set things like the whitebalance, reduce noise and increase sharpness and colour space. The thing I like about it the most is that you can increase or decrease the exposure to the photo without damaging the photo or it looking weird like they can if you use try brighten/darken the photo in jpeg format.

It really is the holy grail of photography and you should defiantly try it. The only thing is, RAW format is 2-3 times larger than that of the jpeg or tiff format. I have an 8mp camera so the max resolution is 3456 x 2304 and in jpeg format they're usually around 4-6mb but in RAW format they're around 15mb...

link removed this will be able to explain it better than I can.

image removed

image removed

Thank you Bad Wolf. I've always had an interest in photography, but just couldn't really afford the equipment until just two months ago. I am shooting with just a Nikon D40 and my equipment is very basic, the standard kit lens (18-55mm) and a macro filter. For the refraction photo, I only used natural lighting from the ceiling lamps. Yes, I shot this in the kitchen at midnight my time! I had my setting to manual mode and manual focus, and camera mounted on a tripod to avoid hand shake. I was a bit surprised that it turned out ok.

The D40 is quite a nice camera for its price, I'm starting to wish I didn't spend so much on mine... How good are the macro filters? I was looking at some awhile ago but didn't know how well they preformed compared to a macro lense.

I only use manual mode and manual focus now. Having that extra control really can make or break a photo. Do you save your photos under RAW or jpeg?

btw, clever name lightdrawer, if it means what I think it means anyway.

image removed

image removed

What equipment do you use light?

wow, that looks awesome! I also love macro photography but my images are no where near as good as yours lol. How long have you been practicing photography for? if you don't mind me asking.

image removed

image removed

i know I've uploaded these images on here already but I'll upload em again so you don't need to search thru this thread if you wanted to look at them.

^nice pics, he's a really nice bird.

I don't know if I've uploaded these pics before so yeah...

image removed

image removed

Those 2 are my favorite.

that's awesome. i would love a job like that.

get a camera and start studying then!