The photography thread (激写ボーイになろう！！)

[Tatsujin]

Sure Joe, long exposure (5~10sec) is the A&O for nice firework shots

Sure a tripod is essenitial as well. Then the Focus on infinity and some smart ISO and Aperture settings. The rest is just a good timming of pushing the shutter.

here some higher res pics of my little bit more "lucky shots"

[henrycsc]

I use an Olympus Evolt E-510, here are some of my shots:

Neuschwanstein, Germany

Castle Valley, Utah


Mesa Arch, Canyonlands NP, Utah

Blue Mesa, Petrified Forest, Arizona

Olympiapark, Munich, Germany

Lotus Flower, my back yard, South Carolina

Boneyard Beach, Bulls Island, South Carolina

Glyptotek, Munich, Germany

Partenkirchen, Germany

Sliding Rock, Brevard, North Carolina


These were using the equivalent of a 600mm lens:
Magnolia Plantation, Charleston, South Carolina

Magnolia Plantation, Charleston, South Carolina

my back yard, South Carolina

my back yard, South Carolina

your back yard. 

[Tatsujin]

Great shots l'enry

Especially the ones of the animals with zoom lens.

[ccovell]

Those are some great shots!

I don't have much to add... still working with 3-D but some don't come out as well as they should.  Panoramas are easy but close-up 3-D is really hard due to stronger horizontal and vertical parallax.

[Ravij]

One of mine. Canon 400D with 70-200 F4 IS lens

[ccovell]

3-D steak & potatoes for dinner...   

[sunteam_paul]

[Joe Redifer]

Covell, that pic of the Casio watch is really good.  To avoid vertical parallax, use either a tripod of set the camera somewhere where it can slide back and forth.  The problem with a tripod is moving it perfectly lateral.  What I also usually do is take the left eye first and then move the camera and then slightly turn the right eye to point inward (but only slightly), almost like cross-eyed, but not that extreme, of course.  What I wish for is a ghost image on display in my camera that superimposes over the live view so I can choose a point of convergence rather than re-aligning and cropping in Photoshop.

Sun Steam, what lens/settings did you use for the shots with the sun in them?  Did you use an ND filter?

[sunteam_paul]

Sun Steam, what lens/settings did you use for the shots with the sun in them?  Did you use an ND filter?

All I used was my bog standard Sony A200 DSLR with whatever lens it came with and no filter or special settings really. I'm quite a novice and don't know how to use 80% of the features on my camera properly. The only thing I did was add a bit of a gradient to the sky in the last pic via Photoshop, to make it look a bit different.

[henrycsc]

I agree.  Great shots Sunteam

[Joe Redifer]

This isn't a photograph, but I thought I'd post it here since we are posting anaglyph 3D pictures.  It is a video we shot a long time ago, but the lenses were too far apart to make any good 3D effects since most shots came too close to something.  I salvaged a few shots that look decent and put them in a Youtube 3D video.  Use the bottom righ corner to enable your favorite 3D viewing method.


I'm going to try 3D video again, but with bigger cameras that are more unwieldy.

[Tatsujin]

some Japanese Cicada (Semi) etc. shots