Photographers: Post your BEST SHOTS OF 2006!

[Staples]

Originally posted by: JonTom
your eyes are much more important than your gear. practice practice practice. look at other's shots and determine what specifically you like about them, then go out and try to recreate that.

for certain things, you do need specific gear, but by and large it is all about determining what about what you're seeing you want to capture...

Very good advice. I have lots of expensive lens and an SLR and I have come to conclude that the photographer is 90% of the puzzle and most these shots can be taken just fine with a P&S as long as the lens has the zoom capibility. Sure the photo will probably be determined not to have been taken by an expensive SLR lens if one looks at the picture hard enough but to the untrained eye, most people probably would not notice the difference and come away thinking it is just a great photograph.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Originally posted by: Aharami

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
I was asked earlier for non-Photoshopped versions of my four original photos.

Here they are (cropped):

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VERSUS

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thanks! what did you do to the last pic to make it look so much better? The post-processing results of the last pic is especially outstanding

It takes me eons to post-process sometimes because I really start to like the possibilities. For example, on that first pic, I wanted to desaturate it to the point of it being almost B&W and then jack up the red and blue saturations to bring out the dome and cross. I think it looks much cooler than the real thing. And at the end of the day, I do this to create what I think is artistic. Not what someone else thinks.

As for that last pic...hmmm. Slight increases in brightness and contrast. Some sharpening. Added the vignetting. Boosted the saturation a little. That's about it.

 

[Jawo]

This thread does it....I am going to get a dSLR in 2007! I like the A620.....but its still not a dSLR!!! Will post some of my pics later....but heres a thread that I posted last week:Christmas Lights in DC

 

[SandInMyShoes]

All these were taken with my Canon SD600, in manual mode. They were taken on my various travels this year, and haven't had any post-processing. I apologize for the heavy compression on some of these. I realize the banding is unsightly, but I don't have time to upload a higher-quality copy at the moment.

It's hard to pick a favorite, but I think this would be it: Grand Tetons

Ammo macro
Lily
Bangkok at night
High-elevation flowers - I was really wishing for manual focus and aperture controls with this one!
Field of flowers in the Sawtooth Mountains
Atlanta, Idaho
My best panorama - excuse the stitch lines

I intend to read up on HDR and post-processing soon, hopefully some of those techniques may improve my photography

 

[bucwylde23]

this is probably one of my best pictures, though it's pretty wide.

It's Gatlinsburg, TN during Thanksgiving 2005

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/chrisg22/smokeymountains.jpg

I am resizing, thought I uploaded a smaller version

Here is the resized version:

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/chrisg22/smokeymountainsresized.jpg

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: scott916
Taken at Laguna Seca at the Monterey Sports Car Championship. The car is a GT2 class Ferrari F430.

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Too bad the car is blurry and the background is in focus.

 

[tfinch2]

Jules, you pimp your Canon gear out in every dslr thread, but you haven't posted any shots yet. Surely your gear doesn't collect dust all year...

 

[bucwylde23]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: scott916
Taken at Laguna Seca at the Monterey Sports Car Championship. The car is a GT2 class Ferrari F430.

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Too bad the car is blurry and the background is in focus.

I was thinking the same thing, I'd really like to see the car

You guys have inspired me to start practicing today. I am charging my AA's as we speak.. going to try to figure out the manual settings today.

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: tfinch2
Jules, you pimp your Canon gear out in every dslr thread, but you haven't posted any shots yet. Surely your gear doesn't collect dust all year...

Hehe that reminds me collecting dust is probably better than collecting salt. After a Rebel got splashed good, I'm real careful with the 5D although the sensor needs cleaning.

 

[Mark R]

OK. It's time for my pano-rama-rama.

Snow in Ringinglow

Hope valley

The Cam

Park Hill at twilight

 

[tfinch2]

Originally posted by: Mark R
The Cam

:thumbsup:

 

[CTho9305]

You can remove the filename from these URLs and browse for other pics from the sets.

nice clouds
other nice clouds @ sunset (original non-processed pic is in that directory)
lichen
candle
flower (and as it was off the camera).

You can remove the /smaller part of the URLs to get full-size versions.

 

[jamautosound]

In order of my favorites.

Tower Bridge Old Sacramento

Beach At Rio Del Mar

Riverwalk San Antonio

Hoover Dam

Sacramento River At Dusk

Room At The Alamo

Federales In Mexico

My Buddy Paul

Wedged On The Freeway

Damn, I just finished going through most of the pics in this thread, very impressive!

Time to start reading the manual on my camera!

 

[Rudy Toody]

My first try with my new video camera in still mode. (Canon DC100)

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[Staples]

Originally posted by: tfinch2
Jules, you pimp your Canon gear out in every dslr thread, but you haven't posted any shots yet. Surely your gear doesn't collect dust all year...

I am still waiting for an official comment on this.

 

[MrCraphead]

alright, so I know this pic was from 2005, but I love it anyway. Sorry.

Snail.

 

[alphatarget1]

Eiffel Tower at Night

 

[Sukhoi]

I posted 3 of these in another thread a month ago so they might be repeats if you saw that.

Balanced Rock
Double Arch
Turret Arch
Devils Garden
Partition Arch
Looking Back
Big Rock
Dead Horse
Grand Canyon
Mountain Lake
Railroad
Tunnel

Sorry I couldn't decide which to link. All shot with a Canon A700.

 

[PotatoSandWitch]

Pic of a pushpin

Link of some stone tiles in backyard (invert colors in Paint ftw)

Pic of my trashcan (again, invert colors ftw)

Pic of a lizard I cought in backyard

I wish I had photoshop but it's sooo expensive...
I used the still pic mode of an aging Canon camcorder (about 300 bucks)... works surprisingly well, I suppose...

 

[NuKe9]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Okay, I'll get started!

I am STILL processing my Greece pics from this summer, so I dunno if these are the best or if the best are yet to come. But here they are...

Santorini at Dawn, 5:30 AM
Same pic as above, taken about 6 hours later.
More from Oia, Santorini.
Yet another.

Oia, Santorini: Has to be in the Top 10 of the World's Most Picturesque Destinations!

Edit: Links fixed!

Great shots!

Santorini is beautiful. It's almost impossible to get a bad shot there. We stopped there on our cruise back in October. Shame we were only there one day, could've stayed much longer. It was just about everyones favorite port.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Originally posted by: NuKe9

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Okay, I'll get started!

I am STILL processing my Greece pics from this summer, so I dunno if these are the best or if the best are yet to come. But here they are...

Santorini at Dawn, 5:30 AM
Same pic as above, taken about 6 hours later.
More from Oia, Santorini.
Yet another.

Oia, Santorini: Has to be in the Top 10 of the World's Most Picturesque Destinations!

Edit: Links fixed!

Great shots!

Santorini is beautiful. It's almost impossible to get a bad shot there. We stopped there on our cruise back in October. Shame we were only there one day, could've stayed much longer. It was just about everyones favorite port.

Agreed. The island does half the work. I just brough the EFS 10-22 along!

 

[getbush]

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[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: Mark R
OK. It's time for my pano-rama-rama.

The Cam

where on the cam is that?


my contribution

 

[montanafan]

I shoot mainly sports, but I'm going to try to do some landscapes as soon as I get a chance. Some of my favorites from the past year.

 

[thejnaitor]

Originally posted by: lizardboy
Dubrovnik, Croatia:
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croatia1.jpg

Iceland:
iceland1.jpg
iceland2.jpg

Wow. That first iceland pic of yours is amazing. I love it!