Post your best current shots

[comalleyphotography]

Ohhhh I love that half hour exposure Ben. I have done a few shots like that, it is probably the most challenging photo I have taken.


I shot the end of the year "Pops Concert" at my high school. It was so much fun to shoot. After I shot the school's battle of the bands I decreed that concerts were my favorite things to shoot, this one disappoint. My friend let me borrow her 50mm f/1.4, which worked fantastically, the only problem I had was the DOF was too shallow, which is just awesome haha.


So here are some of the better shots from the night.


All shot with the Canon T1i and the 50mm f/1.4





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[rlriii13]

Great shots everyone!


This is Jen relaxing as the sun went down with her iPad and a lit candle to keep some bugs away. I played with different exposures and liked the 2 second look best. How many iPads does it take to equal the power of one Speedlight? []

[dsiegel5151]

My little niece (Addyson). Canon 40D, 24-70mm (@42mm), f2.8, 1/125s

[neuroanatomist]

From a trip to the park yesterday afternoon:


"Higher!"



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EOS 5D Mark II, EF 135mm f/2<span style="color: #ff0000;"]L USM, 1/1600 s, f/2.2, ISO 100

[btaylor]

I decided that I hadn't really pushed my star trails photo to the limits in post (in fact it was basically straight out of camera) so I made some edits, what do you think of the changes?



Milky Way Star Trails by Ben__Taylor, on Flickr

[comalleyphotography]

Ben, I think I

[btaylor]

There

[Goob]

Ben, the results are absolutely striking! The edits really brought out the cloudy, milkiness to the right. I keep on looking for some hidden image in it!

[Goob]

Everyone, thanks for posting so liberally on this thread! I'm new to the forums and this thread, and I love the feedback you guys give on all the photos. Photography has become a hobby for me and I'm really starting to enjoy the results. Please be as liberal with the critique - it's how I learn best!


Question: What are the general rules and/or etiquette to follow when posting photos taken of other people or their kids? I often take photos of friends and family and would love to get professional feedback on them but don't want to be disrespectful of privacy. For instance, I will never post any portraits publicly on Flickr without having consent.


Now, for my best current shots, I put my new 60D (yeah baby!) to the test this weekend with my existing Tamron 18-270mm DiII as well as my new Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II and EF 85mm f/1.8 USM lenses. I'm somewhat color blind and it seems to have me prefer vibrant colors, so please let me know if I've gone overboard on any edits. I mainly use Lightroom 3 and Photoshop CS5.


Rusty old Dodge out in the wheat fields around Douglas County, WA:

EOS 60D, Tamron 18-270mm DiII @27mm, 1/125s, f/14.0, ISO 100


HDR of the sun setting behind a lookout point on the local ski hill new Waterville, WA:



EOS 60D, EF 50mm f/1.8 II, f/8.0, ISO 200, Tripod (HDR created in PS CS5)


Taken from the same vantage point, no HDR this time:



EOS 60D, Tamron 18-270mm DiII @18mm, 1/30s, f/11.0, ISO 200


Take Saturday on the ski hill. Not sure what flowers these are (got to ask my mother-in-law again), but they sure were pretty:



EOS 60D, EF-S 18-135mm DiII @135mm, 1/250s, f/5.6, ISO 2000


Again, not sure what this one's called, but it's in my mother-in-law's front yard, taken Sunday morning:



EOS 60D, Tamron 18-270mm DiII @270mm, 1/160s, f/11.0, ISO 3200


And finally...I just had to get one posted of this daredevil crop-duster:



EOS 60D, Tamron 18-270mm DiII @270mm, 1/400s, f/11.0, ISO 400


Thanks for looking!

[comalleyphotography]

Hey Ben. I'm quite glad you uploaded this photo to flickr, I was able to look at your metadata to see what settings you were using. The first time I did a shot like this, it was something like f/22 and the shutter was open for about two hours, it didn't work too well at all. This shot is f/5.6, shutter was open for almost 25 minutes, there is a decent amount of color editing here. But again, thanks for putting the metadata up, you saved me a lot of time.


Thanks again,


- Chris





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