Post your best current shots

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:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2429/...9819b667_z.jpg
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:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2154/...9be87b38_z.jpg

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:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2760/...a55e9d3d_z.jpg

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:

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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:

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5301/...bf03af6e_z.jpg

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:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2312/...3d0ebbc9_z.jpg

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


Thanks for looking!

I usually post Bird photos almost exclusively but I am currently in Scotland on a long planned and dreamed golf vacation with my brothers so here is shot from St. Andrews Old Course.....this is a 5 shot HDR hand held using the 1D3 + 28-135mm f/3.5 lens and Photomatix software.


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Welcome to Scotland, Joel. Hopefully you'll get the chance to shoot plenty of birdies while you're over here. [:P]

Hi Goob, welcome to the forum. I really like your second photo, the HDR technique is not overdone, something that some people really like, but it

Wow, lovely shots Goob & Joel!


I'm not so sure I should be posting after those but here goes ...

I'm finding some intersting things lurking around my backyard! Here'sa one-eyed dragonfly. This picture really doesn't do it justice for how pretty it was!


http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5181/...bd0d4f1c71.jpg

Denise, That

lol ...looks like he has a football helmet on too!


I don't know why but I love watching birds in my bird bath!


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Wonderful shot of the old course. Makes me wish I was back there. Although my score wasn

I was using AV mode and choosing an ISO that would allow the slowest shutter speed of the 5 shot bracket to be 1/15 to 1/30 or faster. This works if you

Thanks Andy, unfortunately no time in our agenda and I didn't bring a long lens....too bad because (as you know) Bass Rock at North Berwick has a fantastic colony of Gannets.


I could see it from the golf course too.[:(]