Post your best current shots

[ham]

I've got another to share, a B&W of St. Paul's Cathedral.

Thanks for the comments guys. I'm really enjoying my photography at the moment, I almost feel like I've turned a corner since I got involved on Google+.

[M_Six]

Great shot, Ham. But maybe clone out the far cranes? Shouldn't be hard.

[conropl]

I've got another to share, a B&W of St. Paul's Cathedral.

Thanks for the comments guys. I'm really enjoying my photography at the moment, I almost feel like I've turned a corner since I got involved on Google+.

Ham - This is a really nice shot. Love that view of St Paul's. It probably would look better w/o the crane in the middle of it, but it is still a great shot that I doubt many get the chance to take. I have a tendancy to not want to clone a lot of things out also, but in the end the city scape may be more pleasing with the cloning.

[ham]

Not sure how I feel about cloning things out of these shots... I don't normally mind, but London's skyline is always covered in cranes, buildings going up, coming down and being renovated.

I'll consider it though, thanks!

Oh and Denise, the second shot of that dog has just made me laugh out loud and wake the sleeping GF up! I'm blaming you, hope that's OK

[Steve U]

Nice shot Ham, I actually like the cranes, maybe a slightly different angle where they weren't so close to the main well lit subject. But I think cranes add a sense of history and dates some images and that is a good thing.

Great shots Denise, like the dog having a dip and the gulls are superb.

Mark, really nice muted pretty colours work really well with the forboding silhouette of the large tree. And the smaller trees look like they are ganging up on the barn, great image.

[ddt0725]

Thanks, guys!

Today, I experimented with reflections in water droplets on blades of grass and that didn't go so well so tonight, I was playing with smoke again for lack of anything better to do!


Playing with smoke again by Denise Trocio, on Flickr

[conropl]

Thanks, guys!

Today, I experimented with reflections in water droplets on blades of grass and that didn't go so well so tonight, I was playing with smoke again for lack of anything better to do!


Playing with smoke again by Denise Trocio, on Flickr

That is really cool.

[M_Six]

Very cool shot. How'd you do that?

[ddt0725]

Very cool shot. How'd you do that?

Thanks! The smoke is from incense and this time didn't even need any cleanup, it is completely unaltered except for applying a gradient color overlay in CS5. Incense provides a pretty clean swirl of smoke.

[Steve U]

Pretty nifty stuff with the incense Denise.