AT Shot of the Day Thread

[Spoooon]

 

[CuriousMike]

Sprint 2019 by CuriousMike, on Flickr

Sprint 2019 by CuriousMike, on Flickr

Sprint 2019 by CuriousMike, on Flickr

Sprint 2019 by CuriousMike, on Flickr

 

[IronWing]

Sprint 2019 by CuriousMike, on Flickr

We vacationed out there a couple years ago. The Forest Service had closed the McWay area, including the roadside viewpoints, for the Soberanes Fire so we never got to see the falls. We had to settle for orcas and condors.

 

[Brainonska511]

Took out my Canon 200 mm f/2.8 to snap a photo of a hawk overhead, but by the time I got my camera out, the hawk had stopped circling. So instead, I took some shots of my dog.

Noesy

Noesy

 

[CuriousMike]

California Newt by CuriousMike, on Flickr
Tunnel View v419 by CuriousMike, on Flickr
Napa Valley Hot Air Balloon by CuriousMike, on Flickr

 

[gradoman]

Went home (St Thomas, VI) and my dad treated my family to a stay at a resort because he's nuts:

 

[IronWing]

Morning sun on the vulture roost, Patagonia, Arizona

 

[Spoooon]

A7III, Primoplan 58/1.9

 

[CuriousMike]

I love and hate that image. The color, the sharpness of the central flower... but holy jesus shit fuck me that bokeh effect ... horrific.

 

[Spoooon]

I love and hate that image. The color, the sharpness of the central flower... but holy jesus shit fuck me that bokeh effect ... horrific.

LOL, well, the lens is almost 70 years old.

 

[Spoooon]

Primoplan!

 

[spacejamz]

more random shots from the past few days of planes landing at DFW airport...

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

Tulip Town north of Seattle

 

[CuriousMike]

Nice shots; it looks like you used some flash on your model... true? On camera flash or other?

 

[corkyg]

The shadow from her head says the light was from high above to the right rear - my guess is, the sun.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

Nice shots; it looks like you used some flash on your model... true? On camera flash or other?

Yeah the first shots I took all had really hard shadows so I got my flash and handheld it with my left hand outstretched to the side to fill them in. Nice catch.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

Here's a phone camera shot that shows the hard shadows

 

[CuriousMike]

Perfect example.
While the DSLR shot is more pleasing due to various characteristics, the phone shot has one big advantage (for this shot) - more DOF.

I was really hung up on the shallow DOF my FF camera provided -- but would then complain about how hard it was to get more DOF.

My m43 is an in-between solution - more DOF than FF, less then phone.

The other advantage of the m43 that I'm finding is I can shoot at (for example) f/5.6, which gets me an "equivalent" f/11 of FF... all while using a faster shutter speed (useful for handheld.)

I'm not convinced any one format is the "right" format.

 

[IronWing]

Female great horned owl this morning. She was facing down a Cooper's hawk who had perched in her nest tree.

I've been putting most of my owl pics over in my owl thread on ATOT.
https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/hooters-and-chicks-2019-edition.2560663/

 

[spacejamz]

Boeing 747-800 on her final approach...

 

[Spoooon]

In the living room, might try doing another one with a softbox and all that for fun.

One of my favorite neighborhood cats. She usually does something to crack me up.

 

[IronWing]

Ash throated flycatcher, Box Canyon, Santa Rita Mountains, Arizona

 

[corkyg]

NatGeo quality!

 

[gradoman]

Still on St Thomas, USVI. The first shot is at the Village, which is like a pop-up amusement park/food court during the Carnival and the second is at John Brewer's Bay beach.


Waiting:





The View:

 

[spacejamz]

I normally get side shots of her when she flies by but she turned earlier than usual so I was able to get a nearly head on shot of her today...


But I was still able to get a side shot anyway...the sun was on the other side of her so her normally bright red tail is not as bright...