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Photo Forum / Film Photography / 35 mm / September 2008Struth! Another Picture Of The Day (POD)
The Cycle of life. A picture tells a thousand words. Nature decided to tell a story... Birth - Life - Death so simple, so astounding. Shot with a 40D Canon, Sigma 70 - 200 F2.8, EX DG Mk II lens. > The Cycle of life. A picture tells a thousand words. Nature decided to > tell a story... Birth - Life - Death so simple, so astounding. > > Shot with a 40D Canon, Sigma 70 - 200 F2.8, EX DG Mk II lens. Clearly your best work ever. Someday, we may actually get a link. Bõwser wrote,on my timestamp of 12/08/2008 9:11 PM: >> The Cycle of life. A picture tells a thousand words. Nature decided to >> tell a story... Birth - Life - Death so simple, so astounding. >> >> Shot with a 40D Canon, Sigma 70 - 200 F2.8, EX DG Mk II lens. > > Clearly your best work ever. Someday, we may actually get a link. Sssssshhh! Don't let him on to it! :( >> The Cycle of life. A picture tells a thousand words. Nature decided to >> tell a story... Birth - Life - Death so simple, so astounding. >> >> Shot with a 40D Canon, Sigma 70 - 200 F2.8, EX DG Mk II lens. > > Clearly your best work ever. Someday, we may actually get a link. You mean you actually want the picture too? Wasn't the description enough? I seriously didn't think anyone would be tht interested. http://www.d-mac.info/POD/POD-Aug-1208.htm > http://www.d-mac.info/POD/POD-Aug-1208.htm I don't care what the link says... I want a picture a day, PLEASE! Question... did you need to crop the pic so tight? - JT it will give you something to do in your free time  SignatureSee Header for Improving Usenet's Signal-To-Noise Ratio "The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong." - Carl Jung >> http://www.d-mac.info/POD/POD-Aug-1208.htm > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > - JT > it will give you something to do in your free time Yes. I am one of those old codgers who likes to frame the shot in the viewfinder. Sometimes in hindsight I think perhaps I should have allowed more headroom but mostly, doing it my way guarantees if I want a wall filling enlargement, I can have it. Of course the 1.6 crop of the camera I used gave the 70 - 200 lens a field of view of 112 mm which doesn't exactly leave you much choice. Tight cropping in a garden is pretty much something you learn to live with. I went out today to buy some lenses for this camera but came home without any mid range ones. I thought for a grand or so I'd pick up a walk-around lens with IS and decent glass but it seems that will only happen if it doesn't have Canon printed on it. Maybe I should have stuck with the Nikon stuff instead of hand it over when I retired! Thanks for the kind comments. Doug. > >> http://www.d-mac.info/POD/POD-Aug-1208.htm > > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > more headroom but mostly, doing it my way guarantees if I want a wall > filling enlargement, I can have it. So do I... However sometimes you need to allow just a little more room, which in MHO would have shown the bottom of the flower and maybe a hint of stem. In any event, I like the shot. > Of course the 1.6 crop of the camera I used gave the 70 - 200 lens a > field of view of 112 mm which doesn't exactly leave you much choice. > Tight cropping in a garden is pretty much something you learn to live with. So I'm not the only one that uses a 70-200mm in the garden. I shot some garden stuff late spring/early summer. The tight cropped stuff looks much better. ;-) > I went out today to buy some lenses for this camera but came home > without any mid range ones. I thought for a grand or so I'd pick up a > walk-around lens with IS and decent glass but it seems that will only > happen if it doesn't have Canon printed on it. You've used Sigma, some of them for the money beat Canon and Nikon for price... Perhaps even in the end result as well. I know of a 30mm f/1.4 that I'd like to add to my lens collection. > Maybe I should have stuck with the Nikon stuff instead of hand it over > when I retired! Thanks for the kind comments. Anytime! I like most of the shots you've provided a link to. The wildlife at the zoo had a fuzzy look to them, which for me anyway equates to a lifelike appearance. Thank you for sharing! - JT either likes a picture (and comments), or doesn't like it (and remains silent). SignatureSee Header for Improving Usenet's Signal-To-Noise Ratio "The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong." - Carl Jung >>> The Cycle of life. A picture tells a thousand words. Nature decided >>> to tell a story... Birth - Life - Death so simple, so astounding. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > http://www.d-mac.info/POD/POD-Aug-1208.htm Not too bad (as flower shots go). Just wonder if it would have worked better in portrait orientation and get the whole of the bottom flower and maybe part of the stem in frame. Still, a decent shot though. >>>> The Cycle of life. A picture tells a thousand words. Nature decided >>>> to tell a story... Birth - Life - Death so simple, so astounding. [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > better in portrait orientation and get the whole of the bottom flower > and maybe part of the stem in frame. Still, a decent shot though. Thanks for the comment Doug. It's a funny thing... Whenever I give a contract shooter a wedding to do - complete with detailed shoot list, I usually get back a whole lot of pictures I never ordered and almost none I did order. They all give me their reason for not following instructions as being how *they* thought the shots should have been composed... And wonder why I'm in no rush to hire 'em again. What do you reckon it is that causes that Doug? Is it just photographers or do you get back a green car when you put one in for a repaint and specify black? Curious stuff mate. The only business I've ever had where I pay staff $80 an hour and they think they've got poetic license to do as they please and still get paid.... Sorry, just a rant from 2 wedding shoots on 8/8/08. 100 shots specified and one girl didn't take a single one, the other (a bloke) at least gave me 40 to spec. and the rest his idea of what he thought looked better! We all have our own opinion of what *might* have looked better, after someone has taken the shot. It's not all that easy to hold a heavy lens on an awkward body in portrait orientation either. Someone told me once it wasn't so bad to be a Holden and the standard used to judge others. Either as good as or as bad as depending on your outlook. You're kidding. This crap is a POD? Where? Miss Jean's Romper Room? > You're kidding. This crap is a POD? Where? Miss Jean's Romper Room? Who's trolling now? >> You're kidding. This crap is a POD? Where? Miss Jean's Romper Room? > > Who's trolling now? Just asked a simple question. Where is it a POD? Your own site? >>> You're kidding. This crap is a POD? Where? Miss Jean's Romper Room? >> >> Who's trolling now? > > Just asked a simple question. Where is it a POD? Your own site? Derogatory remarks are never simple questions. "Photo of the day" was a theme I and many of my workmates used way back in 1962, as an in-house competition to see who bought the beer on Friday when we had 6:00 O'clock closing of hotels and used 4x5 speed graphics cameras. Whoever of the cadets got their photo published would pin a print on the board outside the darkrooms. Each pay-day (Thursday) the grizzly old codger who ran the darkroom and drank fixer for breakfast, would stand squinting at the board and poke his gnarled old finger at one and say... "This one". As he shuffled back to his darkroom. The chosen photo's owner had to give him a half bottle of brandy! They really were the glory days of photography, when a picture did indeed speak for a thousand words. As time passed, many working photographers in Australia would post their "POD" in the window of their studio to keep a community spirit alive. Of course in those days a photo studio also developed film for people too. Many did a huge community service, providing people with photographs for the local newspaper. There are at least 6 photographer's I know who still hold their own POD. I host my latest aberration on the D-Mac.info site. I used to have one on my douglasjames.com.au site and always have had a POD or POW in my gallery/coffee lounge and at my studio. Next year we (weddings N portraits) will be running a BOW (bride of the week) exhibition where people passing our newest studio can vote on their favourite bridal portrait and monthly win a prize. In a time when there was less animosity in these groups, I would have happily put up 12 prizes a year for a monthly photo competition similar to POD. Even as the Shootin was in it's dying stages, I offered to do it but changing something is harder than starting afresh. Competition is healthy for the imagination. Rewards are a great way to get people united and off their a.s. Eventually the penny might drop but as long as democracy exists, nothing will get done. If you want to display your daily best on my POD, you are welcome as is anyone else. I can give you an account on the server and your own gallery. A little like Pbase but not imitating them. You can customise the look and feel of your gallery too. Just a thought. >>>> You're kidding. This crap is a POD? Where? Miss Jean's Romper Room? >>> [quoted text clipped - 47 lines] > gallery. A little like Pbase but not imitating them. You can customise > the look and feel of your gallery too. Just a thought. Nah, I'll pass, thanks. Picture didn't come through. SignatureChristopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus www.lds.org . The Cycle of life. A picture tells a thousand words. Nature decided to tell a story... Birth - Life - Death so simple, so astounding. Shot with a 40D Canon, Sigma 70 - 200 F2.8, EX DG Mk II lens. |
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