Artistic Shots- Well thought out, framed (positioned), artistic shots only please.

[TexasTJ]

My First Try at an HDR Image form an 09 Trip to Ouray Colorado.



Random shots from a Trip to Big Bend with a med stop in Alpine a couple of years ago!!!


Biggs

 

[LaOutbackTrail]

Women Can Do It!

:Wow1:

 

[1911]

Women Can Do It!

Great photo! K. is a good sport. Tell her that driving an FJ40 on a rough road will induce labor.

 

[Every Miles A Memory]

I think the sensor on the belly is telling her its almost ready to pop! Great photo!

 

[nwoods]

Women Can Do It!

:Wow1:

thank goodness, because I certainly don't want to go through it!

Great portrait shot! Do you have more from this series? Feel free to post them in the Portrait thread. Good stuff!

 

[mervifwdc]

Just found this area... guided by another member (gotta love a good guide :sombrero: )

Photography is my passion. As well as my source of income. I travel to make photographs. For me. Ones that touch my very core. And lucky for me, others seem to enjoy them also.... hope you do too. Here's one for you from Southern Colorado. And another from Mexico.

Whispering Dunes
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Fishermen at Sea
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Stunning! Looking forward to seeing more of your shots.

Merv


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[mervifwdc]

The kids here in morocco are just so cute. Too many of them are looking for sweets from tourists, but some just cannot by driven by without photographing them in return for some fruit which usually brings a big smile.


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[LaOutbackTrail]

thank goodness, because I certainly don't want to go through it!

Great portrait shot! Do you have more from this series? Feel free to post them in the Portrait thread. Good stuff!

Thanks! No, only one pic is needed when you are trying to replicate something.

There is a portrait thread? Oh well, I started this one....

 

[Sebas]

 

[HumphreyBear]

A few of mine that I thought I'd share. I seem to be going through South American withdrawal this weekend, all my posted photos have been from my 2006 trip there (I've been four times and am planning trip five). I'll lay claim to these having had a tremendous amount of thought put into their framing, I'll leave the concept of whether they are artistic to others!

From the Uros Islands in Lake Titicaca:
400mm, f/6.3, 1/320th sec, 0 EV, ISO100, Circ. Polariser filter, Landscape mode, IS on
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400mm, f/7.1, 1/400th sec, 0 EV, ISO100, 0.3ND filter, Landscape mode, IS on
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160mm, f/5.6, 1/800th sec, 0 EV, ISO100, Circ. Polariser filter, Manual mode, IS off
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360mm, f/5.6, 1/640th sec, 0 EV, ISO100, no filter, Manual mode, IS on
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Not the Uros Islands, but from a solid island in Lake Titicaca:
100mm, f/8, 1/250th sec, 0 EV, ISO100, Circ. Polariser filter, Landscape mode, IS off
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From Rio De Janeiro during Carivale a few years ago. I was focussing on trying to demonstrate movement through the use of very shallow depth of field-induced blurring and 'bokeh'.
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These were both shot after a rain storm passed through the sambadrome, hence the shine and high ambient light reflectivity. It helped for the same reason movie/TV scenes are often 'wet down' beforehand as it adds a significant amount of details and interest to an otherwise flat shot. In this case I really wanted to have the reflections pick up the crazy colours, shadows and activity going on around the performers. These performers were at the end of the sambadrome and were in the process of stripping off their costumes and going for the afterparty. They were shot on a Canon D20 with a Canon EF L 100-400mm (f/4.5-5.6) lens fully extended to 400mm. Autofocus settings were Pattern metering mode for the first photo because I wanted the surrounds only a little out of focus, but the ground completely out. The second shot was manually focussed to try and pinpoint the donkey's eye and rose hat (I missed slightly and got its horn, but pretty close!). The metadata says it was spot focussed, though??

400mm, f/5.6, 1/25th sec, 0 EV, ISO400, 0.3ND filter, manual mode, IS on
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400mm, f/5.6, 1/15th sec, 0 EV, ISO400, no filter, manual mode, IS off
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And finally from the train graveyard at Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia, where salt trains go to die (for some reason I thought I was in Chile when I labelled these Salar photos, I blame too much cerveca and MinuteMan pizza... :sombrero: ).
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Cheers,
Humphrey

 

[Every Miles A Memory]

Great shots Humphrey!

 

[FLYFISHEXPERT]

Working on a series for my friend's wine shop.

I am going to redo the white wine one tonight, but I like how the other two turned out.

 

[Every Miles A Memory]

I was just thinking that the White Wine shot might look better with a different color background.

 

[john101477]

 

[LaOutbackTrail]

I am going to redo the white wine one tonight, but I like how the other two turned out.

Composition is there, but I think they turned out a bit soft, especially the beer.