Great photo! To me, the cropepd one looks neater, but IMO it depends on what you're using the photo for.

Took out the 50mm tonight to the Christmas lights. Sorta tough for a newbie to do w/out a tripod, but these are the best of what I got.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8503/8...9105244f_c.jpg
Lights by mattdayjr, on Flickr

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8080/8...7331cd3e_c.jpg
Reindeer by mattdayjr, on Flickr

Great shots there Buck :clap:

Thanks.

This was just a random pic at a concert taken with my point and shoot, but I thought was neat.

http://imageshack.us/a/img14/773/not...ntnight082.jpg

Apologies to those who saw this on my Facebook a while back.

That's a cool pic.

I upgraded from my old Sony Cybershot to a Nikon D3100 back in September. Here are some of the photos I've taken since then. Most are HDR photos because I like the way the technique works on these Western Kansas sunsets.

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My Airedale waiting to open her presents on Christmas eve

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went to aerosmith a few weeks ago, liked this shot

A friend of mine took these when he went to the gold coast..
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Excellent pics, Wyatt Earp!

Not mine, but this is just a really awesome shot.
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A foggy morning at the beach recently

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My bro took a regular pic from his phone and sent it to me when he was at the game. I did some touch ups on Instagram. Looks pretty good

Quite dark, but it was the best I could do with my phone. This is of the waterfront of Carss Park, before the Australia Day fireworks began.http://i.imgur.com/SP9OHyz.jpg

New lens. Canon 50mm f/1.4

http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/4214/11767449.jpg

[QUOTE=Fire Me Boy!;9428587]New lens. Canon 50mm f/1.4



Just bought that today plus the 85mm f1.8, think they will work well with my 5D MkII. Gonna try to do some time lapse work.

http://re-prop.com/apod/pacman.jpg

My newest:

Look through the cosmic cloud cataloged as NGC 281 and it's almost easy to miss stars of open cluster IC 1590. But, formed within the nebula, that cluster's young, massive stars ultimately power the pervasive nebular glow. The eye-catching shapes looming in this portrait of NGC 281 are sculpted columns and dense dust globules seen in silhouette, eroded by intense, energetic winds and radiation from the hot cluster stars. If they survive long enough, the dusty structures could also be sites of future star formation. Playfully called the Pacman Nebula because of its overall shape, NGC 281 is about 10,000 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia. This composite image was made through narrow-band filters, but combines emission from the nebula's hydrogen, sulfur, and oxygen atoms in a visible spectrum palette. It spans over 80 light-years at the estimated distance of NGC 281.

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Watch at 1080i for a nice view of the sky...

Nice! :thumb:

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Taken from building undergoing renovation.

Did you get your yearly rain or what?

Haha not exactly, but these past few days have been the first decent few rainy days in a few months.

http://i.imgur.com/K6YxD1Z.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/EjHjKYj.jpg

Coronado Cross, just outside Fort Dodge KS

"On June 29, 1541, after much hardship, Francisco Vasquez de Coronado and his group crossed the Arkansas River (called the St. Peter & St. Paul River) near present day Fort Dodge, Kansas. Father Juan de Padilla held a mass of thanksgiving on the nearby hills, the first Christian service held in the interior of the continent, predating the landing of the Pilgrims almost 100 years."

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I just returned from a 3 week stay in Seoul and took these.

Cherry blossoms in a stream in Namsan Park, Seoul:

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u...ps5c692ebc.jpg

Trail in Namsan Park:

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u...ps81ca2fbf.jpg

2 elephants fighting and a jaguar chasing a monkey in africa. it was an amazing safari

This isnt a photo, but's its amazing.

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Some very, very good work here. Is there a thread for sharing paintings?

Saw this Bighorn sheep from my boat last summer in Central Wa. He was not happy to see me..

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Tornado that passed just west of Rozel Kansas today. I was able to photograph the entire life cycle of this tornado. The storm produced 3 more brief tornadoes after this.

F that S.

Autumn weather.

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/21/9ajy2y3e.jpg

All it needs is an attractive MILF and it'd be a shot out of The United States Of Leeland.

Straya!

The fog this morning was incredible.

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/28/pyhu7a4u.jpg

From my travels.

Seoul Station:

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u...ps6dc837aa.jpg


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Man made stream, downtown Seoul:

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u...psde8bd368.jpg

Namsan Park, Seoul:

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u...ps4d8dc4f3.jpg

Oahu North Shore:

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u...ps0f32fe81.jpg

Mule Deer, Big Basin State Park, California:

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u...pseab42363.jpg

Island of Lanai from Kaanapali Beach, Maui:

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u...psa1b70fcd.jpg

Half Dome, Yosemite National Park:

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u...ps8940651f.jpg

Fremont Street, Las Vegas:

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u...ps68a9a519.jpg

Star Trails

Series of pictures but should work for some entertainment. Only about 1 minute long.

WATCH IN 1080P!!

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What equipment are you using to capture that stuff? Those stars look incredible, man.

http://www.thecutekid.com/photo-cont...res-1369178924

Can I get some votes for my daughter

All in Northern California:

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This one took a while to get right. I really wanted the light to reflect off the grease without washing out the whole picture. Plus it took some maneuvering to get perfect composition with so many different figures drawing the eye at once. Notice how the slaw in in the upper right hand corner balances with the similarly round hushpuppies in the bottom left. They are bisected by dominant two chicken tenders as the fried shrimp in the bottom right attempt to pull the fries down along the tenders. Then there's the white Styrofoam backdrop, a Purgatory of sorts, lending a real sense of isolation to the whole piece. What results is a perfect, strange blend of calm and chaos. Not to brag, but this is one of my better works.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...7s_Sampler.JPG

my first few pics with the new Camera. flame away but be gentle,. :evil:
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Canon 5d MkII at 15 seconds and thanks!

Dave does all of his photos with the Cannon and a $35 telescope from Wal-Mart.

Dayze I really like the Rose one. Well shot and good bokeh.

thanks! :thumb: Literally my first time with a camera of any sort.

how's your observatory treatin ya?

Man I wish :)

The weather sucks but I'm headed to western Kansas and then up into the Rockies for some really good shoots (I hope).

your gear is probably worth more that most people's houses lol.

The roof opening is awesome.

Providenciales, Turks and Caicos. We took over 1,200 pictures.

nice dude.

Thanks. It is pretty hard to take a bad picture there. I was really happy to have an amazing place like that be my first real use of the nice camera we bought. :)

we're going to St. Louis in a few weeks; so hopefully I'll get some cool pics with our new camera as well.

Set your camera on the arch itself and click a picture going up. Should rock.

yep. I bet there are a ton of cool angles to work with.
Going to a Cards game too just for the hell of it.

and Six Flags :evil: but won't be bringing the camera there.


...and the City Museum.

You mean you aren't taking your brand new camera on to the Mr. Freeze ride for some awesome upside down shots? Some photographer you are! :evil:

10/10 would view again. you should get the nobel peace prize of photography.

This is my work dungeon. It's basically like the bathroom from Saw with a bunch of expensive equipment in it. Especially when we're busier than a dyke in a hardware store, like we are currently.

http://i1095.photobucket.com/albums/...psc44b53ea.jpg

LMAO at the SAW reference.

My personal work station

http://i1095.photobucket.com/albums/...ps649bc223.jpg

Look at all the trophy dust and sheet metal film on the floor. I havent' swept that shit in a week.

By comparison, our showroom right around the corner looks pretty damn good.

http://i1095.photobucket.com/albums/...ps478e906d.jpg

You should wipe that Jizz off the edge of your keyboard. Gross :)

Not mine, but amazing.

http://sphotos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/hphoto...43161977_n.jpg

Just took this shot.

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/06/19/ryju8yre.jpg

One I just took

http://re-prop.com/apod/as1.jpg

Wow, that's just incredible, way to 1 up my one haha.

Wow dude. Incredible. May I post that on Facebook?

Sure Fish go ahead...

And for a little context if you want to add it. Its the Milky Way over the Delicate Arch in Moab Utah. It shows two late night rock climbers and the Summer Triangle overhead: Vega, Altair and Deneb.

The summer triangle are the 3 spiked stars middle left, Vega very high at the edge Altair down and to the right below the Milky Way and Deneb in the Milky Way to the Left with the North America Nebula and the Pelican Nebula visible next to it.

Is that what it actually looks like with the naked eye or does it take a special camera set up to get that image out?

That is simply awesome. I've made the hike to Delicate Arch a couple of times and I'm curious. Where did you take that photo from? And where is the light source on the arch coming from?

This is a composite of 28 photos that were 30 seconds each, so yes and no. You wouldn't get the detail or the color but if you took the picture down to just black and white it would look very similar,