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Lake Lanier at Night
Last weekend I spent the night on a houseboat and played around taking
some long exposure photos late at night and in the early morning. Since the lake is getting smaller every day, I plan on taking more to record the drought. Feel free to comment you would like about my feeble attempt to take some interesting photos. http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/561366333LXiTFf |
Lake Lanier at Night
On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 06:39:46 -0500, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote: Last weekend I spent the night on a houseboat and played around taking some long exposure photos late at night and in the early morning. Since the lake is getting smaller every day, I plan on taking more to record the drought. Feel free to comment you would like about my feeble attempt to take some interesting photos. http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/561366333LXiTFf You hit this one http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2...92789669MymBxy with Noise Ninja and leave the meta color data alone, it's an award winner. It's a wonderful image - you don't see evening shots with that much color, shading and nuance. All that B&W work you did paid off on this one. This one http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2...92789669tamYtI is god damn freakin' - I don't have the language skills to laud this image. Damn man - that's stellar. The louder blooms are right on the edge of being blown out, but that just adds to the overall feel and gestalt of the image. I can't say enough good things about it - wonderful. I also like this one http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2...92789669gteCJU Very moody and ethereal bridge to nowhere kind of image. That could be a cover for a sword and sorcery novel or maybe a mystery/romance. It has a little bit of fade at the top, but that's contrasted by the bridge lights - the meaning being the lighted bridge to the light glow in the sky which indicates something different than a path to nowhere. Lot's of imagery and stories in that image. Well done. This one http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2...92789669fATEMu needs to have the stars and lights close in to the bridge cloned out - they distract from the image. If you clipped those out, or cloned them out, it would improve the image quite a bit. The eye is attracted to what looks like dust and that doesn't help the overall impact of the image. Do that and it's also a good one. This one http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2...92789669GqMaFH needs some help - the dark/light contrast is off. If you could lighten up the darker trees along the side of the road and bring out some detail, the image would work much better. This one http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2...92789669iEIxVH again, the editing process is your friend. Remove the green glows and you've got a great image. Here you go - the best of the shore line shots. http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2...92789669iYOOsj Noise Ninja on the raw shot and then hit it with HDR processing and you have the best of the lot - which says a lot because they are all good. This http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2...92789669WhfSdk would really be good if you could get rid of the white bloom - it's way over done. Isolate that area and tone it down a few notch's and you have a runner up to the preceding image. Overall, you have a great capture eye. Several of those images would be worthy competitors in any exhibition and I'd bet if you cleaned up those bridge images and submitted them to whatever state magazine the DOT or state puts out, you'd be sure to have them published. You might also consider those shore shots for your DNR publication or whatever state outdoors magazines are published in GA. Well done Reg - most excellant. |
Lake Lanier at Night
On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 06:39:46 -0500, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote: http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/561366333LXiTFf By the way, if you ever feel comfortable enough with it, I can provide you some outlets for commercial imagery like calendars, posters and stock images. Just let me know. |
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Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 06:39:46 -0500, "Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote: SWS Thanks again for the in depth comments, I save this post so i can review it in detail when I have more time. |
Lake Lanier at Night
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 06:39:46 -0500, "Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote: http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/561366333LXiTFf By the way, if you ever feel comfortable enough with it, I can provide you some outlets for commercial imagery like calendars, posters and stock images. Just let me know. Thanks, please post them here or email them to . I doubt I am at that level today, but it would be good to get some more feedback. Who ever started that post about the D50 sure got me involved in a new expensive hobby. It would be nice to get some of my money back. |
Lake Lanier at Night
On Nov 9, 6:39 am, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote: Last weekend I spent the night on a houseboat and played around taking some long exposure photos late at night and in the early morning. Since the lake is getting smaller every day, I plan on taking more to record the drought. Feel free to comment you would like about my feeble attempt to take some interesting photos. http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/561366333LXiTFf Very good job! You did a good job with light and color. |
Lake Lanier at Night
On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 06:39:46 -0500, Reginald P. Smithers III penned
the following well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats: |Last weekend I spent the night on a houseboat and played around taking |some long exposure photos late at night and in the early morning. Since |the lake is getting smaller every day, I plan on taking more to record |the drought. | |Feel free to comment you would like about my feeble attempt to take some |interesting photos. | |http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/561366333LXiTFf Excellent job! What camera? -- Grady-White Gulfstream, out of Oak Island, NC. Homepage http://pamandgene.idleplay.net/ Rec.boats at Lee Yeaton's Bayguide http://www.thebayguide.com/rec.boats ----------------- www.Newsgroup-Binaries.com - *Completion*Retention*Speed* Access your favorite newsgroups from home or on the road ----------------- |
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On Nov 9, 9:21 am, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote: wrote: On Nov 9, 6:39 am, "Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote: Last weekend I spent the night on a houseboat and played around taking some long exposure photos late at night and in the early morning. Since the lake is getting smaller every day, I plan on taking more to record the drought. Feel free to comment you would like about my feeble attempt to take some interesting photos. http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/561366333LXiTFf Very good job! You did a good job with light and color. Thanks, I really didn't do much different, except play with the shutter speed, aperture and ISO. On every shot, I took numerous shots playing around with the settings. The green color from the docks lights had to do with the lighting used by the marina. It did not look green to look at it, but it came out of the camera with the green shade. Somethings I did learn is I need to get a black cloth to cover the eye piece during the long exposure and also need to use the auto timer so I won't have to hit the shutter release button. Some nice photos were blurred because I shook the camera on the tripod as I hit the button, or it may have been the dock moving. I also want to buy a bulb so I can take some exposure longer than 30 secs, especially for some sky photos in the mountains. I was an avid 35mm guy in my day, even took some classes at a community college close by. It's interesting when you do just like you did, take several shots using different settings and record what you did with each. A bulb is nice, just because of what you stated, camera shake. I'm looking for a point and shoot for my daughter, don't want to spend too much, maybe a couple hundred, but also want to avoid shutter lag, which, is kind of a misnomer, because it's usually processor lag! |
Lake Lanier at Night
Gene Kearns wrote:
On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 06:39:46 -0500, Reginald P. Smithers III penned the following well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats: |Last weekend I spent the night on a houseboat and played around taking |some long exposure photos late at night and in the early morning. Since |the lake is getting smaller every day, I plan on taking more to record |the drought. | |Feel free to comment you would like about my feeble attempt to take some |interesting photos. | |http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/561366333LXiTFf Excellent job! What camera? It is a Nikon D200 taken w/ Tokina 12-24mm lens |
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wrote:
On Nov 9, 9:21 am, "Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote: wrote: On Nov 9, 6:39 am, "Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote: Last weekend I spent the night on a houseboat and played around taking some long exposure photos late at night and in the early morning. Since the lake is getting smaller every day, I plan on taking more to record the drought. Feel free to comment you would like about my feeble attempt to take some interesting photos. http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/561366333LXiTFf Very good job! You did a good job with light and color. Thanks, I really didn't do much different, except play with the shutter speed, aperture and ISO. On every shot, I took numerous shots playing around with the settings. The green color from the docks lights had to do with the lighting used by the marina. It did not look green to look at it, but it came out of the camera with the green shade. Somethings I did learn is I need to get a black cloth to cover the eye piece during the long exposure and also need to use the auto timer so I won't have to hit the shutter release button. Some nice photos were blurred because I shook the camera on the tripod as I hit the button, or it may have been the dock moving. I also want to buy a bulb so I can take some exposure longer than 30 secs, especially for some sky photos in the mountains. I was an avid 35mm guy in my day, even took some classes at a community college close by. It's interesting when you do just like you did, take several shots using different settings and record what you did with each. A bulb is nice, just because of what you stated, camera shake. I'm looking for a point and shoot for my daughter, don't want to spend too much, maybe a couple hundred, but also want to avoid shutter lag, which, is kind of a misnomer, because it's usually processor lag! The advantage of digital, is it records all of your settings automatically, so you just have to look at the settings as you look at each photo |
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John H. wrote:
On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 06:39:46 -0500, "Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote: Last weekend I spent the night on a houseboat and played around taking some long exposure photos late at night and in the early morning. Since the lake is getting smaller every day, I plan on taking more to record the drought. Feel free to comment you would like about my feeble attempt to take some interesting photos. http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/561366333LXiTFf Very nice. I especially liked 'Slowly Sinking'. The next one looked too distorted on the edges for me. (I think trees should be vertical, but I'm old fashioned.) Did you use the new lens? Now that I've got my Disney shots in the computer, I'm much more pleased with the sharpness of the lens. Judging sharpness with the screen on the back of the camera doesn't work too well. No, this is a Tokina 12-24mm at 12mm you do get some curvature of the image |
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John H. wrote:
On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:21:17 -0500, "Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote: wrote: On Nov 9, 6:39 am, "Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote: Last weekend I spent the night on a houseboat and played around taking some long exposure photos late at night and in the early morning. Since the lake is getting smaller every day, I plan on taking more to record the drought. Feel free to comment you would like about my feeble attempt to take some interesting photos. http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/561366333LXiTFf Very good job! You did a good job with light and color. Thanks, I really didn't do much different, except play with the shutter speed, aperture and ISO. On every shot, I took numerous shots playing around with the settings. The green color from the docks lights had to do with the lighting used by the marina. It did not look green to look at it, but it came out of the camera with the green shade. Somethings I did learn is I need to get a black cloth to cover the eye piece during the long exposure and also need to use the auto timer so I won't have to hit the shutter release button. Some nice photos were blurred because I shook the camera on the tripod as I hit the button, or it may have been the dock moving. I also want to buy a bulb so I can take some exposure longer than 30 secs, especially for some sky photos in the mountains. The D200 included a mask for the viewfinder when taking long exposures or using the timer. Of course, I left mine at home when I went on the trip, so no timer shots were made. I know, but it is much easier to use a cloth than try to slide it in after you have adjusted your composition. By the time you get that sucker in, you have moved the camera and tripod all over the place |
Lake Lanier at Night
On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 06:39:46 -0500, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote: Last weekend I spent the night on a houseboat and played around taking some long exposure photos late at night and in the early morning. Since the lake is getting smaller every day, I plan on taking more to record the drought. Feel free to comment you would like about my feeble attempt to take some interesting photos. http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/561366333LXiTFf Very nice. I especially liked 'Slowly Sinking'. The next one looked too distorted on the edges for me. (I think trees should be vertical, but I'm old fashioned.) Did you use the new lens? Now that I've got my Disney shots in the computer, I'm much more pleased with the sharpness of the lens. Judging sharpness with the screen on the back of the camera doesn't work too well. |
Lake Lanier at Night
On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:21:17 -0500, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote: wrote: On Nov 9, 6:39 am, "Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote: Last weekend I spent the night on a houseboat and played around taking some long exposure photos late at night and in the early morning. Since the lake is getting smaller every day, I plan on taking more to record the drought. Feel free to comment you would like about my feeble attempt to take some interesting photos. http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/561366333LXiTFf Very good job! You did a good job with light and color. Thanks, I really didn't do much different, except play with the shutter speed, aperture and ISO. On every shot, I took numerous shots playing around with the settings. The green color from the docks lights had to do with the lighting used by the marina. It did not look green to look at it, but it came out of the camera with the green shade. Somethings I did learn is I need to get a black cloth to cover the eye piece during the long exposure and also need to use the auto timer so I won't have to hit the shutter release button. Some nice photos were blurred because I shook the camera on the tripod as I hit the button, or it may have been the dock moving. I also want to buy a bulb so I can take some exposure longer than 30 secs, especially for some sky photos in the mountains. The D200 included a mask for the viewfinder when taking long exposures or using the timer. Of course, I left mine at home when I went on the trip, so no timer shots were made. |
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On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:31:33 -0000, wrote:
On Nov 9, 9:21 am, "Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote: wrote: On Nov 9, 6:39 am, "Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote: Last weekend I spent the night on a houseboat and played around taking some long exposure photos late at night and in the early morning. Since the lake is getting smaller every day, I plan on taking more to record the drought. Feel free to comment you would like about my feeble attempt to take some interesting photos. http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/561366333LXiTFf Very good job! You did a good job with light and color. Thanks, I really didn't do much different, except play with the shutter speed, aperture and ISO. On every shot, I took numerous shots playing around with the settings. The green color from the docks lights had to do with the lighting used by the marina. It did not look green to look at it, but it came out of the camera with the green shade. Somethings I did learn is I need to get a black cloth to cover the eye piece during the long exposure and also need to use the auto timer so I won't have to hit the shutter release button. Some nice photos were blurred because I shook the camera on the tripod as I hit the button, or it may have been the dock moving. I also want to buy a bulb so I can take some exposure longer than 30 secs, especially for some sky photos in the mountains. I was an avid 35mm guy in my day, even took some classes at a community college close by. It's interesting when you do just like you did, take several shots using different settings and record what you did with each. A bulb is nice, just because of what you stated, camera shake. I'm looking for a point and shoot for my daughter, don't want to spend too much, maybe a couple hundred, but also want to avoid shutter lag, which, is kind of a misnomer, because it's usually processor lag! Go get her a Nikon D50. The shutter lag, if it exists, cannot be noticed. She can use it as a point and shoot just by leaving all the settings in the default mode. That's what my wife does. |
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On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 12:44:16 -0500, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote: John H. wrote: On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:21:17 -0500, "Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote: wrote: On Nov 9, 6:39 am, "Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote: Last weekend I spent the night on a houseboat and played around taking some long exposure photos late at night and in the early morning. Since the lake is getting smaller every day, I plan on taking more to record the drought. Feel free to comment you would like about my feeble attempt to take some interesting photos. http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/561366333LXiTFf Very good job! You did a good job with light and color. Thanks, I really didn't do much different, except play with the shutter speed, aperture and ISO. On every shot, I took numerous shots playing around with the settings. The green color from the docks lights had to do with the lighting used by the marina. It did not look green to look at it, but it came out of the camera with the green shade. Somethings I did learn is I need to get a black cloth to cover the eye piece during the long exposure and also need to use the auto timer so I won't have to hit the shutter release button. Some nice photos were blurred because I shook the camera on the tripod as I hit the button, or it may have been the dock moving. I also want to buy a bulb so I can take some exposure longer than 30 secs, especially for some sky photos in the mountains. The D200 included a mask for the viewfinder when taking long exposures or using the timer. Of course, I left mine at home when I went on the trip, so no timer shots were made. I know, but it is much easier to use a cloth than try to slide it in after you have adjusted your composition. By the time you get that sucker in, you have moved the camera and tripod all over the place Shows how often I've used it. I figured it just slid in. Maybe I'll try mine out and see if it needs trimming. |
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On Nov 9, 11:31 am, wrote:
On Nov 9, 9:21 am, "Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote: wrote: On Nov 9, 6:39 am, "Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote: Last weekend I spent the night on a houseboat and played around taking some long exposure photos late at night and in the early morning. Since the lake is getting smaller every day, I plan on taking more to record the drought. Feel free to comment you would like about my feeble attempt to take some interesting photos. http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/561366333LXiTFf Very good job! You did a good job with light and color. Thanks, I really didn't do much different, except play with the shutter speed, aperture and ISO. On every shot, I took numerous shots playing around with the settings. The green color from the docks lights had to do with the lighting used by the marina. It did not look green to look at it, but it came out of the camera with the green shade. Somethings I did learn is I need to get a black cloth to cover the eye piece during the long exposure and also need to use the auto timer so I won't have to hit the shutter release button. Some nice photos were blurred because I shook the camera on the tripod as I hit the button, or it may have been the dock moving. I also want to buy a bulb so I can take some exposure longer than 30 secs, especially for some sky photos in the mountains. I was an avid 35mm guy in my day, even took some classes at a community college close by. It's interesting when you do just like you did, take several shots using different settings and record what you did with each. A bulb is nice, just because of what you stated, camera shake. I'm looking for a point and shoot for my daughter, don't want to spend too much, maybe a couple hundred, but also want to avoid shutter lag, which, is kind of a misnomer, because it's usually processor lag!- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Right before my kids trip we got her a Kodak Easyshare C513... it came in pink. It takes SD cards and has little if any shutter lag. 5MP, 3X zoom, All the standard features and pretty good software/tools. It took 4 days of photos for her trip, the quality is awesome, the auto functions did their job at many different events and exhibits, and lighting conditions. Not so great at the opera, long at night like any smaller digital, but for a purse camera, you cant go wrong at 90 bucks.. |
Lake Lanier at Night
On Nov 9, 6:39 am, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote: Last weekend I spent the night on a houseboat and played around taking some long exposure photos late at night and in the early morning. Since the lake is getting smaller every day, I plan on taking more to record the drought. Feel free to comment you would like about my feeble attempt to take some interesting photos. http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/561366333LXiTFf Oh, BTW, very nice pictures, I enjoyed them. I have been taking a bunch of shots lately with my Kodak D40 I may put up sometime, but nothing like this, nice job. |
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wrote in message ups.com... On Nov 9, 6:39 am, "Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote: Last weekend I spent the night on a houseboat and played around taking some long exposure photos late at night and in the early morning. Since the lake is getting smaller every day, I plan on taking more to record the drought. Feel free to comment you would like about my feeble attempt to take some interesting photos. http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/561366333LXiTFf Oh, BTW, very nice pictures, I enjoyed them. I have been taking a bunch of shots lately with my Kodak D40 I may put up sometime, but nothing like this, nice job. Add my compliments as well. Nice pictures. Eisboch |
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Eisboch wrote:
wrote in message ups.com... On Nov 9, 6:39 am, "Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote: Last weekend I spent the night on a houseboat and played around taking some long exposure photos late at night and in the early morning. Since the lake is getting smaller every day, I plan on taking more to record the drought. Feel free to comment you would like about my feeble attempt to take some interesting photos. http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/561366333LXiTFf Oh, BTW, very nice pictures, I enjoyed them. I have been taking a bunch of shots lately with my Kodak D40 I may put up sometime, but nothing like this, nice job. Add my compliments as well. Nice pictures. Eisboch Thanks Eisboch and Just. We are going to the NC Mountains in a few weeks to see if we can get some nice photos on the Blue Ridge Parkway. |
Lake Lanier at Night
On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 23:15:05 -0500, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote: Eisboch wrote: wrote in message ups.com... On Nov 9, 6:39 am, "Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote: Last weekend I spent the night on a houseboat and played around taking some long exposure photos late at night and in the early morning. Since the lake is getting smaller every day, I plan on taking more to record the drought. Feel free to comment you would like about my feeble attempt to take some interesting photos. http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/561366333LXiTFf Oh, BTW, very nice pictures, I enjoyed them. I have been taking a bunch of shots lately with my Kodak D40 I may put up sometime, but nothing like this, nice job. Add my compliments as well. Nice pictures. Eisboch Thanks Eisboch and Just. We are going to the NC Mountains in a few weeks to see if we can get some nice photos on the Blue Ridge Parkway. If you're looking for fall color, you'd better hurry up. I think I recall seeing that area is in its prime now. |
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