Thread: Picture of the Day

My girlfriend shot these and I post-processed (and stiched the pano). Was impressed as I literally spent 5 minutes the night before explaining how to use my DSLR. She really enjoyed it and wants to learn more and take more pictures. Awesome!

Played Wildcat's lift serviced "Alpine Disc Golf" course for the first time last weekend. I was solo for the day, so this one is self-shot with the timer..

Taken from my daughter's point-and-shoot on Mt. Hood last week.

Originally Posted by JayPowHound

Played Wildcat's lift serviced "Alpine Disc Golf" course for the first time last weekend. I was solo for the day, so this one is self-shot with the timer..

How's the course? Girlfriend has a condo not too far away (ME) and haven't played in years. Is it "groomed"? In Jackson, if you don't know where your disk went you are certifiably fucked.

Maybe worth a little time to myself trip...

Got the chance to visit an uninhabited former leper colony in the Cape Cod islands last weekend. Definitely different. All that stands is a closed down school, a leper graveyard and a dock.

cafe aloha by chadbro, on Flickr



crystal range and trees reflect in Lily Pond - Lake Aloha - Tahoe Sierra by chadbro, on Flickr



jacks peak by chadbro, on Flickr



bw trees by chadbro, on Flickr



wind tree - color by chadbro, on Flickr



esme lou - aloha nap by chadbro, on Flickr



dakota at aloha by chadbro, on Flickr



me by chadbro, on Flickr

The Treasure fire near Leadville




The smoke drifted north and made for a beautiful sunset.




David Grisman & company




Lower Busk Creek

Chad - awesome stuff! Now I KNOW I need to get up to Deso in the summer!

sweet pics chad. went up to aloha via horsetail yesterday. will have more pics later.

^^cool shot, it totally looks like shes coming off a failed attempt of jumping from the top of the falls in to non existent water. "oh fuck....rocks".

splitter, this last set is awesome. Any HDR? Did you pull the blues down (saturation and/or luminance)?

This one in particular looks almost like a computer drawing. Just a bit of haloing around the edges (evident most clearly around the tree at center-right). But fantastic images nonetheless!

Originally Posted by splitter

wind tree - color by chadbro, on Flickr

Porto Venere (Italy) from a work trip a couple of weeks ago:

Gulf of Poets by FuzzSummit, on Flickr

Indian Peaks Wilderness - Kings Lake trail

Getting a drink


Pretty happy w/ this, handheld at 1/6sec







I liked this little attack sequence

Originally Posted by Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer

Chad - awesome stuff! Now I KNOW I need to get up to Deso in the summer!

Originally Posted by powdork

sweet pics chad. went up to aloha via horsetail yesterday. will have more pics later.

Originally Posted by Fuzz

splitter, this last set is awesome. Any HDR? Did you pull the blues down (saturation and/or luminance)?

This one in particular looks almost like a computer drawing. Just a bit of haloing around the edges (evident most clearly around the tree at center-right). But fantastic images nonetheless!

Thanks guys, I appreciate it. The lake was very full (less cool island foregrounds), the clouds were non-existent, but the wind was more than happy to show up.

@fuzz, thanks, I'm not sure why that has such a painterly look. No HDR. It was shot after the sun went down, but still polarized with a CP that gave me a darker sky. The blues were pulled down a touch on luminance, and most other channels were pulled up on luminance to brighten the overall frame.

I did use the GND tool in lightroom to lighten the foreground rather than darken the sky. Perhaps the halo-ing is an artifact of that? I do see it however. I also pulled up the 'clarity' a touch which might contribute to the halo-ing.

A few minutes before the previously posted shot, still after sunset, with a tent...


aloha camp by chadbro, on Flickr

The 70-200 F4 is such a kick ass lens. I only took about twenty pictures this morning.

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Awesome shot Ugly! Shooting from the boat is really hard to do. Here's one from last summer. Makes me wish I had those skills.

@ugly
beautiful, shiny reflection in the foreground...

Really crisp. The lens is nice, the execution is nice. I do wish he looks like he was having more fun.

@phildo,

Looks like different lighting conditions. Ugly shot in the morning, I'm guessing the sun was a little higher in the sky and behind your skier.

but I like the comp and the spray behind the skier

Paris


Paris DSCN3930 by jrmorris-mt, on Flickr


DSCN4473 by jrmorris-mt, on Flickr


DSCN4514 by jrmorris-mt, on Flickr

Originally Posted by splitter

@ugly
beautiful, shiny reflection in the foreground...

Really crisp. The lens is nice, the execution is nice. I do wish he looks like he was having more fun.

@phildo,

Ugly shot in the morning, I'm guessing the sun was a little higher in the sky and behind your skier.

Yeah. There were some storm clouds a long way off and the lowish sun was popping in and out from behind them so the color was popping one moment and flat the next and everything changes everytime the boat changes direction. I wish he was smiling as well and we laughed about that on the boat this morning since it isn't the first time he and I have discussed the smile!

Thanks for the comments and kind words on that pic guys. A few minutes later the good light was gone for good...

I took this bear's senior photo today.

Originally Posted by splitter

I did use the GND tool in lightroom to lighten the foreground rather than darken the sky. Perhaps the halo-ing is an artifact of that? I do see it however. I also pulled up the 'clarity' a touch which might contribute to the halo-ing.

Yes, strong use of the clarity slider does produce halos. Are you using LR3 or 4? I've found that in LR4 it is very, very hard to produce halos even with strong use of the clarity, shadow, highlight, and other sliders.

Originally Posted by splitter

@ugly
beautiful, shiny reflection in the foreground...

Really crisp. The lens is nice, the execution is nice. I do wish he looks like he was having more fun.

@phildo,

Looks like different lighting conditions. Ugly shot in the morning, I'm guessing the sun was a little higher in the sky and behind your skier.

but I like the comp and the spray behind the skier

Yeah, shot mid-afternoon with the sun behind the skier there. On the other side of the boat, the light was too harsh to make anything interesting. I have wanted to go back and shoot that same photo at sunset, to try and get a full silhouette and a red spray. Not sure if it's possible tho...

Continuing the bear theme here's a black bear my wife and I saw last weekend near Whistler.