*Maggot photo contest-"Straylight" 7/14/04-7/28/07

[Tippster]

Unfortunately not eligible, since I took it in May. Prolly shouldn't have had the coffee that night.

[ptavv]

Here are some playing around with long exposures by the airport (planes were landing E -> W so no shots as they come in since they need to land W -> E to come over you with where you can be parked and whatnot).

Semi truck rumbled my tripod during this shot, came out interesting


Passing cars

[yesIsaidyes]

Queen Anne hill in Seattle...you know where.

[XtrPickels]

Goats on Sac, Bridger Mountains


*NOT ELIGIBLE DUE TO TIME FRAME*
Sunset over Gallatin Valley

[hemas]

I'm not even gonna tell what this is

Attachment 29178

[pechelman]

a spider web?

[Pura Vida]

why do people post ineligible pictures?

[dbp]

why do people post ineligible pictures?

For our viewing enjoyment?

[Ripzalot]

lake geneva sunset ...





playing with fire...

[HikeforTurns]

North Fork Encampment River, Wy. 7-24-07

[MeatPuppet]

Wow. ^^^That is a cool picture.

[MOHSHSIHd]

Here are some I took yesterday, actually frame grabs from HDV (Does that violate any rules?)

Glass


Wide angle lens morph


Water-glider

[hop]

I have a bunch of possibilities from a little Maggot gathering in Friday Harbor this weekend but I will keep them out of the running to protect the innocent and guilty.

[Tippster]

North Fork Encampment River, Wy. 7-24-07

My favorite so far.... other than PowHo's

Why ineligible if you took it last night?

[Pura Vida]

My favorite so far.... other than PowHo's

Mine too. Some nice images posted, but that one seems to best convey the image of "straylight" I had in my mind.

[lax]

this is just a sheisty P+S shot, but it qualifies i think and i liek it.

[tcross.au]

Top of the Tasman Glacier


Starlings over the corner of our house


sunset during a storm

[Natedogg]

Mine too. Some nice images posted, but that one seems to best convey the image of "straylight" I had in my mind.

Dang, Im gettin in late on this, but this pic is sweet. What info can you give on it?

[HikeforTurns]

Thanks Nate. Here it is:

File Name IMG_5536.JPG
Camera Model Name Canon PowerShot SD450
Shooting Date/Time 7/24/2007 5:52:18 PM
Shooting Mode Auto
Photo Effect Off
Tv (Shutter Speed) 1/200
Av (Aperture Value) 10.0
Light Metering Evaluative
Exposure Compensation 0
ISO Speed Auto
Lens 5.8 - 17.4 mm
Focal Length 17.4 mm
Digital Zoom None
Image Size 2592x1944
Image Quality Superfine
Flash Off
White Balance Auto
AF Mode Single AF
Color Space sRGB
File Size 1817 KB
Drive Mode Single-frame shooting

Suprisingly, I took it with my point-n-shoot. I took about ten photos, and liked this one best, I might have metered off the sky, but I cant remember. Then I cropped and smart sharpened in Photoshop.

[Natedogg]

Thanks Nate. Here it is:

Cool, thanks. How about environmental observations? It looks to me like late in the day with moderate cloud cover, but it has the surreal look almost like it was a moonlight shot. Definitely a sweet, sweet pic. Im struggling to get those nice saturated greens with my 20D--Im jealous!

[HikeforTurns]

Yup, 6pm with scattered thunderstorms - always makes for some interesting light. When I shoot with my 10D I often choose RAW mode and bracketing, then adjust the saturation later in CS2. My view screen is so small its hard for me to tell some times if I got the exposure I was looking for. So I just take an assload of photos with slightly different settings of the same scene, then sort 'em out later. Im still a photo JONG though.....

[Pura Vida]

Yup, 6pm with scattered thunderstorms - always makes for some interesting light. When I shoot with my 10D I often choose RAW mode and bracketing, then adjust the saturation later in CS2. My view screen is so small its hard for me to tell some times if I got the exposure I was looking for. So I just take an assload of photos with slightly different settings of the same scene, then sort 'em out later. Im still a photo JONG though.....

Curious, why do you still bracket shooting RAW digital? That's one of the things I've been fond of switching to digital is not having the need to bracket, as exposure can be easily adjusted during your RAW workflow.

[Shepherd Wong]

Because often times data is lost off the high and low ends. Raw data usually has 12 bits per channel while Jpeg is usually 8 so there is some more depth, but still if you're off the left or right there is no getting that data back.

[Pura Vida]

Because often times data is lost off the high and low ends. Raw data usually has 12 bits per channel while Jpeg is usually 8 so there is some more depth, but still if you're off the left or right there is no getting that data back.

True, but with being able to view the image along with a histogram on the digital camera I don't really end up with images that are insanely blown out or completely underexposed as I usually nuke them before they even get off the card. On a film camera, proper bracketting can be a key to getting "the shot." Just really haven't had any expereiences thus far with my digital that bracketting would have resulted in anything that much better IMHO.

[Shepherd Wong]

Sounds like you are self bracketing then. I never use it myself either. It can be useful for hdr images though. Keep in mind that exposure works on analog data while post processing in raw is with digital data so adding EV in raw isn't exactly the same as doing it on camera.