Gallery Photography thread - painting pictures with light

[tesla1962]

Convict Lake, eastern sierras

 

[tesla1962]

Yosemite

 

[tesla1962]

Death Valley

 

[tesla1962]

Yosemite Valley

 

[tesla1962]

San Francisco

 

[DapperJong]

well now i want to go to those places

 

[Pweter]

Yosemite Valley looks amazing.

 

[tesla1962]

Yosemite Valley looks amazing.

Yosemite Valley is without doubt one of the most beautiful and spectacular places in the world. But it pays for that beauty with huge visitation numbers. It's also where one of the most famous landscape photographers, Ansell Adams, seemed to spend most of his time. I have been lucky enough to visit the park 3 times now but for reasons outside my control it's been in winter or early spring so i have been confined to the valley and I haven't seen the really beautiful and more remote high alpine meadows. It's the same with the best places in the eastern sierras. Most of the roads above 8000 feet are closed now.

IMO the USA has the best and most diverse collection of parks in the world, and this more than makes up for the appalling coffee.

 

[Max Headroom]

Yosemite Valley

Wow that waterfall, beautiful!

 

[tesla1962]

some holiday snaps from USA and Mexico taken with a dodgy D90 with focusing issues

 

[tesla1962]

 

[Pweter]

#4 is a very special photo, your mum did well
i think my mum would have chopped the heads off

i suppose photography is about capturing moments. the two photos below are of my youngest daughter and her best friend and taken a few years ago and of my pics they are among my favs - there is nothing technically special or interesting about them, but the first one captures a conversation between two friends (i like to think it's private and oh so important but no one will ever know)

the third photo is one my all time favourites, taken by a french photographer who was one of the masters of 'candid' photography, there is a really cool story where the photographer chased up the boy and turned up on his doorstep on his 50th birthday with two bottles of wine

Hey tesla, my wife took one of "those" photos on her phone at Port Douglas on Monday morning. Like you, I'd love to know where the conversation was heading

 

[tesla1962]

Hey telsa, my wife took one of "those" photos on her phone at Port Douglas on Monday morning. Like you, I'd love to know where the conversation was heading

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Gorgeous photo - one to revisit with the girls over time

 

[tesla1962]

My trusty D90 is not repairable, well and truly ****ed, leaving me to navigate between Scylla and Charybdis. Do I buy a proper, grown up full frame camera for a bit more money and lose the use of one my favourite lenses or do I replace the D90 with another DX camera and get to keep all my lenses. I feel like I need to take the next step to full frame but it opens the door for a whole lot of shiny new, really expensive lenses that I would want but not be able to afford but, on the other hand, will I regret not taking the plunge into full frame when I had the opportunity.

 

[Lore]

My trusty D90 is not repairable, well and truly ******, leaving me to navigate between Scylla and Charybdis. Do I buy a proper, grown up full frame camera for a bit more money and lose the use of one my favourite lenses or do I replace the D90 with another DX camera and get to keep all my lenses. I feel like I need to take the next step to full frame but it opens the door for a whole lot of shiny new, really expensive lenses that I would want but not be able to afford but, on the other hand, will I regret not taking the plunge into full frame when I had the opportunity.

The good thing about those expensive as hell lenses is that they don't depreciate much, and can be used on a non-full frame camera. You can splurge on the camera and then get those Tamron/Sigma lenses, but I chose to buy the cheapest full-frame camera I could afford (still expensive!) and am collecting L-series lenses. I can upgrade the camera again later.

 

[Beerfish]

My trusty D90 is not repairable, well and truly ******, leaving me to navigate between Scylla and Charybdis. Do I buy a proper, grown up full frame camera for a bit more money and lose the use of one my favourite lenses or do I replace the D90 with another DX camera and get to keep all my lenses. I feel like I need to take the next step to full frame but it opens the door for a whole lot of shiny new, really expensive lenses that I would want but not be able to afford but, on the other hand, will I regret not taking the plunge into full frame when I had the opportunity.

Your obvious talent at this taking photos thing demands it I reckon.

 

[Pweter]

Your obvious talent at this taking photos thing demands it I reckon.

I'll second this motion

 

[tesla1962]

Your obvious talent at this taking photos thing demands it I reckon.

Placed my order today, got a full frame and the lens I have always wanted. Now just counting down the days.

 

[Doss]

I want to upload pictures I took in New Zealand but it would seem they're too big.

 

[tesla1962]

I want to upload pictures I took in New Zealand but it would seem they're too big.

what i do is post them to facebook (so only i can see them) and then copy and paste them in here
it allows you to get around the size issue but it slows down the loading of the pages

 

[tesla1962]

My new camera and lens arrived today so I snuck out into the backyard at lunch to take my first photo.
It's going to take me months to begin to learn how to use it and it will make me think a lot more when I do take photos.

 

[Lore]

Can also use Preview to resize them Doss, if you don't have photo editing software. My screenshots are always too big so I make them 1000pixels wide, which usually brings them under the 1MB limit. The resizing function shows how big the file will be at a give size before you save changes.

 

[tesla1962]

Can also use Preview to resize them Doss, if you don't have photo editing software. My screenshots are always too big so I make them 1000pixels wide, which usually brings them under the 1MB limit. The resizing function shows how big the file will be at a give size before you save changes.

that's a better option for this thread

 

[Lore]

that's a better option for this thread

As long as you have Preview at any rate (native Mac software).

 

[Doss]

I should have Preview (Lore I will ask you for help in finding it if my Luddite self can't).

I have about 33 photos to upload so prepare yourselves.