Photo Post: Sun shots

[Paul Shields]

See if we can squeeze out a few more 4:3rds images in this one... :P


Camera Make: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
Camera Model: E-1
Flash Used: No
Focal Length: 54.0mm
Exposure Time: 0.0080 s (1/125)
Aperture: f/8.0
ISO equiv: 100
White Balance: Auto
Metering Mode: Matrix
Exposure: Manual
Exposure Mode: Manual

[Raist3d]

wow that looks very very artsy. Definitively not your average sunset.

- Raist

[Paul Shields]

Yes, and - where's yours?

[Raist3d]

Ah, haven't done in a while, have I? I need to stop playing World of Warcrack and get out! I mean I just got a couple of days of a break from work.

I think I have posted this one before:

[img width=750 height=1000]http://raist3d.typepad.com/secretfiles/files/Sunset.jpg[/img]

By the way, did you do post processing in yours?

- Raist3d

PS: Thanks for your call to action! I actually appreciate it. I have tomorrow my class with my teacher after 6 months of not seeing each other.. I expect Pai-Mei like discipline (Kill Bill #2 Reference).

[Paul Shields]

You've been playing that WOW too long - just say no .* Anyway, great sun shot. You've done the right thing in showing lots of sky and the horizon has lots of tonality. An instant fave.

My shot did have some levels adjustment to it, but nothing excessive.* The figures are statues on the beach - see http://www.visitliverpool.com/site/product-p76741

[Malakor]

Here's one I shot off my balcony (not being one to travel too far.....) with my E-300. It naturally exposed for the highlight, giving a typically dark image, so I tweaked it in PS and came up with this result.


[img width=747 height=1000]http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m141/Laawman/Pattaya%20images%20-%20Olympus%20E%20300/P1081016.jpg[/img]

[Paul Shields]

Very dramatic sky Malakor. Whereabouts was this taken?

[Paul Shields]

Another couple of my faves just to add to the pot.

E-1 + 50-200mm


E-330 + 7-14mm

[Malakor]

Originally Posted by PaulS

Very dramatic sky Malakor. Whereabouts was this taken?

I took this one in Pattaya, Thailand. Must have used the Olympus plug-in for PS as all the metadata in it has dissapeared!

[LJBD]

Oh VERY nice. My effort:

[img width=1000 height=754]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/85/237537469_0ed3777c4b_b.jpg[/img]

[Paul Shields]

Very tranquil and peaceful feel to this one. I like the composition with the Sun out go the left and the boat in the foreground. Where was this taken - Portugal I guess? (knowing you're there a lot from posts on other forums).

[Raist3d]

Malakor, I like the sky a lot. I wish the building wasn't there. I know how it is, it's like when I did this:



I wish that background was gone (the buildings). Oh well.

PS: Just because I have gotten asked- there's Zero post processing in this shot. I think I set the camera B&W filter to red (the Olympus setting, not a real filter).

[Raist3d]

Originally Posted by PaulS

You've been playing that WOW too long - just say no . Anyway, great sun shot. You've done the right thing in showing lots of sky and the horizon has lots of tonality. An instant fave.

Well, the expansion pack just came out last week *grin*. And I am a Paladin in the horde side now.. oh btw, Everquest at its peak had 500,000 subscriptions (around that). Today World of Warcraft has now 8 million+ people. Scary, how much money they are pulling in per year.

- Raist

[Paul Shields]

Yeah that tree is awesome Raist. The background does detract a little - if only the tree could be transplanted to a desert somewhere - an instant stunner !

[Colby]

I was shooting for the sun through this lovely old tree located in San Juan Bautista CA near the mission that was founded in 1797.

See you in your pictures.

Colby

[jan56]

all of them are very good, not sure if I'd contribute mine...
I hope it comes up, as I don't see it in the preview

[jan56]

a different view here ...