Random Photos : Part 4

[baz7175]

To get us back on random photos mode, here's one from Lake Mary in the Mammoth Lakes area of California which lies only a stones throw from the border with Nevada.


Mammoth Lakes - 51 by www.bazpics.com, on Flickr

[RobbieKB]

RobDickinson said:

The milford pic has had more shares on facebook than it has had views on flickr! 1855 views, 132 favs. really? I only bother so I can easily get bbcode links.

I'm the same with Flickr. One of my photos got more views on 500px in a month than my entire Flickr account.

[MrRee145]

OGR4M said:

Realms better than my effort! Still a little soft around the edges though, if I were to be picky.

What kit are you using? and what settings was the pic taken with, if you can remember.

It was taken on a D80 with a sigma 70-300 lens from what I remember, ISO 100 shutter 1/125 F.11

[DibblyDobbler]

Baz has hacked Flickr and stolen all the views - it's the only thing which makes sense!

[baz7175]

OK, ok, I broke the internet, since my last post I've had 2 more inclusions into explore from yesterday making it 8 pics in 7 days, yup, the internet is definitely broken now...

http://bighugelabs.com/scout.php?username=16086466...

[PBLP]

It’s a shame really, but Flickr has been st for quite some time. Think I’ll start sharing from 500px in future.


Idwal Waterfall by Paul Bullen on 500px


Nant Ffrancon Pass by Paul Bullen on 500px

Edited by PBLP on Thursday 11th September 12:05

[DibblyDobbler]

Right I've found Paul + Rob, can everybody else (except Baz cos he broke Flickr!) post their 500px IDs please

I am here: http://500px.com/photo/82732987/-by-mike-smith?fro...

ETA - found Mark too

[tenohfive]

Didn't know you could share from 500px. Much prefer it, I put all my dross on Flickr and the ones that I think are worthy on 500px.

This is me:
http://500px.com/tenohfive

[PBLP]

tenohfive said:

Didn't know you could share from 500px. Much prefer it, I put all my dross on Flickr and the ones that I think are worthy on 500px.

This is me:
http://500px.com/tenohfive

Its not as straight forward as Flickr, as you need to turn the 500px HTML into BB code for a forum post.

https://support.500px.com/customer/portal/articles...

I copied the HTML and pasted it into a BB code converter website. (Use Google to find one). Or you could just use the .jpg part of the link and post as (without the spaces) [ pic ]http://ppcdn.500px.org/blablabla .jpg [ /pic ]

500px needs to sort the BB code side out though.

[...Mole...]

Russel Burn by ScottAMurray, on Flickr

Torridon by ScottAMurray, on Flickr

Stretching by ScottAMurray, on Flickr

Glen Nevis by ScottAMurray, on Flickr

[DibblyDobbler]

^^^ Always enjoy your different take on things Scott

Another one from the other night


South Queensferry and the Forth Road Bridge by Dibbly Dobbler, on Flickr

[...Mole...]

DibblyDobbler said:

^^^ Always enjoy your different take on things Scott

Cheers Mike,

Another one from early last year.

Sand Beach by ScottAMurray, on Flickr

[damianmkv]

Been working in Manchester this week, so popped to Media City. No tripod, no dslr - just my little xf-1


media city manchester by damianmkv, on Flickr


the studios by damianmkv, on Flickr

[leggly]

Just outside Tongue yesterday.

Untitled by squiffy1308, on Flickr

[Huff]

E65Ross said:

Just out of question.....for getting pictures of moving cars....

If I want a crisp image of the car it's a high shutter speed, and if you want the car to be blurry you want a longer shutter time; but if you use a quick shutter speed to get a crisp pic of the car, will the background be clear too? How do you get a clear background as well; and on another picture get a blurry background? My camera has a tracking focus function which could prove quite handy....is it a case of moving the camera to follow the car to get a blurry background, or just letting the tracking-focus function do its job?

Many thanks and sorry to interrupt the thread

RobbieKB said:

I think what you're asking about is panning. If you use a high shutter speed you'll get something like this:

<snip much good stuff>

Just to add - it really does depend how you are approaching or want to portray movement, and how close-up.

I mostly used a small fixed, open(35mm/f2) lens for almost everything, because I like doing street/'close-up' photography.

When it comes to capturing movement, I then tend to use fixed, quite long exposures, and moving me a lot to keep things framed in shot - mostly for hillclimb action which is at close quarters, but here's an example from Brighton Speed trials last Saturday - 1/15th, asa100 set, internal 3 stop ND filter on (its a Fuji X100) and so aperture falls fairly wide-open (f4 ish). Fullframe, resized without crop:



- but this approach is totally useless on a circuit - the car would be a dot in the blurry distance!
Just go and play lots, and find what works for you.

Edited by Huff on Saturday 13th September 02:30

[baz7175]

Hot Springs Creek - 43 by www.bazpics.com, on Flickr

[Malx]

Up at 3:40am in thick fog but it cleared as soon as I got to the top.
The photos lacks "something" that I can add via Lightroom but I don't know what. C&C welcome.

Edited by Malx on Saturday 13th September 22:56

[baz7175]

Mike - I hope you were out taking photographs of everyone celebrating on YOUR bridge last night

[DibblyDobbler]

baz7175 said:

Mike - I hope you were out taking photographs of everyone celebrating on YOUR bridge last night

But of course! Just about to have a go at processing now

[DibblyDobbler]

Here we go - Forth Road Bridge 50th Anniversary Fireworks. Amazing spectacle



Forth Road Bridge 50th Anniversay by Dibbly Dobbler, on Flickr