OK, lets' get the ball rolling with our first assignment.

The theme for this Assignment is: TRAVEL!. I figured I'd pick a fairly broad topic that has something to do with my roadtrip next week!

Guidelines (just to keep us all on track)

• Photo(s) must relate to the Theme (TRAVEL) in some way. Creative relation to the theme is certainly allowed (and encouraged). Anything that is related in some way is legal.
• Assignment has finished, but feel free to share your images if you like.
• Only photos that have been shot within the assignment date range are allowed.[/SIZE][/b]
• No signup is required, participation is encouraged regardless of skill or equipment level (after all, its not the camera, it’s the photographer,)…we’re here to have fun.
• Photo size limit: 800px on the longest side
• Basically, photograph however you like and normally do…whatever photography is to you. As many (or few) bodies/lenses/formats//Post-processing as you’d like. Sticking to basic PP is encouraged, tho’.
• If you’d like, post brief but relevant photo information and note PP (if any) is done (*Free GIMP software*). Maintain EXIF data if possible.
• Keep comments on topic, constructive, and considerate.
• Have fun!

Thread format shamelessly cut and pasted from Satan's post. Thanks.

Perfect timing, as I leave tomorrow for my vacation in the Sierras.

Originally Posted by LateApex

Perfect timing, as I leave tomorrow for my vacation in the Sierras.

yeah, I'm doing that canadian road trip starting tomorrow... I figured it would be good timing as a lot of people have vacations around this time.

Bunch of cheaters going on actual vacations!

I guess I'll just have to get creative then. I actually have an entire day off on Sunday so I think I'll bring my camera home from work and try to go shooting.

Enjoy your vacations you wankers! (I'm jealous)

ted

Originally Posted by jt

I need some remedial tutoring. How do we post our photos to be reviewed? Sorry if that is explained somewhere in the other messages and I missed it...Have a good vacation BH... :angry:

go here:
http://www.newschoolofphotography.com/gallery2/main.php
and register... you should be able to figure it out from that link.

damn I wish I had my camera on the plane today.

As we broke through the clouds on the ascent a HUGE friggin rainbow appeared to the right side of the plane. The rainbow combined with the fluffy clouds and the "looking out the portal" look would have been exceptional.

Dammit, I guess it's only one of those mental photos now.

I think this is the first time in my life that I've ever turned in homework early!

I went for a bike ride yesterday and found this location overlooking Lake Travis (this place would be fantastic for future shots when the sunsets are more dramatic).

I'm chasing the sun at the end of the road.



Dunno if the exif is preserved but here are the details anyway:

Shot in RAW, minimal adjustments on conversion. Minimal pp in PS: slight shadows/highlights to bring out the bike and slight color sat to at least add some color back, unsharp mask after resize 50/1/4.

Canon 350D with 70-200mm @ 75mm
1/160 @ f/4 and ISO800

That does look like it'll be a nice place when the weather is right.

I went shooting yesterday but there wasn't anything "travelly" to shoot where I was. Maybe tonight I'll get something.

Here's another from a few minutes before that one with the 17-40



Same processing.

Canon350D with 17-40mm @ 17mm
1/125 @ f/4 and ISO400

Tardy, unless I'm mistaken the lake in your second picture is going to drain to the right.

Originally Posted by emorphien

Tardy, unless I'm mistaken the lake in your second picture is going to drain to the right.

Dammit, you caught me on that one.

It's still draining, but it's been improved

Originally Posted by emorphien

It's still draining, but it's been improved

I am no longer able to please you. It's within plus or minus .5 degrees of perfect depending on which horizon line you pick on the right side. I picked the horizon just where the hills and the lake meet with the measure tool, not the little peninsula jetting out.

Strangely enough, after all this going back and forth, I think I like the original better, horizon be damned. But if I were to do it again I would love to have some sort of artificial light source on the left to paint the bike with. And of course, a more dramatic sunset.

measure tool and rotate -> arbitrary.

Apparently, I'm not seeing the same horizon that you guys are.

Cool, I'll check it out! I think I'm hopeless though, cause I thought the horizon was good enough in the first one!


BTW, I've got a brilliant and creative idea for my next few pics under the guise of travel. Especially since I don't have the time to go anywhere. Thanks to all for the lesson on horizons.

Here goes:



300D with 50 1.8, ISO 200, 1/160, f/2.0



300D with 50 1.8, ISO 200, 1/125, f/2.8

Slight adjustment in exposure/sat/shadows for both.

I'm telling the TSA. You're supposed to have all electrical devices turned off and stowed for the entire duration of the flight. :P

You've gotta love the bokeh of the 50mm.

Originally Posted by tardypizza

I'm telling the TSA. You're supposed to have all electrical devices turned off and stowed for the entire duration of the flight. :P

You've gotta love the bokeh of the 50mm.

Haha, shhhhhhhhhh.

What you do, when the flight attendants pass by to check, is you just tilt the lens up to hide the screen. .. and tada it's a film camera

What's this about not having electrical devices out during the flight? That's silly.

Did they go and change some rules or something or am I confused.

Originally Posted by emorphien

What's this about not having electrical devices out during the flight? That's silly.

Did they go and change some rules or something or am I confused.

I just assumed he meant during take off and landing.

Hah ok. For all I know they changed the rules! They went and increased standard postage without even telling me.

Umm, so there's only two people that turned their assignments in so far?

slackers. (that includes you emorphien)

HA having a hard finding time to look into it. That and I'm not traveling much so it increases the difficulty of the assignment.

Just got back from my trip to Mammoth...

I have to give credit to my wife for this shot of me. She's getting better with the camera. She finally figured out what "those bracket things" are on the focusing screen.



Exif should be intact. Straightened the horizon, USM 85% Radius 1 Threshold 4, bumped the contrast.

I'm still going through my shots. Should upload ASAP.

-Todd

^^Nice, reminds me of the Painted Desert in AZ, but the colors there aren't nearly as bold as what you have in Oregon.

I like the textures and the colors, although I'd probably nudge the saturation up a bit myself. The only thing that I don't really like is the closest hill is out of focus and IMO overexposed.

I doubt it's really blown out, but it is too bright and in combination with it being out of focus, it feels like its blown out. Personally I'd try to keep all the hills in focus but that's just my taste. I'd definitely exposing something so prominently out of focus in the foreground so that it's that much brighter than your in focus subject.

The first hill seems alright as far as exposure goes but it may stand out more because there is such a drastic difference in color when compared to the other hills. The first hill seems out of place.

I like the overall shot though.

A couple of shots of the Sagamore bridge from the walk way below. First shot was with a Peleng 8mm fisheye second with a canon 28- 135 IS on a 20D.

http://www.pbase.com/porschewrx/image/81907272

http://www.pbase.com/porschewrx/image/81829701

Scott

How do you like that 10.5 so far?

siztsix,
you're suffering from the same thing that happens to me with the 12mm on the 5D... You use it because you can (especially when it's new). You need to always keep something in the frame to keep the viewers interest. Those plain blue skies could really use some clouds. In the second shot the tree is cut off too much and the bike crowds the edge of the frame. The first shot is better with the sun at the top to add interest in the top half of the frame, but you didn't give the bike enough space. You want room in front of an object that can move (cars, people moving, bikes, anything like that) so that the viewer can see it going somewhere. Basically if you took the first shot, but had the bike flopped (still from the read, just with it's ass on the right edge, but with the same gap to the edge of the frame) it would work much better.

Don't let any of this discourage you, just go out and shoot a crapload with the new UWA lens. They take a lot of practice to get interesting compositions. I find vertical shots do work better though, at least for me. Your exposures and colors are great though.

Ben

I was going to comment on how close the bike was to the edge of the image in the second shot. I agree the color looks great.

I use a D50 also and I find I have trouble getting color to pop most of the time.

funny I seem to be thinking most the nikon shots I see have a lot of color.

Ultra wide angle and fisheye lenses really can slip in to the novelty area (same with macro) where you shoot it that way just because you can, not because it was worth shooting that way. That's a hard trap for almost anyone to avoid, especially if you've just gotten your first lens that gets you in to either of those ranges of photography.

*space reserved only because I just got a 10-22, I'm leaving for the coast this afternoon and won't be back until Sunday night*

*cough* DUE FRIDAY!!!

j/k I'll let it slide THIS TIME....

I still need to pick a few to post.

OK, we did our crazy road trip last week, so I have ton's of shots that could all be considered "travel". But I'm going with the ones that are more so and also all have my car in them since it's what we traveled IN...



*Model = Canon EOS 5D
*Exposure Time = 1/125"
*F Number = F19
*Exposure Program = Shutter priority
*ISO Speed Ratings = 100
*Date Time Original = 2007-07-03 15:03:59
*Metering Mode = Pattern
*Focal Length = 19mm
*Color Space = sRGB
*White Balance = Auto white balance


*Model = Canon EOS 5D
*Exposure Time = 1/125"
*F Number = F22
*Exposure Program = Shutter priority
*ISO Speed Ratings = 100
*Date Time Original = 2007-07-02 15:40:15
*Exposure Bias Value = -2EV
*Metering Mode = Pattern
*Focal Length = 18mm
*Color Space = sRGB
*White Balance = Auto white balance


*Model = Canon EOS 5D
*Exposure Time = 1/125"
*F Number = F13
*Exposure Program = Shutter priority
*ISO Speed Ratings = 100
*Date Time Original = 2007-07-04 06:30:41
*Exposure Bias Value = -1EV
*Metering Mode = Pattern
*Focal Length = 24mm
*Color Space = sRGB
*White Balance = Auto white balance


(they car is IN IT in it... )
*Model = Canon EOS 5D
*Exposure Time = 1/125"
*F Number = F11
*Exposure Program = Shutter priority
*ISO Speed Ratings = 100
*Date Time Original = 2007-07-04 15:39:38
*Exposure Bias Value = -1EV
*Metering Mode = Pattern
*Focal Length = 12mm
*White Balance = Auto white balance

entire gallery: http://www.awesomeroadtrips.com/Canada!/
NASIOC thread: http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/show...4#post18703744