This photo was taken on December 10 last year in The Entrance. The camera was the Oly C5060WZ. It has been cropped, shadows and highlights, resized and saved for the web in PSCS3.
I will go out hunting colours, but as bright colours don't seem to be a common local phenomena I thought I'd post this on unless I can take something better. I just don't think dull colours will cut it in a competition of this sort. ...but I could be wrong!
Keeping on the floral theme, I took this photo of a flower on my passionfruit vine last year. Used Panasonic FZ5 on macro setting, no enhancement necessary.
Normally my landscape pics are well, uninspiring.
Taken last new moon (coincidence? I think not) in August at Gunderman on the Hawksberry, this was a real Kodak moment. Sipping some fine Bourbon on the deck, a glance westward revealed this sunset unfolding that had me running for the camera. The result is exactly how it came out of the camera.
The other pic I thought I'd throw in 'cause that’s the lady I'm marrying Saturday week
This is one of my favorite shots of the Sun. Taken the evening after the Venus transit in Western Australia. Ricoh KR5-II, USSR manufacture Tair-3S lens (300 mm), 3x tele-converter. I can't remember what f-stop I used, but I have a feeling I had it closed right up... f22, so 3 stops further than that? Film was probably Fuji 400.
I had only 2 frames left after the transit, and I hoped to catch the green flash. I took this shot from the hills outside of Coral Bay, and already you could see some green appearing on the upper limb of the Sun. As the Sun set, the green grew more pronounced and started spread along the limb to the water line until it completely lined the remainder of the sun. As it disappeared beneath the horizon the lining expanded until what was left of the Sun was vivid green, I snapped my last shot... I had been adjusting the exposure to match the disappearing light and when I pressed the shutter release, the camera was on bulb
Running out of time and short on ideas, I spotted these colourful paper clips in our stationery drawer and scattered them on top of my flat field box to provide some even illumination.
Pentax *ist DS with Sigma 55-200mm kit lens at 200mm focal length, Manual focus. Tripod mounted.
Exposure of ½ sec at F32 at ISO 200. Taken on 21st September 2007.
White balance set to Tungsten.
Cheers
Dennis
EDIT: Original submission modified to include a coloured border and frame in Photoshop CS3.
Step way back from your monitor and you get the full effect...
Nikon D40
2007/09/23 10:04:40.3
JPEG (8-bit) Fine
Image Size: 800x532 (sized for upload to IIS but uncropped)
Color
Lens: Nikkor 105-Micro f/4 with Nikon F Bellows Model II
Focal Length: Manual
Exposure Mode: Manual
Metering Mode: Center-Weighted
1/4 sec - F/16
Exposure Comp.: 0 EV
I just don't think dull colours will cut it in a competition of this sort
. ...but I could be wrong!
