The Photography Thread

[Zaqarbal]

Originally Posted by holly984

a bit nervous to post here as a total photography newbie, but here goes nothing

these are a couple shots i took.

First is my dog, riley.

That's a very good picture. I love how it shows tenderness through the dog's gaze.

BTW, this is an interesting topic: How to photograph animals.

* Problem #1: They move (obviously). If he/she is your mascot, you can (or at least try to) order him/her to be still. I don't have any mascot, so my "photographic targets" are street cats. And since they use to be skittish, final results are usually blurred photos. Anyway, two weeks ago I managed to capture this moment:

Doubly difficult, because it was night. Very slowly, I put the camera (with a pocket tripod) on the pavement, adjusted the zoom and shot.

* Problem #2: The autofocus. For example, I took this picture a few days ago:

What does the camera focus on? The cat or the weeds in front of him?. I'm afraid the feline is not as clear as I'd like. Now I understand what you meant, S.K.:

Originally Posted by s_k

(...) But you will need a camera on which you can manually choose shutter speed, diafragma and ISO so you can make pictures the way you want to, not the way your camera thinks is right.
And I'm a Manual Focus guy. (...)

[s_k]

Exactly .

[Zaqarbal]

A typical urban daily scene. A dog outside a supermarket waiting for his master to return. He gets impatient and starts to howl:

Awooooooooo.......!!

Finally the master (in this case, a little girl) comes, and he wags his tail as a sign of joy:

[bonesaw-orchestra]

Those are awesome animal shots, Zaqarbal I especially like the captions.

[holly984]

Originally Posted by Connair

Some stuff I just developed. The one with jesus in it is actually to photos slapped together.

Wow! Very nice pics Connair! I like them alot!

Originally Posted by Zaqarbal

That's a very good picture. I love how it shows tenderness through the dog's gaze.

BTW, this is an interesting topic: How to photograph animals.

* Problem #1: They move (obviously). If he/she is your mascot, you can (or at least try to) order him/her to be still. I don't have any mascot, so my "photographic targets" are street cats. And since they use to be skittish, final results are usually blurred photos. Anyway, two weeks ago I managed to capture this moment:

Doubly difficult, because it was night. Very slowly, I put the camera (with a pocket tripod) on the pavement, adjusted the zoom and shot.

* Problem #2: The autofocus. For example, I took this picture a few days ago:

What does the camera focus on? The cat or the weeds in front of him?. I'm afraid the feline is not as clear as I'd like. Now I understand what you meant, S.K.:

Thanks Zaqarbal And yes, photographing pets/animals is definitely not the easiest thing to do, lol. Usually I try to get my dogs when they are not jumping around, hehe. I have a few more that I'll dig out and post.

And what cute cat pics there! I love the two dog ones you posted also, hehe! It was neat to see the dog howling, then happy when his owner came. Told a little story

[Urban Hat€monger ?]

Photographing pets?
Easy.

Not really difficult seeing she follows me around everywhere.

Oh and here's a picture I took earlier of an object in my garden.
Ten English pounds to whoever guesses correctly what it is..

[right-track]

The inside of a plastic watering can spout?

Nice photos.

I'll accept cash only.

[Urban Hat€monger ?]

It is plastic and it is inside it.

Not a watering can though.
It's not any sort of garden tool.

I bought this object for my nephew.

[right-track]

Is the red thing part of it?

[Urban Hat€monger ?]

Have some more....


My Egyptian cat on my windowsill.


View outside the front door


My cat putting my old mattress to good use.


A Bug
There were 4 of them but I moved a leaf & the others fell off.
Useless red & black bastards.


My other cat poses for a photo for the first time in it's life.


Some stalky plant thing.

I should be getting my fisheye lens sometime in the next couple of days

Originally Posted by Paloma

it's a vuvuzela