Photo assignment - July 08 - Patriotism (or something representing your country)

[Marko]

Any suggestions for July?

Thx!
Marko

[AcadieLibre]

Patriotism, or something of your country, We have Canada Day Tomorrow and The Americans 4th July, so maybe something that represents your country in some way. Could be your favourite street corner, fireworks from celebrations, flag, your favourite politician, your town or city, anything that makes you happy to live in your Country. Just an idea, see what others come ones people can come up with.

[beetle8]

Patriotism, or something of your country, We have Canada Day Tomorrow and The Americans 4th July, so maybe something that represents your country in some way. Could be your favourite street corner, fireworks from celebrations, flag, your favourite politician, your town or city, anything that makes you happy to live in your Country. Just an idea, see what others come ones people can come up with.

Favorite Politician?

Some people would see that as an oxymoron.

I like the idea though, can everyone play?

[AcadieLibre]

Yup you can. Now I need to start a revolution and see if I can get some photos lol.

[Marko]

Ok the July assignment is on! - Let's get our thinking caps on!

Thanks!
Marko

[beetle8]

Here's a shot from tonight and the slideshow of the rest.

http://championphoto.smugmug.com/photos/325067362_pfsAZ-L-1.jpg

SLIDESHOW (http://championphoto.smugmug.com/gallery/5321924_cc3sb/1/325061773_QkGnj)

[Marko]

Hey that's a nice fireworks shot and I liked the slide show as well! :highfive:

Marko

[kiley9806]

fireworks shots are usually SO hard - nice job beetle!

[Marko]

I must say I've been looking around for 'patriotic images' and I'm finding this one hard....syill I'll try to upload something this weekend. :confused:

[baddness]

What setting should your camera be at to take pics of fireworks?

[Travis]

I must say I've been looking around for 'patriotic images' and I'm finding this one hard....syill I'll try to upload something this weekend. :confused:


typical Canadian..... too modest for blantent patriotism.....lol....

[AcadieLibre]

Standing Guard at Sir Isaac Brocks Memorial. One of the Fallen heroes of the war of 1812. I shot this last night, a quick stop on our way to catch the fireworks at Niagara Falls. This monument is one of the coolest I have ever seen. There are four of these guards surrounding the actual monument.

Sir Isaac Brock (http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0001014)


http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3259/2638856187_12ea02fe02_o.jpg

[kiley9806]

yup - im also finding it hard to find the right subject... i drove past a fantastic old barn in the middle of a field, that was painted like a canandian flag! too bad that was before i found out what the theme was, and the barn is at least 4 hours away.... oh well, i'll keep hunting! :)

[beetle8]

What setting should your camera be at to take pics of fireworks?

Manual,
Tripod,remote,small aperture, low iso,long exposure, practice

[baddness]

Manual,
Tripod,remote,small aperture, low iso,long exposure, practice

I figured tripod, thought high iso, didn't know about the rest. Thanks for the response :)

[Nikki2291]

Just a question, I live in Canada, so what about a Maple Leaf?

[ben997]

A maple leaf would be an awesome idea. That is true canadian! you could also take wildlife shots for this such as geese, moose, beavers, or any wild animals that you can safely photograph.

[kiley9806]

i do have quite a few wildlife shots of animals ive stumbled across while driving around canada. heres just a few...

[ben997]

Those are nice! now that reminds me of Canada!

[Nikki2291]

A maple leaf would be an awesome idea. That is true canadian! you could also take wildlife shots for this such as geese, moose, beavers, or any wild animals that you can safely photograph.

If I come across any animals I definitly will snap come photos...I love animals. I have a really nice picture of a maple leaf, when I get it on the computer I'll see how it looks.

[Nikki2291]

i do have quite a few wildlife shots of animals ive stumbled across while driving around canada. heres just a few...

Thoes are some really nice pictures. It's not to often that you'll catch a moose or anything here in Nova Scotia though. Beavers maybe, and plenty of deer...lol.

[kiley9806]

thanks nikki - the moose i caught in northern ontario while on a road trip across most of canada (northern ab - southern ont). the others are from up here in northern alberta.

heres another shot i have, just took it a couple weeks ago when we stumbled across this guy (or rather, he stumbled across the road in front of us, and posed nicely in the ditch for a second, so i could snap this fuzzy shot)

[FusionFoto]

Here is a firework picture that I captured on Canada day!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/MandiArch/IMG_2878a.jpg

[Marko]

I like the animal shots Kiley but you probably already know that the eyes aren't sharp in most of them....The owl looks VERY cool but needs more contrast and there is something wonky going on in the background.

That is an excellent fireworks shot FusionFoto :highfive:

I feel bad that I haven't uploaded anything yet....maybe this weekend? :fingerscr

Thx
Marko

[tirediron]

I'll put forth an offering with perhaps a slightly different take on patriotism...

This is the Canadian destroyer HMCS Iriquois in Mediterranean, enroute the Persian Gulf in May of this year.
http://www.rthtg.net/john/med/HMCS_Iroquoios.jpg


This image shows the Canadian destroyer HMCS Iriquois leading Nato Fleet STANAVFORMED (Standing Naval Force Mediterranean) with Canadian frigate HMCS Calgary astern.
http://www.rthtg.net/john/NATO/Fleet_8x10.jpg


Edited to add: Apologies for the image size, however due to bandwidth and other Internet access restrictions, I'm not able to re-size them. If this is a problem, I'll happly convert them to links.

[Travis]

I'll put forth an offering with perhaps a slightly different take on patriotism...

This is the Canadian destroyer HMCS Iriquois in Mediterranean, enroute the Persian Gulf in May of this year.
http://www.rthtg.net/john/med/HMCS_Iroquoios.jpg


This image shows the Canadian destroyer HMCS Iriquois leading Nato Fleet STANAVFORMED (Standing Naval Force Mediterranean) with Canadian frigate HMCS Calgary astern.
http://www.rthtg.net/john/NATO/Fleet_8x10.jpg


Edited to add: Apologies for the image size, however due to bandwidth and other Internet access restrictions, I'm not able to re-size them. If this is a problem, I'll happly convert them to links.

Great shots..... especially the first one...

[tirediron]

Great shots..... especially the first one...

Thanks. I was a little pi$$ed about the blown water along the side of the ship, but not much I could do about that.

[Bahandi]

http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm62/bahandigabuna/P7050154-1.jpg

I guess I'll leave the 'story' open for interpretation

[Marko]

I like your choices tirediron and no problem on the size - each image needs to be less than 150k that's all, and both shots are.

Bahandi i also like this image but the whole image could use some more contrast.

Thx
Marko

[Bahandi]

Thanks Marko. I'm still struggling in getting to know my camera better. On top of that, my monitor is not calibrated and all the pictures on my screen are so much darker than what I see on my camera's lcd.

As for PP, I can never tell when enough is enough, so I pretty much used the camera's setting to desaturate(sp?) and used photobucket's sharpen option on it.

Care for the original?

[Yisehaq]

One of the things that represents my Country. The Blue Nile falls.

[tirediron]

One of the things that represents my Country. The Blue Nile falls.

Very nice! This begs for a closer capture with a very slow shutter speed!

[Yisehaq]

Very nice! This begs for a closer capture with a very slow shutter speed!

I tried that too but I finally ended up with the dirt from my sensor becoming to conspicous. Especially, since when using lower shutter speed f/22 and below to use slower shutter speed.
but now I have cleaned my sensor and will try to take better pics next time around.

[tirediron]

I tried that too but I finally ended up with the dirt from my sensor becoming to conspicous. Especially, since when using lower shutter speed f/22 and below to use slower shutter speed.
but now I have cleaned my sensor and will try to take better pics next time around.

There's nothing wrong with the pictures you've taken, they're fine. I was simply thinking of other possibilities.

[kiley9806]

One of the things that represents my Country. The Blue Nile falls.

Yisehaq - I have seen other pictures of these waterfalls online, while researching your country (international adoption). These falls are absolutely breathtaking - as are most of the photos I've run across on Ethiopia. Thanks for sharing!

[Marko]

Thanks Marko. I'm still struggling in getting to know my camera better. On top of that, my monitor is not calibrated and all the pictures on my screen are so much darker than what I see on my camera's lcd.

As for PP, I can never tell when enough is enough, so I pretty much used the camera's setting to desaturate(sp?) and used photobucket's sharpen option on it.

Care for the original?

Sure I'd love to see the original!


One of the things that represents my Country. The Blue Nile falls.

I quite like this shot Yisehaq Very scenic - I might consider darkening the top of the photo (sky + mountians) though and the treed areas in the center of the photo and dodging the lower left side and lower right side.

[Bahandi]

http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm62/bahandigabuna/P7050153.jpg

here's the original

[tirediron]

http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm62/bahandigabuna/P7050153.jpg

here's the original

To be honest, I prefer the colour in the original better; I think perhaps you've desaturated the copy too much. I wonder if perhaps your monitor colours are out of whack. Can you use another computer to view the pictures and see what they look like on it?

[Yisehaq]

I quite like this shot Yisehaq Very scenic - I might consider darkening the top of the photo (sky + mountians) though and the treed areas in the center of the photo and dodging the lower left side and lower right side.


Thanks kiley9806 and marko.

Marko I don't know how to selectively darken and dodge in cs2. :confused:Just started using cs2 after joining this forum. A little guidance please

[Yisehaq]

BTW, I intended to use this and other images for HDR. I thought this was good because it has multiple areas to be exposed differently. Hope I am right.

[tirediron]

BTW, I intended to use this and other images for HDR. I thought this was good because it has multiple areas to be exposed differently. Hope I am right.

Should work, as long as there's not too large an exposure gap between the images. Ideally 1 1/2 - 2 stops per image.

[Marko]

This one was hard for me but I wanted to add something before the end of the month.

I consider this one a snapshot but I like the shadows on the drums.
Exif data - f 18 1/50 iso 100 focal length - around 50mm
Thx
Marko

[kiley9806]

definitely love the drum hand shadows! nice capture... lots of movement. good on ya for getting something up - and with 3 days to go! :)