[Rudra Sen]

Originally Posted by Rehaan

WOW! Phenomenal shot!!
Were you on the shore?

Water surface pattern will change then. No Rehaan?

[1self]

Some more still:

[Rudra Sen]

Those are all vessel on the horizon?

[1self]

Originally Posted by Rudra Sen

Those are all vessel on the horizon?

Yes sir...

(twentytwenty)

[condor]

Mayavi : 2. That helps you create what you originally saw but could not capture.

Would help if I can tweak my own skills so I get what I see. To get what I see is the idea, and my pursuit.

To shoot something & then tweak it would, IMO, make the photographer more a digital artist.

[1self]

Originally Posted by condor

Would help if I can tweak my own skills so I get what I see. To get what I see is the idea, and my pursuit.

To shoot something & then tweak it would, IMO, make the photographer more a digital artist.

Could'nt agree more!!

[guyonblackybx]

Originally Posted by 1self

Some more still:

Like the 2nd one. How close were you from the bird? Which lens did you use?

[1self]

Originally Posted by guyonblackybx

Like the 2nd one. How close were you from the bird? Which lens did you use?

Was about 2 meters away. ALL my shots are from a point-&-shoot camera. It is a Pentax Optio 550, 5MP, 5x optical & capable of user specfic settings.

Pentax Optio 550 Review: 1. Introduction: Digital Photography Review

Some Night Shots from the same camera:

[Mayavi]

Originally Posted by condor

Would help if I can tweak my own skills so I get what I see. To get what I see is the idea, and my pursuit.

To shoot something & then tweak it would, IMO, make the photographer more a digital artist.

Digital consumer cameras have a long way to go before they can get anywhere close to a human eye. Digital cameras lack the dynamic range of human eyes and when the dynamic range varies too much, what you see is not what you get on camera no matter how skilled you are.

[hkanitkar]

@1self - loved the 1st pic ! Which city is it ?
Btw, Is the camera KOREAN ??

Well; here are 2 from my side :



Wondering how this will look in perspective ?
See this :

[karlosdeville]

Originally Posted by pjbiju

People in Pune might recognize this place!

Thats Splendour Country Club at Khadakvalsa right? Jeez, it looks so fancy in the pic!

[CrAzY dRiVeR]

Originally Posted by hkanitkar

Wondering how this will look in perspective ?

Loved the 1st pic- was thinking what it would be, when the second pic came to view.

[mail4ajo]

[guyonblackybx]

Originally Posted by mail4ajo

Nice macros buddy keep clicking.

[Samurai]

Originally Posted by condor

1self, beautiful shots.

Agree. I am trying to get good shots without any digital tweaking.

Hmm, let us see. So... you are shooting raw and then you are posting it without any processing, just convert to jpg and resize. That indicates supreme confidence in your shooting technique. Therefore, I checked yor exif. The F-stop is F/2.8 and exposure compension is 0 and the camera is Pentax Optio 550.

This is where things get really confusing. The camera in question doesn't have a raw mode. That means you couldn't have got a natural output, the default in-camera processing engine would have applied the automatic post-processing on your image. If you had raw mode, the camera will leave it alone and allow you to use much superior Photoshop to do -postprocessing. But in your case the camera did the post-processing without asking you for any input. That displays supreme confidence in your on-camera processing engine. I see you haven't applied any exposure compensation, wish I could trust my dSLR metering that much, that too in such a confusing lighting situation. Again you have full confidence in your exposure meter. I am not saying it is a bad thing, looks like you really trust your camera to do everything correctly. Only thing I didn't understand is this, why pick F/2.8 for such deep landscape shot, I agree your 1/1.8 sensor has much deeper DOF than any dSLR, but still isn't that taking a chance? Were you targeting a softer effect?