Neowin Digital Gallery - Yearly Edition 2012


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Welcome to the Neowin photo gallery (now yearly, as voted by Neowin members!)! Here you can post your pictures and discuss your photography techniques.

Please be mindful of our members on dial-up and try to keep the dimensions of the pics and the size of the files to a respectable size for 1024 x 768 viewers. Please refrain from quoting images in your replies.

I will also ask that you link to images on your own space, as much as possible.

Try to put more details from your camera settings (EXIF) and also talk about what you have done with photoshop (or similar).

There are a lot of photographers here that like your editing skills and would like to learn more.

The previous thread can be found here.

Posting your photos is made easier thanks to a member contribution! Argote created a Flickr to IPB webapp, thanks! [direct link to app]

Enjoy!

Nothing fancy, just wanted to capture how the intense moisture ruins anything not galvanized as is the case with this salter:

Moisture

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Date Taken: 2012-01-01 18:55:50

Camera Make: NIKON CORPORATION

Camera Model: NIKON D5000

Lens: 35mm f/1.8

Focal Length: 35 mm

Mode: Aperture-priority AE

Aperture: f/2.0

Exposure Time: 0.017 sec (1/60)

ISO: 200

Starting 2012 off early, literally ;-)

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2012 Jan Sunrise 1 by Robbie Khan, on Flickr

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2012 Jan Sunrise 2 by Robbie Khan, on Flickr

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2012 Jan Sunrise 3 by Robbie Khan, on Flickr

All 3 are 5 bracketed shots merged in Photomatix to give an HDR output. I use HDR to improve the details of an image, not give that waxy look you often see posted online. I believe some blackness should be left in scenes like this because black gives a nice contrast and brings focus to colours and shades.

It's impossible to shoot such a scene in one exposure and getting enhanced detail and getting that colour vividness that your eye sees on location but the camera won't pick up in a single shot.

A Canon 40D with 10-22mm lens was used.

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EXII is a nice flash, a worthy upgrade to my EXI :D But I remember when flashes were cheap! I paid ?150 brand new for mine!

Frack all... Wish I had bought one back then. This EXII set me back $320 (?200), and that was on sale (reg. $390).

And one more shot. Can't seem to fall asleep tonight, so what better way to pass the time than working on some old photos:

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Insomniac by David Taraso, on Flickr

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Nice picture but I can't help but constantly wonder why BMW lost the plot with their newer cars, they all look the same now, the M series aren't as distinguishable from a non M powered "Sport" variant and the lines have become soft compared to the muscular dimensions of older models :(

Mercedes on the other hand has gone the other way round and their newest cars look amazing in all guises!

CTS

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A Cadillac CTS coupe being promoted in the Andares mall. Zapopan, Mexico.

Date Taken: 2011-12-12 14:16:38

Camera Make: SONY

Camera Model: DSLR-A200

Lens: DT 35mm F1.8 SAM

Focal Length: 35 mm

Mode: Aperture-priority AE

Aperture: f/1.8

Exposure Time: 0.001 sec (1/1600)

ISO: 200

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Nice picture but I can't help but constantly wonder why BMW lost the plot with their newer cars, they all look the same now, the M series aren't as distinguishable from a non M powered "Sport" variant and the lines have become soft compared to the muscular dimensions of older models :(

Mercedes on the other hand has gone the other way round and their newest cars look amazing in all guises!

Minus the SLS, all mercs are fugly right now, as are most BMWs.

The M3 is easily distinguished as an M3 from any angle, but the point of an M car is that it looks very similar to the normal version it's based on. But the E90 3 series is done now; F30 should be out in a few months.

Oh, and that picture of the M3 is pretty good, too :)

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