joegerardi Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 You folks that travel and take photographs: If you ever get the chance, go to Cinque Terre in Italy. You'll be in photographer heaven! ..Joe Quote Setup: Korg Kronos 61, Roland XV-88, Korg Triton-Rack, Motif-Rack, Korg N1r, Alesis QSR, Roland M-GS64 Yamaha KX-88, KX76, Roland Super-JX, E-Mu Longboard 61, Kawai K1II, Kawai K4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenElevenShadows Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 I would love to go to Cinque Terre! Quote Ken Lee Photography - photos and books Eleven Shadows ambient music The Mercury Seven-cool spacey music Linktree to various sites Instagram Nightaxians Video Podcast Eleven Shadows website Ken Lee Photography Pinterest Page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wjwilcox Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 Some odds and ends from Sunday on the town: http://farm4.staticflickr.com/7425/13521795074_f9d3a3bc98_c.jpg The observer by wjw0608, on Flickr http://farm4.staticflickr.com/7022/13521813424_39146598bc_c.jpg Stained glass and lantern by wjw0608, on Flickr http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3721/13521535035_a41f0a4e19_c.jpg Stained glass by wjw0608, on Flickr http://farm4.staticflickr.com/7265/13521611755_74d21aa8eb.jpg Tile and stucco by wjw0608, on Flickr Quote www.wjwcreative.com www.linkedin.com/in/wjwilcox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichieP_MechE Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 http://farm4.staticflickr.com/7265/13521611755_74d21aa8eb.jpg Tile and stucco by wjw0608, on Flickr Nice capture of the textures and shadows! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wjwilcox Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 Nice capture of the textures and shadows! Thanks! The photo was taken about 12:30pm on a west-facing wall, so the sun was high in the sky and emphasized all the texture. Quote www.wjwcreative.com www.linkedin.com/in/wjwilcox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RABid Posted April 4, 2014 Share Posted April 4, 2014 I like taking night shots. Still very much a beginner, this is the first picture I took that I really liked, and wished I had done better. Fireworks at Disney's Magic Kingdom silhouetting the castle. http://ppcdn.500px.org/65946885/8ddb4b589aa65428485d976b57c8c96a11c2b6c9/4.jpg Christmas lights at Disney MGM. http://ppcdn.500px.org/65947133/1037e1ce17564d3ade3163e13e43c37906dc30b0/4.jpg Quote This post edited for speling. My Sweetwater Gear Exchange Page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Martin Posted April 7, 2014 Author Share Posted April 7, 2014 Great shots Rabid, We just returned from Disney World last week http://ppcdn.500px.org/66284897/0e4eb3477c8cd602d3e3716287a78a84fd5f276c/4.jpg Last Ones Out by Mike Martin on 500px Quote -Mike Martin Casio Mike Martin Photography Instagram Facebook The Big Picture Photography Forum on Music Player Network The opinions I post here are my own and do not represent the company I work for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theo Verelst Posted April 7, 2014 Share Posted April 7, 2014 Well, you guys got a lot of colors and record number of lights going on picture here! This is a recent (small cropped part) of a HD video I took: http://www.theover.org/Diary/Ldi116/screenshot17cm.png It's a wild Parrot (no picture processing of any kind, except of course what the camera did). T. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenElevenShadows Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 Very cool!!! I like the church photos. Stained glass is always good. And the fireworks shot looks good! I taught a Star Trails and Light Painting Workshop in Borrego Springs over the weekend. Went really really well, and it was a lot of fun. It was a bit challenging in that it's basically two workshops in one, and there was a lot of material to cover, but I managed to break it down to its essence and cover some of the technical and approaches to composition without getting bogged down in jargon or math. The first part was the workshop, which was held at Borrego Art Institute. That's where we discussed star trails, how to focus at night, light painting techniques, composition, etc. The second part was out in the field, practicing the photography. We shot these amazing sculptures by Ricardo Breceda. I'll include some photos of sculptures I've shot here, although it wasn't in the same evening. Here's some photos I took that evening. I didn't take that many photos because I was walking around helping students. These were all taken after they had dispersed, after midnight. I figured I'd take a few before going to sleep. The moon had already set, so all these were taken in very dark light. http://photos4.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/b/e/0/c/highres_350388652.jpeg http://photos1.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/b/e/1/6/highres_350388662.jpeg http://photos3.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/3/c/f/2/highres_350355602.jpeg Quote Ken Lee Photography - photos and books Eleven Shadows ambient music The Mercury Seven-cool spacey music Linktree to various sites Instagram Nightaxians Video Podcast Eleven Shadows website Ken Lee Photography Pinterest Page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brettymike Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 Ken11, you take awesome photo's , but there are a couple of things that spoil it a little bit for me. Brett Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenElevenShadows Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 The photo below is now one of the finalists for the Smithsonian.com 11th Annual Photo Contest Finalists, one of 60 selected from over 50,000. This is for the Reader's Choice winner. Please vote for mine in the Travel Category if you are so inclined! http://www.smithsonianmag.com/photocontest/photo-contest-finalists-11th-annual-180950372/?no-ist http://www.elevenshadows.com/travels/borregosprings-2013august/images/3034_kenlee_borregospringsnightsky-scorpiongrasshoppermilkyway.jpg Quote Ken Lee Photography - photos and books Eleven Shadows ambient music The Mercury Seven-cool spacey music Linktree to various sites Instagram Nightaxians Video Podcast Eleven Shadows website Ken Lee Photography Pinterest Page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RABid Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 Voted, and will also vote from work. I have not tried shooting the stars yet but hope to go out to our farm this summer and do some shooting away from the street lights. Quote This post edited for speling. My Sweetwater Gear Exchange Page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichieP_MechE Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 Voted for you, Ken! Good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenElevenShadows Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 Voted, and will also vote from work. I have not tried shooting the stars yet but hope to go out to our farm this summer and do some shooting away from the street lights. Cool. They're a lot of fun, and it's a great way of introducing movement into the photo. And thank you very much for voting! Back to the star trails for a moment...although you obviously get considerably more star trails when the moon is not out and there is little light pollution, it's surprising how many star trails you can get even despite a moon and light pollution. For a fun experiment that I wanted to show my students at the star trails and light painting workshop I did over the weekend, I showed them a photo of some star trails that I took in my backyard in Los Angeles in a cloudy day....in other words, far less than ideal conditions. And they were amazed at how many star trails there still were. Sure, the sky looked orange, but there were a lot of stars. You can barely see them with your eyes, but when you open up the camera like this to long exposures, it becomes considerably more sensitive to stars than your eyes are. Quote Ken Lee Photography - photos and books Eleven Shadows ambient music The Mercury Seven-cool spacey music Linktree to various sites Instagram Nightaxians Video Podcast Eleven Shadows website Ken Lee Photography Pinterest Page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenElevenShadows Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 Voted for you, Ken! Good luck! Thanks! Hopefully it goes well. It's an honor even being included in the finalists. Those other photographers are very very very very good. Quote Ken Lee Photography - photos and books Eleven Shadows ambient music The Mercury Seven-cool spacey music Linktree to various sites Instagram Nightaxians Video Podcast Eleven Shadows website Ken Lee Photography Pinterest Page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Martin Posted April 10, 2014 Author Share Posted April 10, 2014 Voted Ken and will keep voting. Good luck! Quote -Mike Martin Casio Mike Martin Photography Instagram Facebook The Big Picture Photography Forum on Music Player Network The opinions I post here are my own and do not represent the company I work for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Bryce Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 Voted! dB Quote ==> David Bryce Music • Funky Young Monks <== Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenElevenShadows Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 Thank you to everyone for voting! I greatly appreciate it! We'll see how far it gets! And if I don't win this, there's possibilities for an editor's choice, I believe it is, or a panel of judges' choice, if I remember correctly. Regardless, it would be a great honor. I've won the Daily Dozen (National Geographic) and the LA Times Travel Photo of the Year before, so win or lose, I'm beyond flattered to be included with these other photographers. Quote Ken Lee Photography - photos and books Eleven Shadows ambient music The Mercury Seven-cool spacey music Linktree to various sites Instagram Nightaxians Video Podcast Eleven Shadows website Ken Lee Photography Pinterest Page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wjwilcox Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 Voted! In other news, a radio station I volunteer for used my photos of this week's Mercy Me concert at Missouri Baptist University in St. Louis on their Facebook page. Not a keyboard in sight. Check it out here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.765048396873149.1073741854.111036485607680&type=1 Quote www.wjwcreative.com www.linkedin.com/in/wjwilcox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sospiri Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 Thanks for the tip off re: Cinque Terre, Joe. I'll be in Lucca, Tuscany, in September and then have to make my way to Brussels and that seems a nice picturesque way to go! I'll post a couple of my own photographs up when I can figure out the system! Not that far south of there is Larderello, the biggest geothermal site in Europe with lots of museums, old workshops, geysers, and masses of photogenic industrial stuff. Well worth a visit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenElevenShadows Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 A bunch of acoustic instruments and a big ol' drum...taking it down to basics a bit...nice. Quote Ken Lee Photography - photos and books Eleven Shadows ambient music The Mercury Seven-cool spacey music Linktree to various sites Instagram Nightaxians Video Podcast Eleven Shadows website Ken Lee Photography Pinterest Page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Martin Posted April 13, 2014 Author Share Posted April 13, 2014 http://ppcdn.500px.org/66921071/f46901f9adc206f91fa5ca9a7f739f8e4d038976/4.jpg Albino Hawk by Mike Martin on 500px Quote -Mike Martin Casio Mike Martin Photography Instagram Facebook The Big Picture Photography Forum on Music Player Network The opinions I post here are my own and do not represent the company I work for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brettymike Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 ^^^ Awesome!! Brett Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midinut Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 So Ken, is what you do with the star trails basically just going for a long exposure (i.e 20sec - 5 min - etc) or is this more like a time-lapse thing? Just curious. I was in the mountains with my wife this weekend trying to do longer exposure on the mountain streams trying to get a silky smooth effect on the water. How do all this affect either situation. Also, if you don't mind, what other subjects lend themselves well to long-exposure shooting? Thanks in advance! Quote Hardware: Yamaha: MODX7 | Korg: Kronos 88, Wavestate | ASM: Hydrasynth Deluxe | Roland: Jupiter-Xm, Cloud Pro, TD-9K V-Drums | Alesis: StrikePad Pro| Behringer: Crave, Poly D, XR-18, RX1602 | CPS: SpaceStation SSv2 | Controllers: ROLI RISE 49 | Arturia KeyLab Essentials 88, KeyLab 61, MiniLab | M-Audio KeyStation 88 & 49 | Akai EWI USB | Novation LaunchPad Mini, | Guitars & Such: Line 6 Variax, Helix LT, POD X3 Live, Martin Acoustic, DG Strat Copy, LP Sunburst Copy, Natural Tele Copy| Squier Precision 5-String Bass | Mandolin | Banjo | Ukulele Software: Recording: MacBook Pro | Mac Mini | Logic Pro X | Mainstage | Cubase Pro 12 | Ableton Live 11 | Monitors: M-Audio BX8 | Presonus Eris 3.5BT Monitors | Slate Digital VSX Headphones & ML-1 Mic | Behringer XR-18 & RX1602 Mixers | Beyerdynamics DT-770 & DT-240 Arturia: V-Collection 9 | Native Instruments: Komplete 1 Standard | Spectrasonics: Omnisphere 2, Keyscape, Trilian | Korg: Legacy Collection 4 | Roland: Cloud Pro | GForce: Most all of their plugins | u-he: Diva, Hive 2, Repro, Zebra Legacy | AAS: Most of their VSTs | IK Multimedia: SampleTank 4 Max, Sonik Synth, MODO Drums & Bass | Cherry Audio: Most of their VSTs | Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichieP_MechE Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 So last evening I was out shooting and on a whim decided to do some light painting (thanks for the inspiration, Ken!). I didn't have my remote shutter with me so I was limited to 30 second exposures, but man, this is a lot of fun! Canon 6D|f/8|30s|ISO 100|20-35mm f/2.8L @ 33mm Light painted with cell phone flashlights. Light Rail by rpantaleo, on Flickr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Muscara Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Doesn't it need the light in the middle of the tracks coming at you? No, that's a cool shot, Richie. Quote "I'm so crazy, I don't know this is impossible! Hoo hoo!" - Daffy Duck "The good news is that once you start piano you never have to worry about getting laid again. More time to practice!" - MOI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichieP_MechE Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Doesn't it need the light in the middle of the tracks coming at you? Thanks Joe. I'm thinking about rigging something up that holds some lights nice and steady that I can drag along the rails and get some nice straight lines. At the very least, I want to try this shot again with a longer shutter speed so I can get the two lines to converge! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Martin Posted April 19, 2014 Author Share Posted April 19, 2014 Cool shot Richie! Anxious to see the others. Quote -Mike Martin Casio Mike Martin Photography Instagram Facebook The Big Picture Photography Forum on Music Player Network The opinions I post here are my own and do not represent the company I work for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theo Verelst Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 I was playing around with a High Dynamic Range tool on my humble jpg (hot hdr) format pictures from a good new (but cheap and essentially consumer type) Sony HD cam (not on video capture, but on actual photos taken with it), and I got this "impression": http://www.theover.org/Keybdmg/dsc305hdrp1b.jpg how does that grab you ? T. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wjwilcox Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Nice effects, Theo. The glow around the vegetation is very cool. Quote www.wjwcreative.com www.linkedin.com/in/wjwilcox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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