Post Your New Pics! Q3 Non-Av Pic Thread

danielmyatt · Thu Aug 23, 2012 7:22 pm

A shot from Grand Cetral Station yesterday

Braybuddy · Wed Aug 29, 2012 9:50 pm

Some new pics:

flyingturtle · Thu Aug 30, 2012 7:51 am

Quoting Braybuddy (Reply 51):

Wow, your last one... Wow!

The Hohe Winde, a 1204 m / 3950 ft hill near BSL. The last two ones are HDR pictures.

David

Silver1SWA · Fri Aug 31, 2012 5:39 pm

I spent a couple of days this week in Massachusetts. This was my first time to New England and all I have to say is WOW. Beautiful place and a photographer's heaven!

Friendship of Salem by Silver1SWA (Ryan Pastorino), on Flickr

Braybuddy · Fri Aug 31, 2012 8:40 pm

Quoting flyingturtle (Reply 52):
Wow, your last one...

LOL! That's Irish summers for you . . .

Some pics from the UK last weekend:

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Braybuddy · Sun Sep 02, 2012 10:53 am

Last few UK pics:

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vikkyvik · Mon Sep 03, 2012 6:38 pm

Quoting Silver1SWA (Reply 53):
I spent a couple of days this week in Massachusetts. This was my first time to New England and all I have to say is WOW. Beautiful place and a photographer's heaven!

Nice! I used to work less than a quarter-mile from there.

The Williams Forest Fire smoke column shot from Imperial Hill yesterday:

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012...es-chases-out-holiday-campers?lite

yfbflyer · Mon Sep 03, 2012 11:42 pm

Spent a couple days photographing the ice in the bay.

foggy day

A few picture that i think managed to capture some movement

Some macro shots of flowers in Newfoundland

vikkyvik · Tue Sep 04, 2012 6:05 am

This one is aviation-related, but can't upload it to A.net, so here you go. Panorama of LAX and the forest fire cloud from Imperial Hill:

That's one tall smoke column, considering that Mt. Wilson (the ridge in the center of the photo) is 5,700 feet.

And a couple sunset shots from Dockweiler Beach:

larshjort · Tue Sep 04, 2012 1:00 pm

Here is a few pictures from ADAC Rally Deutschland

The first on is a little aviation related. That helicopter pilot was flying like crazy, he passed about 20 meters above our heads a few times at ~150kph

A Fiesta from the WRC Academy wih a suspension problem

A Mini driver showing how to slide. In the background Petter Solberg wait for the stage to end.

The classic rally cars did one run through the stages after the first run by the pro drivers. Here is a Renault 5 Turbo. Also driving was 3 Lancia Stratos, A Golf Mk.1, a Trabant, a Wartburg 311 and a bunch of Fiat Abarth 124s and 131s.

One of the safety cars driving the stage before start. A new 4 door Impreza STI. It was my first rally Germany and I was really impressed how easy the access was and how close we were to the cars compared to Sweden and Norway.

/Lars

GrahamHill · Thu Sep 06, 2012 1:39 am

River Ste-Anne, in Quebec:

Quoting Newark727 (Reply 47):
The Start/Finish Straight and Grandstands by jbp274, on Flickr

Nice point of view!

Quoting vikkyvik (Reply 56):
The Williams Forest Fire smoke column shot from Imperial Hill yesterday

Impressive! Looks like smoke from a volcano Wow!

Quoting Larshjort (Reply 59):
Here is a few pictures from ADAC Rally Deutschland

Sweet!

Braniff747SP · Thu Sep 06, 2012 2:28 am

Navaluenga, Ávila.

Newark727 · Thu Sep 06, 2012 2:39 am

Quoting GrahamHill (Reply 60):

Nice point of view!

And all for the price of a ferris wheel ride. In 2011 I fitted my telephoto zoom up there.

Porsche No. 70 by jbp274, on Flickr

In other news:

Flag, Saint-Malo by jbp274, on Flickr

Lichen by jbp274, on Flickr

Citroën Ami 8 by jbp274, on Flickr

Narrow street to the river by jbp274, on Flickr

GrahamHill · Thu Sep 06, 2012 3:01 am

Quoting Newark727 (Reply 62):
In 2011 I fitted my telephoto zoom up there.

What kind of lens do you have? You got some great close ups in your Le Mans album.

I rented a 400 mm for the race this year, but too little time to master it correctly.

Newark727 · Thu Sep 06, 2012 3:14 am

Quoting GrahamHill (Reply 63):

What kind of lens do you have? You got some great close ups in your Le Mans album.

Why, thank you! You talking about these? (Don't think I've posted any from this series yet.)

Aston Martin Racing - Aston Martin No. 97 by jbp274, on Flickr
This and most of my Le Mans photos were taken with the Canon 100-400L IS USM. Though for this and the closeups like it I should mention that I climbed one of the low barriers and shot directly through the chain-link fence, which is a tactic that I'm not sure the marshals like you doing. I was shooting in the 9-10AM region on Sunday morning which is pretty dead in terms of crowd activity, so no one gave me trouble. The frontal angle really helps for these because I am not good at panning with this lens.

GrahamHill · Thu Sep 06, 2012 3:26 am

Quoting Newark727 (Reply 64):
You talking about these?

Yep, exactly those ones! And also the ones from behind, where the cars are about to enter the Tertre Rouge chicane.

Quoting Newark727 (Reply 64):
This and most of my Le Mans photos were taken with the Canon 100-400L IS USM

That's the lens I rented for the week, but it took me some time to get some decent shots out of it. I'd like to buy one and use it more often, but I don't have the budget for it at the moment.

Quoting Newark727 (Reply 64):
which is a tactic that I'm not sure the marshals like you doing

No they don't like it, but some are more lenient than others. You're not the only one doing it

[Edited 2012-09-05 20:27:25]

Stealthz · Thu Sep 06, 2012 1:30 pm

A few from the recent V8 SuperCar race at Sydney Motorsport Park

A couple of points of interest for our North American friends.. get used to the look of these things, they are coming to visit the US of A, point 2, if you click on the image of PepsiMax car # 51, you will see a familiar name on the side(most Euro viewers will recognise it as well)

Cheers

GrahamHill · Thu Sep 06, 2012 2:51 pm

Quoting stealthz (Reply 66):
A few from the recent V8 SuperCar race at Sydney Motorsport Park

Nice pictures! And a great champhionship too.

Braybuddy · Fri Sep 07, 2012 11:10 pm

Quoting yfbflyer (Reply 57):
Spent a couple days photographing the ice in the bay.

WOW! Love that first ice shot!

As for me, it' back to some home-grown pics. I suppose you could call this series "A Day at the Beach":

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So, the local camera club started back this week after the summer recess (it's like going back to school!) and we were asked to have two abstract and two reflection prints for a competition, which was judged by the members on a show of hands (one vote per member and, like the Eurovision, you couldn't vote for your own). My abstract prints didn't rate, but I was delighted to come second in the reflection competition. And it was all the more surprising as some of the members are very experienced photograpers with some very expensive equipment. The pic that I took with my DSLR didn't rate, but this is the one that came second, which I took on my point-and-shoot a couple of years ago. Just goes to show that you don't always have to have the most advanced kit to take a nice shot!

Parisian Pigeon

vikkyvik · Sat Sep 08, 2012 4:50 pm

Quoting Braybuddy (Reply 68):
My abstract prints didn't rate, but I was delighted to come second in the reflection competition.

Awesome, congrats! What ever happened with the ice-skating photo that you submitted for competition?

Some more beachy HDR stuff:

And one shot for Superfly:

aznmadsci · Sun Sep 09, 2012 2:59 am

This was from a recent trip to Norway taken from my iPhone using Camera+.

Superfly · Sun Sep 09, 2012 7:27 am

Quoting vikkyvik (Reply 58):
Mt. Wilson (the ridge in the center of the photo) is 5,700 feet.

5,710 feet to be exact.
Went up there many times when I lived in Pasadena.
That is the launch area for hang gliders and they would land at our high school football feild.

Quoting vikkyvik (Reply 69):
And one shot for Superfly:

That has after-market wheels.

Braybuddy · Sun Sep 09, 2012 11:31 am

Quoting vikkyvik (Reply 69):
Awesome, congrats! What ever happened with the ice-skating photo that you submitted for competition?

Thanks vikkyvik. That pic was for my first competition six months ago. You know I can't remember exactly, but I think it came third in the newbie section.

Quoting vikkyvik (Reply 69):
And one shot for Superfly

Oh wow! Nice wheels!

Quoting Superfly (Reply 71):
That has after-market wheels.

Spoken like a true connoisseur . . .

jwhite9185 · Sun Sep 09, 2012 6:26 pm

A few from Dublin earlier in the year:

And Windsor a couple of weeks ago:

Braybuddy · Mon Sep 10, 2012 12:09 am

Quoting jwhite9185 (Reply 73):
A few from Dublin earlier in the year:

Ahhhh . . . my stomping ground!

Beautiful pics jwhite! Fair play to you!

TheRedBaron · Mon Sep 10, 2012 3:59 am

Holbox Island

Holbox ISland taken by my Iphone

Holbox ISland

Snoqualmie Falls Washington

Flying over Seattle

Friday HArbor Wa.

My flight on Friday HArbor a week Ago!!!

vikkyvik · Thu Sep 13, 2012 3:34 pm

Shot a music video with a band I've been playing with recently; got to take some photos at some locations which I hadn't been to before. Did a bunch of HDR stuff:

Daleaholic · Thu Sep 13, 2012 3:50 pm

Some AWESOME shots on display in this thread, thanks to everybody for sharing! Here's a few of mine...

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Klaus · Thu Sep 13, 2012 7:24 pm

Many brilliant photos in here, with great motives, composition and technical execution.

Thanks to all thus far!

airtrainer · Fri Sep 14, 2012 12:38 pm

Great shots guys

Haven't contributed for a while, here are two recent shots taken with my new toy

Venice

Amboy, CA

Braybuddy · Fri Sep 14, 2012 4:00 pm

Great to see the thread taking off again with some superb new pics!

Some of my latest. The year has finally turned:

GrahamHill · Sun Sep 16, 2012 3:31 pm

Two more from Le Mans:

Silver1SWA · Sun Sep 16, 2012 4:52 pm

I attended the Photoshop World Expo last week in Las Vegas. One of my favorite things at the expo is having the opportunity to photograph models using professional lighting setups.

Lady in Yellow by Silver1SWA (Ryan Pastorino), on Flickr

Sweet Lady by Silver1SWA (Ryan Pastorino), on Flickr

Photoshop World 2012 - Las Vegas by Silver1SWA (Ryan Pastorino), on Flickr

Monster by Silver1SWA (Ryan Pastorino), on Flickr

Newark727 · Mon Sep 17, 2012 4:30 am

Quoting GrahamHill (Reply 81):

That Strakka Racing photo is just fantastic, nice work.

vikkyvik · Mon Sep 17, 2012 5:56 pm

More shots from the music video shoot (sorry, this will be a long one):

That unused train bridge was absolutely COVERED in spider webs:

With some rather large and interesting spiders:

Other random shots from that day:

Taken with my camera, but not by me, because, well....

GrahamHill · Mon Sep 17, 2012 8:21 pm

Quoting Newark727 (Reply 83):
That Strakka Racing photo is just fantastic, nice work.

Thanks Newark, I appreciate

Superfly · Mon Sep 17, 2012 9:24 pm

Quoting Silver1SWA (Reply 82):
I attended the Photoshop World Expo last week in Las Vegas. One of my favorite things at the expo is having the opportunity to photograph models using professional lighting setups.

Those photos are fantastic!
The photos reminds me of a model named Torie Tastic. I'm a fan of hers.
I'd like to find out how her photographer manages to get those images.

Quoting vikkyvik (Reply 84):
More shots from the music video shoot (sorry, this will be a long one):

Did you grow your hair out?

Back alleys, railroad tracks, spiders, cobwebs, man you must be in one of those bands parents warn their kids about.

Great shots!

PHX787 · Tue Sep 18, 2012 2:14 am

Quoting Superfly (Reply 86):
Back alleys, railroad tracks, spiders, cobwebs, man you must be in one of those bands parents warn their kids about.

Hahhaha I wanna hear this band! Great shots!

vikkyvik · Tue Sep 18, 2012 2:51 am

Quoting Superfly (Reply 86):
Did you grow your hair out?

Maybe.

(yeah, it's been almost a year since I last cut it, I think)

Quoting Superfly (Reply 86):
Back alleys, railroad tracks, spiders, cobwebs, man you must be in one of those bands parents warn their kids about.

Shhh! We're trying to win people over!!

Actually, I'm not technically a member of the band. It's a former coworker's band, and they lost their bassist a few months ago. So I've been doing a bunch of stuff with them: playing gigs, shooting a video, laying down bass tracks on some songs....pretty much everything except practicing with them.

Not sure how much longer that will go on. It's a lot of fun, and nothing too difficult at all, but it's not really my scene.

Superfly · Tue Sep 18, 2012 6:53 am

Quoting vikkyvik (Reply 88):
(yeah, it's been almost a year since I last cut it, I think)

Awesome!

The preppy hair-cut just doesn't work in a heard rock band.

Quoting vikkyvik (Reply 88):
I'm not technically a member of the band. It's a former coworker's band, and they lost their bassist a few months ago. So I've been doing a bunch of stuff with them: playing gigs, shooting a video, laying down bass tracks on some songs....

Sounds like they need your stage presence to help the band-mates get girls after the gigs.

Too bad you weren't in LA in 1987 during the hair metal years. You would have been perfect in that scene. I caught the tail end of it and unfortunately was too young to get in to the 21 & over clubs to really get the full taste of it.
By the time I turned 21 in 1994, the grunge cancer had already spread and glam rock was gone.

Seriously though, those photos look like they could be on an album cover or on the inner-sleeve.
Reminds me of the first Skid Row and Damn Yankees album covers.

vikkyvik · Tue Sep 18, 2012 7:12 am

Quoting Superfly (Reply 89):
The preppy hair-cut just doesn't work in a heard rock band.

Haha, yeah, been there done that. Time for something different.

Quoting Superfly (Reply 89):
Sounds like they need your stage presence to help the band-mates get girls after the gigs.

Unfortunately my onstage presence doesn't translate to offstage presence!

Quoting Superfly (Reply 89):
Too bad you weren't in LA in 1987 during the hair metal years.

Um, no, it is definitely not too bad.

I was listening to a '90s mix I made earlier today. Reminded me how much I love a lot of those songs (to be fair, most of them aren't "grunge" really - more just rock/hard rock). There's just something about a lot of '90s production/sound that I love.

Quoting Superfly (Reply 89):
Seriously though, those photos look like they could be on an album cover or on the inner-sleeve.

Thanks very much Larry! If you want to see the rest of the video shoot photos, they're here:

http://www.vksphoto.com/Events/Music-Video-Shoot-9912/25346440_PMhQcX

Superfly · Tue Sep 18, 2012 11:10 am

Quoting vikkyvik (Reply 90):
If you want to see the rest of the video shoot photos, they're here:

http://www.vksphoto.com/Events/Music...MhQcX

I can see the thumbnails but the photos won't open.

They do look impressive though.

Quoting vikkyvik (Reply 90):
Haha, yeah, been there done that. Time for something different.

That look only works for the synth pop, girlie boy bands.

Quoting vikkyvik (Reply 90):
Unfortunately my onstage presence doesn't translate to offstage presence!

Are you implying that you stuffed a sock 'down there' to enhance you're look?

Quoting vikkyvik (Reply 90):
Um, no, it is definitely not too bad.

You could have pulled off the glam rock look pretty well with your long hair.
If/when that style comes back, you should go for the fringe leather jackets and spurs on the cowboy boots. I would avoid the yellow & black zebra stripe spandex.
Would be cool to mock the 80s look if you get a Halloween performance.

Braybuddy · Wed Sep 19, 2012 5:15 am

Quoting Silver1SWA (Reply 82):
One of my favorite things at the expo is having the opportunity to photograph models using professional lighting setups

Beautiful shots! Just shows you the importance of good lighting. The first shot is magazine quality!

Quoting vikkyvik (Reply 84):
More shots from the music video shoot (sorry, this will be a long one):

Great location! Love the "tunnel" shot.

Quoting vikkyvik (Reply 84):
Taken with my camera, but not by me, because, well....

Cool pic . . . and you certainly look the part vikkyvik!