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Daniella said:
your photos are great! how do you like the Sigma? is it really
big? Sharp wide open? do you have any 100% crop if it, not
resized or post-processed?
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Thanks for the kind words. The Sigma 100-300 is just a tad larger than my Canon 70-200L IS. It is very useable wide open, its characteristics are very close to the Canon L. Very sharp, great contrast with super color saturation.

Link for full size images, unprocessed. http://www.pbase.com/rollcast/test_canon_rebel

Best
Gary
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My best "wow" picture with the DR and Kit-lens...

http://www.pbase.com/image/24613082
Aboutmoods said:
I was browsing pbase today and I've come accross some great pics
taken with the dreb. I've spent yet another weekend at home because
of the weather and I'm looking for new ideas to try out. It would
be nice if people posted their Max Wow Factor images (or personal
favourites) here and included the equipment and technique. That
will really help others learn and give me something useful to do :)

Sadly enough, so far I don't myself have an image that I could give
high marks on the wow factor...but hopefully soon...

Please participate :)
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I have always thought that nothing can capture the WOW factor like a good lightning shot. This one is a VERY lucky shot that I caught a while back with my Nikon 990 (pre 300D). The Nikon would get very noisy with a long exposure so I kept my shots this night at 1 second. I took about 300 shots and this was the only one that actually captured a strike and I was lucky enough to get two for the price of one nearly centered right where I was aiming. This is uncropped.

 
How did you do the first one?
Daniel Myers said:
http://www.danielsphotos.org/photo.php?file=/Maryland/DC%2012-20-03/_res/res_Jefferson%20stars%202-curved.tif.jpg

And here's my favorite picture with my old S45:

http://www.danielsphotos.org/photo.php?file=/MBL%20%28Summer%202003%29/Katahdin/_res/res_poster.tif.jpg

Cheers,
Daniel
Aboutmoods said:
I was browsing pbase today and I've come accross some great pics
taken with the dreb. I've spent yet another weekend at home because
of the weather and I'm looking for new ideas to try out. It would
be nice if people posted their Max Wow Factor images (or personal
favourites) here and included the equipment and technique. That
will really help others learn and give me something useful to do :)

Sadly enough, so far I don't myself have an image that I could give
high marks on the wow factor...but hopefully soon...

Please participate :)
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Wow Pauly
I really admire your bird shots :)
This is a great shot in every detail

I like the cropped version better where the detail of the water spray comes out. Good work man!
PaulyOly said:
Taken in aperture priority using the 400mm f5.6L, when they get a
fish they take a second to come up out of the water with it, this
is that second, i'm assuming they are making sure they have a good
grip on the fish. I have seen an osprey catch a fish that made the
bird do a complete 360 turn in the water.



here's a closer crop of the same pic.

http://www.pbase.com/image/26750451
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http://www.pbase.com/paulyoly/root

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This is an amazing shot. The force of the strikes is sobering.
I wish I can take a similar picture some day
Richard King said:
I have always thought that nothing can capture the WOW factor like
a good lightning shot. This one is a VERY lucky shot that I caught
a while back with my Nikon 990 (pre 300D). The Nikon would get
very noisy with a long exposure so I kept my shots this night at 1
second. I took about 300 shots and this was the only one that
actually captured a strike and I was lucky enough to get two for
the price of one nearly centered right where I was aiming. This is
uncropped.

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How this one?

This was taken in a church so it wasn't too hard to get the black background. , I was about 3-4 feet away. I zoomed all the way in.
I've learned to use the histrogram more than the photo.
I hope you like

http://www.pbase.com/image/26923141

Nick
Aboutmoods said:
I was browsing pbase today and I've come accross some great pics
taken with the dreb. I've spent yet another weekend at home because
of the weather and I'm looking for new ideas to try out. It would
be nice if people posted their Max Wow Factor images (or personal
favourites) here and included the equipment and technique. That
will really help others learn and give me something useful to do :)

Sadly enough, so far I don't myself have an image that I could give
high marks on the wow factor...but hopefully soon...

Please participate :)
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http://www.pbase.com/image/26923957/original

Nick
Nick rita said:
http://www.pbase.com/image/26923141

Nick
Aboutmoods said:
I was browsing pbase today and I've come accross some great pics
taken with the dreb. I've spent yet another weekend at home because
of the weather and I'm looking for new ideas to try out. It would
be nice if people posted their Max Wow Factor images (or personal
favourites) here and included the equipment and technique. That
will really help others learn and give me something useful to do :)

Sadly enough, so far I don't myself have an image that I could give
high marks on the wow factor...but hopefully soon...

Please participate :)
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Both of your pics are eautiful...the second one has aa beautiful zig zag of light from the clouds that gives it an unearthly look. Thanks for sharing :)
Nick rita said:
Nick
Nick rita said:
http://www.pbase.com/image/26923141

Nick
Aboutmoods said:
I was browsing pbase today and I've come accross some great pics
taken with the dreb. I've spent yet another weekend at home because
of the weather and I'm looking for new ideas to try out. It would
be nice if people posted their Max Wow Factor images (or personal
favourites) here and included the equipment and technique. That
will really help others learn and give me something useful to do :)

Sadly enough, so far I don't myself have an image that I could give
high marks on the wow factor...but hopefully soon...

Please participate :)
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Thankyou, I was thinking about cropping a little above the rain clouds but I don't think I will.
Thanks again,
Nick
Aboutmoods said:
Nick rita said:
Nick
Nick rita said:
http://www.pbase.com/image/26923141

Nick
Aboutmoods said:
I was browsing pbase today and I've come accross some great pics
taken with the dreb. I've spent yet another weekend at home because
of the weather and I'm looking for new ideas to try out. It would
be nice if people posted their Max Wow Factor images (or personal
favourites) here and included the equipment and technique. That
will really help others learn and give me something useful to do :)

Sadly enough, so far I don't myself have an image that I could give
high marks on the wow factor...but hopefully soon...

Please participate :)
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Aboutmoods said:
I was browsing pbase today and I've come accross some great pics
taken with the dreb. I've spent yet another weekend at home because
of the weather and I'm looking for new ideas to try out. It would
be nice if people posted their Max Wow Factor images (or personal
favourites) here and included the equipment and technique. That
will really help others learn and give me something useful to do :)

Sadly enough, so far I don't myself have an image that I could give
high marks on the wow factor...but hopefully soon...

Please participate :)
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I don't know if I would say WOW but I like it..........

http://www.pbase.com/image/26924930

----Daniel----
http://www.pbase.com/jaadwa
 
Johann,

I used a channel mixer layer to convert to B&W: settings were 80/10/10 R/G/B if I remember.

Aboutmoods,

I took 30 30s exposures spaced at 30s intervals (total elapsed time: 1 hour), the stacked them using Max Lysons' ImageStacker program in brighten mode (take the brightest pixel at each location). The 30s intervals are the reason for the dotted trails.

Cheers,
Daniel
Daniel Myers said:
http://www.danielsphotos.org/photo.php?file=/Maryland/DC%2012-20-03/_res/res_Jefferson%20stars%202-curved.tif.jpg

And here's my favorite picture with my old S45:

http://www.danielsphotos.org/photo.php?file=/MBL%20%28Summer%202003%29/Katahdin/_res/res_poster.tif.jpg

Cheers,
Daniel
Aboutmoods said:
I was browsing pbase today and I've come accross some great pics
taken with the dreb. I've spent yet another weekend at home because
of the weather and I'm looking for new ideas to try out. It would
be nice if people posted their Max Wow Factor images (or personal
favourites) here and included the equipment and technique. That
will really help others learn and give me something useful to do :)

Sadly enough, so far I don't myself have an image that I could give
high marks on the wow factor...but hopefully soon...

Please participate :)
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An old house I saw on the way to the park.

http://www.pbase.com/image/26836193/large
jaadwa said:
Aboutmoods said:
I was browsing pbase today and I've come accross some great pics
taken with the dreb. I've spent yet another weekend at home because
of the weather and I'm looking for new ideas to try out. It would
be nice if people posted their Max Wow Factor images (or personal
favourites) here and included the equipment and technique. That
will really help others learn and give me something useful to do :)

Sadly enough, so far I don't myself have an image that I could give
high marks on the wow factor...but hopefully soon...

Please participate :)
Click to expand...
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I don't know if I would say WOW but I like it..........

http://www.pbase.com/image/26924930

----Daniel----
http://www.pbase.com/jaadwa
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible

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