Random Photos You Took - Page 228

diskojoe · #**4541** Posted **Feb 10, 2012, 5:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by i_am_hydrogen

There are so many amazing shots on this page. Well done, everyone.

I concur. Great job photolith. Nothing like a Louisiana swamp at night.

photoLith · #**4542** Posted **Feb 10, 2012, 6:56 PM**

Yes they are pretty awesome. And there's plenty of them to take pictures of around here. Thanks for the compliments everyone.

i_am_hydrogen · #**4543** Posted **Feb 11, 2012, 1:02 AM**

photoLith · #**4544** Posted **Feb 11, 2012, 1:07 AM**

Wow, that last picture is kick ass man, one of your best. Only thing is, the horizon needs to be straightened, not a big deal. But that photo is awesome.

i_am_hydrogen · #**4545** Posted **Feb 11, 2012, 2:05 AM**

Thanks, I fixed it.

photoLith · #**4546** Posted **Feb 12, 2012, 3:39 AM**

Nottaway Plantation home, built in 1855; its the largest Antebellum plantation home still intact in the south.

Driving along the River Road south of Baton Rouge on the way to New Orleans is quite spectacular. Amazing amounts of very old buildings in varying states of repair and decay. Along this road are some of the most famous plantations in Louisiana.

Heres a very old, possibly 1840s era Creole plantation thats about to fall over unfortunately. I found some pretty kick ass antique 1890s-1910 apothecary bottles under the house that were intact.

Abandoned sugar cane mill in Brusly, just south of Baton Rouge.

arkitekte · #**4547** Posted **Feb 12, 2012, 4:54 AM**

Awesome photos Hydrogen and photoLith!

photoLith, awesome photo of Nottoway. Glad you got a chance to drive down River Rd. I hope you put together a thread of all of this.

toyota74 · #**4548** Posted **Feb 12, 2012, 7:14 PM**

PhotoL. and Hydrogen...two good sharp shooters

bulliver · #**4549** Posted **Feb 12, 2012, 10:46 PM**

Loving those swamp shots PhotoLith.

The MacEwan University Griffins woman's basketball team is one game away from a perfect season. Last night I had a chance to shoot their match versus the SAIT Trojans, and they came away with a convincing 78-61 victory.

It was my first time shooting sports, which is very challenging due to the poor indoor lighting and fast action. Couldn't do it with my own gear, so I had to borrow a few fast lenses from a friend. Here's a couple shots from the game:

photoLith · #**4550** Posted **Feb 13, 2012, 4:32 AM**

Probably the most taken picture in Louisiana, but I couldnt pass it up. Oak Alley Plantation built in the 1830s.

Original slave cabins (which are now very rare) behind the long neglected Whitney Plantation. The owner is in the long process of completely restoring the entire plantation to the way it would have looked before the Civil War. On the few plantations where the slave cabins still exist, people sometimes lived in them all the way up to the 1970s, like in the Laura Plantation, which I unfortunately didnt get any pictures of as they charged 20 bucks to get onto the grounds, oh well.

Houmas House dating from 1828; this plantation owned the most slaves, over 800 by the time of the Civil War.

Okayyou · #**4551** Posted **Feb 13, 2012, 5:44 AM**

I think those came out pretty well Bulliver. I've never shot sports before but I imagine there would be a lot of throw away shots. Funny, my high school mascot was a Griffen too. I played basketball and without fail, the other team would always ask what a griffen is. We'd have to embarrassingly explain it's a mythical beast, half lion, half eagle. My sophomore year we won 1 game and due to the girls varsity program getting shut down, had two girls on our team... good times.

Photolith, those shots are great. Love the trees down there.

bulliver · #**4552** Posted **Feb 14, 2012, 1:58 AM**

^ Yeah, shot over 500 frames...think I uploaded 9, and was only really happy with 2-3. Shot the first half with a 70-200 f2.8, and the second half with a 50 f1.4. Had much more luck with the 50, as I had to crank the ISO over 1000 to get 1/500th with the 2.8.

Very challenging. Lots of blurry shots, and lots of backs...

R@ptor · #**4553** Posted **Feb 14, 2012, 2:44 AM**

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Sydney Harbour Panorama by Raptor1982, on Flickr

photoLith · #**4554** Posted **Feb 14, 2012, 5:07 AM**

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Damn, thats awesome man. Im so jealous of all your freakin traveling you do.

ThatDarnSacramentan · #**4555** Posted **Feb 15, 2012, 4:44 AM**

For years, I've been trying to mimic the style of a photographer I've studied and talked to. I think I've finally got something close to their style (with my style bleeding through).

Rainy Cityscape WARM HDR by C.M. Keiner, on Flickr

haux · #**4556** Posted **Feb 15, 2012, 7:48 AM**

A man and his rose by raptoralex, on Flickr

ThatDarnSacramentan · #**4557** Posted **Feb 16, 2012, 6:46 AM**

Two Minutes Too Late by C.M. Keiner, on Flickr

diskojoe · #**4558** Posted **Feb 16, 2012, 3:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by bulliver

^ Yeah, shot over 500 frames...think I uploaded 9, and was only really happy with 2-3. Shot the first half with a 70-200 f2.8, and the second half with a 50 f1.4. Had much more luck with the 50, as I had to crank the ISO over 1000 to get 1/500th with the 2.8.

Very challenging. Lots of blurry shots, and lots of backs...

Sports can be difficult. Most people I have seen that do sports photography successfully have nikon d3's and jack the ISO way up. Much further then you choose to do. I would have jacked it up to about 1600 at least and then did noise treatment afterwards. But your shots came out okay for a first attempt. A tad bit soft but far from unusable. If these were for a paper you could have used noisier shots for news print because it would look grainy printed anyway.

toyota74 · #**4559** Posted **Feb 16, 2012, 9:56 PM**

Getting addicted to long exposures..

harryc · #**4560** Posted **Feb 17, 2012, 2:46 AM**